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GATE 2023 XH2 (English) – Question 39

History of English Literature and Literary Studies · English Literary Traditions across Time: Chaucer to contemporary English literature · 1 mark · Multiple choice

Which of the following novels opens with the sentence, “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”?

  1. Sense and Sensibility
  2. Pride and Prejudice
  3. Mansfield Park
  4. Emma

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Correct answer: (B) Pride and Prejudice

Explanation

This is the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.