English Literature MCQs

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Assistant Sub-Inspector, Anti-Corruption Bureau #51

If winter comes can spring be far behind--- is a quotation from P.B. Shelly's---

A: The cloud
B: Adonias
C: Ode to the West Wind
D: To a Shylark
Police Station Education Officer #52

Which book is a tragedy?

A: Hamlet
B: Measure for Measure
C: As you like it
D: She stoops to conquer
Police Station Education Officer #53

Who wrote "The Tempest"?

A: William Wordsworth
B: Ben Jonson
C: William Shakespeare
D: Tennyson
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #54

A Machiavellian character is---

A: an honest person
B: a scheming person
C: a adventurous person
D: a learned person
Police Station Education Officer #55

"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" is a quotation form---

A: Hamlet
B: Othello
C: King lear
D: Macbeth
Assistant Director, Ministry of Information (Grade-II) #56

what type of book 'The Woman ' is----

A: Novel
B: Story
C: Essay
D: Drama
Assistant Director, Ministry of Information (Grade-II) #57

Who wrote Ulyses?

A: Alfred tennyson
B: Thomas moore
C: R.L. Stevenson
D: S.T. Coleridge
Assistant Director, Ministry of Information (Grade-II) #58

Author of The Pictured of Dorian Gray---

A: Boris Pasternauk
B: Fitzerald
C: Aldous Huxley
D: Oscar Wilde
Assistant Director of National Savings Department of Ministry of Finance #59

We find the utterance "Frailty thy name is woman!" in-

A: Shakespeare
B: Bacon
C: Fielding
D: Jane Austen
Assistant Director of National Savings Department of Ministry of Finance #60

"Waiting for Godot" is-

A: a problem play
B: a morality play
C: an Absurd drama
D: a novel
Police Station Education Officer #61

"Cowards die many times before their death". Said by

A: Macbeth
B: Hamlet
C: Julius Caesar
D: None
Assistant Director of Media Institute (Wireless Engineering Training) #62

Who wrote the book 'Cancer Ward' ?

A: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
B: Alexander pope
C: Boris Pastemak
D: Leo Tolstoy
Assistant Director (Mass Communication Training) #63

The captive lady' কাব্যগ্রন্থের রচয়িতা-

ক: john keats
খ: Mycale Moddusudon dotto
গ: Ordnance
ঘ: P. B. shelly
Auditor under the Office of the Auditor General and Comptroller #64

'The merchant of venice'- নাটকের নাট্যকার কে?

ক: George Bernerd Shaw
খ: William Shakespeare
গ: T.S. Eliot
ঘ: Christopher Marlow
Labor Officer and Population and Family Welfare Officer in Directorate of Labor #65

Bertrand Russel was a British --

A: Journalist
B: Scientist
C: Philosopher
D: Astronaut
Labor Officer and Population and Family Welfare Officer in Directorate of Labor #66

who wrote 'War and peace'?

A: Thomas Hardy
B: Robert Lewis Stevenson
C: W.H. Auden
D: Leo Tolstoy
38th BCS Preliminary Test #67

Where do the following lines occur in? "Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide,k wide sea ......"

A: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
B: Kubla Khan
C: The Nightingle
D: The Dungeon
38th BCS Preliminary Test #68

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

A: The Victorian age
B: The Elizabethen age
C: The Restoration age
D: The Eighteenth Century
Upazila Social Service Officer of Ministry of Social Welfare #69

Who wrote 'some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested'?

A: Joseph Addison
B: Francis Bacon
C: Dr. Johnson
D: Charles Lamb
Upazila Social Service Officer of Ministry of Social Welfare #70

Who was the first husband of Helen of Troy?

A: paris
B: Agamemnon
C: Achilles
D: Menelaus
Upazila Social Service Officer of Ministry of Social Welfare #71

who was the tutor of 'Alexander the Great'?

A: Aristotle
B: Socrates
C: Galileo
D: Sophocles
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #72

What is Funny poem of five lines called?

A: Quartet
B: Limerick
C: Sixtet
D: Haiku
Cipher Officer of Directorate of Secret Signals under Ministry of Defence #73

Hamlet is --

A: a tragedy of Shakespeare
B: a play by G. B. Shaw
C: a poem by Shelly
D: a novel by Hardy
Assistant Manager of Directorate of Social Services under Ministry of Social Welfare #74

Who wrote leaves of Grass?

A: T S Eliot
B: Robert Frost
C: Walt Whitman
D: Ezra Found
Assistant Director, Directorate of Passport and Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs #75

Who wrote "Gullivers Travels"?

