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Question 1220

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

Peter Ackroyd՚s first novel, The Great Fire of London, picks up the historical echoes and artfully deploys a Dickens novel as an intertext. Identify the source Dickens text. (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Great Expectations

b.

Martin Chuzzlewit

c.

Little Dorrit

d.

Old Curiosity Shop

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Question 1221

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is notorious for its many digressions across nine volumes and its failure to deliver a complete autobiography. In which volume does Tristram Shandy finally recount his birth? (November Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Volume VIII

b.

Volume V

c.

Volume III

d.

Volume IX

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Question 1222

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

What illusion does Lyuba Ranevsky in Anton Chekhov՚s play The Cherry Orchard have as she looks at the orchard? (November Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

She sees her dead mother walking through the orchard.

b.

She sees her childhood friends playing in the orchard.

c.

She sees it full of ripe fruits without a trace of leaves.

d.

She sees it gleaming with a bluish aura.

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Question 1223

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

“Our almost-instinct almost true:

What will survive of us is love. ″

Identify the poem by Philip Larkin that ends with the above lines: (November Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

“Next, Please”

b.

“High Windows”

c.

“An Arundel Tomb”

d.

“This Be the Verse”

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