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ENGLISH LITERAUTRE - PAPER I

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(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

PART – I (MCQ)

COMPULSORY

Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)


1. Ode to West Wind was written by
(a) Keats 
(b) Shelley 
(c) Byron
(d) Blake 
(e) None of these

(b) Shelley 


2. Keats was born in
(a) 1770 
(b) 1779 
(c) 1795
(d) 1790 
(e) None of these

(c) 1795


3. Dream Children was written by
(a) Leigh Hunt 
(b) Charles Lamb 
(c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin 
(e) None of these

(b) Charles Lamb 


4. 'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by
(a) Oscar Wild 
(b) Dickens 
(c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot 
(e) None of these

(a) Oscar Wild 


5. Ruskin belonged to (which age)
(a) Romantic age 
(b) Modern age 
(c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these

(c) Victorian Age


6. Wordsworth lived from 
(a) 1770 – 1832 
(b) 1775 – 1859 
(c) 1770 – 1850
(d) 1770 – 1802 
(e) None of these

(c) 1770-1850


7. 'Heroes and hero worship' was written by 
(a) Mill 
(b) Carlyle 
(c) Macaulay
(d) Coleridge 
(e) None of these

(b) Thomas Carlyle


8. ' Fair seed time had my soul' is from
(a) Ode to autumn 
(b) To a Highland girl 
(c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (The Prelude)


9. Great Expectation was written by
(a) George Eliot 
(b) Thackeray 
(c) Hardy
(d) Dickens 
(e) None of these

(d) Dickens


10. Lotus eaters is written by
(a) Tennyson 
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Hardy 
(e) None of these

(a) Tennyson 


11. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are
(a) Poets 
(b) Dramatists 
(c) Essayists
(d) Novelists 
(e) None of these

(c) Essayists


12. 'My Last Duchess' was written by
(a) Keats 
(b) Coleridge 
(c) Tennyson
(d) Browning 
(e) None of these

(d) Browning 


13. Emily Bronte is the writer of
a. Wuthering heights 
b. Emma
c. Under the green wood tree
d. Mr.chips
e. None of the above

a. Wuthering heights


14. 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth 
(c) Shelley
(d) Coleridge 
(e) None of these

(b) Wordsworth 


15. 'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn 
(b) Ode to a nightingale 
(c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn 
(e) None of these

(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn 


16. 'Waverley' was written by
(a) Scott 
(b) Hardy 
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Dickens 
(e) None of these

(a) Scott 


17. 'We are Seven' is written by
(a) Keats 
(b) Shelly 
(c) Byron
(d) Hardy 
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (William Wordsworth)


18. 'Past and Present' is written by
(a) Mill 
(b) Lamb 
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle 
(e) None of these

(d) Carlyle 

19. 'Modern Painters' is written by
(a) Ruskin 
(b) Carlyle 
(c) Mill
(d) Macaulay 
(e) None of these

(a) Ruskin 

20. Byron is the writer of
a. Don Juan
b. Prometheus Unbound
c. Adonias
d. Lucy Gray
e. None of the above

a. Don Juan

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ENGLISH LITERAUTRE - PAPER II

TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20 
(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

PART – I (MCQ)

COMPULSORY

1. Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama? 
(a) Shaw
(b) Beckett
(c) Pinter
(d) Eliot

(b) Beckett


(ii) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence 
(b) Dylan Thomas 
(c) Hemingway
(d) Forster 
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (Virginia Woolf)


(iii) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius 
(b) Claudius 
(c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia 
(e) None of these

(c) Hamlet


(iv) “Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce 
(b) Virginia Woolf 
(c) Hardy
(d) Forster 
(e) None of these

(a) James Joyce 

(v) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma
(b) Pride and Prejudice 
(c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby 
(e) None of these

(b) Pride and Prejudice 


(vi) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost 
(b) Browning 
(c) Yeats
(d) Eliot 
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (Tennyson)


(vii) “Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes 
(b) Philip Larkin 
(c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath 
(e) None of these

(a) Ted Hughes 


(viii) “Major Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett 
(b) Pinter 
(c) Eliot
(d) Shaw 
(e) None of these

(d) Shaw 


(ix) Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels 
(b) Pygmalion 
(c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea 
(e) None of these

(a) Gulliver’s Travels 


(x) “Fire and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot 
(b) Yeats 
(c) Frost
(d) Auden 
(e) None of these

(c) Frost


(xi) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period 
(b) Restoration 
(c) Romantic period
(d) Augustan age 
(e) None of these

(d) Augustan age 


(xii) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers 
(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover 
(c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow 
(e) None of these

(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover 


(xiii) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet 
(b) Othello 
(c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser 
(e) None of these

(c) King Lear


(xiv) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton 
(b) Byron 
(c) Keats
(d) Blake 
(e) None of these

(c) Keats


(xv) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare 
(b) Yeats 
(c) Eliot
(d) Auden 
(e) None of these

(c) Eliot


(xvi) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children 
(b) Byzentium 
(c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming 
(e) None of these

(d) The Second coming 


(xvii) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation 
(b) Mending 
(c) Pasture
(d) Birches
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (Mending Wall)
(xviii) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland 
(b) The Hollow men 
(c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock 
(e) None of these

(a) The Wasteland 


(xix) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner 
(b) Hemmingway 
(c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf 
(e) None of these

(b) Hemmingway 


(xx) “A passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forster 
(b) Conrad 
(c) Lawrence
(d) Hardy 
(e) None of these

(a) Forster