Past Papers of PPSC Lecturer English 2017 MCQs for English Lecturer test preparation online.
Past Papers of PPSC Lecturer English 2017 MCQs
Nobel prize winner in Literature, Nadine Gordimer, belonged to:
A. Australia
B. THE UK
C. Brazil
D. South Africa
Which country is the largest producer of Shale Gas?
A. Qatar
B. Russia
C. Iran
D. USA
Quaid-e-Azam resigned from membership of Congress in:
A. 1913
B. 1916
C. 1920
D. 1922
Name the director General of the Inter Services Public Relations (ISRP).
A. Lt. Gen. Asim Bajwa
B. Maj. Gen. Suhail Khan
C. Maj. Gen. Asif Ghafoor
D. None of these
Which of the following bodies of the United Nations deals with Refugee issues?
A. UNHCR
B. OHCHR
C. UNESCO
D. UNITAR
Who is the Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan?
A. Asraf Wathra
B. Tariq Bajwa
C. Ehtesham Ashai
D. None of these
‘My Fair Lady’ is a Cinematic Version of:
A. Pygmalion
B. Candida
C. Getting Married
D. None of these
The cost of a vest after a 15 per cent discount is 102. What is the cost of the vest before the discount?
A. 117
B. 120
C. 116
D. 121
Complete the number series: 4,9,13,22, 35………
A. 57
B. 70
C. 63
D. 75
Convert to Passive Voice: “People speak English all over the World”.
A. English is spoken by people all over the world
B. English was spoken by people all over the world
C. English had been spoken by people all over the world
D.English is spoken by people
Fill in the blanks: I ……… upon his privacy.
A. Intruded
B. Approached
C. Violated
D. Counted
Fill in the blanks (s): The cupboard was …big….fit through the door”.
A. too/ to
B. more /than
C. so / that
D. as/ to
Complete the Idiom: “To cast ..before swine”
A. Diamonds
B. Pearls
C. Gold
D. Shadow
If a metal can be drawn into wires relatively easily, it is called:
A. Malleable
B. Ductile
C. Extractive
D. Tackle
Plants primarily get their Nitrogen form:
A. Soil
B. Atmosphere
C. Rain
D. None of these
Who is the Minister for Overseas Pakistanis in the Government?
A. Hussain Shah Rashidi
B. Pir Sadruddin Rashidi
C. Birjees Tahir
D. Karnran Michael
“Andrea Del Sart” is a poem written by:
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. Robert Browning
C. John Keats
D. T.S. Eliot
Who represents Prejudice in Jane Austen’s novel “Pride and Prejudice”.
A. Mr Darcy
B. Miss Elizabeth
C. Miss Jane
D. None of these
“Lyrical Ballads” were published by:
A. Coleridge
B. Wordsworth
C. Both Coleridge and Wordsworth
D. None of these
“Stream of Consciousness” is the phrase first used by:
A. James Joyce
B. William James
C. Virginia Woolf
D. William Faulkner
Placing Phrase or Sentences of similar construction and meaning and balancing each other is called:
A. Parallelism
B. Alliteration
C. Para Rhyme
D. Rhetoric
A figure of speech which contains an exaggeration form emphasis is called:
A. Overtone
B. Rhetoric
C. Extended metaphor
D. Hyperbole
Rhymed decasyllables, nearly always in Lambic Pentameters rhymed in Pairs, are called:
A. Heroic Couplet
B. Blank verse
C. Terza Rima
D. Spenserian Stanza
All of the following constitute security risks and possible violations of privacy except:
A. Identity theft
B. Viruses
C. Hackers
D. Spam
In MS Word 2007, which shortcut key is used to increase the left indent?
A. Ctrl + L
B. Ctrl + M
C. Ctrl + 1
D. F10
For most of the novel, who does Pip suspect of being his secret benefactor, In Great Expectations?
A. Jaggers
B. Magwitch
C. Joe
D. Miss Havisham
Why, according to Polonius, has Hamlet gone mad?
A. He grieves too much for his father
B. He despises Claudius for marrying Gertrude
C. He is in love with Ophelia
D. He is jealous of Laertes and longs to return to Wittenberg
Which of these is not a linguistic aspect of communicative competence?
