English Lecturer Series

Name of the Candidate :

PPSC Lecturer English Past Paper 2015

Time Allowed: 100 Minutes Total Marks: 100

Note: The wrong answer will cause .25% deduction of marks.

Attempted: Wrong: Obtained Marks:

1. Who authored "Piers Plowman"?

(a). Chaucer
(b). William Langland
(c). Sir Thomas Malory
(d). Geoffrey of Monmouth
2. __________ belongs to a relatively small group of creative geniuses whose greatest works were
written after he turned 50.
(a). Coleridge
(b). Keats
(c). Milton
(d). Spenser
3. What characterizes a “metaphysical conceit”, a strategy characteristic of John Donne’s poetry?
(a). confusion that avoids questions of moral accountability
(b). self-definition through images
(c). the liking of images from very different range of experience
(d). The chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements
4. What is the title of Milton’s blank-verse epic that is written in and critiques the epic tradition?
(a). The Divine Comedy
(b). Lycidas
(c). Paradise Lost
(d). L’Allegro
5. Which poets collaborated on the Lyrical Ballads of 1798?
(a). Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
(b). Dorothy Wordsworth and William Wordsworth
(c). William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(d). Charles Lamb and William Hazlit
6. Which poet asserted in practice and theory the value of representing a rustic life as well as social
outcasts not only in pastoral poetry, common before this time but also as the major subject and
the medium for poetry in general.
(a). Mary Wollstonecraft
(b). William Wordsworth
 (c). William Blake
(d). Leigh Hunt
7. Published together in 1609, Shakespeare’s ___________ sonnets, in number are the only direct
expression of the poet’s own feelings that we possess, for his plays are the most impersonal in all
literature.
(a). 152
(b). 153
(c). 154
(d). 155
8. Sylvia Plath was the wife of :
(a). Ted Hughes
(b). T.S. Eliot
(c). Ezra Pound
(d). W.H. Auden
9. In the Rime of Ancient Mariner, two figures on the ship cast dice for the Ancient Mariner and
the ship; ___________ wins the Mariner.
(a). life
(b). death
(c). life-in-death
(d). death-in-life
10. Coleridge under subtle states of feeling including depression and irrational sense of guilt found
an outlet in fantasy, supremely in_______.
(a). Sleep and La Bella Dame Sans Merci
(b). The Rime of Ancient Mariner and Kubla Khan
(c). Lucy Gray and Reverie of Susan
(d). She Walks in Beauty and Hours of Idleness
11. "Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;" Who is Keats in his Ode to a Nightingale
referring to:
(a). George Keats
(b). John Keats
(c). Fahny Keats
(d). Fanny Browne
12. Keats was of the opinion that some certainties were best left open to imagination and that the
element of doubt and ambiguity added __________ and specially to a concept.
(a). Classicism
(b). Neo-classicism
(c). Romanticism
(d). Neo-romanticism
13. Wyatt and Surrey in the 16th century imported the __________ into the English language.
(a). Shakespearean sonnet
(b). Spenserian sonnet
 (c). Patrician sonnet
(d). Petrarchan sonnet
14. Adrienne Rich’s "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers” contrasts the creative needlework produced by Aunt
Jenifer with
(a) The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band
(b) Deniznes of a world of green
(c) Men beneath the tree
(d) Sleek chivalric certainty
15. Alexander Pope’s ___________ recasts a petty high-society scandal as a mythological battle for
the virtue of an innocent.
(a) Summer
(b) Sound and Sense
(c) Eloisa to Aberald
(d) The Rape of the Lock
16. ____________ was an exile at Eton, a revolutionary thinker, an intellectual for whom to think
was normally to do.
(a). Keats
(b). Shelley
(c). Byron
(d). Coleridge
17. The energy vision and music of the most exciting English lyric poets Shelley are exemplified in
___________ an elegy for John Keats.
(a). L’Allegro
(b). Mont Blanc
(c). Hyperion
(d). Adonis
18. Fries classifies ‘utterance’ into __________.
(a). single minimum free utterance
(b). single free utterance, not minimum
(c). all of these
(d). none of these
19. A word/set of words followed by a pause and revealing an intelligible purpose is ________.
(a). word
(b). phrase
(c). sentence
(d). clause
20. The label ________ denotes a form: a group of words with a subject and predicate.
(a). fragment
(b). phrase
(c). sentence
(d). clause
21. Lexical unit in which two or more lexical morphemes are juxtaposed is called:
(a) Idiom
(b) Phrase
(c) Compound
(d) Clause
22. __________ themselves, myself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves are ______________.
(a) Reciprocal pronouns
(b) Reflexive pronouns
(c) Both A & B
