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ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER-II

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(PART-I) 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS:20

TIME ALLOWED:

(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS:80

PART – I (MCQ)

(COMPULSORY)

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Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(i) Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?

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

(d) Eliot (e) None of these

(ii) To the Light House” is written by:

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

(d) Forster (e) None of these

(iii) I am too much in the sun in “Hamlet” is spoken by:

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

(d) Ophelia (e) None of these

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 (iv) “Ullyses” is written by:

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

(d) Forster (e) None of these

(v) Elizabeth is a character from Jane Austen’s:

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

(d) Northanger Abby (e) None of these

(vi) “Tear Idle Tears” is a poem by:

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

(d) Eliot (e) None of these

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 (vii) “Thought Fox” is written by:

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

(d) Sylvia Plath (e) None of these

(viii) “Major Barbra” is written by:

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

(d) Shaw (e) None of these

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 (ix) Lilliput is a character from:

(a) Gulliver’s Travels (b) Pygmalion (c) Sons & lovers

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

(x) “Fire and Ice” is written by:

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

(d) Auden (e) None of these

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 (xi) Swift belong to:

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

(d) Augustan age (e) None of these

(xii) The Novel of Lawrence banned by the government was:

(a) Sons and Lovers (b) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (c) Women in Love

(d) The Rainbow (e) None of these

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 (xiii) “Undo this Button” is a line from Shakespeare’s:

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

(d) Julius Caeser (e) None of these

(xiv) “Ode to Psyche” is a poem by:

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

(d) Blake (e) None of these

NOTE: (i) First attempt PART-I (MCQ) on separate Answer Sheet which shall be taken back

after 30 minutes.

(ii) Overwriting/cutting of the options/answers will not be given credit.

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 (xv) “I am no Prince Hamlet” is a line written by:

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

(d) Auden (e) None of these

(xvi) “Things fall apart” is a line from Yeats’s:

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

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

(xvii) “Good flences make good neighbours” is from Frosts’:

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

(d) Birches (e) None of these

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 (xviii) ‘April is the Cruelest month of all is taken from Eliot’s:

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

(d) Prufrock (e) None of these

(xix) “A Farewell to Arms” is written by:

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

(d) Virginia Woolf (e) None of these

(xx) “A passage to India” is written by:

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

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

PART – II

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NOTE:

(i) SECTION-I & SECTION-II are to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.

(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions. Select TWO from each SECTION. All questions

carry EQUAL marks.

(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be

considered.

SECTION – I

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Q.2. “Frailty thy name is woman” Explain why Hamlet feels so? (20)

Q.3. “Beckett’s Waiting for Godot” presents the nothingness, uncertainty and hopelessness of modern

man”. Discuss. (20)

Q.4. Critically evaluate the theme of Shaw’s “Pygmalian”. (20)

Q.5. Do you agree with the view that Swift’s “The Gulliver’s travels” symbolizes the liners turbulences of

Human being. (20)

SECTION – II

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Q.6. Frost’s poems reveal that he is a poet of practical problems of common man. Discuss. (20)

Q.7. Discuss the significance of the title of Jane Austen’s “Pride & Prejudice.” (20)

Q.8. In “The second coming” Yeats presents the idea of new civilization headed by the “Rough Beast.”

Discuss. (20)

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CSS PAST PAPER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER-I 2010

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER-I

FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION

COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR

RECRUITMENT TO POSTS IN BPS-17 UNDER

THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, 2010

ENGLISH LITERATURE, PAPER-I

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(PART-I) 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS:20

TIME ALLOWED:

(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS:80

PART – I (MCQ)

(COMPULSORY)

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Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(i) “Ode to West Wind was written by:

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

(d) Blake (e) None of these

(ii) Keats was born in:

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

(d) 1790 (e) None of these

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 (iii) Dream Children was written by:

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

(d) Ruskin (e) None of these

(iv) “Picture of Dorian Gray” was written by:

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

(d) George Eliot (e) None of these

(v) Ruskin belonged to:

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

(d) Augustan age (e) None of these

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 (vi) Wordsworth lived from:

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

(d) 1770 – 1802 (e) None of these

(vii) Heroes and Hero Worship” was written by:

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

(d) Coleridge (e) None of these

(viii) “Fair Seed time had my Soul” is from:

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

(d) Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (e) None of these

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 (ix) “Great Expectations” was written by:

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

(d) Dickens (e) None of these

(x) “Lotus Eaters” is written by:

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

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

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 (xi) Lamb, Leigh Haut and Hazzlit are:

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

(d) Novelists (e) None of these

(xii) “My Last Duchess” was written by:

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

(d) Browning (e) None of these

(xiii) Emity Bronte is the writer of:

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

(d) Mr Chips (e) None of these

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 (xiv) “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

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(ii) Overwriting/cutting of the options/answers will not be given credit.

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 (xv) “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

(xvi) “Waverley” was written by:

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

(d) Dickens (e) None of these

(xvii) “We are Seven” is written by:

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

(d) Hardy (e) None of these

(xviii) “Past and present” is written by:

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

(d) Carlyle (e) None of these

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 (xix) “Modern Painters” is written by:

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

(d) Macaulay (e) None of these

(xx) “Byron is the” writer of:

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

(d) Lucy Gray (e) None of these

PART – II

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NOTE:

(i) PART-II is to be attempted on the separate Answer Book.

