CSS Past Paper of English Literature Paper - I (2004)

1) Hellenism of Keats connotes:

a)    his love of poetry
b)    his love of ancient cultures
c)    his love of Greek culture and art
d)    None of these

c) his love of Greek culture and art


2. The line ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty’ occurs in which one of Keats’ following poems:

a)    Ode to Nightingale
b)    Ode to Grecian Urn
c)    Ode to Psyche
d)    None of these

b) Ode to Grecian Urn


3. In his poetry Tennyson is:
a)    The representative poet of Victorian Age
b)    The representative poet of Romantic Age
c)    The best nature poet
d)    None of these

a) The representative poet of Victorian Age

4. T. Hardy is:

a)    A social reformer
b)    A satirist
c)    A fatalist
d)    A lover of nature
e)    None of these

c) A fatalist

5. Maggie is the central character in George Eliot’s:

a)    Adam Bede
b)    Middle March
c)    The Mill on the Floss
d)    Silas Morner
e)    None of these

c) The Mill on the Floss

6. Which of following Books consists of Ruskin’s lectures:

a)    Modern painters
b)    The Stones of Venice
c)    The Crown of wild olive
d)    None of these

c) The Crown of wild olive


7. Who described poetry as “Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”:

a)    Shelley
b)    Wordsworth
c)    Coleridge
d)    Arnold
e)    None of these

b) Wordsworth


8. ‘Hero and Hero worship’ was written by:

a)    Ruskin
b)    Carlyle
c)    Mill
d)    None of these

b) Carlyle


9. The French Revolution took place in:

a)    1793
b)    1796
c)    1798
d)    None of these

d) None of these


10. ‘The Metaphysical Poets’ is a critical essay by:

a)    Arnold
b)    T. S. Eliot
c)    Shelley
d)    None of these

b) T. S. Eliot


11. “David Copperfield” was written by:

a)    Hardy
b)    Dickens
c)    Thackeray
d)    None of these

b) Dickens


12. Who said this “Poetry is the Criticism of life”:

a)    Wordsworth
b)    Byron
c)    T. S. Eliot
d)    Arnold
e)    None of these

d) Arnold


13. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ was written by:

a)    Wordsworth
b)    Coleridge
c)    Shelley
d)    None of these

c) Shelley


14. ‘The Lotos Eaters’ was written by:

a)    Blake
b)    Byron
c)    Tennyson
d)    None of these

c) Tennyson


15. ‘Importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

a)    Oscar Wilde
b)    Browning
c)    Blake
d)    None of these

a) Oscar Wilde


16. The treatise ‘On Liberty’ was written by:

a)    Ruskin
b)    Lamb
c)    Mill
d)    Oscar Wilde
e)    None of these

c) Mill


17. Ruskin is famous for:

a)    Being a critic of art
b)    A social reformer
c)    A moral teacher
d)    None of these

b) A social reformer


18. Stephen Guest is an important Character in One of the following novels of George Eliot:

a)    The Mill on the Floss
b)    Adam Bede
c)    Silas Marner
d)    None of these

a) The Mill on the Floss


19. ‘Lucy Gray’ is a poem written by:

a)    Coleridge
b)    Wordsworth
c)    Keats
d)    None of these

b) Wordsworth


20. ‘Andrea Del Sarto’ is a poem written by:

a)    Tennyson
b)    Browning
c)    Keats
d)    T. S. Eliot
e)    None of these

b) Browning