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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2010.
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. (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