HSSC PGT ENGLISH (MEWAT) EXAM

Total Questions: 30

1. Who was the father of poetry in English Literature?

Correct Answer: (3) Chaucer
Solution:Geoffrey Chaucer is known as the father of poetry in English literature, he is considered the greatest poet of the middle ages (1343-1400). He is known as father of English literature. His major works are, The Canterbury tales (Collection of fictions tales), the unfinished work etc.

2. Who restored Roman Catholicism in English?

Correct Answer: (1) Queen Mary
Solution:Queen Mary was the queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her Death. She is known for her aggressive attempt to restore the lost glory of Roman Catholicism. In her attempt lot of bloodshed took place. The protestants opponents called her as Bloody Mary.

3. Spencer has been hailed as the poet by whom?

Correct Answer: (2) Charles lamb
Solution:Edmund Spenser was called "the poet's poet", many great poet admired his art of poetry. He was fluent in the art pure artistic writing. John Milton, John Keats greatly admired his work and most importantly Charles Lamb hailed him as poet's poet.

4. Renaissance was the manifestation of new life an outburst of virtuous floridity after the cramping restraints and withering asceticism of the middle ages?

Correct Answer: (2) Tillyard
Solution:Tillyard was the most profile, classical and a literary scholar He was the one, who gave the following observation about Renai ssance in the next question.

5. Identify the critic who made the following comment on Milton, “Milton’s taste was as severe his verse as polished his method and language as strict as those of the school of Dryden and pope that grew up when he was old. A literary past and present just met in him nor did he fall like all the greatest men to make a cast into the future?”

Correct Answer: (4) Stopford A brooke
Solution:Stopford A Brooke was a British Englishman and great writer. He was a great critic of Milton.

6. That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providential, and justify the ways of God to men these lines have been extracted from Milton’s which book?

Correct Answer: (3) Paradise lost
Solution:"Paradise lost" is an epic poem in Blank verse by 17th Century English poet John Milton. These lines have been extracted from the poem Paradise lost.

7. Who called Milton God-gifted organ voice of England and the mighty mouthed inventor of harmonies?

Correct Answer: (3) Lord Tennyson
Solution:These lines have been by Lord Tennyson for Milton. He said, a name to resound for ages.

8. Which of the following arrangement of S.T Brownet works is in correct chronological sequence?

Correct Answer: (1) Religion Medici-Vulgar errors-urn brownet-garden of Cyrus
Solution:Religion Medici-Vulgar errors um-browned garden Cyrus.

9. Identify the correct group of poets who anticipated the importance of colder and more correct phrasing and versification?

Correct Answer: (1) Walter, denham, cowley
Solution:Jacobean author Walter, Denham and Cowley were in the group of poets who anticipated the importance of colder and more correct phrasing

10. Dryden in the second part of Absalom and Achitophel satirically caricatured Thomas Shadwell and Edickan settled as?

Correct Answer: (1) Whig and tory respectively
Solution:Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden written in heroic couplets. These satirically Elkanah set in heroic story respectively.