36th BCS questions solution

36th BCS English questions and answers

Literature

1. Who of the following writers was not a novelist?

A. Charles Dickens
B. W. B. Yeats
C. James Joyce
D. Jane Austen

Answer: B

2. ‘Gitanjali’ of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by—–

A. W. B. Yeats
B. Robert Frost
C. John Keats
D. Rudyard Kipling

Answer: A

3. Who is known as ‘the poet of nature ‘ in English literature?

A. Lord Tennyson
B. John Milton
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats

Answer: C

4. “A Passage to India” is written by—

A. E. M. Forster
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. Galls Worthy
D. A. H. Auden

Answer : A


5. ‘Man is a political animal’—who said this?

A. Dante
B. Plato
C. Aristotle
D. Socrates

Answer : C

6. ‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from the poem of—–

A. W. Wordsworth
B. S. T. Coleridge
C. P. B. Shelley
D. A. C. Swinburne

Answer : A


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

A. Thomas Hardy
B. Charles Dickens
C. W. Congreve
D. D. H. Lawrence

Answer : B

8. 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


9. The play ‘Candida’ is by—–

A. James Joyce
B. Shakespeare
C. G. B. Shaw
D. Arthur Miller

Answer : C

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

A. Tennyson
B. Alexander Pope
C. John Dryden
D. S. T. Coleridge

Answer : D

11. ‘Frailty the name is woman’–is a famous dialogue from.

A. Christopher Marlowe
B. John Webster
C. W. Shakespeare
D. T. S. Eliot

Answer : C

12. The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ is written by —

A. W. H. Auden
B. W. Wordsworth
C. W. B. Yeats
D. Ezra Pound

Answer : B

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

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

Answer : A


14. Which of the following books is written by Thomas Hardy ?

A. Vanity Fair
B. The Return of the Native
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Oliver Twist

Answer : B

15. ‘David Copperfield’ is a/an—-novel.

A. Victorian
B. Eligabethan
C. Romantic
D. Modern

Answer : A

16. ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’ is written by —

A. William Wordaworth
B. Thomas Gray
C. John Keats
D. W. B. Yeats

Answer : B

17. Shakespeare’s ‘Measure for Measure’ is a successful—–

A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. tragi-comedy
D. melodrama

Answer : B

Note: William Shakespeare others comedy are Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream etc.


18. 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

Answer : B


Grammar

19. Professor Razzak was a scholar—- refute. (Fill in the gap)

A. in
B. of
C. after
D. by

Note: Refute word verb বলে এর পূর্বে preposition বসে না। If the word repute answer is of.

20. John Smith is good——Mathematics. (Fill in the gap)

A. at
B. in
C. of
D. after

Answer : A

21. Teacher said, ‘The earth–round the sun’.

A. moves
B. moved
C. has moved
D. will be moving

Answer : A

22. In English grammar,——– deals with formation of sentences.

A. Morphology
B..Etymology
C. Syntax
D. Semantics

Answer : C

23. He insisted—there. (Fill in the gap)

A. on my going
B. is to go
C. over going
D. to go

Answer : A


24. The idiom ‘A stitch in time saves nine’—refers to the importance of—

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

Answer : B

25. What would be the right antonym for ‘initiative’?

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

Answer : A


26. This could have worked if I —-been more cautious.

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

Answer : A

27. I have been living in Dhaka—2000.

A. since
B. from
C. after
D. till

Answer : A

28. Give the antonym of the word ‘transitory’.

A. temporary
B. permanent
C. transparent
D. short-lived

Answer : B

29. Verb of ‘Number’ is—

A. number
B. enumerate
C. numbering
D. numerical

Answer : A

30. Slow and steady—– the race. (Fill in the gap)

A. win
B. wins
C. has won
D. won

Answer : B

31. 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

Answer is : D

32. ‘Venerate’ Means—-

A. defame
B. abuse
C. respect
D. accuse

Answer : B

33. Credit tk 5000—- my account.

A. in
B. with
C. against
D. to

Answer : D

34. ‘To do away with’ means—-

A. to repeat
B. to start
C. to get rid of
D. to drive off

Answer : C


35. Which one is a correct sentences ?

A. paper is made of wood
B. paper is made from wood
C. paper is made by wood
D. paper is made on wood

Answer : B