(ii) Attempt ONLY FOUR questions. Select TWO from each SECTION. All questions

carry EQUAL marks.

(iii) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be

considered.

SECTION – I

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Q.2. Define Romanticism and narrate its influence on Romantic Literature in early 19th century. (20)

Q.3. Write a critical note on Shelley’s Utopianism. (20)

Q.4. “Byron was the melodramatic exploiter of his own emotions”. Discuss. (20)

Q.5. Critically analyze the proportion of imagination and reality in Keats’s Odes. (20)

SECTION – II

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Q.6. Browning did not invent the “dramatic monologue” but made it particularly his own”. Discuss. (20)

Q.7. Discuss the roles of Ruskin and Carlyle in the development of Victorian prose. (20)

Q.8. Do you agree with the view that Dickens is a social Novelist? Discuss with reference to his major

novels. (20)

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(PART-I) 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS:20

TIME ALLOWED:

(PART-II) 2 HOURS & 30 MINUTES MAXIMUM MARKS:80

PART – I (MCQ)

(COMPULSORY)

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Q.1. Select the best option/answer and fill in the appropriate box on the Answer Sheet. (20)

(i) Demand curve in case of Giffen good is:

(a) Negatively sloped (b) Vertical

(c) Positively sloped (d) None of these

(ii) Price consumption curve in case of complementary goods is:

(a) Downward sloping (b) Vertical

(c) Upward sloping (d) None of these

(iii) In case of two goods, following utility approach, a consumer is in equilibrium when:

(a) MUx/Px = MUy/Py (b) MUx/Px < MUy/Py

(c) MUx/Mx > MUy/Py (d) Both (b) and (c)

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 (iv) In short run:

(a) Labour is variable (b) Both labour and capital are variable

(c) Both labour and capital fixed (d) None of these

(v) When MC is equal to AC, the AC:

(a) Increases (b) Decreases

(c) Remains constant (d) None of these

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 (vi) Normal profit, excess profit and loss of the firm depends on level of:

(a) Average costs in short run (b) Total costs in short run

(c) Marginal costs in short run (d) All of these

(vii) In case of perfect competition, the sellers are:

(a) Two (b) A few

(c) Very large (d) None of these

(viii) The firm is in equilibrium when:

(a) Slope of TC = Slope of TR (b) Slope of TC is less than slope of TR

(c) Slope of TC is more than slope of TR (d) None of these

(ix) The Marginal Revenue Product of labour MRPL is:

(a) MR x MP (b) MR / MP

(c) MR – MP (d) Both (b) and (c)

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 (x) In case of imperfect competition the MRPL is the:

(a) Supply of labour curve (b) Demand for labour curve

(c) Both of these (d) None of these

(xi) Per Capita Income is calculated as:

(a) N.I+Population (b) N.*Population

(c) N.I/Population (d) Both (a) and (c)

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 (xii) Gross Domestic Product equals:

(a) GNP – NFI (b) GNP + NFI

(c) GNP – indirect taxes (d) Both (a) and (c)

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 (xiii) The deposit multiplier is always:

(a) Greater than one (b) Less than one

(c) Equal to one (d) None of these

(xiv) Money can be a standard of deferred payments only if the value of money itself:

(a) Remains stable (b) increases

(c) Decreases (d) None of these

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 (xv) The fiscal policy with a deliberate policy action is:

(a) Expansionary fiscal policy (b) Concretionary fiscal policy

(c) Discretionary fiscal policy (d) All of these

(xvi) Trade based on absolute advantage was presented by:

(a) Alfred Marshall (b) Adam Smith

(c) Lionel Robbins (d) None of these

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 (xvii) According to Keynes, the relationship between money supply and rate of interest is:

(a) Negative (b) Positive

(c) Indirect (d) None of these

(xviii) An object that is generally accepted in exchange for goods and services is called:

(a) Standardized money (b) Medium of exchange

(c) Unit of account (d) All of these

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 (xix) The account in balance of payment that consists of all transactions in financial assets is known as:

(a) Capital account (b) Current account

(c) Official Reserve account (d) None of these

(xx) The difference between exports and imports of visible items of a country is called:

(a) Budget surplus (b) Balanced budget

(c) Balance of trade (d) Both (a) and (c)

PART – II

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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) Extra attempt of any question or any part of the attempted question will not be

considered.

Q.2. What is Consumer’s Equilibrium? How a consumer can be in equilibrium under Ordinal

Approach? (20)

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Q.3. How is a firm’s demand curve for a particular variable factor input constructed when there is

(i) only one variable input, (ii) two variable inputs in the productivity process? (20)

Q.4. What is National Income? Define and explain different concepts of National Income. (20)

Q.5. What is the equation of exchange and the velocity of circulation? What assumptions are necessary

to make the equation of exchange the quantity theory of money? (20)

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Q.6. Differentiate Balance of Payments and Balance of Trade. What are the transactions that are

recorded in the current account and the capital account? (20)

Q.7. Explain the theory of comparative cost by David Ricardo. (20)

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Q.8. Define the concept and methods of deficit financing. What are the reasons for deficit financing in

Pakistan? (20)

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