books & authors section 9 MCQ Questions & Answers Detailed Explanation

Answer: (d)

Answer: (b)

Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson and published by Houghton Mifflin on September 27, 1962.

The book is widely credited with helping launch the contemporary American environmental movement. The New Yorker started serializing Silent Spring in June 1962, and it was published in book form (with illustrations by Lois and Louis Darling) by Houghton Mifflin.

When the book Silent Spring was published, Rachel Carson was already a well-known writer on natural history but had not previously been a social critic.

Answer: (a)

Vikram Seth is a famous Indian poet, novelist, travel writer, librettist, children’s writer, biographer and memoirist.

Answer: (a)

‘The Immortals’ is written by Amit Chaudhury. He is an internationally recognized Indian English author and academic.

Answer: (d)

Guru Gobind Singh, the 10th Sikh guru, rewrote a new version of the Hindu mythological epic Ramayana which formed part of the Dasam Granth, a Sikh religious text.

This version was known as ‘Govind Ramayana.’ In this version of Ramayana, Guru Gobind Singh did not treat Lord Rama as a god. He equated Ramachandra with a common man by calling him the insect, though he called himself insect, too.

Answer: (c)

Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He spent most of his career as a professor of astronomy at Cornell University where he directed the Laboratory for Planetary Studies.

He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was the author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books. He advocated scientifically sceptical inquiry and the scientific method, pioneered exobiology and promoted the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.