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GATE 2024 XH2 (English) – Question 28

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

Match the following pairs of fictional characters with the author who created them:

CharactersAuthor
aPhileas Fogg and Jean PassepartoutiWilliam Shakespeare
bDon Quixote and Sancho PanzaiiJules Verne
cCandide and PanglossiiiMiguel de Cervantes
dDogberry and VergesivVoltaire
  1. a-iv, b-iii, c-i, d-ii
  2. a-i, b-iii, c-iv, d-ii
  3. a-iii, b-i, c-ii, d-iv
  4. a-ii, b-iii, c-iv, d-i

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

Explanation

Fogg and Passepartout are from Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza from Cervantes, Candide and Pangloss from Voltaire, and Dogberry and Verges from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.