1. The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by - [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার - ২০১২]
(a)Alfred Tennyson
(b)Robert Browning
(c)Mathew Arnold
(d)John Donne
Answer : (b)Robert Browning
2. Who wrote ‘The Tempest’? [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার - ২০১২]
(a)William Wordsworth
(b)Ben Jonson
(c)William Shakespeare
(d)Tennyson
Answer : (c)William Shakespeare
3. Which book is a Tragedy? [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার - ২০১২]
(a)Hamlet
(b)Measure for Measure
(c)As you like it
(d)She stoops to conquer
Answer :
4. The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by Shakespeare is - [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার - ২০১২]
(a)A novel
(b)a short story
(c)a poem
(d)a drama
5. ‘Faerie Queen’ is a - [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার - ২০১২]
(a)play
(b)short story
(c)an epic
(d)novel
6. Who among the following is a revolutionary poet? [বিহরাগমন ও পাসপোর্ট অধিদপ্তরের সহকারী পরিচালক
নিয়োগ - ২০১৪]
(a)John Keats
(b)P.B. Shelly
(c)S.T. Coleridge
(d)William Wordsworth
7. Great Expectations is a novel written by- [বিহরাগমন ও পাসপোর্ট অধিদপ্তরের সহকারী পরিচালক
নিয়োগ - ২০১৪]
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Henry Fielding
8. Paradise Lost is - [বিহরাগমন ও পাসপোর্ট অধিদপ্তরের সহকারী পরিচালক
নিয়োগ - ২০১৪]
(a) an epic
(b) a satirical work
(c) a tragedy
(d) a ballad
9. Who wrote ‘Madame Bovary’?
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) James Joyce
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) Gustave Flaubert
10. The poem ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by [৩৫তম িবিসএস]
(a) Dylan Thomas
(b) W.H Auden
(c) Ezra Pound
(d) W.B. Yeats
11. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about - [৩৫তম িবিসএস]
(a) A Jew
(b) A Turk
(c) A Roman
(d) A Moor
12. The play Arms and the Man is by - [৩৫তম িবিসএস]
(a) James Joyce
(b) Arthur Miller
(c) Samuel Beckett
(d) George Bernard Shaw
13. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is written by -
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) Ronald Reuel Tolkien
(c) Hobbit
(d) None
14. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ is an essay by -
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Thomas Carlyle
15. Who of the following is a playwright?
(a) Dickens
(b) Frost
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) G.B. Shaw
16. ‘To the Lighthouse’ and ‘A Room of one’s Own’ written by -
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) J.M. Synage
(d) None
17. Who is a modern author?
(a) C. Marlow
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Chaucer
(d) Joseph Conrad
18. The poem ‘Second Coming’ is written by -
(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Frost
(d) Auden
19. ‘April is the cruelest month’ is written by - i
(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Frost
(d) Auden
20. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is written by-
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) James Joyce
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) G.B. Shaw
21. ‘Adela’ is a character in the novel ‘A Passage to India’ written by-
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) William Golding
(c) Joyce
(d) Hardy
22.‘Man and Superman’ and ‘Arms and The Man’ were written by-
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) Somerset Maugham
(c) William Golding
(d) None
23.Who wrote ‘The Waste Land’?
(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) E.M. Forster
(d) H.G. Wells
24. Who wrote ‘Heart of Darkness’?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Bill Gates
(d) None
25. Who wrote ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) E. M. Forster
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) William Shakespeare
26. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and ‘The Rainbow’ written by-
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) Robert Frost
(c) Thomas Moore
(d) D.H. Lawrence
27. ‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by -
(a) Somerset Maugham
(b) James Joyce
(c) W.B. Yeats
(d) Philip Sydney
28. James Joyce’s famous novel - iii
(a) Roots
(b) Ulysses
(c) Tom Jones
(d) Rebecca
29. ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ are two poems written by -
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Emily Dickinson
(d) None
30. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the writer of -
(a) The Scarlet Letter
(b) A Farewell to Arms
(c) Great Expectation
(d) none
31. Who is an American author?
(a) R.W. Emerson
(b) H.D. Thoreau
(c) Henry W. Longfellow
(d) All
32. “To be, or not to be, that is the question” - Where do you find this quotation?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Hamlet
(c) As You like It
(d) Othello
33. ‘The Road not Taken’ is a famous poem of -
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Emily Dickinson
(d) None
34. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is written by-
(a) Shelley
(b) Long Fellow
(c) Frost
(d) Whitman
35. The period from 1649-1660 is known as-
(a) Commonwealth period
(b) Jacobean period
(c) Caroline period
(d) Restoration period
36. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?
a) Song of myself
b) Song of Innocence
c) Song of Experience
d) none of these
37. Who wrote ‘The Bluest Eyes’?
(a) Arthur Miller
(b) Saul Bellow
(c) Tony Morrison
(d) None
38. Who is the author of ‘Seize the Day’?
(a) Arthur Miller
(b) Saul Bellow
(c) Tony Morrison
(d) None
39. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ - These two novels were written by -
(a) O’Henry
(b) Arthur Miller
(c) Earnest Hemingway
(d) John Osborn
40. ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is a novel written by -
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Walt Whitman
41. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by -
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) Mark Twain
(d) Walt Whitman
42. ‘Lycidas’ is written by - [সহকারী পিরচালক (মাদক�বয্ িনয়�ণ অিধদ9র) - ১৯৯৯]
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) John Milton
43. ‘Love and Friendship’ is written by -
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) Jane Austen
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) None
44. Who wrote ‘Sense and Sensibility’?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Jane Austen
(d) None
45. ‘Samson Agonists’ is written by -
(a) A. Pope
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) John Milton
46. Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’?
(a) O’Henry
(b) L. Stevenson
(c) Hemingway
(d) Sir Walter Scott
47. ‘Essay on Criticism’ is written by -
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Jonathan Swift
(d) H. Fielding
48. ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ written by-
(a) Byron
(b) G.B. Shaw
(c) John Buniyan
(d) T.S. Eliot
49. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ is a work by-
(a) Byron
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Shelley
(d) G.B. Shaw
50. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by-
(a) Shelley
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Sophocles
(d) Euripedes
51. Who wrote ‘Don Juan’?
(a) Words worth
(b) Keats
(c) Shelley
(d) Byron
52. ‘Biographia Literaria’ Written by-
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Keats
(d) Shelley
53. ‘Oedipus Rex’ is written by -
(a) Socrates
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Aristotle
(d) Sophocles
54. Who wrote ‘The Nun’s Priest’s Tale’?
(a) Shelley
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Chaucer
(d) Donne
55. ‘Troilus and Criseyde’ is written by -
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Chaucer
(c) Marlowe
(d) Congreve
56. ‘The Silent Woman’ is a play by - [সহকারী পিরচালক (তথয্ ম5ণালয়) - ২০০৩]
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Marlowe
(d) Ben Johnson
57. ‘Tamburlaine the Great’ is written by -
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Marlowe
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) John Webster
58. How many types of epic are there?
(a) 1
(b) 2
(c) 3
(d) 4
59. ‘Orlando’ is a character of Shakespeare’s -
(a) Hamlet
(b) King Lear
(c) Tempest
(d) As You Like It
60. Samuel Beckett was - iv
(a) An English dramatist
(b) A Russian dramatist
(c) A French dramatist
(d) A Spanish dramatist
61. Who is famous for his ‘drama of ideas’?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Henrik Ibsen
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) T.S. Eliot
62. ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ is a novel written by -
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) John Stuart Mill
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Emily Bronte
63. Who is known as an anti-romantic novelist in the Romantic Age?
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Jane Austen
(c) William Hazlitt
(d) Oliver Goldsmith
64. ‘Paradise Lost’ attempts to - [১৪তম িবিসএস]
(a) Justify the ways of man to God
(b) Show that the Satan and God have equal power
(c) Explain why good and evil are necessary
(d) Justify the ways of God to man
65. Who was ‘Poet Laureate’?
(a) Alfred Tennyson
(b) Robert Browning
(c) P. B. Shelley
(d) none of them
66. ‘O Lady! We receive but what we give’- has been quoted from
(a) Kubla khan
(b) Don Juan
(c) Tithonus
(d) Dejection: An Ode
67. The period from 1649-1660 is known as -
(a) Commonwealth period
(b) Jacobean period
(c) Caroline period
(d) Restoration period
68. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?
(a) Song of myself
(b) Song of Innocence
(c) Song of Experience
(d) none of these
69. Who is the writer of ‘The End of History and The Last Man’?
(a) Samuel Huntington
(b) Francis Fukuyama
(c) Robert Frost
(d) David Lynn
70. Who wrote ‘Ulysses’? [সহকারী পিরচালক (তথয্ ম5ণালয়) - ২০০৩]
(a) Thomas Moore
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) R.L. Stevenson
(d) S.T. Coleridge
71. ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel by -
(a) Dickens
(b) Thackeray
(c) Scott
(d) Fielding
72. Who is the author of ‘The Old Man and the Sea’?
(a) E. Hemingway
(b) Churchill
(c) Wilson
(d) Hardy
73. ‘A Farewell to Arms’ is novel by -
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) Ernest Hemingway
(c) Jane Austen
(d) Scott
74. Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’?
