UGC NET General Knowledge Q55

Question

Given below are two statements: one is labelled as Assertion A and the other is labelled as Reason R

Assertion A: The defining event of the first part of the twenty-first century was the attack on American targets, including the Twin Towers in New York, on 11 September 2001.

Reason R: A novel by Christopher Brookmyre published two days before the attacks happened, A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away, was, and still is, astonishingly prescient both about the violence and about some of its roots and resonances.

In the light of the above statements, choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below

Accepted Answer

Both A and R are correct but R is NOT the correct explanation of A