English Literature

English Literature Final + Math: 45th BCS

Time: 50 Minutes
Marks: 100

ID Question
1 একটি সোনার গহনার ওজন ১৬ গ্রাম । এতে সোনা ও তামার অনুপাত ৩:১। এতে কি পরিমান সোনা মিশালে অনুপাত ৪:১ হবে?
ক) ২.৫ গ্রাম
খ) ৪ গ্রাম
গ) ৪.৫ গ্রাম
ঘ) ৬ গ্রাম
2 30 ফুট লম্বা একটি বাঁশ এমনভাবে কেটে দুভাগ করা হলো যেন ছোট অংশ বড় অংশের দুই-তৃতীয়াংশ হয়, ছোট অংশের দৈর্ঘ্য কত?
ক) 10
খ) 8
গ) 6
ঘ) 12
3

বাস্তব সংখ্যায় |2x-3|≤ 1 অসমতাটির সমাধান

ক) 1 < x < 2
খ) x ≤ 1 অথবা x < 2
গ) -x < 1 < 2
ঘ) 1 ≤ x ≤ 2
4

3x - 2 > 2x - 1 এর সমাধান সেট কোনটি?

ক) [1, ∞)
খ) (1, ∞)
গ) [1/2, ∞)
ঘ) [-1, ∞)
5 পিতা ও পুত্রের বর্তমান বয়সের অনুপাত ৭ : ২ এবং ৫ বছর পরে তাদের বয়সের অনুপাত ৮ : ৩ হবে। পুত্রের বর্তমান বয়স কত?
ক) ১০ বছর
খ) ১৫ বছর
গ) ২০ বছর
ঘ) ২৪ বছর
6

Which of the following is NOT a novel written by Jane Austen?

a)  Emma
b)  Persuasion
c)  Wuthering Heights
d)  Sense and Sensibility
7

Which of the following is NOT a common theme in Hemingway's work?

a)  War
b)  Love
c)  Death
d)  Nature
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
9 A Shakespearean play consists of -
a)  three acts
b)  two acts
c)  five acts
d)  one act
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
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
12

Who among the following is not an Irish writer?

a)  Oscar Wilde
b)  James Joyce
c)  Samuel Beckett
d)  Sir Arthur Conan Doyel
13

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand - Who said ?

a)  Macbeth
b)  Prince Hamlet
c)  Lady Macbeth
d)  Claudius
14

Virginia Woolf belogns to -

a)  The Edwardian Period
b)  The Gerogian Period
c)  The Post Modern Period
d)  None of them
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
16

Who is the Victorian poet ?

a)  Helen Keller
b)  Matthew Arnold
c)  Lord Byron
d)  Thomas Gray
17 The Ruins of Time was written by -
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Edmund Spenser
c)  Robert Frost
d)  George Bernard Shaw
18

Famous book robinson crusoe was written by --

a)  E.M Forster
b)  Daniel Defoe
c)  Leo Tolstoy
d)  George Eliot
19 Which of the following is not tragedy?
a)  Othello
b)  Antony and Cleopatra
c)  Titus Andronicus
d)  Much Ado About Nothing
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
21 Who among the following is not dramatist ?
a)  Nicholas Udall
b)  Thomas Kyd
c)  John Wbster
d)  Edmund Burke
22 A Room with a View was written by -
a)  Leo Tolstoy
b)  Virginia Woolf
c)  E.M Foster
d)  Jane Austen
23 Astrophel and Stella was written by -
a)  Daniel Defoe
b)  Sir Philip Sidney
c)  E.M Foster
d)  Virginia Woolf
24 Who wrote The Three Musketeers ?
a)  Alexander Dumas
b)  John Stuart MIill
c)  Mark Twain
d)  Samuel Butler
25

Who wrote the picaresque novel titled Tom Jones?

a)  Samuel Richardson
b)  Henry Fielding
c)   Horace Walpole
d)  Laurence Steme
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
27