(a) Shelley
(b) Tolstoy
(c) Byron
(d) Dostoyevsky
75. ‘A Passage to India’ is written by -
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) Sadat Hasan Mintu
(c) Gallsworth
(d) Rudyard Kipling
76. ‘Paradise Lost’ and ‘Paradise Regained’ are written by - [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০১২]
(a) P.B. Shelley
(b) John Keats
(c) John Milton
(d) William Blake
77. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Sun Also Rises’?
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) George Orwell
(c) Ernest Hemingway
(d) Thomas Hardy
78. ‘The Rainbow’ is -
(a) A poem by Wordsworth
(b) a short story by Somerset Maugham
(c) a novel by D.H. Lawrence
(d) a verse by Coleridge
79. Who wrote the ‘Odyssey and Iliad’?
(a) Milton
(b) Hoffman
(c) Vergil
(d) Homer
80. Which one of the following is a comedy?
(a) All’s Well that Ends Well
(b) Hamlet
(c) Timon of Athens
(d) Antony and Cleopatra
81. Of the following who is the most translated author of the world?
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Agatha Cristie
(c) V.I. Lenin
(d) Mao Tse Tung
82. Who is the author of ‘The Affluent Society’?
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) J.K. Galbrath
(d) David Hume
83. Who is not a novelist of Victorian age mentioned below?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) George Eliot
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) James Joyce
84. Which one is the shortest dramatic work?
(a) Not
(b) Footballs
(c) Radio
(d) Breath
85. A.S. Hornsby is famous for -
(a) Writing poems
(b) writing songs
(c) writing text books
(d) writing dictionaries
86. Who is well known for his translation of ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam’ into English?
(a) Rose Macaulay
(b) Edward Fitzgerald
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) D.H. Lawrence
87. O’Henry is famous for -
(a) Drama
(b) short story
(c) novel
(d) poem
88. Goethe is the greatest poet of -
(a) Russia
(b) Germany
(c) England
(d) France
89. Who wrote the book ‘Cancer Ward’?
(a) Alexander Solzhenitsyn
(b) Boris Pasternak
(c) Leo Tolstoy
(d) Alexander Pope
90. A famous short story of Maupassant is -
(a) The Diamond Necklace
(b) Gift of the Magi
(c) Tropic of Cancer
(d) The Prince
91. Who is the author of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’?
(a) Aldous Huxley
(b) Boris Pasternauk
(c) Oscar Wilde
(d) Fitzerald
92. What type of book ‘The Woman’ is -
(a) Drama
(b) Novel
(c) Story
(d) Essay
93. ‘Calliban’ is a character in -
(a) King Lear
(b) Othello
(c) Man and Superman
(d) Tempest
94. Who was the only Laureate to refuse the Nobel Prize?
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) Jea- Paul Sartre
(c) T.S. Eliot
95. Famous Irish poet and dramatist is -
(a) W.B. Yeats
(b) L. Tolstoy
(c) A. Pope
(d) H.G. Wells
96. Who is the modern philosopher who was rewarded Nobel Prize for literature?
(a) Baker
(b) Kissinger
(c) Lenin
(d) B. Russell
97. Who is the author of ‘India Wins Freedom’?
(a) Ghandhi
(b) Nehru
(c) Jinnah
(d) Abul Kalam Azad
98. ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is written by -
(a) Harold Pinter
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) Samuel Beckett
99. Who is the author of the drama ‘You never can tell’?
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) Ben Jonson
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Christopher Marlowe
100. Who is the author of ‘Arabian Nights’?
(a) Sir Richard Burton
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Smith
(d) None of them
101. Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale?
(a) Oscar Wilde
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Rudyard Kipling
102. Tennyson wrote - [থানা িশ�া অিফসার িনেয়াগ - ১৯৯৯]
(a) Dover Beach
(b) My last Duchess
(c) The Eve of St. Agnes
(d) The Lotus Eaters
103. Who is famous for the theory of ‘Objective Co-relative’?
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) Somerset Maugham
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Woolf
104. When did T. S. Eliot win noble prize?
(a) 1948
(b) 1923
(c) 1953
(d) 1935
105. Which one of the following is the first long poem in English?
(a) Beowulf
(b) Dream of the Road
(c) The Seafarer
(d) The Wanderer
106. Who wrote ‘The Spanish Tragedy’?
(a) John Lyly
(b) Thomas Kyd
(c) Robert Green
(d) Christopher Marlowe
107. ‘The Sacred Flame’ is written by -
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) William Somerset Maugham
(c) Earnest Hemingway
(d) Oscar Wilde
108. Who translated the Bible into English for the first time?
(a) Nicolas Udall
(b) John Wycliffe
(c) Thomas Norton
(d) Edmund Spenser
109. ‘The Return of the Native’ is written by - [সহকারী পিরচালক (পাসেপাটর্ অয্ান্ড ইিমে�শন) - ২০০৭]
(a) Alexander Dumas
(b) Aldous Huxley
(c) Somerset Maugham
(d) Thomas Hardy
110. ‘Brick Lane’ is written by -
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) George Eliot
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Monica Ali
111. The Good Earth has been written by -
(a) Virginia Woolf
(b) George Eliot
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) Pearl S. Buck
112. ‘War and Peace’ an epic tale of Napoleonic invasion is written by -
(a) Leo Tolstoy
(b) George Bernard Shaw
(c) Anne Frank
(d) Earnest Hemingway
113. What was the first novel of Virginia Woolf?
(a) The Waves
(b) To the Light House
(c) Jacob’s Room
(d) The Voyage out
114. The first English novel, Pamela, has been written by - [উপপিরচালক (কমর্সং�ান ও �িশ�ণ বয্ু েরা) -
২০০৭]
(a) Daniel Defoe
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Sir Walter Scott
(d) Samuel Richardson
115. Samuel Beckett’s ‘Waiting for Goddot’ is a-
(a) Morality play
(b) Problem play
(c) Miracle play
(d) Absurd play
116. ‘Satanic Verses’ is written by -
(a) R.K. Narayan
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Jhumpa Lahiri
(d) Arundhuti Roy
117. ‘Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven’ has been quoted from-
(a) Paradise Regained
(b) Paradise Lost
(c) Aeneid
(d) None of these
118. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ is written by the author of -
