Olympiad Test Level 2: Language and Literature- 1 - Class 6 MCQ

A. Don't count your chickens - before they hatch
B. Cut your coat - according to your cloth
C. Don't put all your eggs - in one basket
D. Time and tide - wait for none man

Simile (pronounced sim--uh-lee) is a literary term where you use “like” or “as” to compare two different things and show a common quality between them. A simile is different from a simple comparison in that it usually compares two unrelated things.

Tully's first book on India Amritsar: Mrs. Gandhi's Last Battle (1985) was co-authored with his colleague at BBC Delhi, Satish Jacob; the book dealt with the events leading up to Operation Blue Star, Indian military action carried out between 1 and 8 June 1984 to remove militant religious leader Jarnail Singh.

• Rohinton Mistry is considered to be one of the foremost authors of Indian heritage writing in English. 
• Mistry’s first novel, Such a Long Journey (1991), brought him national and international recognition. 
• His second novel, A Fine Balance (1995), won Canada’s Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers Award, and the Los Angeles Times Book Award. 
• His third book Family Matters (2002), was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. He won the prestigious Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012.

• Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright, essayist, poet, and novelist, known for making work about Africa from a distinctly African perspective. He is among contemporary Africa's greatest writers. 
• He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. He has also taught at a number of universities worldwide including Cambridge University and Yale University.

The above lines are from Kipling's poetry called 'If'. Rudyard Kipling was an English author famous for an array of works like 'Just So Stories' and 'The Jungle Book.' He received the 1907 Nobel Prize in Literature.

• Sir Vidyadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, a British novelist was born on August 17, 1932, in Chaguanas, Trinidad, and Tobago. 
• A recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990. He became the first person of Indian origin to win a Booker Prize in 1971. 
• Some of his famous works include The Mystic Masseur, The Suffrage of Elvira, Guerillas, Miguel Street, A Flag on the Island, The Mimic Men, In a Free State, Mr. Stone and the Knights Companion, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival, An Area of Darkness, A House for Mr. Biswas, etc.

• The term Neolithic Period refers to the last stage of the Stone Age. The Neolithic period is significant for its megalithic architecture, the spread of agricultural practices, pottery, and the use of polished stone tools. 
• The invention of the wheel came into being during the Neolithic age. It was not used for transportation, though, but rather as a potter's wheel. With the advent of agriculture, people were required to store their food grains as well as to do cooking, arrange for drinking water, and eat the finished product. That’s why pottery first appeared in the Neolithic Age. 
• The pottery of the period was classified under grey ware, black-burnished ware, and mat-impressed ware.

George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist, and political activist.

Arnold Toynbee has written the famous book 'Mankind and Mother Earth'.