Question

Identify the name of the book or play from which each quote is taken: A) “He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.” B) “I have done the state some service, and they know’t.” C) “I told myself that even if my house had burned to the ground while I was away, even if my mother, father, brother, and sister had all been killed, that would be quite all right with me.” D) “The old woman (she had been young then) had been caught ‘crossing her feet’ in a Ring Shout . . . and had been ordered out of the circle.” E) “After she had gone I withdrew from the company of man, from the company of the stupid and successful . . .” F) “She has deceived her father, and may thee.” G) “The horror! The horror!” H) “ . . . he held on to the ladder and merely banged his side against the knob of the window frame.” I) “You’ll sleep here. I’m going to lift the cover. You get in and I’ll close it over you.” J) “It is not pain that hovers about his straining chest, his tense abdomen, his slightly contorted hips, but some flicker of melancholy pleasure like music.” K) “Orangutans are almost human. There’s no tastier flesh.”

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S.No.	Quote	Name of the book or play
1	“He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a feather hat, walking on his hind-legs.”	“Heart of Darkness”
2	“I have done the state some service, and they know’t.”	“Othello”
3	“I told myself that even if my house had burned to the ground while I was away, even if my mother, father, brother, and sister had all been killed, that would be quite all right with me.”	“Confessions of a Mask.”
4	“The old woman (she had been young then) had been caught ‘crossing her feet’ in a Ring Shout . . . and had been ordered out of the circle.”	“Praise song for the widow”
5	“After she had gone I withdrew from the company of man, from the company of the stupid and successful . . .”	“The Blind Owl”
6	“She has deceived her father, and may thee.”	“Othello”
7	“The horror! The horror!”	“Othello”
8	“. . . He held on to the ladder and merely banged his side against the knob of the window frame.”	The Death of Ivan Ilyich
9	“You’ll sleep here. I’m going to lift the cover. You get in and I’ll close it over you.”	Novel Without a Name
10	“It is not pain that hovers about his straining chest, his tense abdomen, his slightly contorted hips, but some flicker of melancholy pleasure like music.”	“Confessions of a Mask”
11	“Orangutans are almost human. There’s no tastier flesh.”	“Novel Without a Name.”