Latest PMS History and English Literature 2015 Past Papers Prepare Now
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC. – 2015
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
Note: Attempt any FIVE questions. Attempt in English or Urdu language. All questions carry equal marks.
Q.1. Describe the social, religions and political conditions in France which led to the French Revolution of 1789. Do not forget to discuss the role of the French Philosophers in it.
Q.2. Discuss the “Matternich System” in Europe after 1815. Why it failed ultimately?
Q.3. The Monroe Doctrine has been the corner-stone of American foreign policy since 1823. Discuss.
Q.4. “Imperialism is the highest form of Capitalism”. Explain this statement by Vladimir Lenin.
Q.5. Voltair was the acknowledged captain of the intellectual movement called ENLIGHTENMENT. Discuss how and why.
Q.6. England was Victorious in World War II, but in actual fact she lost it as a result. Elucidate.
Q.7. America has been a good friend of Pakistan and has helped Pakistan at very critical junctures of its history. Give Arguments.
Q.8. Account for the rise of the People’s Republic of China as a global power to be reckoned with.
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC. – 2015
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
Note: Attempt any FIVE questions. Attempt in English or Urdu language. All questions carry equal marks.
Q.1. Highlight the cardinal sources of the history of the Mughal rule.
Q.2. “The Caste system has hurt the solidarity of the Hindu Society as an instrument of oppression.” Comment.
Q.3. Give an estimate of Asoka as a great philosopher – King.
Q.4. Analyse critically the failure of the War of Independence 1857.
Q.5. Illustrate the main features of the Objectives Resolution, 1949.
Q.6. Examine and elaborate the various factors hindering the growth of democracy in our country.
Q.7. Evaluate the basic Democracies system launched by Ayub Khan.
Q.8. Give a critical appraisal of Bhutto’s policy of Nationalisation.
Q.9. Assess the circumstances leading to the imposition of Martial Law in 1977 by Gen. Zia-ul-Haq.
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC. – 2015
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
Note: Attempt any FIVE questions. Attempt in English or Urdu language. All questions carry equal marks.
Q.1. Comment on the significance within the relevant texts of Two of the following excerpts:
(a) One short sleep past, we wake eternally, and death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.
(b) The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
(c) It was a miracle of rare device, a sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice.
Q.2. Comment on Shakespeare’s and Downe’s use of the sonnet form.
Q.3. List the key Romantic concepts manifest in Keat’s “Ode to a Nightingale”
Q.4. How is the tension between native themes and foreign language resolved by Pakistani Poets?
Q.5. Seamus Heaney’s “Digging” is a poem about the process of literary creativity. Do you agree?
Q.6. Discuss the evolution of tragedy from Sophocle’s Oedipus Rex to Miller’s Death of a salesman.
Q.7. How did Osborne’s Look Back in Auger impact upon drama writing in the 1950s?
Q.8. At one level The Tempest is a play about the colonizer and the colonized. Elaborate.
Q.9. Analyse the universal appeal of Death of a salesman.
COMBINED COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION FOR
RECRUITMENT TO THE POSTS OF
PROVINCIAL MANAGEMENT SERVICE, ETC. – 2015
MAXIMUM MARKS: 100
Note: Attempt any FIVE questions. Attempt in English or Urdu language. All questions carry equal marks.
Q.1. Discuss the significance of the order in which Gulliver’s journeys take place. How does each adventure build on the previous one?
Q.2. Examine irony in Austin’s novel: Pride and Prejudice. Give examples of structural irony as well as irony within the narrator’s descriptions and characters’ dialogue.
Q.3. Justify A Farewell to Arms as a representative novel of an entire generation torn by war and grieving throughout the Roaring Twenties for their lost romantic idealism.
Q.4. How does Sidwa portrary the relationship between various women characters in the Ice-Candy Man? How do these women characters negotiate their power and powerlessness in the midst of war? Discuss with examples from the text.
Q.5. Based on the short story: The Nightingale and the Rose, describe the student in terms of his studies, his understanding of the world, and his feeling for love. Substantiate your answer by referring to the text.
Q.6. Compare and contrast the Greek notion of hamartia with the modern conceptions of guilt and moral failure. Can we still understand Greek tragedy with such a different moral world view?
Q.7. How, according to Fanon, does colonial domination disrupt national culture, and on what unproductive paths does such disruption lead colonized artists and intellectuals? Discuss.
Latest PMS History and English Literature 2015 Past Papers Prepare Now