PPSC EXAM PREPARATION

LECTURER IN ENGLISH

SAMPLE PAPER FOR PRACTICE

Total MCQs: 100

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Prepared by:
Shuaib Asghar
Lecturer in English
Govt. R. I. Postgraduate College
Haroonabad

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(Note: Correct options are underlined.)

(1) “Meeting at Night” by Browning is a:

(a) Monologue (b) Dramatic Lyric
(c) Dramatic Monologue (d) Dramatic Romance

(2) A pioneer in psychological analysis in fiction is:

(a) Charles Dickens (b) Thackeray
(c) Charlotte Bronte (d) G. Eliot

(3) “Thou glorious mirror, where the Almighty’s form Glasses itself in tempest”.
The above line occurs in Byron’s:
(a) Fame (b) Waterloo
(c) Roll on, Thou deep and dark Blue Oceans

(4) Dickens gives a tragic picture of the French Revolution in his novel:
(a) Little Dorrit (b) Hard Times
(c) Bleak House (d) A Tale of Two Cities

(5) Love of political freedom, always the noblest of Byron’s passions, inspired him to write:
(a) Manfred (b) The Island (c) The prisoner of Chillon (d) The Prophecy of Dante

(106) An aesthetic delight in art and a streak of extreme sadistic cruelty can be observed in
Browning’s Poem:
(a) Paracelsus (b) My Last Duchess (c) Sordello (d) Pippa Passes

(7) Edward Fitzgerald’s “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” inspired Browning to write:
(a) The Last Ride Together (b) Rabbi Ben Ezra
(c) Ester Day (d) Abt Vogler

(8) Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:

(a) revelation of character (b) dramatic purposes
(c) establishing the theme (d) None of these

(9) ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:

(a) Thrilling story (b) Tragedy (c) Satire (d) None of these

(10) Hemingway wrote:

(a) The Sun also Rises (b) The Rivals
(c) The Jew of Malta (d) None of these

(11) The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is

(a) Emma (b) Elizabeth (c) Lydia (d) None of these

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(12) ‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:
(a) An Ode (b) Sonnet (c) An Epic (d) None of these

(13) T. S. Eliot wrote:

(a) The Pasture (b) The Waste Land (c) Birches (d) None of these

(14) G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:

(a) Karl Marx (b) S. Butler (c) None of these

(15) ‘The Waste Land’ is:

(a) An Allegory (b) A Sonnet (c) Blank verse (d) None of these

(16) Yeats poetry possesses the imaginative mysticism of:

(a) Nationalism (b) Criticism (c) Romanticism (d) None of these

(17) Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure?

(a) Bradley (b) Eliot (c) Kermode (d) None of these

(18) Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?

(a) French (b) German (c) None of these

(19) Eliot shows a bent towards:

(a) Romanticism (b) Victorianism (c) None of these

(20) Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:

(a) M. Drabble (b) V. Woolf (c) None of these

(21) The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:

(a) Keats (b) Tennyson (c) Milton (d) None of these

(22) Browning is known for his:

(a) Dramatic Monologue (b) Parody (c) Blank verse (d) None of these

(23) Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?

(a) The Ice Age (b) Sons and Lovers (c) None of these

(24) The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:

(a) Pastoral (b) Romance (c) Comedy (d) None of these

(25) ‘The Faerie Queene’ was written by:

(a) Milton (b) Lyly (c) Spenser (d) None of these

(26) ‘The Crowns of Wild Olive’ was written by:

(a) Huxley (b) Ben Johnson (c) Ruskin (d) None of these

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(27) David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:
(a) Hardy (b) Dickens (c) Moore (d) None of these

(28) ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this
statement?
(a) Shelly (b) De Quincey (c) Wordsworth (d) None of these

(29) “A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?
(a) Coleridge (b) Keats (c) Wordsworth (d) None of these

(30) Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?

(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Matthew Arnold (d) None of these

(31) In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural
lecture in:
(a) English (b) Latin (c) Greek (d) None of these

(32) The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
(a) 1820 (b) 1825 (c) 1830 (d) None of these

(33) The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:
(a) 1800 (b) 1802 (c) 1798 (d) None of these

(34) Hero and Hero Worship was written by:

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

(35) Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?

(a) The Idylls of the kings (b) Charge of the Light Brigade
(c) In Memoriam (d) None of these

(36) Hardy’s Nature is:

(a) Friendly (b) Indifferent (c) Vindictive (d) None of these

(37) Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for
(a) Anneta Vallon (b) Dorothy
(c) Drawn from folk song heroines
(d) None of these

(38) ‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the
above line appears?
(a) The Last Ride together (b) One Word More
(c) The Last Duchess (d) None of these

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(39) The Prelude was written in:
(a) 1810 (b) 1840 (c) 1805 (d) None of these

(40) The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:

(a) Charles Lamb b) Carlyle (c) Ruskin (d) None of these

(41) Oscar Wilde believed in:

(a) Aestheticism (b) Escapism (c) Pragmatism (d) None of these

(42) ‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive, But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has
written these lines?
(a) Shelley (b) Browning (c) Wordsworth (d) None of these

(43) When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?

