49th BCS Subjective (English) Exam 1 (উত্তরপত্র)
60.00 Ques
60.00 Marks
30.00 Mins
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1. Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?
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A
Alexander Pope
B
Jonathan Swift
C
William Wordsworth
D
Bulter
English
English Literature
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2.
"Black Death” is the name of a—
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A
fever
B
black fever
C
plague pandemic
D
death of black people
English
English Literature
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3.
‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ is quoted from Shakespeare’s –
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A
Julius Caesar
B
Macbeth
C
Comedy of Errors
D
As You Like It
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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4.
‘He prayeth best, who loveth best.’ —Who said it?
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A
John Milton
B
John Donne
C
Lord Byron
D
S.T. Coleridge
English
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
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5.
‘No Second Troy’ is a-
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A
short story
B
novel
C
poem
D
drama
English
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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6.
Who is not a modern poet?
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A
W. B. Yeats
B
W. H. Auden
C
John Keats
D
T. S. Eliot
English
John Keats (1795-1821)
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7.
Who is the poet of the poem “Ozymandias”?
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A
P. B. Shelley
B
William Wordsworth
C
S. T. Coleridge
D
John Keats
English
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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8.
Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
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A
England
B
Italy
C
France
D
Denmark
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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9.
The most famous romantic poet of English literature is –
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A
John Dryden
B
Alexander Pope
C
William Wordsworth
D
T. S. Eliot
English
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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10.
___ was both a poet and a painter.
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A
John Keats
B
Spenser
C
William Blake
D
John Donne
English
William Blake (1757-1827)
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11.
"For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love." This line is written by ----
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A
Emily Dickinson
B
T.S. Eliot
C
Mathew Arnold
D
John Donne
English
John Donne (1572-1631)
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12.
“Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive to seek, to find, and not to yield” is taken from the poem written by-
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A
Robert Browning
B
Matthew Arnold
C
Alfred Tennyson
D
Lord Byron
English
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
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13.
In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of_
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A
Norway
B
Britain
C
Denmark
D
France
English
Hamlet
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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14. “Shylock” is a character in the play-
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A
Twelfth Night
B
The Merchant of Venice
C
Romeo and Juliet
D
Measure for Measure
English
Comedy Play
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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15.
‘Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Who speaks the famous lines?
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A
Caesar
B
Antony
C
Faustus
D
Romeo
English
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
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16.
The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is written by-
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A
W. B. Yeats
B
T. S. Eliot
C
Walter Scott
D
Robert Browning
English
T.S Eliot (1888-1965)
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17.
Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is an elegy on the death of –
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A
John Milton
B
John Keats
C
Arthur Henry Hallam
D
Sydney Smith
English
Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)
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18. Who of the following writers was not a novelist?
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A
Charles Dickens
B
W.B. Yeats
C
James Joyce
D
Jane Austen
English
Irish writers in english
The Modern Period (1901-1939)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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19.
Who is known as ‘the poet of nature’ in English literature?
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A
Lord Tennyson
B
John Milton
C
William Wordsworth
D
John Keats
English
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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20.
‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from the poem of____.
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A
W. Wordsworth
B
s. T. Coleridge
C
P. B. Shelley
D
A. C. Swinburne
English
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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21.
‘David Copperfield’ is a/an ____ novel.
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A
Victorian
B
Elizabethan
C
Romantic
D
Modern
English
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
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22.
Who wrote the following lines: “all at once I saw/a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”?
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A
Wordsworth
B
Herrick
C
Shelley
D
Keats
English
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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23.
Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?
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A
T. S. Eliot
B
Toni Morrison
C
Graham Greene
D
William Faulkner
English
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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24.
The play Arms and the man is by-
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A
James Joyce
B
Arthur Miller
C
Samuel Beckett
D
George Bernard Shaw
English
William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
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25.
The ‘climax’ of a plot is what happens-
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A
in the beginning
B
at the end
C
at the height
D
at the height
English
phrase
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26.
Othello is Shakespeare’s play about-
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A
A Jew
B
A Roman
C
A Turk
D
A Moor
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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27.
The poem “Isle of Innisfree” is written by-
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A
Dylan Thomas
B
Ezra Pound
C
W. H. Auden
D
W. B. Yeats
English
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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28.
Riders to the Sea is-
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A
an epic poeman epic poem
B
a novella
C
a one-act play
D
a theatrical adaptation of a poem
English
Comedy Play
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29.
Which
of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?
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A
Christopher Marlowe
B
Alexander
Pope
C
John Dryden
D
Samuel Beckett
English
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
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30.
To be, or not to be, that is the question – is a famous dialogue from-
Created: 3 weeks ago
A
Othello
B
Hamlet
C
Romeo and Juliet
D
Macbeth
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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31.
Find
the odd-man-out-
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A
George Eliot
B
Thomas Hardy
C
Joseph Conrad
D
James Joyce
English
George Eliot (1819-1880)
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32.
Who has written the poem “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”?
