Novel

1. “The Pickwick Papers” is a novel by?

2. In Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, who promises Lucie Manette that he would, if necessary,
die for her?
3. What accident befalls Miss Havisham before her death in Great Expectations?
4. For most of the novel, whom does Pip suspect of being his secret benefactor in Great
Expectations?
5. Where is Elizabeth when Darcy first proposes her?
6. Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice?
7. Adam Bede is an example of which school of writing?
8. Why does not Adam go to Ireland in George Elliot’s Adam Bede?
9. How does Gulliver leave Brobdingnag?
10. How does Gulliver earn the title of Nardac in Lilliput?
11. In Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, where does Kurtz die?
12. In “Old Man and Sea”, on the night before he promises Manolin to go far out to sea, of
what does Santiago dreams?
13. During which war does the novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” take place?
14. What destination do Catherine and Henry claim they have come to Switzerland to visit in
“A Farewell to Arms”?
15. In later life, what nickname did Hemingway assume to convey a sense of strength,
wisdom, and mastery?
16. Which Russian leader does Napoleon most resemble in Orwell’s Animal Farm?
17. What Russian institution does the raven Moses evoke in Orwell’s Animal Farm?

Poetry
1. In Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning
“Love Conquers All”?
2. At what time do “sleepless lovers” awake in The Rape of the Lock?
3. Who inspires Belinda’s dream in the first canto of The Rape of the Lock?
4. What purpose does Milton state for writing Paradise Lost?
5. In Paradise Lost, Milton describes a universe with Heaven in what position and what
primary quality?
6. Who believed that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotions?
7. “Lyrical Ballads” were published by?
8. Keats describes human life as a mansion of many _________?
9. Negative Capability to Keats, means:
10. Which is the famous elegy written by Shelly?
11. “She dwells with beauty, the beauty that must die” is a line from?
12. From which poem of Robert Frost is the following line extracted? “Earth’s the right place
for love”.
13. Andrea del Sarto is a poem written by?

Play
1. In “Oedipus the King” whose murder must be avenged to end the plague in Thebes?
2. What Oedipus and his father Laius have in common?
3. With whose help does Clytemnestra slaughter her husband Agamemnon?
4. Who is Christine’s counterpart in “The Oresteia ”?
5. Where does Lavinia follow her mother to spy on her?
6. What kind of government does Salem have in Miller’s “The Crucible”?
7. The University Wits were?
8. Who belongs to the Theatre of Absurd?
 Oscar Wilde
 Beckett
 Ibsen
 None of these
9. “My Fair Lady” is a cinematic version of?

Shakespeare
1. Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funeral?
2. In what country does the play Hamlet take place?
3. Brutus bases his decision to assassinate Caesar in Julius Caesar on?
4. Why, according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone mad?
5. How does Othello kill Desdemona?
6. How does Iago describe jealousy?
7. Othello is not insecure about?
8. Which of these pairs are not dramatic foils to each other?
 Othello and Iago
 Desdemona and Emilia
 Othello and Cassio
 Cassio and Iago
9. What prank does Puck play on Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream?

Prose/Quotes
1. What period in English Literature is called the Augustan Age?
2. The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was?
3. Mathew Arnold said “An ineffectual angel beating in the void the luminous wings in
vain”, about?
4. “The Crown of Wild Olive” was written by?
5. Who said “Proper study of mankind is man”?
6. “The Metaphysical Poets” is a critical essay by?
7. Who said “Poetry is the criticism of life”?
8. “Stream of Consciousness” is the phrase first used by?

Criticism/Literary Devices
1. What is one of the reasons (in Poetics by Aristotle) poetry emerged?
2. According to Aristotle, what is the most element of tragedy?
3. What is the least important element of a tragedy?
4. The tragic flaw is also called?
5. The only play by Shakespeare which conforms to the classical unities is?
6. A poem mourning someone’s death is called?
7. The first eight lines of a sonnet are called?
8. A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration for emphasis is called?
9. Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in Iambic pentameters rhymed in pairs are called?

Linguistics
1. Language is most accurately defined s a system of that allow or communication with
others.
2. Someone with a vocabulary of only 200 words can still combine the words in different
ways to say thousands of different things. This aspect of language is referred to as:
3. What is the lexical relationship between freedom and liberty?
4. Chomsky’s theory of language development emphasized?
 Learned and conditioning principles
 Innate structures and biological mechanisms
 The language support system provided by parents
 Children’s cognitive abilities
5. A child’s expansive vocabulary is directly concerned with?
6. What are two levels of language referred to the term “identity”?
7. What is semiotics?
8. What does Morphology study?
9. What is the linguistic term for the study of pitch movement in language?
10. Researchers have found that bilingualism:
 Has a negative effect on children’s cognitive development
 Has a positive effect on children’s cognitive development
 Confuses children in regard to language development
 Results in children scoring lower than monolingual children in intellectual tests
11. Which of these is not a linguistic aspect of communicative competence?
 Phonological
 Discourse
 Lexical
 Interactional
12. Placing phrase or sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other
is called?

Grammar
1. A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses is a
____?
2. Choose proper preposition. ____ the age of 18 he was sent to prison for theft.
3. Choose the proper word. You ______ better take off your wet shoes.
4. Convert to Passive voice. “People speak English all over the world”
5. I _________ upon his privacy.
 Intruded
 Approached
 Violated
 Counted
6. The cupboard was _____ big ______ fit through the door.
7. Complete the idiom. “To cast _____ before swine”.

General Knowledge
1. Which of the following does not constitute security risks and possible violations of
privacy?
 Identity theft
 Viruses
 Hackers
 Spam
2. In MS Word 2007, which shortcut key is used to increase left indent?
3. The cost of a vest after a 15% discount is Rs.102. What is the cost of vest before
discount?
4. Complete the number series. 4, 9, 13, 22, 35, ______.
5. If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily, it is called?
6. Plants primarily get their Nitrogen from?
7. Who is the minister for overseas Pakistanis in the Government?
8. Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Nadine Gordimer belonged to which country?
9. Which country is the largest producer of Shale gas?
10. Which amendment of the 1973 constitution enhanced the powers of the President
substantially including the power to dissolve the National Assembly if conditions in the country
did not permit functioning of the Federal Government?
11. Quaid-e-Azam resigned from membership of Congress in?
12. Name of the DG ISPR?
13. Which body of the UNO deals with refugee issues?
14. Who is the current Governor of State Bank of Pakistan?
15. Who is the writer of the famous classical novel “Umrao Jaan Ada”?
16. Meaning of Urdu idiom “Zair o Zabar karna”?