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Following are sample paper questions for “Lecturer in English” test by Federal Public Service Commission (FPSC).

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6. Which American poet has been considered as “the most perfect flower of New England Transcendentalism?”
(A) Edgar Allen Poe
(B) Emily Dickinson
(C) Robert Frost
(D) Walt Whitman

7. Consider the following lines,

“The Frost performs its secret ministry,
Unhelped by any wind. The owlet’s cry
Came loud-and hark, again! loud as before.
The inmates of my cottage, all at rest,
Have left me to that solitude, which suits
Abstruser musings: save that at my side
My cradled infant slumbers peacefully.”

Who is the poet of the above verses?
(A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(B) Jhon Keats
(C) Jhon Donne
(D) None of these

8. “Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody’s face but their own.” Who said this?
(A) George Bernard Shaw
(B) Jonathan Swift
(C) Bacon
(D) T. S. Eliot

9. “Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative; with incidents arousing pity and fear.”
Who defined tragedy as mentioned above?
(A) Sophocles
(B) Aristotle
(C) Shakespeare
(D) Christopher Marlow

10. Sophocles was a renowned and successful Athenian writer of
(A) Lyrics
(B) Epics
(C) Comedies
(D) Tragedies

Answers: FPSC English Lecturer Test Sample Paper
6. (B)
7. (A)
8. (B)
9. (B)
10. (D)