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Questions : Which is the Greek classic that Gandhi translated into Gujarati?

(a) Dialogues of Plato

(b) Aristotle’s Nicomachian Ethics

(c) Plato’s Republic

(d) Aristotle’s Politics

e) None of These

The correct answers to the above question in:

Answer: (e)

Gandhi’s ethical thinking was heavily influenced by a handful of books, which he repeatedly meditated upon.

  • They included especially Plato’s Apology, (which he translated into his native Gujarati);
  • William Salter’s Ethical Religion (1889);
  • Henry David Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Disobedience (1847);
  • Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1893); and
  • John Ruskin’s Unto this Last (1862), which he also translated into Gujarati.

Ruskin inspired his decision to live an austere life on a commune, at first on the Phoenix Farm in Natal and then on the Tolstoy Farm just outside Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Question : 1

Which one of the following newspapers had been edited by Gandhiji ?

a) Gujarat Times

b) Jan Satta

c) Navjeevan

d) Maratha

Answer: (c)

Navjivan was a weekly newspaper published by Gandhi, in Gujarati, from 1919 to 1931, from Ahmedabad. Swami Anand took the reins of ‘Navjeevan’ at the end of 1919.

Question : 2

The poem ‘Paradise Lost’ is:

  1. An epic poem in blank verse
  2. Written by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674).
  3. The Biblical story of the Fall of Man
  4. Separated into twelve “books” or sections, the lengths of which vary greatly
Select the answer from the codes given below:

a) 1, 3, and 4

b) 1, 2, and 3

c) 2, 3, and 4

d) 1, 2, 3 and 4

Answer: (d)

The poem follows the epic tradition of starting in medias res (Latin for in the midst of things), the background story being recounted later. Milton’s story has two narrative arcs, one about Satan (Lucifer) and the other following Adam and Eve.

Question : 3

The author of the Book Titled 'The Future of India', is :

a) Deepak Chopra

b) N.K. Singh

c) Bimal Jalan

d) Amitav Ghosh

Answer: (c)

The Future of India Politics, Economics and Governance has been authored by Bimal Jalan who is a former Governor of India's Reserve Bank and a nominated member of the Upper House of India's Parliament, the Rajya Sabha during 2003–2009. It a discourse on our present, with some reflections on how we got here. Jalan's warning is "mind the gap".

Question : 4

The writer of the book “An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations”, is

a) Smt. John Robinson

b) Robins

c) David Ricardo

d) Adam Smith

Answer: (d)

David Ricardo ( 1772-1823): The Principal of Political Economy and Taxation.

John Violet Robinson: The Accumulation of Capital Adam Smith : (1772-90) An Enquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations’’.

In this book, he argued that the greatest prosperity was produced by an economy in which the invisible hand of perfect competition ruled with a minimum of government supervision.

Question : 5

Charles Darwin, the famous evolutionist, proposed his theory in which one of his books ?

a) The origin of species

b) The story of the living world

c) The families of flowering plant

d) The life on earth

Answer: (a)

On the Origin of Species (On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection), published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.

It introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection.

Question : 6

The song “Vande Mataram” occurs in the book

a) Anandmath

b) Poverty and UN-British Rule in India

c) Geetanjali

d) Indian People

Answer: (a)

Vande Mataram is a poem from Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay’s 1882 novel Anandamath. An Ode to Mother Bengal as Mother goddess, it was written in Bengali and Sanskrit. It is a hymn to the Mother Land and played a vital role in the Indian Independence movement.

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