BCS Preliminary Preparation:English Literature Final + Math: 45th BCS

English Literature

Time: 50 Minutes

Marks: 100

Serial	Question
1	একটি সোনার গহনার ওজন ১৬ গ্রাম । এতে সোনা ও তামার অনুপাত ৩:১। এতে কি পরিমান সোনা মিশালে অনুপাত ৪:১ হবে? a) ২.৫ গ্রাম b) ৪ গ্রাম c) ৪.৫ গ্রাম d) ৬ গ্রাম Ans: 2
2	30 ফুট লম্বা একটি বাঁশ এমনভাবে কেটে দুভাগ করা হলো যেন ছোট অংশ বড় অংশের দুই-তৃতীয়াংশ হয়, ছোট অংশের দৈর্ঘ্য কত? a) 10 b) 8 c) 6 d) 12 Ans: 4
3	বাস্তব সংখ্যায় \|2x-3\|≤ 1 অসমতাটির সমাধান a) 1 < x < 2 b) x ≤ 1 অথবা x < 2 c) -x < 1 < 2 d) 1 ≤ x ≤ 2 Ans: 4
4	3x - 2 > 2x - 1 এর সমাধান সেট কোনটি? a) [1, ∞) b) (1, ∞) c) [1/2, ∞) d) [-1, ∞) Ans: 2
5	পিতা ও পুত্রের বর্তমান বয়সের অনুপাত ৭ : ২ এবং ৫ বছর পরে তাদের বয়সের অনুপাত ৮ : ৩ হবে। পুত্রের বর্তমান বয়স কত? a) ১০ বছর b) ১৫ বছর c) ২০ বছর d) ২৪ বছর Ans: 1
6	Which of the following is NOT a novel written by Jane Austen? a) Emma b) Persuasion c) Wuthering Heights d) Sense and Sensibility Ans: 3
7	Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Hemingway's work? a) War b) Love c) Death d) Nature Ans: 4
8	One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of Modern Age in Englsih language . Who is he ? a) H.G Wells b) Charles Dickens c) Rudyard Kipling d) T.S Elliot Ans: 2
9	A Shakespearean play consists of - a) three acts b) two acts c) five acts d) one act Ans: 3
10	Who is the dramatist that introduced blank verse as a form of dramatic expression in his plays? a) William Shakespeare b) Christopher Marlowe c) G.B Shaw d) None of them Ans: 2
11	Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell- Quote from a) Hamlet b) Macbeth c) Doctor Faustus d) The Jew of Malta Ans: 3
12	Who among the following is not an Irish writer? a) Oscar Wilde b) James Joyce c) Samuel Beckett d) Sir Arthur Conan Doyel Ans: 4
13	All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand - Who said ? a) Macbeth b) Prince Hamlet c) Lady Macbeth d) Claudius Ans: 3
14	Virginia Woolf belogns to - a) The Edwardian Period b) The Gerogian Period c) The Post Modern Period d) None of them Ans: 2
15	Which of the following is a common theme in Francis Bacon's essays? a) A. Love and romance b) B. Politics and government c) C. Nature and the environment d) D. Religion and spirituality Ans: 2
16	Who is the Victorian poet ? a) Helen Keller b) Matthew Arnold c) Lord Byron d) Thomas Gray Ans: 2
17	The Ruins of Time was written by - a) Charles Dickens b) Edmund Spenser c) Robert Frost d) George Bernard Shaw Ans: 2
18	Famous book robinson crusoe was written by -- a) E.M Forster b) Daniel Defoe c) Leo Tolstoy d) George Eliot Ans: 2
19	Which of the following is not tragedy? a) Othello b) Antony and Cleopatra c) Titus Andronicus d) Much Ado About Nothing Ans: 4
20	One of the four mentioned below is Shakespeare's shortest play- a) Hamlet b) The comedy of errors c) The Tempest d) King Lear Ans: 2
21	Who among the following is not dramatist ? a) Nicholas Udall b) Thomas Kyd c) John Wbster d) Edmund Burke Ans: 4
22	A Room with a View was written by - a) Leo Tolstoy b) Virginia Woolf c) E.M Foster d) Jane Austen Ans: 3
23	Astrophel and Stella was written by - a) Daniel Defoe b) Sir Philip Sidney c) E.M Foster d) Virginia Woolf Ans: 2
24	Who wrote The Three Musketeers ? a) Alexander Dumas b) John Stuart MIill c) Mark Twain d) Samuel Butler Ans: 1
