FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
SPECIAL COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-2023
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
ENGLISH LITERATURE
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
PART-I (MCQs) : MAXIMUM 30 MINUTES
(PART-I MCQs) MAXIMUM MARKS: 20
(PART-II) MAXIMUM MARKS: 80
NOTE: (i) First attempt PART-I (MCQs) on separate OMR Answer Sheet which shall be taken back after 30 minutes.
(ii) Overwriting/cutting of the options/answers will not be given credit.
(iii) There is no negative marking. All MCQs must be attempted.
PART-I (MCQs)(COMPULSORY)
Q.1. (i) Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate Box on the OMR Answer Sheet.(20×1=20)
(ii) Answers given anywhere else, other than OMR Answer Sheet, will not be considered.
1. “Why I Am Not a Christian” is an essay by:
(A) Bertrand Russell (B) T. S. Eliot (C) Ralph Waldo Emerson (D) George Orwell
2. In Pygmalion, who was enchanted by ELIZA upon first social meeting?
(A) Pickering (B) Higgins (C) Freddy (D) Mrs. Pearce
3. “Objective Correlative” is a term coined by:
(A) T.S. Eliot (B) Washington Allston (C) Ezra Pound (D) Amy Lowell
4. “Imagism” was a poetic vogue that flourished in England partly under the influence of the poetic theory of:
(A) T.S. Eliot (B) T. E. Hulme (C) Ezra Pound (D) Amy Lowell
5. “I will show you fear in a handful of dust” is a famous line that comes in Eliot’s:
(A) 1st part of The Waste Land (B) 2nd part of The Waste Land (C) 3rd part of The Waste Land (D) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
6. It was during the months of __________that John Keats wrote his major ‘Odes’.
(A) Spring 1819 (B) Summer 1819 (C) Spring 1817 (D) Winter 1817
7. ‘Stream of Consciousness is a term first used by:
(A) James Joyce (B) William James (C) Henry James (D) Virginia Woolf
8. All of the Keats’ Odes are written in:
(A) 10 line regular stanzas (B) 9 line Spenserian stanzas
(C) Quatrains with couplets (D) Quatrains with tercets
9. In The Scarlet Letter, what item in the governor’s mansion shows Hester a distorted reflection of herself?
(A) An antique mirror (B) A stained-glass window (C) A suit of armor (D) The governor’s eyeglasses
10. The Preface to the Lyrical Ballads was firstly published in its:
(A) 1st edition (B) 2nd edition (C) 3rd edition (D) 4th edition
11. Who has described D. H. Lawrence as “the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation”?
(A) E. M. Forster (B) F. R. Leavis (C) Cleanth Brooks (D) Virginia Woolf
12. In Far From Madding Crowd, who helps Gabriel Oak to protect the ricks during the storm?
(A) Cainy Ball (B) Sergeant Troy (C) Joseph Poorgrass (D) Bathsheba Everdene
13. Waiting for Godot is a ______________by Samuel Beckett.
(A) Tragedy (B) Comedy (C) Tragicomedy (D) None
14. Yeats was most interested in which school of thought?
(A) Judaism (B) Occultism (C) Christianity (D) Druidry
15. What perspective is the poem The Second Coming written from?
(A) First person (B) Second person (C) A universal perspective (D) Third person
16. The epigraph of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock shifts the reader’s mind to Dante’s:
(A) 7th Circle of Hell (B) 8th Circle of Hell (C) 9th Circle of Hell (D) Pugatorio
17. Ulysses is a poem written in:
(A) Blank verse (B) Dramatic monologue (C) 10 line stanzas (D) Both (A) & (B)
18. Wallace Stevens won the ___________for his Collected Poems in 1955.
(A) Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (B) Nobel Prize for Poetry (C) Booker Prize for Poetry (D) Both (A) & (C)
19. Who describes William Shakespeare as “…the only Shake-scene in a country”
(A) Robert Greene (B) Christopher Marlowe (C) Ben Jonson (D) Robert Graves
20. With which novel does Stephen Dedalus fall in love in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
(A) Frankestein (B) The Three Musketeers (C) The Count of Monte Cristo (D) Ulysses
PART-II
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
PART-I(MCQS): MAXIMUM 30 MINUTES
PART-I (MCQS) MAXIMUM MARKS = 20
PART-II MAXIMUM MARKS = 80
NOTE: (i) Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iii) All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places.
(iv) Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
(v) No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
(vi) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.
Q. No. 2. Amidst the swarming stories of deception and betrayal, O’ Henry’s The Gift of the Magi appears as a soothing assurance for lovers. Discuss. (20)
Q. No. 3. Discuss the concept of “Negative Capability” in the poetry of Keats. (20)
Q. No. 4. Native Americans make a few brief and mysterious appearances in The Scarlet Letter. What role do they play and in what ways might their presence contribute to furthering the novel’s central themes? (20)
Q. No. 5. Focusing on the ‘mistaken views’ of the modern world, critically evaluate the theme of Russell’s The Conquest of Happiness. (20)
Q. No. 6. “King Lear is not only a tragedy of parents and children, of pride and ingratitude;
it is also a tragedy of kingship.” Discuss with reference to power relations in King
Lear.
(20)
Q. No. 7. Discuss the idea of Room 101, in Orwell’s 1984, the place where everyone meets his or her worst fear. What role does the foreboding uncertainty play in making Room 101 frightening? (20)
Q. No. 8. The Modernist aspiration for scientification of academic discourses resulted in development of the Structuralist attitude in literary studies. Discuss. (20)
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