CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2007

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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2007.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

NOTE: (i) Attempt FIVE questions in all including question No. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry EQUAL marks.


8. Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.

(1) ‘Songs of Experience’ was written by:
(a) Blake
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these

(a) Blake


(2) ‘The Prelude’ was composed by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Blake
(d) Byron 
(e) None of these

(b) Wordsworth


(3) Which writing includes the manifesto of Romantic poetry?
(a) The Prelude
(b) Lyrical Ballads
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) Songs of Innocence
(e) None of these

(b) Lyrical Ballads


(4) Who does consider ‘love’ as a transcending power handling all things into beauty?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Byron
(e) None of these

(b) Keats


(5) Who did write an epic on the growth of his own mind?
(a) Blake
(b) Tennyson 
(c) Browning
(d) Wordsworth
(e) None of these

(d) Wordsworth


(6) Who was more under the influence of Godwin’s philosophy of life?
(a) Byron
(b) Browning
(c) Shelley 
(d) Keats
(e) None of these

(c) Shelley 


(7) “The Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter” appear in:
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(c) Ode to a Nightingale
(d) Ode on Melancholy
(e) None of these

(b) Ode on a Grecian Urn


(8) Lord Byron was born in:
(a) 1788
(b) 1789
(c) 1790
(d) 1791
(e) None of these

(a) 1788


(9) Tennyson talks about the equality of women in:
(a) The Princess
(b) In memoriam
(c) Maud
(d) Lackslay Hall
(e) None of these

(a) The Princess


(10) Pauline was written by:
(a) Browning
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(a) Browning


(11) Which Victorian Poet is called the psychologist?
(a) Rossetti
(b) Morris
(c) Browning
(d) Swinburne
(e) None of these

(c) Browning


(12) ‘The last Essays of Elia’ was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Hunt
(d) Ruskin
(e) None of these

(b) Lamb


(13) Hazlitt’s intellectual awakening had been stimulated by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
(d) De Quincey
(e) None of these

(a) Shakespeare


(14) Paul David and Pip are the three notable descriptions of sensitive, nervous childhood in the works of:
(a) Thackery
(b) Kingsley
(c) Dickens
(d) Austin
(e) None of these

(c) Dickens


(15) Which of the following novelists is known for his Satire in the Victorian literature?
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Thackeray 
(c) Hardy
(d) Meredith
(e) None of these

(b) Thackeray 


(16) Amongst the following, who is considered to be the “pioneer of the novel of female emancipation”?
(a) Jane Austin
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these

(b) Charlotte Bronte


(17) The world of “Lady Shallot” belongs to the:
(a) Medieval era
(b) Greek era
(c) Victorian era
(d) Romantic era
(e) None of these

(c) Victorian era

(18) Egden Heath forms the back-drop of which of the following novels by Hardy?
(a) Jude the Obscure
(b) Hard Times
(c) Return of the Native 
(d) Tess
(e) None of these

(c) Return of the Native 

(19) “Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty” This line has been taken from:
(a) Ode to Autumn
(b) Ode to a Nightingale 
(c) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(d) La Belle Dame Sans Merci
(e) None of these

(c) Ode on a Grecian Urn

(20) Upon Wartminister Bridge, written by Wordsworth is:
(a) Ballad
(b) Pastoral poem
(c) Sonnet
(d) Lyrical poem
(e) None of these

(c) Sonnet

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2007.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION

 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.

(1) B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:
(a) Ibsen
(b) Swift
(c) Butler
(d) Wells
(e) None of these

(a) Ibsen


(2) Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:
(a) Shaw
(b) Butler
(c) Moris
(d) Wells
(e) None of these

(a) Shaw


(3) Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?
(a) The Rape of Lucrece
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) Endymion
(d) Fairie Queene
(e) None of these

(a) The Rape of Lucrece


(4) Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?
(a) Spenser
(b) Milton
(c) Byron
(d) Pope 
(e) None of these

(b) Milton


(5) The Rape of the Lock is a:
(a) Parody
(b) Elegy
(c) Romance
(d) Sonnet
(e) None of these

(a) Parody


(6) The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Dryden
(c) Pope
(d) Shaw
(e) None of these

(c) Pope


(7) Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the thought”?
(a) Pope
(b) Dryden
(c) Locke
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(d) Coleridge


(8) What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders?
(a) Travel-books
(b) Tragedy
(c) Romance
(d) Comedy
(e) None of these

(a) Travel-books


(9) Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?
(a) Dryden
(b) Bradley
(c) Johnson
(d) L. C. Knight
(e) None of these

(c) Johnson


(10) Who wrote The Vicar of Wake Field?
(a) Richardson
(b) Fielding
(c) Defoe
(d) Goldsmith
(e) None of these

(d) Goldsmith


(11) ‘Cervantes’ is a character in:
(a) Don Quixote
(b) Pamele
(c) Tristram Shandy
(d) Tom Jones
(e) None of these

(a) Don Quixote


(12) Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:
(a) Richardson
(b) Sterne
(c) Fielding
(d) Smollett
(e) None of these

(c) Fielding


(13) Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:
(a) Emma
(b) Persecution
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(d) Sense and sensibility 
(e) None of these

(c) Pride and Prejudice


(14) The Prelude is written in:
(a) Couplets
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Terza rima
(d) None of these

(b) Blank Verse


(15) In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the humblest’?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Southey
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Burns
(e) None of these

(c) Wordsworth


(16) Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these

(a) Coleridge


(17) Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Pope
(d) Tennyson 
(e) None of these

(d) Tennyson 


(18) The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:
(a) Lake district
(b) Hampshire
(c) Wessex
(d) Utopia
(e) None of these

(a) Lake district


(19) Childe Harold was written by:
(a) Byron
(b) Shelley 
(c) Tennyson
(d) None of these

(a) Byron


(20) Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:
(a) Shelley
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) None of these

(b) Keats