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Match List-I with List-II


List-I
List-II
Author
Novel/Play
(A) William Shakespeare
(I) Man of Destiny
(B) Lewis Carroll
(II) The Tempest
(C) E. M. Forster
(III) Through the Looking Glass
(D) Bernard Shaw
(IV) A Passage to India


Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Options

A

(A) – (I), (B) – (II), (C) – (III), (D) – (IV)

B

(A) – (II), (B) – (III), (C) – (IV), (D) – (I)

C

(A) – (II), (B) – (III), (C) – (I), (D) – (IV)

D

(A) – (III), (B) – (IV), (C) – (I), (D) – (II)

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Correct Answer :

Option B

(A) – (II), (B) – (III), (C) – (IV), (D) – (I)

Solution :

The correct answer is (A) – (II), (B) – (III), (C) – (IV), (D) – (I).

Let us verify the matching of each author from List-I with their respective famous work in List-II step-by-step:

1. (A) William Shakespeare matches with (II) The Tempest
William Shakespeare, the legendary English playwright and poet, wrote The Tempest. Believed to have been written in 1610–1611, it is widely considered one of Shakespeare's final plays and falls under the genre of romance/tragicomedy.

2. (B) Lewis Carroll matches with (III) Through the Looking Glass
Lewis Carroll (the pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) wrote Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There (1871). This novel is the famous sequel to his iconic children's book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

3. (C) E. M. Forster matches with (IV) A Passage to India
Edward Morgan Forster wrote the celebrated novel A Passage to India (1924). The story is set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s, examining the relationship between the British and Indians.

4. (D) Bernard Shaw matches with (I) Man of Destiny
George Bernard Shaw, the prominent Irish playwright, wrote The Man of Destiny (1897). It is a short play about Napoleon Bonaparte, showcasing Shaw's characteristic wit and intellectual comedy.

Combining these individual correct matches gives:
(A) – (II), (B) – (III), (C) – (IV), (D) – (I)

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