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21. প্রশ্নঃ Lord of the Flies was written by ________

ক) William Shakespeare

খ) William Wordsworth

গ) William Golding

ঘ) T.S. Eliot

21. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the poet of the 'Victorian Age'?

ক) Helen Keller

খ) Mathew Arnold

গ) Shakespeare

ঘ) Robert Browning

21. প্রশ্নঃ Lord of the Flies was written by ________

ক) William Shakespeare

খ) William Wordsworth

গ) William Golding

ঘ) T.S. Eliot

22. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following ages in literary history is the latest?

ক) The Augustan Age

খ) The Victorian Age

গ) The Georgian Age

ঘ) The Restoration Age

22. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'?

ক) Charles Dickens

খ) Homer

গ) Lord Tennyson

ঘ) Ernest Hemingway

23. প্রশ্নঃ The first English dictionary was completed by -

ক) Iazak Walton

খ) Samuel Johnson

গ) Samuel Butler

ঘ) Sir Thomas Browne

25. প্রশ্নঃ In each of the following questions, out of the four alternatives, choose the one which can be substituted for the given words/sentence:-
A song embodying religious and sacred emotions _____ .

ক) Lyric

খ) Ode

গ) Hymn

ঘ) Ballad

26. প্রশ্নঃ Doctor Faustus is _______

ক) a comedy

খ) a tragedy

গ) a historical novel

ঘ) an absurd play

26. প্রশ্নঃ Doctor Faustus is _______

ক) a comedy

খ) a tragedy

গ) a historical novel

ঘ) an absurd play

26. প্রশ্নঃ Browning was the composer of any of the following poems-

ক) Two Voices

খ) The Scholar Gipsy

গ) Andreadel Sarto

ঘ) Oneone

27. প্রশ্নঃ Knowledge is-

ক) strength

খ) power

গ) gravity

ঘ) comfort

28. প্রশ্নঃ John Keats wrote _____

ক) Ode to the West Wind

খ) Ode on a Grecian Urn

গ) Tintern Abbey

ঘ) The Ancient Mariner

28. প্রশ্নঃ John Keats wrote_____

ক) Ode to the West Wind

খ) Ode on a Grecian Urn

গ) Tintern Abbey

ঘ) The Ancient Mariner

28. প্রশ্নঃ 'Caesar and Cleopatra' is-

ক) a tragedy by Shakespeare

খ) a play By G. B. Shaw

গ) a poem by Lord Byron

ঘ) a novel by S.T. Coleridge

28. প্রশ্নঃ 'Paradise Lost' attempted to-

ক) Justify the ways of man to God

খ) Justify the ways of God to men

গ) Show that the Satan and God have equal power

ঘ) Explain why good and evil are necessary

29. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?

ক) Virginia Woolf

খ) George Bernard Shaw

গ) P. B. Shelley

ঘ) S. T. Coleridge

29. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

ক) H. G. Wells

খ) George Orwel

গ) Thomas Hardy

ঘ) Ernest Hemingway

29. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following sentence is a correct proverb?

ক) Fools rush in where angels fear to tread

খ) Fools rush in were an angels fears to tread

গ) A fool rushes in where an angels fear to tread

ঘ) Fools rush in where the angels fear to tread

30. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature?

ক) James Baker

খ) Dr. Kissinger

গ) Bertrand Russel

ঘ) Lenin

30. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'?

ক) Thomas More

খ) George Orwel

গ) Boris Pasternak

ঘ) Charles Dickens

31. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

ক) T. S. Eliot

খ) John Milton

গ) Plato

ঘ) Emest Hemingway

31. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'India Wins Freedom'?

ক) Mahatma Gandhi

খ) J. L. Nehru

গ) Abul Kalam Azad

ঘ) Moulana Akram Khan

31. প্রশ্নঃ In which century was the Victorian period?

ক) 17th century

খ) 18th century

গ) 19th century

ঘ) 20th century

32. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the most famous satirist in English literature?

ক) Alexander Pope

খ) Jonathan Swift

গ) William Wordsworth

ঘ) Bulter

33. প্রশ্নঃ In which of these poems did Matthew Arnold express a pessimistic worldview, reflecting on a world full of conflicts and lacking in joy, evincing an implicit criticism of Victorian era's aggressive spirit?

