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

1) Frost is:

a)    a nature poet
b)    Poet of Country life
c)    a poet of nature and country life
d)    None of these

b) Poet of Country life


2. Who said these words in ‘The Old Man and the Sea’ … “No one should be alone in their old age”:

a)    Hemingway
b)    Santiago
c)    Manolin
d)    None of these

b) Santiago


3. Santiago is an illustration of:

a)    Hemingway’s respect for struggle
b)    Hemingway’s total view of life
c)    Hemingway’s philosophy of life
d)    None of these

c) Hemingway’s philosophy of life


4. The Cardinal virtues of the Houyhnhnms are:

a)    Friendship and benevolence
b)    Bitterness and revenge
c)    Hatred and jealousy
d)    None of these

a) Friendship and benevolence

5. Gulliver was expelled from the land of Yahoos because he was considered

a)    a yahoo
b)    a criminal
c)    he hated their king
d)    None of these

c) he hated their king

6. Yeats was

a)    Victorian poet
b)    a modern poet
c)    Both
d)    None of these

c) Both


7. ‘How can we know the dancer from the dance’? This line written by Yeats is taken from:

a)    Sailing to Byzantium
b)    Among School Children
c)    The Second Coming
d)    None of these

c) The Second Coming


8. T. S. Eliot was a

a)    Critic
b)    Poet
c)    Both
d)    None of these
c) Both


9. T. S. Eliot was

a)    Romantic
b)    Classicist
c)    Both
d)    None of these

b) Classicist


10. Shakespeare wrote

a)    Tragedies
b)    Comedies
c)    Poems
d)    All of above

d) All of above


11. Shakespeare was born in:

a)    1570
b)    1564
c)    1590
d)    None of these

b) 1564


12. Pure tragedies written by Shakespeare are:

a)    Four
b)    Six
c)    Eight
d)    None of these

a) Four


13. Shakespeare died in:

a)    1625
b)    1616
c)    1618
d)    None of these

b) 1616

14. Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ was published in:

a)    1602
b)    1608
c)    1610
d)    None of these

a) 1602


15. Hamlet was killed by:

a)    Polonius
b)    Learteus
c)    Claudius
d)    None of these

b) Learteus



16. The kind Claudius was killed by:

a)    Laerteus
b)    Hamlet
c)    Horatio
d)    None of these

b) Hamlet


17. Jane Austen’s main theme in her novels especially in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:

a)    Love and marriage
b)    Life of big landlords
c)    Politicians
d)    None of these

a) Love and marriage


18. Who is the major male character in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

a)    Mr. Darcy
b)    Mr. Bennett
c)    Mr. Collius
d)    None of these

a) Mr. Darcy

19. Who represents Pride in Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

a)    Mr. Bennett
b)    Mr. Bingley
c)    Miss Elizabeth
d)    None of these

d) None of these


20. Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’:

a)    Mr. Darcy
b)    Miss Elizabeth
c)    Miss Jane
d)    None of these

b) Miss Elizabeth