English - 36th BCS Preliminary Questions

Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a successful _____.

a)      Tragedy

b)      Comedy

c)       Tragi-comedy

d)      Melo drama

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

‘David Copperfield’ is a/an _____ novel.

a)      Victorain

b)      Elizabethan

c)       Romantic

d)      Modern

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’ is written by _____.

a)      William Wordsworth

b)      Thomas Gray

c)       John Keats

d)      W.B. Yeats

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

Which of the followings book is written by Thomas Hardy?

a)      Vanity Fair

b)      The Return of the Native

c)       Pride and Prejudice

d)      Oliver Twist

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

“Frailty thy name is woman” is a famous dialogue from _____.

a)      Christopher

b)      John Webster

c)       W. Shakespeare

d)      T.S. Eliot

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

The poem “The Solitary Reaper” is written by _____.

a)      W.H. Auden

b)      W. Wordsworth

c)       W.B. Yeats

d)      Ezra Pound

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of _____.

a)      Preface to Shakespeare

b)      Preface to Lyrical Ballads

c)       Preface to Ancient Mariners

d)      Preface to Dr. Johnson

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

Who is known as “the poet of nature” in English literature?

a)      Lord Tennyson

b)      John Milton

c)       William Wordsworth

d)      John Keats

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

“A Passage to India” is written by _____.

a)      E.M. Forster

b)      Rudyard Kipling

c)       Galls Worth

d)      A.H. Auden

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a Shakespearean play about _____.

a)      A Jew

b)      A Moor

c)       A Roman

d)      A Turk

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

The play ‘Candida’ is by _____.

a)      James Joyce

b)      Shakespeare

c)       G.B. Shaw

d)      Arthur Miller

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?

a)      A. Tennyson

b)      Alexander Pope

c)       John Dryden

d)      S.T. Coleridge

Ans. d [36^th BCS]

Who of the following writers was not a novelist?

a)      Charles Dickens

b)      W.B. Yeats

c)       James Joyce

d)      Jane Austen

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

The ‘Climax’ of a plot is what happens _____.

a)      In the beginning

b)      At the height

c)       At the end

d)      In the confrontation

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

London town is found a living being in the works of _____.

a)      Thomas Hardy

b)      Charles Dickens

c)       W. Congreve

d)      D.H. Lawrence

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from the poem of _____.

a)      W. Wordsworth

b)      S.T. Coleridge

c)       P.B. Shelley

d)      C. Swinburne

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

“Man is a political animal” – who said this?

a)      Dante

b)      Plato

c)       Aristotle

d)      Socrates

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

‘Gitanjali’ of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by _____.

a)      W.B. Yeats

b)      Robert Frost

c)       John Keats

d)      Rudyard Kipling

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

Verb of ‘Number’ is

a)      Number

b)      Enumerate

c)       Numbering

d)      Numerical

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

Professor Razzak was a scholar ______ repute.

a)      in

b)      of

c)       after

d)      by

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

John Smith is good _____ Mathematics.

a)      at

b)      in

c)       of

d)      after

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

Credit tk 5000 _____ my account.

a)      in

b)      with

c)       against

d)      to

Ans. d [36^th BCS]

I have been living in Dhaka _____ 2000.

a)      since

b)      from

c)       after

d)      till

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

Teacher said, ‘The earth _____ round the sun’

a)      moves

b)      moved

c)       has moved

d)      will moving

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

He insisted _____ there.

a)      on my going

b)      is to go

c)       over going

d)      to go

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

This could have worked if I _____ been more caution.

a)      had

b)      have

c)       might

d)      would

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

Slow and steady _____ the race.

a)      win

b)      wins

c)       has won

d)      won

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

In English grammar, _____ deals with formations of sentences.

a)      Morphology

b)      Etymology

c)       Syntax

d)      Semantics

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

Identify the correct sentence.

a)      Yesterday, he has gone home

b)      Yesterday, he did gone home

c)       Yesterday, he had gone home

d)      Yesterday, he went home

Ans. d [36^th BCS]

Which one is a correct sentence?

a)      Paper is made of wood

b)      Paper is made from wood

c)       Paper is made by wood

d)      Paper is made on wood

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

The idiom ‘A stitch in time saves nine’ refers to the importance of-

a)      Saving live

b)      Timely action

c)       Saving time

d)      Time tailoring

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

‘To do away with’ means _____.

a)      To repeat

b)      To start

c)       To get rid of

d)      To drive off

Ans. c [36^th BCS]

What would be the right antonym for ‘initiative’

a)      Apathy

b)      Indolence

c)       Enterprise

d)      Activity

Ans. a [36^th BCS]

Give the antonym of the word ‘transitory’

a)      Temporary

b)      Permanent

c)       Transparent

d)      Short-lived

Ans. b [36^th BCS]

‘Venerate’ means _____.

a)      Defame

b)      Abuse

c)       Respect

d)      Accuse

Ans. c [36^th BCS]