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COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION-2016
FOR RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BS-17
UNDER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
TIME ALLOWED: THREE HOURS
PART-I (MCQS)
MAXIMUM MARKS = 20
PART-I(MCQS): MAXIMUM 30 MINUTES PART-II
MAXIMUM MARKS = 80
NOTE: (i) Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iii) All the parts (if any) of each Question must be attempted at one place instead of at different
places.
(iv) Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q.Paper.
(v) No Page/Space be left blank between the answers. All the blank pages of Answer Book must
be crossed.
(vi) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
PART-II
Q. No. 2.
(a)
(b)
After their gift exchange, are Della and Jim richer, poorer, or just about
where they were at the beginning? Have they made a wise decision in
sacrificing their most precious possessions?
Written in Russells usual style, The Conquest of Happiness gets straight to
the point. Express your view point by giving relevant examples as
evidence.
(10)
(10) (20)
Q. No. 3.
The Second Coming is a magnificent statement about the contrary forces at work in
history, and about the conflict between the modern world and the ancient. Elaborate.
(20)
Q. No. 4.
Wordsworth in Tintern Abbey clearly indicates a change in his attitude. His sensuous
apprehension and coarser pleasures of nature have been transformed into a deeper,
sober and mystical understanding of nature. Discuss in detail.
(20)
Q. No. 5.
Many critics take a deterministic view of Hamlets plot, arguing that the princes
inability to act & his tendency toward melancholy reflection point to a tragic flaw
that leads inevitably to his demise. Is this an accurate way of understanding the play?
Given Hamlets character & situation, would another outcome of the play have been
possible?
(20)
Q. No. 6.
Edmund is really a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is
not wanted, who can never belong, who must always be a little in love with death!
What is the cause of Edmunds loneliness?
(20)
Q. No. 7.
The Scarlet Letter makes extensive use of symbols. Bring out some of the most striking
symbols and their significance in the novel.
(20)
Q. No. 8.
How does literary text in the Western canon reinforce or undermine colonialist
ideology through its representation of colonization and/or its inappropriate silence
about colonized people.
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(20)
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PART-II
SECTION-A
Q. No. 2.
(20)
Q. No. 3.
Discuss The Crown of Wild Olive as the aesthetic and social crusade of Ruskin.
(20)
Q. No. 4.
(20)
SECTION-B
Q. No. 5.
The work of Robert Browning fully exemplifies one of the dominant tendencies of
Victorian poetry. Comment.
(20)
Q. No. 6.
The construction of George Eliots novels, the substance of her analyses, and much of
her imagery, recall the scientific schooling of her thought. Discuss.
(20)
Q. No. 7.
(20)
Q. No. 8.
Why is Ruskins work considered more robust and more broadly significant than that
of his contemporaries, the Pre-Raphaelites?
(20)
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In Thomas Kyds play The Spanish Tragedy the central character Hieronimo the
Marshal of Spain pretends madness in order to implement his plan of revenge.
Shakespeare makes Hamlet do the same. Is Hamlet as convincing as Hieronimo?
(20)
Q. No. 3.
How does Shaws choice of the title Pygmalion justify his telling of the story of
Higgins and Eliza Doolittle?
(20)
Q. No. 4.
Why do you think Swift makes Gulliver visit the land of pygmies and then the land of
giants? Explain your ideas.
(20)
Q. No. 5.
In the novel Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen makes both her central characters
Elizabeth and Darcy travel. How do the journeys of these characters contribute to the
novel? Explain.
(20)
SECTION-B
Q. No. 6.
Despite various influences on his poetry Yeats all the time Kept one foot in Ireland.
Justify this claim with reference to Yeats major poems.
(20)
Q. No. 7.
Does T.S Eliots poetry reflect the true spirit of the literacy movement of
modernism? Explain your arguments.
(20)
Q. No. 8.
Paul Morels tragedy owes less to his mothers intrusion in his amorous relationships
and more in his own failure to reciprocate to the love of Miriam and Clara. Elaborate
this statement.
(20)
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Keats dictum Beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all is not a philosophy but a
mystic experience through the senses. Discuss.
(20)
Q. No. 3.
Shelley piles images on images in his poems which appears to be a flaw rather than
strength as it mars the thought and feelings Shelley intends to express. Do you agree?
Substantiate your answer referring to the poems you have read.
(20)
Q. No. 4.
Discuss the characteristics of the Essay as a form of literature. Refer to some major
English Essayists in support of your answer.
