2017 · Q7
Statement IThe Man Booker International Prize is now unlikely to be won by an English author.
Statement IIThe Booker Prize Foundation announced that the Man Booker International Prize was to evolve from 2016 onwards into a prize for fiction in translation.
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- ABoth the statements are individually true and Statement II is the correct explanation of Statement I
- BBoth the statements are individually true but Statement II is NOT the correct explanation of Statement I
- CStatement I is true but Statement II is false
- DStatement I is false but Statement II is true
Explanation
Statement II is true: from 2016 the Man Booker International Prize was reconfigured as a prize for fiction in translation into English (Han Kang’s The Vegetarian won the first revamped prize in 2016). Statement I follows from it: a prize now reserved for translated fiction is unlikely to be won by an English-language original. Since Statement II directly explains Statement I, both are true and the answer is (A).