CSS English Literature Solved MCQs 2006

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2006.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION

Q.8 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

1. Restoration period was known as the age of :

(a) satire
(b) paganism
(c) classicism
(d) puritanism

(a) satire


2. Who is famous for representing London in his novels.

(a) Thackeray
(b) Hardy
(c) Dickens
(d) W. Scott

(c) Dickens


3. Great Expectations was published in: 

(a) 1860-1
(b) 1857-8
(c) 1852-3
(d) none of these

(a) 1860-1


4. Jane Eyre was written by: 

(a) C. Dickens
(b) G. Eliot
(c) C. Bronte
(d) J. Austen

(c) C. Bronte


5. Who was a known aesthete?

(a) Ruskin 
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley 
(d) J.S. Mill

(c) Huxley 


6. "In Memoriam" is :

(a) an ode
(b) an elegy
(c) a sonnet
(d) neither

(b) an elegy


7. Tennyson was: 

(a) a romantic
(b) a Victorian
(c) a Pre-Raphaelite
(d) none of these

(b) a Victorian


8. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?

(a) Ruskin 
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) None of these

(a) Ruskin 


9. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:

(a) naturalism
(b) romanticism
(c) fatalism
(d) classicism

(c) fatalism


10. "The Recluse" was written by:

(a) Worsdworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) W. Blake
(d) Southey

(a) Worsdworth


11. Dorothy was the gifted sister of: 

(a) R. Browning
(b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Coleridge

(c) Wordsworth


12. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by: 

(a) W. Scott
(b) Lewis
(c) Mrs. Shelley
(d) If none of these then by whom

(c) Mrs. Shelley


13. An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :

(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Browning
(d) Byron

(b) Coleridge


14. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :

(a) Childe Harolde
(b) Queen Mab
(c) Prometheus
(d) The Recluse

(a) Childe Harolde


15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:

(a) W.Scott
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these

(b) Coleridge


16. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:

(a) W. Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley
(d) none of these

(c) Shelley


17. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:

(a) Ruskin
(b) J.S.Mill
(c) C. Lamb
(d) Russell

(a) Ruskin


18. Mr. Rochester is the major character of: 

(a) Silas Marner
(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Jude the Obscure
(d) Adam Bede

(b) Jane Eyre


19. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:

(a) A pair of Blue Eyes
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Return of the Native
(d) if none of these then give the correct answer

Tess of the d'Urbervilles


20. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by: 

(a) C.Bronte
(b) Hardy
(c) Emile Bronte
(d) Jane Austen

(c) Emile Bronte

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS

IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2006.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION

 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.

(1)Who has defined tragedy as “an imitation of an action”?

(a) Shakespeare 
(b) Dryden
(c) Aristotle
(d) None of these

(c) Aristotle


(2) In Shakespeare “Character is not Destiny” but “character and Destiny”. Whose comment is this?

(a) Bradley
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Nicoll 
(d) None of these

(a) Bradley


(3) A poet is a man speaking to men says?

(a) Pope
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Wordsworth
(d) None of these

(c) Wordsworth


(4) Hermione is the heroine of Shakespeare in:

(a) The Winter’s Tale 
(b) Taming of the Shrew
(c) Tempest
(d) None of these

(a) The Winter’s Tale 


(5) “Gyre” is a favorite symbol with 

(a) T. S. Eliot
(b) Yeats
(c) Emily Dickenson
(d) None of these

(b) Yeats


(6) Who is labeled as misanthropist?

(a) Jane Austen
(b) Hardy 
(c) Swift
(d) None of these

(c) Swift



(7) ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’ is written by:

(a) Russell 
(b) Carlyle
(c) T. S. Eliot 
(d) None of these

(c) T. S. Eliot 


(8) ‘Nothing more real than nothing’ are the words of?

(a) Harold Pinter
(b) Beckett
(c) Shaw
(d) None of these

(b) Beckett


(9) ‘Earth is the right place for Love and I do not know where it is likely to go better.’ These lines are from:

(a) The Road Not Taken 
(b) Fire and Ice
(c) Birches
(d) None of these

(c) Birches


(10) ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is a poem written by:

(a) Hopkins
(b) W. B. Yeats
(c) Larkin
(d) None of these

(b) W. B. Yeats


(11) Which of the plays has an epilogue?

(a) Man and Superman 
(b) Devils’ Disciple 
(c) Pygmalion
(d) None of these

(b) Devils’ Disciple 


(12) ‘I care for life, for humanity, and you are a part of it.’ Whose words are these?

(a) Doolittle 
(b) Huggins
(c) Pickering
(d) None of these

(b) Huggins


(13) Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in:

(a) 1927
(b) 1832
(c) 1924
(d) None of these

(d) None of these


(14) Whose work is called ‘mock utopia’?

(a) Swift’s
(b) Sir Thomas More’s
(c) Wordsworth’s
(d) None of these

(a) Swift’s


(15) The Waste Land was published by Eliot in:

(a) 1922
(b) 1923
(c) 1932
(d) None of these

(a) 1922


(16) T. S. Eliot and George Eliot were:

(a) Brothers
(b) Father and Son
(c) Novelists
(d) None of these

(d) None of these


(17) Feminine Ending is:

(a) a Novel
(b) a poem
(c) a metrical device
(d) None of these

(c) a metrical device 


(18) ‘Persona’ is

(a) the actor in a play
(b) the plural of Person
(c) a projection of the poet into another person
(d) None of these

(a) the actor in a play


(19) A Winter’s Tale by Shakespeare is a:

(a) Dramatic Monologue
(b) Comedy
(c) Tragedy
(d) None of these

(b) Comedy

(20) ‘Preface to Shakespeare’ is written by:

(a) Bradely
(b) Dryden
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) None of these

(c) Dr. Johnson