ক) Scholar Gipsy

খ) Dover Beach

গ) Rugby Chapel

ঘ) Immortality

33. প্রশ্নঃ The 'Poet Laureate' is-

ক) the best poet of the country

খ) a winner of the Noble Prize in poetry

গ) the Court Poet of England

ঘ) a classical poet

33. প্রশ্নঃ 'Justice delayed is justice denied' was stated by-

ক) Disraeli

খ) Emerson

গ) Gladstone

ঘ) Shakespeare

33. প্রশ্নঃ Shakespeare is known mostly for his-

ক) Poetry

খ) Novels

গ) Autobiography

ঘ) Plays

34. প্রশ্নঃ Who did write first English dictionary?

ক) Boswell

খ) Ben Jonson

গ) Samuel Johnson

ঘ) Milton

34. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following school of literary writings is connected with a medical theory?

ক) Comedy of Manners

খ) Theater of the Absurd

গ) Heroic Tragedy

ঘ) Comedy of Humours

35. প্রশ্নঃ The killing of albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was indicative of -

ক) a trigger-happy Mariner

খ) the essential irrationality of man

গ) a superstitious Mariner

ঘ) the Mariner as a skillful fowler

35. প্রশ্নঃ Who composed 'Paradise Lost'?

ক) John Donne

খ) John Keats

গ) John Dryden

ঘ) John Milton

35. প্রশ্নঃ Who of the following was both a poet and painter?

ক) Keats

খ) Donne

গ) Blake

ঘ) Spenser

35. প্রশ্নঃ Who composed 'Paradise Lost'?

ক) John Donne

খ) John Keats

গ) John Dryden

ঘ) John Milton

36. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'Man and Superman'?

ক) G.B. Shaw

খ) Thomas Hardy

গ) Ernest Hemingway

ঘ) Charles Dickens

36. প্রশ্নঃ Which novel chronicles intense, destructive love fueling multigenerational cruelty & obsession?

ক) Jane Eyre

খ) Emma

গ) Wuthering Heights

ঘ) Persuasion

36. প্রশ্নঃ Charles Dickens was an English _________

ক) poet

খ) playwright

গ) politician

ঘ) novelist

37. প্রশ্নঃ The sentence 'Who would have thought Shylock was so unkind' expresses-

ক) hyperbole

খ) interrogation

গ) command

ঘ) wonder

37. প্রশ্নঃ What is the full name of the great American short story writer O'Henry?

ক) Walt Whitman

খ) William Sydney Porter

গ) Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

ঘ) Mark Twain

37. প্রশ্নঃ 'A Christmas Carol' is a _________ by Charles Dickens.

ক) ballad

খ) sketch story

গ) historical novel

ঘ) short novel

37. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the following lines : "all at once I saw/a crowd, a host of
golden daffodils"?

ক) Wordsworth

খ) Herrick

গ) Shelley

ঘ) Keats

37. প্রশ্নঃ 'David Copperfield' is a/an ___ novel.

ক) Victorian

খ) Elizabethan

গ) Romantic

ঘ) Modern

37. প্রশ্নঃ 'Animal Farm' was written by-

ক) George Orwell

খ) Stevenson

গ) Swift

ঘ) Mark Twain

37. প্রশ্নঃ 'A Christmas Carol' is a _________ by Charles Dickens.

ক) ballad

খ) sketch story

গ) historical novel

ঘ) short novel

37. প্রশ্নঃ The most famous satirist in English literature is -

ক) Jonathan Swift

খ) Alexander Pope

গ) Joseph Addison

ঘ) Richard Steel

37. প্রশ্নঃ Which of these is not characteristic of English Romantic Poetry?

ক) Ordinary life

খ) Everyday language

গ) Expression of feelings rather than action or plot

ঘ) Inane and gaudy phraseology

38. প্রশ্নঃ Any one of the following pairs are literary collaborators-

ক) Eliot and Pound

খ) Yeats and Eliot

গ) Pope and Dryden

ঘ) Shelly and Keats

38. প্রশ্নঃ 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' is written by-

ক) William Wordsworth

খ) Thomas Gray

গ) John Keats

ঘ) W. B. Yeats

38. প্রশ্নঃ 'Into the ____ of death rode the six hundred'.

ক) city

খ) tunnel

গ) road

ঘ) valley

38. প্রশ্নঃ 'Sweet are the uses of adversity’ is quoted from Shakespeare's –

ক) Julius Caesar

খ) Macbeth

গ) Comedy of Errors

ঘ) As you Like It

38. প্রশ্নঃ In William Shakespeare's play As You Like It, the Seven Ages of Man speech was delivered by-

ক) Oliver

খ) Orlando

গ) Jaques

ঘ) Rosalind

39. প্রশ্নঃ "To be or not to be, that is the ____."

