Questions

Fructose or Levulose is the monosaccharide that is responsible for the sweet taste of fruit. 

Monosaccharides are the simplest of all sugars, contain at least three carbon atoms, and are the building blocks of all carbohydrates.

The scarcity definition of economics is credited to Lionel Robbins.

Subdued means restrained in style or quality. Softened means being or made softer or less loud or clear.
Dampened means to suppress or constrain so as to lessen in intensity. Quite means to a degree (not used with a negative).
Silenced means reduced to silence. The reaction of the authorities is already mentioned, i.e. muted. All the options, except 'quite', are synonymous with 'muted'. But the reaction was toned-down. Hence, the correct answer is 1.

A permanent magnet can affect both magnets and electromagnets.

A permanent magnet has natural magnetic properties while a temporal magnet is created by artificial means. Permanent magnets do not lose their magnetic ability.

The tone for that 1955 conference on Afro-Asian solidarity was actually set by then Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru almost a decade earlier.

The first large-scale Asian–African or Afro–Asian Conference—also known as the Bandung Conference was a meeting of Asian and African states, most of which were newly independent, which took place on 18-24 April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia.