books & authors section 7 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (b)

Buddhacharita is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by A?vaghosha, composed in the early second century CE.

Answer: (d)

Answer: (c)

Kavyadarshana is written by Dandin

Answer: (a)

Kiran Desai (born 3 September 1971) is an Indian author. She is a citizen of India and a permanent resident of the United States. Her novel The Inheritance of Loss won the 2006 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Fiction Award.

Her first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published in 1998 and received accolades from such notable figures as Salman Rushdie.

It won the Betty Trask Award, a prize given by the Society of Authors for the best new novels by citizens of the Commonwealth of Nations under the age of 35.

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: (d)