A. Phonological
B. Discourse
C. Lexical
D. Interactional
The literary figure who had the most pronounced effect on Keats was:
A. Dante
B. Shakespeare
C. Wordsworth
D. Shelley
The first eight lines of a sonnet are called:
A. Octave
B. Sestet
C. Refrain
D. None of these
The only play by Shakespeare which conforms to the classical unities is:
A. Hamlet
B. Twelfth Night
C. Roman and Juliet
D. None of these
“Proper study of Mankind is man” …….who has said these words:
A. Pope
B. Swift
C. Shelley
D. None of these
“The Metaphysical Poets” is a critical essay by:
A. Arnold
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Shelley
D. None of these
Who said this “Poetry is Criticism of life”:
A. William Wordsworth
B. Lord Byron
C. T.S. Eliot
D. Mathew Arnold
Which of these pairs are not dramatic foils to each other?
A. Othello and Iago
B. Desdemona and Emilia
C. Othello and Cassio
D. Iago and Cassio
Who is Christine’s counterpart in “The Oresteia”?
A. Electra
B. Ctylemnestra
C. Iphigenia
D. Iago and Cassio
What kind of government does Salem have in Miller’s “The Crucible”?
A. Democracy
B. Theocracy
C. Monarchy
D. Kleptocracy
Which destination do Catherine and Henry claim they have come to, Switzerland to visit A Farewell to Arms?
A. Lucerne
B. Murren
C. Locarno
D. Montreux
In later life, what nickname did Hemingway assume to convey a sense of strength, wisdom and mastery?
A. Sensei
B. Top cat
C. Papa
D. Dope
What prank does Puck play on Bottom in a Midsummer Night’s Dream?
A. He transforms him into a bear
B. He steals his clothes
C. He changes his voice into that of a wood thrush
D. He changes his head into that of an ass
With whose help does Clytemnestra slaughter her husband, Agamemnon?
A. Orestes
B. Aegisthus
C. Cassandra
D. Electra
Which of the following do Oedipus and his father Laius have in common?
A. They both correctly answered the riddle of the sphinx
B. They both disobeyed the commands of the gods
C. They both slept with Antigone
D.They both tried to override their fate
How does Gulliver earn the title of Nardac in Lilliput?
A. By capturing the Blefuscudian fleet
B. By putting out the fire in the empress’s quarters
C. By helping the Lilliputians construct a new palace
D. By showing lenience towards a group of soldiers who earlier attach him
How does lago describe jealousy?
A. Downfall of many men
B. The scourge of the weak monster
C. The green-eyed monster
D. The monster in the though
A sentence that contains two or more independent clauses and no subordinate clauses is a:
A. Simple sentence
B. Compound sentence
C. Complex sentence
D. Compound-complex / multiple sentences
What are two levels of language referred to by the term ‘identify’?
A. Phonetics and Phonology
B. Sound and meaning
C. Morphology and syntax
D. Structure and use
What is semiotics?
A. The study of music
B. The study of buildings
C. The study of human communication
D. The study of disability
What does morphology study?
A. Pronunciation
B. Pronunciation
C. Word order
D. Word structure
What is the linguistic term for the study of pitch movement in language?
A. Melody
B. Rhythm
C. Loudness
D. Intonation
In Paradise Lost, Milton describes a universe with Heaven in what position and with what primary quality?
A. Middle, purity
B. Top, light
C. Bottom, forgiveness
D. Top, profound wisdom
Which of these is Othello not insecure about?
A. His race
B. His position and rank
C. His “rough” manners
D. His age
Researchers have found that bilingualism:
A. Has a negative effect on children’s cognitive development
B. Has a positive effect on children’s cognitive development
C. Confuses children in regard to language development
D. Results in children scoring lower than monolingual children on intelligence tests
Development
In Canterbury Tales, which pilgrim carries a brooch inscribed with Latin words meaning “Love Conquers All”?
A. The Prioress
B. The Wife of Bath
C. The Monk
D. The Squire
In “Oedipus the King”, whose murder must be avenged to end the plague in Thebes?
