English Literature MCQ For Lectureship Examination

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English Literature MCQ For Lectureship Examination

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Every year KPPSC conducts tests for aspirants who want to be in the KPPSC service. This examination comprises 900 marks in total, having various subjects like English, general knowledge, etc.

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English Literature MCQs For Lecturer Test

1- Kimball O Hare is

A- The full name of the character, Kim

B-A pre-Raphalite

C-A famous playwright

D- NOne

 

2- Which is the figure that appears throughout ‘The Waste Land’?

A- Tiresias 

B-Marie Larisch

C- Madame Sosostris

D-None

 

3-The phrase, Rich disorganization which refers to ‘The Waste Land’ was used by

A- F.R Leavis 

B-I.A Richards

C-Ezra Pound

D-None

 

4- Based on Shakespeare’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ Dryden wrote a play in blank verse

A- All for love

B-Aureng-Zebe

C-Tryannic Love

D-None

 

5- In which of the following did  Dr. Johnson extend the use of the term ”Metaphysical” to a school of poetry?

A- Life of Cowley

B-Life of Milton

C-Life of Donne

D-None

 

6- In which of the following did Dryden say Donne ”affects the metaphysics”?

A- Discourse of Satire

B-Essay of Dramatic Poesie

C-Religio Laici

D-None

 

7-” Is Pope a poet? ”If Pope e, not a poet, where is poetry to be found”? Whose answer is this?

A- Dr.Johnson   

B-Coleridge

C-Wordsworth

D-None

 

8- Who extended the term ”Metaphysical” from Donne to a school of poets?

A-Dr. Johnson 

B-T.S Elit

C-Pope

D-None

 

9- The Mariner in ”The Ancient Mariner” kills?

A-Albatross

B-A Devil

C- A penguin

D-None

 

10- ”A Grammarian’s Funeral” was written by

A- Robert Browning

B-Randolph Quirk

C-Wren and Martin

D-Krishnaswamy

 

11- Scorner of his kind implacable in revenge yet capable of deep and strong affection. Who is he?

A- A Byronic hero   

B-Walter Scott’s

C- Protagonist

D-Jane Austine’s Hero

D-None

 

12- Hardy’s The Dynasts and epic drama is about

A- The Napoleanic Wars

B-The British Dynasties

C-Women

D-None

 

13- Who said Byron was Mad-bad and dangerous to know?

A- Lady Caroline Lamb

B-Scott

C-Shelley

D-Keats

 

14- The writer influenced by Walter Pater was

A- Oscar Wild

B-Hopkins

C-Arthur Symons

D-All

 

15-Who was the Heroine in ‘Pride and Prejudice’?

A- Elizabeth Bennet   

B-Mrs. Bennet

C-Lucas

D-None

 

16- Who was it that defined Romanticism as ”Additio of strangeness to beauty”?

A- Walter Peter 

B-Graham Hough

C-Wordsworth

D-None

 

17- Which of the following of Byron is autobiographical?

A- Manfred 

B-The Corsair

C-Child Harold’s Pilgrimage

D- None

 

18- Who wrote ”If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”

A- Voltaire   

B-Alfred Tennyson

C-Rousseau

D-None

 

19- Which one of the stories is an example of Kipling’s tales of British India?

A- The Man Who Was

B-A Diversity of creatures

C-Without benefit of the clergy

D-None

 

20- In which year did Robert Browning marry Elizabeth Barrett?

A-1852

B-1853

C-1851

D-1894

 

21- By nature Tennyson was

A- Shy and Retiring

B- Loved to Travel

C- Loved Nature

D-Enjoyed Parties

 

22- In which century did ”Wyatt, Surrey and Howard” live?

A-16th Century 

B-15th Century

C-14th Century

D-17th Century

 

23- What was the ambition of Edmund Spenser?

A- Express the dreams of English Chivalry 

B-To be a rival of Chaucer

C-Earn Favour in Court

D-None

 

24- Lady Barackeell is a character in

A-The importance of Being Earnest

B-Emma

C-King Lear

D-All For Love

 

25- The ‘Structure of Novel’ has been written by

A- Edwin Muir

B-FR Leavis

C-Arnold

D-I.A Richards

 

26- In which novel of Jane Austen we come across a pivotal character of Mr. Knightley?

