FPSC English Lecturer Test Past Papers

Following are questions from Past English Lecturer Tests (Subject Tests) by Federal Public Service Commission.

1. "through me you enter into the city of woes

through me you enter into eternal pain,
through me you enter the population of loss
....
abandon all hope, you who enter here".
Where the above mentioned verses occur?
A. Inferno
B. Hamlet
C. Alchemist
D. Candida

2. "As wel in cristendom as in hethenesse,

And evere honoured for his worthynesse.
At alisaundre he was whan it was wonne.
Ful ofte tyme he hadde the bord bigonne,
Aboven alle nacions in pruce;
In lettow hadde he reysed and in ruce,
No cristen man so ofte of his degree.
In gernade at the seege eek hadde he be
....
Of algezir, and riden in belmarye."
Who is the character mentioned in the above verses from "A Prologue to Canterbury Tales"?
A. Monk
B. Knight
C. Friar
D. Doctor of Physic

3. A literary device in literature which refers to the use of words and phrases that indicate strong, harsh sounds
within the phrase. These words have discordant and dissonant sounds that create a disturbing, objectionable
atmosphere is called
A. Circumlocution
B. Conflict
C. Cacophony
D. Consonance

4. "Mr. Poyser and Bartle Massey" are characters from the novel
A. Silas Marner
B. The Mill on the Floss
C. Daniel Deronda
D. Adam Bede

5. "You! hypocrite lecteur!-mon semblable,-mon frere!"

These verses are taken from
A. Faire Queene
B. Wasteland
C. Rape of the Lock
D. None of these

6. In Linguistics, the process of moving from one vowel sound to another is called
A. Gliding

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 B. Stress
C. Intonation
D. Syntax

7. "but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call'd Chaos : Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning
Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht , after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next
in Order and Dignity lay by him; they confer of thir miserable fall. Satan awakens all his Legions, who lay
till then in the same manner confounded; They rise, thir Numbers, array of Battel , thir chief Leaders nam'd ,
according to the Idols known afterwards in Canaan and the Countries adjoyning . To these Satan directs his
Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind
of Creature to be created, according to an ancient Prophesie or report in Heaven;"
The above mentioned lines occur in Paradise Lost, Book,
A. Book-1
B. Book-2
C. Book-3
D. Book-4

8. Which is the book that is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of 18th century high English
society?
A. An essay on Criticism
B. An essay on Man
C. Rape of the Lock
D. Heroic Couplet

9. "Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,

That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature's eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,"
Who is the character speaking the above lines?
A. Othello
B. Hamlet
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Romeo

10. Who is considered the founder of Metaphysical Poetry?

A. Edmund Spencer
B. Jhon Donne
C. John Keats
D. P.B.Shelley
Answers: FPSC English Lecturer Test Past Papers
1. A
2. B
3. C
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. C
9. C
10. B

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Test for post of Lecturer English was conducted by FPSC today, 9th November, 2010 at various centers
countrywide. I appeared from H-9 center, Islamabad. Is there anyone who took the same test ? Let's analyze
the questions and their correct answers. Here are some of the questions which I can recall.

Find out the grammatical, spelling or syntax mistakes in following:

1. This country hasn't enough fire fighters in case of an emergency.

I think it should be does not have rather than hasn't.

2. Human perceptions are generally made up of both psychological or sensory organs.

It should be and instead of or

3. Word WILLOWY is nearest in meaning to?

Ans: thin.

4. Word FERAL is nearest in meaning to?

Ans: Wild

5. Word Occult is nearest in meaning to?

Ans: Magical

6. Word 'APATHY' is nearest in meaning to?

Ans: Indifference

Any rectification would be appreciated.

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Lecturer English MCQs Past Papers
1) Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

(a) Shaw (b) Beckett (c) Pinter

(d) Eliot (e) None of these

2) To the Light House is written by:

(a) Lawrence (b) Dylan Thomas (c) Hemingway

(d) Forster (e) None of these

3) I am too much in the sun in Hamlet is spoken by:

(a) Polonius (b) Claudius (c) Hamlet

(d) Ophelia (e) None of these

4) Ullyses is written by:

(a) James Joyce (b) Virginia Woolf (c) Hardy

(d) Forster (e) None of these

5) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austens:

(a) Emma (b) Pride and Prejudice (c) Mansfield Palck

(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these

6) Tear Idle Tears is a poem by:

(a) Frost (b) Browning (c) Yeats

(d) Eliot (e) None of these

7) Thought Fox is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes (b) Philip Larkin (c) Heaney

(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these

8) Major Barbra is written by:

(a) Beckett (b) Pinter (c) Eliot

(d) Shaw (e) None of these

9) Lilliput is a character from:

(a) Gullivers Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers

(d) Old man and the sea (e) None of these

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10) Fire and Ice is written by:

(a) Eliot (b) Yeats (c) Frost

(d) Auden (e) None of these

11) Swift belong to:

(a) Renassiance period (b) Restoration (c) Romantic period

(d) Augustan age (e) None of these

12) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:

