FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17, UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2001
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – II
NOTE: Attempt five questions in all, including question no. 8 which is compulsory. All questions carry equal marks.
Q.No.1. Hamlet suffers and suffers greatly. Can you account for his suffering?
Q.No.2. It is said of Jane Austen that she involves the ‘Critical Intelligence’ of her readers. The prevailing interest is not only in ‘aesthetic delight’ but also in a sense of moral conviction. How far is this true of her “Pride and Prejudice”?
Q.No.3. How does Yeats create ‘terrible’ beauty out of his imagery?
Q.No.4. Comment on Swift’s policy that imperfections in nature are of stirring up human industry, with reference to his ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.
Q.No.5. Is ‘The Waste Land’ a public or private poem?
Q.No.6. Hemingway is preoccupied with the human predicament and a moral code that might satisfactory control it. Discuss with reference to his ‘The Old Man and the Sea’.
Q.No.7. Write a critical note on any ONE of the following:
(a) Robert Frost as a regional or a pastoral poet (b) Jane Austen’s novels are the work of a miniaturist
COMPULSORY QUESTION
Q.No.8. Write only correct answer in the Answer book. Don’t reproduce the questions.
1) Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:
(a) revelation of character (b) dramatic purposes (c) establishing the theme (d) None of these
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‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a:
(a) Thrilling story (b) Tragedy (c) Satire (d) None of these -
Hemingway wrote:
(a) The Sun also Rises (b) The Rivals (c) The Jew of Malta (d) None of these -
The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is
(a) Emma (b) Elizabeth (c) Lydia (d) None of these -
‘Hyperion’ by Keats may be classified as:
(a) An Ode (b) Sonnet (c) An Epic (d) None of these -
T. S. Eliot wrote:
(a) The Pasture (b) The Waste Land (c) Birches (d) None of these -
G.B. Shaw’s principles of criticism are similar to those of:
(a) Karl Marx (b) S. Butler (c) None of these -
“The Waste Land’ is:
(a) An Allegory (b) A Sonnet (c) Blank verse (d) None of these -
Yeats poetry possess the imaginative mysticism of:
(a) Nationalism (b) Criticism (c) Romanticism (d) None of these -
Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure
(a) Bradley (b) Eliot (c) Kermode (d) None of these -
Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?
(a) French (b) German (c) None of these -
Eliot shows a bent towards
(a) Romanticism (b) Victorianism (c) None of these -
Mrs. Dalloway is the masterpiece of:
(a) M. Drabble (b) V. Woolf (c) None of these -
The Central Figure among the Victorian Poets is:
(a) Keats (b) Tennyson (c) Milton (d) None of these -
Browning is known for his:
(a) Dramatic Monologue (b) Parody (c) Blank verse (d) None of these -
Which novel is written by D. H. Lawrence?
(a) The Ice Age (b) Sons and Lovers (c) None of these -
The ‘Arcadia’ by Sir Philip Sydney is a:
(a) Pastoral (b) Romance (c) Comedy (d) None of these -
‘The Faerie Queene’ was written by:
(a) Milton (b) Lyly (c) Spenser (d) None of these -
‘The Crows of Wild Olive’ was written by:
(a) Huxley (b) Ben Johnson (c) Ruskin (d) None of these -
David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all were written by:
(a) Hardy (b) Dickens (c) Moore (d) None of these