(d) None of these
23. __________ was introduced at the beginning of the century by Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-
1913) as a deliberate reaction to the historically oriented linguistics of the 19th century.
(a) Duality of patterning
(b) Structuralism
(c) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis
(d) Linguistic determinism
24. __________ are consonants for which the flow of air is stopped or restricted by the two lips.
(a) Nasal
(b) Affricative
(c) Glottal
(d) Bilabial
25. On linguistic map, a line indicating the degree of linguistic change is called ______________.
(a) Dialect
(b) Registers
(c) Isoglass
(d) Idiolect
26. A contract language, a mixture of elements from different natural languages is called
____________.
(a) Idiolect
(b) Dialect
(c) Diglossia
(d) Pidgin
27. The smallest parts of expression associated with some meaning are called ___________.
(a) Stems
(b) Morphemes
(c) Suffixes
(d) Prefixes
28. Language which investigates how the people speak and use language in a given speech
community at a given time is called ___________.
(a) Diachronic linguistics
(b) Synchronic linguistics
(c) Comparative linguistics
(d) All of these
29. The study of hearing and the perception of speech sounds is called ____________.
(a) Articulatory phonetics
(b) Acoustic phonetics
(c) Auditory phonetics
(d) None of these
30. Consonant that is produced with a strict is called ______________.
(a) Plosives or stops
(b) Articulators
(c) Allophonic variations
(d) None of these
31. According to Bloomfield, the organization of sound into patterns is called _______________.
(a) Phonetics
(b) Phonology
(c) Anthropology
(d) Lexicography
32. Phoneme, phone, allophone are the concepts of ____________.
(a) Phonetics
(b) Phonology
(c) Anthropology
(d) Lexicography
33. When a pidgin becomes a lingua-franca, it is called a _____________.
(a) Dialect
(b) Idiolect
(c) Creole
(d) Diglossia
34. The opening slot in the sentence patterns, filled by a noun phrase or other nominal, which
functions as the topic of the sentence _____________.
(a) Compliment
(b) Subject
(c) Predicate
(d) Adjunct
35. Mood is related to illuctionary force. Moods are __________.
(a) Speaker oriented
(b) Subject oriented
(c) Epistemic
(d) All of these
36. Sklarier was influential in defining radical ___________.
(a) Structuralism
(b) Behaviorism
(c) Cognitive approach
(d) None
37. A form of teaching writing in which learners are given step-by-step instructions is ___________.
(a) Writing organizational skills
(b) Editing skills
(c) Free writing
(d) Guided writing
38. Another name for Grammar Translation Method is __________ .
(a) Aural Method
(b) Classical Method
(c) Direct Method
(d) Communicative Method
39. The set of all possible grammatical sentences is the language is____________.
(a) Langue
(b) Le language
(c) Parole
(d) All of these
40. The Oral Method is not a complete method itself _____________.
(a) Outdated
(b) Obsolete
(c) Defected
(d) Necessary part/phrase of the complete method
41. _____________ was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948, ‘for his outstanding pioneer
contribution to present-day poetry.”
(a) W.H. Auden
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Ezra Pound
42. Culture and Imperialism is a sequel to ___________.
(a) Nationalism
(b) Orientalism
(c) Marxism
(d) None of these
43. Voltaire, Pope, Swift and Kant belonged to the philosophical movement of the eighteenth
century that celebrated reason-clarity of thought and statement, scientific thinking, and a
person’s ability to perfect oneself.
(a) Enlightenment
(b) Renaissance
(c) Reformation
(d) None of these
44. Bacon’s devotedness to_____________ was responsible for his rapid rise in the British Court
which won him knighthood.
(a) Henry VIII
(b) Mary Tudor
(c) Elizabeth I
(d) James I
45. In The Defence of Poesy, what did Philip Sidney attribute to poetry?
(a) A realistic power that cannot be made to seem like more illusion and trickery
(b) A defensive power whereby poetry and its figurative expressions allow the poet to avoid
censorship
(c) A magical power whereby poetry plays tricks on the reader
(d) A moral power whereby poetry encourages the reader to emulate virtuous models.
46. Which of the following Shakespearean plays is NOT a tragi-comedy?
(a) A Winter’s Tale
(b) Romeo and Juliet
(c) The Tempest
(d) The Merchant of Venice
47. ----- a delicate visual, called, ___________ operates in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being
Ernest crystalizing underlying meanings.
(a) Symbolisms
(b) Puns
(c) Imagery
(d) Diction
48. Linda in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House provides a sub-plot by her relations with Krongstad and she
