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Question : 51 [SSC Stenographer 2016]

Which of the following works of Plato is primarily a ‘treatise’ on justice ?

a) The Statesman

b) Apology

c) Phaedo

d) The Republic

Answer: (d)

The concept of justice occupies the most important part of Plato’s ‘The Republic’. Sabine says: “The theory of the state in The Republic culminates in the conception of justice.” Plato has treated justice as the bond which holds a society together.

The purpose of The Republic is to ensure justice. So it is called a “treatise concerning justice.”

Question : 52 [SSC CGL Prelim 2008]

What is the name of the writer of Indian origin whose novel, The Inheritance of Loss has bagged Man Booker Prize ?

a) Kiran Desai

b) V.S. Naipaul

c) Vikram Seth

d) Salman Rushdie

Answer: (a)

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.

It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.

Question : 53 [UPPCS (Pre) 2012]

Who among the following Journalists has written his autobiography entitled the ‘Lucknow Boy’?

a) Narendra Mohan

b) Vinod Mehta

c) Pritish Nandi

d) Alok Mehta

Answer: (b)

Question : 54

The book ‘Buddha Charitam’ is written by

a) Kautilya

b) Ashwaghosh

c) Shudrak

d) Panini

Answer: (b)

Buddhacharita is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by A?vaghosha, composed in the early second century CE.

Question : 55 [Chhattisgarh PCS (Pre) 2008]

Which one of the following pairs (Author and Book) properly matched?

a) Dominique Lapierre - Myth of Mahatma

b) Sunil Gavaskar - Cricket - My Style

c) Minoo Masani - The Struggle for Peace

d) Hillary Clinton - Living History

Answer: (d)

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