Solved Past Papers MCQs of Lecturer English

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Solved Past Papers MCQs of Lecturer English for the preparation of NTS, PPSC, SPSC, BPSC, KPSC, FPSC, OTS, and other academic entry tests and jobs tests.

 

26. How does Gulliver earn the title of Nardac in Lilliput

A) Jaggers

B) Magwitch

C) Joe

D) Miss Havisham

 

27. What accident befalls Miss Havisham before her death in Great Expectations

A) She is thrown from a horse

B) She falls from a window

C) A table crushes her legs

D) She is burned in a fire

 

28. How does Gulliver leave Brobdingnag

A) he builds himself a sailboat

B) He is exiled

C) He is carried away by a giant eagle

D) He is taken back to England by Don Pedro

 

29. Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funeral

A) In the nearby woods

B) Beside Ophelia’s grave

C) Inside the church

D) Inside the grave itself

 

30. In what country does the play Hamlet take place

A) England

B) Germany

C) Denmark

D) Norway

 

31. For most of the novel, who does Pip suspect of being his secret benefactor, In Great Expectations

A) By capturing the Blefuscudian fleet

B) By putting out the fire in the empress’s quarters

C) By helping the Lilliputians construct a new palace

D) By showing lenience toward a group of soldiers who earlier attack him

 

32. Why, according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone mad

A) He grieves too much for his father

B) He despises Claudius for marrying Gertrude

C) He is in love with Ophelia

D) He is jealous of Laertes and longs to return to Wittenberg

 

33. Which of these is not a linguistic aspect of communicative competence

A) Phonological

B) Discourse

C) Lexical

D) Interactional

 

34. Negative Capability to Keats, means

A) The ability to sympathize with other

B) Say bad things about others

C) To empathize

D) To satirize

 

35. Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions

A) Blake

B) Byron

C) Wordsworth

D) Keats

 

36. Which is the famous elegy written by Shelley

A) In Memoriam

B) Lycidas

C) Adonis

D) Thyrsis

 

37. “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by

A) Jane Austen

B) Charles Dickens

C) Thackery

D) Fielding

 

38. A poem mourning someone’s death is called

A) Fable

B) Epic

C) Elegy

D) Limerick

 

39. What period in English Literature is called the “Augustan Age”

A) Early 16th Century

B) Early 17th Century

C) Early 18th Century

D) Early 19th Century

 

40. The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was

A) Dante

B) Shakespeare

C) Wordsworth

D) Shelley

 

41. Brutus bases his decision to assassinate Caesar in Julius Caesar on

A) His hatred for Caesar

B) Caesar may do if he is crowned King

C) His own desire to be king

D) The need to please Cassius

 

42. In Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” where does Kurtz die

A) At the Inner Station

B) In Brussels

C) Aboard Marlow’s steamer

D) In the jungle

 

43. In Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning Love Conquers Air

A) The Prioress

B) The Wife of Bath

C) The Monk

D) The Squire

 

44. Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can still combine the words in different ways to say thousands different things. This aspect of language is referred to as

A) Syntax

B) Phonology

C) Morphology

D) Infinite generativity

 

45. At what time do “sleepless lovers” awake in The Rape of the Lock

A) Dawn

B) Noon

C) Tea-time

D) Midnight

 

46. In Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities, who promises Lucie Manette that he would, if necessary die for her

A) Jarvis Lorry

B) Sydney Carton

C) Charles Darnay

D) Monsieur Defarge

 

47. What is the lexical relationship between freedom and liberty

A) Synonymy

B) Antonymy

C) Hyponymy

D) Polysemy

 

48. Why doesn’t Adam go to Ireland in George Eliot’s Adam Bede

A) The weather is too bad for travel

B) Hetty has come home

C) He secretly loves Dinah and can’t leave her

D) He finds out Hetty is in jail

 

49. Where does Lavinia follow her mother to spy on her

A) New York

B) Boston

C) Both New York and Boston

D) Neither New York nor Boston

 

50. During which war does the novel, ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls, take place

A) Spanish-American War

B) Spanish Civil War

C) World War I

D) World War II

 

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