serves a foil and model to ____________, who recognizes through her that a woman is entitled
to her own judgment and independent thought.
(a) Gina
(b) Rebecca
(c) Nora
(d) Hedda
49. G.B.Shaw was influenced by__________ as the dramatist’s plays exactly titled every middle
and professional class suburb in Europe.
(a) Racine
(b) Molre
(c) Ibsen
(d) Shakespeare
50. Contemporary drama saw Brecht create ___________.
(a) Street theatre
(b) Theatre of absurd
(c) Epic theatre
(d) Roman theatre
51. Paradise Lost was written to be a justification of _____________ resting on theological system
as definite at almost as carefully articulated in the De Doctrine Christiania as Dante had accepted
from the Summa of Aquinas.
(a) The ways of Satan to men
(b) The ways of Man to Satan
(c) The ways of God to man
(d) None of these
52. What does Keats referrer to urn to?
(a) An unravished bride of quietness
(b) Left-tring’d legend haunts
(c) Sylvan author
(d) Bold lover
53. George Eliot put a good deal of her divided feelings about ____________ into the story of
Maggie and Tom.
(a) Religion
(b) Her own childhood
(c) Farm life
(d) Social norms
54. No 19th century successor in the novel/theatre approaches the ________________ Jane Austen
developed by formal disciple and concentration of theme.
(a) Economy of words and action
(b) Use of paradox
(c) Use of puns
(d) Use of titles
55. The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I is
a/an
(a) Legend
(b) Elegy
(c) Allegory
(d) None of these
56. Taufiq Rafat’s concern with the ___________ is one expression of conflict between tradition
and modernism which has been feature of all ex-colonies.
(a) Parallelism
(b) Imagery
(c) Pun
(d) Pakistani idiom
57. Sophocles uses the chorus, a group of __________ Thebans, to comment on the play’s action
and to foreshadow future events.
(a) 50
(b) 11
(c) 15
(d) 12
58. Eugene O’ Neil argues that there can be ‘tragedy of the common man.’
(a) False- it was Tennessee Williams
(b) False--- it was Arthur Miller
(c) False--- it was Thornton Wilder
(d) True
59. The three primary characteristics of theatre of the absurd are __________.
(a) Plot structure, prose language, and characters who are often noble or royal.
(b) Illogical plots, language that uses nonsense and non-sequitur, and characters that are existential
beings.
(c) Plots, verse language, and stereotypical characters
(d) Epic plots, sung dialogue, and characters that showcase the working man
60. The literature of ___________ saw the steady emergence of novel which provided real literature
for children either for their instruction or entertainment. Thus, the child became either the central
subject and/or object of a many of writings.
(a) Elizabethan age
(b) Romantic age
(c) Augustan age
(d) Victorian age
61. ___________, the Wife of Bath’s fame derives from Character’s deft characterization of her as a
brassy, woman.
(a) Alice
(b) Alisoun
(c) Annetie
(d) Amy
62. Between 1349-1350, England lost nearly half of the population to _________.
(a) Plague
(b) Yellow fever
(c) Earthquake
(d) Black Death
63. Keats wrote his six great odes ___________.
(a) Between 1816 to 1819
(b) Between December and January 1814
(c) Between April and September 1819
(d) Between May and June 1817
64. Byron sealed his European reputation as a rebel by his death while supporting the ___________
against the Turks.
(a) Mustafa Kamal
(b) The Greek Revolt
(c) The Iran Revolt
(d) The Turkish Revolt
65. Philosophically Shelley was a follower of ___________, holding the world of appearances less
real than the world of underlying Forms and Ideas.
(a) Aristotle
(b) Sophocles
(c) Plato
(d) Zeus
66. George Orwell continues the great ironic tradition of __________ and others.
(a) Lewis Carol
(b) Daniel Defoe
(c) Voltaire
(d) Swift
67. The sonnet on ____________ records a moment of vision in which Wordsworth for once is able
to achieve satisfactory ordering of the complexities of the city.
(a) Reverie of Poor Susan
(b) Westminster Bridge (1802)
(c) I travelled among unknown men
(d) When I have memory
68. According to __________, the novels of the eighteen forties do not reflect the respective society
but they try to define it and in their attempt at defining the society they also participate in the
common social process.
(a) Samuel Johnson
(b) Raymond Williams
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Huxley
69. Postcolonial literature addresses __________.
(a) The new cultural identity of the colonies
(b) Travelogues
(c) Biographies
(d) Autobiographies
70. Which literary form, developed in the fifteenth century, personified vices and virtues?
(a) Heroic epic
(b) Morality play
(c) The romance