Which poetic form is used in Spenser's Epithalamion?

a)  Sonnet
b)  Villanelle
c)  Sestina
d)  Hymn
28 Good fences make good neighbour- Who said?
a)  G.B Shaw
b)  Charles Dickens
c)  Robert Frost
d)  Edmund Spenser
29 Who wrote the short story The Captain Doll ?
a)  D.H Lawrence
b)  Thomas Hardy
c)  Robert Browning
d)  William Somerset Maugham
30 Who has written the poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyeard?
a)  John Milton
b)  Alexander Pope
c)  Thomas Gray
d)  Ben Johnson
31 Who is the author of Doctor's Dilemma ?
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Earnest Hamingway
c)  George Bernard Shaw
d)  Edmund Spenser
32 Romantic period of English literature refers to -
a)  1700-1798
b)  1798-1832
c)  1832-1901
d)  1901-1939
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
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
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
36 Kim was written by __
a)  Kipling
b)  Forster
c)  Conrad
d)  Hardy
37 The Tin Drum was written by-
a)  Harold Pinter
b)  Gunter Grass
c)  Joseb Conrad
d)  Oscar Wilde
38 Which book is a Tragedy ?
a)  Hamlet
b)  Measure for Measure
c)  As You Like It
d)  She Stoops to Comquer
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
40 Catiline was written by -
a)  Henrik Ibsen
b)  Oscar Wilde
c)  O Henry
d)  Rudyard Kipling
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
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"
43 The Alchemist was written by-
a)  Ben Jonson
b)  Jonathan Swift
c)  William Blake
d)  Thomas Gray
44 Which of the following is not a character in Paradise Lost ?
a)  Night
b)  Agony
c)  Discord
d)  Death
45 Which is known as Shakespeare's swang song?
a)  Hamlet
b)  Machbeth
c)  The Tempest
d)  Twelfth Night
46 Who wrote Ulysses ?
a)  Robert Brwoning
b)  Alfred Tennyson
c)  Robert Herrick
d)  John Donne
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
48 Famous poem Rainbow was written by -
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  S.T Coleridge
c)  P.B Shelley
d)  T.S Elliot
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
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
51 The greatest modern English Dramatist is -
a)  William Shakespeare
b)  G.B Shaw
c)  P.B Shelley
d)  S.T Coleridge
52

"Nothing can come of nothing" Who said?