(a) A passage to India
(b) Lord Jim
(c) Rainbow
(d) Ulysses
119. Who was the eminent writer of the Restoration?
a) John Milton
b) John Dryden
c) William Congreve
d) All of them
120. What do you mean by Archaism?
(a) modern mode of words
(b) up-to-date words
(c) literary words
(d) obsolete words
121. What do you mean by Burlesque?
(a) a satiric caricature of the characters
(b) a drama
(c) a satiric person
(d) an allegorical statement
122. Doctor Zivago is written by -
(a) Ana Pasternak
(b) Boris Pasternak
(c) Golding
(d) Conrad
123. What do you mean by Lampoon?
(a) An exaggerated statement
(b) A short significant poem
(c) The poet who writes sonnet
(d) To mock some powerful person
124. What do you mean by the word Personnel?
(a) individual
(b) others
(c) papers
(d) government employee
125. What the term Couplet refers?
(a) two successive lines
(b) first four lines of a poem
(c) two successive rhyming lines
(d) two lines without rhymes
126. Bathos refers - v
(a) ridiculous in writing or speech
(b) a pathetic description
(c) pathetic events
(d) antiquity of style, manner or use
127. Romanticism is mainly connected with - vi [সহকারী পিরচালক (যবু
(a) excitement and sensation
(b) love and beauty
(c) job and tiredness
(d) expectation and depression
128. What is an Epic?
(a) a short poem
(b) a long narrative poem
(c) a historical poem
(d) a prose composition
129. What is a Fantasy?
(a) An imaginary story
(b) a funny animation film
(c) a history record
(d) a real life event
130. A person who writes about his own life writes -
(a) A Chronicle
(b) an Autobiographer
(c) a diary
(d) a Biography
131. What is meaning of the word Euphemism? vii
(a) vague idea
(b) inoffensive expression
(c) a verbal play
(d) a wise saying
132. What is the meaning Hymn?
(a) song in praise of poet
(b) a song in praise of country
(c) song in praise of God
(d) a mixture of two language
133. What the term Blank Verse refers -
(a) having no rhyming end
(b)having no rhythmic flow
(c)having no significance
(d)having no blanks in the verse
134. Equivocation means -
(a) two contrary things in same statement
(b) equal opportunity
(c) free expression of opinion
(d) a true statement
135. What is Limerick?
(a) a form of one act play
(b) a kind of novel
(c) a form of short story
(d) a form of light verse
136. What do you mean by Canto?
(a) a stanza of a long poem
(b) a stanza of a short poem
(c) a section or division of a long poem
(d) a kind of sonnet
137. What is the meaning of the word Dirge?
(a) a kind of sonnet sequence
(b) a song expressing patriotism
(c) a long verse about adventure
(d) a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning
138. What do you mean by Minstrel?
(a) a romantic poet
(b) a poet of minister
(c) a budding poet
(d) A medieval European poet
139. What do you mean Ode?
(a) a lyric poem
(b) a short poem
(c) a ballad
(d) a sonnet
140. What is an Effigy?
(a) a poem
(b) a sonnet
(c) an image or dummy
(d) a lamentation
141. What do you mean by Epitaph?
(a) Inscription on tomb or monument
(b) a sonnet of hero
(c) a ballad of folk hero
(d) a poem of lamentation
142. What do you mean by Epilogue?
(a) a poem comes at beginning
(b) a poem of lamentation
(c) a poem or speech at the end of a play
(d) a figurative story
143. What do you mean by Satire?
(a) an ironical writing
(b) ridiculous writing against vices or follies
(c) mixture of two languages
(d) a regional epic
144. What the term Aesthetic refers -
(a) appreciation for beauty
(b) appreciation for poem
(c) reverence for old
(d) reverence for poems
145. What do you mean by Panegyric or Eulogy? viii
(a) a writing of praising distinguished persons
(b) a kind of satire
(c) A short lyric poem
(d) a poem of praising Gods
146. What do you mean by Parody?
(a) imitation of the great man
(b) following the rules
(c) a short prose
(d) imitation of a poem or a writing
147. What the term Allusion refers -
(a) reference from any person
(b) obeyed the old men
(c) reference of past events or persons
(d) writing in satire
148. What is a Character?
(a) a poet of writing
(b) a joker of the writing
(c) any person in a literary work
(d) a famous man in play
149. What do you mean by a Ballad?
(a) a kind of short narrative poem
(b) a poem of patriotism
(c) a poem of love affairs
(d) a kind of condoling poem
150. What do you mean Philology?
(a) Study of Language
(b) science of medicine
(c) science of surgery
(d) science of speech sounds
151. What do you mean by Climax?
(a) a peak of mountain
(b) a disaster of sea
(c) a kind of poem
(d) the moment of highest interest in a play
152. What do you mean by Diction?
(a) choice of words for writing
(b) choice of characters
(c) choice of rhythms
(d) choice of simile and metaphor
153. What do you mean by a Play or Drama?
(a) a literary lyric
(b) a literary work performing on a stage
(c) a literary prose fiction on stage
(d) a poem to the alter of God
154. What do you mean by Fable?
(a) a story of high thoughts
(b) a story about great men
(c) a general story
(d) a short story of animals for moral lesson
155. What is the term Fiction?
(a) a poem
(b) a prose
(c) an imaginative writing
(d) a story
156. What is a Miracle Play?
(a) a play of tragedy
(b) a play of comedy
(c) a play in fiction
(d) a supernatural religious drama
157. What is a Myth?
(a) a fictitious or imaginative story
(b) a legend of hero
(c) a short narrative poem
(d) a long narrative poem
158. What do you mean by Pathos or Catharsis? ix
(a) a sorrowful event
(b) a murder in a tragedy
(c) an adventure of hero
(d) arouse of pity and fear
159. What is Novella? x
(a) a short story of drama
(b) a short narrative poem
(c) a short narrative fictional prose
(d) an essay of satire
160. What the term Objectivity refers?
(a) Impersonal expression in literary works
(b) individual
(c) personal expression in works
(d) disinterested person
161. What the term Oxymoron refers?
(a) two same ideas are combined
(b) self-contradictory ideas
(c) two language
(d) two contradictory ideas express one thing
162. Pastoral Poem refers a poem about….life.
(a) human
(b) poet’s
(c) shepherd or rural
(d) personal
163. What do you mean by Plot?
(a) a drama of comedy
(b) a disposal of characters
(c) a short novel
(d) arrangement of incidents in a writing
164. What the term Renaissance refers?
(a) revival or rebirth
(b) representation
(c) presentation
(d) rebel
165. What do you mean by Protagonist?
(a) the character against main character i.e. Antagonist
(b) the villain of drama
(c) the minor character
(d) the main character in a literary work
166. What do you mean by Prose?
(a) a writing without rhyme
(b) a writing with rhyme
(c) a writing of verse
(d) a writing of rhythms
167. What do you mean by Quatrain?
(a) a poem of fourteen lines
(b) a stanza of fourteen lines
(c) a stanza of six lines
(d) a stanza of four lines
168. A sub-division of a poem is called -
(a) meter
(b) foot
(c) mythology
(d) none of these
169. Simile is the direct comparison between two -
(a) similar things
(b) dissimilar things
(c) elaborate comparison
(d) contradictory things
170. What the term Comedy refers?
(a) a play ends unhappily
(b) a play ends with murder
(c) a play ends tragedy
(d) a play ends happily
171. What do you mean by Synecdoche?
(a) a figurative story
(b) a story by animal characters
(c) a figure of speech stands for whole thing
(d) none
172. Dramatic Monologue stands for -
(a) comparison between dissimilar things
(b) a kind of fable
(c) single
(d) single speaker speak but audience remain silent
173. What the term Short Story stands for?
(a) a long prose fiction
(b) a story of figurative language
(c) a story of many characters
(d) a short prose fiction
174. What do you mean by Novel?
(a) short prose
(b) a long fictional prose with many characters
(c) a short narrative prose
(d) a literary work on the stage
175. What do you mean by Phonetics?
(a) study of speech sounds
(b) study of language and rules
(c) study of insects
(d) study of meaning and syntax
176. What do you mean by Syntax?
(a) study of speech sounds
(b) study of meaning of words
(c) study of constructing sentence
(d) constructing passage
177. The another name of Revenge tragedy or producer is -
(a) Sophocles
(b) Euripides
(c) Homer
(d) Senecan tragedy
178. What do you mean by Prologue?
(a) the last part of any drama
(b) the first chapter of play
(c) the preface or introduction of any writing
(d) surface
179. What do you mean by Romance?
(a) any work of fiction or imagination
(b) a real life story
(c) any work of literature
(d) a play or a drama
180. What do you mean by Irony?
(a) a satiric imitation
(b) a burlesque imitation
(c) a kind of parody
(d) difference between reality and appearance
181. What the term Mock Epic refers? xi
(a) a satiric writing of drama
(b) a long narrative poem
(c) a literary work comically imitates the style of epic
(d) none
182. What do you mean by Linguistics?
(a) study of languages and its rules
(b) study of sounds
(c) study of speech sounds
(d) study of meaning
183. What do you mean by Imagery?
(a) language perceived through senses
(b) jargoned writing
(c) language of literature
(d) drawing pictures
184. What do you mean by Plagiarism?
(a) a story builder
(b) a short story
(c) a literary theft
(d) a criticism of literature
185. What is Quinzaine? xii
(a) a fourteen line stanza
(b) a twenty line stanza
(c) a thirteen line stanza
(d) a fifteen line stanza
186. What do you mean by Deus ex Machina? xiii
(a) process of analyzing literature
(b) literary theft
(c) process of solving problem abruptly
(d) choice of words
187. What do you mean by Hyperbole?
(a) a long verse
(b) a long narrative poem
(c) an overriding view
(d) an overstatement about something
188. What do you mean by Heroic Couplet?
(a) a pair of rhyming iambic pentameter
(b) a two line stanza
(c) a poem of lamentation
(d) a song for mourning
189. What do you mean by Romanticism?
(a) movement of daily life affairs
(b) movement for classics
(c) movement of poem
(d) movement for imagination over reason
190. What do you mean by Beast Fable?
(a) a fictional story of animal characters
(b) a short story
(c) a long narrative prose
(d) a soft style epic
191. Short Story differs from a Novel by the figures of -
(a) Length and Characters
(b) prose and fiction
(c) verse and rhymes
(d) rhythms and prosody
192. Objectivity stands for -
(a) personal expression
(b) impersonal expression
(c) immature communication
(d) matured notion
193. Prosody signifies the systematic study of -
(a) drama
(b) novel
(c) short story
(d) versification
194. Compatriot means -
(a) comrade
(b) classmate
(c) fellow country man
(d) friend
195. The arrangement of events in the order of their occurrence is -
(a) Chronometer
(b) Chorology
(c) Chronicle
(d) Choreography
196. What do you mean by an Elegy?
(a) a poem of happy ending
(b) a poem of unhappy ending
(c) a song of praising God
(d) a song of Mourning the dead
197. What do you mean by Tragicomedy?
(a) a kind of verse play
(b) a play with unhappy ending
(c) blending of tragic and comic elements
(d) mixture of dramas
198. What is Epistolary Novel?
(a) a novel of short length
(b) a novel personal feelings
(c) a Novella
(d) a novel of correspondence among the characters
199. What the term Humor refers?
(a) anything causes laughter
(b) amazing
(c) wonder
(d) rapture
200. “Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man.” - Who told it?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Chaucer
(c) Spenser
(d) Bacon
201. Which of the following is an essayist?
(a) Chaucer
(b) John Wycliffe
(c) Charles Lamb
(d) Spenser
202. “Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts” is a quotation from -
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelly
(c) John Keats
(d) Blake
203. Dryden and Alexander Pope are……poets.
(a) Neo-classical
(b) Elizabethan
(c) Victorian
(d) Modern
204. Who is known as the poet of Nature? [সহকারী পিরসংখয্ান অিফসার - ১৯৯৮]
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Shelly
(c) Keats
(d) All of them
205. Who of the following was both a poet and painter? [১৫তম িবিসএস]
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Coleridge
(c) Blake
(d) Keats
206. Emile Zola is a famous -
(a) English novelist
(b) American Novelist
(c) Irish novelist
(d) French Novelist
207. O’Henry was known as -
(a) American short story writer
(b) British short story writer
(c) Irish dramatist
(d) Roman Short story writer
208. A famous Mock Epic poet in English Literature is -
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) Tennyson
(c) Browning
(d) Shelley
209. Arthur Clarke is known as -
(a) a science fiction writer
(b) a modern dramatist
(c) a famous English Novelist
(d) A short story writer
210. Bertrand Russell was a British -
(a) novelist
(b) essayist
(c) poet
(d) philosopher
211. Who is the most satirist in English Literature? [১২তম িবিসএস]
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) Jonathon swift
(c) Dryden
(d) Spenser
212. A famous essayist in Renaissance is -
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Tomas Moore
(c) Thomas Carlyle
(d) John Wycliffe
213. A famous Playwright in Modern English Literature is -
(a) Oscar Wild
(b) Bacon
(c) Lamb
(d) T.S. Eliot
214. John Galsworthy is a…..dramatist. (a)Victorian
(b) Elizabethan
(c) Romantic
(d) Modern
215. Which Century belongs to Victorian Period? [১৬তম িবিসএস]
(a) 19th.