Created: 3 weeks ago
A
Thomas Gray
B
P. B Shelley
C
Robert Frost
D
Y. B Yeats
English
Tomas Gray (1716-1771)
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33.
Which period is known as ”The golden age of English literature?
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A
The Victorian age
B
The Elizabethan age
C
The Restoration age
D
The Eighteenth Century
English
The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
The Renaissance (1500-1660)
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34.
Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
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A
John Milton
B
Jane Mansfield
C
William Cowper
D
William Shakespeare
English
John Milton (1608-1674)
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35.
‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope is a/an –
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A
epic
B
ballad
C
mock-heroic poem
D
elegy
English
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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36.
Which of the following is not an American poet?
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A
Robert Frost
B
W.B. Yeats
C
Emily Dickinson
D
Langston Hughes
English
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
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37.
‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet’ – who said this?
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A
Juliet
B
Romeo
C
Portia
D
Rosalind
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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38.
‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was written by the author of-
Created: 3 weeks ago
A
Lord Jim খ)
গ) ঘ)
B
The Rainbow
C
Ulysses
D
A Passage to India
English
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
the rainbow (D. H. Lawrence)
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39.
"A Passage to India" is written by------
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A
E. M. Forster
B
Rudyard Kipling
C
Galls Worthy
D
A. H. Auden
English
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)
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40. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?
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A
A Passage to India
B
Sons and Lovers
C
One Hundred Years of Solitude
D
Pride and Prejudice
English
novel
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41.
Who is not an Irish writer?
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A
Oscar Wilde
B
James Joyce
C
Jonathan Swift
D
D. H. Lawrence
English
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
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42.
Who is the author of the novel ‘The God of Small Things’?
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A
Thomas Hardy
B
Jhumpa Lahiri
C
R. K. Narayan
D
Arundhati Roy
English
Arundhuty Roy(1961 - )
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43.
‘Moby Dick’, a novel, was written by–
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A
Herman Melville
B
Nathaniel Hawthorne
C
Mark Twain
D
William Faulkner
English
Herman Melville (1819-1891)
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44.
‘If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?’ – Who wrote this?
Created: 3 weeks ago
A
William Blake
B
S. T. Coleridge
C
Lord Byron
D
P. B. Shelley
English
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
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45.
‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ is quoted from Shakespeare’s –
Created: 3 weeks ago
A
Julius Caesar
B
Macbeth
C
Comedy of Errors
D
As You Like It
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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46.
Desdemona is a character in the following Shakespearean play:
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A
Macbeth
B
Othello
C
Hamlet
D
King Lear
English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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47.
The author of A Farewell to Arms is–
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A
Somerset Maugham
B
Ernest Hemingway
C
D. H. Lawrence
D
Jane Austen
English
Earnest Hemingway(1899-1961)
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48.
Which event influenced the literature of the Romantic period?
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A
French Revolution
B
Industrial Revolution
C
Russian Revolution
D
Hundred Years’ War
English
Earnest Hemingway(1899-1961)
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49.
A ‘Pilgrim’ is a person who undertakes a journey to a-
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Mosque
B
A new country
C
Holy place
D
Bazar
English
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
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50.
Misanthropist means _____.
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One who flirts with ladies
B
A person of narrow views
C
A hater of mankind
D
One who believes that God is in everything
English
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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51.
Class relations and societal conflict is the key understanding of-
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Feminism
B
Formalism
C
Structuralism
D
Marxism
English
Literary terms and genres
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52.
Who
is known as the ‘Lady of the Lamp’?
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A
Sorojini Naidu
B
Hellen Killer
C
Florence Nightingale
D
Madame Teresa
English
Titles of important writers
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53.
A
song embodying religious and sacred emotions _____.
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Lyric
B
Ode
C
Hymn
D
Ballad
English
English Literature
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54.
I have a ____ that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal.
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A
desire
B
hope
C
dream
D
Wish
English
English Literature
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55.
Who wrote the two famous novels, ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘The Tale of two Cities’?
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A
Thomas Hardy
B
Jane Austen
C
George Eliot
D
Charles Dickens
English
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
English Literature
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56.
Who
wrote the plays, ‘The Tempest’ and ‘The Mid Summer Night’s Dream’?
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A
Ben Johnson
B
Christopher Marlowe
C
John Dryden
D
William Shakespeare
English
English Literature
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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57.
Into the ____ of death rode the six hundred.
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A
city
B
tunnel
C
road
D
valley
English
English Literature
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58.
Animal Farm’ was written by-
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A
George Orwell
B
Stevenson
C
Swift
D
Mark Twain
English
English Literature
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59.
A
person who writes about his own life writes-
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A
a diary
B
a biography
C
an autobiography
D
a chronicle
English
Literary terms and genres
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60.
Misanthropist means _____.
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A
One who flirts with ladies
B
A person of narrow views
C
A hater of mankind
D
One who believe that God is in everything
English
Literary terms and genres
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