FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2006.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
COMPULSORY QUESTION
Q.8 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.
1. Restoration period was known as the age of :
(a) satire
(b) paganism
(c) classicism
(d) puritanism
(a) satire
2. Who is famous for representing London in his novels.
(a) Thackeray
(b) Hardy
(c) Dickens
(d) W. Scott
(c) Dickens
3. Great Expectations was published in:
(a) 1860-1
(b) 1857-8
(c) 1852-3
(d) none of these
(a) 1860-1
4. Jane Eyre was written by:
(a) C. Dickens
(b) G. Eliot
(c) C. Bronte
(d) J. Austen
(c) C. Bronte
5. Who was a known aesthete?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) J.S. Mill
(c) Huxley
6. "In Memoriam" is :
(a) an ode
(b) an elegy
(c) a sonnet
(d) neither
(b) an elegy
7. Tennyson was:
(a) a romantic
(b) a Victorian
(c) a Pre-Raphaelite
(d) none of these
(b) a Victorian
8. Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
(a) Ruskin
(b) Russell
(c) Huxley
(d) None of these
(a) Ruskin
9. A dominant theme in Hardy's novels is:
(a) naturalism
(b) romanticism
(c) fatalism
(d) classicism
(c) fatalism
10. "The Recluse" was written by:
(a) Worsdworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) W. Blake
(d) Southey
(a) Worsdworth
11. Dorothy was the gifted sister of:
(a) R. Browning
(b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth
(d) Coleridge
(c) Wordsworth
12. "The Frankenstein" is a novel by:
(a) W. Scott
(b) Lewis
(c) Mrs. Shelley
(d) If none of these then by whom
(c) Mrs. Shelley
13. An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Browning
(d) Byron
(b) Coleridge
14. Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :
(a) Childe Harolde
(b) Queen Mab
(c) Prometheus
(d) The Recluse
(a) Childe Harolde
15. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was written by:
(a) W.Scott
(b) Coleridge
(c) Shelley
(d) None of these
(b) Coleridge
16. Adonias, Prometheus and "The triumph of life" are some of the beautiful poems by:
(a) W. Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley
(d) none of these
(c) Shelley
17. "The Crown of Wild Olive", is written by:
(a) Ruskin
(b) J.S.Mill
(c) C. Lamb
(d) Russell
(a) Ruskin
18. Mr. Rochester is the major character of:
(a) Silas Marner
(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Jude the Obscure
(d) Adam Bede
(b) Jane Eyre
19. In which novel by Hardy are "Hayshope", "Flint Comb Ash" and "stone Henge" used as backdrop:
(a) A pair of Blue Eyes
(b) Jude the Obscure
(c) Return of the Native
(d) if none of these then give the correct answer
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
20. "The Wuthering Heights" is a famous novels written by:
(a) C.Bronte
(b) Hardy
(c) Emile Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
(c) Emile Bronte