(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Lady Chatterleys Lover (c) Women in Love

(d) The Rainbow (e) None of these

13) Undo this Button is a line from Shakespeares:

(a) Hamlet (b) Othello (c) King Lear

(d) Julius Caeser (e) None of these

14) Ode to Psyche is a poem by:

(a) Milton (b) Byron (c) Keats

(d) Blake (e) None of these

15) I am no Prince Hamlet is a line written by:

(a) Shakespeare (b) Yeats (c) Eliot

(d) Auden (e) None of these

16) Things fall apart is a line from Yeatss:

(a) Among School Children (b) Byzentium (c) Sailing to Byzentium

(d) The Second coming (e) None of these

17) Good flences make good neighbours is from Frosts:

(a) Revelation (b) Mending (c) Pasture

(d) Birches (e) None of these

18) April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliots:

(a) The Wasteland (b) The Hollow men (c) East Coker

(d) Prufrock (e) None of these

19) A Farewell to Arms is written by:

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(a) Faulkner (b) Hemmingway (c) James Joyce

(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these

20) A passage to India is written by:

(a) Forester (b) Conrad (c) Lawrence

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

21) Ode to West Wind was written by:

(a) Keats (b) Shelley (c) Byron

(d) Blake (e) None of these

22) Keats was born in:

(a) 1770 (b) 1779 (c) 1795

(d) 1790 (e) None of these

23. Dream Children was written by:

(a) Leigh Hunt (b) Charles Lamb (c) Hazzlit

(d) Ruskin (e) None of these

24) Picture of Dorian Gray was written by:

(a) Oscar Wild (b) Dickens (c) Hardy

(d) George Eliot (e) None of these

25) Ruskin belonged to:

(a) Romantic age (b) Modern age (c) Victorian age

(d) Augustan age (e) None of these

26) Wordsworth lived from:

(a) 1770 1832 (b) 1775 1859 (c) 1770 1850

(d) 1770 1802 (e) None of these

27) Heroes and Hero Worship was written by:

(a) Mill (b) Carlyle (c) Macaulay

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these

28) Fair Seed time had my Soul is from:

(a) Ode to autumn (b) To a Highland girl (c) Ancient Mariner

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(d) Child Harolds Pilgrimage (e) None of these

29) Great Expectations was written by:

(a) George Eliot (b) Thackeray (c) Hardy

(d) Dickens (e) None of these

30) Lotus Eaters is written by:

(a) Tennyson (b) Browning (c) Mathew Arnold

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

31) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:

(a) Poets (b) Dramatists (c) Essayists

(d) Novelists (e) None of these

32) My Last Duchess was written by:

(a) Keats (b) Coleridge (c) Tennyson

(d) Browning (e) None of these

33) Emity Bronte is the writer of:

(a) Wuthering Heights (b) Emma (c) Under the greenwood Tree

(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these

34) Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling is a definition of poetry by:

(a) Keats (b) Wordsworth (c) Shelley

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these

35) Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter is a line from:

(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn (b) Ode to a nightingale (c) The Prelude

(d) Ode to Autumn (e) None of these

36) Waverley was written by:

(a) Scott (b) Hardy (c) Jane Austen

(d) Dickens (e) None of these

(37) We are Seven is written by:

(a) Keats (b) Shelly (c) Byron

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

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38) Past and present is written by:

(a) Mill (b) Lamb (c) Hazlitt

(d) Carlyle (e) None of these

39) Modern Painters is written by:

(a) Ruskin (b) Carlyle (c) Mill

(d) Macaulay (e) None of these

40) Byron is the writer of:

(a) Don Jaun (b) Prometheus Unbound (c) Adonias

(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these

41 In Shakespeares Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a

remark by:

(a) Nicoll (b) Goddord (c) Bradley

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these

42 How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: Tohell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!

Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:

(a) Hamlet (b) Laertes (c) Polonius

(d) Claudius (e) None of these

43) Aspect of the Novel is written by:

(a) David Cecil (b) Walter Allen (c) Arnold Kettle

(d) E.M. Forster (e) None of these

44) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

(a) Browning (b) Tennyson (c) Yeats

(d) Frost (e) None of these

45) The Hollow Men is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot (b) Ezra Pound (c) Yeats

(d) Larkin (e) None of these

46) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

(a) 1949 (b) 1950 (c) 1951

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(d) 1953 (e) None of these

47) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:

(a) 1925 (b) 1929 (c) 1930

(d) 1949 (e) None of these

48 The Winding Stair is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes (b) T.S. Eliot (c) W.B. Yeats

(d) W.H. Auden (e) None of these

49) Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by:

(a) Shakespeare (b) Marlowe (c) Oscar Wilde

(d) T.S. Eliot (e) None of these

50) The Rainbow is a novel written by:

(a) Hemingway (b) Virginia Woolf (c) E.M. Forster

(d) D.H. Lawrence (e) None of these

Solved Lectureship Paper Of English 2011

1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?

Assonance

2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?

Keats

3)Wuthering heights written by ?

Hardy

4)The poem Byzantium is written about ?

