CSS Past Paper of English Literature Paper - I (2006)

1. Restoration period was known as the age of :

(a)    satire
(b)    paganism
(c)    classicism
(d)    puritanism

(a) satire


2. Who is famous for representing London in his novels.

(a)    Thackeray
(b)    Hardy
(c)    Dickens
(d)    W. Scott

(c) Dickens


3. Great Expectations was published in:

(a) 1860-1 (b) 1857-8
(c)    1852-3
(d)    none of these

(a) 1860-1


4. Jane Eyre was written by:

(a)    C. Dickens
(b)    G. Eliot
(c)    C. Bronte
(d)    J. Austen

(c) C. Bronte


5. Who was a known aesthete?

(a)    Ruskin
(b)    Russell
(c)    Huxley
(d)    J.S. Mill

(c) Huxley

6. "In Memoriam" is :

(a)    an ode
(b)    an elegy (c) a sonnet
(d) neither

(b) an elegy


7. Tennyson was:

(a)    a romantic
(b)    a Victorian
(c)    a Pre-Raphaelite
(d)    none of these

(b) a Victorian


8. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?

(a)    Ruskin
(b)    Russell
(c)    Huxley
(d)    None of these

(a) Ruskin


9. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:

(a)    naturalism
(b)    romanticism
(c)    fatalism
(d)    classicism
(c) fatalism


10. "The Recluse" was written by:

(a)    Worsdworth
(b)    Coleridge
(c)    W. Blake
(d)    Southey

(a) Worsdworth


11. Dorothy was the gifted sister of:

(a)    R. Browning
(b)    Shelley
(c)    Wordsworth
(d)    Coleridge

(c) Wordsworth


12. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by:

(a)    W. Scott
(b)    Lewis
(c)    Mrs. Shelley
(d)    If none of these then by whom

(c) Mrs. Shelley


13. An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :

(a)    Wordsworth
(b)    Coleridge
(c)    Browning
(d)    Byron

(b) Coleridge


14. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :

(a)    Childe Harolde
(b)    Queen Mab
(c)    Prometheus
(d)    The Recluse

(a) Childe Harolde

15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:

(a)    W.Scott
(b)    Coleridge
(c)    Shelley
(d)    None of these

(b) Coleridge



16. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:

(a)    W. Blake
(b)    Byron
(c)    Shelley
(d)    none of these

(c) Shelley


17. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:

(a)    Ruskin
(b)    J.S.Mill
(c)    C. Lamb
(d)    Russell

(a) Ruskin


18. Mr. Rochester is the major character of:

(a)    Silas Marner
(b)    Jane Eyre
(c)    Jude the Obscure
(d)    Adam Bede

(b) Jane Eyre


19. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:

(a)    A pair of Blue Eyes
(b)    Jude the Obscure
(c)    Return of the Native
(d)    if none of these then give the correct answer

Tess of the d'Urbervilles

20. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:

(a)    C.Bronte
(b)    Hardy
(c)    Emile Bronte
(d)    Jane Austen

(c) Emile Bronte