PUNJAB PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
Combined Competitive Examination (CCE) 2020
For Recruitment to the Posts of Provincial Management Service (PMS)
SUBJECT: English Literature (Paper-I)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt any FIVE Questions in All, Including Question No. I Which is Compulsory.
Q.2 A) Explain with reference to the context ONE of the following: (10 Marks)
(i)
“Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell,
And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well,
And better than thy stroke; why swell’st thou then?
One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.”
OR
(ii)
“Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder
If I could put a notion in his head;
Why do they make good neighbours? Isn’t it
Where there are cows? But here there are no cows.”
b) Fill in the blanks (All parts are compulsory): (10 Marks)
i. Kubla Khan is a fragment which consists of ________.
ii. John Keats died of ________.
iii. Preface to Lyrical Ballads was written by ________.
iv. W. B. Yeats died in the year ________.
v. “The Second Coming” first appeared in the magazine named ________.
vi. The writer of the poem “Woman Work” is an African ________.
vii. The Tempest was first performed in the court in 1613 on the occasion of the marriage of Princess ________.
viii. Yank is a ________ in The Hairy Ape.
ix. ________ is described as a character who is demanding other people’s love in the play Look Back in Anger.
x. Happy, in Death of a Salesman, is ________ years old.
Q.2 What is the significance of the role of Ariel in the play The Tempest? (20 Marks)
Q.3 Discuss Arthur Miller’s views on the role of family in modern drama, with particular reference to Death of a Salesman. (20 Marks)
Q.4 Discuss the role of fate and free will in the play Oedipus Rex. (20 Marks)
Q.5 “A Romance in Five Acts” is the subtitle of Pygmalion. How far is it true? Discuss whether the play is a tragedy or a comedy. (20 Marks)
Q.6
“I took the one less travelled by,
And that has made all the difference.”
Critically evaluate The Road Not Taken highlighting the problem of choice in life in the light of these lines. (20 Marks)
Q.7 Examine the structure of The Waste Land and explain how T. S. Eliot gives coherence and unity to its diverse material. (20 Marks)
Q.8 “Kubla Khan is a triumphant positive statement of the potentialities of poetry.” Do you agree? (20 Marks)
SUBJECT: English Literature (Paper-II)
Time Allowed: 3 Hours
Maximum Marks: 100
Attempt any FIVE questions in All.
Q.1
a) How does Edward Said show culture as an instrument of imperialism?
b) What is the impact of imperialism on literature?
(10 + 10 = 20 Marks)
Q.2 How does Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o establish the importance of local language over English in his essay On the Abolition of the English Department? (20 Marks)
Q.3 Discuss the theme of partition in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Ice-Candy-Man. (20 Marks)
Q.4 What are the important symbols in Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart? How do they relate to plot and characters? (20 Marks)
Q.5 Through The Mummy Awakens, Naguib Mahfouz uses Egypt’s glorified past to comment on its problematic present. Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q.6 Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms is not only a war novel but also a tragic love story comparable to Romeo and Juliet. Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q.7 To Kill a Mockingbird deals with race in America, and Atticus Finch is seen as a symbol of justice. Discuss. (20 Marks)
Q.8 Ice-Candy-Man (Cracking India) is a novel set in the background of partition, dealing with human emotions like love and jealousy. Comment. (20 Marks)
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