36TH BCS QUESTION

 
 

36th BCS English Question

01. Shakespeare's Measure for Measure' is a successful-
a. tragedy               b. comedy       c. trigi-comedy       d. melo drama
Ans. c. trigi-comedy    
02. Teacher said, 'The earth ___ round the sun.'
a. moves         b. moved       c. has moved    d. will be moving
Ans. a. moves  
03. The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of--
a. preface to Shakespeare                 b. perface to Lyrical Ballads
c. preface to Ancient Mariners        d. preface to Dr. Johnson
Ans. b. perface to Lyrical Ballads
04. Professor Razzak was a scholar---- refute.
a. in        b. of        c. after           d. by
Ans.   b. of   b. of
05. 'David Coperfield' is a/an------novel.
a. Victorian            b. Elizabethan      c. Romantic         d. Modern
Ans.  a. Victorian  
06. 'Elegy written is a country churchyard' is written by---
a. William Wordsworth              b. Thomas Gray             
c. John Keats                             d. W.B. Yeats
Ans. b. Thomas Gray 
07. John Smith is good ___ Mathematics.
a. at           b. in            c. of             d. after
Ans.  a. at 
08. In English Grammar, ____ deals with formation of sentences.
a. Morphology          b Etymology        c. Syntax        d. Semantics
Ans. c. Syntax 
09. Which of the followings books is written by Thomas Hardy?
a. Vanity Fair                       b. The Return of the Native
c. Pride and Prejudice         d. Oliver Twist
Ans. b. The Return of the Native
10. He insisted___ there.
a. on my going        b. is to go     c. over going        d. to go
Ans. a. on my going 
11. The idiom 'A stitch is times saves nine' refers to the importance of--
a. saving lives     b. timely action   c. saving time     d. time tailoring
Ans. b. timely action
12. 'Frailty thy name is woman'-is a famous dialouge from---
a. Christopher Marlow               b. Johns Webstar       
c. W. Shakespeare                    d. T.S. Eliot
Ans. c. W. Shakespeare   
13. The poem 'The Solitary Reaper' is written by--
a. W.H. Auden     b. W. Wordsworth    
c. W.B. Yeats        d. Ezra Pound
Ans. b. W. Wordsworth  
14. 'The Merchant of Venice' is a Shakespearean play about--
a. a Jew    b. a Moor         c. a Roman           d. a Turk
Ans. a. a Jew
15.  What word be the right antonym for 'initiative'?
a. apathy            b. indolence             c. enterprise            d. activity
Ans. b. indolence 
16. The play 'Candida' is by----
a. James Joyce  b. Shakespeare  c. G.B. Shaw          d. Arthur Miller
Ans. c. G.B. Shaw
17. Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literatue?
a. A. Tennyson          b. Alexander Pope         c. John Dryden          d. S.T. Colerideg
Ans.d. S.T. Colerideg
18. This could have worked if I ---- benn more cautious.
a. had     b. have      c. might       d. would
Ans. a. had  
19. 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. at the height  
20. London town is found a livign being in the works of--
a. Thomas Hardy           b. Charles Dickens      
c. W. Congreve             d. D.H. Lawrence
Ans.  b. Charles Dickens   
21. I have been living in Dhaka----2000. 
a. since        b. from         c. till        do. for
Ans.  a. since  
22. Give the antonym of the word 'transitory'.
a. temporary             b. permanent       
c. transparent           d. short-lived
Ans. b. permanent  
23. 'A Passage to India' is written by---
a. E.M. Forster          b. Rudyard Kipling       
c. Galls Worthy         d. A.H. Auden
Ans. a. E.M. Forster 
24. 'Gitanjali' of Robindranath Tagore was translated by---
a. Robert Frost          b. W.B. Yeats        
c. John Keats             d. Rudyard Kipling
Ans.  b. W.B. Yeats
25. 'Venerate' means--
a. defame        b. abuse       c. respect        d. accuse
Ans. c. respect 
26. Credit tk 5000---- my account.
a. with         b. against     c. to         d. in
Ans. c. to  
27.  'To do away with' means--
a. to repeat         b. to start     c. to get rid of        d. to drive off
Ans. c. to get rid of  
28. Who of the following writers was not a novelist?
a. Charles Dickens           b. W.B. Yeats            
c. James Joyce                 d. Jane Austen
Ans. b. W.B. Yeats  
29. 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. Paper is made from wood
30. Verb of 'Number' is---
a. number     b. enumerate           c. numbering      d. numerical
Ans. b. enumerate 
31. 'Child is the father of man' is taken from the poem of--
a. S.T coleridge           b. P.B. Shelley      
c. A.C. Swinburne       d. W. Wordsworth
Ans. d. W. Wordsworth
32. Slow and steady---- the race.
a. win           b. wins        c. has won       d. won
Ans.b. wins  
33. 'Man is a political animal'- who said this?
a. Dante  b. Plato          c. Aristotle     d. Socrates
Ans.  c. Aristotle  
34. Who is known as 'the poet of nature' in English literature?
a. Lord Tennyson            b. John Milton    c. William Words Worth     d. John Keates
Ans. c. William Words Worth  
35. Identify the correct sentnece--
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. Yesterday, he went home