(b) 20th
(c) 17th
(d) 18th
216. Who is the famous woman novelist in Victorian Age?
(a) E.B. Browning
(b) George Eliot
(c) T.S Eliot
(d) Austen
217. Which of the following is a 19th century woman novelist?
(a) Emily Dickinson
(b) Ezra Pound
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) George Eliot
218. Alexander Dumas was a famous….novelist.
(a) American
(b) English
(c) Irish
(d) French
219. Karl Marx was born in -
(a) Germany
(b) India
(c) Russia
(d) England
220. The Poet Laureate is -
(a) the best poet of the country
(b) a winner of Noble Prize in Poetry
(c) the court poet of England
(d) a classical poet
221. The first English Dictionary was compiled by - [১৫তম, ১৮তম ও ২৮তম িবিসএস]
(a) Isaac Walton
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) Sir Thomas Browne
222. Shakespeare is known mostly for his - [১৬তম িবিসএস]
(a) poetry
(b) an autobiography
(c) a diary
(d) plays
223. What is the full name of the great American short story writer O’Henry?
(a) William Sidney Porter
(b) Walt Whitman
(c) Marjorie Kennan Rowling
(d) Samuel Butler
224. ‘Hamlet’ by Shakespeare is -
(a) a comedy
(b) a tragic comedy
(c) an epic
(d) a tragedy
225. Who is of the following both a poet and a novelist?
(a) George Eliot
(b) Thomas Hardy
(c) Karl Mark
(d) R. L. Stevenson
226. Which is the shortest period of English literature?
(a) Romantic period
(b) Victorian age
(c) Restoration period
(d) none of the above
227. Who was American poet?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) John Keats
(c) John Milton
(d) Robert Herrick
228. English poet addicted to Opium was -
(a) Lord Byron
(b) Charles Kingsley
(c) S.T. Coleridge
(d) P.B. Shelly
229. What does ‘Canto’ means?
(a) a division of a play
(b) an act of a play
(c) a sub division of an epic
(d) none of the above
230. What is ‘Linguistics’?
(a) the study of literature
(b) the study of history
(c) the scientific study of language
(d) none of the above
231. What is ‘Catastrophe’?
(a) the comedic end of dramatic events
(b) the tragic end of dramatic events
(c) the comic and tragic end of the play
(d) none of the above
232. ‘Three score’ means -
(a) thirty times
(b) three hundred times
(c) three times twenty
(d) more than three
233. What is ‘Parable’?
(a) an allegorical story usually containing a moral lesson
(b) the basic unit of a composition
(c) a sense of distress
(d) none of the above
234. ‘Melodrama’ is a kind of play -
(a) of violent and sensational themes
(b) of pathetic themes
(c) of historical themes
(d) of philosophical themes
235. “A thing of beauty is a joy forever” occurs in -
(a) Eliot’s ‘The waste land’
(b) Keats’s ‘Endymion’
(c) Shelly’s ‘The Cloud’
(d) none of the above
236. “Justice delayed is justice denied” was stated by -
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Emerson
(c) Gladstone
(d) Disraeli
237. “To err is human; to forgive is divine” is said by -
(a) Alexander Pope
(b) John Dryden
(c) John Benson
(d) None
238. “Our sweetest songs are those of the tale of….”
(a) patriotic feeling
(b) heroic tales
(c) saddest thought
(d) romantic love
239. “Mortality is a private and costly luxury” is said by -
(a) Cowper
(b) Henry Adams
(c) John Milton
(d) Blake
240. Which of the following poet was not awarded the Nobel Prize?
(a) Eliot
(b) Yeats
(c) Rabindranath Tagore
(d) Milton
241. In Shakespeare tragedy, the hero is -
(a) an ordinary man
(b) a high ranking man
(c) a sacrilegious man
(d) none of these
242. ‘Couplet’ can occur in -
(a) short story
(b) essay
(c) poem
(d) novel
243. Who wrote ‘The preface for Tagore’s Gitanjali’?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) W.B. Yeats
(c) Byron
(d) Keats
244. Who got the Nobel Prize for literature in 2007?
(a) Becket
(b) Pinter
(c) Stoppard
(d) Lessing
245. Which of the following age in literary history is the latest?
(a) The Augustan Period
(b) The Victorian Age
(c) The Georgian Age
(d) The Restoration Age
246. Find the Odd one.
(a) Treasure Island
(b) The return of the Native
(c) Das Capital
(d) Adam Bede
247. Who is the author of the book ‘Waste land’?
(a) T.S. Eliot
(b) Shelly
(c) Earnest Hemingway
(d) Charles Dickens
248. Which one is the correct form below?
(a) Emma - Goethe
(b) Freedom - Shakespeare
(c) War and Peace - Tolstoy
(d) all the above
249. Who is the father of modern English Drama?
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) John Milton
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Thomas Walt
250. Who is familiar as a poet of beauty?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) John Dryden
(c) John Keats
(d) None
251. Who was not the famous poet of the age of Romanticism?
(a) Coleridge
(b) Byron
(c) Shelley
(d) Shakespeare
252. Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?
