FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 1999.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
COMPULSORY QUESTION
(1) Shakespeare’s Hamlet is
(a) A tragedy
(b) Comedy
(a) A tragedy
(2) Earnest Hamingway has written
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(b) Mr. Chips
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(3) Who wrote Gulliver’s Travels?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Chaucer
(c) Jonathan Swift
(c) Jonathan Swift
(4) Which of the following is not a dramatist?
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Byron
(c) Eliot
(b) Byron
(5) Which of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) Dr. Faustus
(c) Dr. Faustus
(6) E. M. Foster is a
(a) Novelist
(b) Poet
(c) Playwright
(a) Novelist
(7) “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by:
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Thackery
(b) Charles Dickens
(8) Who wrote “Jane Eyre”?
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(b) Emile Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(a) Charlotte Bronte
(9) After whom is the Elizabethan Age named?
(a) Elizabeth-I
(b) Elizabeth-II
(c) Elizabeth Browning
(a) Elizabeth-I
(10) What is the name of Wordsworth’s long poem?
(a) The Canterbury Tales
(b) Don Juan
(c) The Prelude
(c) The Prelude
(11) A poem mourning someone’s death is called:
(a) Fable
(b) Epic
(c) Elegy
(c) Elegy
(12) Which of the following is not a tragedy written by Shakespeare?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Othello
(c) Merchant of Venice
(c) Merchant of Venice
(13) Who wrote “The Second Coming”?
(a) E. Spencer
(b) Eliot
(c) W. B. Yeats
(c) W. B. Yeats
(14) What period in English Literature is called the “Augustans Age”?
(a) Early 16th Century
(b) 17th Century
(c) Early 18th Century
(c) Early 18th Century
(15) Which play among the following plays is not blank verse?
(a) Hamlet
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) Pygmalion
(c) Pygmalion
(16) Which one of the following writers is not woman?
(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Robert Browning
(c) Robert Browning
(17) Who is the villain in “Hamlet”?
(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius
(c) Claudius
(18) Who kills Macbeth in the play “Macbeth”?
(a) Duncan
(b) Bonquo
(c) Macduff
(c) Macduff
(19) Which is the last of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
(a) Macbeth
(b) King Lear
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(20) Who is the heroine of Shakespeare’s play “Hamlet”?
(a) Cordella
(b) Desdemona
(c) Portia
(d) Ophelia
(d) Ophelia