Punjab Public Service Commission English Lecturer MCQs Test held in 2015 in punjab

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Punjab Public Service Commission English Lecturer MCQs Test held in 2015.
Lecturer BPS 17
Qualification Required :
MA English/ Linguistics /English Literature from any HEC recognized University.
Test Duration : 90 Minutes
Each question carries 1 mark,
Negative marking .25 marks deducted on 1 wrong answer , so be careful while answering.

1)Repetition of same vowel sound ?
Ans :
Assonance

2)The poet who used extensive alliteration ?
Ans :

Keats

3)Wuthering heights written by ?
Ans :

Emily Brontë

4)The poem “Byzantium” is written about ?
Ans :
Imaginary city

5)Carl sadburg born at ?
Ans :
Illinois

6)T.S Eliot was ?
Ans :
American by birth; British from 1927

7)Wasteland of Eliot is dedicated to ?
Ans :
Ezra Pound

8)Shakespeare acted in one of plays of ?
Ans :
Ben johnson

9)Elizabeth Sewell born in ?
Ans :
England

10) Linguistics is combination of ______ words ?
Ans :
Two

11)Sound produced with obstruction of air ?
Ans :
consonant

12)Semantics meaning ?
Ans :
“Study of meanings”

13)Word language consists of two_____ words
Ans :
Latin

14)Simon is character in one of ________ novels
Ans :
Golding

15)”Everyman in his humour” written by ?
Ans :
Ben johnson

16) Caretaker written by ?
Ans :
Pinter

17)Waiting for Godot’s originol language ?
Ans :
French

18) Stream of consciousness ?
Ans :
Virginia woolf

19) “Sejanus” is satirical tragedy by ?
Ans :
Ben johnson

20)Unified sensibility ?
Ans :
Donne

21)Winding Stair is poem by ?
Ans :
W.B.Yeats

22) Synaethesia
Ans :
Unification of senses

23) Time machine-the invisible man written by ?
Ans :
H.G Wells

24)The egoist written by ?
Ans :
George Meredith

25) Hardy’s own classification of novels?
Ans :
Three

26)George Eliot wrote Adam Bede at age of ?
Ans :
40 years

27)Age of George Eliot ?
Ans :
Victorian

28) Chaucer was ?
Ans :
sarcastic poet

29)Renaissance period ?
Ans :
1550-1660

30)King Lear written in ?
Ans :
1603 to 1606

31)17th century’s historical event ?
Ans :
Civil war

32)Paradise lost was written in ?
Ans :
1667

33)1660 – 1790 is rise of ?
Ans :
I chose “Drama” but it’s not confirm.Kindly confirm it

34)Literature became secular towards end of ?
Ans :
18th century

35)Tragicomedy of Shakespeare is also called ?
Ans :
Reconciliation play

36)Type of literature,art or music is called ?
Ans :
Genre

37)Enthusiastic addiction to study of Greek and Roman antiquity led to ?
Ans :
hellenism,romantism)

38)Prospero was protagonist of ?
Ans :
The Tempest

39)Age of Pope is called?
Ans :
Augusten

40)Metaphysical poet is essay by ?
Ans :
T.S Eliot

41) Treatise on liberty written by ?
Ans :
Martin Luther

42)Figure of speech,exaggeration for emphasis ?
Ans :
Rhetoric

43) Adonis written for ?
Ans :
Keats

44)Songs of innocence and experience belong to ?
Ans :
William Blake

45)Original title of Pride and Prejudice
Ans :
First Impressions

46)Shelley’s first work?
Ans :
Queen Mab

47)First writer of Picaresque novel ?
Ans :
I chose Thackeray.Kindly confirm it.

48)The road not taken by Frost is included in his collection ?
Ans :
Mountain Interval

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

50)Swift’s irony fused into ?
Ans :
humour

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

52)Bird in “Ancient mariner” ?
Ans :
Albatross

53) Milton got blind in age of ?
Ans :
43 years

54)Hemingway’s nick in later age ?
Ans :
Papa

55)Donne’s faith ?
Ans :
Protestant

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

57) Poet who studied at Cambridge but got no degree ?
Ans :
ST Colerdige

58) Which century is most important epoch in intellectual history ?
Ans :
14th

59)During age of Chaucer,England passed through ?
Ans :
Medievalism

60)Marlow’s primitive tragedy ?
Ans :
Tamberlaine

61)Shakespeare comedy rival ?
Ans :
Ben Jonson

62)Shakespeare comedy contain continental and ?
Ans :
Mediterranean

63) Shakespeare’s heroines have ?
Ans :
Feminine traits

64)Who emerged as philosopher in “Merchant of Venice” ?
Ans :
Portia

65) Which play started with incident of ship wreck ?

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

67)Process of introducing new words ?
Ans :
Coinage

68)War between flesh and spirit in which novel of Hardy ?
Ans :
Jude of the Obscure

69)Norman conquest in ?
Ans :
1066

70)Queen Elizabeth descended throne from ?
1. Robert Stuart 2. Robert…. 3. James Stuart

71)University wits estimated literary period is little more than …….. years.
10 years, 8 years, 7 years, 6 years

72)Brazen
Ans :
“Shy”

73)Capricious
Ans :
“Recollect”

74) Extrinsic
Ans :
75)fluster

76) Obdurate
Ans :
submissive
Synonyms

77)Truncate
Ans :
shorten

78)Impetuous
“irrational”

79)nincompoop
Ans :
Foolish

80)Elocution
————–

81)Ulysses poem was written by?
Ans :
Tennyson

82)Far fetched metaphor ?
Ans :
Conceit

83)Because I could not stop for death written by ?
Ans :
Emily Dickinson

84)Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath were?
Ans :
Husband and wife

85. People do not exist in _______but in functioning______
Ans :
Isolation, communities

86. The military censors______passages in letters that they Ans :
thought might_____ security.


87. Only a ____person could be ______to the suffering of people

88. Volcanic rock very often looks shiny because it had been _____
Ans :
Igneous

89. Fire station had been gone on______ at once
Ans :
To

90) antonym of callous is
Note :
These all MCQs are takes from the students who appeared in the test. These are not final and accurately answered. Please suggest us any change to make this more accurate.