FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2006.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – I
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS:100
NOTE: (i) Attempt FIVE questions in all including question No. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry EQUAL marks.
(ii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered
(iii) Candidate must draw two straight lines (==================) at the end to separate each question attempted in Answer Books.
PART – I
Q.1 William Wordsworth exalts familiar reality through the strength of a reflective sensibility. Critically analyze the statement.
Q.2 Keats odes depict a skillful fusion of a seeking of beauty which endures and an impassioned meditation of death. Comment.
Q.3 The predominant almost exclusive theme of W.Blake’s short poems is based on the feeling of a child’s impassioned soul, the tone is simple while the emotions possess a pure ardour. Discuss.
PART – II
Q.4 In ‘ ‘Tess’, Hardy has rebelled against traditional and orthodox views’. Comment.
Q.5 ‘The one gift necessary to the great Novelist is the capacity to create living characters’. Discuss any two novels by Dickens in the light of this comment.
Q.6 ‘Gulliver’s Travel’ “expresses despair or that its import is nihilistic, is radically to misread the book”. Justify or reject the statement.
Q.7 Write critical notes on any TWO of the following:
(a) The use of the dramatic monologue by Robert Browning (b) Conflict between love and duty in G.Eliot (c) Romantic themes in W.Blake’s poetry (d) Charles Lamb as a prose writer
COMPULSORY QUESTION
Q.8 Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the question.
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Restoration period was known as the age of :
(a) Satire (b) Paganism (c) Classicism (d) Puritanism -
Who is famous for representing London in his novels.
(a)Thackeray (b)Hardy (c)Dickens (d)W.Scott -
Great Expectations was published in :
(a) 1860-1 (b) 1857-8 (c) 1852-3 (d) none of these -
Jane Eyre was written by :
(a) C.Dickens (b) G.Eliot (c) C.Bronte (d) J.Austen -
Who was a known aesthete?
(a) Ruskin (b) Russell (c) Huxley (d) J.S.Mill -
“In Memorium” is :
(a) an ode (b) an elegy (c) a sonnet (d) neither -
Tennyson was :
(a) a romantic (b) a Victorian (c) a Pre-Raphaelite (d) none of these -
Who is the most illustrious representative of the doctrine of utilitarianism?
(a) Ruskin (b) Russell (c) Huxley (d) none of these -
A dominant theme in Hardy’s novels is:
(a) naturalism (b) romanticism (c) fatalism (d) classicism -
“The Recluse” was written by:
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) W.Blake (d) Southey -
Dorothy was the gifted sister of:
(a) R.Browning (b) Shelley (c) Wordsworth (d) Coleridge -
“The Frankenstein” is a novel by :
(a) W.Scott (b) Lewis (c) Mrs. Shelley (d) If none of these -
An element of the supernatural is present in the poetry of :
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Browning (d) Byron -
Don Juan is an ironic replica of the very subject of :
(a) Childe Harolde (b) Queen Mab (c) Prometheus (d) The Recluse -
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was written by:
(a) W.Scott (b) Coleridge (c) Shelley (d) None of these -
Adonias, Prometheus and “The triumph of life” are some of the beautiful poems by:
(a) W.Blake (b) Byron (c) Shelley (d) none of these -
“The Crown of Wild Olive”, is written by:
(a) Ruskin (b) J.S.Mill (c) C.Lamb (d) Russell -
Mr. Rochester is the major character of :
(a) Silas Marner (b) Jane Eyre (c) Jude the Obscure (d) Adam Bede -
In which novel by Hardy are “Hayshope”, “Flintcomb Ash” and “stoneHenge” used as backdrop:
(a) A pair of Blue Eyes (b) Jude the Obscure (c) Return of the Native (d) if none of these then give the correct answer -
“The Wuthering Heights” is a famous novels written by:
(a) C.Bronte (b) Hardy (c) Emily Bronte (d) Jane Austen