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31st BCS Preliminary Test #551

The word 'Shrug' indicating doubt or indifference is associated with-----

A: shoulders
B: head
C: forehead
D: eyebrows
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31st BCS Preliminary Test #552

Fill in the blank in the following sentence by selecting the most appropriate alternative : He is quite ---- in dealing with people.

A: unsubtle
B: imprudent
C: diplomatic
D: impolite
37th BCS Preliminary Test #553

Select the word that is the most closely opposite in meaning to the capitalized word : DELETERIOUS

A: toxic
B: spurous
C: harmless
D: lethal
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #554

Fill in the blank."---" is Shakespeare's last play.

A: As You Life It
B: Macbeth
C: Tempest
D: Othello
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #555

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

A: Thomas Gray
B: P. B Shelley
C: Robert Frost
D: Y. B. Yeats
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #556

The word 'omnivorous' means :

A: eating all types of food
B: eating only fruits
C: eating only meat
D: eating grass and plants only
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #557

What is a funny poem of five lines called?

A: Quartet
B: Limerick
C: Sixtet
D: Haiku
37th BCS Preliminary Test #558

Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?

A: The Epic
B: The Comic
C: The Occult
D: the Tragic
37th BCS Preliminary Test #559

Who has written the play 'Volpone'?

A: John Webster
B: Ben Jonson
C: Christopher Marlowe
D: William Shakespeare
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #560

The repetition of beginning consonant sound is know as------

A: personification
B: onomatopoeia
C: alliteration
D: rhyme
37th BCS Preliminary Test #561

Robert Browning was a ----poet. fill in the gap with appropriate word.

A: Romantic
B: Victorian
C: Modern
D: Elizathan
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #562

Who wrote "Biographia Literaria"?

A: Lord Byron
B: P. B. Shelley
C: S. T. Coleridge
D: Charles Lamb
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #563

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

A: John Milton
B: A. T. Coleridge
C: John Keats
D: Lord Byron
37th BCS Preliminary Test #564

othello gave Desdemona----as a token of love :

A: Ring
B: Handkerchief
C: Pendant
D: Bangles
37th BCS Preliminary Test #565

"Gerontion" is a poem by -----

A: T. S. Eliot
B: W. B. Yeats
C: Mathew Arnold
D: Robert Browning
37th BCS Preliminary Test #566

Shakespeare composed much of his plays in what sort of verse?

A: Alliterative
B: Sonnet form
C: Iambic pentameter
D: Daetylic Haxameter
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #567

In the 18th Century the Mughal Empire begun to-----

A: discriminate
B: disintegrate
C: differentiate
D: dislocate
35th BCS Preliminary Test #568

The poem "Isle of Innisfree" is written by-----

A: Dylan Thomas
B: Ezra Pound
C: W. H. Auden
D: W. B. Yeats
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37th BCS Preliminary Test #569

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

A: metaphor
B: simile
C: alliteration
D: personification
37th BCS Preliminary Test #570

'The Sun Also Rises' is a novel written by-----

A: Charles Dickens
B: Hermanne Melville
C: Earnest Hemingway
D: Thomas Hardy
37th BCS Preliminary Test #571

'Restoration period' in English literature refers to -----

A: 1560
B: 1660
C: 1760
D: 1866
35th BCS Preliminary Test #572

Let us begin by looking at the "minuter" of the meeting. Here the "minuter" word means----

A: time record
B: time frame
C: written record
D: written analysis
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #573

The 'climax' of a plot is what happens------

A: in the beginning
B: at the end
C: at the height
D: in the confrontation
35th BCS Preliminary Test #574

Women are too often-----by family commitments.

A: confused
B: controlled
C: contaminated
D: constrained
35th BCS Preliminary Test #575

Riders to the Sea is -----

A: an epic poem
B: a novella
C: a one-act play
D: a theatrical adaptation of a poem
35th BCS Preliminary Test #576

---- amazing song haunted me for a long time.

