English Literature

• 1.Question: William Halitt is a -
• a.Novelist
• b.Essayist
• c.Dramatist
• d.Poet
• Answer:(b)

• 2.Question: Which Indian English writter wrote 'A Suitable Boy ' ?
• a.Nirod Chaudhuri
• b.Jhumpa Lehri
• c.Anita Desai
• d.Vikram Seth
• Answer:(d)

• 3.Question: 'Our sweetest song are those that tell of saddest thoughts' -Who is the poet ?
• a.Kippling
• b.Wordsworth
• c.Shelley
• d.Byron
• Answer:(c)

• 4.Question: The last line of "To daffodils" is -
• a.Ne'er to be seen again
• b.Vanish like summer's rain
• c.Ne'er to be found again
• d.As quick a growth to meet decay
• Answer:(d)

• 5.Question: 'Ballad' is---
• a.a kind of short narrative poem
• b.a kind of short condoling poem
• c.a kind of short love poem
• d.a rhymic verse
• Answer:(a)

• 6.Question: The first English novel, Pamela, has been written by -
• a.Daniel Defoe
• b.Henry Fielding
• c.Samuel Richardson
• d.Sir Walter Scott
• Answer:(c)

• 7.Question: Emily Bronte is a --- ?
• a.Poet
• b.Critic
• c.Novelist
• d.Scientist
• Answer:(c)

• 8.Question: Hamlet by Shakespeare is -
• a.a comedy
• b.a tragic-comedy
• c.an epic
• d.a tragedy
• Answer:(d)

• 9.Question: 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' was stated by -
• a.John Keats
• b.William Shakespeare
• c.Bacon
• d.Milton
• Answer:(a)

• 10.Question: Who was English poet addicted to opium ?
• a.S.T. Coleridge
• b.P.B. Shelly
• c.John Keats
• d.S. Buck
• Answer:(a)

• 11.Question: Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man" is a -
• a.Novel
• b.Treatise
• c.Short story
• d.Poem
• Answer:(d)

• 12.Question: 'Gitanjali' of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by--
• a.W.B. Yeats
• b.Robert Frost
• c.John Keats
• d.Rudyard Kipling
• Answer:(a)

• 13.Question: Who translated the ‘Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám’ into English?
• a.Thomas Carlyle
• b.Edward FitzGerald
• c.D.G. Rossetti
• d.William Thackeray
• Answer:(b)

• 14.Question: Othello gave Desdemona _______ as a token of love:
• a.Ring
• b.Handkercheif
• c.Pendant
• d.Bangles
• Answer:(b)

• 15.Question: One of the four mentionedbelow is not a Novelist of modern age in English Language. Who is he ?
• a.H.G Wells
• b.Charles Dickens
• c.Rudyard Kipling
• d.T.S. Elliot
• Answer:(b)

• 16.Question: A famous English poet who was Professionally known as a man of medicine is ---- ?
• a.Shelley
• b.Keats
• c.Milton
• d.Pope
• Answer:(b)

• 17.Question: Of the following authors who wrote an epic ?
• a.Jane Mansfield
• b.John Milton
• c.William Cowpe
• d.William Shakespeare
• Answer:(b)

• 18.Question: “The sun also rises” is a novel written by –
• a.Charles Dickens
• b.Harmanne Melville
• c.Earnest Hemingway
• d.Thomas Hardly
• Answer:(c)

• 19.Question: Francis Bacon is a/an -
• a.Novelist
• b.Dramatist
• c.Poet
• d.Essayist
• Answer:(d)

• 20.Question: William Shakespeare is a famous-- Century English Playwright.
• a.nineteenth
• b.sixteenth
• c.fifteenth
• d.twelfth
• Answer:(b)

• 21.Question: In the lines "Here shall he see/No enemy" taken from 'Under the Greenwood Tree' 'Here' stands for -
• a.nature
• b.the greenwood tree
• c.open space
• d.hunting ground
• Answer:(b)

• 22.Question: What is the full name of O' Henry ?
• a.Walt Whitman
• b.William Sydney Porter
• c.M. K . Bawlings
• d.O' Neill
• Answer:(b)

• 23.Question: 'Point Counterpoint' - এর লেখক কে ?
• a.Charlotte Bronte
• b.H .G . Wells
• c.John Galsworthy
• d.Aldous Huxley
• Answer:(d)

• 24.Question: To be or not to be, that is the question- a question from Shakespeare's---
• a.Tempest
• b.Julius Ceaser
• c.Hamlet
• d.As you loke it
• Answer:(c)

• 25.Question: William Wordsworth এর সমসাময়িক কবি কে ?
• a.T.S. Eliot
• b.W.B. Yeats
• c.D.G. Rossetti
• d.S.T. Coleridge
• Answer:(d)

• 26.Question: William Shakespeare is the author of--
• a.Paradise Lost
• b.Old ,
• c.Answer not available.
• d.King Lear
• Answer:(Answer not available.)

