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Question number 40 - answer would be 3
And question number 25 answer would be 1

Isme sirf English literature and Grammar ko consider kiya gaya h

Ye aapki Grade 2 ki answer key h

देखिए कुछ एक बातें इसलिए नहीं कही जातीं कि वो कहने में अच्छी लगती हैं, वो इसलिए कही जाती हैं, क्योंकि वो ज़रूरी हैं।

ज़रूरी ये है कि आपकी परीक्षा है और आपके हिस्से अंग्रेज़ी आयी है। मैं कहने में थोड़ा स्पष्टवादी हूँ और वो भी बुरा लगने की हद तक और हद ये है कि RPSC Grade-II आपकी पर्सनालिटी के फेल-पास का पैमाना नहीं है।

एक ख़ूबसूरत बात है और बात ये है कि इंसान अशरफ़-उल-मख़लूक़ात है। हम खुदा की सबसे बड़ी नेमत हैं। हम हैं तो परीक्षाएँ हैं, हम हैं तो कोचिंग है, हम हैं तो ही ये बाज़ार मुकम्मल है। परीक्षाएँ आएँगी-जाएँगी, कल फिर आयेंगी, मगर मैंने महीने भर की अपनी जुगलबंदी से ये जाना है कि आपके पास इल्म भी है, तक़ाज़ा भी, तमीज़ और तरबियत भी। परीक्षा तसल्ली से दीजिएगा, आपके जलवे थे, हैं और रहेंगे।

जो भी आपने साल भर में कतरब्योंत करी है, उसका आप महीने की 11 तारीख़ को हिसाब देंगे। हिसाब सिर्फ़ कुछेक प्रश्नों का है। सिंधु घाटी सभ्यता की तरह गहरे आपके व्यक्तित्व को 200-400 प्रश्नों के brushstrokes से नहीं उघाड़ा जा सकता।
Dante said: “I had desires, but I remained surrounded by doubts.”

हम और आप भी जब-जब इच्छाओं और आशंकाओं से घिरे नज़र आएँगे, तब-तब मिलते रहेंगे।
शुक्रिया।
Piyush Bhaira

Dear Examinees,

I am sharing with you a specially prepared test titled Sonnet Simplified: From Petrarch to Shakespeare. This set of 30 objective questions has been designed to strengthen your understanding of the origins, forms, and important sonneteers. Attempt the test with sincerity, evaluate your performance carefully, and use it as an opportunity to identify areas that need improvement.

Piyush Bhaira
Assistant Professor of English

Ezekiel answer-Latter Day Psalms

RPSC Grade-2 English Practice Test
Topic: Indian Writers in English
Total Questions: 36
Total Marks: 72 (2 marks each)

Attempt this test to strengthen your preparation and check your knowledge of important Indian writers.

50 important questions based on the Victorian Period for the Rpsc Grade II Examination

A) A Tale of Passion
B) A Novel of Provincial Life
C) A Story of Society
D) A Novel Without a Hero
Answer: D. A Novel Without a Hero
Explanation: It mocks social ambition through Becky Sharp.
38.  Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton deals with:
A) The French Revolution
B) Working class struggles in Manchester
C) A governess’s life
D) Rural decline
Answer: B. Working class struggles in Manchester
Explanation: Highlights poverty during industrialization.
39.  Gaskell’s Cranford depicts:
A) Industrial riots
B) Aristocratic life
C) Life in a Small Town
D) Gothic romance
Answer: C. Life in a small town
Explanation: Gentle satire of provincial women’s lives.
40.  Anthony Trollope is famous for:
A) Waverley Novels
B) Chronicles of Barsetshire
C) Palliser Novels
D) Both B and C
Answer: D. Both B and C
Explanation: He wrote both series, depicting clerical and political life.
41.  Trollope’s Barchester Towers established:
A) His popularity with readers
B) His reputation as historian
C) His fame as poet
D) His role in Gothic art
Answer: A. His popularity with readers
Explanation: Published in 1857, it was a success.
42.  Samuel Butler’s satirical utopian novel is:
A) Erewhon
B) Utopia
C) Looking Backward
D) News from Nowhere
Answer: A. Erewhon
Explanation: Critiques Victorian society in disguise.
43.  George Meredith’s best-known novel is:
A) The Ordeal of Richard Feveral
B) Diana of the Crossways
C) Richard Feverel
D) The Egoist
Answer: D. The Egoist
Explanation: Introduced psychological romantic comedy.
44.  Thomas Hardy set most of his novels in:
A) Cornwall
B) Wessex
C) Sussex
D) Yorkshire
Answer: B. Wessex
Explanation: fictional region based on Dorset.
45.  Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd takes its title from:
A) Milton
B) Shakespeare
C) Gray
D) Wordsworth
Answer: C. Gray
Explanation: From Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
46.  Hardy’s last novel was:
A) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
B) The Woodlanders
C) Jude the Obscure
D) The Mayor of Casterbridge
Answer: C. Jude the Obscure
Explanation: Its controversy made Hardy abandon novel writing.
47.  Hardy’s verse drama The Dynasts is in how many parts?
A) Two
B) Five
C) Four
D) Three
Answer: D.Three
Explanation: Written between 1904 and 1908.
48.  George Eliot’s real name was:
A) Mary Ann Evans
B) Anne Brontë
C) Christina Rossetti
D) Elizabeth Gaskell
Answer: A. Mary Ann Evans
Explanation: She wrote under a male pseudonym.
49.  Eliot’s Middlemarch is subtitled:
A) A Provincial Story
B) A Provincial Life
C) A Provincial Romance
D) A Tale of Clergy
Answer: B. A Provincial Life
Explanation: Considered her masterpiece, published 1871–72.
50.  Eliot’s novel Silas Marner deals with:
A) Struggle of a governess
B) A governess’s struggles
C) A political scandal
D) A miser and redemption
Answer: A.  miser and redemption
Explanation: Story of a weaver wronged, finding salvation in adopting a child.
 

