FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2010.
ENGLISH LITERAUTRE - PAPER II
TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20
(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80
PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
1. Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
(a) Shaw
(b) Beckett
(c) Pinter
(d) Eliot
(b) Beckett
(ii) To the Light House” is written by:
(a) Lawrence
(b) Dylan Thomas
(c) Hemingway
(d) Forster
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Virginia Woolf)
(iii) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:
(a) Polonius
(b) Claudius
(c) Hamlet
(d) Ophelia
(e) None of these
(c) Hamlet
(iv) “Ullyses” is written by:
(a) James Joyce
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Hardy
(d) Forster
(e) None of these
(a) James Joyce
(v) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:
(a) Emma
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(c) Mansfield Palck
(d) Northanger Abby
(e) None of these
(b) Pride and Prejudice
(vi) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:
(a) Frost
(b) Browning
(c) Yeats
(d) Eliot
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Tennyson)
(vii) “Thought Fox” is written by:
(a) Ted Hughes
(b) Philip Larkin
(c) Heaney
(d) Sylvia Plath
(e) None of these
(a) Ted Hughes
(viii) “Major Barbra” is written by:
(a) Beckett
(b) Pinter
(c) Eliot
(d) Shaw
(e) None of these
(d) Shaw
(ix) Lilliput is a character from:
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(b) Pygmalion
(c) Sons & lovers
(d) Old man and the sea
(e) None of these
(a) Gulliver’s Travels
(x) “Fire and Ice” is written by:
(a) Eliot
(b) Yeats
(c) Frost
(d) Auden
(e) None of these
(c) Frost
(xi) Swift belong to:
(a) Renassiance period
(b) Restoration
(c) Romantic period
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these
(d) Augustan age
(xii) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:
(a) Sons and Lovers
(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(c) Women in Love
(d) The Rainbow
(e) None of these
(b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover
(xiii) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:
(a) Hamlet
(b) Othello
(c) King Lear
(d) Julius Caeser
(e) None of these
(c) King Lear
(xiv) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:
(a) Milton
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these
(c) Keats
(xv) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Yeats
(c) Eliot
(d) Auden
(e) None of these
(c) Eliot
(xvi) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:
(a) Among School Children
(b) Byzentium
(c) Sailing to Byzentium
(d) The Second coming
(e) None of these
(d) The Second coming
(xvii) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:
(a) Revelation
(b) Mending
(c) Pasture
(d) Birches
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Mending Wall)
(xviii) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:
(a) The Wasteland
(b) The Hollow men
(c) East Coker
(d) Prufrock
(e) None of these
(a) The Wasteland
(xix) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:
(a) Faulkner
(b) Hemmingway
(c) James Joyce
(d) Virginia Woolf
(e) None of these
(b) Hemmingway
(xx) “A passage to India” is written by:
(a) Forester
(b) Conrad
(c) Lawrence
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these
(a) Forester