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

1. Ode to West Wind was written by
(a)    Keats
(b)    Shelley
(c)    Byron
(d)    Blake
(e)    None of these

(b) Shelley


2. Keats was born in
(a) 1770 (b) 1779
(c)    1795
(d)    1790
(e)    None of these

(c) 1795


3. Dream Children was written by
(a)    Leigh Hunt
(b)    Charles Lamb
(c)    Hazzlit
(d)    Ruskin
(e)    None of these

(b) Charles Lamb


4. 'Picture of Dorian Gray ' was written by
(a)    Oscar Wild
(b)    Dickens
(c)    Hardy
(d)    George Eliot
(e)    None of these

(a) Oscar Wild


5. Ruskin belonged to (which age)
(a)    Romantic age
(b)    Modern age
(c)    Victorian age
(d)    Augustan age
(e)    None of these

(c) Victorian Age


6. Wordsworth lived from
(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859
(c)    1770 – 1850
(d)    1770 – 1802
(e)    None of these

(c) 1770-1850


7. 'Heroes and hero worship' was written by
(a)    Mill
(b)    Carlyle
(c)    Macaulay
(d)    Coleridge
(e)    None of these

(b) Thomas Carlyle


8. ' Fair seed time had my soul' is from
(a)    Ode to autumn
(b)    To a Highland girl
(c)    Ancient Mariner
(d)    Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
(e)    None of these

(e) None of these (The Prelude)


9. Great Expectation was written by
(a)    George Eliot
(b)    Thackeray
(c)    Hardy
(d)    Dickens
(e)    None of these

(d) Dickens


10. Lotus eaters is written by
(a)    Tennyson
(b)    Browning
(c)    Mathew Arnold
(d)    Hardy
(e)    None of these

(a) Tennyson


11. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are
(a)    Poets
(b)    Dramatists
(c)    Essayists
(d)    Novelists
(e)    None of these

(c) Essayists


12. 'My Last Duchess' was written by
(a)    Keats
(b)    Coleridge
(c)    Tennyson (d) Browning
(e) None of these

(d) Browning


13. Emily Bronte is the writer of
a.    Wuthering heights
b.    Emma
c.    Under the green wood tree
d.    Mr.chips
e.    None of the above

a. Wuthering heights


14. 'Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling' is a definition of poetry by
(a)    Keats
(b)    Wordsworth
(c)    Shelley
(d)    Coleridge
(e)    None of these

(b) Wordsworth


15. 'Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is a line from
(a)    Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b)    Ode to a nightingale
(c)    The Prelude
(d)    Ode to Autumn
(e)    None of these

(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn


16. 'Waverley' was written by
(a)    Scott
(b)    Hardy
(c)    Jane Austen
(d)    Dickens
(e)    None of these

(a) Scott


17. 'We are Seven' is written by
(a)    Keats
(b)    Shelly
(c)    Byron
(d)    Hardy
(e)    None of these

(e) None of these (William Wordsworth)


18. 'Past and Present' is written by
(a)    Mill
(b)    Lamb
(c)    Hazlitt
(d)    Carlyle
(e)    None of these

(d) Carlyle


19. 'Modern Painters' is written by
(a)    Ruskin
(b)    Carlyle
(c)    Mill
(d)    Macaulay
(e)    None of these

(a) Ruskin



20. Byron is the writer of
a.    Don Juan
b.    Prometheus Unbound
c.    Adonias
d.    Lucy Gray
e.    None of the above

a. Don Juan