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Question : 32 [SSC Investigator 2010]
Match the following books with their authors:
List I | List II |
(Books) | (Authors) |
A. The Satanic | 1. Sunil Gavaskar |
B. A House for Mr. Biswas | 2. V.S. Naipaul |
C. Interpreter of Maladies | 3. Salman Rushdie |
D. Sunny Days | 4. Jhumpa Lahiri |
a) 3 2 1 4
b) 3 4 2 1
c) 3 4 1 2
d) 3 2 4 1
Answer »Answer: (d)
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, Midnight’s Children (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He is said to combine magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions and migrations between East and West. His fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was the centre of a major controversy, provoking protests from Muslims in several countries, some violent.
A House for Mr Biswas is a 1961 novel by V. S. Naipaul, significant as Naipaul’s first work to achieve acclaim worldwide. It is the story of Mohun Biswas, an Indo-Trinidadian who continually strives for success and mostly fails, who marries the Tulsi family only to find himself dominated by it,
Interpreter of Maladies is a book collection of nine short stories by Indian American author Jhumpa Lahiri published in 1999. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award in the year 2000 and has sold over 15 million copies worldwide.
Gavaskar has also been awarded the Padma Bhushan. In December 1994 he was appointed the Sheriff of Mumbai, an honorary post, for a year. After retirement, he has been popular, if sometimes controversial commentator, both on TV and in print. He has written four books on the cricket – Sunny Days (autobiography).
Question : 34 [SSC CGL 2007]
With which of the following books is Hobbes associated?
a) Social Contract
b) Leviathan
c) Lectures on Jurisprudence
d) Republic
Answer »Answer: (c)
Leviathan is a sea monster referred to in the Bible. The word has become synonymous with any large sea monster or creature.
In literature (e.g., Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick) it refers to great whales, and in Modern Hebrew, it means simply “whale.” It is described extensively in Job 41 and mentioned in Isaiah 27:1.
Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury (5 April 1588 – 4 December 1679), in some older texts Thomas Hobbs of Malmsbury, was an English philosopher, best known today for his work on political philosophy.
His 1651 book Leviathan established the foundation for most of the Western political philosophy from the perspective of social contract theory.
Question : 35
‘An Inconvenient Truth’ is written by
a) Al Gore
b) Bill Clinton
c) Barrak Obama
d) George Bush
Answer »Answer: (a)
An Inconvenient Truth 2006 is an Academy award winning documentary film on the sensitive issues of environmental and climate change. It has been written by Al Gore.
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