English Literature (50 MCQ questions)

English Literature (50 MCQ questions)

1.The poem ‘The Patriot’ is written by –

[সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার – ২০১২] 

(a)Alfred Tennyson

(b)Robert Browning

(c)Mathew Arnold

(d)John Donne

Answer: B

2.Who wrote ‘The Tempest’? [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার – ২০১২]

(a)William Wordsworth

(b)Ben Jonson

(c)William Shakespeare

(d)Tennyson

Answer: C

3.Which book is a Tragedy? [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার – ২০১২]

(a)Hamlet

(b)Measure for Measure

(c)As you like it

(d)She stoops to conquer

Answer: A

4.The ‘Merchant of Venice’ Written by Shakespeare is – [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার – ২০১২]

(a)A novel

(b)a short story

(c)a poem

(d)a drama

Answer: D

5.‘Faerie Queen’ is a – [সহকারী থানা শিক্ষা অফিসার – ২০১২]

(a)play

(b)short story

(c)an epic

(d)novel

Answer: C

6.Who among the following is a revolutionary poet? [বহিরাগমন ও পাসপোর্ট অধিদপ্তর সহকারী পরিচালক ২০১৪]

(a)John Keats

(b)P.B. Shelly

(c)S.T. Coleridge

(d)William Wordsworth

Answer: B

7.Great Expectations is a novel written by- [বহিরাগমন ও পাসপোর্ট অধিদপ্তর সহকারী পরিচালক ২০১৪]

(a)Charles Dickens

(b)Thomas Hardy

(c)Jane Austen

(d)Henry Fielding

Answer: A

8.Paradise Lost is – [বহিরাগমন ও পাসপোর্ট অধিদপ্তর সহকারী পরিচালক ২০১৪]

(a)an epic

(b) a satirical work

(c) a tragedy

(d) a ballad

Answer: A

9. Who wrote ‘Madame Bovary’?

(a) Leo Tolstoy

(b) James Joyce

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) Gustave Flaubert

Answer: D

10. The poem ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by [৩৫তম বিসিএস]

(a) Dylan Thomas

(b) W.H Auden

(c) Ezra Pound

(d) W.B. Yeats

Answer: D

11. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about – [৩৫তম বিসিএস]

(a) A Jew

(b) A Turk

(c) A Roman

(d) A Moor

Answer: D

12. The play Arms and the Man is by – [৩৫তম বিসিএস]

(a) James Joyce

(b) Arthur Miller

(c) Samuel Beckett

(d) George Bernard Shaw

Answer: D

13. ‘The Lord of the Rings’ is written by –

(a) Rudyard Kipling

(b) Ronald Reuel Tolkien

(c) Hobbit

(d) None

Answer: B

14. ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ is an essay by –

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Virginia Woolf

(d) Thomas Carlyle

Answer: B

15. Who of the following is a playwright?

(a) Dickens

(b) Frost

(c) W.B. Yeats

(d) G.B. Shaw

Answer: D

16. ‘To the Lighthouse’ and ‘A Room of one’s Own’ written by –

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) Charlotte Bronte

(c) J.M. Synage

(d) None

Answer: A

17. Who is a modern author?

(a) C. Marlow

(b) Charles Dickens

(c) Chaucer

(d) Joseph Conrad

Answer: D

18. The poem ‘Second Coming’ is written by –

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Frost

(d) Auden

Answer: A

19. ‘April is the cruelest month’ is written by – 

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Frost

(d) Auden

Answer: B

20. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is written by-

(a) Joseph Conrad

(b) James Joyce

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) G.B. Shaw

Answer: D

21. ‘Adela’ is a character in the novel ‘A Passage to India’ written by-

(a) E.M. Forster

(b) William Golding

(c) Joyce

(d) Hardy

Answer: A

22. ‘Man and Superman’ and ‘Arms and The Man’ were written by-

(a) G.B. Shaw

(b) Somerset Maugham

(c) William Golding

(d) None

Answer: A

23. Who wrote ‘The Waste Land’?

(a) W.B. Yeats

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) E.M. Forster

(d) H.G. Wells

Answer: B

24. Who wrote ‘Heart of Darkness’?

(a) Thomas Hardy

(b) Joseph Conrad

(c) Bill Gates

(d) None

Answer: B

25. Who wrote ‘Where Angels Fear to Tread’?

(a) Charles Dickens

(b) E. M. Forster

(c) Rudyard Kipling

(d) William Shakespeare

Answer: B

26. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ and ‘The Rainbow’ written by-