• 27.Question: 'Victor Huge' was a -
• a.English novelist
• b.American novelist
• c.Scottish novelist
• d.French novelist
• Answer:(d)

• 28.Question: In Which year Sir Winston Churchill got the Nobel Prize in literature ?
• a.1943
• b.1945
• c.1948
• d.1953
• Answer:(d)

• 29.Question: What is the meaning of the word 'Dirge' ?
• a.a kind of sonnet sequence
• b.a song expressing patrotic sentiment
• c.a long verse telling about an adventure
• d.a song expressing grief, lamentation and mourning
• Answer:(d)

• 30.Question: Lady Chatterley's Lover was written by the author of --
• a.A Passage to India
• b.Lord Jim
• c.Rainbow
• d.Ulysses
• Answer:(c)

• 31.Question: ‘The Rape of the Lock’ by Alexander Pope is a/an-c
• a.epic
• b.ballad
• c.mock-heroic poem
• d.elegy
• Answer:(c)

• 32.Question: Charles Dicknes is a great---
• a.poet
• b.novelist
• c.critic
• d.dramatist
• Answer:(b)

• 33.Question: Who is called the poet of beauty in English Literature?
• a.P.B. Shelley
• b.Lord Byron
• c.William Wordsworth
• d.John Keats
• Answer:(d)

• 34.Question: Choose the right answer: Chaucer is the representative poet of-
• a.17th century
• b.14th century
• c.16th century
• d.18th century
• Answer:(b)

• 35.Question: Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?
• a.Christopher Marlowe
• b.Alexander Pope
• c.John Dryden
• d.Samuel Beckett
• Answer:(a)

• 36.Question: 'All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players'- a quotation from Shakespeare's-
• a.Macbeth
• b.As you like it
• c.Romeo & Juliet
• d.Tempest
• Answer:(b)

• 37.Question: Who is the author of 'The Origin of Species' ?
• a.C. Darwin
• b.A. Pope
• c.T. Hardy
• d.O. Goldsmith
• Answer:(a)

• 38.Question: The year 1798 is famous for--
• a.The French Revolution
• b.The American Independence
• c.The death of keats
• d.Publication of Lyrical Ballads
• Answer:(d)

• 39.Question: From which poem are the following lines taken ? 'Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thoughts'
• a.To a Skylark
• b.Remembrance
• c.Gifts of God
• d.A Farewel
• Answer:(a)

• 40.Question: Of the following authors, who wrote as epic?ক.Jane Mansfield
• a.Jane Mansfield
• b.William Cowper
• c.John Milton
• d.William Shakespeare
• Answer:(c)

• 41.Question: Who wrote the poem ‘The Good-Morrow’
• a.George Herbert
• b.Andrew Marvell
• c.John Donne
• d.Henry Vaughan
• Answer:(c)

• 42.Question: Of the following authors, who wrote as epic?ক.Jane Mansfield
• a.V.I. Lenin
• b.Leo Tolstoy
• c.Agatha Cristie
• d.Mao Tse Tung
• Answer:(a)

• 43.Question: Which one of the following is not written by Shakespeare?
• a.Macbeth
• b.Hamlet
• c.Othelo
• d.Dr Faustus
• Answer:(d)

• 44.Question: হোয়াইটহেডের বিখ্যাত পুস্তিকাটির নাম কি ?
• a.The Social Contract
• b.The Aim of Education
• c.The Rythm of Education
• d.Education and Democracy
• Answer:(b)

• 45.Question: Who wrote 'Crime and Punishment' ?
• a.Shellay
• b.Tolstoy
• c.Dostoevosky
• d.Byron
• Answer:(c)

• 46.Question: 'Give me good a mothers, I will give you a good nation.' was the observation of-
• a.Hitlar
• b.Abraham Linclon
• c.Napoleon
• d.Sk Majib
• Answer:(c)

• 47.Question: 'Into the --- of death rode the six hundred.'
• a.city
• b.tunnel
• c.mad
• d.valley
• Answer:(d)

• 48.Question: Which two things of nature does Robert Herrick find similar to human beings and daffodils ?
• a.rising sun , moon
• b.summer's rain , morning's dew
• c.spring , summer
• d.hasting day , even song
• Answer:(b)