(20)
Q. No. 5.
(20)
SECTION-B
Q. No. 6.
No writer better represents the new character of the Victorian age in its contrast with
the romantic period than Matthew Arnold. Illustrate from Arnolds poetry.
(20)
Q. No. 7.
Explain the terms Fatalism and Pessimism and decide whether Hardy is a fatalist or a
Pessimist. Substantiate your answer with reference to his novels.
(20)
Q. No. 8.
Do you agree with Ruskin that a machine Civilization degrades the nature of man?
Support your view referring to his lectures.
(20)
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PART-II
SECTION-A
Q. No. 2.
(20)
Q. No. 3.
Discuss in detail the issues built up by Shaw in Pygmalion and show how these work in
terms of theatrical technique in the play?
(20)
Q. No. 4.
What is the significance, if any of the order in which Gullivers journeys take place?
How does each adventure build on the previous one?
(20)
Q. No. 5.
The writer describes marriage as the business of Mrs Bennets life at the end of
chapter one. What effect does the business of marriage have on female relationship
in Pride and Prejudice.
(20)
SECTION-B
Q. No. 6.
(20)
Q. No. 7.
The poem juxtaposes apparently unrelated speaking voices, symbolism, myth and
allusion to bewildering effect. As a result, its meanings are ambiguous and the
fragments do not comprise an ordered whole. But precisely this, the poem illustrates, is
the human condition. Consider The Wasteland in the light of this description.
(20)
Q. No. 8.
Santiago is considered by many readers to be a tragic hero, in that his greatest strengthhis Pride-leads to his eventual downfall. Discuss the role of pride in Santiagos plight
in Old Man and The Sea.
(20)
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Elia was the pseudonym used by Charles Lamb for getting his works published in:
(a) London Magazine (b) The New York Times (c) The Mirror (d) The Spectator (e) The Sun
Tennyson created a medieval world in his poem:
(a) In Memoriam (b) The Lady of Shalott (c) The Lotus Eaters (d) Tithonus (e) Ulyssess
Arthur Hugh Clough became an inspiration for Mathew Arnolds work:
(a) The Buried Life
(b) Dover Beach
(c) Culture and Anarchy
(d) The Scholar Gypsy
(e) Essays on Criticism
is an attack by Ruskin on the Philistines.
(a) Modern Painters
(b) Stones of Venice
(c) The Crown of Wilde Olives
(d) Seven Lamps of Architecture (e) Praeterita
Dickens first novel which focused on the specific social ills was:
(a) The Christmas Carol
(b) David Copperfield
(c) Great Expectations
(d) Oliver Twist
(e) A Tale of two cities
George Eliots novels show her concern for the characters
problems.
(a) Economic
(b) Moral
(c) Religious
(d) Spiritual
(e) Social
Dickens novels combine
and melodrama.
(a) Journalism
(b) Philosophy
(c) Satire
(d) Science
(e) Religion
The first which Charlotte Bronte wrote was:
(a) Emily
(b) Jane Eyre
(c) Shirley (d) The Professor (e) Villette
Oscar Wildes novel published in 1891 was entitled as:
(a) The Picture of Dorian Grey
(b) The Importance of Being Earnest
(c) Lady Windermeres Fan
(d) A Woman of No Importance
(e) Salome
PART-II
NOTE: (i) Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
(iii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II by selecting TWO questions from EACH
SECTION. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iv) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
SECTION-A
Q.No.2.
Does WordsWorths best poetry revolve around himself? Explain your arguments.
(20)
Q.No.3.
According to David Daiches The (Romantic) poet is on his own, drawing nourishment
from his solitary readings and imaginings. This means that each poem must create its
own world and present it persuasively to the reader. Analyse Keats poems in the light
of this remark.
(20)
(20)
Q.No.4.
SECTION-B
Q.No.5.
Q.No.6.
Q.No.7.
Q.No.8.
Why do you think Mathew Arnold needed to launch a campaign against the
materialism and philistinism of his contemporary age?
(20)
In Mair and Words opinion The Victorian Age added humanity to nature and art as
subject matter of literature Is this principle applicable to Brownings poetry?
(20)
Dickens fictional works indicate his having a greater sense of life and little sense of
form. Do you agree with this idea? If so or if not, explain your arguments.
(20)
Why do you think Thomas Hardy select the characters for his novels from the English
peseantry of his contemporary age? Explain your ideas.
