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Question 787
Appeared in Year: 2013
Question MCQ▾
“Nothing odd will do long. ________ did not last long.” Dr. Johnson had this to say about one of the eighteenth century novels. Identify it from the following list: (December Paper 3)
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | The Female Quixote | |
b. | Clarissa | |
c. | Tristram Shandy | |
d. | Tom Jones |
Question 788
Appeared in Year: 2013
Question MCQ▾
After the prediction of the oracle that he was destined to kill his father, Oedipus could have avoided patricide
I. Had he not determined in horror never to return to the only parents he knew.
II. Had he been a man of unusual self-control.
III. Had he remembered the prediction and had he been more cautious having recognized that possibly after all Polybos was not his father.
IV. Had he never struck any man who was older than himself saying at the moment of provocation ‘This insolent man is grey-haired; let him have the road’ .
Find the correct combination according to the code: (December Paper 3)
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | I, III and IV are correct. | |
b. | I, II and IV are correct. | |
c. | II, III and IV are correct. | |
d. | I, II and III are correct. |
Question 789
Appeared in Year: 2012
Question MCQ▾
E. M. Forster uses some recurrent images in A Passage to India. Pick the odd one out: (December paper 3)
Choices
Choice (4) | Response | |
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a. | Thunder | |
b. | Echo | |
c. | Wasp | |
d. | Stone |