28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
1/27
Rajasthan Public Service Commission 2016
Paper EnglishLiteratureI
I
Ques: 150
Time: 3 Hours
Ques
Reginal Peacock
William Tyndale
Sir Thomas Malory
Thomas Moore
Ques
George Gascoigne
John Lyly
Thomas Nashe
Thomas Delany
Ques
"Extropia"
"The Neverland"
"The New Atlantis"
"The New World"
Ques
Identify the play by Christopher Marlowe in which these lines occur "
Was this the face that launch'd a
thousand ships …"?




Ques
Identify the dramatist who does NOT belong to the group of dramatists known as "University Wits".
Thomas Nashe
Robert Green
Thomas Kyd
Cyril Tourneur
Ques

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
2/27
Who among the following is called the "poet's poet"?
Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare
Edmund Spenser
John Milton
Ques
Truth
Holiness
Temperance
Courtsey
Ques
Which poem pronounces the poet's aim as "Fierce Warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song"

"A Hymn to God the Father "
"A Parting"
"Christ's Victory and Triumph"
Ques
John Fletcher
Ben Jonson
Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlowe
Ques :10
Phillip Massinger
Francis Beaumont
Desiderius Erasmus
James Shirley
Ques :11
Of what does Bacon say that it does,"offend the law….putheth the law out of office"
Truth
Revenge
Envy
Simulation
Ques :12

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
3/27
Sir Epicure Mammon
Morose
Subtle
Dapper
Ques :13
Who were called the "Tribe of Ben"
poets who followed Ben Jonson
dramatists who followed Ben Jonson
courtiers who followed Ben Jonson
admirers of Ben Jonson
Ques :14
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning", is an excerpt from the play …………… .




Ques :15
The character Bottom appears in the following Shakespearean comedy




Ques :16
Which of the following translated Homer's "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey"?
Ben Jonson
George Chapman
Edmund Spenser
Philip Sidney
Ques :17
The formal structure of a typical Shakespearean Sonnet is
An octave and a sestet
Three quatrains and a couplet
An octave a quatrain and a couplet
A couplet followed by three quatrains
Ques :18

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
4/27
The lines "stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage", are from?

Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion"
Richard Lovelace's "To Althea from Prison"

Ques :19
Which of Andrew Marvell's poems deals with the theme of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day)
"Thoughts in a Garden"
"To his Coy Mistress"
"An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
"Upon Appleton House"
Ques :20
Who says of Donne "He affects the metaphysics"?
Dr Samuel Johnson
T.S. Eliot
John Dryden
H.J.C Grierson
Ques :21
an epic poem
a verse drama
a prose romance
a ballad
Ques :22
Which of the following plays resulted in the closure of all theaters




Ques :23
Shakespeare incorporates Livy's account of Tarquin's lust in a narrative work called
"Venus and Adonis"
"The Rape of Lucrece"

ues :24

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
5/27
Francis Bacon
Thomas Lodge
Richard Booker
Robert Burton
Ques :25
Bacon describes his essays as
random thoughts
dispersed meditations
set treatises
focussed descriptions
Ques :26
Which of the following plays is NOT written by Thomas Middleton




Ques :27
highly progressive
religious and refined
corrupt and evil
honest and ethical
Ques :28
John Milton's invokes which grace with whom he means to live
Mirth
Joy
Happiness
Love
Ques :29
"Our cure, to be no cure, sad cure"
"This horror will grow mild, this darkness light"
"Calm of mind, all passion spent"
"Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot which men call earth"

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
… 6/27
Ques :30
In which of his tracts does Milton say "He who destroys a good book, kills reason itself kills the image of God
as it were in the eye"




Ques :31
Which of the following poems was written by John Dryden in praise of the Restoration and Monarchy
"The Hind and the Panther"
"Religio Laici"
"Astraea Redux"
"Mac Flecknoe"
Ques :32
Pope in his "Letter to Arabella", in "The Rape of the Lock", states that he borrowed his supernatural
machinery from
the Kabbals
the Rosicrucians
Temple Orientis
Thelemicism
Ques :33
both sweetness and light are associated with the Ancients
both sweetness and light are associated with the Moderns
sweetness is associated with the Ancients and light with the Moderns
light is associated with the Ancients and sweetness with the Moderns
Ques :34
The surface narrative of Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel" is taken from
English History

