CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2003

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2003.

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) Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.
a) Wordsworth
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Coleridge
d) None of these

c) Coleridge


2. “The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:
a) Oceanus 
b) Hyperion
c) Apollo
d) None of these

b) Hyperion


3. The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

a) Keats


4. Adonis is modeled on:
a) Bion’s lament for Adonis
b) Lycidas 
c) In Memoriam 
d) None of these

a) Bion’s lament for Adonis


5. Hardy is a:
a) Pessimist
b) Meliorist
c) Mystic
d) None of these

a) Pessimist


6. Who is one of the lake poets:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Browning
d) None of these

a) Coleridge


7. Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:
a) Prometheus the Unbound
b) The Prelude
c) Songs of innocence and of experience 
d) None of these

b) The Prelude


8. Who usually caricatures his characters?
a) Dickens
b) George Eliot
c) Hardy 
d) None of these

a) Dickens


9. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:
a) Shelley
b) Oscar Wilde
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these

c) T. S. Eliot


10. ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:
a) Tennyson
b) Byron
c) Keats
d) None of these

b) Byron


11. ‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) Ode on Indolence
c) Ode to Melancholy 
d) None of these

c) Ode to Melancholy 


12. ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:
a) Wordsworth
b) Blake
c) Keats
d) None of these

b) Blake


13. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called
a) Octave
b) Sestet
c) Refrain 
d) None of these

a) Octave


14. The Revolt of Islam is a:
a) Novel 
b) An epic 
c) Lyrical Drama
d) None of these

c) Lyrical Drama


15. The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called
a) Assonance 
b) Rhythm
c) Alliteration
d) None of these

c) Alliteration


16. ‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:
a) Immortality Ode
b) The Prelude
c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.
d) None of these

c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.


17. ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Galsworthy
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these

a) Oscar Wilde


18. Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?
a) Charles Lamb and his sister
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Dryden
d) None of these

a) Charles Lamb and his sister


19. ‘East Coker’ is written by:
a) Browning
b) Wordsworth
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these

c) T. S. Eliot


20. In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?
a) Adonis
b) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 
c) The cloud
d) None of these

a) Adonis

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2003.

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) OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.

a)    Lyly and Marlowe 
b) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash 
c) George Peele and Thomas Lodge
d) None of these

a) Lyly and Marlowe 


2. Shakespeare has written
a) Comedies 
b) Tragedies
c) Historical Plays
d) All of these

d) All of these


3. Jane Austen’s other writings are:
a) Sense and Sensibility
b) Emma
c) Persuasion
d) All of these

d) All of these


4. Texts like Waiting for Godot are:
a) Ageless
b) Rare
c) Priceless
d) None of these

a) Ageless


5. “We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
a) Shakespeare
b) Marlowe
c) Philip Sydney
d) None of these

a) Shakespeare

6. The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:
a) Hamlet
b) Twelfth Night
c) Romeo and Juliet
d) None of these

b) Twelfth Night


7. Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
a) European
b) Indians
c) American
d) None of these

a) European


8. ‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:
a) Carlyle
b) Bacon 
c) Mantaine
d) None of these

d) None of these 


9. Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) Samuel Beckett
c) Jane Austen
d) None of these

a) George Bernard Shaw


10. ‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Shelley 
d) None of these

a) Pope


11. ‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) Coleridge
d) None of these

c) Coleridge


12. ‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?
a) Marlow
b) Shakespeare
c) Benjonson
d) None of these

a) Marlow


13. Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:
a) Wordsworth
b) Shelley
c) Keats
d) None of these

a) Wordsworth


14. The word renaissance means:
a) Rebirth 
b) Revival
c) Renewal
d) None of these

a) Rebirth 


15. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:
a) Francis Bacon
b) Carlyle
c) Montaine
d) None of these

a) Francis Bacon


16. Spenser was:
a) Novelist
b) Dramatist
c) Prose writer
d) None of these

d) None of these


17. All is well that ends well is a:
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Historical Play
d) None of these

a) Comedy


18. The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:
a) The Winter’s Tale
b) Much ado about nothing
c) Tempest
d) None of these


b) Much ado about nothing


19. ‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:
a) Milton
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) None of these

a) Milton

20. ‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from
a) Past and Present
b) Of Money
c) Of Marriage 
d) None of these

b) Of Money