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Answer: (b)

Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.

The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. The New Yorker started serializing Silent Spring in June 1962, and it was published in book form (with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling) by Houghton Mifflin.

When the book Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson was already a well-known writer on natural history but had not previously been a social critic.

Answer: (a)

Vikram Seth is a famous Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children’s writer, biographer and memoirist.

Answer: (a)

My Life is a 2004 autobiography written by former President of the United States Bill Clinton, who left office on January 20, 2001. It was released on June 22, 2004.

The book was published by the Knopf Publishing Group; the book sold in excess of 2,250,000 copies. Clinton had received what was at the time the world’s highest book advance fee, believed to have been worth US$12 million; at the announcement of media personality Oprah Winfrey’s future weight loss book, it was said that her undisclosed advance fee had broken this record.

In April 2008, the Clintons’ tax records confirmed that the advance for My Life was actually $15 million.

Answer: (d)

‘Freedom From Fear’ is both an essay by Aung San Su Kyi, and a book of the same name comprising a collection of her essays. This remarkable collection gives a voice to Burma’s “woman of destiny,” whose fate remained in the hands of her enemies for fifteen years, before her release from house arrest in 2010.

Answer: (d)