Sunday, 5 October 2014

CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2013

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2013.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I
TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20
(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
Q.1: Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.
1- Lyrical Ballads opens with;
a- Tintern Abbey
b- Michael
c- Dejection: an Ode
d- Rime of Ancient Mariner
 e- Immortality Ode.

2- Besides the French Revolution the effect on Romantic Revolution:
a- American Revolution
b- Napoleonic wars
c- Industrial Revolution
d- Peasant’s Revolt
e- The defeat of the Spanish armada.

3- William Blake’s /Song’s of ----------‘ counterbalance his ‘Songs of Experience’.
A- Love
b- childhood
c- past
d- Inexperience
e- Innocence

4- Geraldine is a character of the poem;
a- Lucy Grey
b- The Thorn
c- Christabel
d- Frost at midnight
e- the last of the flock

5- ‘kubla khan’ is a poem which reflects a---------strain in Choleridge’s poetry.
A- Intellectual
b- magical
c- melancholic
d- pessimistic
e- philosophical

6- Keats’ poem Endymion is based on ------ mythology.
A- Greek
b- Roman
c- celtic
d- Scandanavian
e- Indian

7- Byron’s journey to Spain, Malta, Albania and Greece resulted in the production of the first two cantos of his poem:
a- cain
b- Childe Herald’s Pilgrimage
c- Don Juan
d- the prisoner of Chillon
e- The Seige of Corinth

8- In Don Juan Byron used:
a- blank verse
b- couplets
c- Ottava Rima
d- refrain
e- terza rima

9- Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University on the charge of being a(n):
a- anarchist
b-Atheist 
c- commonist
d- nazi
e- traitor

10- Adonais was an elegy Shelley wrote in 1821 on the death of:
a- Keats
b- Byron
c- Arthur Hugh Clough
d- Thomas Love Peacock
e- William Hazlit

11- Confessions of an English Opium Eater was written by:
a- Charles Lamb
b- John Ruskin
c- Maria Edgeworth
d- Thomas Carlyle
e- Thomas de Quencey

12- Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles Lamb for getting his works published in:
a- London magazine
b- The New York Times
c- The Mirror
d- The spectator
e- the Sun

13- Tennyson created a medieval world in his poem:
a- in memoriam
b- the lady of Shalott
c- the lotus eaters
d- tithonus
e- Ulyssess

14- Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnold’s work:
a- the buried life
b- dover beach
c- culture and anarchy
d- The Scholor Gypsy
e- essays on criticism

15- ------------- is an attack by Ruskin on the Philistines.
A- Modern Painters
b- stones of Venice
c- seven lamps of architecture
e- praeterita

16- Dickens’ first novel which focused on the specific social ills was:
a- the Christmas carol
b- david copperfield
c- Great Expectations
d-oliver twist
e- a tale of two cities

17- G Eliot’s novels show her concern for the character’s----------- problems.
A- economic
b- Moral
c-religious
d- spiritual e social

18- Dickens’ novels combine--------- and melodrama.
A- journalism
b-philosophy
c- Satire
d- science
e- religion

19- The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote was:
a- Emily
b- Jane Eyre
c- Shirley
d- the professor
e- villette

20- Oscar Wilde’s novel published in 1891 was entitled as:
a- the picture of dorian grey
b- the importance of being earnest
c- lady windermere’s fan
d- a woman of no importance
e- Salome



FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2013.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II
TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20
(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80

PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
Q.1: Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.
1- Which novel is not written by Jane Austen?
A- Emma
b- The Chimes
c- Persuation
d- Mansfield Park
e- none these

2- Shaw wrote more than:
a- 30 plays
b- 40 plays
c- 50 plays
d- 60 plays
e- none of these



3- Shaw died at the age of:
a- 75
b- 85
c- 95
d- 105
e- none of these



4- Jack Worthing is a character created by:
a- Shaw
b- Dickens
c- Browning
d- Hardy
e- none of these



5- Adam Bede is a:
a- Play
b- Novel
c- short storey
d- Poem
e- none of these



6- Dickens sprang to fame with a publication of:
a- Hard Times
b- David Copperfield
c- Pickwick Papers
 d- Great Expectations
e- none of these



7- Who served as an Irish senator for two terms?
 A- Wilde
b- Shaw
c- Ibsen
d- Yeats
e- none of these



8- John Bull’s Other Island is written by:
a- Shaw
 b- Wilde
c- Hemingway
 d- Beckett
e- none of these



9- Lilliputians symbolize excessive human:
a- Jealousy
b- confidence
c- pride
d- Ego
e- none of these



10- Houyhnhnms represent life governed by sense and:
 a- Moderation
b- patience
c- understanding
 d- compromise
e-none of these



11- Cordelia’s chief characteristic is her:
 a- beauty
 b- Devotion
 c- sympathy
d- kindness
 e- none of these



12- Henry Higgins is a character in:
a- Pygmalion
b- saint joan
c- major Barbara
d- Candida
e-none of these



13- Eliot worked for Faber and Faber as a/an:
a- assistant
b- director
c- writer
d- Editor
 e- none of these



14- Wordsworth was appointed as poet Laureate in:
a- 1843
 b-1844
c-1845
d-1846
e- none of these



15- Hemingway was a great fan of:
a- Cricket
b- Baseball
 c- softball
d- football
e- none of these



16- Jude the Obscure is a:
 a- comedy
 b- Tragedy
c- tragic-comedy
d- black comedy
e- none of these



17- Eliot was influenced by:
a- Ezra Pound
 b- Shaw
c- Hardy
 d- Wilde
 e- none of these



18- Who became the poet Laureate of England and Ireland during the reign of Queen Victoria?
 A- Tennyson
 b- Browning
c- Hardy
d- Lawrence
e- none of these



19- Hemingway also worked as a:
 a- Carpenter
 b- Painter
c- surgeon
 d- Driver
e- none of these

20- “Tales from Shakespeare” is written by:
 a- Shakespeare
b- Lamb
 c- Lawrence
d- Mary Anne Evans
e- none of these