Dutch Legends

Ques :35
first
second
third

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
7/27
fourth
Ques :36
"Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man". Where do these lines
occur
"The Rape of the Lock"
"An Essay on Criticism"
"An Essay on Man"
"Windsor Forest"
Ques :37
Who is Thomas Gray referring to in his lines,"Nor second He, that rode sublime, upon the seraph wings of
Ecstasy" from "The Progress of Poesy"
Shakespeare
Milton
Spenser
Donne
Ques :38




Ques :39
They are all picaresque novels
They are all travelogues
They are all dramatic monologues
They are all epistolary
Ques :40
In which play of William Congreve do the characters Millamant and Mirabel appear




Ques :41
Which of the following is NOT an elegy

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
8/27
"Lycidas"
"Thyrsis"
"Endymion"
"In Memorium"
Ques :42
"The still sad music of humanity". In which poem of William Wordsworth does this line occur
"Ode on the Intimations of Immortality"
"Ode to Duty"
"Lines Written a few miles above Tintern Abbey"
"The Solitary Reaper"
Ques :43
"Adonais" by P.B. Shelley is an elegy on the death of
Byron
Keats
Leigh Hunt
Robert Southey
Ques :44
the contemporary life of London
the pleasures of the Garden of Eden
the original state of human society
the hard life of children
Ques :45
Which of the following is NOT a Gothic novel?




Ques :46
Which poem of John Keats has the theme of a fatal magical love luring a man to his doom
"The Eve of St. Agnes"
"La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
"Ode to Psyche"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
Ques :47
In S.T. Coleridge's poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", a curse falls on the ship because
all the sailors hate the innocent mariner

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
9/27
all the sailors hate the Albatross
the mariner shoots one of the sailors
the mariner shoots an Albatross
Ques :48
Which one of the following poets is attacked by Byron in his poem "The Vision of Judgement"
William Blake
Robert Southey
P.B. Shelley
John Keats
Ques :49
Jane Austen's novels are characterised by
an element of chance
philosophic reflections
social propaganda
perfect picture of provincial life
Ques :50
In the title "The Essays of Elia", the name Elia stands for
John Carlyle
Walter Scott
Charles Lamb
William Hazlitt
Ques :51
From which poem of Robert Browning have these lines been taken "
So, one day more am I deified. Who
knows but the world may end to night
"Porphyria's Lover"
"The Last Ride Together"
"Andrea Del Sarto"
"The Grammarian's Funeral"
Ques :52
"Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do or die". These lines are from Tennyson's
poem
"In Memorium AHH"
"Locksley Hall Sixty Years after"
"Ullyses"
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"
Ques :53
For what does Tennyson use the extended metaphor of "crossing the bar" in his poem by the same title
setting forth in the unknown world
travelling serenely from life through death
defying conventions and leaning towards Pandeism

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
10/27
commenting on the illadvised
preconceptions
of human kind
Ques :54
"this strange disease of modern life, with its sick hurry and divided aim" Mathew Arnold speaks of this
malaise in his poem
"The Scholar Gypsy"
"Dover Beach"
"Thyrisis"
"Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse"
Ques :55
May Dance Day
Guy Fawke's Night
The Skimmington Ride
Maumbury Rings
Ques :56
George Moore
George Gissing
Rudyard Kipling
R.L. Stevenson
Ques :57
S.T. Coleridge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Johann Winckelmann
William Morris
Ques :58

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
11/27
A B C D P Q R S
A B C D S R P Q
A B C D Q S P R
A B C D R P Q S
Ques :59
The continued popularity of Oscar Wilde's plays depends on
The polish and scintillating wit of his dialogue
A sentimental portrayal of the elite of his times
A realistic portrayal of the middle class
The slapstick mode of humour
Ques :60
In which novel two young girls leave Miss Pikerton's Academy and one of them throws out of the coach
window Johnson's "Dictionary", her farewell gift