Imaginary city

5)Carl sadburg born at ?

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Illinois

6)T.S Eliot was ?

Irish poet

7)Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?

Ezra Pound

8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?

Ben johnson

9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?

England

10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?

Two

11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ?

I chose diphthongs but later I came to know right option was other,dont remember right now.
12)Semantics meaning ?

I chose to relate but I came to know that its Study of meanings

(Linguistics chor k short stories opt ki theen and I suffered in test)

13)Word language consists of two_____ words

Latin

14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels

Golding

15)Everyman in his humour written by ?

Ben johnson

16) Caretaker written by ?

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Pinter

17)Waiting for Godots originol language ?

French

18) Stream of consciousness ?

Virginia woolf

19) Sejanus is satirical tragedy by ?

Ben johnson

20)Unified sensibility ?

Donne

21)Winding Stair is poem by ?

W.B.Yeats

22) Synaethesia

Unification of senses

23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?

H.G Wells

24)The egoist written by ?

George Meredith

25) Hardys own classification of novels?

Three

26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ?

I wrote 20 but it was 40

27)Age of George Eliot ?

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Victorian

28) Chaucer was ?

sarcastic poet

29)Renaissance period ?
1550-1660

30)King Lear written in ?

google k mutabiq 1603 to 1606 k darmayan likha gaya

31)17th centurys historical event ?

I chose Famine but suna hai Civil war choose kerty kerty ruk gyi thi mein

32)Paradise lost was written in ?

1667

33)1660 1790 is rise of ?

I chose Drama but its not confirm.Kindly confirm it

34)Literature became secular towards end of ?

I chose 18th century.Is it right ?

35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?

Reconcilation play

36)Type of literarure,art or music is called ?

Genre

37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?

None (Because it led to hellenism,romantism)

38)Prospero was protagonist of ?

Pata nae

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39)Age of Pope is called?

Augusten

40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?

T.S Eliot

41) Treatise on liberty written by ?

I chose Oscar wilde but not sure.

42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?

Rhetoric

43) Adnois written for ?

Keats

44)Songs of innocense and experience belong to ?

William Blake

45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice

First Impressions

46)Shelleys first work?

Queen Mab

47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?

I chose Thackeray.Kindly confirm it.

48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?

Mountain Interval

49)Bacon was intellectually great but morally weak.Who said this ?

I chose Dryden.Confirm it please

50)SWifts irony fused into ?

humour

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51)Nothing is beneath science,nor above science.who said ?

I chose Russell

52)Bird in Ancient mariner ?

Albatross

53) Milton got blind in age of ?

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54)Hemingways nick in later age ?

Papa

55)Donnes faith ?

Protestant

56)John Keats gave up career of ____ to become a poet

I chose farming but people say medicine

57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ?

pata nae

58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?

14th

59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?

Medievalism

60)Marlows primitive tragedy ?

Dr.Faustus

61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?

I chose Lily.Confirm it

62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?

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Mediterranean

63) Shakespeares heroines have ?

Feminine traits

64)Who emerged as philosopher in Merchant of Venice ?

I chose cordelia but its wrong,Im sure

65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ?

I chose King lear.Not confirm

66)Sir Gwain and Green knight poems were written in ___ age

I chose Victorian but not sure

67)Process of introducing new words ?

I chose Coinage.Please confirm it

68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?

I chose the return of the native,not confirm

69)Norman conquest in ?

70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?

71)University wits pe aik question tha,dont remember exact wording.Options mein years likhay thay.7,10 etc.

Antonyms

72)Brazen

I chose Shy

73)Capricious

I chose Recollect because all others seemed synonyms

74)Extrinsic

dont remeber its options and what I chose

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75)fluster

dont remember what I chose

76) Obdurate

I chose submissive

Synonyms

77)Truncate

I chose shorten and I think Its right

78)Impetuous

I think I chose irrational

79)nincompoop

I chose Foolish and its right.

80)Elocution

It was somthing about speech.last option.and thats right

81)Ulysses pe question tha aik.kindly us ka answer bataye koi

82)Far fetched metaphor ?

Conceit

83)Because I couldnot stop for death written by ?

Emily Dickinson

84)Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were?

Husband and wife

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English Mcqs For Lecturer & Subject Specialist Exams

(i) In Shakespeares Tragedies Character is not Destiny but there is Character and Destiny is a remark by:
(a) Nicoll
(b) Goddord
(c) Bradley
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(c) Bradley

(ii) How came he dead? I shall not be juggled with: To hell allegiance! Vows, to the blackest devil!
Is a speech in Hamlet spoken by:
(a) Hamlet
(b) Laertes
(c) Polonius
(d) Claudius
(e) None of these

(b) Laertes

(iii) Aspect of the Novel is written by:

(a) David Cecil
(b) Walter Allen
(c) Arnold Kettle
(d) E.M. Forster
(e) None of these

(d) E.M. Forster

(iv) Lotos Eaters is a poem by:

(a) Browning
(b) Tennyson
(c) Yeats
(d) Frost
(e) None of these
(b) Tennyson

(v) The Hollow Men is written by:

