NET English Paper 3 June 2014 Q.21

21. Here are sentences labelled Assertion (A) and Reason (R) :

Assertion (A) : While referring to Charlotte Bronte’s claim that she has excluded public interest from her novels Graham Greene writes : ‘Public interest in her day was surely more separate from public life… with us, however consciously unconcerned we are, it obtrudes through the cracks of our stories terribly persistent like grass through cement’.

Reason (R) : The decade of the “thirties was bristling with recurring economic and political crisis like the Great Depression, Wall Street Crash, Unemployment, rise of Hitler and Mussolini, series of murders, invasions and tensions; writers could not remain unaffected.

In the light of (A) and (R) which of the following is correct ?

1. Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
2. Both (A) and (R) are true, but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
3. (A) is true but (R) is false.
4. (A) is false, but (R) is true.

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