• 49.Question: ‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by-
• a.Joseph Conrad
• b.Thomas Hardy
• c.Charles Dickens
• d.James Joyce
• Answer:(d)

• 50.Question: 'Phoenix' is --
• a.a mythological bird
• b.a kind of eagle
• c.a God of Greek mythology
• d.a leopard
• Answer:(a)

• 51.Question: The Marchant of Venice is a drama by--
• a.Webster
• b.William Shakespeare
• c.Ben Johnson
• d.Christopher Marlowe
• Answer:(b)

• 52.Question: 'রোমিও জুলিয়েট'- কার লেখা?
• a.শেক্সপিয়ার
• b.আর্নেষ্ট হেমিংওয়ে
• c.জন কিটস্‌
• d.কোনটিই না
• Answer:(a)

• 53.Question: ভরতপক্ষী ও সমীরণের কবি (Poet of Skylark and Winds) নামে পরিচিত কে ?
• a.Lord Byron
• b.John Keats
• c.William Wordsworth
• d.P.B. Shelley
• Answer:(d)

• 54.Question: William Shakespeare is a famous --- Century English playwright.
• a.nineteenth
• b.sixteenth
• c.eighteenth
• d.fifteenth
• e.twelfth
• Answer:(b)

• 55.Question: Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' is a---
• a.Tragedy
• b.Comedy
• c.Staire
• d.Lyric
• Answer:(b)

• 56.Question: Charles Dickens is a great ---?
• a.Poet
• b.Critic
• c.Play-Wright
• d.Novelist
• Answer:(d)

• 57.Question: Who is considered to be the father of English novel ?
• a.Francis Bacon
• b.Geoffery Chaucer
• c.King Alfred the Great
• d.Henry Fielding
• Answer:(d)

• 58.Question: 'Moby Dick' deals with -
• a.a Shark
• b.a Crocodile
• c.a Sea -Gull
• d.a While
• Answer:(d)

• 59.Question: "A Passage to India" is written by--
• a.E.M. Forster
• b.Rudyard Kipling
• c.Galls Worthy
• d.A.H. Auden
• Answer:(a)

• 60.Question: 'All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand' is a quotation from -
• a.Hamlet
• b.Othelo
• c.King Lear
• d.Macbeth
• Answer:(d)

• 61.Question: Tennyson wrote -
• a.The Lotos Eaters
• b.Dover Beach
• c.My Last Dutchess
• d.The Eve of St. Agnes
• Answer:(a)

• 62.Question: Who is called the 'poet of Nature' in English literature ?
• a.Lord Byron
• b.John Keats
• c.William Wordsworth
• d.P.B. Shelley
• Answer:(c)

• 63.Question: ঈশ্বরচন্দ্র বিদ্যাসাগরের ‘ভ্রান্তবিলাস’ কোন গ্রন্থের অনুবাদ?
• a.Uncle Tom's Cabin
• b.Doll's House
• c.Macbeth
• d.The Comedy of Errors
• Answer:(d)

• 64.Question: Author of 'The Time Machine' is -
• a.T.S. Eliot
• b.Thomas Kdy
• c.Robert Herrick
• d.H.G. Wells
• Answer:(d)

• 65.Question: What is catastrophy ?
• a.The comical end of dramatic events
• b.The tragic end of dramatic events
• c.The comic tragic end of the play
• d.None of the above
• Answer:(b)

• 66.Question: 'Child is the father of a man' is taken from the poem of--
• a.W. Wordsworth
• b.S.T. Coleridge
• c.P.B. Shelley
• d.A.C. Swinburne
• Answer:(a)

• 67.Question: "Full many flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air"- কোন কবির কবিতা থেকে নেয়া হয়েছে?
• a.P.B. Shelley
• b.William Wordsworth
• c.Thomas Gray
• d.John Keats
• Answer:(c)

• 68.Question: Who is considered to be the father of English Poem?
• a.William Langland
• b.Thomas More
• c.Roger Bacon
• d.Geoffery Chaucer
• Answer:(d)

• 69.Question: Who wrote Madame Bovary ?
• a.Leo Tolstoy
• b.James Joyce
• c.E . M . Forster
• d.Gustave Flaubert
• Answer:(d)

• 70.Question: Who compiled the first English Dictionary ?
• a.Adam Smith
• b.Dr. Johnson
• c.Edmund Burke
• d.Edward Gibbon
• Answer:(b)

