English Literature MCQs

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Police Station Education Officer #1

One versed is horsemanship is called-

A: Horseman
B: Rider
C: Jockey
D: Lancer
37th BCS Preliminary Test #2

What is a funny poem of five lines called?

A: Quartet
B: Limerick
C: Sixtet
D: Haiku
Assistant Engineer (Civil) #3

Which one of the following is about sin and punishment?

A: For the fallen
B: Tree at my Window
C: A Mother in Manville
D: The Ancient Mariner
Assistant Engineer (Civil) #4

A Machiavellian Character is ____

A: a wise person
B: a romantic person
C: a cunning person
D: an honest person
Personal Officer of Ministry of Public Administration #5

'Heard melodies are sweet but those unheard are sweeter' is taken from

A: Robert frost
B: William Wordsworth
C: Jhon Keats
D: PB Shelly
Assistant Chief Inspector of Ministry of Labor and Employment #6

B. C. stands for-

A: Before Catastrophe
B: Before Christ
C: Before Coronation
D: British Church
Power Development Board Office Assistant #7

'Macbeth' is_

A: a play
B: a novel
C: an essay
D: a poem
Assistant Director (Administration) #8

'Three Witches' are important characters in______

A: The way of world
B: Hamlet
C: Oedipus Rex
D: Macbeth
Assistant Director (Administration) #9

'A Tale of Two Cities' Refers to_____

A: London and Washington
B: London and paris
C: London and Rome
D: London and Berlin
Assistant Director (Administration) #10

The Victorian age is named after____

A: King victor I
B: Victory of British Empire
C: The Victors in the war against the French
D: Queen Victoria
Deputy Assistant of Power Development Board #11

P.B Shelley is known as-

A: Epic poet
B: Romantic poet
C: Poet of nature
D: Poet of beauty
Deputy Assistant of Power Development Board #12

In which century was the victorian period

A: 17th Century
B: 18th Century
C: 19th Century
D: 20th Century
Assistant Director of Prime Minister's Office) #13

The 'Guillotine' was used dunning

A: world war II
B: French Revolution
C: Restoration period of England
D: Period of reformation
Assistant Director of Prime Minister's Office) #14

Who got noble prize in literature in 2013?

A: Maria Goeppert
B: Alice Munro
C: Dorothy Crowfoot Hdgkin
D: Linda b Buck
Postal Operator of Postal Department #15

'Paradise Lost' কে রচনা করেন?

ক: William Wordsworth
খ: P.B Shelly
গ: Johon Milton
ঘ: Lord Tennyson
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #16

'Victor Hugo' was a-

A: English novelist
B: American novelist
C: Scottish novelist
D: French novelist
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #17

What was the first noble of Virginia Woolf?

A: The Waves
B: To the light house
C: The voyage out
D: Jacob's Room
Administrative Officer of Ministry of Public Administration #18

'When wisdom brings no profit To be wise is to suffer, 'is taken from______

A: King Lear
B: Dr.Faustus
C: Sons and Lovers
D: King Oedipus
Administrative Officer of Ministry of Public Administration #19

'A mental illness in which somebody has a strong desire, which they cannot control to steal things' is expressed by-

A: insomia
B: Kleptomania
C: anemia
D: amnesia
Population and Family Welfare Officer in Labor Department #20

"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" -is a line from

A: Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind"
B: Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
C: Byron's "Don Juan"
D: Keats' "Ode to Autumn"
Population and Family Welfare Officer in Labor Department #21

Helen of Troy was the wife of-

A: Agamemnon
B: Achilles
C: Menelaus
D: Ulysses
Population and Family Welfare Officer in Labor Department #22

Earnest Hemingway is the author of-

A: The Old Man and the Sea
B: The Invisible Man
C: Arms and the Man
D: A Doll's House
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #23

Caesar and Cleopatra' is--

A: a play by G.B. Shaw
B: a tragedy by Shakespeare
C: a poem by Lord Byron
D: a novel by S.T, Coleridge
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #24

What is the full Name of the tragedy 'Dr. Raustus'?

A: The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus
B: The Tragedy of Doctor Fuastus
C: The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
D: Doctor Faustus
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #25

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
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #26

The Romantic Period began in--

A: 1770
B: 1798
C: 1832
D: 1850
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #27

Tennyson wrote--

A: Dover Beach
B: My last Duchess
C: the lotus Eaters
D: The Eve of St. Agnes
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #28

Who wrote the book 'Lord Jim: A Tale?

