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past year questions, General Knowledge, CUET General Test 2026 12 May Shift 1

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Which of the following books are accreditated to the Indian origin author V. S. Naipaul?

(A) A Village by the Sea

(B) A Bend in the River

(C) An Area of Darkness

(D) A Tale of Two Cities

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Solution

✅ Correct Option: 4

V. S. Naipaul, the Trinidad-born writer of Indian descent and 2001 Nobel laureate, wrote the novel A Bend in the River and the travelogue An Area of Darkness, the first of his India trilogy.

A Village by the Sea is by Anita Desai and A Tale of Two Cities is by Charles Dickens. So only (B) and (C) are his.

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