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Lecturer English MCQs Test for PPSC/ FPSC.
English MCQs AND HELPING MATERIAL FOR ENGLISH LECTURERS
Lecturer Pay Scale BPS 17
Required Qualification : MA English
Test marks 100
Test Duration 90 Minutes
Minimum Chances 3

1) Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

(a) Shaw (b) Beckett (c) Pinter

(d) Eliot (e) None of these


2) To the Light House” is written by:

(a) Lawrence (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Hemingway

(d) Forster (e) None of these


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

(a) Polonius (b) Claudius (c) Hamlet

(d) Ophelia (e) None of these


4) “Ullyses” is written by:

(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Hardy

(d) Forster (e) None of these


5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:

(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Mansfield Palck

(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these


6) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:

(a) Frost (b) Browning (c) Yeats

(d) Eliot (e) None of these


7) “Thought Fox” is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes (b) Philip Larkin (c) Heaney

(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these


8) “Major Barbra” is written by:

(a) Beckett (b) Pinter (c) Eliot

(d) Shaw (e) None of these


9) Lilliput is a character from:

(a) Gulliver’s Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers

(d) Old man and the sea (e) None of these


10) “Fire and Ice” is written by:

(a) Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Frost

(d) Auden (e) None of these


11) Swift belong to:

(a) Renassiance period (b) Restoration (c) Romantic period

(d) Augustan age (e) None of these


12) 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


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

(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear

(d) Julius Caeser (e) None of these


14) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:

(a) Milton (b) Byron (c) Keats

(d) Blake (e) None of these


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

(a) Shakespeare (b) Yeats (c) Eliot

(d) Auden (e) None of these


16) “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


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

(a) Revelation (b) Mending (c) Pasture

(d) Birches (e) None of these


18) ‘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


19) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:

(a) Faulkner (b) Hemmingway (c) James Joyce

(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these


20) “A passage to India” is written by:

(a) Forester (b) Conrad (c) Lawrence

(d) Hardy (e) None of these


21) “Ode to West Wind was written by:

(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron

(d) Blake (e) None of these


22) Keats was born in:

(a) 1770 (b) 1779 (c) 1795

(d) 1790 (e) None of these

23. Dream Children was written by:


(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb (c) Hazzlit

(d) Ruskin (e) None of these


24) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:

(a) Oscar Wild (b) Dickens (c) Hardy

(d) George Eliot (e) None of these


25) Ruskin belonged to:

(a) Romantic age (b) Modern age (c) Victorian age

(d) Augustan age (e) None of these


26) Wordsworth lived from:

(a) 1770 – 1832 (b) 1775 – 1859 (c) 1770 – 1850

(d) 1770 – 1802 (e) None of these


27) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:

(a) Mill (b) Carlyle (c) Macaulay

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these


28) “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is from:

(a) Ode to autumn (b) To a Highland girl (c) Ancient Mariner

(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (e) None of these


29) “Great Expectations” was written by:

(a) George Eliot (b) Thackeray (c) Hardy

(d) Dickens (e) None of these


30) “Lotus Eaters” is written by:

(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Mathew Arnold

(d) Hardy (e) None of these


31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:

(a) Poets (b) Dramatists (c) Essayists

(d) Novelists (e) None of these


32) “My Last Duchess” was written by:

(a) Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Tennyson

(d) Browning (e) None of these


33) Emity Bronte is the writer of:

(a) Wuthering Heights (b) Emma (c) Under the greenwood Tree

(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these



34) “Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is a definition of poetry by:

(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these


35) “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


36) “Waverley” was written by:

(a) Scott (b) Hardy (c) Jane Austen

(d) Dickens (e) None of these



(37) “We are Seven” is written by:

(a) Keats (b) Shelly (c) Byron

(d) Hardy (e) None of these


38) “Past and present” is written by:

(a) Mill (b) Lamb (c) Hazlitt

(d) Carlyle (e) None of these


39) “Modern Painters” is written by:

(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill

(d) Macaulay (e) None of these


40) “Byron is the” writer of:

(a) Don Jaun (b) Prometheus Unbound (c) Adonias

(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these


41 In Shakespeare’s Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a

remark by:

(a) Nicoll (b) Goddord (c) Bradley

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these


42 “How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!

Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:

(a) Hamlet (b) Laertes (c) Polonius

(d) Claudius (e) None of these


43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:

(a) David Cecil (b) Walter Allen (c) Arnold Kettle

(d) E.M. Forster (e) None of these


44) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

(a) Browning (b) Tennyson (c) Yeats

(d) Frost (e) None of these


45) ‘The Hollow Men’ is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Yeats

(d) Larkin (e) None of these


46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1951

(d) 1953 (e) None of these


47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

(a) 1925 (b) 1929 (c) 1930

(d) 1949 (e) None of these


48 ‘The Winding Stair’ is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.B. Yeats

(d) W.H. Auden (e) None of these


49) ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by:

(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Oscar Wilde

(d) T.S. Eliot (e) None of these


50) ‘The Rainbow’ is a novel written by:

(a) Hemingway (b) Virginia Woolf (c) E.M. Forster