PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION
FOR RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE-2020
SUBJECT: ENGLISH LITERATURE (PAPER – I)
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE:I. All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different places
II. Write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
III. No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must be crossed.
IV. Extra attempt of any question or any part of the question will not be considered.
Attempt any FIVE Questions in All, Including Question No. 1 Which is Compulsory.
Q No. 1 a) Explain with reference to the content one of the following (10 Marks)
i) Thou are slave to fate chance, kings and desperate men,
And dost with poyson, warries and sicknesses dwell,
And better than thy stroake why swell’st thou then;
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death thou shall be no more, death thou shall die.
ii) Springs is the mischief me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head;
Why do they make good neighbours? isn’t it?
where there are cows? But here there are no Cows.
b) Fill in the blanks (all party are compulsory) (10 Marks)
i) Kubia khan is a fragment which consists of ____________
ii) John Keats died of______________________
iii) Preface the Lyrical Ballads was written by___________
iv) W B Yeats died in _____________
v) The Second Coming first appeared in the magazine named__________
vi) The writer of the poem ‘Woman work’ is African __________
vii) The Tempest was first acted in the court in 1613 on the occasion of the marriage of Princess__________
viii) Yank is a______________ in the Hairy Ape
ix) ________________ is describe as a character who is demanding other people’s love in the play Look Back in anger
x) Happy in Death of a Salesman is ____________ years old.
Q. No. 2 What is the significance of the role of Ared in the play “The Tempest? (20 Marks)
Q. No. 3 Discuss Miller’s views on the role of family in modem drama, with particular reference to Death of a Salesman (20 Marks)
Q. No. 4 Discus the role of fate and free will in the play Oedipus Rex (20 Marks)
Q. No. 5 A Romance in Five Acts is the subtitle of Pygmalion. How far is it true? Or is this play tragedy or a comedy? (20 Marks)