English MCQs
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The Victorian age is named after--
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D: Queen Victoria
What is the correct choice to fill the gap in 'His war partakes-----the prose style of his time'?
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B: of
Which pair of punctuation marks should be used in the following sentence? All right-----he replied-------I'm coming now."
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C: ",and',
The author of Songs of Innocence and of Experience is-----
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C: William Blake
Which is not true of an English sonnet?
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C: It has fourteen syllables in each line
When I (to arrive) ------ home last night, I discovered that Jane had prepared a great candle-light dinner.
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C: arrived
It (to rain) ----- all week. I hope it stops by Saturday because I want to go to the beach.
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A: has been raining
If you had forbidden me, I (not to do) -----this.
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C: wouldn't have done
Mr. Rakib went away (to leave) ------ me alone
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B: leaving
If Rahim (to decide) ------ to go to a university, I would recommend that he go to Khulna University-
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B: decided
They went to Dhaka ------ train.
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C: by
The only sport we enjoy is ----- hockey.
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D: no article
My uncle was afflicted ----- a serious illness and was almost confined to bed.
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C: with
Which one of the following is incorrect?
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A: He hardly does not come here.
'My mistress' eye are nothing like the sun.'- What does 'mistress' stand for?
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B: beloved
What is obligatory to form a syllable in English?
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B: one vowel
'Flowers bloom in spring.' Which is the antonym of the word 'bloom'?
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B: wither
Othello presents a great------world created by a highly----writer.
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B: imaginary; imaginative
Rita pays-----attention to the-------talented boys.
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B: special; especially
What is true of the passage?
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A: The first sentence is a general statement while the Lest its development
সে চায় তার সন্তানেরা ভালো পোষাক পরুক।
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গ: He likes his children to dress well.
You must make your views known to all.
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A: তুমি অবশ্যই সকলকে তোমার মতামত জানতে দেবে।
এম দেশটি কোথাও খুঁজে পাবে নাবো তুমি।
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গ: Nowhere will you find such a country
They left me waiting ourside.
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A: তারা আমাকে বাইরে অপেক্ষায় রেখে চলে গেল।
আপনার সাথে সাক্ষাৎ হবে বলে আশা করছি।
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খ: I look forward to meeting you.
Here 'walking away' of the audience means their-----
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C: lack of interest
His story was-------but I do not think his deed was---
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C: credible; creditable
Which one is the correct sentence according to the pattern 'Subject+Verb+Indirect Object+Direct Object':
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A: Mijan promised his brother an excellent pen.
What the statisticians do to the writers is to-----
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C: satisfy them with formulas
According to the passage, a writer must-----
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B: be interesting and meaningful
The persons who can be 'mistaken' include-----
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B: statisticians
(A) While some succeed in a work, others do not. (B) For them grapes are sour. (C) Everyone does not succeed in everything (D) Of those who fail some complain with different excuses.
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D: C, A, D, B
(A) He reached the destination in the afternoon. (B) He picked his friend. (C) He started sharply at 9 am. (D) On his way he met his friend.
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C: C, D, B, A
(A) Every writer needs constant self-discipline. (B) He must make a constant effort to do without the healed relpy or snide remark. (C) Since serious writing lends to involve the author's full personality, il has an obvious ethical dimension. (D) He must overcome some ingrained mental habits.
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A: A, D, C, B
His brother is (very clumsy( and makes everything worse that he tries to fix.
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C: all thumbs
I (make a bad start) with my neighbour and we are still unable to become friends.
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D: raised a hand
Who wrote The Birthday Party?
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C: Harold Pinter
The police came after the robbers had gone away.
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C: Adverb clause
What the doctors do in the time of a flu is to contain it.
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B: Noun clause
Stream of consciousness technique was pioneered by---
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B: James Joyce
Essays of Elia was written by------
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C: Charles Lamb
Which is know as Shakespear's swansong?
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C: The Tempest
Nissim Ezekiel is a famous poet of-----
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C: Wole Soyinka
Foil is---
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A: a character in a play who soots off the main character or other characters by comparision.
Rabindranath Tagore translated Gitanjali as---
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C: Song Offerings
Who wrote 'Waiting for Goddot'?
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B: Samuel Beckett
Which of the following sentences expresses proverbial truth.
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A: My father said, 'Honesty is the best policy.'
He was annoyed----------the boy for being so stupid.
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B: with
A lion jumped-------------the trees.
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B: out of
'Home is where the heart is. 'What is the meaning of home' here?
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C: an atmosphere of domestic tranquility