FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2003.
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) Who said ‘The true opposite of Poetry is not Prose but Science’.
a) Wordsworth
b) T. S. Eliot
c) Coleridge
d) None of these
c) Coleridge
2. “The first in beauty should be first in might” … is the line spoken in Hyperion by:
a) Oceanus
b) Hyperion
c) Apollo
d) None of these
b) Hyperion
3. The Eve of St. Agnes is written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
a) Keats
4. Adonis is modeled on:
a) Bion’s lament for Adonis
b) Lycidas
c) In Memoriam
d) None of these
a) Bion’s lament for Adonis
5. Hardy is a:
a) Pessimist
b) Meliorist
c) Mystic
d) None of these
a) Pessimist
6. Who is one of the lake poets:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Browning
d) None of these
a) Coleridge
7. Ernest De Selincourt is the editor of:
a) Prometheus the Unbound
b) The Prelude
c) Songs of innocence and of experience
d) None of these
b) The Prelude
8. Who usually caricatures his characters?
a) Dickens
b) George Eliot
c) Hardy
d) None of these
a) Dickens
9. Tradition and Individual Talent is a critical essay by:
a) Shelley
b) Oscar Wilde
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these
c) T. S. Eliot
10. ‘Hebrew Melodies’ is written by:
a) Tennyson
b) Byron
c) Keats
d) None of these
b) Byron
11. ‘She dwells with beauty – beauty that must die’ is a line from
a) Ode to Nightingale
b) Ode on Indolence
c) Ode to Melancholy
d) None of these
c) Ode to Melancholy
12. ‘A Little Girl Lost’ is written by:
a) Wordsworth
b) Blake
c) Keats
d) None of these
b) Blake
13. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called
a) Octave
b) Sestet
c) Refrain
d) None of these
a) Octave
14. The Revolt of Islam is a:
a) Novel
b) An epic
c) Lyrical Drama
d) None of these
c) Lyrical Drama
15. The repetition of sounds in a sequence of words is called
a) Assonance
b) Rhythm
c) Alliteration
d) None of these
c) Alliteration
16. ‘The child is the father of man’ is a line from Wordsworth’s:
a) Immortality Ode
b) The Prelude
c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.
d) None of these
c) My heart leaps when I Behold a Rainbow in the Sky.
17. ‘Lady Windermere’s fan’ is written by:
a) Oscar Wilde
b) Galsworthy
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these
a) Oscar Wilde
18. Who wrote ‘Tales From Shakespeare’?
a) Charles Lamb and his sister
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Dryden
d) None of these
a) Charles Lamb and his sister
19. ‘East Coker’ is written by:
a) Browning
b) Wordsworth
c) T. S. Eliot
d) None of these
c) T. S. Eliot
20. In which poem lies the line ‘The One remain, the many change and pass’?
a) Adonis
b) Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
c) The cloud
d) None of these
a) Adonis