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.