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