(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) Yeats
(d) Larkin
(e) None of these

(a) T.S. Eliot

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(vi) William Faulkner was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1949
(b) 1950
(c) 1951
(d) 1953
(e) None of these
(a) 1949

(vii) G.B. Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize for literature in:
(a) 1925
(b) 1929
(c) 1930
(d) 1949
(e) None of these

(a) 1925

(viii) The Winding Stair is written by:

(a) Ted Hughes
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) W.H. Auden
(e) None of these

(c) W.B. Yeats

(ix) Murder in the Cathedral is a play written by:

(a) Shakespeare
(b) Marlowe
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot
(e) None of these

(d) T.S. Eliot

(x) The Rainbow is a novel written by:

(a) Hemingway
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) D.H. Lawrence
(e) None of these

(d) D.H. Lawrence

(xi) The earliest play written by Shakespeare according to Oxford Shakespeare 1988 is:
(a) The Taming of the Shrew
(b) As you Like it
(c) Two Gentlemen of Verona
(d) Titus Andronicus
(e) None of these

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(d) Titus Andronicus

(xii) If music be the food of love, play on,

give me excess of it, that Surfeiting
The appetite may sicken and die?
is a speech from
(a) Twelfth Night
(b) A Mid Summer Nights Dream
(c) As you Like it
(d) The Winters Tale
(e) None of these

(a) Twelfth Night

(xiii) An elaborate classical form in which one Shepherd Singer laments the death of another is called:
(a) Pastoral Romance
(b) Pastoral Elegy
(c) Ballad
(d) Epic
(e) None of these
(b) Pastoral Elegy

(xiv) The poets who believe that a hard, clear image was essential to verse are called:
(a) Imaginists
(b) Romanticists
(c) Classicists
(d) Imagists
(e) None of these
(d) Imagists

(xv) A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called:

(a) Over tone
(b) Rhetoric
(c) Extended metaphor
(d) Hyperbole
(e) None of these

(d) Hyperbole

(xvi) Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in iambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs are called:
(a) Heroic Couplet
(b) Blank verse
(c) Terza Rima
(d) Spenserian stanza
(e) None of these

(a) Heroic Couplet

(xvii) An exhortatory speech, usually delivered to a crowd to incite them to some action is:
(a) Declamation
(b) Sermon

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(c) Monologue
(d) Harangue
(e) None of these
(d) Harangue

(xviii) Hearing a colour or Seeing a smell is an example of:

(a) Oxymoron
(b) Synaesthesia
(c) Sensuousness
(d) Contrast
(e) None of these

(b) Synaesthesia

(xix) Drama which seeks to mirror life with the utmost fidelity is called:
(a) Realistic
(b) Naturalistic drama
(c) Humanistic drama
(d) Problem play
(e) None of these
(a) Realistic

(xx) When Leontes discovers the identity of Perdita in The Winters Tale is an example of:
(a) Peripety
(b) Suspense
(c) revelation
(d) Discovery
(e) None of these
(d) Discovery

1. Ode to West Wind was written by

(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(b) Shelley

2. Keats was born in

(a) 1770
(b) 1779
(c) 1795
(d) 1790
(e) None of these

(c) 1795

3. Dream Children was written by

(a) Leigh Hunt
(b) Charles Lamb

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(c) Hazzlit
(d) Ruskin
(e) None of these

(b) Charles Lamb

4. Picture of Dorian Gray was written by

(a) Oscar Wild
(b) Dickens
(c) Hardy
(d) George Eliot
(e) None of these

(a) Oscar Wild

5. Ruskin belonged to (which age)

(a) Romantic age
(b) Modern age
(c) Victorian age
(d) Augustan age
(e) None of these

(c) Victorian Age

6. Wordsworth lived from

(a) 1770 1832
(b) 1775 1859
(c) 1770 1850
(d) 1770 1802
(e) None of these

(c) 1770-1850

7. Heroes and hero worship was written by

(a) Mill
(b) Carlyle
(c) Macaulay
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these
(b) Thomas Carlyle

8. Fair seed time had my soul is from

(a) Ode to autumn
(b) To a Highland girl
(c) Ancient Mariner
(d) Child Harolds Pilgrimage
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (The Prelude)

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9. Great Expectation was written by
(a) George Eliot
(b) Thackeray
(c) Hardy
(d) Dickens
(e) None of these

(d) Dickens

10. Lotus eaters is written by

(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these

(a) Tennyson

11. Lamb, Leigh Hunt and Hazlitt are

(a) Poets
(b) Dramatists
(c) Essayists
(d) Novelists
(e) None of these

(c) Essayists

12. My Last Duchess was written by

(a) Keats
(b) Coleridge
(c) Tennyson
(d) Browning
(e) None of these

(d) Browning

13. Emily Bronte is the writer of

a. Wuthering heights
b. Emma
c. Under the green wood tree
d. Mr.chips
e. None of the above

a. Wuthering heights

14. Poetry is a spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling is a definition of poetry by

(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley

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(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(b) Wordsworth

