FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2005.
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) It is for the world to decide whether you are a poet or not. For whom these words are meant:
a) Frost
b) Pope
c) Byron
d) None of these
a) Frost
2. Earnest Hemingway in addition to ‘Old Man and the Sea’ bad written:
a) A Farewell to Arms
b) For Whom the Bell Tolls
c) Death in the Afternoon
d) All of the above
d) All of the above
3. All that glitters is not gold. You have heard often this told. This maxim is included in Shakespeare’s
a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
b) Shakespeare’s Tempest
c) Shakespeare’s Much ado about nothing.
d) None of these
a) Merchant of Venice / Shakespeare’s
4. “I have suffered with those, that I saw suffering”. These Humanistic words are attributed to:
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
b) Portia in ‘Merchant of Venice’
c) Lady Macbath in ‘Macbeth’
d) None of these
a) Miranda in the ‘Tempest’
5. “None of thou shalt be my paramour” these words are attributed to:
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
b) Marlow’s Jew of Malta
c) Marlow’s Tamburlaine
d) None of these
a) Helen of Troy – Dr. Faustus
6. “Lyrical ballads” were published by:
a) Coleridge
b) Wordsworth
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
7. The proper study of mankind in man. This line is taken from the work of:
a) Wordsworth
b) Pope
c) Swift
d) Thomson
b) Pope
8. There is no man like Showman. These views were held by:
a) Thomas Carlyle
b) Spencer
c) Shakespeare
d) None of these
a) Thomas Carlyle
9. Shakespeare has written:
a) Historical plays
b) Comedies
c) Tragedies
d) All of these
d) All of these
10. Famous romantic poets were
a) Five
b) Four
c) Six
d) None of these
c) Six
11. ‘The quality of Mercy is not strained’ the line is taken from
a) Merchant of Venice
b) Two gentleman of Verona
c) Midsummer’s Night Dream
d) Anthony and Cleopatra
a) Merchant of Venice
12. A thing of beauty is joy forever. It is composed by:
a) Keats
b) Shelley
c) Byron
d) None of these
a) Keats
13. Your plan is a good one if a girl only wants to be married. Who said these words?
a) Charlotte
b) Mr. Bennet
c) Mr. Bingley
d) None of these
a) Charlotte
14. In Chapter XVI the word muffled in ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is:
a) Confused
b) Amazed
c) Not thinking clearly
d) None of these
a) Confused
15. Beckett was born in Dublin Ireland.
a) In 1906
b) In 1969
c) In 1952
d) None of these
a) In 1906
16. To err is human, forgive is divine. Who has said these words:
a) Pope
b) Swift
c) Dryden
d) None of these
a) Pope
17. Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings. It takes it origin from emotions recollected in tranquility. Who has given the description of the poetry?
a) Aristotle
b) Plato
c) Wordsworth
d) None of these
c) Wordsworth
18. Jane Austen in addition to, ‘Pride and Prejudice’ had also written:
a) Emma
b) Sense and Sensibility
c) Persuasion
d) All of these
d) All of these
19. Mr. and Mrs. Bennet had __________ Daughters.
a) Six
b) Seven
c) Five
d) None of these
c) Five
20. Father of antiquities were:
a) Socrates
b) Aristotle
c) Plato
d) All of these
d) All of these __________________