CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2005

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION

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

1) Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:

a) 1808
b) 1812
c) 1818
d) None of these

b) 1812


2. Which English romantic poet admired Pope:

a) Coleridge 
b) William Wordsworth
c) Byron
d) None of these

c) Byron


3. The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:

a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these

c) Shelley


4. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:

a) 1790
b) 1794
c) 1820
d) None of these

b) 1794


5. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:

a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these

d) None of these (Wordsworth)


6. The Last Ride Together was written by:

a) Byron
b) Tennyson
c) Browning
d) None of these

c) Browning


7. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:

a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these

a) Dickens


8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by

a) Dickens
b) Hardy 
c) George Eliot
d) None of these

c) George Eliot


9. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:

a) Browning
b) Mathew Arnold
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

a) Browning


10. ‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by

a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these

a) Tennyson


11. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:

a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle 
c) Oscar Wilde 
d) None of these

c) Oscar Wilde 


12. ‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:

a) Ruskin
b) Charles Lamb
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these

b) Charles Lamb


13. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by: 

a) J. S. Mill
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these

c) Ruskin


14. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.

a) Ode to Autumn
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to melancholy
d) None of these

b) Ode on a Grecian Urn


15. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?

a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

a) Keats


16. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by

a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Tennyson
d) None of these

b) Browning


17. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:

a) Byron
b) Wordsworth
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these

c) Oscar Wilde


18. Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?

a) Tess of the D’Urberville 
b) Major of the Casterbridge
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these

d) None of these


19. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:

a) Ruskin
b) J. S. Mill
c) Carlyle
d) None of these

b) J. S. Mill

20. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?

a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Return of the Native 
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these

b) Return of the Native

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.

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) It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:

a) Frost
b) Pope
c) Byron
d) None of these

a) Frost


2. Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:

a) A Farewell to Arms
b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
c) Death in the Afternoon
d) All of the above

d) All of the above


3. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s

a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
b) Shakespeare’s Tempest
c) Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
d) None of these

a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s


4. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:

a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
b) Portia in ‘Merchant of Venice’
c) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
d) None of these

a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’


5. “None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:

a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
b) Marlow’s Jew of Malta
c) Marlow’s Tamburlaine
d) None of these

a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus


6. “Lyrical ballads” were published by:

a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth 
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
d) None of these

c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth


7. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:

a) Wordsworth
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) Thomson

b) Pope


8. There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:

a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Spencer
c) Shakespeare
d) None of these

a) Thomas Carlyle


9. Shakespeare has written:

a) Historical plays
b) Comedies
c) Tragedies
d) All of these

d) All of these


10. Famous romantic poets were

a) Five
b) Four
c) Six
d) None of these

c) Six


11. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from 

a) Merchant of Venice
b) Two gentleman of Verona
c) Midsummer’s Night Dream
d) Anthony and Cleopatra

a) Merchant of Venice


12. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:

a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) None of these

a) Keats


13. Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?

a) Charlotte
b) Mr. Bennet
c) Mr. Bingley
d) None of these

a) Charlotte


14. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:

a) Confused
b) Amazed
c) Not thinking clearly
d) None of these

a) Confused

15. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.

a) In 1906
b) In 1969
c) In 1952
d) None of these

a) In 1906


16. To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:

a) Pope 
b) Swift 
c) Dryden
d) None of these

a) Pope 

17. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?

a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these

c) Wordsworth


18. Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:

a) Emma
b) Sense and Sensibility
c) Persuasion
d) All of these

d) All of these

19. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.

a) Six
b) Seven
c) Five
d) None of these

c) Five

20. Father of antiquities were:

a) Socrates
b) Aristotle 
c) Plato
d) All of these

d) All of these