(20)
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PART-II
NOTE: (i) Part-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.
(ii) Candidate must write Q. No. in the Answer Book in accordance with Q. No. in the Q. Paper.
(iii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions from PART-II, select TWO questions from EACH
SECTION. ALL questions carry EQUAL marks.
(iv) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be considered.
SECTION-A
Q.2.
Shakespeare includes characters in Hamlet who are obvious foils for Hamlet,
including, most obviously, Horatio, Fortinbras, Claudius and Laertes. Compare and
contrast Hamlet with each of these characters. How does each respond to the crises
with which he is faced?
(20)
Q.3.
Gullivers Travels could in fact be described as one of the first novels of modern
alienation, focusing on an individuals repeated failures to integrate into societies to
which he does not belong. Present your view point backed by supporting arguments.
(20)
Q.4.
Though Jane Austen satirizes snobs in her novels; some critics have accused her of
being a snob herself. Giving special consideration to Mrs. Bennet and Mr. Collins in
Pride and Prejudice, argue and defend one side of this issue.
(20)
Q.5.
Because of its stunning, violent imagery and terrifying ritualistic language, The
Second Coming is one of Yeats most famous and most anthologized poems; it is also
one of the most thematically obscure and difficult poem to understand. Elaborate with
relevant textual evidence.
(20)
SECTION-B
Q.6.
The Waste Land is full of sounds, onomotopoiea: from jug jug jug to drip drop
to twit twit to co co rico. What is the significance of this technique for the poem as
a whole? Analyze each of the moments in which such language appears.
(20)
Q.7.
Both Santiago and the Marlin display qualities of pride, honor, and bravery, and both
are subject to the same eternal law: they must kill or be killed. How does Earnest
Hemingway present this battle in Old Man and the Sea?
(20)
Q.8.
Though it seems as if nothing happens in the play, actions actually play a very
important role in Waiting for Godot. They stag directions of the play constitute nearly
half of the text, suggesting that the actions, expressions, and emotions of the actors are
as important as the dialogue. Examine the significance of the stage directions given by
Samuel Beckett.
(20)
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PART-II
SECTION-I
Q. 2.
Q. 3.
Q. 4.
Q. 5.
Above all Charles Lamb was a refined humanist whose smile could be both satiric and
tender. Elaborate the truth of this statement.
(20)
Does Keats escape from the realities of life? Justify your answer to this question through
citations from his works.
(20)
What is the relation between Shelleys Loves Philosophy and the Idea of
Romanticism?
(20)
George Eliots works depict her firm grasp of social relations. Discuss in detail.
(20)
SECTION-II
Q. 6.
(20)
Q. 7.
Hardys works portray fate or destiny as malignant and cruel agent of nature lurking at
the prospect of human well-being. Discuss critically.
(20)
(20)
Q. 8.
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SECTION-I
Q. 2.
Q. 3.
Q. 4.
Q. 5.
Throughout the play, Hamlet claims to be feigning madness, but his portrayal of madness
is so intense and so convincing that many readers are led to believe that Hamlet actually
slips into insanity at certain moments in the play. Do you think this is true, or is Hamlet
merely play-acting insanity? Substantiate your view point through evidence from the
play.
(20)
Could Pygmalion be set in the modern day at a time when there are, generally, more
opportunities for women?
(20)
Complex, satiric, full of symbolism and illusions to famous works of literature, The
Waste Land is a landmark of the 20th Century. Discuss in detail.
(20)
Swifts irony reaches its crescendo in the fourth voyage of Gulliver. Elaborate.
(20)
SECTION-II
Q. 6.
Q. 7.
Q. 8.
A man can be destroyed but not defeated is well depicted by Hemingway in Old Man
and the Sea. Discuss in detail.
(20)
Is The Second Coming definitely a visionary poem? If yes describe what Yeats
vision is?
(20)
Jane Austens writing is a vivid account of her understanding of the human behaviour.
Illustrate the truth from her novel Pride and Prejudice.