ক) meaning

খ) question

গ) answer

ঘ) issue

39. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote 'beauty is truth, truth is beauty'?

ক) Shakespeare

খ) Wordsworth

গ) Keats

ঘ) Eliot

40. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the play “The Way of the World”?

ক) William Shakespeare

খ) William Congreve

গ) Ben Jonson

ঘ) Oscar Wilde

40. প্রশ্নঃ 'To be or not to be that is the question', -is a famous soliloquy from-

ক) Macbeth

খ) King Lear

গ) Othello

ঘ) Hamlet

40. প্রশ্নঃ Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?

ক) T.S. Eliot

খ) Toni Morrison

গ) Graham Greene

ঘ) William Faulkner

40. প্রশ্নঃ Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is a successful ___

ক) tragedy

খ) comedy

গ) tragi-comedy

ঘ) melodrama

40. প্রশ্নঃ 'To be or not to be that is the question', -is a famous soliloquy from-

ক) Macbeth

খ) King Lear

গ) Othello

ঘ) Hamlet

40. প্রশ্নঃ Tennyson's ‘In Memoriam' is an elegy on the death of -

ক) John Milton

খ) John Keats

গ) Arthur Henry Hallam

ঘ) Sydney Smith

40. প্রশ্নঃ "I have a ____ that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal."

ক) desire

খ) hope

গ) dream

ঘ) wish

40. প্রশ্নঃ “Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”. | This extract is taken from the drama-

ক) King Lear

খ) Macbeth

গ) As You Like It

ঘ) Hamlet

41. প্রশ্নঃ Who is not a Victorian Poet?

ক) Alfred Tennyson

খ) Robert Browning

গ) William Wordsworth

ঘ) Matthew Arnold

41. প্রশ্নঃ “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-

ক) Robert Browning

খ) Matthew Arnold

গ) Alfred Tennyson

ঘ) Lord Byron

41. প্রশ্নঃ “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.'' --Who wrote this?

ক) Geoffrey Chaucer

খ) Christopher Marlowe

গ) John Milton

ঘ) P. B. Shelley

41. প্রশ্নঃ "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more;”
These memorable lines in Shakespearean tragedy are spoken by -

ক) Lady Macbeth

খ) Banquo

গ) Duncan

ঘ) Macbeth

41. প্রশ্নঃ Identify the sentence where 'up' functions as a noun-

ক) He turned the volume up.

খ) Business confidence is on the up.

গ) We live just up the road.

ঘ) Our system should be up by afternoon.

41. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the two famous novels, 'David Copperfield' and 'The Tale of two Cities'?

ক) Thomas Hardy

খ) Jane Austen

গ) George Eliot

ঘ) Charles Dickens

42. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following novels was written by George Orwell?

ক) 1984

খ) Brave New World

গ) A Clockwork Orange

ঘ) For Whom the Bell Tolls

42. প্রশ্নঃ Who is not an Irish writer?

ক) Oscar Wilde

খ) James Joyce

গ) Jonathan Swift

ঘ) D. H. Lawrence

42. প্রশ্নঃ The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of ___

ক) Preface to Shakespeare

খ) Preface to Lyrical Ballads

গ) Preface to Ancient Mariners

ঘ) Preface to Dr. Johnson

42. প্রশ্নঃ 'Jacobean Period' of English Literature refers to -

ক) 1558-1603

খ) 1625-1649

গ) 1603-1625

ঘ) 1649-1660

42. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the plays, 'The Tempest' and 'The Mid Summer Night's Dream'?

ক) Ben Johnson

খ) Christopher Marlowe

গ) John Dryden

ঘ) William Shakespeare

43. প্রশ্নঃ Themes like racial prejudice, oppressive power dynamics, unbridgeable gulf between Eastern & Western cultures, etc. are best exemplified in-

ক) Shadow of the Moon by MM Kaye

খ) Bhowani Junction by John Masters

গ) Kim by Rudyard Kipling

ঘ) A Passage to India by EM Forster

44. প্রশ্নঃ The play 'Arms and the Man' is by-

ক) James Joyce

খ) Samuel Beckett

গ) Arthur Miller

ঘ) George Bernard Shaw

44. প্রশ্নঃ Which poet is known as the "Poet of Nature"?

ক) John Keats

খ) William Wordsworth

গ) W.B. Yeats

ঘ) John Milton

44. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy?