(a) John Milton
(b) Homer
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) Eliot
253. What is literature?
(a) writing about society
(b) reflection of society
(c) literary works
(d) different customs
254. What the term Elegy refers?
(a) a song of lamentation
(b) a song of pleasure
(c) a hymn
(d) a praiseworthy song
255. What is paradox?
(a) a self-pleasant statement
(b) personal song
(c) a self-contradictory statement
(d) none
256. Whose real name was Mary Anne Evans?
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charlotte Bronte
(c) George Eliot
(d) Joseph Conrad
257. ‘Hold your tongue and let me love’ is said by -
(a) John Donne
(b) Shakespeare
(c) T. S. Eliot
(d) Christopher Marlowe
258. What is verse?
(a) lines of poem
(b) a song of lamentation
(c) a rhythmic measurement
(d) pentameter
259. What is Iambic Pentameter? xvi
(a) a six foot line verse
(b) a three foot line verse
(c) a four foot line verse
(d) a five foot line verse
260. Which is the rhyme scheme of Shakespearean sonnet?
(a) abab cdcd efef gg
(b) abba cdcd efg efg
(c) abab cde cde efg efg
(d) abba cde cde e egg
261. What is soliloquy?
(a) a speech to the audience
(b) self speech
(c) talk to others
(d) expression of anger
262. Allusion refers the following -
(a) a reference of past person or thing
(b) false
(c) doubtful speech
(d) historical documents
263. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is an example of -
a) Metaphor
b) Epigram
c) Satire
d) Simile
264. Which poet emphasized on rustic language in Poetry?
(a) John Keats
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) William Blake
(d) Thomas Gray
265. The full name of W.B. Yeats is -
(a) Winstern Barret Yeats
(b) William Bill Yeats
(c) William Butler Yeats
(d) William Bernard Yeats
266. Short story is not….than story.
(a) shorter
(b) longer
(c) smaller
(d) huger
267. The Study of Poetry is written by -
(a) Dr. Johnson
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) S. T. Coleridge
(d) Matthew Arnold
268. Beowulf is a/an - xvii [কারা তǧাবধায়ক (�রা� ম5ণালেয়র অধীেন) িনেয়াগ পরী�া - ২০১৩]
(a) an epic poem
(b) an elegy
(c) a novel
(d) a burlesque
269. As Act is to Drama; so Canto is to -
(a) Epic
(b) Tragedy
(c) Comedy
(d) Sonnet
270. What is a ballad?
(a) a folk song
(b) a song of hymn
(c) a song of lamentation
(d) a lyric song
271. What is a fable?
(a) a story about animals
(b) a story of human being
(c) a story of chronology
(d) a song of pleasure
272. What is a plot?
(a) an idea about writing
(b) the choice of words
(c) choice of poem
(d) arrangement of the incidents
273. The description of incidents in sequence is called -
(a) archive
(b) chronology
(c) anthology
(d) antenna
274. What is anthology?
(a) collection of poems
(b) collection of insects
(c) fish cultivation
(d) study of poetry
275. What do you mean by classicism?
(a) reverence for beauty
(b) reverence for English
(c) reverence for Greek and Roman/Grecian works
(d) none
276. What the term Allegory refers?
(a) a kind short story
(b) a long narrative poem
(c) a figurative story
(d) a comic play
277. What is an Epigram?
(a) a terse and witty statement
(b) a short fiction
(c) a long poem
(d) a wise man
278. Prologue refers -
(a) conclusion of writing
(b) end of the writing
(c) preface to writing
(d) praise song of a person
279. What is a myth?
(a) a fictitious story
(b) a real human story
(c) an animal story
(d) short poem
280. Which of the following is exceptional?
(a) William Blake
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) William Butler Yeats
(d) Thomas Gray
281. Which is called the Golden Period of English Literature?
(a) Elizabethan Age
(b) Victorian Age
(c) Restoration Period
(d) Augustan Age
282. Moby Dick is a -
(a) Novel
(b) Play
(c) Theory
(d) Short story
283. Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy written by -
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Marlowe
(d) Ibsen
284. Earnest Hemingway got Nobel Prize for -
(a) Old Man and the Sea
(b) A Farewell to Arms
(c) Man and Superman
(d) Life of Pea (Ryan Martel)
285. Utopia is an ideal state written by -
(a) Thomas Gray
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) George Bernard Shaw
(d) Thomas More
286. What is the Masterpiece of T.S. Eliot?
(a) The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
(b) Prelude
(c) The Waste Land
(d) Tradition and Ind. Talent
287. What is the real name of O’Henry?
(a) Mary Anne Evan
(b) George Gordon
(c) Lord Byron
(d) William Sydney Porter
288. Which one is not written by Robert Browning?
a) Adonais
b) The Patriot
c) Andrea del Sarto
d) My Last Duchess
289. Catharsis refers to the term -
(a) characters in play
(b) animals in play
(c) sympathy to others
(d) arouse of pity and fear
290. Synecdoche refers to the term -
(a) a thing stands for whole thing
(b) pity and fear
(c) Self-contradictory speech
(d) long speech
291. Asian Drama is written by -
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) W.B Yeats
(c) Albert Camue
(d) Gunner Myrdal
292. Tin Drum is written by -
(a) Gunter Grass
(b) Gunner Myrdal
(c) William Shakespeare
(d) Wordsworth
293. Gunter Grass got Nobel Prize in - xviii
(a) 1998
(b) 1997
(c) 1999
(d) 2000
294. Midnight Children is written by -
(a) Arundhoti Roy
(b) Anita Deshai
(c) R.K. Narayan
(d) Salman Rusdhi
295. Who is the Writer of The White Tiger?
(a) Arobinda Adigha
(b) Salman Rushdie
(c) Arundhoti Roy
(d) Kiron Dishai
296. “Poetry is spontaneous overflow of powerful Feeling” is said by -
(a) S.T Coleridge
(b) William Blake
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) Tomas Eliot
297. Lyrical Ballads is written by Wordsworth with the Collaboration of -
(a) S.T Coleridge
(b) William Blake
(c) Dorothy
(d) Alfred Tennyson
298. What is Sestet?
(a) Last six line of a sonnet
(b) First six lines of sonnet
(c) first eight line of a sonnet
(d) last eight lines
299. What is Diction?
(a) the choice of words
(b) the choice of characters
(c) choice of incidents
(d) choice of heroine
300. Lingua Franca refers to the term -
(a) first language
(b) second language
(c) official language
(d) common language
301. Firdausi was the poet of -
(a) Persian
(b) English
(c) French
(d) Italy
302. Oedipus is written by the dramatist -
(a) Aristophanes
(b) Homer
(c) Ovid
(d) Sophocles
303. A Machiavellian character is a -
(a) honest person
(b) wise person
(c) romantic person
(d) cunning person
304. Which philosopher got Nobel Prize in literature?
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) T.S. Eliot
(d) Bertrand Russell
305. An Apology for Poetry is written by -
(a) Mathew Arnold
(b) Philip Sydney
(c) Dr. Johnson
(d) Tomas Stern Eliot
306. Francis Bacon was an English -
(a) essayist
(b) novelist
(c) dramatist
(d) poet
307. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a -
(a) tragedy
(b) comedy
(c) tragicomedy
(d) sonnet
308. The Faire Queen is written by -
(a) Tennyson
(b) Chaucer
(c) Browning
(d) Spenser
309. ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a/an - [সহকারী পিরচালক (যুব উ�য়ন অিধদ9র) পরী�া - ১৯৯৯]
(a) comedy
(b) melodrama
(c) play
(d) tragedy
310. Which of following is written by Shakespeare?
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) Pilgrim’s Progress
(c) The preface to Fable
(d) Twelfth Night
311. Jonne Donne is famous for his -
(a) Sonnet
(b) ballad
(c) novel
(d) metaphysical poem
312. In Poem Daffodils ‘Sprightly Dance’ means -
(a) ugly dance
(b) nonsense dance
(c) lively dance
(d) nice dance
313. Who is called the father of English Prose? [সহকারী কমান্ডয্ান্ট (বাংলােদশ েরলওেয়) -
২০০০]
(a) Henry Fielding
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) John Wycliffe
314. Which is the first successful English Novel? xix
(a) Gorboduc
(b) Pamela
(c) Iliad
(d) Robinson Crusoe
315. Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam’ is a /an -
(a) elegy
(b) sonnet
(c) ballad
(d) lyric
316. Who is the poet of the ‘Victorian Age’? [১১তম িবিসএস]
(a) Robert Browning
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) William Blake
317. The novel David Copperfield is written by - [সমাজেসবা অিফসার (সমাজকলয্ান ম5ণালয়) িনেয়াগ -
২০১০]
(a) Hardy
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Marlowe
(d) Dickens
318. “The Trumpet of prophecy! O wind. If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” Who is the poet of these lines? [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০১২]
(a) P.B. Shelley
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) Robert Browning
319. The youngest Nobel Prize winner in Literature is
(a) George Orwell
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Rudyard Kipling
320. The Battle of Book is written by -
(a) Jonathon Swift
(b) William Thackeray
(c) Thomas Stern Eliot
(d) Daniel Dafoe
321. ‘Mirabell’, ‘Milllamant’, ‘Lady Wishfort’ are the characters found in -
(a) The Portrait of a Lady
(b) The way of the World
(c) All for Love
(d) The Rape of the Lock
322. G. B. Shaw’s The Doctor’s Dilemma is a/an -
(a) novel
(b) drama
(c) poem
(d) short story
323. For which one Toni Morrison won Nobel Prize?
(a) Beloved
(b) Song of Solomon
(c) The Bluest Eye
(d) Tar Baby
324. Which of the following is a Victorian novelist?
(a) Thomas Carlyle
(b) Francis Bacon
(c) John Done
(d) Mathew Arnold
325. “She looked over his shoulder For vines and olive trees, Marble well-governed cities And ships upon untamed seas.” - these lines are the starting of?
(a) Lullaby
(b) The Shield Of Achilles
(c) The Waste Land
(d) Sailing to Byzantium
326. Oliver Goldsmith is a/an….novelist.
(a) American
(b) Irish
(c) English
(d) French
327. William Golding got Nobel Prize for his -
(a) Merchant of Venice
(b) Measure for Measure
(c) The Lord of the Flies
(d) Heart of the Matter
328. ‘The Poetry Aenied’ is written by -
(a) Ovid
(b) Dante
(c) Boccaccio
(d) Virgil
329. ‘Death of A Salesman’ is a Tragedy written by -
(a) Edward Albee
(b) Saul Bellow
(c) Nathaniel Hawthorne
(d) Arthur Miller
330. Who is the author of ‘The Dark Room’?
(a) R K Narayan
(b) James Osborn
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Saul Bellow
331. ‘Things Fall Apart’ is written by -
(a) Chino Achebe
(b) Nom Chomosky
(c) Wole Soyanka
(d) Doris Lessing
332. ‘Waiting for Godot’ is written by -
(a) Samuel Beckett
(b) Edward Albee
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) Samuel Heaney
333. Yann Martel is a/an….novelist.
(a) English
(b) American
(c) Irish
(d) Canadian
334. ‘The Brief History of Time’ is written by -
(a) Stephen Hawking
(b) Marx Plank
(c) Yan Martel
(d) Chinu Achebe
335. ‘Living History’ is written by -
(a) Bill Clinton
(b) Hilary Clinton
(c) Achebe
(d) Barak Obama
336. Naguib Mahfouz is a/an….writer who got Nobel Prize.
(a) Egyptian
(b) English
(c) Irish
(d) American
337. Which of the following writer rejected Nobel Prize?
(a) Samuel Becket
(b) Heaney
(c) Leo Tolstoy
(d) Ja Paul Satre
338. “East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet” - these lines were written by?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) G. B. Shaw
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Salmon Rushdie
339. “There are two tragedies in life one is not to get your heart’s desire. The other is get it.” - these lines were written by?
