CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2002

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2002.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION

 Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) ‘All good poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ who made this statement?
a) Shelly
b) De Quincey 
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

c) Wordsworth


2. “A long poem is a combination of short poems.” Who has held the above opinion?
a) Coleridge 
b) Keats
c) Wordsworth 
d) None of these

c) Wordsworth


3. Rabbi Ben Ezra was written by?
a) Tennyson 
b) Browning
c) Matthew Arnold
d) None of these

b) Browning


4. In 1857, Matthew Arnold as Professor of Poetry at Oxford delivered his inaugural lecture in:
a) English
b) Latin 
c) Greek 
d) None of these

a) English


5. The second generation of the romantic poets (Shelley, Byron and Keats) was dead by:
a) 1820
b) 1825 
c) 1830
d) None of these

b) 1825


6. The Advertisement added to the Lyrical Ballads was published in:
a) 1800 
b) 1802
c) 1798
d) None of these

c) 1798


7. Hero and Hero Worship was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these

b) Carlyle


8. Which poem of Tennyson was particularly like by Queen Victoria?
a) The Idylls of the kings
b) Charge of the Light Brigade 
c) In Memoriam
d) None of these

c) In Memoriam


9. Hardy’s Nature is:
a) Friendly
b) Indifferent
c) Vindictive
d) None of these

b) Indifferent


10. Does the personal name Lucy (in Wordsworth’s poetry) stands for
a) Anneta Vallon
b) Dorothy
c) Drawn from folk song heroines
d) None of these

b) Dorothy


11. ‘Who knows but the world many end to-night.’ In which of Browning’s poems the above line appears?
a) The Last Ride together
b) One Word More
c) The Last Duchess
d) None of these

a) The Last Ride together


12. The Prelude was written in”
a) 1810
b) 1840
c) 1805
d) None of these

d) None of these


13. The Crown of Wild Olive is written by:
a) Charles Lamb
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these

c) Ruskin


14. Oscar Wilde believed in:
a) Aestheticism
b) Escapism
c) Pragmatism
d) None of these

a) Aestheticism


15. ‘Bliss was it, in that Dawn to be alive But to be young was very heaven.’ Who has written these lines?
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

c) Wordsworth


16. When was the poem Tintern Abbey written?
a) 1793
b) 1795
c) 1798
d) None of these

c) 1798


17. The correct date of French Revolution:
a) 1793
b) 1802
c) 1789
d) None of these

c) 1789


18. Human situation in Hardy’s novels is controlled by:
a) Social Forces
b) Providence
c) Fate
d) None of these

c) Fate


19. "Prophets of Nature ………
……………. What we have loved
Other will love …………….”
In which poem by Wordsworth do these lines appear?
a) Excursion
b) One Summer Evening
c) Prelude
d) None of these

b) One Summer Evening


20. “But God’s eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone.” In which poem do these lines appear?
a) We Are Seven (Wordsworth) 
b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)
c) Prisoner of Chillon (Byron)
d) None of these

b) Ballad of Reading Goal (Oscar Wilde)

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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2002.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION

8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.

1) Fortinbras is a character of the play:
a) Othello
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear 
d) None of these

b) Hamlet


2. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:
a) Sir Philip Sydney 
b) Dryden
c) Dr. Johnson
d) None of these

c) Dr. Johnson 


3. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:
a) Catharsis
b) Catastrophe
c) Hamartia
d) None of these

c) Hamartia


4. The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare
a) Dramatic monologue 
b) Comedy
c) Tragedy
d) None of these

a) Dramatic monologue 


5. Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:
a) Oedipus
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth 
d) None of these

a) Oedipus


6. Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:
a) Ben Johnson’s
b) Bernard Shaw’s
c) Shakespeare’s
d) None of these

b) Bernard Shaw’s


7. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Backett 
c) Ibsen
d) None of these

b) Backett 


8. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?
a) The Old Man and the Sea
b) Farewell to Arms 
c) For Whom the Bell Tolls
d) None of these

d) None of these


9. Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:
a) Shelley
b) Coleridge
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

c) Wordsworth 


10. Which is called the Victorian Age:
a) 18th Century
b) 19th Century
c) 20th Century
d) None of these

b) 19th Century


11. A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:
a) A Sonnet
b) An Ode
c) A ballad
d) None of these

a) A Sonnet


12. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”
a) Yeats
b) T. S. Eliot
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) None of these

b) T. S. Eliot 


13. ‘End Game’ is written by:
a) Hemingway
b) Somerset Maugham
c) Beckett 
d) None of these

c) Beckett 


14. My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled dreams is an example of:
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) None of these

a) Metaphor


15. Iron, times of doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
a) Oxymoron
b) Conceit
c) Alliteration
d) None of these

c) Alliteration


16. ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”
a) Metaphor
b) Paradox
c) Oxymoron
d) None of these

c) Oxymoron


17. Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?
a) The Rock
b) The Family Reunion
c) The importance of being Earnest
d) None of these

c) The importance of being Earnest


18. Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?
a) Adam Bede
b) Mansfield Park 
c) Emma
d) None of these

a) Adam Bede


19. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
a) A Poem
b) Novel
c) Drama
d) None of these

a) A Poem


20. ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:
a) Pygmalion
b) Candida
c) Getting Married
d) None of these

a) Pygmalion