English Mcqs For FPSC Test

'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

'Waverley' was written by

(a)   Scott

(b)   Hardy

(c)   Jane Austen

(d)   Dickens

(e)    None of these

(a) Scott

'We are Seven' is written by

(a)   Keats

(b)   Shelly

(c)           Byron

(d)   Hardy

(e)    None of these

(e) None of these (William Wordsworth)

'Past and Present' is written by

(a)   Mill

(b)            Lamb

(c)   Hazlitt

(d)   Carlyle

(e)    None of these

(d) Carlyle

'Modern Painters' is written by

(a)   Ruskin

(b)   Carlyle

(c)   Mill

(d)   Macaulay

(e)    None of these

(a) Ruskin

Byron is the writer of

a.Don Juan

b.Prometheus Unbound

c.  Adonias d.Lucy Gray e.None of the above

a.Don Juan

Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

(a)   Shaw

(b)   Beckett

(c)   Pinter

(d)   Eliot

(b)   Beckett

To the Light House” is written by:

(a)   Lawrence

(b)   Dylan Thomas

(c)   Hemingway

(d)   Forster

(e)    None of these

(e) None of these (Virginia Woolf)

I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:

(a)   Polonius

(b)   Claudius

(c)   Hamlet

(d)         Ophelia (e) None of these

(c)   Hamlet

“Ullyses” is written by:

(a)   James Joyce

(b)   Virginia Woolf

(c)   Hardy

(d)   Forster

(e)    None of these

(a) James Joyce

Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:

(a)   Emma

(b)   Pride and Prejudice

(c)   Mansfield Palck

(d)   Northanger Abby

(e)    None of these

(b) Pride and Prejudice

“Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:

(a)   Frost

(b)   Browning

(c)      Yeats

(d)   Eliot

(e)    None of these

(e) None of these (Tennyson)

“Thought Fox” is written by:

(a)   Ted Hughes

(b)   Philip Larkin

(c)   Heaney

(d)   Sylvia Plath

(e)    None of these

(a) Ted Hughes

“Major Barbra” is written by:

(a)   Beckett

(b)   Pinter

(c)   Eliot

(d)   Shaw

(e)    None of these

(d) Shaw

Lilliput is a character from:

(a) Gulliver’s Travels

(b)                     Pygmalion

(c)   Sons & lovers

(d)   Old man and the sea

(e)    None of these

(a) Gulliver’s Travels

“Fire and Ice” is written by:

(a)   Eliot

(b)   Yeats

(c)   Frost

(d)   Auden

(e)    None of these

(c) Frost

Swift belong to:

(a)   Renassiance period

(b)   Restoration

(c)   Romantic period

(d)   Augustan age

(e)     None of these

(d) Augustan age

The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:

(a)        Sons and Lovers   (b)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover

(c)   Women in Love

(d)         The Rainbow

(e)    None of these

(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

“Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:

(a)   Hamlet

(b)   Othello

(c)   King Lear

(d)   Julius Caeser

(e)    None of these

(c) King Lear

“Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:

(a)   Milton

(b)   Byron

(c)   Keats

(d)   Blake

(e)    None of these

(c) Keats

“I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:

(a)   Shakespeare

(b)   Yeats

(c)   Eliot

(d)   Auden

(e)    None of these

(c) Eliot

“Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:

(a)   Among School Children

(b)   Byzentium

(c)     Sailing to Byzentium

(d)   The Second coming

(e)    None of these

(d) The Second coming

“Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:

(a)   Revelation

(b)   Mending

(c)        Pasture

(d)   Birches

(e)    None of these

(e) None of these (Mending Wall)

‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:

(a)   The Wasteland

(b)   The Hollow men

(c)   East Coker

(d)   Prufrock

(e)    None of these

(a) The Wasteland

“A Farewell to Arms” is written by:

(a)   Faulkner

(b)   Hemmingway

(c)   James Joyce

(d)   Virginia Woolf

(e)      None of these

(b)   Hemmingway

“A passage to India” is written by:

(a)   Forster

(b)   Conrad

(c)   Lawrence

(d)   Hardy

(e)    None of these

(a)  Forster  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

S.T. Coleridge was born in

a.1798

b.1772

c.1749

d.1797

e.None of these

b.1772

Wordsworth settled in

a.Lake District

b.Sussex

c.Dorset Shire

d.Cumber Land

e. None of these

a.Lake District

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:

a.Blake

b.Shelley

c.Browning

d.Byron

e.None of these

d.Byron

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

Hyperion is a/an __________ poem

a.Elegy

b.Epic

c.  Ode d.Lyric e.None of these

b.Epic

Romanticism expressed a restlessness of

a.Mind

b.Soul

c.Senses

d.Body

e.None of these

b.Soul

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

Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet

a.  Lyric b.Tragic c.Dramatic d.Mythical e.None of these

a.Lyric