Ques :61
Poland and London
Africa and Costaguana
London and Africa
Costaguana and Geneva
Ques :62
Eurasia Big Brother
Airstrip One Winston Smith
Ministry of Truth Doublethink
Eustasia Emmanuel Goldstein

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
12/27
Ques :63
In which novel does Aldous Huxley satirise the idea of progress by creating a fantasy of the future world




Ques :64




Ques :65
Major Scobie is a character in which novel by Graham Green




Ques :66
In which of her works does Virginia Woolf invent the fictional character of Shakespeare's sister naming her
………….




Ques :67
"You're dead, you can't live, you can't think, you can't love. You're dead".
"Don't let them tell you what to do. I've lived that line all my damn life. Never more than now".
"Let's finish and go. Let' get it over and go. Get the thing done."
"Play up, play up and play the game!"

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
13/27
Ques :68
"Tomorrow when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today?" These lines are from ……………. .
T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song of Alfred Prufork"


Wilfred Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth"
Ques :69
Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" prophesises the coming of
God
Jesus Christ
The Holy Spirit
A new Destructive God
Ques :70
organised society
materialist ideas
puritanical thinking
anarchy
Ques :71
The life in the newly formed New England
Life in the Frontier West
How life changed after the Civil War
Life of a Southern Slave
Ques :72
Twice Told Tales
Tales from Here and There
Leather Stocking Tales
Trader Tales
Ques :73
Abducted
Abandoned
Adultress
Amoral

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
14/27
Ques :74
Edgar Allan Poe's Raven, in the poem by the same name, repeats the word …………..to aggravate his
distress.
Nothing more
Never more
Never again
Nathemore
Ques :75
superstion and magic
character and sin
race and identity
exile and terrorism
Ques :76
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself" is a line from Walt Whitman's …………….. .
"One's Self I Sing"
"I hear America Singing"
"A Passage to India"
"Song of Myself"
Ques :77
"It's when weary of consideration … like to get away from earth a while And then come back to it and
begin over". These lines are from Robert Frost's poem …………..
"Birches"
"After Apple Picking"
"Two Tramps at Mud Time"
"Mending Walls"
Ques :78
John Donne's "Devotions upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVII"
1558 talk by George Peel

A speech by U.S. War Confederate, Thomas J. Jackson
Ques :79
The anger of God at Man's disobedience

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
15/27
A bank robbery and its after effects
Oklahoma farmers driven from home in search of jobs
Californian grape growers facing a water crisis
Ques :80
Expressionist
Symbolist
Absurdist
Realistic
Ques :81
the romantic hero of the novel
an outsider who observes the action from a distance
the one who brings about the downfall of the protagonist
the one who nurtures a destructive passion for the heroine
Ques :82
The bear went over the mountain
When you wish upon a star
Who is afraid of the bad bad woolf
There's a hole in the bucket
Ques :83
Do not go gentle into the good night
Something there is that doesn't love a wall
And miles to go before I sleep
So it goes
Ques :84
Which of the following poems is NOT by Emily Dickinson
"Because I stopped for Death"
"I taste a liquor never brewed"
"Success is counted Sweetest"
"Hope is a thing with feathers"
Ques :85

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
16/27
written in the epistolary form
a journal of her final year in college
highly autobiographical
a reminisence of her happy childhood
Ques :86
Langston Hughes Zora Neale Hurston Countee Cullen among others, belonged to a Movement popularly
known as
Progressive Politics
Civil Rights Agitation
Black Identity Crisis
Harlem Renaissance
Ques :87
Bigger Thomas
Shug Avery
Mr Bellmont
Jamie Cranford
Ques :88
"Womanist is to feminism, as purple is to lavender" is a phrase used by
Toni Morrison
Alice Walker
Rita Dove
Gloria Naylor
Ques :89
The latest Toni Morrison novel is




