The book “Unto This Last”, which influenced Gandhiji, was authored by

Question

Match the following books with their authors.

Books		Authors
a	Adventures of Tom Sawyer	i	Charles Dickens
b	Around the World in eighty days	ii	Arthur Conan Doyle
c	Gulliver's Travels	iii	Jules Verne
d	Adventures of Sherlock Holmes	iv	Mark Twain
e	David Copperfield	v	Jonathan Swift

Answer 1

This is a direct fact-recall question, and the trap is the similar-sounding name in one of the options.

Boris Yeltsin: A former President of Russia, with no connection to this book.
Pushkin: A famous Russian poet, also unconnected to this essay.
Ruskin Bond: A well-known contemporary Indian author, whose surname "Bond" is often confused with the real author's surname "Ruskin", but he did not write this book.
John Ruskin: The actual author. Gandhi read this work while in South Africa and it shaped his ideas on the dignity of labour and the welfare of all, later reflected in his idea of Sarvodaya.

So the correct answer is option D, John Ruskin.

Answer 2

This is a direct fact-recall question, and the trap is the similar-sounding name in one of the options.

Boris Yeltsin: A former President of Russia, with no connection to this book.
Pushkin: A famous Russian poet, also unconnected to this essay.
Ruskin Bond: A well-known contemporary Indian author, whose surname "Bond" is often confused with the real author's surname "Ruskin", but he did not write this book.
John Ruskin: The actual author. Gandhi read this work while in South Africa and it shaped his ideas on the dignity of labour and the welfare of all, later reflected in his idea of Sarvodaya.

So the correct answer is option D, John Ruskin.

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