Exam Details
| Subject | english | |
| Paper | paper 1 | |
| Exam / Course | civil services main literature | |
| Department | ||
| Organization | union public service commission | |
| Position | ||
| Exam Date | 2014 | |
| City, State | central government, |
Question Paper
ENGLISH
Paper-I. 2014
(Literature)
Time Allowed: Three Hours
Maximum Marks: 250
QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of tbe following instructions carefully before attempting questions
There' are EIGHT questions divided in Two Sections. Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all. Question Nos. I and'5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, THREE are to be attempted choosing at "
least ONE from each section. .The number of marks carried by a question/part is indicated against it. Answers' must be written in ENGLISH.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in chronological order. Unless struck off, attempt·of a question sha,II be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page .left blank. the.answe.r book . be clearly struck off.
SECTION-A
Q.I. Write sbort notes on each of the following. Each question should be answered in about I50 words :-IOx5=50
Q. The Elizabethan playhouse: Structure, audience and .impact. 10
Q. Augustan literature and its relationship with "Polite Society". 10
Q. Transitional poets and tlle)r contribution to a change in poetic sensibility.
Q. Democratisation of poetry during the' Romantic .Movement. 10
Q. I The influence of the public on the Victorion writer. 10
Q. 2. This question has three parts
Q. 2(a)What are the conflicting passions at work in'King Lear and how do they generate tragic experience 15·
Q. Examine. critically the relationship of Prospero with Caliban and Ariel in the light. of emerging European Colonialism. )15
Q. Account for the revival of interest in Donne's poetry in the 20th century. 20
Q. 3. This question bas three parts 15+15+20=50
Q. Do you agree with the view that Milton was "of the Devil's party withouJ-knowing it"? Give your opinion illustrating from the text. 15
Q. How does Pope achieve a mock-heroic effect in ,treating a trivial theme? 15
Q. If the poetry of Milton and Donne spring from the personal, Augustan poetry is centred .in society. Discuss. 20
Q. 4. This question has three parts
Q. Which poems of Wordsworth do you consider to have a special relevance to the present- day reader? 'Explain your 15
Q. In Memoriam is Tennyson's attempt to come to terms with the main conflict of his Discuss. 15
Q. A Doll's House addresses the question of a Woman's, place in society. Has any substantial change taken place since 20
SECTION-B
Q.5. Study the following poem and answer the questions :which follow. Each ,answer sb,ould. be in about 150 words :-lOx5=50
nobody! .Who ·are you?
Are you nobody, too
Then there's a pair of us tell
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog
Q. Wliat sort of person do you think, is the speaker of the poem? .
Q. Do you think self-effacing persons are popular in society
Q. What is the speaker's attitude towards fame and publicity?
Q. Why 'does the speaker of the poem want not to be "somebody" .
Q. Comment critically on the image of the frog in the bog.
Q. 6.This question has three parts 15+15+20=50
Q. What aspects of contemporary British life does JrinathanSwift satirise in Gulliver's Travels? . .15
Q. Pride and Prejudice on the surface a novel depicting genteel life, but the motive force i is a desperate· man-hunt for. social survival. Examine. 15
Q. Describe your response to Tom Jones, a leisurely novel of a by-gone era. 20
Q. 7. This question has three parts
Q. "Chockful of faults and falsity" is how a critic found Tess ofthe d'urbervilles. Consider this statement and give your opinion. 15
Q. Would you consider the course that Maggie Tulliver's life takes, an, inevitable consequence of her circumstances Did she have choice 15,
Q. Hard nmes was condemned by Macaulay for its "sullen Socialism". In the nextcentufy.it became more popular. How do you account for this 20
Q. 8. This question has three parts 15+15+20=50
Q. Elizabeth Bennet, Maggie Tulliver d Tess were strongly'constrained by the society they' lived in. Do you think they passively accept life ·as it comes or do they exercise choice? 15
Q. The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn is more than a boy's tale. What are the serious issues it addresses? 15
Q. E.M. Forster described Dickens's men and women ,as "flat characters". Which of the characters from Hard nmes do you find confonning to or deviating from this description 20
Paper-I. 2014
(Literature)
Time Allowed: Three Hours
Maximum Marks: 250
QUESTION PAPER SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS
Please read each of tbe following instructions carefully before attempting questions
There' are EIGHT questions divided in Two Sections. Candidate has to attempt FIVE questions in all. Question Nos. I and'5 are compulsory and out of the remaining, THREE are to be attempted choosing at "
least ONE from each section. .The number of marks carried by a question/part is indicated against it. Answers' must be written in ENGLISH.
