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English Literature - CE 2015
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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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2015 ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER - II PART - I Q.NO.1. Multiple Choice Questions: i. Gertrude dies of - Poisonous drink ii. Laertes goes to study to - Paris iii. Pygmalion opens under the portico of - St. Paul's Church iv. Colonel Pickering served in which army - American v. How long does Gulliver stay at Brobdingnang - Two years vi. Darcy proposes Elizabeth at - Netherfield Park vii. Capital of Byzantium - Constantinople viii. Wasteland was published in - 1922 ix. When the evening is spread out against the sky like a _______ patient upon a table - Etherized x. Ladean Body from "Among the Children" is a reference to - Leda of Greek mythology xi. Frost's poetry created illusion of New England ______ poetry - Farmer xii. Ezra Pound edited which poem of Eliot - The Wasteland xiii. Sons and Lovers mining town situated in - Eastwood xiv. D. H. Lawrence last novel - The Man who died xv. Who revived the tradition of poetic drama in 20th century - T. S. Eliot xvi. In Waiting for Godot, Gogo is another name of - Estragon xvii. Hemingway received noble prize for - The Old Man and the Sea xviii. Darcy in his letter to Elizabeth confesses that he stops Charles from marrying - Jane xix. So was I myself once a ________ of branches - Swinger xx. The profession of Gulliver was - Surgeon PART - II SECTION - A Q.No.2. In Thomas Kyd's play 'The Spanish Tragedy' the central character Hieronimo the Marshall of Spain pretends madness in order to implement his plan of revenge. Shakespeare makes Hamlet do the same. Is Hamlet as convincing as Hieronimo? Q.No.3. How does Shaw's choice of the title 'Pygmalion' justify his telling of the story of Higgins and Eliza Doolittle? Q.No.4. Why do you think Swift make Gulliver visit the land of pygmies and then the land of giants? Explain you ideas. Q.No.5. In the novel 'Pride and Prejudice' Jane Austen makes both her central characters Elizabeth and Darcy travel. How do the journeys of these characters contribute to the novel? Explain. SECTION - B Q.No.6. Despite various influences on his poetry Yeats all the time 'Kept one foot in Ireland'. Justify this claim with reference to Yeats' major poems. Q.No.7. Does T.S. Eliot's poetry reflect the true spirit of the literacy movement of modernism? Explain your arguments. Q.No.8. Paul Morels' tragedy owes less to his mother's intrusion in his amorous relationships and more in his own failure to reciprocate to the love of Miriam and Clara. Elaborate this statement. <><><><><>
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