Ques :90
Toni Cade Bambara
Amiri Baraka
Ralph Ellison
James Baldwin

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
17/27
Ques :91
Maya Angelou's first in the series of seven autobiographies is




Ques :92
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lorraine Hansberry
Dorothy West
Octavia E. Butler
Ques :93
The poet Le Roi Jones later renamed himself
Claude Mckay
Alex Haley
Amiri Baraka
Nikki Giovanni
Ques :94
recounting of residual effects of slavery
vision document of the Harlem Renaissance
narrative about the Black Arts Movement
spiritual conversion narrative
Ques :95
Wanda Coleman
Lawrence Dunbar
Audre Lorde
Rita Dove
Ques :96
taking a new wife
ritual suicide
ploughing the land
cremating the dead

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
18/27
Ques :97
W.B. Yeat's "Second Coming"
an Igbo proverb
a Nigerian naming ceremony
T.S. Eliot's "The Journey of the Magi"
Ques :98
Buchi Emecheta's autobiography is called




Ques :99
the fantasy "Always Land"
the imaginary "Free Republic of Aburiria"
the utopian "Feelgood Country"
the Kingdom of "Tahtifantasia"
Ques :100

The Babylonian Captivity


Ques :101
"His Fair Assassin"
"Blind Assassin"
"Assassin's Apprentice"
"Assassin's Assassin"
Ques :102

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
19/27
Which one of the following novels is written by Susanna Moodie?




Ques :103
A very characteristic strategy in the stories of Alice Munro is to
draw imaginary characters
recreate futuristic metropolises
capture oldage
perceptions
move forward and backward in time
Ques :104
Which novel of Sally Morgan is considered to be a breakthrough memoir about indigeneous life in Australia?




Ques :105
One of Les Murry's verse novels is entitled




Ques :106
Which one of the following novels is NOT by V.S. Naipaul




Ques :107
Derek Walcott's epic poem "Omeros" loosely echoes and refers to characters from





28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
20/27
Ques :108
Diedrich Knickerbocker
Komilworthy Whisp
LicsanAntti
ja Jussi Porilainen
Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray
Ques :109
an academic department
a commercial department
a marketing department
a sales department
Ques :110
Which of these works is NOT by Arnold Wesker?




Ques :111
A novel written by Mulk Raj Anand is entitled




Ques :112
Which one of the following poets was advised in England by Sir Edmund Gosse to seek inspiration from India
and not from England?
Sarojini Naidu
Toru Dutt
Rabindra Nath Tagore
W.B. Yeats
Ques :113
Narsamma
Kenchamma
Ratna
Rangamma

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
21/27
Ques :114
The Poem "Our Casuarina Tree" is authored by
Sarojini Naidu
Kamala Markandaya
Toru Dutt
A.K. Ramanujan
Ques :115
willingly submit to their husband's wishes
lead a purely spiritual life
believe in the value of selfless service
remain strong in the face of brutality
Ques :116
the need for better communication with people
the needs of the intellectuals
the exploitation of the textile workers in Bombay
the welfare programmes for slum dwellers in Bombay
Ques :117
Persian Romance
Greek Legend
Punjabi Folktale
French Novel
Ques :118
"To India My
Native Land" is a poem by
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Sri Aurobindo
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
Ques :119
The first Indian novel written in English was





28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
22/27
Ques :120
"Purdah is a kind of safety" is a line taken from
Sarojini Naidu's "Purdah Nashin"
Imtiaz Dharker's "Purdah
Sylvia Plath's "Purdah"
Fiona Pearse's "It's the Right thing to do"
Ques :121
ABCD
BACD
CABD
DABC
Ques :122
D C B A P Q R S
D C B A S R P Q
D C B A Q P S R
D C B A R S Q P
Ques :123
Leelavati Virmati Aastha
Harjeet Virmati Aastha
Saguna Karuna Rea
Kasturi Virmati Ida
Ques :124
Nobel Prize
Pulitzer Prize
British Book Award
Booker Prize