(a) Jean Paul Sartre
(b) James Osborn
(c) G. B. Shaw
(d) H. G. Wells
340. Orhan Pamuk got Nobel Prize in - (a) 2006
(b) 2007
(c) 2008
(d) 2000
341. Harold Pinter was a/ an -
(a) poet
(b) novelist
(c) absurd dramatist
(d) Lyric poet
342. Riders to the Sea is written by an Irish dramatist -
(a) G. B. Shaw
(b) W.B Yeats
(c) J.M Synge
(d) Oliver Goldsmith
343. Which English poet was a Diplomat?
(a) Geoffrey Chaucer
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Spenser
(d) Dante
344. She is like a rose. It is an example of -
(a) Simile
(b) Metaphor
(c) Synecdoche
(d) Metonymy
345. ‘I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud’ is a poem written by -
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) Blake
(c) Lord Byron
(d) Coleridge
346. What do you mean by Stream of Consciousness?
(a) sense of beauty
(b) sense of good and bad
(c) amalgamation of present, past and future
(d) aestheticism
347. What do you mean by Stanza?
(a) a division of drama
(b) a division of novel
(c) a division of story
(d) a subdivision of a poem
348. What is Stress?
(a) emphasis on words
(b) emphasis on the sentence
(c) emphasis of literature
(d) emphasis on the novel
349. What is Synecdoche?
(a) a short stanza poem
(b) a long narrative speech
(c) a theory
(d) a figure of speech stands for whole thing
350. What the term Trilogy refers?
(a) three stanza poem
(b) a three series of poems
(c) a triangular drama
(d) a series of three drama
351. What is the term Utopia? xx
(a) a hat of a king
(b) a day dreamer
(c) a lotus eater
(d) an ideal state which does not exist in real
352. What is Anatomy?
(a) study of limbs of body
(b) study of insects
(c) study of homo sapience
(d) study of plants
353. The novel Sons and Lovers is written by -
(a) D.H. Lawrence
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Hardy
(d) Joseph Conrad
354. ‘A Tale of Two Cities’ a novel written by - [সহকারী �েকৗশলী (এলিজইিড) - ২০০৫]
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Lawrence
(c) Shakespeare
(d) Hardy
355. We find Subjective Elements in?
(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Wordsworth
(d) All
356. ‘Lyrical Ballad’ was published in? (a) 1789
(b) 1798
(c) 1800
(d) 1785
357. “If they be two, they are two so A stiff twin compasses are two; Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth, if th’ other do” - example of?
(a) Conceit
(b) Ode
(c) Allusion
(d) Simile
358. Who is Neo-Classic?
(a) Tennyson
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Robert Browning
(d) a and c
359. Which one is Golden Age in English Literature?
(a) Elizabethan
(b) Classic
(c) Modern
(d) Jacobean
360. First English Tragedy?
(a) Oedipus
(b) Gorboduc
(c) Aeschylus
(d) None of these
361. Who is called ‘The bard of Avon’?
(a) Christopher Marlowe
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) John Milton
(d) Homer
362. ‘The pilgrim’s Progress’ is written by?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) John Bunyan
(c) John Dryden
(d) John Locke
363. “We die As hours do, and dry Away Like to the summer’s rain;” is stated by -
(a) John keats
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Shelley
(d) Milton
364. ‘The Alchemist’ is written by-
(a) Ben Johnson
(b) Samuel Johnson
(c) Marlowe
(d) None of them
365. Romantic Age starts from? (a) 1789
(b) 1880
(c) 1889
(d) 1750
366. Who is contemporary of William Shakespeare?
(a) Christopher Marlowe
(b) Lord Tennyson
(c) John Milton
(d) All of them
367. The famous poem ‘Ulysses’ is written by?
(a) Homer
(b) Tennyson
(c) Popem
(d) Alex Haley
368. ‘A poison Tree’ is written by?
(a) John Keats
(b) Robert Herrick
(c) William Wordsworth
(d) William Blake
369. Who is English Poet?
(a) Robert Frost
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) John Keats
(d) Toni Morrison
370. ‘Pride and Prejudice’ is written by?
(a) Charles Lamb
(b) Virginia Woolf
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Jane Austen
371. ‘Don Juan’ is a/an?
(a) Poem
(b) epic
(c) Ode
(d) novel
372. Chaucer is the representative poet of - [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০১২]
(a) 17th century
(b) 14th century
(c) 16th century
(d) 18th century
373. Feature of Romantic Period?
(a) Subjectivity
(b) Naturalism
(c) Use of common language
(d) all of these
374. Romantic Period starts from? (a) 1989
(b) 1798
(c) 1998
(d) None of these
375. “Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” - from which poem?
(a) Intimation of Immortality
(b) Tintern Abbey
(c) Don Juan
(d) Rime of the Ancient Mariner
376. “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty” is stated by -
(a) Keats
(b) Shelley
(c) Jane Austine
(d) Charles Lamb
377. Who believes in Pantheism?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) All of them
378. “If winter come can spring be far behind” - quoted from?
(a) Shelley
(b) Wordsworth
(c) Keats
(d) Coleridge
379. ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballad’ is written by?
(a) S.T. Coleridge
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) Both of them
(d) None of them
380. “Ten Thousands saw I at a glance” - example of?
(a) Conceit
(b) Hyperbole
(c) Simile
(d) Metaphor
381. Jane Austen was a/an?
(a) Poet
(b) Dramatist
(c) Novelist
(d) Essayist
382. “He smiles, he laughs and he roars” - this quotation is an example of?
(a) Conceit
(b) Allusion
(c) Climax
(d) Satire
383. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That starts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more” - quoted from?
(a) King Lear
(b) Macbeth
(c) Dr. Faustus
(d) Othello
384. ‘Limerick’ is one kind of?
(a) Song
(b) Narrative Poem
(c) Satire
(d) long poem
385. The most important element of a Tragedy?
(a) Plot
(b) Character
(c) Spectacles
(d) Diction
386. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is written by?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) William Congreve
387. ‘The Way of the World’ is written by?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) William Congreve
388. Who was the King or Queen in early Renaissance Period?
(a) Elizabeth 1
(b) Charles 2
(c) Charles 1
(d) Victoria 1
389. Renaissance Period was dominated by?
(a) Tragedy
(b) Comedy
(c) Translation
(d) Prose
390. “Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscribed In one self-place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be.” - this famous quotation is cited from?
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) Paradise Lost
(c) Tempest
(d) Macbeth
391. Who was often been called The Father of English Tragedy?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) John Wycherley
(d) John Lyly
392. “O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey’d monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” - quoted from?
(a) Dr. Faustus
(b) Macbeth
(c) Hamlet
(d) Othello
393. Who is the author of ‘Interpretation of Drama’?
(a) Saul Bellow
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) Samuel Butler
(d) Samuel Beckett
394. What is 1st decade part of modern age?
(a) Edwardian
(b) Georgian
(c) Pope
(d) Augusta
395. The most important element of a Tragedy?
(a) Plot
(b) Character
(c) Spectacles
(d) Diction
396. ‘The Jew of Malta’ is written by?
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Christopher Marlowe
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) William Congreve
397. Who is the author of ‘Endgame’?
(a) G. B. Shaw
(b) Samuel Beckett
(c) R. K. Narayan
(d) Earnest Hemingway
398. ‘The Duchess of Mulfi’ is written by?
(a) William Congreve
(b) John Wycherley
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) John Webster
399. Nobel Prize winner in literature Harold Pinter is from?
(a) USA
(b) Australia
(c) UK
(d) Canada
400. Ulysses is a….by James Joyce.
(a) novel
(b) poetry
(c) verse
(d) play
401. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by -
(a) R. K. Narayan
(b) Edin Blyton
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) H. G. Wells
402. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”- quoted from?
(a) Macbeth
(b) As you like It
(c) Tempest
(d) Othello
403. “The fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool” - this quotation is quoted from?
(a) Hamlet
(b) As you like It
(c) Othello
(d) Henry 8
404. Shakespeare was born in? (a) 1616
(b) 1564
(c) 1566
(d) 1604
405. “Blow, blow thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind.” - Example of?
(a) Simile
(b) Conceit
(c) Metaphor
(d) Couplet
406. “All the world’s a stage And all the men and women merely players” - quoted from?
(a) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(b) Much Ado About Nothing
(c) A Pericles Prince of Tyre
(d) None of these
407. How many plays did Shakespeare compose?
(a) 154
(b) 38
(c) 29
(d) 26
408. Early plays of Shakespeare’s are?
(a) Tragedy
(b) Tragicomedy
(c) Romantic
(d) Comedy
409. “not of an age, but for all time”- was told about Shakespeare by whom?
(a) Marlowe
(b) Ben Johnson
(c) King Henry
(d) John Milton
410. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a -
(a) Comedy
(b) Tragedy
(c) Historical
(d) Tragicomedy
411. Which one is a Tragedy?
(a) Antony and Cleopatra
(b) The Tempest
(c) King John
(d) Richard 2
412. Which quotation is by Shakespeare?
(a) Cowards die many times before their deaths.
(b) To err is human; to forgive is divine.
(c) Brevity is the soul of wit.
(d) a and c
413. Which one is not by Shakespeare?
(a) Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
(b) True is it that we have seen betting days.
(c) Knowledge is power.
(d) None of these.
