CSS Past Paper of English LiteraturePaper - I (2011)

i. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age
a.    Victorian
b.    Elizabethan
c.    Romantic
d.    Classic
e.    None of these

c. Romantic


ii. S.T. Coleridge was born in a. 1798
b.    1772
c.    1749
d.    1797
e.    None of these

b. 1772

iii. Wordsworth settled in a. Lake District
b.    Sussex
c.    Dorset Shire
d.    Cumber Land
e.    None of these

a. Lake District

iv. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by: a. Blake
b.    Shelley
c.    Browning
d.    Byron
e.    None of these

d. Byron


v. Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
a.    Shelley
b.    Byron
c.    Blake
d.    Pope
e.    None of these

a. Shelley


vi. Hyperion is a/an __________ poem
a.    Elegy
b.    Epic
c.    Ode
d.    Lyric
e.    None of these

b. Epic


vii. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of a. Mind
b.    Soul
c.    Senses
d.    Body
e.    None of these

b. Soul


viii. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by a. G. Eliot
b.    Miss Burney
c.    C. Bronte
d.    Jane Austen
e.    None of these

d. Jane Austen


ix. Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet a. Lyric
b.    Tragic
c.    Dramatic
d.    Mythical
e.    None of these

a. Lyric


x. Keats is prominently a man of:
a.    Emotions
b.    Sensations
c.    Imagination
d.    Aestheticism
e.    None of these

b. Sensations


xi. As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of: a. Utilitarianism
b.    Intellect
c.    Radicalism
d.    Puritanism
e.    None of these

a. Utilitarianism


xii. Charles Dickens was born in a. 1800
b.    1789
c.    1812
d.    1833
e.    None of these

c. 1812


xiii. C. Dickens is known for being a a. Socialist
b.    Humorist
c.    Idealist
d.    Romantic
e.    None of these

c. Idealist


xiv. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by: a. E. Bronte
b.    J. Austen
c.    G. Eliot
d.    C. Bronte
e.    None of these

d. C. Bronte



xv. Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious a. Paganism
b.    Pantheism
c.    Idealism
d.    Lyricism
e.    None of these

b. Pantheism


xvi. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by: a. Trollope
b.    Thomas Hardy
c.    Charles Dickens
d.    G. Eliot
e.    None of these

b. Thomas Hardy


xvii. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of: a. Architect
b.    Engraver
c.    Sculptor
d.    Painter
e.    None of these

a. Architect


xviii. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by: a. Gissing
b.    D. H. Lawrence
c.    Oscar Wilde
d.    Trollope
e.    None of these

c. Oscar Wilde


xix. Ruskin was born in: a. 1819
b.    1843
c.    1860
d.    1851
e.    None of these

a. 1819



xx. __________ is a novel by Miss Burney a. Evelina
b.    Emma
c.    Pamela
d.    Persuasion
e.    None of these

a. Evelina