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
23/27
Ques :125
positive value of the philosophy of nonviolence
the violent aftermath of the Partition
the partition as a positive experience
the effects of the partition of states in India
Ques :126
In Khushwant Singh's novel "Train to Pakistan" Juggat Singh redeems himself by
marrying the girl he loved
preventing the train from going to Pakistan
saving many lives at the end of the story
refusing to board the train which was going to Pakistan
Ques :127
The title of one of Kamala Markandaya's novels is drawn from S.T. Coleridge's poem "Work Without Hope".
Identify the novel.




Ques :128
gladly accepts the traditional values
decides to go back to her own family in Bombay
develops a liking for traditional Rajasthani culture
fights to maintain her modern values
Ques :129
Which of Amitav Ghosh's novels gives us the story of three generations of a family against the background of
the growth of India as a nation




Ques :130
Who among the following Indian poets gives Indian English its special flavour largely through error?
Dom Moraes
P. Lal

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
24/27
Nissim Ezekiel
Keki Daruwala
Ques :131
Pick out the poet who wrote the poems "The Logic", "Indian Summer Poem", "The Whorehouse in a Calcutta
Street" and "A Missing Person".
Jayant Mahapatra
Rukmani Bhaya Nair
Gieve Patel
A.K. Ramanujan
Ques :132
R. Parthasarathy's poem "Exile" examines the question of the
advantages of writing in one's own language
advantages of living in a new culture
loss of identity with one's own culture
disadvantages of living in one's own culture
Ques :133
Arun Kolatkar's poem "Jejuri" oscillates between
urban and rural life
fancy and imagination
love and hate
faith and scepticism
Ques :134
the liberation of Goa
Goa as a tourist destination
the Portuguese people living in Goa
the traditional practices of the Portuguese people
Ques :135
are hoping to get married
are already married
are disappointed that they can't get married
are waiting for the approval of their parents to get married
Ques :136
is concerned with history with no contemporary relevance
has contemporary relevance, but no connection with history
is concerned with history and also has contemporary relevance

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I

…
25/27
is neither concerned with history nor has contemporary relevance
Ques :137
Ruskin Bond
Amit Chaudhari
Chaman Nahal
Ved Mehta
Ques :138
The book that helped popularize Dalit Literature throughout India in recent times is




Ques :139
On the publication of which of her novels was Bama ostracised from her village for portraying it in a poor
light




Ques :140
Which of the following is the autobiography of Om Prakash Valamiki




Ques :141
Who wrote that "Dalit Literature is not a literature of vengence. Dalit Sahitya is not a literature which
spreads hatred."
Namdeo Dhasal
Baburao Bagul
Daya Pawar
Arjun Kamble
Ques :142
"Ms Militancy" is a collection of poetry by

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
26/27
Baby Kamble
Urmila Pawar
Meena Kandasamy
Asha Thorat
Ques :143
Jyoti Lanjewar
Maya Pandit
Shantabai Kamble
Kumud Pawade
Ques :144
"Human beings do not perceive things whole, we are not gods but wounded creatures cracked lenses
capable of fractured perceptions". Who says this and where?




Ques :145
Rohinton Mistry's short story collection about the residents of a Parsi dominated apartment complex is
entitled




Ques :146
Pallas and Centaur
Oedipus and Iphigeneia
Troilus and Cressida
Orpheus and Eurydice
Ques :147
"But that I am writing about the territory about the feelings of a new kind of pioneers here in America".
This has been said by
Jhumpa Lahiri
Sujata Bhatt
Amitav Ghosh
Bharati Mukherjee

28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam EnglishLiteratureI
I
27/27
Ques :148
Shuana Singh Baldwin
Sujata Bhatt
Uma Parameswaran
Suniti Namjoshi
Ques :149
singer dancer
guitarist vocalist
violinist pianist
orchestrator solo ballet dancer
Ques :150
Which of the following is NOT a novel by Anita Rau Badami