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Question #81
'The Annihilation of Caste' is a work by which social reformer?
A. Swami Vivekananda
B. Periyar
C. B.R. Ambedkar
D. Jyotirao Phule
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
B.R. Ambedkar wrote 'The Annihilation of Caste', a critique of the caste system.
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Question #82
Who wrote 'Why I Am an Atheist'?
A. Jawaharlal Nehru
B. Bhagat Singh
C. E.V. Ramasamy
D. M.N. Roy
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Bhagat Singh wrote 'Why I Am an Atheist' in 1930.
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Question #83
'The Interpretation of Dreams' is a book by which psychologist?
A. Carl Jung
B. Alfred Adler
C. Ivan Pavlov
D. Sigmund Freud
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Sigmund Freud wrote 'The Interpretation of Dreams', a foundational text in psychoanalysis.
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Question #84
Who wrote 'Beyond Good and Evil'?
A. Jean-Paul Sartre
B. Friedrich Nietzsche
C. Martin Heidegger
D. Søren Kierkegaard
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote 'Beyond Good and Evil', a philosophical critique.
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Question #85
'Being and Nothingness' is a work by which existentialist philosopher?
A. Simone de Beauvoir
B. Albert Camus
C. Martin Heidegger
D. Jean-Paul Sartre
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Jean-Paul Sartre wrote 'Being and Nothingness'.
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Question #86
Who wrote 'The Myth of Sisyphus'?
A. Franz Kafka
B. Albert Camus
C. Jean-Paul Sartre
D. Simone de Beauvoir
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Albert Camus wrote 'The Myth of Sisyphus', an essay on the absurd.
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Question #87
'The Second Sex' is a feminist classic by whom?
A. Virginia Woolf
B. Betty Friedan
C. Kate Millett
D. Simone de Beauvoir
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Simone de Beauvoir wrote 'The Second Sex'.
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Question #88
Who wrote 'A Room of One's Own'?
A. George Eliot
B. Virginia Woolf
C. Charlotte Brontë
D. Jane Austen
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Virginia Woolf wrote 'A Room of One's Own', an extended essay on women and fiction.
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Question #89
'The Feminine Mystique' is a book by which American author?
A. Joan Didion
B. Betty Friedan
C. Susan Sontag
D. Gloria Steinem
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Betty Friedan wrote 'The Feminine Mystique', sparking second-wave feminism.
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Question #90
Who wrote 'The Origin of Species'?
A. Charles Darwin
B. Alfred Russel Wallace
C. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
D. Gregor Mendel
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Charles Darwin wrote 'The Origin of Species', establishing evolutionary theory.
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Question #91
'The Descent of Man' is a book by which naturalist?
A. Charles Darwin
B. Thomas Huxley
C. Ernst Haeckel
D. Richard Dawkins
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Charles Darwin wrote 'The Descent of Man'.
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Question #92
Who wrote 'The Wealth of Nations'?
A. John Maynard Keynes
B. David Ricardo
C. Adam Smith
D. Karl Marx
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Adam Smith wrote 'The Wealth of Nations', a foundational work in economics.
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Question #93
'The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money' is by which economist?
A. John Maynard Keynes
B. Karl Marx
C. Milton Friedman
D. Adam Smith
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
John Maynard Keynes wrote 'The General Theory...'.
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Question #94
Who wrote 'Capital' (Das Kapital)?
A. Vladimir Lenin
B. Karl Marx
C. Rosa Luxemburg
D. Friedrich Engels
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Karl Marx wrote 'Capital' (Das Kapital).
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Question #95
'The Communist Manifesto' was co-authored by Marx and whom?
A. Friedrich Engels
B. Eduard Bernstein
C. Rosa Luxemburg
D. Georgi Plekhanov
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Correct Answer: Option A

Explanation:
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels co-authored 'The Communist Manifesto'.
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Question #96
Who wrote 'The Road to Serfdom'?
A. Milton Friedman
B. Friedrich Hayek
C. Ludwig von Mises
D. Karl Popper
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Friedrich Hayek wrote 'The Road to Serfdom'.
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Question #97
'The Open Society and Its Enemies' is a book by which philosopher?
A. Isaiah Berlin
B. Noam Chomsky
C. John Rawls
D. Karl Popper
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
Karl Popper wrote 'The Open Society and Its Enemies'.
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Question #98
Who wrote 'A Theory of Justice'?
A. Michael Sandel
B. Amartya Sen
C. Robert Nozick
D. John Rawls
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Correct Answer: Option D

Explanation:
John Rawls wrote 'A Theory of Justice'.
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Question #99
'Anarchy, State, and Utopia' is a response to Rawls by which philosopher?
A. Ronald Dworkin
B. G.A. Cohen
C. Robert Nozick
D. Thomas Nagel
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Correct Answer: Option C

Explanation:
Robert Nozick wrote 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia'.
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Question #100
Who wrote 'Development as Freedom'?
A. Muhammad Yunus
B. Amartya Sen
C. Joseph Stiglitz
D. Jeffrey Sachs
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Correct Answer: Option B

Explanation:
Amartya Sen wrote 'Development as Freedom'.
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