HSSC PGT ENGLISH (MEWAT) EXAM

21. The second reform bill which extended the franchise was passed in?

(1) 1857
(2) 1866
(3) 1867
(4) 1869

Correct Answer: (3) 1867

Solution:The reform act of 1867 or the second reform act was a piece of British legislation that enfranchised part of the carbonic and working men of England and Wales for the first time. Before it, only few people (males) could vote it.

22. Tennyson's the princess deals with the theme of?

(1) The illiterate woman
(2) The aristocratic woman
(3) the new woman
(4) None of these

Correct Answer: (3) the new woman

Solution:The princess of Albred Tennyson is a narrative poem which throws light on heroic priness who wears the world of men and finds a women's university where men are forbidden to enter.

23. Who is remembered for the translation of the famous Persian work of the Ruliyat of Omar Khayyam in 1859?

(1) AH Clough
(2) Sir Edwin arnold
(3) Coventry patmore
(4) Edward fitzgerald

Correct Answer: (4) Edward fitzgerald

Solution:Edward Fitzgerald' stranslation of the Rulaiyat of Omar Khayyam is a mystical, highly symbolic poem that deals with man relations with God, the nature of the divine, the bleeding nature of life and lost of other issue to the contemplative mind.

24. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in?

(1) 1848
(2) 1850
(3) 1859
(4) 1862

Correct Answer: (1) 1848

Solution:The pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by William Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Yabriel Rossetti.

25. Name the Indian poet mystic and philosopher who Influenced W.B Yeats?

(1) Swami Vivekananda
(2) Purohit Swami
(3) Swami Ramatirtha
(4) Parernhans Yogananda

Correct Answer: (2) Purohit Swami

Solution:Purohit Swami was a poet, philosopher and Hindu monk. He came to Britain in 1931 and struck up friendships with various Literary figures and influenced especially W. B Yeats. He gave a series of Lectures on the Bhagvad Gita.

26. D. H Lawrence called one of his novels thought adventure. Identify the novel?

(1) Lady Chatterley's
(2) Woman in Love
(3) The tresspasser
(4) The Rainbow

Correct Answer: (3) The tresspasser

Solution:The trespasser novel written by D.H. Lawrence.

27. Paul Morel appears in?

(1) James Joyce's Dubliners
(2) D.H Lawrence's Sons and lovers
(3) Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway
(4) Aldous Huxley's after many a summer

Correct Answer: (2) D.H Lawrence's Sons and lovers

Solution:Paul Morel appears in D.H. Lawrence's sons and lovers. This deals with family with fatal consequences of drunken father's violent rage.

28. The character of Leopold and Mrs. Bloom appear in?

(1) James Joyce's ulysses
(2) Virginia Woolfs Mrs. Dalloway
(3) Redecca West's the fountain Overflows
(4) T.F powys’s Mr. Weston's Good wine

Correct Answer: (1) James Joyce's ulysses

Solution:The Character appears in James Joyce's Ulysses. Leopold Bloom is the fictional hero of James Joyce's Ulysses.

29. Who organised the four musketeers of the Oxford Movement?

(1) Lord Bertrand Russell
(2) Michael Robert
(3) Stephen Spender
(4) Graham Greene

Correct Answer: (2) Michael Robert

Solution:W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Cecilday Lewis and Louis Mac Neice are known as Oxford poets. These poets are called four musketeers of Oxford movement. In the beginning it was organized by Michael Roberts.

30. Identify the pioneers of the apocalyptic movement who called the new apocalypse and the White horseman?

(1) J.F Henry and Henry Treece
(2) Nicholas Moore and G.S fraser
(3) Tom Scott and Vernon Watkins
(4) None of these

Correct Answer: (1) J.F Henry and Henry Treece

Solution:It was J.F. Henry and Henry Treece.