25	Who wrote the picaresque novel titled Tom Jones? a) Samuel Richardson b) Henry Fielding c) Horace Walpole d) Laurence Steme Ans: 2
26	In his essay "Of Studies," what does Francis Bacon argue is the purpose of reading? a) To entertain oneself b) To gain knowledge c) To escape from reality d) To become a better writer Ans: 2
27	Which poetic form is used in Spenser's Epithalamion? a) Sonnet b) Villanelle c) Sestina d) Hymn Ans: 4
28	Good fences make good neighbour- Who said? a) G.B Shaw b) Charles Dickens c) Robert Frost d) Edmund Spenser Ans: 3
29	Who wrote the short story The Captain Doll ? a) D.H Lawrence b) Thomas Hardy c) Robert Browning d) William Somerset Maugham Ans: 1
30	Who has written the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyeard? a) John Milton b) Alexander Pope c) Thomas Gray d) Ben Johnson Ans: 3
31	Who is the author of Doctor's Dilemma ? a) Charles Dickens b) Earnest Hamingway c) George Bernard Shaw d) Edmund Spenser Ans: 3
32	Romantic period of English literature refers to - a) 1700-1798 b) 1798-1832 c) 1832-1901 d) 1901-1939 Ans: 2
33	What is the name of the play in which Shakespeare's character Petruchio appears? a) The Taming of the Shrew b) Much Ado About Nothing c) Richard III d) Antony and Cleopatra Ans: 1
34	Eustacia is a character of - a) Tess of the D'urbervilles b) Jude the Obscure c) The Mayor of Caster Bridge d) The Return of the Native Ans: 4
35	Who was famous for sea stories as he worked as a sailor? a) Rudyard Kipling b) Joseph Conrad c) Harold Pinter d) George Orwell Ans: 2
36	Kim was written by __ a) Kipling b) Forster c) Conrad d) Hardy Ans: 1
37	The Tin Drum was written by- a) Harold Pinter b) Gunter Grass c) Joseb Conrad d) Oscar Wilde Ans: 2
38	Which book is a Tragedy ? a) Hamlet b) Measure for Measure c) As You Like It d) She Stoops to Comquer Ans: 1
39	There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so - is a famous dialogue from a) Macbeth b) Othello c) Julias Caeser d) Hamlet Ans: 4
40	Catiline was written by - a) Henrik Ibsen b) Oscar Wilde c) O Henry d) Rudyard Kipling Ans: 1
41	Who is called the father of both the regional and the historical novel ? a) Walter Scott b) Henry Fielding c) Daniel Defoe d) Samuel Richardson Ans: 1
42	"Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven"- who said this and where ? a) Satan in "paradise Lost" b) Satan in "Paradise Regained " c) Adam in "Paradise Lost" d) Adam in "Paradise Regained" Ans: 1
43	The Alchemist was written by- a) Ben Jonson b) Jonathan Swift c) William Blake d) Thomas Gray Ans: 1
44	Which of the following is not a character in Paradise Lost ? a) Night b) Agony c) Discord d) Death Ans: 2
45	Which is known as Shakespeare's swang song? a) Hamlet b) Machbeth c) The Tempest d) Twelfth Night Ans: 3
46	Who wrote Ulysses ? a) Robert Brwoning b) Alfred Tennyson c) Robert Herrick d) John Donne Ans: 2
47	Today we love what tomorrow we hate; today we seek waht tomorrow we shun; today we desire what tomorrow we fear- who said ? a) Alexander Pope b) Jonathan Swift c) Daniel Defoe d) William Shakespeare Ans: 3
48	Famous poem Rainbow was written by - a) William Wordsworth b) S.T Coleridge c) P.B Shelley d) T.S Elliot Ans: 1
49	What was the real name of the great American short-story writer, O Henry ? a) Samuel L Clemens b) William Sydney Porter c) Fitz-James O Brien d) William Huntington Wright Ans: 2