• 71.Question: One of the following authors, one is French. Who is he ?
• a.Sir Asther Doyle
• b.W. Somerset Maugham
• c.Edward Fitzerald
• d.Alexander Dumas
• Answer:(d)

• 72.Question: 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
• Answer:(c)

• 73.Question:William Shakespeare was born in –
• a.1616
• b.1664
• c.1564
• d.1493
• Answer:(c)

• 74.Question: 'Othelia' is an important character in the Shakespearean play-
• a.Macbeth
• b.The Tempest
• c.Hamlet
• d.King Lear
• Answer:(c)

• 75.Question: The meaning of the word 'Euphemism'?
• a.Vague idea
• b.In offensive expression
• c.a sonnet
• d.Wise saying
• Answer:(b)

• 76.Question: Who wrote the world famous tragic play 'King Lear'?
• a.G.B. Shaw
• b.William Shakespeare
• c.Christopher Marlowe
• d.John Milton
• Answer:(b)

• 77.Question: 'To err is human , to forgive is divine' --- is written by -
• a.A. Tennyson
• b.W. Blake
• c.J. Milton
• d.Alexander Pope
• Answer:(d)

• 78.Question: 'The Canterbury Tales' are told by ---?
• a.Geofray Chaucer
• b.John Wyclif
• c.Boccaccio
• d.Thomas Barth
• Answer:(a)

• 79.Question: Who is called the poet of poets ?
• a.Geoffrey Chaucer
• b.Edmund Spenser
• c.Thomas Kyd
• d.William Shakespeare
• Answer:(b)

• 80.Question: Who described 'Moana lisa as' older the rocks among which she sit's ?
• a.Jane Austen
• b.Shakespeare
• c.Walter Pater
• d.Bertrand Russel
• Answer:(c)

• 81.Question: In what year did Shakespeare died ?
• a.1570 AD
• b.1580 AD
• c.1630 AD
• d.1616 AD
• Answer:(d)

• 82.Question: Which poetry is written by sir Walter Scott ?
• a.Patriotism
• b.The patriot
• c.A Frosty Night
• d.All of the above
• Answer:(a)

• 83.Question: Which one of the following does not mean 'a road'?
• a.Alley
• b.Boulevard
• c.Track
• d.Lagoon
• Answer:(d)

• 84.Question: The novel 'Roots' was written by -
• a.Hsnry miller
• b.H.G Wells
• c.Alex Haley
• d.P.B. Shelley
• Answer:(c)

• 85.Question: Who said "An unexamined life is wrong living"?
• a.Socrates
• b.Plato
• c.Artistotle
• d.Zeno
• Answer:(a)

• 86.Question: Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?
• a.Alliterative verse
• b.Sonnet form
• c.Iambic pemtameter
• d.Daetylic Haxameter
• Answer:(c)

• 87.Question: Who is the modern philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature ?
• a.James Baker
• b.Dr. Kissinger
• c.Bertrand Russel
• d.Lenin
• Answer:(c)

• 88.Question: 'Silent Women' written by -
• a.John Ruskin
• b.Ben Jonson
• c.Kalidas
• d.Munshi Prem Chand
• Answer:(b)

• 89.Question: A work which has a meaning behind the surface meaning is--
• a.an epic
• b.an allegory
• c.a metaphor
• d.personification
• Answer:(a)

• 90.Question: William Worrdsworth is per-eminently-
• a.a poet of nature
• b.a poet of love
• c.a poet of human nature
• d.a poet of liberty
• Answer:(a)

• 91.Question: Allegorical means--
• a.poetry
• b.written in verse
• c.having symbolic meaning
• d.with timely significant
• Answer:(c)

• 92.Question: Who wrote the book 'Cancer Word' ?
• a.Alexander Solshenitsin
• b.Alexander Pope
• c.Boris Pastemak
• d.Leo Tolstoy
• Answer:(a)

• 93.Question: 'Protagonist' indicates -
• a.the villain in a play
• b.the leading character of actor in a play
• c.the clown in a play
• d.the stage-director of a play
• Answer:(b)

• 94.Question: P.B. Shelley’s “Adonais’ is an elegy on the death of –
• a.John Milton
• b.S.T. Coleridge
• c.John Keats
• d.Lord Byron
• Answer:(c)

• 95.Question: Shylock যে নাটকের চরিত্র, সে নাটকটির নাম -
• a.Doctor Faustus
• b.The Merchant of Venice
• c.The way of the world
• d.Arms and the Man
• Answer:(b)

