FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2002.
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) Fortinbras is a character of the play:
a) Othello
b) Hamlet
c) King Lear
d) None of these
b) Hamlet
2. Who wrote preface to Shakespeare:
a) Sir Philip Sydney
b) Dryden
c) Dr. Johnson
d) None of these
c) Dr. Johnson
3. The ‘Tragic Flaw’ is also called:
a) Catharsis
b) Catastrophe
c) Hamartia
d) None of these
c) Hamartia
4. The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare
a) Dramatic monologue
b) Comedy
c) Tragedy
d) None of these
a) Dramatic monologue
5. Who is believed to be suffering from Oedipus Complex:
a) Oedipus
b) Hamlet
c) Macbeth
d) None of these
a) Oedipus
6. Whose comedies are called ‘Comedies of Mask’:
a) Ben Johnson’s
b) Bernard Shaw’s
c) Shakespeare’s
d) None of these
b) Bernard Shaw’s
7. Who belongs to the theatre of Absurd
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Backett
c) Ibsen
d) None of these
b) Backett
8. Which of the novels of Hemingway is called Hemingway’s Waste Land?
a) The Old Man and the Sea
b) Farewell to Arms
c) For Whom the Bell Tolls
d) None of these
d) None of these
9. Poetry is defined as ‘Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling’ by:
a) Shelley
b) Coleridge
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
10. Which is called the Victorian Age:
a) 18th Century
b) 19th Century
c) 20th Century
d) None of these
b) 19th Century
11. A poem which consists of fourteen line is called:
a) A Sonnet
b) An Ode
c) A ballad
d) None of these
a) A Sonnet
12. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by”
a) Yeats
b) T. S. Eliot
c) D. H. Lawrence
d) None of these
b) T. S. Eliot
13. ‘End Game’ is written by:
a) Hemingway
b) Somerset Maugham
c) Beckett
d) None of these
c) Beckett
14. My soul had been a lawn besprinkled O’er with flowers, and Stirring Shades, and baffled dreams is an example of:
a) Metaphor
b) Simile
c) Personification
d) None of these
a) Metaphor
15. Iron, times of
doubts, disputes, distraction and Fear is an example of:
a) Oxymoron
b) Conceit
c) Alliteration
d) None of these
c) Alliteration
16. ‘Pleasant Pain’ is an example of”
a) Metaphor
b) Paradox
c) Oxymoron
d) None of these
c) Oxymoron
17. Which of the plays is not written by T. S. Eliot?
a) The Rock
b) The Family Reunion
c) The importance of being Earnest
d) None of these
c) The importance of being Earnest
18. Which of the novels is not written by Jane Austen?
a) Adam Bede
b) Mansfield Park
c) Emma
d) None of these
a) Adam Bede
19. ‘Lapis Lazuli’ is:
a) A Poem
b) Novel
c) Drama
d) None of these
a) A Poem
20. ‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:
a) Pygmalion
b) Candida
c) Getting Married
d) None of these
a) Pygmalion