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GATE 2022 XH2 (English) – Question 50

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 2 marks · Multiple choice

Match the following excerpts with their authors:

i. Rapt, twirling in thy hand a withered spray, And waiting for the spark from heaven to fall.

ii. Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is part of an English man’s constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches upon them everywhere, one is intimate with him by instinct.

iii. It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

iv. Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Author
aJane Austen
bThomas Hardy
cMatthew Arnold
dFrancis Bacon
  1. i-a, ii-c, iii-b, iv-d
  2. i-b, ii-d, iii-a, iv-c
  3. i-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b
  4. i-d, ii-c, iii-b, iv-a

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Correct answer: (C) i-c, ii-a, iii-d, iv-b

Explanation

(i) is from Arnold's “The Scholar-Gipsy”, (ii) is Henry Crawford speaking in Austen's Mansfield Park, (iii) is from Bacon's essay “Of Death”, and (iv) is from Hardy's Tess of the d'Urbervilles.