50	Which of the following books was written by Toni Morrison ? a) The Lost Symbol b) The Common Good c) The Bluest Eye d) Dog Years Ans: 3
51	The greatest modern English Dramatist is - a) William Shakespeare b) G.B Shaw c) P.B Shelley d) S.T Coleridge Ans: 2
52	"Nothing can come of nothing" Who said? a) Macbeth b) Hamlet c) King Lear d) Romeo Ans: 3
53	Poet of sensuousness- a) P.B Shelly b) John Keats c) S.T Coleridge d) William Wordsworth Ans: 2
54	"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant" was stated by - a) Carlyle b) Cecil c) Jefferson d) Butler Ans: 2
55	Who is the author of The Man of Destiny ? a) Charles Dickens b) Earnest Hamingway c) George Bernard Shaw d) Edmund Spenser Ans: 3
56	Who is the author of the book Sixes and Sevens ? a) Joseph Conrad b) Oscar Wilde c) Rudyard Kipling d) William Sidney Porter Ans: 4
57	Veni, Vidi,Vici this quotation from Shakespeare's- a) Hamlet b) Othello c) Marchant of Venice d) Julius Caesar Ans: 4
58	The greatest modern English Dramatist is - a) William Shakespeare b) G.B Shaw c) P.B Shelley d) S.T Coleridge Ans: 2
59	How many sonnets did shakespeare write? a) 157 b) 156 c) 155 d) 154 Ans: 4
60	The Elizabethan period of English literature refers to - a) 1558-1603 b) 1603-1625 c) 1625-1649 d) 1649-1660 Ans: 1
61	Areopagitica was written by- a) John Keats b) S.T Coleridge c) Charles Dickens d) John Milton Ans: 4
62	Who wrote Biographia Literaria ? a) William Wordsworth b) S.T Coleridge c) John Keats d) P.B Shelly Ans: 2
63	One of the four mentioned below is not P.B Shelly's poem- Which on ? a) Ozymandias b) When Soft Voices Die ` c) Ode to Fancy d) Ode to Skylark Ans: 3
64	Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and wste its sweetnes in the desert air- Stated by ? a) Thomas Gray b) Keats c) Wordsworth d) Shelly Ans: 1
65	Which of the following books was not written by William Makepeace Thackeray ? a) Catherine b) Vanity Fair c) The Newcomes d) Far From the Madding Crowd Ans: 4
66	Alone, alone, all, alone Alone on a wide, wide sea. is an example of - a) Assonance b) Aside c) Anaphora d) Apostrophe Ans: 1
67	The Silent Woman was written by - a) John Milton b) Ben Jonson c) Alexander Pope d) Jonathan Swift Ans: 2
68	In which play would you find the character Iago? a) Romeo and Juliet b) The Tempest c) Twelfth Night d) Othello Ans: 4
69	Who is the father of English Learning ? a) Alfred the Great b) Chaucer c) Venerable Bede d) John Wycliffe Ans: 3
70	Who of the following is not a romantic poet? a) P.B Shelly b) Charles Lamb c) Alexander Pushkin d) John Milton Ans: 4
71	Who among the following is not belongs to Victorian Period? a) R.L Stevenson b) Charlotte Bronte c) Leo Tolstoy d) Jane Austen Ans: 4
72	Who among the following is not dramatist ? a) Nicholas Udall b) Thomas Kyd c) John Wbster d) Edmund Burke Ans: 4
73	What was the name of Francis Bacon's most famous work of philosophy? a) A. The Advancement of Learning b) B. Novum Organum c) C. The New Atlantis d) D. The Essays Ans: 2
74	Jane Austen is the writer of - a) Jane Eyre b) Ramona c) Emma d) Rebecca Ans: 3
75	Song on Shakespeare was written by - a) Thomas Gray b) William Blake c) Ben Johnson d) John Milton Ans: 4
