books & authors section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (a)

The correct chronological order of the works of Salman Rushdie is: Midnight’s Children (1981), Shame (1983), The Satanic Verses (1988), and The Moor’s Last Sigh (1995).

Answer: (d)

Answer: (d)

The concept of justice occupies the most important part of Plato’s ‘The Republic’. Sabine says: “The theory of the state in The Republic culminates in the conception of justice.” Plato has treated justice as the bond which holds a society together.

The purpose of The Republic is to ensure justice. So it is called a “treatise concerning justice.”

Answer: (a)

Answer: (d)

‘Don’t laugh, We are Police’ has been authored by Bishan Lal Vohra, an IPS Officer from the 1967 batch of Indian Police Service, Manipur- Tripura Cadre. It was published by Konark Publication in 1995. His other famous works include: Rebels of the valley: The Thorns (1983), A novel (1987), The Spider’s Web (1991), etc.

Answer: (d)

Bhavabhuti was an 8th-century scholar of India noted for his plays and poetry, written in Sanskrit. His plays are considered equivalent to the works of Kalidasa.

Bhavbhuti was born in a Deshastha Brahmin family of Padmapura, Vidarbha, central India, in Gondia district, on Maharashtra and MP border. His real name was Srikantha Nilakantha, and he was the son of Nilakantha and Jatukarni.

He received his education at ‘Padmapawaya’, a place some 42 km South-West of Gwalior. Uttararamacharita (The story of Rama’s later life), depicts Rama’s coronation, the abandonment of Sita, and their reunion