Match List-I with List-II
| List-I (Novelist) | List-II (Novel) | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (A) | Émile Zola | (I) | Kim |
| (B) | Thomas Hardy | (II) | Hard Times |
| (C) | Charles Dickens | (III) | Germinal |
| (D) | Rudyard Kipling | (IV) | The Mayor of Casterbridge |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → (A)-(III), (B)-(IV), (C)-(II), (D)-(I)
(A) Émile Zola — this matches (III) Germinal, his French novel about the hard life of coal miners.
(B) Thomas Hardy — this matches (IV) The Mayor of Casterbridge, the story of a grain merchant in a small town of rural England.
(C) Charles Dickens — this matches (II) Hard Times, set in Coketown, an imaginary industrial town of smoke and machines.
(D) Rudyard Kipling — this matches (I) Kim, a novel set in British India.