A) Grief
B) God’s creation in variety
C) Industrial misery
D) Romantic love
Answer: B. God’s creation in variety
Explanation: Celebrates diversity of nature as divine beauty.
19.  Who wrote Goblin Market?
A) Christina Rossetti
B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
C) Emily Brontë
D) George Eliot
Answer: A. Christina Rossetti
Explanation: A symbolic poem often read as allegory of sisterhood.
20.  Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s famous poem is:
A) Goblin Market
B) Aurora Leigh
C) The Blessed Damozel
D) Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Answer: C.The Blessed Damozel
Explanation: Combines medievalism and sensuous imagery.
21.  Which Victorian dramatist is called the father of modern drama?
A) John Galsworthy
B) Henrik Ibsen
C) Oscar Wilde
D) George Bernard Shaw
Answer: B. Henrik Ibsen
Explanation: His realistic problem plays transformed European drama.
22.  A Doll’s House shocked audiences because:
A) Nora leaves her husband
B) It criticized the monarchy
C) It attacked religion
D) It praised war
Answer: A. Nora leaves her husband
Explanation: A landmark play for feminism and independence.
23.  Oscar Wilde’s most famous play is:
A) Lady Windermere’s Fan
B) Salome
C) The Importance of Being Earnest
D) A Woman of No Importance
Answer: C. The Importance of Being Earnest
Explanation: Subtitled “a trivial comedy for serious people.”
24.  Wilde’s only novel is:
A) The Picture of Dorian Gray
B) De Profundis
C) Intentions
D) Salome
Answer: A. The Picture of Dorian Gray
Explanation: A Gothic novel about youth, beauty and corruption.
25.  Thomas Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus means:
A) Truth Retold
B) Clothes Rewoven
C) Song of History
D) Clothes Retold
Answer: A. Clothes Retold
Explanation: Allegorical work reflecting German philosophy.
26.  Carlyle’s On Heroes and Hero Worship discusses:
A) Science and religion
B) Great men in history
C) Industrial progress
D) The French Revolution
Answer: B. Great men in history
Explanation: He believed in the power of heroic individuals.
27.  John Ruskin’s Modern Painters defends:
A) Turner’s art
B) Pre-Raphaelite art
C) Gothic art
D) Shakespeare’s drama
Answer: A. Turner’s art
Explanation: Celebrated J.M.W. Turner’s naturalism against critics.
28.  Ruskin’s Sesame and Lilies is about:
A) Poetry and prose
B) Women and education
C) Science and faith
D) Gothic architecture
Answer: B. Women and education
Explanation: Advocated moral and intellectual education for women.
29.  Thomas Macaulay is remembered in India for:
A) Economic reforms
B Victorian Novels  
C) Macauley Minutes on Education
D) Gothic paintings
Answer: C.. Macaulay Minutes on Education
Explanation: Established English education policy in 1835.
30.  Walter Pater’s Renaissance inspired:
A) George Eliot
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Dickens
D) Hardy
Answer: B. Oscar Wilde
Explanation: His doctrine of “art for art’s sake” influenced Wilde.
31.  Charlotte Brontë’s famous novel is:
A) Villette
B) Jane Eyre
C) Shirley
D) All of these
Answer: D. All of these
Explanation: She wrote all three, Jane Eyre being her masterpiece.
32.  Emily Brontë’s only novel is:
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Agnes Grey
C) Villette
D) The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Answer: A. Wuthering Heights
Explanation: A Gothic tale of passion and revenge.
33.  Anne Brontë’s novel Agnes Grey is about:
A) A Scholmaster
B) A factory worker
C) A governess
D) A widow
Answer: C. A governess
Explanation: Based on her own experiences as a governess.
34.  Which Dickens novel is autobiographical?
A) Bleak House
B) David Copperfield
C) Great Expectations
D) Oliver Twist
Answer: B. David Copperfield
Explanation: Contains many parallels to Dickens’ own life.
35.  Dickens’ novel satirizing endless lawsuits is:
A) Oliver Twist
B) Hard Times
C) Bleak House
D) Great Expectations
Answer: C. Bleak House
Explanation: Attacks the inefficiency of the Court of Chancery.
36.  Dickens’ unfinished novel at his death was:
A) Our Mutual Friend
B) The Mystery of Edwin Drood
C) Little Dorrit
D) Pickwick Papers
Answer: B. The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Explanation: Left incomplete in 1870.
37.  Thackeray’s Vanity Fair carries the subtitle:

1.     Who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850?
A) Robert Browning
B) Alfred Tennyson
C) Matthew Arnold
D) Gerard Manley Hopkins
Answer: B. Alfred Tennyson
Explanation: Tennyson remained Poet Laureate from 1850 until his death in 1892.
2.     Which poem by Tennyson is an elegy for his friend Arthur Hallam?
A) Ulysses
B) Maud
C) In Memoriam
D) The Princess
Answer: C. In Memoriam
Explanation: Written over 17 years, it reflects grief, faith and doubt.
3.     In which poem does Tennyson write the famous line “To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield”?
A) The Princess
B) Ulysses
C) Tithonus
D) Locksley Hall
Answer: B. Ulysses
Explanation: It is a dramatic monologue about perseverance.
4.     Tennyson’s narrative cycle on King Arthur is called:
A) The Princess
B) Enoch Arden
C) The Lady of Shalott
D) Idylls Of the King
Answer: D. Idylls of the King
Explanation: A series of twelve poems retelling Arthurian legends.
5.     Which poem by Tennyson commemorates the Crimean War?
A) Crossing the Bar
B) Maud
C) The Charge of the Light Brigade
D) Tithonus
Answer: C. The Charge of the Light Brigade
Explanation: A ballad celebrating bravery despite a failed charge.
6.     Who is known as the master of the dramatic monologue?
A) Matthew Arnold
B) Robert Browning
C) Edward Fitzgerald
D) Hopkins
Answer: B. Robert Browning
Explanation: His poems like My Last Duchess and Andrea del Sarto perfected the form.
7.     In Browning’s My Last Duchess the Duke reveals his:
A) Patriotism
B) Jealousy and pride
C) Religious faith
D) Humour
Answer: B. Jealousy and pride
Explanation: He exposes his possessive and authoritarian nature.
8.     Which Browning poem includes the line “Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be”?
A) Rabbi Ben Ezra
B) Agra Lippo Lippi
C) Andrea del Sarto
D) Love Among the Ruins
Answer: A. Rabbi Ben Ezra
Explanation: A reflection on aging and faith.
9.     The Ring and the Book by Browning is based on:
A) A Greek epic
B) A French Revolution
C) A Roman Murder Trial
D) A biblical parable
Answer: C. A Roman murder trial
Explanation: It retells a 17th-century murder trial in twelve books.
10.  Sonnets from the Portuguese was written by:
A) Christina Rossetti
B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
C) Charlotte Brontë
D) George Eliot
Answer: B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Explanation: A sonnet sequence written for her husband Robert Browning.
11.  Who wrote the verse novel Aurora Leigh?
A) Elizabeth Gaskell
B) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
C) Christina Rossetti
D) George Eliot
Answer: B. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Explanation: A nine-book novel in blank verse on women’s role and education.
12.  Which Matthew Arnold poem is regarded as his masterpiece elegy on the loss of faith?
A) Rugby Chapel
B) Scholar Gypsy
C) Sohrab and Rustum
D) Dover Beach
Answer: D. Dover Beach
Explanation: It laments the retreat of religious faith in modern life.
13.  Arnold’s pastoral elegy on the death of Arthur Hugh Clough is:
A) Thyrsis
B) The Scholar Gipsy
C) Rugby Chapel
D) Sohrab and Rustum
Answer: A. Thyrsis
Explanation: Written in 1865 as a tribute to his friend.
14.  Arnold introduced the touchstone method in:
A) Essays in Criticism
B) Culture and Anarchy
C) The Study of Poetry
D) Literature and Dogma
Answer: C. The Study of Poetry
Explanation: He proposed judging poetry against classical standards.
15.  Who translated The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam into English in 1859?
A) Swinburne
B) Edward Fitzgerald
C) Walter Pater
D) Ruskin
Answer: B. Edward Fitzgerald
Explanation: His translation made the Persian poet famous in English.
16.  Gerard Manley Hopkins introduced which innovation?
A) Stream of consciousness
B) Sprung rhythm
C) Blank verse revival
D) Naturalistic prose
Answer: B. Sprung rhythm
Explanation: His experimental metre influenced modern poets.
17.  Hopkins coined the terms:
A) Inscape and Instress
B) Realism and Naturalism
C) Art for Art’s Sake
D) High Seriousness and Touchstone
Answer: A. Inscape and Instress
Explanation: They express individuality of things and energy perceiving it.
18.  Hopkins’ curtal sonnet Pied Beauty is about: