Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| (Book) | (Author) | ||
| (A) | A Bend in the River | (I) | John Milton |
| (B) | Areopagitica | (II) | P. B. Shelley |
| (C) | A Suitable Girl | (III) | V. S. Naipaul |
| (D) | Adonis | (IV) | Vikram Seth |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → (A)-(III), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(II)
Each book in List-I is matched with the writer who wrote it.
(A) A Bend in the River — this matches (III) V. S. Naipaul. The 1979 novel by the Trinidad-born Nobel laureate is set in a town on a great river in a newly independent African country.
(B) Areopagitica — this matches (I) John Milton. The 1644 prose work by the author of Paradise Lost is a famous plea for freedom of the press against licensing of books.
(C) A Suitable Girl — this matches (IV) Vikram Seth. Seth is best known for A Suitable Boy (1993); A Suitable Girl is the sequel he announced to that novel.
(D) Adonis — this matches (II) P. B. Shelley. Shelley’s elegy on the death of John Keats (1821) is titled Adonais, after the Greek youth Adonis.
Note: It seems that there is a mistake in the original NTA paper, which prints ‘Adonis’ when it should read ‘Adonais’, the title of Shelley’s elegy on Keats. The match is not affected.