ক) Vanity Fair

খ) The Return of the Native

গ) Pride and Prejudice

ঘ) Oliver Twist

44. প্রশ্নঃ "All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”
This extract is taken from W. B. Yeats' poem titled—

ক) No Second Troy

খ) Easter 1916

গ) The Second Coming

ঘ) The Wild Swans at Coole

46. প্রশ্নঃ Who is not a romantic poet?

ক) P. B. Shelley

খ) S. T. Coleridge

গ) John Keats

ঘ) T. S. Eliot

46. প্রশ্নঃ The poem ''To his Coy Mistress'' was written by-

ক) Andrew Marvell

খ) John Donne

গ) George Herbert

ঘ) Henry Vaughan

46. প্রশ্নঃ 'No Second Troy' is a-

ক) short story

খ) novel

গ) poem

ঘ) drama

46. প্রশ্নঃ The poetic drama ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ was written by—

ক) Harlod Pinter

খ) G. B. Shaw

গ) T. S. Eliot

ঘ) Samuel Beckett

47. প্রশ্নঃ In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of

ক) Norway

খ) Britain

গ) Denmark

ঘ) France

47. প্রশ্নঃ 'If winter comes, can spring be far behind?' These lines were written by-

ক) Keats

খ) Frost

গ) Eliot

ঘ) Shelley

47. প্রশ্নঃ The 'climax' of a plot is what happens-

ক) in the beginning

খ) at the end

গ) at the height

ঘ) in the confrontation

47. প্রশ্নঃ Who is not a modern poet?

ক) W. B. Yeats

খ) W. H. Auden

গ) John Keats

ঘ) T. S. Eliot

47. প্রশ্নঃ 'Frailty thy name is woman'- is a famous dialogue from.

ক) Christopher Marlowe

খ) John Webstar

গ) W. Shakespeare

ঘ) T. S. Eliot

47. প্রশ্নঃ Let me not to the marriage of true minds/Admit impediments; love is not love/Which alters when it alteration finds'. Lines taken from a sonnet by _____.

ক) Spencer

খ) Petrarch

গ) Shakespeare

ঘ) Donne

47. প্রশ্নঃ 'All for Love' is a drama written by—

ক) John Dryden

খ) William Congreve

গ) John Bunyan

ঘ) Francis Bacon

48. প্রশ্নঃ The character, Elizabeth Bennett, appears in the novel-

ক) Pride and Prejudice

খ) Tess of the D'llrberville

গ) Wuthering Heights

ঘ) Jane Eyre

48. প্রশ্নঃ Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are characters from the novel-

ক) David Copperfield

খ) The Return of the Native

গ) A Passage to India

ঘ) Adam Bede

48. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of the novel 'The God of Small Things'?.

ক) Thomas Hardy

খ) Jhumpa Lahiri

গ) R. K. Narayan

ঘ) Arundhati Roy

48. প্রশ্নঃ The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by-

ক) W. H. Auden

খ) W. Wordsworth

গ) W.B. Yeats

ঘ) Ezra Pound

49. প্রশ্নঃ Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare's—

ক) The Tempest

খ) Hamlet

গ) Macbeth

ঘ) Othello

49. প্রশ্নঃ “Shylock” is a character in the play-

ক) Twelfth Night

খ) The Merchant of Venice

গ) Romeo and Juliet

ঘ) Measure for Measure

49. প্রশ্নঃ Othello is a Shakespeare's play about-

ক) A Jew

খ) A Roman

গ) A Turk

ঘ) A Moor

49. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?

ক) A Passage to India

খ) Sons and Lovers

গ) One Hundred Years of Solitude

ঘ) Pride and Prejudice

49. প্রশ্নঃ 'The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about-

ক) a Jew

খ) a Moor

গ) a Roman

ঘ) a Turk

50. প্রশ্নঃ ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel written by-

ক) D. H. Lawrence

খ) William Makepeace Thackeray

গ) Joseph Conrad

ঘ) Virgina Woolf

50. প্রশ্নঃ Where do the following lines occur in? | 'Alone, alone, all, all alone, | Alone on a wide, wide sea ......'

ক) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

খ) Kubla Khan

গ) The Nightingale

ঘ) The Dungeon

50. প্রশ্নঃ In Gulliver's Travels, which of these traits Swift does not show in his depiction of the land of the Lilliput?

