Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (Books) | (Authors) | ||
| (A) | The City and Its Uncertain Walls | (I) | Mulk Raj Anand |
| (B) | Bharat Bharati | (II) | Haruki Murakami |
| (C) | Coolie | (III) | Boris Pasternak |
| (D) | Doctor Zhivago | (IV) | Maithili Sharan Gupt |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III
(A) The City and Its Uncertain Walls — this matches (II) Haruki Murakami. It is the Japanese novelist’s novel of 2023, published in English in 2024.
(B) Bharat Bharati — this matches (IV) Maithili Sharan Gupt. This Hindi poem of 1912 on India’s past, present and future made Gupt known as the Rashtrakavi (national poet).
(C) Coolie — this matches (I) Mulk Raj Anand. His English novel of 1936 follows a poor hill boy, Munoo, through a series of hard jobs.
(D) Doctor Zhivago — this matches (III) Boris Pasternak. The Russian novel, first published in Italy in 1957, is set during the Russian Revolution; Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1958.