English - 38th BCS Preliminary Questions
Which period is known as “The golden age of English
literature”?
a)
The Victorian age
b)
The Elizabethan age
c)
The Restoration age
d)
The Eighteenth Century
Ans. b [38th BCS]
‘Jacobean Period’ of English Literature refers to-
a)
1558-1603
b)
1625-1649
c)
1603-1625
d)
1649-1660
Ans. c [38th BCS]
Where do the following lines occur in?
“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea…….”
a)
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
b)
Kubla Khan
c)
The Nightingale
d)
The Dungeon
Ans. a [38th BCS]
‘For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.’
This line is written by-
a)
Emily Dickinson
b)
T.S. Eliot
c)
Mathew Arnold
d)
John Donne
Ans. d [38th BCS]
Who is the author of ‘Man and Superman’?
a)
G.B. Shaw
b)
Thomas Hardy
c)
Ernest Hemingway
d)
Charles Dickens
Ans. a [38th BCS]
The most famous satirist in English literature is-
a)
Jonathan Swift
b)
Alexander Pope
c)
Joseph Addison
d)
Richard Steel
Ans. a [38th BCS]
Of the following authors, who wrote an epic?
a)
John Milton
b)
Jane Mansfield
c)
William Cowper
d)
William Shakespeare
Ans. a [38th BCS]
Who is not a Victorian poet?
a)
Mathew Arnold
b)
Alexander Pope
c)
Robert Browning
d)
Alfred Tennyson
Ans. b [38th BCS]
The play ‘The Spanish Tragedy’ is written by-
a)
Thomas Kyd
b)
Christopher Marlowe
c)
Shakespeare
d)
Ben Johnson
Ans. a [38th BCS]
Who among the following Indian English writers is a
famous novelist?
a)
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
b)
R.K. Narayan
c)
Nissim Ezekiel
d)
Kamala Das
Ans. b [38th BCS]
Which one in the correct indirect narration?
“Why have you beaten my dog? he said to me.
a)
He demanded me why had I beaten his dog
b)
He asked me why I have had beaten his dog
c)
He enquired me why had I had beaten his dog
d)
He demanded of me why I had beaten his dog
Ans. d [38th BCS]
Which word is closest in meaning to ‘Franchise’?
a)
Utility
b)
Frankness
c)
Privilege
d)
Superficial
Ans. c [38th BCS]
‘Once in a blue moon’ means-
a)
Always
b)
Very rarely
c)
Nearly
d)
Hourly
Ans. b [38th BCS]
A retired officer lives next door. Here, the
underlined word is used as a/an:
a)
Gerund
b)
Adverb
c)
Preposition
d)
Participle
Ans. d [38th BCS]
Choose the appropriate preposition in the blank of the
following sentence:
Eight men were concerned _____ the plot.
a)
at
b)
with
c)
in
d)
for
Ans. c [38th BCS]
Fill in the gap with the right tense:
When water _____ it turns into ice.
a)
will freeze
b)
freezes
c)
would freeze
d)
froze
Ans. b [38th BCS]
Which one is the correct antonym of ‘frugal’?
a)
Extraordinary
b)
Spendthrift
c)
Economical
d)
Authentic
Ans. b [38th BCS]
Choose the meaning of the idiom-
‘Take the bull by the horns’.
a)
To challenge the enemy with courage
b)
Force the enemy to submit
c)
Out of one’s wit
d)
Surrender before the enemy
Ans. a [38th BCS]
Fill in the blank with the correct quantifier.
I still have _____ money.
a)
a few
b)
quite a few
c)
many
d)
a little
Ans. d [38th BCS]
Select the right compound structure of the sentence:
“Though he is poor, he is honest”.
a)
He is poor and honest
b)
As he poor, he is honest
c)
He is poor but honest
d)
Since he is poor, he is honest
Ans. c [38th BCS]
Fill in the blank:
Tourists _____ their reservations well in advance if they
want to fly to Cox’s Bazar
a)
better to had get
b)
had better to get
c)
had better got
d)
had better get
Ans. d [38th BCS]
The sun went down. The underlined word is used
here as a/an:
a)
preposition
b)
adverb
c)
noun
d)
conjunction
Ans. b [38th BCS]
Select the correctly spelt word:
a)
Heterogeneous
b)
Hetarogeneous
c)
Hetrogeneous
d)
Hetroganeous
Ans. a [38th BCS]
‘Among’ is a preposition that is used when _____ people
are involved.
a)
two
b)
more than two
c)
two or more than two
d)
four only
Ans. b [38th BCS]
What is the plural form of the word ‘louse’?
a)
Louses
b)
Lice
c)
Lices
d)
Licess
Ans. b [38th BCS]
Choose the correct sentence:
a)
He refrained to take any drastic action
b)
He refrained on taking any drastic action
c)
He refrained in taking any drastic action
d)
He refrained from taking any drastic action
Ans. d [38th BCS]
Which one of the following words is in singular form?
a)
Agenda
b)
Oases
c)
Radius
d)
Formulae
Ans. c [38th BCS]
Identify the right passive voice of ‘It is impossible to
do this’.
a)
Doing this is impossible
b)
This is impossible to be done
c)
This is must be done
d)
This can’t be done
Ans. b [38th BCS]
The literary term ‘euphemism’ means-
a)
Vague idea
b)
In offensive expression
c)
A sonnet
d)
Wise saying
Ans. b [38th BCS]
‘Mutton’ is a/an
a)
Common noun
b)
Abstract noun
c)
Material noun
d)
Proper noun
Ans. c [38th BCS]
Reading is an excellent habit. Here, the word ‘Reading’
is a-
a)
Verbal noun
b)
Participle
c)
Verb
d)
Gerund
Ans. d [38th BCS]
Which one of the following words is an example of a
distributive pronoun?
a)
Such
b)
Either
c)
That
d)
Any
Ans. b [38th BCS]
A speech of too many words is called-
a)
A big speech
b)
Maiden speech
c)
An unimportant speech
d)
A verbose speech
Ans. d [38th BCS]
‘Strike while the iron is hot’ is an example of-
a)
Noun clause
b)
Adjective clause
c)
Adverbial clause
d)
Subordinate clause
Ans. c [38th BCS]
The word ‘Panegyric’ means
a)
Criticism
b)
Elaborate praise
c)
Curse
d)
High sound
Ans. b [38th BCS]
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