books & authors section 1 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

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: (a)

Answer: (c)

The BC Roy Trophy is an Indian football tournament for players under 19 years of age. The competition is held every year between the under-19 teams representing states of India.

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)

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.

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.