FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.
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) Byron wrote ‘Childe Harold’ in:
a) 1808
b) 1812
c) 1818
d) None of these
b) 1812
2. Which English romantic poet admired Pope:
a) Coleridge
b) William Wordsworth
c) Byron
d) None of these
c) Byron
3. The poem “the Triumph of life” was written by:
a) Keats
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these
c) Shelley
4. ‘Songs of Experience’ written by Blake was published in:
a) 1790
b) 1794
c) 1820
d) None of these
b) 1794
5. ‘The Excursion’ was written by:
a) Coleridge
b) Blake
c) Shelley
d) None of these
d) None of these (Wordsworth)
6. The Last Ride Together was written by:
a) Byron
b) Tennyson
c) Browning
d) None of these
c) Browning
7. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ was written by:
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these
a) Dickens
8. ‘Adam Bede’ is a novel written by
a) Dickens
b) Hardy
c) George Eliot
d) None of these
c) George Eliot
9. ‘The Ring and the Book’ is a poem written by:
a) Browning
b) Mathew Arnold
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
a) Browning
10. ‘The Lotus-Eaters’ was written by
a) Tennyson
b) Browning
c) Blake
d) None of these
a) Tennyson
11. ‘The Art for Art sake’ theory was presented by:
a) Ruskin
b) Carlyle
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these
c) Oscar Wilde
12. ‘The Old Familiar Faces’ was written by:
a) Ruskin
b) Charles Lamb
c) J. S. Mill
d) None of these
b) Charles Lamb
13. ‘The Stone of Venice’ was written by:
a) J. S. Mill
b) Carlyle
c) Ruskin
d) None of these
c) Ruskin
14. Which poem of Keats contains ‘Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter’.
a) Ode to Autumn
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
c) Ode to melancholy
d) None of these
b) Ode on a Grecian Urn
15. Which of the Romantic poets is called an escapist?
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
a) Keats
16. ‘Andrea del Sarto’ is a poem written by
a) Shelley
b) Browning
c) Tennyson
d) None of these
b) Browning
17. ‘The importance of Being Earnest’ was written by:
a) Byron
b) Wordsworth
c) Oscar Wilde
d) None of these
c) Oscar Wilde
18. Which of the following novels of Hardy has ‘clymn’ as the main male character?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Major of the Casterbridge
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these
d) None of these
19. The principle of political Economy was the main theme of the writings of:
a) Ruskin
b) J. S. Mill
c) Carlyle
d) None of these
b) J. S. Mill
20. Which novel of Hardy presents ‘Egdon Heath’ as the background of the story?
a) Tess of the D’Urberville
b) Return of the Native
c) Jude the Obscure
d) None of these
b) Return of the Native