A- Emma 

B-Mansfield Park

C-Persuasion

D-Northanger Abbey

 

27- Which was Jane Austen’s first novel?

A- Sense and Sensibility 

B-Mansfield Park

C-Pride and Prejudice

D-Emma

 

28- In which Charles Dickens novel we come across a character called ”Miss Pross”?

A- A Tale of Two Cities 

B-Hard Times

C-David Copperfield

D-Dombey and Sons

 

29- To which age did Drayton, Webster, and Middleton being

A- Elizabethan Era 

B- Romantic Period

C- Victorian Age

D- Post World War 1

 

30- Who is the author of ‘Catalina’?

A- Somerset Maugham

B- Hemingway

C-James Joyce

D-Richard Kipling

 

31- What is the other name of Thomas Hardy’s novel ”Under the Green Wood Tree”?

A- The Mellstock Quire 

B-Life’s Ironies

C-The Dynasts

D-The Woodlanders

 

32- Who is the author of the Classic ”Gone with the Wind”?

A- Margaret Mitchell 

B-Daphne De Mauries

C-Edith Wharton

D-Toni Morrison

 

33- What is the locale of ‘Romeo and Juliet’?

A- Verona   

B-Rome

C-Venice

D-Paris

 

34-In which year did John Steinbeck receive Noel Prize?

A-1962   

B-1963

C-1964

D-1965

 

35- Which is the character in Jane Austen’s novel ‘Pride and Prejudice’

A- Darcy 

B- Henry Craw

C- Captain Wentworth

D-None

 

36- Who said ‘A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg”

A- Samuel Butler 

B- Webster

C-Mark Twain

D-G.B Shaw

 

37- Who wrote ”The New Atlantis”?

A- Bacon 

B-Goethe

C-Lamb

D-Mazut

 

38- Who described Francis Bacon as ”The wisest brightest, meanest of mankind

A-Pope 

B-Lamb

C-Hazlitt

D-Sidney

 

39- The Vicar of Wakefield is a

A- Novel 

B-Long Poem

C-Tragedy

D-Comedy

 

40- Who wrote ‘Eminent Victorians’

A- Lytton 

B-Hardy

C-Samuel Butler

D-Dickens

 

41- The Picture of Dorian Gray a novel was written by

A- Oscar Wilde   

B-William Gilbert

C-Osborne

D-John Galsworthy

 

42- The novelist who wholeheartedly embraced Darwin’s theory is

A-Samuel Butler 

B-H.G Wells

C-Joseph Conrad

D-None

 

43-Shaw’s Man and Superman’ deals with

A-The Ego of males 

B-Supernatural Qualities

C-Woman’s pursuit of her mate

D-None

 

44- ”Pope can fix in one couplet more sense than I can do in six” who wrote this sentence?

A- Swift 

B-Johnson

C-Dryden

D-None

 

45- Name Dryden’s poem written in celebration of Charles 2 return

A- Astrue Redux 

B-Annus Mirabilis

C-Absalom and Achitophel

D-None

 

46——— is described as ”the true prologue to the Renaissance”

A- Utopia 

B- The Prince

C-Poetics

D-None

 

47-The manuscript of Shakespeare’s play is available?

A- Certainly no 

B-Certainly yes

C-Partly Available

D-None

 

48-Who is the critic that introduced the terms of a floating character and a round character?

A- T. S Eliot 

B-Arnold Kettle

C-Matthew Arnold

D-E.M Forster

 

49- The film, the innocents are based on

A- Turn of the Screw

B- Kim

C-Not based on the novel

D- None

 

50- Who is the author of Time Must Have a stop”

A- Aldous Huxley 

B-O’ Casey

C-D.H Lawrence

D-None

English Literature MCQ for KPPSC Exam Pattern

english literature mcq for kppsc exam
English literature MCQ for KPPSC Exam

English Language and Literature Syllabus

  • History of English Literature (Anglo Saxon to Post-Modernism)
  • Important Writers and their literary works
  • Important English Poets
  • List of Poet Laureate winner and their works
  • Age of Chaucer
  • Age of Revival
  • Elizabethan Age
  • Jacobean and Carolina Age
  • Restoration Age
  • Romantic Age
  • Victorian Age
  • Modern Age
  • Post Modernism
  • Important American Writes

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