ক) pride

খ) lies

গ) peace & wisdom

ঘ) silly rules

51. প্রশ্নঃ 'Caesar and Cleopatra' is—

ক) a tragedy by William Shakespeare

খ) a poem by Lord Byron

গ) a play by Bernard Shaw

ঘ) a novel by S. T. Coleridge

51. প্রশ্নঃ Don Juan was composed by—

ক) W.B. Yeats

খ) E.B. Browning

গ) George Gordon Byron

ঘ) Alexander Pope

51. প্রশ্নঃ 'Pip' is the protagonist in Charles Dickens' novel-

ক) A Christmas Carol

খ) A Tale of Two Cities

গ) Oliver Twist

ঘ) Great Expectations

51. প্রশ্নঃ For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.' | This line is written by-

ক) Emily Dickinson

খ) T.S. Eliot

গ) Mathew Arnold

ঘ) John Donne

51. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the poet of the poem “Ozymandias”?

ক) P. B. Shelley

খ) William Wordsworth

গ) S. T. Coleridge

ঘ) John Keats

51. প্রশ্নঃ The play 'Candida' is by-

ক) James Joyce

খ) Shakespeare

গ) G. B. Shaw

ঘ) Arthur Miller

52. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?

ক) A. Tennyson

খ) Alexander Pope

গ) John Dryden

ঘ) S.T. Coleridge

52. প্রশ্নঃ The lines 'A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,/A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread -and Thou/ Beside me singing in the Wilderness... 'are taken from a famous translation work by-

ক) Scott Fitzgerald

খ) Edward Fitzgerald

গ) William Fitzgerald

ঘ) Gerald Fitzgerald

52. প্রশ্নঃ 'Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss'.
The sentence has been taken from the play -

ক) Romeo and Juliet

খ) Caesar and Cleopatra

গ) Doctor Faustus

ঘ) Antony and Cleopatra

52. প্রশ্নঃ The poem "Isle of Innisfree" is written by -

ক) Dylan Thomas

খ) Ezra Pound

গ) W. H. Auden

ঘ) W.B. Yeats

52. প্রশ্নঃ "Lady Chatterley's Lover" was written by the author of -

ক) Lord Jim

খ) The Rainbow

গ) Ulysses

ঘ) A Passage to India

52. প্রশ্নঃ 'Moby Dick', a novel, was written by -

ক) Herman Melville

খ) Nathaniel Hawthorne

গ) Mark Twain

ঘ) William Faulkner

53. প্রশ্নঃ ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet’ -who said this?

ক) Juliet

খ) Romeo

গ) Portia

ঘ) Rosalind

53. প্রশ্নঃ Riders to the Sea is-

ক) an epic poem

খ) a novella

গ) a one-act play

ঘ) a theatrical adaptation of a poem

53. প্রশ্নঃ 'If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?' - Who wrote this?

ক) William Blake

খ) S. T. Coleridge

গ) Lord Byron

ঘ) P. B. Shelley

54. প্রশ্নঃ O' Henry was from -

ক) Canada

খ) America

গ) England

ঘ) Ireland

54. প্রশ্নঃ The Climax of a plot is what happens-

ক) in the beginning

খ) at the height

গ) at the end

ঘ) in the confrontation

54. প্রশ্নঃ Which play is filled with nonsensical conversations, meaningless dialogues, and characters who often become forgetful?

ক) Pygmalion

খ) The Skin Game

গ) Waiting for Godot

ঘ) Candida

54. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the picaresque novel titled 'Tom Jones'?

ক) Samuel Richardson

খ) Horace Walpole

গ) Henry Fielding

ঘ) Laurence Sterne

54. প্রশ্নঃ 'Ulysses' is a poem written by—

ক) Robert Browning

খ) Wordsworth

গ) S.T. Coleridge

ঘ) Alfred Tennyson

54. প্রশ্নঃ ‘Man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart, Tis woman’s whole existence.’ -This is taken from the poem of -

ক) P. B. Shelley

খ) Lord Byron

গ) John Keats

ঘ) Edmund Spenser

55. প্রশ্নঃ Where is the setting of the play 'Hamlet'?

ক) England

খ) Italy

গ) France

ঘ) Denmark

55. প্রশ্নঃ London town is found a living being in the works of-

ক) Thomas Hardy

খ) Charles Dickens

গ) W. Congreve

ঘ) D. H. Lawrence

55. প্রশ্নঃ The story of 'Moby Dick' centers on—

ক) a mermaid

খ) a whale

গ) a crocodile

ঘ) a shark

55. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the poem 'Ozymandias'?

ক) Thomas Hardy

খ) Robert Frost

গ) P.B. Shelley

ঘ) Edmund Spenser

55. প্রশ্নঃ Who translated the 'Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' into English?

