FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2003.
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) OF all his predecessors, the following exerted a direct influence upon Shakespeare.
a) Lyly and Marlowe
b) Robert Greene and Thomas Nash
c) George Peele and Thomas Lodge
d) None of these
a) Lyly and Marlowe
2. Shakespeare has written
a) Comedies
b) Tragedies
c) Historical Plays
d) All of these
d) All of these
3. Jane Austen’s other writings are:
a) Sense and Sensibility
b) Emma
c) Persuasion
d) All of these
d) All of these
4. Texts like Waiting for Godot are:
a) Ageless
b) Rare
c) Priceless
d) None of these
a) Ageless
5. “We are such stuff as dreams are made”. Whose words are these.
a) Shakespeare
b) Marlowe
c) Philip Sydney
d) None of these
a) Shakespeare
6. The only play by Shakespeare which confirms to the classical unities is:
a) Hamlet
b) Twelfth Night
c) Romeo and Juliet
d) None of these
b) Twelfth Night
7. Yahoo’s according to Gulliver were:
a) European
b) Indians
c) American
d) None of these
a) European
8. ‘Young leading the young is like blind leading the blind’ who has said these words:
a) Carlyle
b) Bacon
c) Mantaine
d) None of these
d) None of these
9. Arms and the Man – a novel is written by:
a) George Bernard Shaw
b) Samuel Beckett
c) Jane Austen
d) None of these
a) George Bernard Shaw
10. ‘Proper study of Mankind is man’ – who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Shelley
d) None of these
a) Pope
11. ‘Supernaturalism’ was an important feature of the poetry of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Byron
c) Coleridge
d) None of these
c) Coleridge
12. ‘Sweet Hellen make me immortal with kiss’. Who has said these words?
a) Marlow
b) Shakespeare
c) Benjonson
d) None of these
a) Marlow
13. Who did write/publish preface to lyrical ballads:
a) Wordsworth
b) Shelley
c) Keats
d) None of these
a) Wordsworth
14. The word renaissance means:
a) Rebirth
b) Revival
c) Renewal
d) None of these
a) Rebirth
15. ‘Of Studies’ an essay is written by:
a) Francis Bacon
b) Carlyle
c) Montaine
d) None of these
a) Francis Bacon
16. Spenser was:
a) Novelist
b) Dramatist
c) Prose writer
d) None of these
d) None of these
17. All is well that ends well is a:
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy
c) Historical Play
d) None of these
a) Comedy
18. The second shortest play of Shakespeare is:
a) The Winter’s Tale
b) Much ado about nothing
c) Tempest
d) None of these
b) Much ado about nothing
19. ‘Paradise Lost’ is written by:
a) Milton
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) None of these
a) Milton
20. ‘Money is a tie of all ties. It is a tie which ties and unties all ties’ is quotation from
a) Past and Present
b) Of Money
c) Of Marriage
d) None of these
b) Of Money