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(20)
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Intense emotion coupled with an intense display of imagery are characteristics of _____ age:
(a) Victorian
(b)
Elizabethan
(c)
Romantic
(d)
Classic
(e)
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1772
(c)
1749
(d)
1797
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Sussex
(c)
(e)
None of these
(c)
Browning
(b)
(b)
Cumber Land
(v)
(b)
Shelley
(d)
Byron
(e)
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Queen Mab is one of the first two great poems written by:
(a) Shelley
(b)
Byron
(c)
Blake
(d)
Pope
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(c)
Ode
(d)
Lyric
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(c)
Senses
(d)
Body
(e)
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Jane Austen
(e)
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Mythical
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Aestheticism
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(b)
Epic
(b)
Soul
(viii) Northanger Abbey, Emma and Sense and Sensibility are novels written by:
(a) G. Eliot
(b)
Miss Burney
(c)
C. Bronte
(c)
Dramatic
(c)
Imagination
(d)
(x)
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Tragic
(d)
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Sensations
(d)
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Intellect
(c)
Radicalism
(d)
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C. Bronte
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J. Austen
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Pantheism
(c)
Idealism
(c)
(d)
Lyricism
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G. Eliot
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Sculptor
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Painter
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Thomas Hardy
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Engraver
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D. H. Lawrence
(c)
Oscar Wilde
(d)
Trollope
(e)
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1843
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1860
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1851
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(c)
Pamela
(d)
Persuasion (e)
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(b)
Emma
PART-II
NOTE:(i)
(ii)
(iii)
SECTION I
Q.2. During the Victorian Era, art forms part of a coherent social whole. The call for order and
discipline comes from all directions. Elaborate.
(20)
Q.3. Shelleys life was one of passionate devotion to intellect; his poems show a philosophical and
social force working in the same direction. Illustrate giving examples.
(20)
Q.4. Wordsworths poetry is based on an effort to convey by simple means the impression of
intensity. Comment.
(20)
Q.5. Keatss art is full of passion, the object of this desire is not the intellectual beauty of Shelley
but is caused by the enchantment of the Senses. Discuss.
(20)
SECTION II
Q.6. Dickens writes of the lower middle class not as a detached observer, but as one on their own
level and an instinctive fraternity can be traced in his novels. Discuss.
(20)
Q.7. Coleridge chooses the supernatural themes which he invests with the semblance of the truth.
Comment considering some of his poems.
(20)
Q.8. Brownings art reflects an intellectual curiosity, a systematic quest of truth and a desire for
rationality characteristic of his age. Give detailed comments.
(20)
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Idealism
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Satire
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Defoe
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Fielding
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Bunyan
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Hazlitt
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Dryden
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Keats
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Novelist
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Dramatist
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W. Knight
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ST. Coleridge
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Puritanism
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Allegory
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Elegy
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Epic
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(xi) The _____ age tended to favour the taste and search for truth in art:
(a) Classical
(b)
Romantic
(c)
Victorian
(d)
Elizabethan
Keats
(c)
Pope
(d)
Shelley
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1798
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1709
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1890
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Metaphor
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Rhetoric
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Overtone
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Anglicanism
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Radicalism
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D. H. Lawrence
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1870
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Emile Bronte
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Shakespeare
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(b)
Pre-Raphaelitism
(c)
Idealism
Romanticism
(c)
Lyricism
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(b)
(b)
Yeats
(c)
E. Sitwell
1888
(c)
1817
G. Eliot
(c)
C. Bronte
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(b)
(xx) Ophelia, Julia, Viola, Imogen are the characters created by:
(a) Richardson
(b)
Fielding
(c)
Hardy
PART-II
NOTE:(i)
(ii)
(iii)
SECTION I
Q.2. Shakespeare draws the images of nature not laboriously but luckily; when he describes any
thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Illustrate, giving examples from characterisation in
Hamlet.
(20)
Q.3. B. Shaw tears off veils and lays bare the half-voluntary illusions of complacently blind souls.
Discuss Arms and the Man, in which Shaw shows that Military heroism is an invention of the
civilians.
(20)
Q.4. In Gullivers Travels Swift dissects the English political life with a corrosive satire. Elaborate.
(20)
Q.5. Draw a complete picture of the Hemming way- hero, keeping The Old Man and the Sea in
mind.
(20)
SECTION II
Q.6. Compare and contrast the features of love of nature reflected in the poems by Robert Frost and
William Wordsworth.
(20)
Q.7. Yeats work is thoroughly steeped in imaginative mysticism which is the essential attribute of
celticism. Discuss in relation to his poems you have read.
(20)
Q.8. Jane Austens Clear Sighted eyes read through the inner minds of those who live around her or
those whom she invents, just as if those minds were transparent. Discuss her characterisation in
Pride and Prejudice in the light of this remark.
(20)
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