CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2011

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ENGLISH LITERAUTRE - PAPER I

TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20 
(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.

i. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age
a. Victorian
b. Elizabethan
c. Romantic
d. Classic
e. None of these

c. Romantic


ii. S.T. Coleridge was born in 
a. 1798
b. 1772
c. 1749
d. 1797
e. None of these

b. 1772


iii. Wordsworth settled in 
a. Lake District
b. Sussex
c. Dorset Shire
d. Cumber Land
e. None of these

a. Lake District


iv. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:
a. Blake
b. Shelley
c. Browning
d. Byron
e. None of these

d. Byron


v. Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
a. Shelley
b. Byron
c. Blake
d. Pope
e. None of these

a. Shelley


vi. Hyperion is a/an __________ poem
a. Elegy
b. Epic
c. Ode
d. Lyric
e. None of these

b. Epic


vii. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of 
a. Mind
b. Soul
c. Senses
d. Body
e. None of these

b. Soul


viii. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by 
a. G. Eliot
b. Miss Burney
c. C. Bronte
d. Jane Austen
e. None of these

d. Jane Austen


ix. Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet
a. Lyric
b. Tragic
c. Dramatic
d. Mythical
e. None of these

a. Lyric


x. Keats is prominently a man of:
a. Emotions
b. Sensations
c. Imagination
d. Aestheticism
e. None of these

b. Sensations


xi. As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of:
a. Utilitarianism
b. Intellect
c. Radicalism
d. Puritanism
e. None of these

a. Utilitarianism


xii. Charles Dickens was born in 
a. 1800
b. 1789
c. 1812
d. 1833
e. None of these

c. 1812


xiii. C. Dickens is known for being a 
a. Socialist
b. Humorist
c. Idealist
d. Romantic
e. None of these

c. Idealist


xiv. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:
a. E. Bronte
b. J. Austen
c. G. Eliot
d. C. Bronte
e. None of these

d. C. Bronte


xv. Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious
a. Paganism
b. Pantheism
c. Idealism
d. Lyricism
e. None of these

b. Pantheism


xvi. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by:
a. Trollope
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Charles Dickens
d. G. Eliot
e. None of these

b. Thomas Hardy


xvii. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:
a. Architect
b. Engraver
c. Sculptor
d. Painter
e. None of these

a. Architect


xviii. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by:
a. Gissing
b. D. H. Lawrence
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Trollope
e. None of these

c. Oscar Wilde


xix. Ruskin was born in:
a. 1819
b. 1843
c. 1860
d. 1851
e. None of these

a. 1819


xx. __________ is a novel by Miss Burney
a. Evelina
b. Emma
c. Pamela
d. Persuasion
e. None of these

a. Evelina

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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

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

i. In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one.
a. Allegory
b. Idealism
c. Imagery
d. Satire
e. None of these

d. Satire


ii. Joseph Andrews was written by 
a. Richardson
b. Defoe
c. Fielding
d. Bunyan
e. None of these

c. Fielding


iii. Shakespeare was born in 
a. 1570
b. 1601
c. 1547
d. 1564
e. None of these

d. 1564


iv. ‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was written by
a. Bradley
b. W. Knight
c. Hazlitt
d. Dryden
e. None of these

b. W. Knight


v. Kubla Khan was written by
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. Keats
e. None of these

b. Coleridge


vi. G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as:
a. Journalist
b. Novelist
c. Dramatist
d. Critic
e. None of these

b. Novelist


vii. W. B. Yeats was born in 
a. 1914
b. 1856
c. 1865
d. 1838
e. None of these

c. 1865


viii. Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of 
a. Classicism
b. Puritanism
c. Idealism
d. Rationalism
e. None of these

a. Classicism


ix. The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an 
a. Ode
b. Elegy
c. Allegory
d. Epic
e. None of these

b. Elegy


x. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in 
a. Italian
b. Spanish
c. German
d. French
e. None of these

d. French


xi. The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
a. Classical
b. Romantic
c. Victorian
d. Elizabethan
e. None of these

b. Romantic


xii. Maud and In memoriam were written by
a. Tennyson
b. Keats
c. Pope
d. Shelley
e. None of these

a. Tennyson


xiii. Tennyson was born in 
a. 1809
b. 1798
c. 1709
d. 1890
e. None of these

a. 1809


xiv. ___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments
a. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
c. Rhetoric
d. Overtone
e. None of these

a. Hyperbole


xv. Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into
a. Romanticism
b. Pre-Raphaelitism
c. Idealism
d. Angilicanism
e. None of these

b. Pre-Raphaelitism


xvi. _________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte
a. Idealism
b. Romanticism
c. Lyricism
d. Radicalism
e. None of these

a. Idealism


xvii. The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of
a. W. Lewis
b. Yeats
c. E. Sitwell
d. D. H. Lawrence
e. None of these

b. Yeats


xviii. T. S. Eliot was born in 
a. 1887
b. 1888
c. 1817
d. 1870
e. None of these

b. 1888


xix. Jane Eyre was written by 
a. Jane Austen
b. G. Eliot
c. C. Bronte
d. E. Bronte
e. None of these

c. C. Bronte

xx. Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogen are the characters created by
a. Richardson
b. Fielding
c. Hardy
d. Shakespeare
e. None of these

d. Shakespeare