FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS
IN BPS – 17 UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2007.
ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER – II
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.
- ‘Hamlet touches on many problems, that troubled the protagonists, soul, like vengeance, suicide, love, without offering a solution for anyone.’ Discuss.
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Jane Austen’s clear sighted eyes read through the inner minds of those who live around her, just as if those minds were transparent. Comment on her art of characterization.
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“His poetry possesses an imaginative mysticism, an essential attribute of Celticism, he has the ability to efface the outlines of material objects in a dreamy mistiness.” Dilate upon Yeats’ poetry, in the light of this remark.
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Portray the character of Santiago; do you find a combination of the actual and the symbolic in it?
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Give a critical appreciation of Robert Frost’s following poems:
(a) After Apple Picking
(b) Mending Walls
(c) The Tuft of Flowers -
In D. H. Lawrence’s work men and women of our times have found their own restlessness most accurately mirrored. Discuss.
- It is said that, Shaw tears off veils, and lays bare the half-voluntary illusions of complacently blind souls. How far is it true?
COMPULSORY QUESTION
- Write only the correct answer in the Answer Book. Do not reproduce the questions.
(1) B. Shaw confessed to be a disciple of:
(a) Ibsen (b) Swift (c) Butler (d) Wells (e) None of these
(2) Arms and the Man, Candida and Man and Super Man are written by:
(a) Shaw (b)Butler (c) Moris (d) Wells (e) None of these
(3) Which of the following was written by Shakespeare?
(a) The Rape of Lucrece (b) The Rape of the Lock (c) Endymion (d) Faerie Queene (e) None of these
(4) Who wrote Samson Agonistes and Paradise Lost?
(a) Spenser (b) Milton (c) Byron (d) Pope (e) None of these
(5) The Rape of the Lock is a:
(a) Parody (b) Elegy (c) Romance (d) Sonnet (e) None of these
(6) The Dunciad, Essay on Man, Epistles are all written by:
(a) Shakespeare (b) Dryden (c) Pope (d) Shaw (e) None of these
(7) Who said … “expression ought to be the dress of the ought”?
(a) Pope (b) Dryden (c) Locke (d) Coleridge (e) None of these
(8) What kind of books are Robinson Crusoe and Mall Flanders?
(a) Travel-books (b) Tragedy (c) Romance (d) Comedy (e) None of these
(9) Who believed that Shakespeare did much better in Comedy than in tragedy?
(a) Dryden (b) Bradley (c) Johnson (d) L. C. Knight (e) None of these
(10) Who wrote The Vicar of Wakefield?
(a) Richardson (b) Fielding (c) Defoe (d) Goldsmith (e) None of these
(11) ‘Cervantes’ is a character in:
(a) Don Quixote (b) Pamele (c) Tristram Shandy (d) Tom Jones (e) None of these
(12) Parson Adams and Squire Western are creations of:
(a) Richardson (b) Sterne (c) Fielding (d) Smollett (e) None of these
(13) Mr. Bennet is one of Jane Austen’s characters in:
(a) Emma (b) Persecution (c) Pride and Prejudice (d) Sense and sensibility (e) None of these
(14) The Prelude is written in:
(a) Couplets (b) Blank Verse (c) Terza rima (d) None of these
(15) In whose poetry do we find – ‘a love of nature, simplicity and faith in the dignity of the humblest’?
(a) Coleridge (b) Southey (c) Wordsworth (d) Burns (e) None of these
(16) Who among the Romantic poets chores the ‘Super natural’ as his theme?
(a) Coleridge (b) Shelley (c) Byron (d) Keats (e) None of these
(17) Which poet is not always bound up with the reformer?
(a) Wordsworth (b) Coleridge (c) Pope (d) Tennyson (e) None of these
(18) The Common Sojourn of Byron, Shelley, Keats was:
(a) Lake district (b) Hampshire (c) Wessex (d) Utopia (e) None of these
(19) Childe Harold was written by:
(a) Byron (b) Shelley (c) Tennyson (d) None of these
(20) Pleasure and joy in Beauty become a feast of the scenes in the poetry of:
(a) Shelley (b) Keats (c) Byron (d) None of these