FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2011.
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
Q.1: Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet.
i. In Greek tragedy irony and ____________ are fused into one.
a. Allegory
b. Idealism
c. Imagery
d. Satire
e. None of these
d. Satire
ii. Joseph Andrews was written by
a. Richardson
b. Defoe
c. Fielding
d. Bunyan
e. None of these
c. Fielding
iii. Shakespeare was born in
a. 1570
b. 1601
c. 1547
d. 1564
e. None of these
d. 1564
iv. ‘The Wheel of Fire’ a criticism was written by
a. Bradley
b. W. Knight
c. Hazlitt
d. Dryden
e. None of these
b. W. Knight
v. Kubla Khan was written by
a. Wordsworth
b. Coleridge
c. Shelley
d. Keats
e. None of these
b. Coleridge
vi. G. B. Shaw began his literary career first as:
a. Journalist
b. Novelist
c. Dramatist
d. Critic
e. None of these
b. Novelist
vii. W. B. Yeats was born in
a. 1914
b. 1856
c. 1865
d. 1838
e. None of these
c. 1865
viii. Jane Austen’s Work is transfused with the spirit of
a. Classicism
b. Puritanism
c. Idealism
d. Rationalism
e. None of these
a. Classicism
ix. The Waste Land by T. S. Elliot is an
a. Ode
b. Elegy
c. Allegory
d. Epic
e. None of these
b. Elegy
x. Waiting for Godot by S. Beckett was originally written in
a. Italian
b. Spanish
c. German
d. French
e. None of these
d. French
xi. The ________ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
a. Classical
b. Romantic
c. Victorian
d. Elizabethan
e. None of these
b. Romantic
xii. Maud and In memoriam were written by
a. Tennyson
b. Keats
c. Pope
d. Shelley
e. None of these
a. Tennyson
xiii. Tennyson was born in
a. 1809
b. 1798
c. 1709
d. 1890
e. None of these
a. 1809
xiv. ___________ has a super abundant wealth of words and superfluous ornaments
a. Hyperbole
b. Metaphor
c. Rhetoric
d. Overtone
e. None of these
a. Hyperbole
xv. Keats’ aestheticism was later turned into
a. Romanticism
b. Pre-Raphaelitism
c. Idealism
d. Angilicanism
e. None of these
b. Pre-Raphaelitism
xvi. _________ is the animating force in the work of C. Bronte
a. Idealism
b. Romanticism
c. Lyricism
d. Radicalism
e. None of these
a. Idealism
xvii. The Wilde Swans at Coole is first great collection of poems of
a. W. Lewis
b. Yeats
c. E. Sitwell
d. D. H. Lawrence
e. None of these
b. Yeats
xviii. T. S. Eliot was born in
a. 1887
b. 1888
c. 1817
d. 1870
e. None of these
b. 1888
xix. Jane Eyre was written by
a. Jane Austen
b. G. Eliot
c. C. Bronte
d. E. Bronte
e. None of these
c. C. Bronte
xx. Ophelia, Julia , Viola, Imogen are the characters created by
a. Richardson
b. Fielding
c. Hardy
d. Shakespeare
e. None of these
d. Shakespeare