(a) 1793 (b) 1795 (c) 1798 (d) None of these

(44) The correct date of French Revolution:

(a) 1793 (b) 1802 (c) 1789 (d) None of these

(45) Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:

(a) Social Forces (b) Providence (c) Fate (d) None of these

(46) "Prophets of Nature ………

……………. What we have loved
Other will love …………….”
In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?
(a) Excursion (b) One Summer Evening (c) Prelude (d) None of these

(47) “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do
these lines appear?
(a) We Are Seven (Wordsworth) (b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
(c) Prisoner of Chillon (Byron) (d) None of these

(48) Fortinbras is a character of the play:

(a) Othello (b) Hamlet (c) King Lear (d) None of these

(49) Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:

(a) Sir Philip Sydney (b) Dryden (c) Dr. Johnson (d) None of these

(50) The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:

(a) Catharsis (b) Catastrophe (c) Hamartia (d) None of these

(51) The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare

(a) Dramatic monologue (b) Comedy (c) Tragedy (d) None of these

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(52) Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus complex?
(a) Oedipus (b) Hamlet (c) Macbeth (d) None of these

(53) Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’?

(a) Ben Johnson’s (b) Bernard Shaw’s (c) Shakespeare’s (d) None of these

(54) Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd?

(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Beckett (c) Ibsen (d) None of these

(55) Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?

(a) The Old Man and the Sea (b) Farewell to Arms
(c) For Whom the Bell Tolls (d) None of these

(56) Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:

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

(57) Which is called the Victorian Age?

(a) 18th Century (b) 19th Century (c) 20th Century (d) None of these
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(58) A poem which consists of fourteen lines is called:
(a) A Sonnet (b) An Ode (c) A ballad (d) None of these

(59) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”

(a) Yeats (b) T. S. Eliot (c) D. H. Lawrence (d) None of these

(60) ‘End Game’ is written by:

(a) Hemingway (b) Somerset Maugham (c) Beckett (d) None of these

(61) My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and
baffled dreams is an example of:
(a) Metaphor (b) Simile (c) Personification (d) None of these

(62) Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
(a) Oxymoron (b) Conceit (c) Alliteration (d) None of these

(63) ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”

(a) Metaphor (b) Paradox (c) Oxymoron (d) None of these
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(64) Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?
(a) The Rock (b) The Family Reunion
(c) The importance of being Earnest
(d) None of these

(65) Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?

(a) Adam Bede (b) Mansfield Park (c) Emma (d) None of these
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(66) ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
(a) A Poem (b) A Novel (c) A Drama (d) None of these

(67) ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:

(a) Pygmalion (b) Candida (c) Getting Married (d) None of these

(68) Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.
(a) Wordsworth (b) T. S. Eliot (c) Coleridge (d) None of these

(69) “The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:
(a) Oceanus (b) Hyperion (c) Apollo (d) None of these

(70) The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:

(a) Keats (b) Blake (c) Tennyson (d) None of these

(71) Adonis is modeled on:

(a) Bion’s lament for Adonis (b) Lycidas (c) In Memoriam (d) None of these

(72) Hardy is a:
(a) Pessimist (b) Meliorist (c) Mystic (d) None of these

(73) Who is one of the lake poets:

(a) Coleridge (b) Blake (c) Browning (d) None of these

(74) Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:

(a) Prometheus the Unbound (b) The Prelude
(c) Songs of innocence and of experience

(75) Who usually caricatures his characters?

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

(76) Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:

(a) Shelley (b) Oscar Wilde (c) T. S. Eliot (d) None of these

(77) ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:

(a) Tennyson (b) Byron (c) Keats (d) None of these

(78) ‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
(a) Ode to Nightingale (b) Ode on Indolence
(c) Ode to Melancholy (d) None of these

(79) ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:

(a) Wordsworth (b) Blake (c) Keats (d) None of these

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(80) The first eight lines of a sonnet are called
(a) Octave (b) Sestet (c) Refrain (d) None of these

(81) The Revolt of Islam is a:

(a) Novel (b) An epic (c) Lyrical Drama (d) None of these

(82) The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called

(a) Assonance (b) Rhythm (c) Alliteration (d) None of these

(83) ‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:

(a) Immortality Ode (b) The Prelude
(c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky
(d) None of these

(84) ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:

(a) Oscar Wilde (b) Galsworthy (c) T. S. Eliot (d) None of these

(85) Who wrote ‘Tales from Shakespeare’?

(a) Charles Lamb and his sister (b) Dr. Johnson (c) Dryden (d) None of these

(86) ‘East Coker’ is written by:

(a) Browning (b) Wordsworth (c) T. S. Eliot (d) None of these

(87) In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?
(a) Adonis (b) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (c) The cloud (d) None of these

(88) OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.
(a) Lyly and Marlowe
(b) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash
(c) George Peele and Thomas Lodge

(89) Shakespeare has written

(a) Comedies (b) Tragedies (c) Historical Plays (d) All of these

(90) Jane Austen’s other writings are:

(a) Sense and Sensibility (b) Emma (c) Persuasion (d) All of these

(91) Texts like ‘Waiting for Godot’ are:

(a) Ageless (b) Rare (c) Priceless (d) None of these

(92) “We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Philip Sydney (d) None of these

(93) The only play by Shakespeare which conforms to the classical unities is:
(a) Hamlet (b) Twelfth Night (c) Romeo and Juliet (d) None of these
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(94) Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
(a) European (b) Indians (c) American (d) None of these

(95) ‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:
(a) Carlyle (b) Bacon (c) Mantaine (d) None of these

(96) Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:

(a) George Bernard Shaw (b) Samuel Beckett
(c) Jane Austen (d) None of these

(97) ‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:
(a) Pope (b) Swift (c) Shelley (d) None of these

(98) ‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:

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

(99) ‘Sweet Helen! make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?
(a) Marlow (b) Shakespeare (c) Ben Jonson (d) None of these

(100) Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:

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

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