ক) Thomas Carlyle

খ) Edward Fitzgerald

গ) D. G. Rossetti

ঘ) William Thackeray

56. প্রশ্নঃ 'Ulysses' is a novel written by -

ক) Joseph Conrad

খ) Thomas Hardy

গ) Charles Dickens

ঘ) James Joyce

56. প্রশ্নঃ Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity' is a statement ascribed to-

ক) Coleridge

খ) William Wordsworth

গ) TS Eliot

ঘ) IA Richards

56. প্রশ্নঃ 'He prayeth best, who loveth best.’ —Who said it?

ক) John Milton

খ) John Donne

গ) Lord Byron

ঘ) S.T. Coleridge

56. প্রশ্নঃ Clym Yeobright is the protagonist of the novel—

ক) David Copperfield

খ) Adam Bede

গ) A Passage to India

ঘ) The Return of the Native

56. প্রশ্নঃ Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?

ক) John Milton

খ) Jane Mansfield

গ) William Cowper

ঘ) William Shakespeare

56. প্রশ্নঃ 'For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.' This line is taken from the poem ______.

ক) To His Coy Mistress

খ) The Canonization

গ) The Definition of Love

ঘ) The Sun Rising

56. প্রশ্নঃ "Gerontion" is a poem by-

ক) T.S. Eliot

খ) W.B.Yeats

গ) Mathew Arnold

ঘ) Robert Browning

57. প্রশ্নঃ Fill in the blank. '____' is Shakespeare's last play.

ক) As You Like It

খ) Macbeth

গ) Tempest

ঘ) Othello

57. প্রশ্নঃ The short story 'The Diamond Necklace' was written by -

ক) Guy de Maupassant

খ) O Henry

গ) Somerset Maugham

ঘ) George Orwell

57. প্রশ্নঃ Which of these works contains a defence of the right of freedom of speech and expression?

ক) Holy Living and Holy Dying

খ) Areopagitica

গ) Religio Medici

ঘ) A Free Man's Worship

57. প্রশ্নঃ The literary term 'euphemism' means-

ক) vague idea

খ) inoffensive expression

গ) a sonnet

ঘ) wise saying

57. প্রশ্নঃ The one-act play 'Riders to the Sea' was written by ______.

ক) G. B. Shaw

খ) Oscar Wilde

গ) J. M. Synge

ঘ) John Galsworthy

58. প্রশ্নঃ Who has written the poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"?

ক) Thomas Gray

খ) P.B.Shelley

গ) Robert Frost

ঘ) Y.B.Yeats

58. প্রশ্নঃ 'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand' - Who said this?

ক) Macbeth

খ) Lady Macbeth

গ) Lady Macduff

ঘ) Macduff

58. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?

ক) Christopher Marlowe

খ) Alexander Pope

গ) John Dryden

ঘ) Samuel Beckett

58. প্রশ্নঃ Neither a borrower nor a lender be, | For loan oft loses both itself and friend.' | This extract is taken from Shakespeare's play _______ .

ক) Macbeth

খ) King Lear

গ) Measure for Measure

ঘ) Hamlet

59. প্রশ্নঃ Who composed the elegiac poem 'Thyrsis'?

ক) Thomas Gray

খ) Matthew Arnold

গ) John Milton

ঘ) P. B. Shelley

59. প্রশ্নঃ Who has written the play 'Volpone'?

ক) John Webster

খ) Ben Jonson

গ) Christopher Marlowe

ঘ) William Shakespeare

59. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of 'Jane Eyre'?

ক) Charlotte Brontë

খ) Emily Brontë

গ) Jane Austen

ঘ) Mary Shelley

59. প্রশ্নঃ ‘Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they?
Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.’ -Who wrote this?

ক) William Wordsworth

খ) Robert Browning

গ) John Keats

ঘ) Samuel Coleridge

59. প্রশ্নঃ 'Child is the father of man' is taken from the poem of-

ক) W. Wordsworth

খ) S. T. Coleridge

গ) P.B. Shelley

ঘ) A.C. Swinburne

59. প্রশ্নঃ The play 'The Birthday Party' is written by-

ক) Samel Beckett

খ) Henry Livings

গ) Harold Pinter

ঘ) Arthur Miller

60. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the writer of the famous essay 'Tradition and the Individual Talent'?

ক) George Orwell

খ) Aldous Leonard Huxley

গ) T. S. Eliot

ঘ) Francis Bacon

60. প্রশ্নঃ Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

ক) Alliterative verse

খ) Sonnet form

গ) lambic pentameter

ঘ) Daetylic Haxameter

60. প্রশ্নঃ The most famous romantic poet of English literature is -

ক) John Dryden

খ) Alexander Pope

গ) William Wordsworth

ঘ) T. S. Eliot

60. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the central character of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte?