414. Shakespeare was died? (a) 1592
(b) 1616
(c) 1638
(d) 1632
415. How many Sonnets did Shakespeare compose?
(a) 151
(b) 148
(c) 128
(d) 154
416. Character ‘King Duncan’ is found in -
(a) Othello
(b) Macbeth
(c) Julius Caesar
(d) Henry 8
417. Which one is 19th century English Literature from above? (a) 1601-1699
(b) 1701-1799
(c) 1801-1899
(d) 1901-1999
418. Who is writer of the poem ‘Sailing To Byzantium’?
(a) James Joyece
(b) D. H. Lawrence
(c) William Butler Yeats
(d) E. M. Forster
419. G. B. Shaw got Nobel Prize in 1925 for the book?
(a) Arms and the man
(b) The doctor’s dilemma
(c) Man of destiny
(d) Philanderer
420. ‘In Memoriam’ is written by?
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Tennyson
(c) Robert Browning
(d) Thackeray
421. Representative Poet of Victorian Age -
(a) Charles Dickens
(b) Robert Browning
(c) Alfred Tennyson
(d) None of them
422. Literature of Victorian Age reflects?
(a) Instability
(b) Stability
(c) Doubtless
(d) Immorality
423. Who is the Creator of ‘Dramatic Monologue’?
(a) Robert browning
(b) Alfred Tennyson
(c) George Eliot
(d) Thomas Hardy
424. Victorian Age starts from? (a) 1801
(b) 1901
(c) 1885
(d) 1832
425. “Who trusted God was love indeed And love creation’s final law” - this famous quotation is taken from?
(a) Ulysses
(b) In Memoriam
(c) Men and Women
(d) Vanity Fair
426. ‘Lord of the flies’ is written by?
(a) E. M. Forster
(b) Robert Frost
(c) George Orwell
(d) William Golding
427. ‘Animal Farm’ is written by?
(a) William Golding
(b) George Orwell
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Joseph Conrad
428. ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ is written by?
(a) Joseph Conrad
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Dylan Thomas
429. ‘The Waste Land’ is a/an?
(a) Epic
(b) Poem
(c) Novel
(d) Drama
430. W. B. Yeats got Nobel Prize in? (a) 1913
(b) 1923
(c) 1937
(d) 1919
431. W. B. Yeats was a/an?
(a) Irish Poet
(b) English Poet
(c) Swedish Poet
(d) None of them
432. The poem ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is composed by?
(a) Dylan Thomas
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) W. B. Yeats
(d) Ezra Pound
433. ‘Paradise Lost’ was written by - [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০১২]
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Milton
(c) Coleridge
(d) Keats
434. ‘Essays of Elia’ was written by -
(a) William Hazlitt
(b) Emily Dickinson
(c) Emily Bronte
(d) Charles Lamb
435. Who wrote the ‘Birthday Party’?
(a) James Joyce
(b) G.B. Shaw
(c) Harold Pinter
(d) Jane Austen
436. Who is the author of ‘Heaven and Earth’?
(a) Lord Tennyson
(b) William Wordsworth
(c) John Keats
(d) Lord Byron
437. Who wrote ‘The Kite Runner’?
(a) Selman Rushdie
(b) Khalid Hussein
(c) Orhan Pamuk
(d) none
438. Which is the author of the drama ‘Joan of Arc’?
(a) Lord Byron
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) G. B. Shaw
(d) P.B. Shelley
439. ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ is a famous story by - [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০১২]
(a) Pearl S. Buck
(b) Jonathan Swift
(c) Ben Johnson
(d) D.H. Lawrence
440. Who is the author of the book ‘The Sense of an Ending’?
(a) Julian Barnes
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) Tomas Transtromer
441. ‘My Experiments with Truth’ is written by -
(a) Winston Churchill
(b) George Washington
(c) Mahatma Gandhi
(d) James Morris
442. Who is the author of the famous book ‘The Judgment’ is -
(a) Anthony Mascarenhas
(b) Amartya Sen
(c) Kuldip Nayer
(d) Nelson Mandela
443. Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’?
(a) John Gay
(b) Sir Arthur Canon Doyle
(c) Dylan Thomas
(d) Somerset Maugham
444. ‘A Doll’s House’ is written by -
(a) Francis Bacon
(b) E.M. Forster
(c) R.K. Narayan
(d) Henrick Ibsen
445. Who among the following is not a novelist?
(a) Hardy
(b) Blake
(c) Joyce
(d) Thackeray
446. The author of ‘Songs of Innocence’ and ‘Songs of Experience’ is -
(a) John Lennon
(b) Richard Mark
(c) John Keats
(d) William Blake
447. The poem ‘Under the Greenwood Tree’ is written by -
(a) William Wordsworth
(b) William Shakespeare
(c) Robert Browning
(d) Ralph Hodgson
448. ‘The Rape of Bangladesh’ is written by -
(a) Viggo Olsen
(b) Alamgir Kabir
(c) Rehman Sobahan
(d) Anthony Mascarenhas
449. ‘The Origin of Species’ is written by -
(a) Newton
(b) Charles Darwin
(c) Galileo
(d) Mary Curie
450. ‘Wuthering Heights’ is - [সহকারী পিরচালক (মাদক�বয্ িনয়5ণ অিধদ9র) - ২০১৩]
(a) a novel by Charlotte Bronte
(b) a novel by Anne Bronte
(c) a novel by Thomas Hardy
(d) a novel by Emily Bronte
451. Kazi Nazrul Islam is the….poet of Bangladesh.
(a) Romantic
(b) national
(c) love
(d) mystic
452. Who is the author of the novel ‘The Golden Age’?
(a) Tahmima Anam
(b) Pearl S. Bark
(c) Virginia Woolf
(d) Jane Austen
. John Keats is a - [কারা তǧাবধায়ক (�রা� ম5ণালেয়র অধীেন) িনেয়াগ পরী�া - ২০১৩]
(a) poet
(b) dramatist
(c) artist
(d) none
454. Any one of the following pairs are literary collaborators - [১৭তম িবিসএস]
(a) Eliot and Pound
(b) Yeats and Eliot
(c) Pope and Dryden
(d) Shelley and Keats
455. One of the following was a Romantic Poet - [সমাজেসবা অিফসার (সমাজকলয্ান ম5ণালয়) িনেয়াগ -
২০১০]
(a) Tennyson
(b) Arnold
(c) Shelley
(d) Browning
456. ‘Ode to Autumn’ is written by - [থানা িশ�া অিফসার - ২০১০]
(a) Shelley
(b) Keats
(c) Byron
(d) Blake
457. The ‘Solitary Reaper’ is a - [সহকারী থানা িশ�া অিফসার - ১৯৯৫]
(a) heroic poem
(b) romantic poem
(c) classical poem
(d) didactic poem
458. Browning was the composer of - [১৭তম িবিসএস]
(a) Two Voices
(b) The Scholar Gypsy
(c) Andrea Del Sarto
(d) Adonais
459. Who is the father of English Novel? [সহকারী কমান্ডয্ান্ট (বাংলােদশ েরলওেয়) - ২০০০]
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) R. L. Stevenson
‘Twelfth Night’ is a - [কারা তǧাবধায়ক (�রা� ম5ণালেয়র অধীেন) িনেয়াগ পরী�া - ২০১৩]
(a) A Comedy
(b) an Elegy
(c) a Novel
(d) a Tragedy
461. ‘Ophelia’ is an important character in the Shakespeare play - [কারা তǧাবধায়ক (�রা� ম5ণালেয়র অধীেন) িনেয়াগ পরী�া - ২০১০]
(a) Hamlet
(b) Macbeth
(c) The Tempest
(d) King Lear
462. ‘Macbeth’ is a - [কারা তǧাবধায়ক (�রা� ম5ণালেয়র অধীেন) িনেয়াগ পরী�া - ২০১০]
