Multi-Genre Literatures in English [GATE (Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering) English (XH-C2)]: Questions 677 - 680 of 1546

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Question 677

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 678

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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Question 679

Appeared in Year: 2015

Question MCQ▾

What is Gilgamesh?

  1. A Babylonian epic poem
  2. A series of gnomic verses
  3. A classical play
  4. The story of a harsh ruler (December Paper III)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

(3)

b.

(2)

c.

(1) and (4)

d.

(1) and (2)

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Question 680

Appeared in Year: 2017

Question MCQ▾

This Byron work revolves around a wife whose husband is presumed lost at sea and she takes a lover in his absence. Everybody behaves agreeably on the husband՚s return. Byron՚s technical skills in verse is in display here as the work counterpoints the colloquial and the formal. Identify the work: (November Paper 3)

Choices

Choice (4)Response

a.

Don Juan

b.

Manfred

c.

The Bride of Abydos

d.

Beppo

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