1021. “Man without society is either a beast or a God”. Who said this?

A. Plato
B. Gandhi
C. Tolstoy
D. Aristotle
✅ The correct answer is option D.
Aristotle, the great Greek philosopher said that ‘man without society is either a beast or a God’. According to him man can not live without a society and he is thus solely dependent on society.

1022. The original name of ‘Mahabharata’ is –

A. Katha Saritsagar
B. Jaya Samhita
C. Vrahat Katha
D. Rajatarangini
✅ The correct answer is option B.
The Mahabharata in its original version was called Jaya Samhita, and it was written down by Ganesha and narrated by Maharishi Ved Vyasa. The original epic had only 8800 shlokas and was called Jaya. Then it was called Vijaya, then Bharata and finally Mahabharata.

1023. Who among the following authors wrote books namely Among the Believers, India – A Million Mutinies, An Area of Darkness?

A. Sulman Rushdie
B. Shiva Naipal
C. Paul Theroux
D. V. S. Naipaul
✅ The correct answer is option D.
V. S. Naipaul wrote books namely ‘Among the Believers’, ‘India – A Million Mutinies’, ‘An Area of Darkness’.

1. Author of ‘Darkness at Noon’ is Victor La Valle. 2. Author of ‘The Great Gatsby’ is F. Scott Fitzgerald. 3. Author of ‘The Sound and the Fury’ is Hubbard. Which of the statements given above are not correct?

A. 1 and 2
B. 2 and 3
C. 1 and 3
D. 1, 2 and 3
✅ The correct answer is option C.
Darkness at Noon is a novel by Hungarian born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940.The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner.