35th BCS questions solution

35th BCS English questions solution

Literature

1. Who wrote the following lines – “All at once I saw / a crowd, a host of golden daffodils”?

A. Wordsworth
B. Shelly
C. Herrick
D. Keats

Answer : A

2. Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?

A. T.S. Elliot
B. Grahame Greene
C. Toni Morrison
D. William Faulkner

Answer : B

3. The play “Arms and the Man” is written by –

A. James Joyce
B. Arthur Miller
C. Samuel Beckett
D. George Bernerd Shaw

Answer : D

4. The “climax” of a plot is what happens –

A. in the beginning
B. at the height
C. at the end
D. in the confrontation

Answer : B

5. Othello is a Shakespeare’s play about –

A. A Jew
B. A Turk
C. A Roman
D. A Moor

Answer : D

6. “Riders to the sea” is –

A. an epic poem.
B. a novella
C. a one-act play
D. a theatrical adaptation of a poem

Answer : C

7. Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?

A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Dryden
C. Alexander Pope
D. Samuel Beckett

Answer : A

8. “To be, or not to be that is the question” – is a famous dialogue from –

A. Othello
B. Hamlet
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Macbeth

Answer : B

9. Find the odd-man-out —

A. The Bluest Eye
B. As I Lay Dying
C. Sula
D. A Mercy

Answer : B

10. Find the odd-man-out —

A. George Eliot
B. Joseph Conrad
C. Thomas Hardy
D. James Joyce

Answer : A

Grammar

11. Which of the following words can be used as a verb?

A. Mister
B. Mistress
C. Master
D. Mastery

Answer : C

12. Which word is the determiner in the sentence “Will it take much time?” ?

A. will
B. much
C. take
D. time

Answer : B

13. He was a rather “disagreeable” man. Here the quoted word is a/an

A. Noun
B. Adverb
C. Adjective
D. Preposition

Answer : C

14. I am in the process of collecting “material” for my story. The quoted word is —

A. Verb
B. Adverb
C. Noun
D. Adjective

Answer : C

15. Depression if often “hereditary” . here the quoted word is —

A. Adverb
B. Noun
C. Adjective
D. Verb

Answer : C


16. The idiom “A stitch in time saves nine” — refers to the importance of –

A. saving lives
B. saving time
C. timely action
D. time tailoring

Answer : C

17. The phrase “nouveau riche” means —

A. Riche rich
B. New high class
C. Well off
D. New rich

Answer : D

18. What would be the right synonym for ‘initiative’?

A. apathy
B. enterprise
C. indolence
D. activity

Answer : B

19. It is time to review the “protocol” on testing nuclear weapons. Here the quoted word means —

A. Record of rules
B. Procedures
C. Summary of rules
D. Problems

Answer : B

20. The noise level in Dhaka city has increased “exponentially”. Here the quoted word means —

A. amazingly
B. steadily
C. shockingly
D. rapidly

Answer : D

21. Societies living in the “periphery” are always ignored. Here the quoted word means —

A. offshore areas
B. remote places
C. marginal areas
D. backward regions

Answer : C

22. What would be the best antonym of “hibernate”?

A. dormancy
B. sluggishness
C. liveliness
D. democracy

Answer : C

23. Let us begin by looking at ‘the minutes of the meeting’. Here the quoted word means—

A. time record
B. written record
C. time frame
D. written analysis

Answer : B


24. relationship similar to “Harm:Damage” ?

A. Sweet:Sour
B. Stout:Week
C. Injure:Incapacitate
D. Hook:Crook

Answer : C

25. Cricket enjoys a huge ….. in Bangladesh.

A. follow on
B. follow
C. fall out
D. followin

Answer : D

26. The film was directed in the director’s usual …. style.

A. confusion
B. personifying
C. idosyncratic
D. purifying

Answer : C

27. This could have worked if I ….. been more far-sighted.

A. have
B. had
C. might
D. would

Answer : B

28. In the 18th Century, the Mughal Empire begun to ……

A. discriminate
B. differentiate
C. disintegrate
D. dislocate

Answer : C

29. Being fat does not necessarily kill you, but it —- the risk that you will suffer from nasty diseases.

A. increases
B. encourages
C. emphasizes
D. involves

Answer : A

30. — song haunted me for a long time.

A. These
B. Thus
C. That
D. Those

Answer : C

31. Women are too often — by family commitments.

A. confused
B. contaminated
C. controlled
D. constrained

Answer : D

32. Class relations and societal conflict is the key understanding of –
A. Feminism
B. Structuralism
C. Formalism
D. Marxism

Answer : D

33. Which is the correct sentence?

A. He insisted on seeing her
B. He insisted for seeing her
C. He insisted in seeing her
D. He insisted to be seeing her

Answer :A