ক) Mr. Earnshaw

খ) Catherine

গ) Heathcliff

ঘ) Hindley Earnshaw

60. প্রশ্নঃ 'Paradise Lost' attempted to—

ক) justify the ways of man to God

খ) show that Satan and God have equal power

গ) justify the ways of God to man

ঘ) explain why both good and evil are necessary

60. প্রশ্নঃ “Time held me green and dying | Though I sang in my chains like the sea”. These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas' poem-

ক) The Flower

খ) Fern Hill

গ) By Fire

ঘ) After the Funeral

60. প্রশ্নঃ "To be, or not be, that is the question" _____ is a famous dialogue from -

ক) Othello

খ) Romeo and Juliet

গ) Hamlet

ঘ) Macbeth

61. প্রশ্নঃ 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.' -This oft-quoted line occurs in Shelley's notable poem _____ .

ক) To a Skylark

খ) Ode to the West Wind

গ) Adonais

ঘ) The Cloud

61. প্রশ্নঃ The repetition of beginning consonant sound is know as-

ক) personification

খ) onomatopoeia

গ) alliteration

ঘ) rhyme

61. প্রশ্নঃ 'Man is a political animal'- who said this?

ক) Dante

খ) Plato

গ) Aristotle

ঘ) Socrates

61. প্রশ্নঃ 'The old order changeth, yielding place to new'. This line is extracted from Tennyson's poem -

ক) The Lotos-Eaters

খ) Tithonus

গ) Locksley Hall

ঘ) Morte d' Arthur

61. প্রশ্নঃ "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
The extract is taken from P. B. Shelley's poem—

ক) The Cloud

খ) To a Skylark

গ) Ode to the West Wind

ঘ) Adonais

61. প্রশ্নঃ Who is not a Victorian poet?

ক) Mathew Arnold

খ) Alexander Pope

গ) Robert Browning

ঘ) Alfred Tennyson

62. প্রশ্নঃ Who authored the futuristic novel 'Brave New World'?

ক) E. M. Forster

খ) Virginia Woolf

গ) Aldous Leonard Huxley

ঘ) Graham Greene

62. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

ক) The Epic

খ) The Comic

গ) The Occult

ঘ) The Tragic

62. প্রশ্নঃ Who is known as 'the poet of nature' in English literature?

ক) Lord Tennyson

খ) John Milton

গ) William Wordsworth

ঘ) John Keats

62. প্রশ্নঃ Who has written the poem 'The Good Morrow'?

ক) George Herbert

খ) Andrew Marvell

গ) John Donne

ঘ) Henry Vaughan

62. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the short story 'The Ant and the Grasshopper'?

ক) Guy de Maupassant

খ) W. Somerset Maugham

গ) J. K. Rawlings

ঘ) O' Henry

62. প্রশ্নঃ 'Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Who speaks the famous lines?

ক) Caesar

খ) Antony

গ) Faustus

ঘ) Romeo

63. প্রশ্নঃ The Character 'Alfred Doolittle' is taken from Shaw's play titled-

ক) Pygmalion

খ) Man and Superman

গ) The Doctor's Dilemma

ঘ) Mrs. Warren's Profession

63. প্রশ্নঃ 'Good fences make good neighbors'. -The line was written by _______ .

ক) Robert Graves

খ) Robert Frost

গ) Ezra Pound

ঘ) Carl Sandburg

63. প্রশ্নঃ What is a funny poem of five lines called?

ক) Quartet

খ) Limerick

গ) Sixtet

ঘ) Haiku

64. প্রশ্নঃ The play 'The Spanish Tragedy' is written by -

ক) Thomas Kyd

খ) Christopher Marlowe

গ) Shakespeare

ঘ) Ben Jonson

64. প্রশ্নঃ The poem 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is written by-

ক) W. B. Yeats

খ) T. S. Eliot

গ) Walter Scott

ঘ) Robert Browning

64. প্রশ্নঃ Cowards die many times before their deaths: | The valiant never taste of death but once'. | In which play of Shakespeare do you find this quote?

ক) Julius Caesar

খ) Romeo and Juliet

গ) The Tempest

ঘ) Twelfth Night

64. প্রশ্নঃ "A Passage to India" is written by-

ক) E. M. Forster

খ) Rudyard Kipling

গ) Galls Worthy

ঘ) A. H. Auden

64. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote "Biographia Literaria"?

ক) Lord Byron

খ) P.B. Shelley

গ) S.T. Coleridge

ঘ) Charles Lamb

65. প্রশ্নঃ Who among the following Indian English writers is a famous novelist?