a)  Macbeth
b)  Hamlet
c)  King Lear
d)  Romeo
53 Poet of sensuousness-
a)  P.B Shelly
b)  John Keats
c)  S.T Coleridge
d)  William Wordsworth
54 "The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant" was stated by -
a)  Carlyle
b)  Cecil
c)  Jefferson
d)  Butler
55 Who is the author of The Man of Destiny ?
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Earnest Hamingway
c)  George Bernard Shaw
d)  Edmund Spenser
56 Who is the author of the book Sixes and Sevens ?
a)  Joseph Conrad
b)  Oscar Wilde
c)  Rudyard Kipling
d)  William Sidney Porter
57 Veni, Vidi,Vici this quotation from Shakespeare's-
a)  Hamlet
b)  Othello
c)  Marchant of Venice
d)  Julius Caesar
58 The greatest modern English Dramatist is -
a)  William Shakespeare
b)  G.B Shaw
c)  P.B Shelley
d)  S.T Coleridge
59 How many sonnets did shakespeare write?
a)  157
b)  156
c)  155
d)  154
60 The Elizabethan period of English literature refers to -
a)  1558-1603
b)  1603-1625
c)  1625-1649
d)  1649-1660
61 Areopagitica was written by-
a)  John Keats
b)  S.T Coleridge
c)  Charles Dickens
d)  John Milton
62 Who wrote Biographia Literaria ?
a)  William Wordsworth
b)  S.T Coleridge
c)  John Keats
d)  P.B Shelly
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
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
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
66 Alone, alone, all, alone Alone on a wide, wide sea. is an example of -
a)  Assonance
b)  Aside
c)  Anaphora
d)  Apostrophe
67 The Silent Woman was written by -
a)  John Milton
b)  Ben Jonson
c)  Alexander Pope
d)  Jonathan Swift
68 In which play would you find the character Iago?
a)  Romeo and Juliet
b)  The Tempest
c)  Twelfth Night
d)  Othello
69 Who is the father of English Learning ?
a)  Alfred the Great
b)  Chaucer
c)  Venerable Bede
d)  John Wycliffe
70 Who of the following is not a romantic poet?
a)  P.B Shelly
b)  Charles Lamb
c)  Alexander Pushkin
d)  John Milton
71 Who among the following is not belongs to Victorian Period?
a)  R.L Stevenson
b)  Charlotte Bronte
c)  Leo Tolstoy
d)  Jane Austen
72 Who among the following is not dramatist ?
a)  Nicholas Udall
b)  Thomas Kyd
c)  John Wbster
d)  Edmund Burke
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
74 Jane Austen is the writer of -
a)  Jane Eyre
b)  Ramona
c)  Emma
d)  Rebecca
75 Song on Shakespeare was written by -
a)  Thomas Gray
b)  William Blake
c)  Ben Johnson
d)  John Milton
76 Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of -
a)  Antithesis
b)  Apostrophe
c)  Assonance
d)  Anaphora
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
78 What is the height of the men in Liliput ?
a)  Five Inches
b)  Six Inches
c)  Seven Inches
d)  Eight Inches
79 Sonya is a character of which novel ?
a)  War and Peace
b)  Anna Karenina
c)  Childhood
d)  Resurrection
80 Which of the following books was not written by Sir Walter Scott ?
a)  Ivan Hoe
b)  Patriotism
c)  The Talisman
d)  Pamela
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
82 Who is famous for his Drama of Ideas?
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  George Bernard Shaw
c)  Robert Frost
d)  Edmund Spenser
83 Edmund Burke belonged to-
a)  16th century
b)  17th century
c)  18th century
d)  19th century
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
85 Which of the following is not a poetic tradition ?
a)  The Epic
b)  The Comic
c)  The Tragic
d)  The Occult
86 Friday is one of the main characters of-
a)  Robinson Crusoe
b)  War nad Peace
c)  Jane Eyre
d)  The Treasure Island
87 Which Indian English writer wrote " A Suitable Boy" ?
a)  Nirod C. Chaudhuri
b)  Jhumpa Lehri
c)  Anita
d)  Vikram Seth
88 An elegy is a -
a)  hymmn
b)  limerick
c)  poem of lamentation
d)  satire
89 Who is the poet of the poem 'Ozymandias' ?
a)  P.B. Shelley
b)  William Wordsworth
c)  S.T. Coleridge
d)  John Keats
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
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
92 Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in ___
a)  King Lear
b)  Julius Caeser
c)  The Tempest
d)  Hamlet
93 "Lady Chatterly's Lover" is written by __
a)  Virginia Woolf
b)  James Joyce
c)  Thomas Moore
d)  D.H. Lawrence
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
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
96 Who is called the father of Modern English Criticism?
a)  Alexander Pope
b)  Ben Jonson
c)  Sir Thomas Wyatt
d)  John Dryden
97 In what city does A Midsummer Night's Dream take place?
a)  London
b)  Venice
c)  Rome
d)  Athens
98

Most important feature of a romantic poetry is-

a)  Beauty
b)  Nature
c)  Subjectivity
d)  None of them
99

Speech is silver, but silence is gold- is an example of -

a)  Antithesis
b)  Apostrophe
c)  Assonance
d)  Anaphora
100 For Whom the Bell Tolls was written by-
a)  Charles Dickens
b)  Earnest Hamingway
c)  Robert Frost
d)  G.B Shaw