(d) The short story
71. A word that sounds like the right word but means something quite different is known as
___________.
(a) Witticism
(b) Epigram
(c) Pun
(d) pathos
72. Which of the following is NOT a technique of comedy?
(a) Plot complications
(b) Verbal humor
(c) Strong emphasis on suspense
(d) Comedy of character
73. Following ____________ model of pretending to defend the October Revolution, Orwell
protests at the corruption of Communism’s ideas in the Soviet Union by Stalin.
(a) Bolshevik’s
(b) Trotsky’s
(c) Lenin’s
(d) Kereasky’s
74. Which poem of Frost does the line ---- good fences make good neighbors ---- remind you of?
(a) Mending Wall
(b) After Apple-Picking
(c) Birches
(d) Road not Taken
75. ____________ represented the feelings of an age anxious about the miserable conditions of its
children and inspired others to make a similar protest.
(a) Tess (Thomas Hardy)
(b) Oliver Twist (Dickens)
(c) Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)
(d) Middlemarch (George Eliot)
76. “. . . It is a sort of poetical chronicle. At the end one has the feeling that poetry and daily life
have got parted, and will never come together again . . .’ Which work of Ahmed Ali is Foster
referring to?
(a) Rats and Diplomats
(b) Ocean of Night
(c) The Golden Tradition
(d) Twilight in Delhi
77. The conflict of life with the forces of experience places Dickens an heir to the ___________.
(a) Classical poets
(b) Neo-classical poets
(c) Romantic poets
(d) Elizabeth’s poets
78. After graduating in 1931 Ahmed Ali earned his living as a __________.
(a) Lecturer
(b) Novelist
(c) Short-story writer
79. The novel as a vehicle for psychological analysis rather than the recounting events became the
major literary form in mid-__________ century.
(a) 18th century
(b) 19th century
(c) 20th century
(d) 21st century
Choose the correct word/pair of words that best fits the meaning of the following sentences as a
whole:
80. Except for eggs, which rarely go ___________ in price, the cost of egg is going ___________.
(a) Cut, up
(b) Down, out
(c) Down, up
(d) Up, out
81. The misunderstanding __________ the two parties was _______ a scheduling conflict.
(a) Among, upon
(b) Between, over
(c) About, on
(d) Among, on
82. Fancy the happiness __________Pinocchio________ finding himself free!
(a) Off, on
(b) Of, while
(c) Of, on
(d) About, on
83. Paradoxically, the more ___________ the details Noor chooses, the more able is she to depict
her pictures to landscapes.
(a) Fanciful
(b) Meritorious
(c) Realistic
(d) Illustrated
84. Time flies_____________.
(a) Like a knife
(b) Like wings
(c) Like an arrow
(d) A blizzaard
85. In the landscape so calm and beautiful, it was hard to believe that anything ___________ could
occur.
(a) Untoward
(b) Temperate
(c) Halcyon
(d) seemly
86. You need to consider the ___________ before you make a decision.
(a) Odds and ends
(b) Tooth and nail
(c) Pros and cons
(d) and
87. The _________ of the minister’s statement cannot be verified by people who have no access to
official reports.
(a) Ambiguity
(b) Verbosity
(c) Validity
(d) Veracity
88. The ___________ sounded lame to her and she did not want to give in.
(a) Promises
(b) Observations
(c) Excuses
(d) Statements
89. Which of these sentences does not contain an adverb?
(a) The child ran happily towards his mother
(b) Sara walked to the shops
(c) The mother gently woke the sleeping baby
(d) I visited my mum yesterday
90. Choose the correct sentence:
(a) You’ll be shocked when I tell you who called me last night.
(b) You’ll be shocked when I tell you whom called me last night.
(c) You’ll be shocked when I tell you what called me last night.
(d) You’ll be shocked when that I tell you who called me last night.
Choose the correct Antonyms of the following:
91. Patrician
(a) Common; bourgeois; unrefined; lower-class
(b) Boss; superior; chief; leader
(c) Authentic; doubtless; real; true
(d) Break; separation; division
92. Acumen
(a) Plain; bland; unadorned; austere
(b) Ignorance; ineptness; stupidity
(c) Noticeable; obvious; conspicuous; salient
(d) Bending; flexible; pliable
93. Pull the rug from under
(a) To use influence
(b) Abruptly ruin
(c) For a loop
(d) To knock down
94. Grotesque
(a) Archaic
(b) Whimsical
(c) Graceful
(d) Mild
95. Zenith
(a) Pinnacle
(b) Nadir
(c) Afford
(d) Naught
Choose the correct Synonyms of the following:
96. Pique
(a) Question
(b) Delay
(c) Arouse
(d) Grow

97. Circumvent
(a) Hate
(b) Seek
(c) Avoid
(d) Choose

98. Paradoxical
(a) Productive
(b) Contradictory
(c) Effective
(d) Fair
99. Close Shave
(a) Hair’s breadth
(b) By the skin of one’s teeth
(c) Narrow escape
(d) All of these
100. Spo
ken
(a) vocal
(b) written
(c) aural
(d) unspoken