A: Joseph Conrad
B: Oscar Wilde
C: Thomas Jardu
D: Rudyard Kipling
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #29

What is Limerick?

A: A form of light verse
B: A form of one - act play
C: A kind of short narrative poem
D: A kind of love poem
Cipher Officer of Ministry of External Affairs #30

Who wrote Madame Bovary?

A: Leo Tolstoy
B: James Joyce
C: E.M. Forster
D: Gustave Flaubert
Cipher Officer of Ministry of External Affairs #31

Who wrote Prometheus Unbound?

A: Coleridge
B: Aeschylus
C: Byron
D: Shelley
National Security Intelligence Agency (NSI) #32

'A little learning is a dangerous thing'- is a quotation from

A: Oscar Wilds
B: Alexander pope
C: Alfred Tennyson
D: Voltaire
Cipher Officer of Ministry of External Affairs #33

Who wrote "Wuthering Heights"?

A: Jane Austen
B: Emily Bronte
C: Thomas Hardy
D: D. H. Lawrence
Sub-Registrar Ministry of Justice and Parliamentary Affairs #34

'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' was stated by-

A: John Keats
B: William Shakespeare
C: Bacon
D: Milton
Family Welfare Assistant in Directorate of Family Planning #35

'রোমিও জুলিয়েট' কার লেখা?

ক: shakespeare
খ: Arnst homing
গ: john Keats
Family Welfare Assistant in Directorate of Family Planning #36

The captive lady-কার রচনা?

ক: William Shakespeare
খ: Michel Modhusondhun Dutta
গ: Henry Wordsworth
Upazila Women Affairs Officer under Ministry of Women and Child Affairs #37

A Machiavellian character is-

A: an honest person
B: a cunning person
C: a romantic person
D: a wise person
Assistant Director of Narcotics Control Directorate under Ministry of Home Affairs #38

Wuthering Heights is ---

A: a novel by Charlotte Bronte
B: a novel by Emily Bronte
C: a novel by Anne Bronte
D: a novel by Jane Austen
Superintendent of Prisons Directorate of Prisons under Ministry of Home Affairs #39

"Twelfth Night" is --

A: a Comedy
B: an Elegy
C: a Novel
D: a Tragedy
Superintendent of Prisons Directorate of Prisons under Ministry of Home Affairs #40

Beowulf is ---

A: an epic poem
B: an elegy
C: a novel
D: a burlesque
Assistant Director of PSC under Ministry of Public Administration #41

A poem of fourteen line is called-

A: Elegy
B: Ode
C: Sonnet
D: Ballad
Assistant Director, Directorate of Immigration and Passport under Ministry of Home Affairs #42

In which poem do you found hindhu allusion of philoshophy ?

A: Kubla khan
B: The patriot
C: The waste land
D: The cloud
Assistant Director, Directorate of Immigration and Passport under Ministry of Home Affairs #43

The mos striking feature of D.H Lawrence character is that-

A: The almost portary himself
B: They live a very simple life
C: They are sly of themselves
BJS (Assistant Judge) Preliminary Examination #44

'Frailty, the name is woman!' is a quotation from---

A: Shakespeare
B: Bacon
C: Fielding
D: Jane Austen
Assistant Director of Department of Environment #45

"Ode to the west wind" - is by-

A: Keats
B: Shelley
C: Coleridge
D: Wordsworth
Assistant Director of Department of Environment #46

Who wrote 'pride and prejudice' ?

A: Shakespeare
B: Thomas Hardy
C: Jane Austin
D: John milton
Bangladesh Railway Assistant Station Master #47

Coward die many times before their death এই উক্তিটি কার?

ক: Shakespeare
খ: -
Administrative Officer of Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office #48

Who wrote 'The IIIiad'?

A: Milton
B: Vergil
C: Homer
D: Byron
Administrative Officer of Prime Minister's Office and Cabinet Office #49

Who wrote ' Cowards die many times before their death?

A: Shakespeare
B: Franklin
C: Dryden
D: Caryle
Auditor under the Office of Controller General Defense Finance #50

The Guliver's Travels কার লেখা ?

ক: Jonathan swift
খ: Milton
গ: Byron
ঘ: কোনটিই নয়
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