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.
51. Choose a proper proposition for the blank space in the following sentence: …… the age of 18, he was sent to prison for theft
A) In
B) At
C) On
D) UPON
52. Choose a proper word for the blank the following sentence “you ……. better take off your wet shoes”
A) Had
B) Has
C) Was
D) Can
53. The University Wits were …….
A) Poets
B) Playwrights
C) Novelists
D) Critics
54. Mathew Arnold said An ineffectual angel beating in the void the luminous wings in vain”, about
A) Keats
B) Byron
C) Shelley
D) Blake
55. The Crown of Wild Olive was written by
A) Huxley
B) Ben Johnson
C) Ruskin
D) None these
56. The Tragic Flaw is also called
A) Catharsis
B) Catastrophe
C) Hamartia
D) None of these
57. Who belongs to the Theatre of Absurd
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Backett
C) Ibsen
D) None of these
58. My Fair Lady is a Cinematic Version of
A) Pygmalion
B) Candida
C) Setting Married
D) None of these
59. “She dwells with beauty-beauty that must die” is a line from
A) Ode to Nightingale
B) Ode on Indolence
C) Ode to Melancholy
D) None of these
60. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called
A) Octave
B) Sestet
C) Refrain
D) None of these
61. The only play by Shakespeare that conforms to the classical unities is
A) Hamlet
B) Twelfth Night
C) Roman and Juliet
D) None of these
62. “Proper study of Mankind is man” ……. who has said these words
A) Pope
B) Swift
C) Shelley
D) None of these
63. How does lago describe jealousy
A) Downfall of many men
B) The scourge of the weak monster
C) The green eye monster
D) The monster in the thought
64. “The Metaphysical Poets” is a critical essay by
A) Simple sentence
B) Compound sentence
C) Complex sentence
D) Compound-complex / multiple sentence
75. What are two levels of language referred to by the term ‘identity’
A) Phonetics and phonology
B) Sound and meaning
C) Morphology and syntax
D) Structure and use