ক) Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

খ) R.K. Narayan

গ) Nissim Ezekiel

ঘ) Kamala Das

65. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the author of the first scientific romance 'The Time Machine'?

ক) H. G. Wells

খ) Samuel Butler

গ) Henry James

ঘ) George Moore

65. প্রশ্নঃ 'Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.' This quote is extracted from Tennyson's poem titled ______ .

ক) Morte d' Arthur

খ) The Lotos-Eaters

গ) Tithonus

ঘ) Locksley Hall

65. প্রশ্নঃ 'Gitanjali' of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by-

ক) W. B. Yeats

খ) Robert Frost

গ) John Keats

ঘ) Rudyard Kipling

65. প্রশ্নঃ Robert Browning was a _____ poet. Fill in the gap with appropriate word.

ক) Romantic

খ) Victorian

গ) Modern

ঘ) Elizathan

66. প্রশ্নঃ ___ was both a poet and a painter.

ক) John Keats

খ) Spenser

গ) William Blake

ঘ) John Donne

66. প্রশ্নঃ The tragedy 'Samson Agonistes' was penned by ______.

ক) Christopher Marlowe

খ) Henrick Ibsen

গ) John Milton

ঘ) Arthur Miller

66. প্রশ্নঃ Othello gave Desdemona ___ as a token of love:

ক) Ring

খ) Handkerchief

গ) Pendant

ঘ) Bangles

67. প্রশ্নঃ Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man' is a—

ক) novel

খ) treatise

গ) short story

ঘ) poem

67. প্রশ্নঃ Who is the playwright of the absurd drama 'Waiting for Godot'?

ক) Jean Genet

খ) Samuel Beckett

গ) Harold Pinter

ঘ) Tom Stoppard

67. প্রশ্নঃ P.B. Shelley's 'Adonais' is an elegy on the death of-

ক) John Milton

খ) S.T. Coleridge

গ) John Keats

ঘ) Lord Byron

68. প্রশ্নঃ The comparison of unlike things using the words like on as is known to be-

ক) metaphor

খ) simile

গ) alliteration

ঘ) personification

68. প্রশ্নঃ 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope is a/an -

ক) epic

খ) ballad

গ) mock-heroic poem

ঘ) elegy

68. প্রশ্নঃ It's strange - but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fiction. | This quote is taken from a poem of _____. | [Correct: Tis strange,- but true.....]

ক) Mark Twain

খ) Robert Herrick

গ) Lord Byron

ঘ) Franz Kafka

69. প্রশ্নঃ Who wrote the novella 'Heart of Darkness'?

ক) Joseph Conrad

খ) Doris Lessing

গ) John Osborne

ঘ) Thomas Hardy

69. প্রশ্নঃ Find the odd-man-out-

ক) George Eliot

খ) Thomas Hardy

গ) Joseph Conrad

ঘ) James Joyce

69. প্রশ্নঃ 'Restoration period' in English literature refers to -

ক) 1560

খ) 1660

গ) 1760

ঘ) 1866

69. প্রশ্নঃ Which period is known as "The golden age" of English literature?

ক) The Victorian age

খ) The Elizabethan age

গ) The Restoration age

ঘ) The Eighteenth Century

69. প্রশ্নঃ What kind of play is 'Julius Caesar'?

ক) romantic

খ) anti-romantic

গ) comedy

ঘ) historical

69. প্রশ্নঃ Which of the following is not an American poet?

ক) Robert Frost

খ) W.B Yeats

গ) Emily Dickinson

ঘ) Langston Hughes

69. প্রশ্নঃ Desdemona is a character in the following Shakespearean play :

ক) Macbeth

খ) Othello

গ) Hamlet

ঘ) King Lear

69. প্রশ্নঃ Who of the following writers was not a novelist?

ক) Charles Dickens

খ) W.B. Yeats

গ) James Joyce

ঘ) Jane Austen

69. প্রশ্নঃ Francis Bacon is an illustrious—

ক) essayist

খ) dramatist

গ) novelist

ঘ) journalist

70. প্রশ্নঃ Who was the writer of the autobiographical as well as political essay 'Shooting and Elephant'? [Correct: Shooting an Elephant]

ক) Francis Bacon

খ) George Orwell

গ) Joseph Addison

ঘ) Charles Lamb

70. প্রশ্নঃ Find the odd-one-out -

ক) The Bluest Eye

খ) Sula

গ) As I Lay Dying

ঘ) A Mercy

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