A: These
B: Those
C: Thus
D: That
35th BCS Preliminary Test #577

Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?

A: Christopher marlowe
B: Alexander Pope
C: John Dryden
D: Samuel Beckett
35th BCS Preliminary Test #578

Othello is a Shakespeare's play about-----

A: A Jew
B: A Roman
C: A Turk
D: A Moor
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #579

"To be, or not be, that is the question"----is a famous dialogue from-----

A: Othello
B: Romeo and Juliet
C: Hamlet
D: Macbeth
35th BCS Preliminary Test #580

"It is time to review the 'protocol' on testing nuclear weapons". Here the "protocol" word means------

A: Record of rules
B: Summary
C: Procedures
D: Problems
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #581

The idiom " A stitch in time save nine"--- refers the importance of ------

A: saving lives
B: timely action
C: saving time
D: time tailoring
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #582

The would "nouveau riche" means----

A: Riche rich
B: Well off
C: New high class
D: New rich
35th BCS Preliminary Test #583

Which is the correct sentences ?

A: He insisted on seeing her
B: He insisted for seeing her
C: He insisted in seeing her
D: He insisted to seeing her
35th BCS Preliminary Test #584

Societies living in the "periphery" are always ignored. Here the "periphery" word means----

A: offshore areas
B: marginal areas
C: remote places
D: backward regions
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #585

Depression is often "hereditary". The koteson word is a/an-----

A: Adverb
B: Adjective
C: Noun
D: Verb
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #586

The noise level in Dhaka city has increased "exponentially". Here the "exponentially" word means----

A: amazingly
B: shockingly
C: stesdily
D: rapidly
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #587

Class relations and societal conflict is the key understanding of----

A: Feminism
B: Formalism
C: Structuralism
D: Marxism
35th BCS Preliminary Test #588

What would be the best antonym of "hibernate"?

A: dormancy
B: liveliness
C: sluggishness
D: democracy
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #589

I am in the process of collecting "material" for my story. The koteson word is a/an-----

A: Verb
B: Adjective
C: Adverb
D: Noun
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35th BCS Preliminary Test #590

Find the odd-man-out----

A: George Eliot
B: Thomas Hardy
C: Joseph Conrad
D: James Joyce
Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #591

Doctors encourage their patients not to get upset about 'trivial' matters. (Match the best alternative that correspond to the quotations word)

A: unexpected
B: unimportant
C: unusual
D: uncertain
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Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #592

Library cards will "expire" when they are not used. (Match the best alternative that correspond to the quotations word)

A: cost more money
B: cease to be effective
C: return to the office
D: be renewed automatically
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Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #593

The line is busy; someone "should be using" the telephone now. (Match the best alternative that correspond to the quotations word)

A: must be using
B: should be using
C: must have used
D: should have used
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Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #594

Municipal taxes are based on an "estimate of the value" of one's property. (Match the best alternative that correspond to the quotations word)

A: appraisal
B: forcast
C: diagnosis
D: outline
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Bangladesh Railway Assistant Engineer (Civil) #595

The world reliance means-

A: independence
B: sub-ordination
C: disbelief
D: dependence
Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #596

You "had better to hurry" if you don't want to miss the bus. (Match the best alternative that correspond to the quotations word)

A: had better hurry
B: were in a hurry
C: had to hurry
D: had better hurry
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Bangladesh Railway Assistant Engineer (Civil) #597

Oval is the adjective of-

A: over
B: eue
C: egg
D: lip
Bangladesh Railway Assistant Engineer (Civil) #598

Which is one opposite gender of doctor?

A: lady doctor
B: doctoress
C: nurse
D: doctorex
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Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #599

Most white people don't object _____ them by their first name. (Fill in the blank)

A: that I call
B: to my calling
C: for calling
D: being called
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Upazila Rural Development Officer of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BARD) #600

I am looking forward _____ you. (Fill in the blank)

A: to see
B: meeting
C: to seeing
D: meet
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