• 96.Question: Which one of the following is the first long poem in English ?
• a.The Wanderer
• b.Beowulf
• c.The Seafarer
• d.Dream of the Road
• Answer:(b)

• 97.Question: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind".
• a.এডউন অলড্রিন
• b.আলফ্রেড নোবেল
• c.মাইকেল কলিন্স
• d.নীল আর্মস্ট্রং
• Answer:(d)

• 98.Question: What is a funny poem of five lines called?
• a.Quartet
• b.Limerick
• c.Sixtet
• d.haiku
• Answer:(b)

• 99.Question: Which one is not a literary ornament?
• a.Simile
• b.Similar
• c.Similitude
• d.Sarcasm
• Answer:(b)

• 100.Question: What is "Linguistics"?
• a.The study of history
• b.The study of literature
• c.The study of porse
• d.The Scientific study of language
• Answer:(d)

• 101.Question: 'Renaissance' means--
• a.the revival of learning
• b.the revival of hard work
• c.the revival of life
• d.the revival of new country
• Answer:(a)

• 102.Question: Which word seems out of place ?
• a.rose
• b.lily
• c.cauliflower
• d.daffodil
• Answer:(d)

• 103.Question: Wordsworth is a ---- poet. ?
• a.classical
• b.modern
• c.romantic
• d.greek
• Answer:(c)

• 104.Question: Where is expressed the view that 'There is a divinity that shapes our ends?
• a.In King Lear
• b.In Hamlet
• c.In The Tempest
• d.In Merry Wives of Windsor
• Answer:(b)

• 105.Question: Water, water, every where, not a drop to drink'. লাইনটি কোন কবির লেখা ?
• a.Wordsworth
• b.Gray
• c.Coleridge
• d.Scott
• Answer:(c)

• 106.Question: "মৃত্যু হচ্ছে নিছক" A short sleep . -এই উক্তটি কার ?
• a.বায়রন
• b.কিটস
• c.মাইকেল মধুসূদন দত্ত
• d.সুইটম্যান
• Answer:(b)

• 107.Question: 'The Sacred Flame' is Written by
• a.William Somerset Maugham
• b.G.B. Shaw
• c.Ernest Hemingway
• d.Oscar Wilde
• Answer:(d)

• 108.Question: In "Ozymandias" the poet says , "I met a traveller --- an --- land."
• a.by , old
• b.going , ancient
• c.from , antique
• d.passing , antique
• Answer:(c)

• 109.Question: 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' -এর লেখক কে ?
• a.Tennyson
• b.Pearl S. Buck
• c.Mrs. Harriet Stowe
• d.Thomas Hardy
• Answer:(c)

• 110.Question: 'England expects every man to do his duty'. - who told it ?
• a.Nelosn
• b.Churchill
• c.Wilson
• d.Thatcher
• Answer:(a)

• 111.Question: Calliban is a character in --
• a.King Lear
• b.Tempest
• c.Man and Superman
• d.Othelo
• Answer:(b)

• 112.Question: Brutus is a famous character of Shakespeare in-
• a.King Lear
• b.Julius Ceaser
• c.The Tempest
• d.Hamlet
• Answer:(b)

• 113.Question: What is "Linguistics"?
• a.The study of history
• b.The study of literature
• c.The study of porse
• d.The Scientific study of language
• Answer:(d)

• 114.Question: Shakespeare's 'Measure for Measure' is a successful--
• a.tragedy
• b.comedy
• c.tragi-comedy
• d.melo drama
• Answer:(b)

• 115.Question: The author of the book 'Asian Drama' is -
• a.Shakespeare
• b.Gunnar Myrdal
• c.Humayun Kabir
• d.Bertrand Russel
• Answer:(b)

• 116.Question: Shakespeare's 'Merchant of Venice' is a -
• a.Tragedy
• b.comedy
• c.Satire
• d.Lyric
• Answer:(b)

• 117.Question: 'The Daffodil' is a poem written by -
• a.William Wordsworth
• b.Lewis Caroll
• c.John Keats
• d.P.B. Shelly
• Answer:(a)

• 118.Question: 'But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep' -was written by -
• a.T.S. Eliot
• b.W.B. Yeats
• c.Robert Frost
• d.Ted Huges
• Answer:(c)

• 119.Question: Who is the author of 'the Old man and the Sea' ?
• a.H. Melvile
• b.George
• c.Charles Dickens
• d.Earnest Hemingway
• Answer:(d)

• 120.Question: Who is the author of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" ?
• a.Charles Dickens
• b.Homer
• c.Lord Tennyson
• d.Earnest Hemingway
• Answer:(d)