books & authors section 4 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (c)

The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money was written by the English economist John Maynard Keynes. The book, generally considered to be his magnum opus, is largely credited with creating the terminology and shape of modern macroeconomics.

Answer: (a)

Lucius Flavius Arrianus ‘Xenophon’, known in English as Arrian, and Arrian of Nicomedia, was a Greek historian, a public servant, a military commander and a philosopher of the Roman period.

Indica is also the name of a similar book by Megasthenes that also describes the history of India and was a major source from which Arrian drew.

Megasthenes (ca. 350 – 290 BCE) was a Greek ethnographer and explorer in the Hellenistic period, author of the work Indica. He was born in Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey) and became an ambassador of Seleucus I of the Seleucid dynasty possibly to Chandragupta Maurya in Pataliputra, India.

However, the exact date of his embassy is uncertain. Scholars place it before 298 BC, the date of Chandragupta’s death.

Answer: (c)

Mrichhakatikam is written by Shudrak. Sanskrit dramas like Mrichhakatikam by Shudrak and Shakuntalam by Kalidas give some very vivid pictures of police force at work in the ancient times.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (a)

Niti-Shatak was written by Bhartrihari. Bhartrihari is a Sanskrit author who has written two influential Sanskrit texts: the Vakyapadiya, on Sanskrit grammar and linguistic philosophy, and the atakatraya, a work of Sanskrit poetry, comprising three collections of about 100 stanzas each.

Shahnama was written by Firdausi. Hakim Abul-Qasim Firdausi, most commonly known as Ferdausi; also spelt as Firdausi or Firdausi; 940 – 1020 CE, was a highly revered Persian poet. He is the author of the Shahnama, the national epic of Iran and the Persian-speaking world.

Akabarnama was written by Abul Fazal. Shaikh Abual Fazal ibn Mubarak (January 14, 1551 – August 12, 1602) was the wizier of the great Mughal emperor Akbar, and author of the Akbarnama, the official history of Akbar’s reign in three volumes, (the third volume is known as the Ain-i-Akbari) and a Persian translation of the Bible.

He was also one of the Nine Jewels (Navaratans) of Akbar’s royal court and the brother of Faizi, the poet laureate of emperor Akbar.

Answer: (b)

A Tale of Two Cities is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well over 200 million copies sold, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.