FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2015
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - I
PART - I
Q.NO.1. Multiple Choice Questions:
i. In Tintern Abbey, who is addressed as "Dearest Friend"? - Dorothy Wordsworth
ii. Which of the following odes is NOT written by Keats - Ode to Women
iii. The term egotistical sublime was coined by - Keats
iv. Who among the following did not attend the Christ's Hospital School - Wordsworth
v. Whom Queen Victoria called the poet of love and lose? - D. G. Rossetti
vi. Sartor Resartus by Carlyle means - Tailor Re-Tailored
vii. 'Milton sided the devil's party without knowing it' was said by - Blake
viii. The poem 'The Princess' by Tennyson is about - Princess who establishes a women university
ix. The type of narration in "Great Expectation" is - Autobiographical
x. D. G. Rossetti was intellectual follower of -
xi. Rabbi Ben Ezra is a part of - Dramatis Personae
xii. Which of the following published first? - The Songs of Innocence
xiii. Byron referred to 'Peddlers', 'Boats' & 'Wagons' to - Wordsworth devotion to everyday life
xiv. Who influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge -
xv. 'Shakespeare's comedies only has heroines and no heroes' was said by - Ruskin
PART - II
SECTION - A
Q.No.2. Classicism stands for regimentation, regulation and authority while Romanticism stands for individuality, informality and freedom. Discuss.
Q.No.3. Discuss "The Crown of Wild Olive" as "the aesthetic and social crusade of Ruskin".
Q.No.4. Write a detailed note on Sensuousness of Keats.
SECTION - B
Q.No.5. The work of Robert Browning fully exemplifies one of the dominant tendencies of Victorian poetry. Comment.
Q.No.6. The construction of George Eliot's novels, the substance of her analysis, and much of her imagery, recall the scientific schooling of her thought. Discuss.
Q.No.7. "Everywhere is Hardy's novels human beings appear to us crushed by a superior force; that of nature, at first, and of an indifference, so most often a hostile chance; then, that of the errors implied in our own desires." Discuss.
Q.No.8. Why is Ruskin's work considered more robust and more broadly significant than that of his contemporaries, the Pre-Raphaelites?
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