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Question 1149

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

Which novel by Joseph Conrad presents a young captain who like Coleridge՚s Ancient Mariner is haunted by the “vision of a ship drifting in calm and swinging in light airs, with all the crew dying slowly about her decks” and who feels “the sickness of my soul … the weight of my sins … my sense of unworthiness” ? (November Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

The Shadow Line

b.

Victory

c.

The Rescue

d.

Under Western Eyes

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Question 1150

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

Beginning 1996, an Indian publisher commenced the publication of a series of modern Indian novels in English translation. By 2003, it had published eighty novels of repute from almost all Indian languages. Identify the publisher. (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Jaico

b.

Arnold Heinemann

c.

Asia Publishing House

d.

Macmillan India

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Question 1151

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

“Where there is leisure for fiction, there is little grief” , was Samuel Johnson՚s criticism of a famous poem. Which poem was it? (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Philip Sidney՚s “Astrophel and Stella”

b.

Thomas Gray՚s “Elegy Written on a Country Churchyard”

c.

P. B Shelley՚s “Adonais”

d.

John Miltion՚s “Lycidas”

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