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) Robert Frost

(c) Thomas Moore

(d) D.H. Lawrence

Answer: D

27. ‘Of Human Bondage’ is written by –

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) James Joyce

(c) W.B. Yeats

(d) Philip Sydney

Answer: A

28. James Joyce’s famous novel –

(a) Roots

(b) Ulysses

(c) Tom Jones

(d) Rebecca

Answer: B

29. ‘Mending Wall’ and ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ are two poems written by –

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Walt Whitman

(c) Emily Dickinson

(d) None

Answer: A

30. Nathaniel Hawthorne is the writer of –

(a) The Scarlet Letter

(b) A Farewell to Arms

(c) Great Expectation

(d) none

Answer: A

31. Who is an American author?

(a) R.W. Emerson

(b) H.D. Thoreau

(c) Henry W. Longfellow

(d) All

Answer: D

32. “To be, or not to be, that is the question” – Where do you find this quotation?

(a) Macbeth

(b) Hamlet

(c) As You like It

(d) Othello

Answer: B

33. ‘The Road not Taken’ is a famous poem of –

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Walt Whitman

(c) Emily Dickinson

(d) None

Answer: A

34. ‘Leaves of Grass’ is written by-

(a) Shelley

(b) Long Fellow

(c) Frost

(d) Whitman

Answer: D

35. The period from 1649-1660 is known as-

(a) Commonwealth period

(b) Jacobean period

(c) Caroline period

(d) Restoration period

Answer: A

36. Which poem is written by Walt Whitman?

a) Song of myself

b) Song of Innocence

c) Song of Experience

d) none of these

Answer: A

37. Who wrote ‘The Bluest Eyes’?

(a) Arthur Miller

(b) Saul Bellow

(c) Tony Morrison

(d) None

Answer: C

38. Who is the author of ‘Seize the Day’?

(a) Arthur Miller

(b) Saul Bellow

(c) Tony Morrison

(d) None

Answer: B

39. ‘The Sun Also Rises’ and ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ – These two novels were written by –

(a) O’Henry

(b) Arthur Miller

(c) Earnest Hemingway

(d) John Osborn

Answer: C

40. ‘Huckleberry Finn’ is a novel written by –

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Emily Dickinson

(c) Mark Twain

(d) Walt Whitman

Answer: C

41. ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ is a poem written by –

(a) Robert Frost

(b) Emily Dickinson

(c) Mark Twain

(d) Walt Whitman

Answer: C

42. ‘Lycidas’ is written by – [সহকারী পিরচালক (মাদকদ্রব্য নিয়ন্ত্রণ অধিদপ্তর) – ১৯৯৯]

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) John Milton

Answer: D

43. ‘Love and Friendship’ is written by –

(a) Francis Bacon

(b) Jane Austen

(c) Jonathan Swift

(d) None

Answer: B

44. Who wrote ‘Sense and Sensibility’?

(a) Emily Dickinson

(b) Virginia Woolf

(c) Jane Austen

(d) None

Answer: C

45. ‘Samson Agonists’ is written by –

(a) A. Pope

(b) Henry Fielding

(c) Thomas Hardy

(d) John Milton

Answer: D

46. Who wrote the book ‘Ivan Hoe’?

(a) O’Henry

(b) L. Stevenson

(c) Hemingway

(d) Sir Walter Scott

Answer: D

47. ‘Essay on Criticism’ is written by –

(a) Alexander Pope

(b) T.S. Eliot

(c) Jonathan Swift

(d) H. Fielding

Answer: A

48. ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ written by-

(a) Byron

(b) G.B. Shaw

(c) John Buniyan

(d) T.S. Eliot

Answer: A

49. ‘The Revolt of Islam’ is a work by-

(a) Byron

(b) Salman Rushdie

(c) Shelley

(d) G.B. Shaw

Answer: C

50. ‘Prometheus Unbound’ is a lyrical drama by-

(a) Shelley

(b) Shakespeare

(c) Sophocles

(d) Euripedes

Answer: A

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