A: R. L. Stevenson
B: Daniel Defoe
C: Jonathan Swift
D: D. H. Lawrence
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #76

Which one does not relate to literature?

A: Epoilogue
B: Monologue
C: Demagogue
D: Prologue
Jail Superintendent of Jail Directorate under Ministry of Home Affairs #77

"Macbeth" is

A: a play
B: a novel
C: an essay
D: a poem
United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCB) #78

Which one of the following is not true for Socrates wife?

A: She disturbed her husband
B: She was not reasonable
C: She would lose her temper frequently
D: She did not insult socrates
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank #79

'A voyage to Lilliput' is known is-

A: R.L. Stevenson
B: Thomas Harday
C: William Wordsworth
D: Jonathan Swift
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank #80

Who wrote 'Utopia'?

A: William Caxton
B: William Lagland
C: Sir Thomas Wyatt
D: Sir Thomas More
Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank #81

Lord Tennyson is known as-

A: Epic poet
B: Lyric poet
C: Romantic poet
D: Poet of beauty
Shahjalal Islami Bank Ltd #82

A story in verse ----

A: Elegy
B: Hymn
C: Sonnet
D: Ballad
Ministry of Home Affairs Jail Overseer Exam Date: 26. 08. 2005 #83

'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' quotation from Keat's __

A: The Eve of St. Agnes
B: Ode on a Grecian
C: Endymion
D: Ode to West Wind
Government Job and Other Recruitment Exams #84

'War and Peace ' is a

A: Drama
B: Fiction
C: Comdey
D: Short story
Military Engineer Services of the Ministry of Defence Storeman #85

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

A: John Keats
B: Robert Herrick
C: Frances Bacon
D: Shelley
Narcotics Control Directorate Deputy Inspector #86

'Duncan' কোন নাটকের গরুত্বপূর্ণ চরিত্র?

ক: Macbeth
খ: othello
গ: Hamlet
ঘ: King lear
41st BCS Preliminary Test #87

Shylock' is a character in the play

A: Romeo and Juliet
B: Measure for Measure
C: The Merchant of Venice
D: Twelfth Night
41st BCS Preliminary Test #88

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

A: H. G. Wells
B: Samuel Butler
C: George Moore
D: Henry James
41st BCS Preliminary Test #89

Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing eighter good or bad, but thinking makes it so.' This extract is taken from the drama.

A: King Lear
B: Macbeth
C: As You Like it
D: hamlet
41st BCS Preliminary Test #90

Time held me green and dying though I sang in my chains like the sea.' These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas' poem-

A: The Flower
B: Fern Hill
C: After the Funeral
D: By Fire
41st BCS Preliminary Test #91

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

A: Pygmalion
B: Man and Superman
C: The Doctor's Dilemma
D: Mrs. Warren's Profession
Bangladesh Export Processing Authority (Assistant Manager) #92

A Machiavellian character is;

A: An honest person
B: Scheming person
C: An adventurous person
D: A learned person
বিসিএস প্রশাসন একাডেমির | অফিস সহায়ক) #93

' To be or ot to be , that is the question ' কোটেশনটি কোন রচনার অন্তর্গত?

ক: Julius Caesar
খ: Hamlet
গ: Tempest
ঘ: As you like it
Various ministries Personal Officer 22 #94

Who wrote, Beauty is truth, truth is beauty"

A: John Keats
B: Shakespeare
C: Byron
D: Shelley
Office of the Comptroller General of Accounts (CGA) #95

`War and peace' উপন্যাসটি কার লেখা?

ক: George Eliot
খ: Leo Tolstoy
গ: Karl Marx
ঘ: Oscar Wilde
Recruitment of Department of Fisheries Staff. Cashier #96

Who wrote ` Beauty is truth, truth beauty'?

A: Shakespeare
B: Wordswoth
C: Keats
D: Eliot
Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) #97

Who wrote 'Beauty is trut, truth is beauty'?

A: Shakespeare
B: Wordsworth
C: Keats
D: Eliot
44th BCS Preliminary Test #98

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

A: No Second troy
B: Easter 1916
C: The Second Coming
D: The Wild Swans at Coole
Bangladesh Agricultural Development Corporation (BADC) #99

Who wrote 'Beuty is truth, truth beauty'?

A: Shakespeare
B: Wordworth
C: Keats
D: Eliot
Directorate of Youth Development #100

Which two cities are dealt in 'A Tale of Two Cities'?

A: London and New York
B: Paris and Birmingham
C: London and Paris
D: Moscow and Lisbon