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Following are past test questions from English Lecturer Tests (BPS-17) by Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC). Find answers to the questions at the bottom of the page.
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6. In Linguistics, the process of moving from one vowel sound to another is called
(A) Gliding
(B) Stress
(C) Intonation
(D) Syntax
7. “but in a place of utter darkness, fitliest call’d Chaos : Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning Lake, thunder-struck and astonisht , after a certain space recovers, as from confusion, calls up him who next in Order and Dignity lay by him; they confer of thir miserable fall. Satan awakens all his Legions, who lay till then in the same manner confounded; They rise, thir Numbers, array of Battel , thir chief Leaders nam’d , according to the Idols known afterwards in Canaan and the Countries adjoyning . To these Satan directs his Speech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining Heaven, but tells them lastly of a new World and new kind of Creature to be created, according to an ancient Prophesie or report in Heaven;”
The above mentioned lines occur in Paradise Lost, Book,
(A) Book-1
(B) Book-2
(C) Book-3
(D) Book-4
8. Which is the book that is a humorous indictment of the vanities and idleness of 18th century high English society?
(A) An essay on Criticism
(B) An essay on Man
(C) Rape of the Lock
(D) Heroic Couplet
9. Consider the following lines,
“Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,”
Who is the character speaking the above lines?
(A) Othello
(B) Hamlet
(C) Dr. Faustus
(D) Romeo
10. Who is considered the founder of Metaphysical Poetry?
(A) Edmund Spencer
(B) Jhon Donne
(C) John Keats
(D) P.B.Shelley
Answers: FPSC English Lecturer Past Test Questions
6. (A)
7. (A)
8. (C)
9. (C)
10. (B)