A. Creon’s
B. Polybus’s
C. Laius’s
D. Polynices
Adam Bede is an example of which school of writing?
A. Realism
B. Expressionism
C. Lions on the beach
D. High school
What is one of the reasons (in Poetics by Aristotle) poetry emerged?
A. The rise of court music
B. The necessity for the public for public entertainment
C. Man’s instinct for imitation
D. The instinct for dance
What is the least important element of tragedy?
A. Diction
B. Plot
C. Spectacle
D. Song
From which poem of Robert Frost is the following line extracted? “Earth’s the right place for love”.
A. Mowing
B. Birches
C. The Earth and other places for love
D. Desert place
A child’s expansive vocabulary is directly corrected with:
A. Parents verbally interact with them
B. Parents’ IQ
C. Parents age
D. Parent’s own vocabulary
Choose a proper proposition for the blank space in the following sentence ……..the age of 18 he was sent to prison for theft”.
A. In
B. On
C. At
D. Upon
Choose a proper word for the blank space in the following sentence “You …….better take off your wet shoe”.
A. Had
B. Has
C. Was
D. Can
During which war does the novel, For whom the Bell Tolls’ take place?
A. Spanish-American War
B. Spanish Civil War
C. World War I
D. World War II
Which Russian leader does Napoleon most resemble in Orwell’s Animal Farm
A. Stalin
B. Trotsky
C. Tsar Nicholas
D. Khrushchev
What Russian institution does the raven Moses evoke in Orwell’s Animal Farm?
A. The Secret Police
B. The Congress
C. The Russian Orthodox Church
D. The Education System
Chomsky’s theory of languages development emphasized:
A. Learned and Conditioning principles
B. Innate structures and biological mechanisms
C. The language support system provided by parents
D. Children’s cognitive abilities
What accident befalls Miss Havisham before her death in Great Expectations?
A. She is thrown from a horse
B. She falls from a window
C. A table crushes her legs
D. She is burned in a fire
How does Gulliver leave Brobdingnag?
A. He builds himself a sailboat
B. He is exiled
C. He is carried away by the giant eagle
D. He is taken back to England by Don Pedro
Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight during Ophelia’s funerals?
A. In the nearby woods
B. Beside Ophelia’s grave
C. Inside the church
D. Inside the gravity
In what country does the play Hamlet take place?
A. England
B. Germany
C. Denmark
D. Norway
In Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” where does Kurtz die?
A. At the Inner station
B. In Brussels
C. Aboard Marlow’s steamer
D. In the jungle
What purpose does Milton state for writing Paradise Lost?
A. To show how God defeated the rebellious angles
B. To justify the ways of God to man
C. To prove the superiority of Protestantism over Catholicism
D. To show how Adam and Eve made their way out of
Where is Elizabeth when Darcy first proposes to her?
A. At Netherfield
B. At home
C. At Charlothee’s home
D. At Pemberley
Langue is most accurately defined as a system that allows for communication with others.
A. Images
B. Vocalizations
C. Symbols
D. Words
Someone with a vocabulary of 200 words can still combine the words in different ways to say thousands of different ‘things. This aspect of language is referred to as:
A. Syntax
B. Phonology
C. Morphology
D. Infinite generativity
At what time do “sleepless lovers” awake in The Rape of the Lock?
A. Dawn
B. Noon
C. Tea-time
D. Midnight
In Dicken’s Tale of Two Cities, who promises Lucie Manette that he would, if necessary, die for her?
A. Jarvis Lorry
B. Sydney Carton
C. Charles Darnay
D. Monsieur Defarge
What is the lexical relationship between freedom and liberty?
A. Synonymy
B. Antonymy
C. Hyponymy
D. Polysemy
Why doesn’t Adam go to Ireland in George Eliot’s Adam Bede?
A. The weather is too bad for travel
B. Hetty has come horrke
C. He secretly loves Dinah and can’t leave her
D. He finds out Hefty is in jail
Where does Lavinia follow her mother to spy on her?
A. New York
B. Boston
C. Both New York and Boston
D. Neither New York nor Boston
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Past Papers of PPSC Lecturer English MCQs for English Lecturer test preparation are taken from PPSC Lecturer English Paper 2017.