Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (Book) | (Author) | ||
| (A) | A Bend in the River | (I) | Mulk Raj Anand |
| (B) | A Mercy | (II) | V.S. Naipaul |
| (C) | A Thousand Splendid Suns | (III) | Toni Morrison |
| (D) | Coolie | (IV) | Khaled Hosseini |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A)-(II), (B)-(III), (C)-(IV), (D)-(I)
(A) A Bend in the River — this matches (II) V.S. Naipaul. His 1979 novel is set in a town on a great river in a newly independent African country.
(B) A Mercy — this matches (III) Toni Morrison. Her 2008 novel is set in 17th-century America; Morrison won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.
(C) A Thousand Splendid Suns — this matches (IV) Khaled Hosseini. The Afghan-American author of The Kite Runner wrote this 2007 novel about two women in Kabul.
(D) Coolie — this matches (I) Mulk Raj Anand. His 1936 novel follows Munoo, a poor boy who works as a coolie and labourer across India.