FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2011.
ENGLISH LITERAUTRE - PAPER I
TIME ALLOWED: (PART-I) 30 MINUTES, MAXIMUM MARKS: 20
(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS: 80
PART – I (MCQ)
COMPULSORY
Q.1: Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.
i. Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of __________ age
a. Victorian
b. Elizabethan
c. Romantic
d. Classic
e. None of these
c. Romantic
ii. S.T. Coleridge was born in
a. 1798
b. 1772
c. 1749
d. 1797
e. None of these
b. 1772
iii. Wordsworth settled in
a. Lake District
b. Sussex
c. Dorset Shire
d. Cumber Land
e. None of these
a. Lake District
iv. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimmage is written by:
a. Blake
b. Shelley
c. Browning
d. Byron
e. None of these
d. Byron
v. Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
a. Shelley
b. Byron
c. Blake
d. Pope
e. None of these
a. Shelley
vi. Hyperion is a/an __________ poem
a. Elegy
b. Epic
c. Ode
d. Lyric
e. None of these
b. Epic
vii. Romanticism expressed a restlessness of
a. Mind
b. Soul
c. Senses
d. Body
e. None of these
b. Soul
viii. Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by
a. G. Eliot
b. Miss Burney
c. C. Bronte
d. Jane Austen
e. None of these
d. Jane Austen
ix. Shelley is remembered as a _______ poet
a. Lyric
b. Tragic
c. Dramatic
d. Mythical
e. None of these
a. Lyric
x. Keats is prominently a man of:
a. Emotions
b. Sensations
c. Imagination
d. Aestheticism
e. None of these
b. Sensations
xi. As a moralist J. S. Mill develops the doctrine of:
a. Utilitarianism
b. Intellect
c. Radicalism
d. Puritanism
e. None of these
a. Utilitarianism
xii. Charles Dickens was born in
a. 1800
b. 1789
c. 1812
d. 1833
e. None of these
c. 1812
xiii. C. Dickens is known for being a
a. Socialist
b. Humorist
c. Idealist
d. Romantic
e. None of these
c. Idealist
xiv. Shirley, Jane Eyre, Villete were written by:
a. E. Bronte
b. J. Austen
c. G. Eliot
d. C. Bronte
e. None of these
d. C. Bronte
xv. Emile Bronte’s verse reveals a conscious
a. Paganism
b. Pantheism
c. Idealism
d. Lyricism
e. None of these
b. Pantheism
xvi. The Mayor of Caster Bridge was written by:
a. Trollope
b. Thomas Hardy
c. Charles Dickens
d. G. Eliot
e. None of these
b. Thomas Hardy
xvii. Thomas Hardy was brought up to the profession of:
a. Architect
b. Engraver
c. Sculptor
d. Painter
e. None of these
a. Architect
xviii. The Picture of Dorian Gray is written by:
a. Gissing
b. D. H. Lawrence
c. Oscar Wilde
d. Trollope
e. None of these
c. Oscar Wilde
xix. Ruskin was born in:
a. 1819
b. 1843
c. 1860
d. 1851
e. None of these
a. 1819
xx. __________ is a novel by Miss Burney
a. Evelina
b. Emma
c. Pamela
d. Persuasion
e. None of these
a. Evelina