15. Heard Melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter is a line from
(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn
(b) Ode to a nightingale
(c) The Prelude
(d) Ode to Autumn
(e) None of these

(a) Ode on a Grecian Urn

16. Waverley was written by

(a) Scott
(b) Hardy
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Dickens
(e) None of these

(a) Scott

17. We are Seven is written by

(a) Keats
(b) Shelly
(c) Byron
(d) Hardy
(e) None of these

(e) None of these (William Wordsworth)

18. Past and Present is written by

(a) Mill
(b) Lamb
(c) Hazlitt
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these

(d) Carlyle

19. Modern Painters is written by

(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Mill
(d) Macaulay
(e) None of these

(a) Ruskin

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20. Byron is the writer of
a. Don Juan
b. Prometheus Unbound
c. Adonias
d. Lucy Gray
e. None of the above

a. Don Jua

Important Mcqs of English for Public Service Commission Exams

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Important Mcqs of English for Public Service Commission Exams

The earliest surviving work in English Literature is

Ans: Caedmons Hymn

2. The epic poem Beowulf consists

Ans: 3182 alliterative lines

3. Which epic poem from old English Literature has been declared the national epic poem of England?

Ans: Beowulf Epic Poem

4. The epic poem Beowulf is written in

Ans: Scandinavian Script

5. Who wrote the epic poem Beowulf?

Ans: Anonymous

6. The Old English Martyrology is a Merican collection of

Ans: Hagiographies

7. Eynsham was a prolific 10th-century writer of

Ans: Hagiographies and Homilies

8. The earliest English poet whose name is known is;

Ans: Caedmon

9. King Alfreds reign ended in

Ans: 9th century

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10. In the battle of Maldon in 991, The Anglo-Saxons failed to prevent

Ans: Vikings Invasion

11. The Wanderer is an old English poem that consists

Ans: 115 Lines of alliterative verse

12. A poem that mourns a loss, or has the more general meaning of a simply sorrowful piece of writing is called;

Ans: Elegy

13. The English Literature is generally seen as beginning with the;

Ans: Epic Poem Beowulf

14. Normans conquered the England in

Ans: 1066

15. Which language became the standard language of courts, parliament and polite society during the reign of

Normans?

Ans: Law French

16. Who translated the Bible in the Middle English Period?

Ans: Wycliffe

17. Which pre-Reformation movement rejected many of the distinctive teachings of the Roman Catholic Church?

Ans: The Lollard Movement

18. The term Lollard refers to whom?

Ans: The followers of John Wycliffe

19. A prominent theologian who was dismissed from the University of Oxfard in 1381 for criticism of the Church

was;

Ans: John Wycliffe

20. Middle English Period lasts up till the;

Ans: 1470

21. Patience and Purity are alliterative poems written by;

Ans: Sir Gawain

22. What is the term Chancery Standard meant in English Literature?

Ans: A form of London-based English

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23. Where is the Geoffrey Chaucer buried in?

Ans: Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey

24. Geoffrey Chaucer is best known for his;

Ans: Canterbury Tales

25. The first recorded association of Valentines Day is in Chaucers;

Ans: Parliament of Fouls

26. Who was the personal friend of Geoffrey Chaucer?

Ans: John Gower

27. Which book is believed to be the first published book written by a woman in the English language?

Ans: Revelation of Divine Love

28. William Caxton invented the printing press in

Ans: 1476

29. Pilgrims progress is a famous allegory of medieval period written by;

Ans: John Bunyan

30. Renaissance is usually regarded as beginning in 14th-century in;

Ans: Italy

31. The term Renaissance in English Literature means

Ans: Re-birth

32. The English Renaissance was actually the;

Ans: Cultural and Artistic Movement

33. John Florio was an excellent;

Ans: Linguist and Lexicographer

34. Sonnet was introduced into English Literature from

Ans: Italian Literature

35. The Faerie Queene, an epic poem was written by

Ans: Edmund Spencer

36. The defense of the poetry is the work of

Ans: Sir Philip Sidney

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37. What is significant about Gorboduc the first verse drama in English Literature?

Ans: Blank Verse was used in it for the first time ever

38. Reign of the Elizabeth-I started in

Ans: 1558

39. Reign of the James-I started in

Ans: 1603

40. Thomas Wyatt is one of the earliest English poet of

Ans: Renaissance Age

41. Who is known as the poets poet in English Literature?

Ans: Edmund Spencer

42. Sonnet is a

Ans: 14-lines poem

43. What is called the first eight lines of Sonnet?

Ans: Octave

44. What is called the last six lines of Sonnet?

Ans: Sestet

45. What is the rhyming scheme of Octave in sonnet?

Ans: a-b-b-a-a-b-b-a

46. What is the rhyming scheme of sestet in sonnet?

Ans: : c-d-e-c-d-e or c-d-c-c-d-c.

47.William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Christopher Marlowe were

Ans:Elizabethan age playwrights.