Word limit in questions, wherever specified, should be adhered to.
Attempts of questions shall be counted in chronological order. Unless struck off, attempt·of a question sha,II be counted even if attempted partly. Any page or portion of the page .left blank. the.answe.r book . be clearly struck off.
SECTION-A
Q.I. Write sbort notes on each of the following. Each question should be answered in about I50 words :-IOx5=50
Q. The Elizabethan playhouse: Structure, audience and .impact. 10
Q. Augustan literature and its relationship with "Polite Society". 10
Q. Transitional poets and tlle)r contribution to a change in poetic sensibility.
Q. Democratisation of poetry during the' Romantic .Movement. 10
Q. I The influence of the public on the Victorion writer. 10
Q. 2. This question has three parts
Q. 2(a)What are the conflicting passions at work in'King Lear and how do they generate tragic experience 15·
Q. Examine. critically the relationship of Prospero with Caliban and Ariel in the light. of emerging European Colonialism. )15
Q. Account for the revival of interest in Donne's poetry in the 20th century. 20
Q. 3. This question bas three parts 15+15+20=50
Q. Do you agree with the view that Milton was "of the Devil's party withouJ-knowing it"? Give your opinion illustrating from the text. 15
Q. How does Pope achieve a mock-heroic effect in ,treating a trivial theme? 15
Q. If the poetry of Milton and Donne spring from the personal, Augustan poetry is centred .in society. Discuss. 20
Q. 4. This question has three parts
Q. Which poems of Wordsworth do you consider to have a special relevance to the present- day reader? 'Explain your 15
Q. In Memoriam is Tennyson's attempt to come to terms with the main conflict of his Discuss. 15
Q. A Doll's House addresses the question of a Woman's, place in society. Has any substantial change taken place since 20
SECTION-B
Q.5. Study the following poem and answer the questions :which follow. Each ,answer sb,ould. be in about 150 words :-lOx5=50
nobody! .Who ·are you?
Are you nobody, too
Then there's a pair of us tell
They'd banish us, you know.
How dreary to be somebody
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog
Q. Wliat sort of person do you think, is the speaker of the poem? .
Q. Do you think self-effacing persons are popular in society
Q. What is the speaker's attitude towards fame and publicity?
Q. Why 'does the speaker of the poem want not to be "somebody" .
Q. Comment critically on the image of the frog in the bog.
Q. 6.This question has three parts 15+15+20=50
Q. What aspects of contemporary British life does JrinathanSwift satirise in Gulliver's Travels? . .15
Q. Pride and Prejudice on the surface a novel depicting genteel life, but the motive force i is a desperate· man-hunt for. social survival. Examine. 15
Q. Describe your response to Tom Jones, a leisurely novel of a by-gone era. 20
Q. 7. This question has three parts
Q. "Chockful of faults and falsity" is how a critic found Tess ofthe d'urbervilles. Consider this statement and give your opinion. 15
Q. Would you consider the course that Maggie Tulliver's life takes, an, inevitable consequence of her circumstances Did she have choice 15,
Q. Hard nmes was condemned by Macaulay for its "sullen Socialism". In the nextcentufy.it became more popular. How do you account for this 20
Q. 8. This question has three parts 15+15+20=50
Q. Elizabeth Bennet, Maggie Tulliver d Tess were strongly'constrained by the society they' lived in. Do you think they passively accept life ·as it comes or do they exercise choice? 15
Q. The Adventures ofHuckleberry Finn is more than a boy's tale. What are the serious issues it addresses? 15
Q. E.M. Forster described Dickens's men and women ,as "flat characters". Which of the characters from Hard nmes do you find confonning to or deviating from this description 20