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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2000.

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II


TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100

COMPULSORY QUESTION


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

(1) Who wrote "Shakespeare’s Later Comedies’?

(a) A.C. Bradley
(b) Palmer D.J.
(c) Dr.Johnsofl

(b) Palmer D.J.



(2) Which of the following is not a dramatist?

(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Eliot
(c) S. Backett


(3) Which. of the following is not a play by Shakespeare?

(a) Tempest
(b) Pygmalion
(c) King Lear

(b) Pygmalion


(4) Who is the author of ‘After Strange Gods’?

(a) Shaw
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Eliot

(c) Eliot



(5) Who is the Villain in ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Horatio
(b) Iago
(c) Claudius

(c) Claudius



(6) Who is the heroine of ‘Hamlet’?

(a) Cordelia
(b) Portia
(c) Ophelia

(c) Ophelia


(7) After whom the Elizabethan Age is named:

(a) Elizabeth I
(b) Elizabeth II
(c) Elizabeth Browning

(a) Elizabeth I



(8) Who wrote ‘Common Pursuit’?

(a) Leavis, F.R.
(b) Cecil, D.
(c) E.M.Foster

(a) Leavis, F.R.


(9) ‘ Paradise Lost is an epic by:

(a). Spenser
(b) Chaucer
(c) Milton

(c) Milton


(10) "After Apple Picking" is written by:

(a) Robert Browning
(b) Robert Frost

(b) Robert Frost


(11) Ernest Hemingway wrote:

(a) Mr. Chips
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Old Man and the Sea
(c) Old Man and the Sea


(12) "Intellectual Beauty" is written by:

(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) Huxley
(c) P.B.Shelley

(c) P.B.Shelley


(13) Who wrote "20th Century Views"?

(a) Abrahams, M. H.
(b) Palmer, D. J.
(c) Bertrand Russell

(a) Abrahams, M. H.


(14) ‘Desert Places’ is a:

(a) Poem
(b) Play
(c) Novel

(a) Poem


(15) The University Wits were:

(a) Poets
(b) Playwrights
(c) Novelists

(b) Playwrights


(16) William Shakespeare was Born in:

(a) 1564
(b) 1534
(c) 1616

(a) 1564



(17) Francis Bacon died in:

(a) 1616
(b) 1626
(c) 1648

(b) 1626



(18) The period between 1660 to 1750 is known as:

(a) The Age of Classicism
(b) The Restoration
(c) The age of Milton

(b) The Restoration


(19) Who wrote "The Pilgrim’s Progress"?

(a) John Bunyan
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Dryden

(a) John Bunyan



(20) ‘‘The Conduct of the Allies’ is a famous work of:

(a) Jonathan Swift
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Oliver ‘Goldsmith

(a) Jonathan Swift
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