SPSC Lecturer English Past Paper 2008/09

21- What is Oedipus Complex?

A. A Kind of Physical Aliment
B. A Kind of Vitamin
C. A Son’s Attraction towards His Mother
D. None of these

Answer : C. A Son's Attraction towards His Mother

22- "My own great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh as being wiser than the intellect." Who wrote this?

A. Graham Greene
B. D. H. Lawrence
C. Charles Dickens
D. None of these

Answer : B. D. H. Lawrence

23- In his famous play______, Shakespeare makes fun of the Puritans.

A. Twelfth Night
B. Hamlet
C. The Tempest
D. None of these

Answer : A. Twelfth Night

24- 'The reservation is in virtue than in vengeance.' This line is spoken by ______.

A. Sir Toby Belch
B. Malvolio
C. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
D. None of these

Answer : D. None of these

25- In Paradise Lost, Book I, Satan is the embodiment of Milton's______.

A. Sense of Injured Merit
B. Hatred of Tyranny
C. Spirit of Revolt
D. All of the above

Answer : D. All of the above

26- Who calls poetry 'the breadth and finer spirit of all knowledge'?

A. Wordsworth
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. None of these

Answer : A. Wordsworth

27- 'Twelfth-Night' opens with the speech of ______.

A. Viola
B. Duke
C. Olivia
D. None of these

Answer : B. Duke

28- In Sons and Lovers, William died of ______.

A. An Accident
B. Pneumonia
C. Suicide
D. None of these

Answer : B. Pneumonia

29- Coleridge's poem ______, is called an opium dream?

A. Kubla Khan
B. Christabel
C. The Ancient Mariner
D. None of these

Answer : A. Kubla Khan

30- In his famous poem 'Ode to the West Wind', Shelley used ______ stanza form.

A. Rime Royal
B. Ottava Rima
C. Terza Rima
D. None of these

Answer : C. Terza Rima

31- ______ coined the phrase 'Pathetic fallacy'.

A. Milton
B. Coleridge
C. John Ruskin
D. None of these

Answer : C. John Ruskin

32- Tracts for the Times relates to ______.

A. The Oxford Movement
B. The Pre-Raphaelite Movement
C. The Romantic Movement
D. None of these

Answer : A. The Oxford Movement

33- The Chartist Movement sought ______.

A. Protection of the Political Rights of the Working Class
B. Recognition of Chartered Trading Companies
C. Political Rights for Women
D. None of these

Answer : A. Protection of the Political Rights of the Working Class

34- Biographia Literaria was written by ______.

A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Coleridge
D. None of these

Answer : C. Coleridge

35- Who was Fortinbras?

A. Claudius’s Son
B. Cousin of the King of Norway
C. Ophelia’s Lover
D. None of these

Answer : B. Cousin of the King of Norway

36- In the play Hamlet, ______ soliloquies are spoken by Hamlet.

A. Nine
B. Seven
C. ten
D. None of these

Answer : B. Seven

37- "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity." The above lines are from ______.

A. Tintern Abbey
B. The Waste Land
C. The Second Coming
D. None of these

Answer : C. The Second Coming

38- William Morel in 'Sons and Lovers' is drawn after ______.

A. Lawrence’s Father
B. Lawrence’s Brother
C. Lawrence Himself
D. None of these

Answer : A. Lawrence's Father

39- The most notable characteristic of Keats' poetry is ______.

A. Sensuality
B. Satire
C. Sensuousness
D. None of these

Answer : C. Sensuousness

40- The keynote of Browning's philosophy of life is ______.

A. Agnosticism
B. Optimism
C. Pessimism
D. None of these

Answer : B. Optimism

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