CSS Past Paper of English Literature Paper - II (2010)

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)    Forester
(b)    Conrad
(c)    Lawrence
(d)    Hardy
(e)    None of these

(a) Forester