48. Dr. Faustus is the very famous play, written by

Ans: Christopher Marlowe

49. The Alchemist, comedy was written by

Ans: Ben Johnson

50. The Table Alphabeticall is believed to be first ever dictionary in English language was written in 1604 by;

Ans; Robert Cawdrey

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52. English Civil War was fought during the reign of

Ans: King Charles I

53. Who was the last great poet of the age of renaissance?

Ans. John Milton

54. John Milton got blind at the age of

Ans. 40

55. The most dominant figure of the age of Restoration is

Ans. John Dryden

FPSC SAMPLE PAPER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

ENGLISH LITERATURE PAPER

TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
NOTE: Attempt FIVE questions in all, including QUESTION NO.8, which is COMPULSORY. Select Two
questions from each PART. All questions carry EQUAL marks.

1. Hamlet suffers and suffers greatly. Con you account for his suffering?

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?

3. How does Yeats create terrible beauty out of his imagery?

4. Comment on Swifts policy that imperfections in nature are for stirring up human industry; with reference to his
Gullivers Travels.

5. Is The Waste Land a public or private poem?

6. Hemingway is preoccupied with the- human predicament and a moral code that might satisfactorily control it
Discuss with reference to his The Old Man and the Sea.

7. Write a critical note on any ONE of the following:

(a) Robert Frost as a regional or a pastoral poet.
(b) Jane Austens novels arc the work of a miniaturist.

COMPULSORY QUESTION
8. Write only the correct/best answer in the answer book. Dont reproduce the questions:
(1) Shakespeare uses soliloquy for:
(a) revelation of character

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(b) dramatic purposes
(c) establishing the theme
(d) None of these.
(2) Gullivers Travels is a:
(a) Thrilling story
(b) Tragedy
(c) Satire
(d) None of these

(3) Hemingway wrote:

(a) The Sun Also Rises
(b) The Rivals
(c) The Jew of Malta
(d) None of these.

(4) The heroine of Pride and Prejudice is:

(a) Emma
(b) Elizabeth
(c) Lydia
(d) None of these.

(5) Hyperion by Keats may be classified as:

(a) An Ode
(b) Sonnet
(c) Ati Epic
(d) None of these.

(6) T.S. Eliot wrote:

(a) The Pasture
(b) The Waste Land
(c) Dirches
(d) None of these

(7) G.D Shaws principles of criticism are similar to those of:

(a) Karl Marx
(b) S.Butler
(c) None of these

(8) The Waste Land is:

(a) An Allegory
(b) A Sonnet
(c) Blank verse
(d) None of these;

(9) Yeats poetry possesses the imaginative mysticism of:

(a) Nationalism
(b) Celticism
(c) Romanticism
(d) None of these

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(10) Who considers Hamlet to be an Artistic failure:
(a) Bradley
(b) Eliot
(c) Kermode
(d) None of these

(11) Which influence is shown in the work of Shaw?

(a) French
(b) German
(c) None of these.

(12) Eliot shows a bent towards:

(a) Romanticism
(b) Victorianism
(c) None of these

(13) Mrs. Dal lo way is the masterpiece of:

(a) M. Drabble
(b) V.Woolf
(c) None of these

(14) The Central Figure among the Victorian poets is;

(a) Keats
(b) TennySon
(c) Milton
(d) None of these

(15) Browning is known for his:

(a) Dramatic Monologue
(b) Parody
(c) Blank Verse
(d) None of these.

(16) Which novel is written by D.H. Lawrence:

(a) The Ice Age
(b) Sons and Lovers
(C) None of these.

(17) TheArcadiaby Sir Philip Sydney is a:

(a) Pastoral
(b) Romance
(c) Comedy
(d) None of these

(18) The Fairie Queenc was written by:

(a) Milton
(b) Lyly
(c) Spenser
(d) None of these

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(19) The Crown of Wild Olive was written by:
(a) Huxley
(b) BcnJonson
(c) Ruskin
(d) None of these

(20) David Copper Field, Hard Times and Little Dorrit, all are written by:
(a) Hardy
(b) Dickens
(c) Moore
(d) None of these

English Mcqs for lecturer & Subject Specialist Exams

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English Mcqs For Lecturer & Subject Specialist Exams

(i) Wordsworth was appointed Poet Laureate in:

(a) 1817
(b) 1839
(c) 1843
(d) 1849
(e) None of these

(c) 1843

(ii) Who suggested Shelley to Curb your magnanimity and be more of a poet?
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Keats
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(c) Keats

(iii) The lines The one remains, the many change and pass; Heavens light for ever shines, earths shadow fly; are
composed by:
(a) Shelley
(b) Byron
(c) Keats
(d) Southey
(e) None of these

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(a) Shelley

(iv) On Pathetic Fallacy was written by:

(a) Carlyle
(b) Lamb
(c) Ruskin
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these
(c) Ruskin

(v) The 1805 text of The Prelude is edited by:

(a) Helen Darbishire
(b) Ernest De Selin Court
(c) Herbert Reads
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

(b) Ernest De Selin Court

(vi) The Lay of the Last Minstrel is written by:

(a) Blake
(b) Byron
(c) Tennyson
(d) Walter Scott
(e) None of these

(d) Walter Scott

(vii) __________ the quality when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable
reaching after fact and reason ___ is:
(a) Objectivity
(b) Subjectivity
(c) Negative capability
(d) Scepticism
(e) None of these

(d) Scepticism

(viii) The Quarterly Review was founded by:

(a) Walter Scott
(b) Byron
(c) Coleridge
(d) Thomas De Quincey
(e) None of these

(c) Coleridge

(ix) Mansfield Park is a novel by:

(a) Katherine Mansfield
(b) Emily Bronte

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(c) George Eliot
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these
(d) Jane Austen

(x) I am half sick of shadows is a line from:

(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Tennyson
(e) None of these

(d) Tennyson

(xi) Adonais is an elegy on the death of:

(a) Moschus
(b) Edward William
(c) John Keats
(d) Shakespeare
(e) None of these
(c) John Keats

(xii) Poetry is the criticism of life is a view about poetry by:

(a) Arnold
(b) Dr. Johnson
(c) Shelley
(d) Hazlitt
(e) None of these

(a) Arnold

(xiii) The Pickwick Papers by Dickens was published in:

(a) 1837
(b) 1838
(c) 1839
(d) 1841
(e) None of these

(a) 1837

(xiv) On Heroes and Hero-worship is written by:

(a) Huxley
(b) Carlyle
(c) Ruskin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these

(b) Carlyle

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(xv) Dickens, Thackeray, George Eliot and Trollope are:
(a) Novelists
(b) Poets
(c) Critics
(d) Essayists
(e) None of these
(a) Novelists

(xvi) The Voyage of the Beagle was written by:

(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Ruskin
(c) Carlyle
(d) Darwin
(e) None of these
(d) Darwin

(xvii) Who gave the aesthetic theory of Art For Arts Sake:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Browning
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Galsworthy
(e) None of these
(e) None of these (Walter Pater)

(xviii) Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will, is a statement by:
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelley
(c) Coleridge
(d) Arnold
(e) None of these
(b) Shelley

(xix) A woman of no importance is a ______ by Oscarwilde:

(a) Comedy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Dramatic Romance
(d) Farce
(e) None of these
(a) Comedy

(xx) George Eliot and T.S. Eliot are:

(a) Brother & Sister
(b) Contemporary writers
(c) Modern poets
(d) Critics
(e) None of these
(b) Contemporary writers

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English Mcqs For Lecturer & Subject Specialist Exams

(1) The Nurses Song was written by:

(a) Keats
(b) Tennyson
(c) Blake
(d) Shelley
(e) None of these

(2) William Wordsworth was born in:

(a) 1770
(b) 1771
(c) 1772
(d) 1779
(e) None of these

(3) Byrons first published collection was called:

(a) Years of Idleness
(b) Hours of Idleness
(c) Moments of Idleness
(d) Eons of Idleness
(e) None of these
(4) The Essay of Elia was written by:
(a) Tennyson
(b) Blake
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
(e) None of these

(5) Shelleys final unfinished poem was:

(a) Hellas
(b) Prometheus Unbound
(c) The Ancient Mariner
(d) The Triumph of life
(e) None of these
(6) Lyrical Ballads as jointly composed by:
(a) Keats and Shelley
(b) Wordsworth and Shelley
(c) Keats and Coleridge
(d) Wordsworth and Coleridge
(e) None of these
(7) On liberty was written by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) Macaulay
(c) Godwin
(d) Mill
(e) None of these
(8) Men may be beaten, chained, tormented, yoked like cattle, slaughtered like summer flies yet remain free
This was said by:
(a) Carlyle
(b) J.S. Mill
(c) Ruskin

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(d) Mathew Arnold
(e) None of these

(9) Macaulay lived from

(a) 1800 1859
(b) 1802 1859
(c) 1859 1900
(d) 1889 1902
(e) None of these

(10) Macaulay represented:

(a) Bourgeois Victorian enlightenment
(b) Working class Victorian attitudes
(c) Upper class tolerance
(d) Radical Romanticism
(e) None of these
(11) Stones of Venice was written by:
(a) Macaulay
(b) Newman
(c) Ruskin
(d) Carlyle
(e) None of these

(12) Browning is famous for his:

(a) Sensory images
(b) Dramatic Monologues
(c) Narrative ballads
(d) Blank Verse
(e) None of these
(13) In Memoriam was written in:
(a) 1833
(b) 1853
(c) 1860
(d) 1863
(e) None of these

(14) Oh sir, she smiled, no doubt,

Wheneer I passed her; but who passed without
Much the same smile? This grew; I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped together.

