CSS Past Paper of English Literature Paper - I (2005)

1) Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:

a)    1808
b)    1812
c)    1818
d)    None of these

b) 1812


2. Which English romantic poet admired Pope:

a)    Coleridge
b)    William Wordsworth
c)    Byron
d)    None of these

c) Byron


3. The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:

a)    Keats
b)    Blake
c)    Shelley
d)    None of these
c) Shelley


4. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:

a)    1790
b)    1794
c)    1820
d)    None of these

b) 1794

5. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:

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

d) None of these (Wordsworth)


6. The Last Ride Together was written by:

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

c) Browning


7. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:

a)    Dickens
b)    Hardy
c)    George Eliot
d)    None of these

a) Dickens


8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by

a)    Dickens
b)    Hardy
c)    George Eliot
d)    None of these

c) George Eliot

9. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:

a)    Browning
b)    Mathew Arnold
c)    Tennyson
d)    None of these

a) Browning


10. ‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by

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

a) Tennyson


11. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:

a)    Ruskin
b)    Carlyle
c)    Oscar Wilde
d)    None of these

c) Oscar Wilde


12. ‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:

a)    Ruskin
b)    Charles Lamb
c)    J. S. Mill
d)    None of these

b) Charles Lamb


13. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:

a)    J. S. Mill
b)    Carlyle
c)    Ruskin
d)    None of these

c) Ruskin


14. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.

a)    Ode to Autumn
b)    Ode on a Grecian Urn
c)    Ode to melancholy
d)    None of these

b) Ode on a Grecian Urn


15. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?

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

a) Keats


16. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by

a)    Shelley
b)    Browning
c)    Tennyson
d)    None of these

b) Browning


17. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

a)    Byron
b)    Wordsworth
c)    Oscar Wilde
d)    None of these

c) Oscar Wilde


18. Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?

a)    Tess of the D’Urberville
b)    Major of the Casterbridge
c)    Jude the Obscure
d)    None of these

d) None of these


19. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:

a)    Ruskin
b)    J. S. Mill
c)    Carlyle
d)    None of these

b) J. S. Mill


20. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?

a)    Tess of the D’Urberville
b)    Return of the Native
c)    Jude the Obscure
d)    None of these

b) Return of the Native