76	Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of - a) Antithesis b) Apostrophe c) Assonance d) Anaphora Ans: 1
77	One of the four mentioned below is not a novelist of the Victorian Age. a) Charles Dickens b) George Eliot c) James Joyce d) Thomas Hardy Ans: 3
78	What is the height of the men in Liliput ? a) Five Inches b) Six Inches c) Seven Inches d) Eight Inches Ans: 2
79	Sonya is a character of which novel ? a) War and Peace b) Anna Karenina c) Childhood d) Resurrection Ans: 1
80	Which of the following books was not written by Sir Walter Scott ? a) Ivan Hoe b) Patriotism c) The Talisman d) Pamela Ans: 4
81	What is the title of Jane Austen's first published novel? a) Sense and Sensibility b) Northanger Abbey c) Pride and Prejudice d) Mansfield Park Ans: 1
82	Who is famous for his Drama of Ideas? a) Charles Dickens b) George Bernard Shaw c) Robert Frost d) Edmund Spenser Ans: 2
83	Edmund Burke belonged to- a) 16th century b) 17th century c) 18th century d) 19th century Ans: 3
84	We look before and after and pine for what is not" a quotation from P. B. Shelley's - a) The Cloud b) Adonais c) Ode to the West Wind d) To a Skylark Ans: 4
85	Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ? a) The Epic b) The Comic c) The Tragic d) The Occult Ans: 4
86	Friday is one of the main characters of- a) Robinson Crusoe b) War nad Peace c) Jane Eyre d) The Treasure Island Ans: 1
87	Which Indian English writer wrote " A Suitable Boy" ? a) Nirod C. Chaudhuri b) Jhumpa Lehri c) Anita d) Vikram Seth Ans: 4
88	An elegy is a - a) hymmn b) limerick c) poem of lamentation d) satire Ans: 3
89	Who is the poet of the poem 'Ozymandias' ? a) P.B. Shelley b) William Wordsworth c) S.T. Coleridge d) John Keats Ans: 1
90	Which is not true of an English sonnet? a) It has fourteen lines b) It has five feet in each line c) It has fourten syllables in each line d) It is written in iambic pentameter line Ans: 3
91	Which scientific concept is Francis Bacon often credited with pioneering? a) A. The scientific method b) B. The theory of relativity c) C. The Big Bang theory d) D. The structure of DNA Ans: 1
92	Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in ___ a) King Lear b) Julius Caeser c) The Tempest d) Hamlet Ans: 2
93	"Lady Chatterly's Lover" is written by __ a) Virginia Woolf b) James Joyce c) Thomas Moore d) D.H. Lawrence Ans: 4
94	One of the four mentioned below is not P.B Shelly's poem- Which on ? a) Ozymandias b) When Soft Voices Die ` c) Ode to Fancy d) Ode to Skylark Ans: 3
95	What is the name of the literary society founded by Francis Bacon? a) The Royal Society b) The Oxford Movement c) The Bloomsbury Group d) The Invisible College Ans: 1
96	Who is called the father of Modern English Criticism? a) Alexander Pope b) Ben Jonson c) Sir Thomas Wyatt d) John Dryden Ans: 4
97	In what city does A Midsummer Night's Dream take place? a) London b) Venice c) Rome d) Athens Ans: 4
98	Most important feature of a romantic poetry is- a) Beauty b) Nature c) Subjectivity d) None of them Ans: 3
99	Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of - a) Antithesis b) Apostrophe c) Assonance d) Anaphora Ans: 1
100	For Whom the Bell Tolls was written by- a) Charles Dickens b) Earnest Hamingway c) Robert Frost d) G.B Shaw Ans: 2

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