This was written by:

(a) Tennyson
(b) Browning
(c) Mathew Arnold
(d) William Morris
(e) None of these

(15) Tennyson was appointed Poet Laureate in:

(a) 1843
(b) 1847

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(c) 1850
(d) 1857
(e) None of these

(16) Dickens was from a:

(a) Lower middle class origin
(b) Upper class origin
(c) Middle class origin
(d) Working class origin
(e) None of these

(17) George Eliots real name was:

(a) George Evans
(b) Eliot Evans
(c) Marian Evans
(d) Marian Eliot
(e) None of these

(18) George Eliot was an:

(a) Atheist
(b) Agnostic
(c) Occultist
(d) Conventionalist
(e) None of these
(19) Under the Greenwood Tree is a:
(a) Tale of rustic life
(b) Tale of mans destruction of nature
(c) Historical novel
(d) Tale of city life
(e) None of these

(20) The Professor was the first novel by:

(a) Emily Bronte
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) Anne Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
(e) None of these

(1) ______________ is called the first romantic critic.

(a) Wordsworth
(b) Longinus
(c) Horace
(d) Sidney
(e) None of these

(2) _______________ defines a play as a just and lively image of human nature.
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Dryden
(d) Coleridge
(e) None of these

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(3) SARTOR RESARTUS is a prose work by:
(a) John Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Bacon
(d) Lamb
(e) None of these

(4) The period of English literature from 1660 to the end of the century is called:
(a) Renaissance
(b) Jacobean Period
(c) Restoration Period
(d) Romantic Age
(e) None of these

(5) Stream of Consciousness is the phrase first used by:

(a) James Joyce
(b) William James
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) William Faulkner
(e) None of these

(6) ______________ consists of nine-eight five foot iambic lines followed by an iambic line of six fed with rhyme
scheme ab ab bc bcc:
(a) Octometer
(b) Sonnet
(c) Terza Rina
(d) Spenserian Stanza
(e) None of these

(7) A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza is called:
(a) Period
(b) Refrain
(c) Feminine Ending
(d) Alexandrine
(e) None of these

(8) Shaws Man and Superman is an example of:

(a) Comedy of Errors
(b) Comedy of Manners
(c) Comedy of Ideas
(d) Romantic Comedy
(e) None of these

(9) Verslibre is called as:

(a) Free Verse
(b) Blank Verse
(c) Free meter
(d) Iambic
(e) None of these

(10) Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:
(a) Parallelism

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(b) Alliteration
(c) Para Rhyme
(d) Rhetoric
(e) None of these
(11) Hamlet and Oedipus was written by:
(a) Bradley
(b) Dover Wilson
(c) Earnest Jones
(d) Freud
(e) None of these

(12) Haste me to knowt, that I, with wings as Swift as meditation or the thoughts of love, May Sweep to my
revenge is a speech from.
(a) Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Othello
(d) Hamlet
(e) None of these

(13) Macbeth and Oedipus is by:

(a) W. H. Auden
(b) Earnest Jones
(c) Nicoll
(d) Freud
(e) None of these

(14) Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes are:

(a) Husband and wife
(b) Brother and Sister
(c) Father and daughter
(d) Friends
(e) None of these
(15) The Eve of St. Agnes is a poem by:
(a) Milton
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
(e) None of these

(16) The Olive Tree is a collection of essays by:

(a) Ruskin
(b) Carlyle
(c) Huxley
(d) Oscar Wilde
(e) None of these

(17) The poem Wind is written by:

(a) Shelley
(b) John Ashbery
(c) Sylvia Plath
(d) Ted Hughes
(e) None of these

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(18) Egotistical Sublime is a phrase coined by:
(a) Keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Coleridge
(d) Byron
(e) None of these
(19) Apologie for Poetrie is written by:
(a) Arnold
(b) Philip Sidney
(c) Pope
(d) Dryden
(e) None of these

(20) I count religion but a toy is a line from Marlowes play:

(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) The Jew of Malta
(c) Tamburlaine
(d) Edward II
(e) None of these

1. Soldiers pay is the work of

2. War and Peace is written by
3. Metaphysical Poets belong to
4. Adventures of the Wonder Land is the work of
5. Off-spring of a horse is called
6. Sound of elephants is called
7. What is the basic difference between Simile and Metaphor?
8. Analogy. Hacked:Original
9. Antonym of Brawl is
10. Synonym of the word Caesarian is
11.Originally English Language is taken from
12. Synonym of the word Promiscuous is
13.originator of historical novel?
14.Synonymn of abate
15. emendation
16. syn:grandeur
17..change in circumstances.
18.who is called mother of poor?
19. interested about
20. Absalum and abysilence
21.hottest planet
22.distance b/w sun and earth

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23.shape of planets and satellites of sun
24.Commander in of infidels in battle badr
25.second kalima
26.last sonnet of keats
27.play on-words
28.natural beauty and imagination
29.English is family of .language.
30.The position of earth from pnumbra
31.Crime and Punishment is wrtten by
32. Cogito ergo sum
33.what was the name of the first fort that Brits built in India?
34.whats the date of Mairaj?
35.when was the capital changed from Calcutta to Delhi?
36.when is the prayer of Kasuf offered?
37. whats the old word for storehouse?
38. whats the word for the formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named?
39. he left his fathers roof is a____?
40. headlights of the car____?
41. what was keats last poem?
42.whose title was Mother of the poor?
43.Hindu Muslims came in reflection

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