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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.

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".

Answer: (a)

Romancing with Life is the autobiography of Dev Anand. It was released in September 2007.

In this book,

• the first-ever full-fledged memoir by a leading Bollywood star,
• Dev Anand tells his remarkable life story including tales from his youth in 1930s Gurdaspur and Lahore;
• his years of struggle in 1940s Bombay;
• his doomed romance with Suraiya;
• his marriage to co-star Kalpana Kartik; and
• his relationships with his many luminous heroines.

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.

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.

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.