(a) play
(b) novel
(c) essay
(d) poem
463. Who is the author of ‘The Taming of the Shrew’? [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০০১]
(a) Shaw
(b) Shakespeare
(c) Ibsen
(d) Jonson
464. What was the name of Isabella’s brother in the ‘Measure for Measure’?
(a) Angelo
(b) Cladio
(c) Vincentio
(d) Viola
465. Which character is from ‘Romeo and Juliet’ -
(a) Brutus
(b) Ophelia
(c) Benvolio
(d) Olivia
466. ‘Adela’ is a character from -
(a) A Passage to India
(b) Paradise Lost
(c) Hamlet
(d) Doctor Faustus
467. “Brevity is the soul of wit” the quotation is from -
(a) Macbeth
(b) Hamlet
(c) The Tempest
(d) Julius Caesar
468. ‘Appearances are often deceiving’ is quoted by -
(a) Plato
(b) Aristotle
(c) Hobbes
(d) Aesop
469. The poet of ‘Romantic Age’ is - [সহকারী পিরচালক (পাসেপাটর্ অয্ান্ড ইিমে�শন) পরী�া - ২০০০]
(a) George Orwell
(b) D.H. Lawrence
(c) John Milton
(d) John Keats
470. The literary work of ‘Kubla Khan’ is - [১৩তম িবিসএস]
(a) a history by Vincent Smith
(b) a verse by Coleridge
(c) a drama by Oscar Wilde
(d) a short story by Somerset Maugham
471. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” is a quotation by -
(a) William Shakespeare
(b) Alexander Pope
(c) Gladstone
(d) Aesop
472. A Protagonist is the….character in a play or novel.
(a) villain
(b) leading
(c) important
(d) comedy
473. The following characteristics are of Oscar Wild’s EXCEPT :
(a) a poet
(b) a novelist
(c) an essayist
(d) a dramatist
474. Who used to write problem plays -
(a) Bertrand Russell
(b) W. B. Yeats
(c) G. B. Shaw
(d) James Joyce
475. The novel ‘The Big Four’ is written by -
(a) Virginia Wolf
(b) Agatha Christie
(c) Sigmund Freud
(d) Joseph Conrad
476. Virginia Wolf : To the Light House ::
(a) James Joyce : Flush
(b) T. S. Eliot : Road to Freedom
(c) Bertrand Russel : Ash Wednesday
(d) William Golding: Lord of the Flies
477. Modern age is an age of -
(a) Pessimism and Cynicism
(b) Conflicts and Controversies
(c) Subjectivity
(d) All of the above
478. Poet Alexander Pope’s famous work - [সহকারী পিরচালক (তথয্ ম5ণালয়) - ২০০৩]
(a) Spectator
(b) The Rape of the Lock
(c) The Deserted Village
(d) Man Was Made to Mourn
479. Edmund Spenser is a - [কারা তǧাবধায়ক (�রা� ম5ণালেয়র অধীেন) িনেয়াগ পরী�া - ২০১৩]
(a) poet
(b) dramatist
(c) artist
(d) scientist
480. Eric Hugh Blair is known as -
(a) E.M. Forster
(b) T.S. Eliot
(c) George Orwell
(d) William Golding
481. Which of the following is a ‘comedy’ written by Shakespeare? [সহকারী পিরচালক
(�ম ম5ণালয়) - ২০০৩]
(a) As You Like It
(b) King Lear
(c) Macbeth
(d) Hamlet
482. Shakespeare wrote brilliant - [উপেজলা িনবর্াচন অিফসার - ২০০৪]
(a) poems
(b) essays
(c) novels
(d) dramas
483. Find the Odd man out?
(a) Ulysses : James Joyce
(b) A Full Moon in March : W. B. Yeats
(c) Drama of Ideas : T. S. Eliot
(d) Riders to the Sea : John Millington Synge
484. James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as -
(a) stream of consciousness
(b) psycho-analysis
(c) Objective Co-relative
(d) Symbolism and Mysticism
485. Who is of the following is not a Nobel Laureate?
(a) W. B. Yeats
(b) T. S. Eliot
(c) William Golding
(d) E. M. Forster
486. The characteristics of the poem of William Wordsworth are EXEPT :
(a) Nature
(b) glorification of childhood
(c) Hope and regeneration
(d) all of them
487. P. B. Shelly wrote his elegy named ‘Adonais’ mourning over whose death.
(a) Wordsworth
(b) Jane Austen
(c) John Keats
(d) Walter Scott
488. The Novel ‘Ivanhoe’ is written by -
(a) Charles Lambs
(b) John Keats
(c) Sir Walter Scott
(d) Jane Austen
489. Which of the following is written by P. B. Shelly?
(a) To a skylark
(b) The Daffodils
(c) Pride and Prejudice
(d) Culture and Anarchy
John Keats died of - [সহকারী পিরচালক (মাদক�বয্ িনয়5ণ অিধদ9র) - ১৯৯৯]
(a) accident
(b) tuberculosis
(c) drowned in the sea
(d) plane crash
491. Find the Odd man out?
(a) Ulysses
(b) The Falcon
(c) The Virginians
(d) On Liberty
492. Which one is the Tennyson’s First work?
(a) Dora
(b) Ulysses
(c) Two Brothers
(d) In Memorium
493. Who is called the ‘Rebel Poet’?
(a) P. B. Shelly
(b) John Keats
(c) S. T. Coleridge
(d) Lord Byron
494. Who is known as the ‘Father of Modern English Criticism’.
(a) Edmund Walter
(b) John Locke
(c) Thomas Hobbes
(d) John Dryden
495. ‘The Medal’ by John Dryden is a/an -
(a) play
(b) satire
(c) prose
(d) translation
496. Samson Agonists: Play ::
(a) The Conquest of Granada : Satire
(b) The Rivals : Play
(c) Clarissa : Play
(d) Paradise Regained: Play
497. Who is the father of English Novel?
(a) Shakespeare
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) G. B. Shaw
(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson
498. “The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more.” These lines are from the poem
- [সাব-েরিজ�ার পেদ পরী�া - ২০১২]
(a) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
(b) Ode to a Nightmare by John Keats
(c) To a lady with a guitar by P.B. Shelley
(d) Elegy written in a country churchyard by Thomas Gray
499. Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about - [২৮তম িবিসএস]
(a) 1000 years ago
(b) 1500 years ago
(c) 2000 years ago
(d) 3000 years ago
500. The first theatre in England was established in -
(a) 1556
(b) 1566
(c) 1576
(d) 1586
501. Find the Odd man out?
(a) Tom Jones : Henry Fielding
(b) Roxana: Daniel Defoe
(c) The Good-nature man: Oliver Goldsmith
(d) All for Love: John Milton
502. Who wrote ‘Preface to Shakespeare’?
(a) Dr. Samuel Johnson
(b) Henry Fielding
(c) Daniel Defoe
(d) Thomas Hobbes
503. Who is called the ‘Mock heroic poet’?
(a) Edmund Walter
(b) Jonathan Swift
(c) Alexander Pope
(d) Dr. Samuel Johnson
504. ‘The Age of Chaucer’ ranges from -
(a) 1340-1385
(b) 1240-1300
(c) 1340-1400
(d) 1340-1399
505. In which age is ‘The Puritan Period’ included?
(a) The Renaissance
(b) The Non-classical
(c) The Romantic
(d) The Modern
506. Age of Johnson is also known as -
(a) Age of Criticism
(b) Age of Love
(c) Age of Sensibility
(d) Age of Pope
507. What type of work ‘Tottle’s Miscellany’ is?
(a) Epic
(b) Sonnet
(c) Drama
(d) Comedy
508. Find the Odd man out?
(a) Iliad : Novel
(b) The Tempest : Comedy
(c) The Temple : Poem
(d) The Dunciad: Poem
509. ‘The Rape of the Lock’ is a/an -
(a) Epic
(b) Comedy
(c) Poem
(d) Novel
510. The novel ‘Talisman’ is written by -
(a) Jane Austen
(b) Charles Dickens
(c) Sir Walter Scott
(d) Oliver Goldsmith
511. ‘Delusion and Dream’ is by -
(a) H.G. Wells
(b) Sigmund Freud
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) James Osborn
512. James Joyce’s narrative technique is known as -
(a) stream of consciousness
(b) psycho-analysis
(c) Objective Co-relative
(d) Symbolism and Mysticism
513. The novel ‘The Jungle Book’ is written by -
(a) Toni Morrison
(b) Earnest Hemingway
(c) Rudyard Kipling
(d) Jean Paul Sartre
514. ‘Exiles’ is a -
(a) Short Story
(b) Novel
(c) Play
(d) Poem
515. Charles Dickens is not the novelist for one of the following - [সহকারী কমান্ডয্ান্ট (বাংলােদশ
েরলওেয়) - ২০০৩]
(a) A Tale of Two Cities
(b) Treasure Island
(c) David Copperfield
(d) Great Expectations
516. Tom Jones by Henry Fielding was first published in - [১৩তম িবিসএস]
(a) the 1st half of 19th Century
(b) the 2nd half of 19th Century
(c) the 1st half of 18th Century
(d) the 2nd half of 18th Century
517. Who wrote ‘The Adventures of Augie March’?
(a) Saul Bellow
(b) James Osborn
(c) Toni Morrison
(d) Jean Paul Sartre
518. Find the Odd one.
(a) G. B. Shaw : Man and Superman
(b) Rudyard Kipling : Kim
(c) H. G. Wells : The Time Machine
(d) Toni Morrison : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
519. Who is known for his theory of psycho-analysis?
(a) Sigmund Freud
(b) James Joyce
(c) Arthur Miller
(d)James Osborn
520. Find the Odd One?
(a) H. G. Wells : Great science fiction writer
(b) G. B. Shaw : great modern dramatist
(c) Samuel Beckett : great Irish novelist
(d) Arthur Miller : Known playwright
521. ‘On Liberty’ is by -
(a) Charles Darwin
(b) John Mill
(c) Karl Mark
(d) Thomas Hardy
522. The Descent of Man is by Charles Darwin, The Confidence-Man : his Masquerade is by -
(a) Karl Mark
(b) Herman Melville
(c) Stuart Mill
(d) Thomas Hardy
523. Das Capital was published in the year -
(a) 1867
(b) 1876
(c) 1887
(d) 1878
524. Who wrote ‘The New Arabian Night’?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) W. M. Thackery
(c) Charles Dickens
(d) R. L. Stevenson
525. Who wrote ‘Romola’?
(a) Thomas Hardy
(b) W. M. Thackery
(c) George Eliot
(d) R. L. Stevenson
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