English Literature I I - College Lecturer Exam Paper - Ques 150

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Rajasthan Public Service Commission 2016 College Lecturer Exam Paper: English Literature II-II, totaling 150 questions to be completed in three hours. The paper focuses on English literary history and criticism, testing recognition of authors and works, identification of quotations, and understanding of concepts such as University Wits, “Carpe Diem,” and the formal structure of a Shakespearean sonnet. It includes play identification, poem attribution, and multiple-choice assessments across poets, dramatists, and prose writers.

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28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam English Literature I I Rajasthan Public Service Commission 2016 Paper : English Literature I I Ques: 150 Time: 3 Hours | Ques \# : 1

1) Reginal Peacock
2) William Tyndale
3) Sir Thomas Malory
4) Thomas Moore | | --- | | Ques \# :2

1) George Gascoigne
2) John Lyly
3) Thomas Nashe
4) Thomas Delany | | Ques \# :3

1) "Extropia"
2) "The Neverland"
3) "The New Atlantis"
4) "The New World" | | Ques \# :4
Identify the play by Christopher Marlowe in which these lines occur "Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships …"?
1) 2)
3) 4) | | Ques \# :5
Identify the dramatist who does NOT belong to the group of dramatists known as "University Wits".
1) Thomas Nashe
2) Robert Green
3) Thomas Kyd
4) Cyril Tourneur | Ques \# :6 28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam English Literature I I Who among the following is called the "poet's poet"? 1) Geoffrey Chaucer 2) William Shakespeare 3) Edmund Spenser 4) John Milton | Ques \# :7

1) Truth
2) Holiness
3) Temperance
4) Courtsey | | --- | | Ques \# :8
Which poem pronounces the poet's aim as , "Fierce Warres and faithful loves shall moralize my song " ?
1)
2) "A Hymn to God the Father "
3) "A Parting"
4) "Christ's Victory and Triumph" | | Ques \# :9

1) John Fletcher
2) Ben Jonson
3) Thomas Kyd
4) Christopher Marlowe | | Ques \# : 10

1) Phillip Massinger
2) Francis Beaumont
3) Desiderius Erasmus
4) James Shirley | | Ques \# : 11
Of what does Bacon say that it does,"offend the law….putheth the law out of office" ?
1) Truth
2) Revenge
3) Envy
4) Simulation | Ques \# : 12 28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam English Literature I I 1) Sir Epicure Mammon 2) Morose 3) Subtle 4) Dapper | Ques \# : 13
Who were called the "Tribe of Ben" ?
1) poets who followed Ben Jonson
2) dramatists who followed Ben Jonson
3) courtiers who followed Ben Jonson
4) admirers of Ben Jonson | | --- | | Ques \# : 14
"I am a man more sinned against than sinning ", is an excerpt from the play …………….
1)
2) 3) 4) | | Ques \# : 15
The character Bottom appears in the following Shakespearean comedy :
1) 2)
3) 4) | | Ques \# : 16
Which of the following translated Homer's "The Illiad" and "The Odyssey "?
1) Ben Jonson
2) George Chapman
3) Edmund Spenser
4) Philip Sidney | | Ques \# : 17
The formal structure of a typical Shakespearean Sonnet is :
1) An octave and a sestet
2) Three quatrains and a couplet
3) An octave , a quatrain and a couplet
4) A couplet followed by three quatrains | Ques \# : 18 28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam English Literature I I The lines "stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage", are from? 1) 2) Edmund Spenser's "Epithalamion" 3) Richard Lovelace's "To Althea from Prison" 4) | Ques \# : 19
Which of Andrew Marvell's poems deals with the theme of "Carpe Diem" (seize the day) ?
1) "Thoughts in a Garden"
2) "To his Coy Mistress"
3) "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland"
4) "Upon Appleton House" | | --- | | Ques \# :20
Who says of Donne : "He affects the metaphysics"?
1) Dr Samuel Johnson
2) T. S. Eliot
3) John Dryden
4) H.J.C Grierson | | Ques \# :21

1) an epic poem
2) a verse drama
3) a prose romance
4) a ballad | | Ques \# :22
Which of the following plays resulted in the closure of all theaters ?
1)
2) 3) 4) | | Ques \# :23
Shakespeare incorporates Livy's account of Tarquin's lust in a narrative work called
1)
2) "Venus and Adonis"
3) "The Rape of Lucrece" 4) | ues \# :24 28/06/2016 College Lecturer Exam English Literature I I 1) Francis Bacon 2) Thomas Lodge 3) Richard Booker 4) Robert Burton | Ques \# :25
Bacon describes his essays as :
1) random thoughts
2) dispersed meditations
3) s

FAQs

What is the exam name and subject of this document?

It is the Rajasthan Public Service Commission 2016 College Lecturer Exam, with the subject listed as English Literature I/II-II (English Literature I I).

How many questions and how much time are allocated?

The paper states Ques: 150 and Time: 3 Hours.

What types of questions does the paper include?

The paper primarily uses multiple-choice questions that ask for author and work identification, play/poem attribution from lines, and understanding of literary terms and forms (e.g., Shakespearean sonnet structure, “Carpe Diem”).

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