41th and 42th BCS English Question and solution

Literature Part

1. ‘Shylock’ is a character in the play-
A. Twelfth Night
B. The Merchant of Venice✓
C.Romeo and Juliet
D. Measure for Measure

2. ‘Vanity Fair’ is a novel written by-
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. William Makepeace Thackeray✓
C.  Joseph Conrad
D. Virginia Woolf

3. ‘Pip’ is the protagonist in Charles Dickens’ novel-
A. A Christmas Carol
B.  A Tale of Two Cities
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectations✓

4. ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover’ was written by the author of –
A. Lord Jim
B. The Rainbow
C. Ulysses
D. A Passage to India
Answer: B

5. The poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’ is written by-
A. W. B. Yeats
B. T. S. Eliot
C.  Walter Scott
D. Robert Browning
Answer: B

6. The play The Birthday Party is written by-
A. Samuel Beckett
B. Henry Livings
C. Harold Pinter
D. Arthur Miller
Answer: C

7. Who is the author of the first scientific romance The Time Machine?
A. H. G. Wells
B. Samuel Butler
C. Henry James
D. George Moore

Answer: A

8.‘Why, then, ’tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it s ’. This extract is taken from the drama –
A. King Lear
B. Macbeth
C. As You Like It
D. Hamlet
Answer: D

9. “Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive to seek, to find, and not to yield” is taken from the poem written by –
A. Robert Browning
B. Matthew Arnold
C. Alfred Tennyson
D. Lord Byron
Answer: C

10. Who is not a romantic poet?
A. P. B. Shelley
B. S.T. Coleridge
C. John Keats
D. T. S. Eliot
Answer: D

11. In Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of –
A. Norway
B. Britain
C. Denmark
D. France
Answer: C

12. Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are characters from the novel –
A. David Copperfield
B. The Return of the Native
C. A Passage to India
D. Adam Bede
Answer: C

13. Time held me green and dying, Though I sang in my chains like the sea. These lines have been quoted from Dylan Thomas’ poem –
A. The Flower
B. Fern Hill
C. By Fire
D. After the Funeral
Answer: B

14. Was this the face that launch’d a thousand ships. And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Who speaks the famous lines?
A. Caesar
B. Antony
C.Faustus
D. Romeo
Answer: C

15. The Character ‘Alfred Doolittle’ is taken from Shaw’s play titled-
A.  Pygmalion
B. Man and Superman
C. The Doctor’s Dilemma
D. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Answer: A

Grammar Part

16. Identify the word that can be used as both singular and plural:
A. wood
B. issue
C. fish
D. light
Answer: C

17. Find out the correct passive form of the sentence ‘Who taught you French?
A. By whom you were taught French?
B. By whom French was taught you?
C. French was taught you by whom?
D. By whom were you taught French?
Answer: D

18. The old man was tired of walking.’ Here ‘walking is a/an-
A. present participle
B. adjective
C. common noun
D. gerund
Answer: D

19. Which one is a correct sentence?
A. The doctor found my pulse.
B. The doctor took my pulse.
C.  The doctor examined my pulse.
D. The doctor saw my pulse.
Answer: B

20. ‘I will not let you go.’ In this sentence ‘go’ is a/an-
A. infinitive
B. gerund
C. participle
D. verbal noun
Answer: A

21. When Ushashi entered --- the room everybody stopped talking.
A.  into
B. in
C.  to
D. no preposition required
Answer: D

22. Call me if you have any problems regarding your work. Here ‘regarding’ is a/an-
A.  gerund
B.  apposition
C. preposition
D. conjunction
Answer: C

23. Select the correct comparative form of the sentence- “A string of pearls was not so bright as her teeth”.
A.  Her teeth was more brighter than a string of pearls.
B. Her teeth were brighter than a string of pearls.
C. A string of pearls was brighter than her teeth.
D. A string of pearls were very bright than her teeth.
Answer: B

24. Come on, it’s time to go home. Here ‘home’ is a/an-
A.  noun
B.  verb
C. adjective
D. adverb
Answer: D

25. ‘Huffing and puffing, we arrived at the classroom door with only seven seconds to spare. In this sentence the verb ‘arrived’ is-
A. intransitive
B. transitive
C. causative
D. defective
Answer: A

26. Which one of the following is a common gender?
A. king
B. sovereign
C. emperor
D. queen
Answer: B

27. To win a prize is my ambition. The underlined part of the Sentence is a/an-
A. adjective phrase
B. noun phrase
C. adverb phrase
D. conjunctional phrase
Answer: B

28. Choose the word opposite in meaning to terse:
A. concise
B. detailed
C. expressive
D. descriptive
Answer: B

29. Who’s that? In this sentence that is a/an-
A. pronoun
B. conjunction
C. adjective
D. adverb
Answer: A

30. What is the noun form of the word ‘know’?
A. knowing
B. knowledge
C. knowledgeable
D. known
Answer: B

31. Give somebody a piece of your mind means to-
A. tell someone that you are very angry with them.
B. say exactly what you feel or think.
C. return or to help somebody return to a normal situation.
D. give somebody mental peace.
Answer: A

32. I shall help you provided you obey me. Here the underlined word is a/an-
A. adverb
B.adjective
C. conjunction
D. verb
Answer: C

33. Identify the correct spelling:
A. questionaire
B. questionoir
C. questionnaire
D. questionair
Answer: C

34. Which ‘but’ is a preposition?
A. It is but right to admit our faults.
B. What can we do but sit and wait?
C. We tried hard, but did not succeed.
D. There is no one but likes him.
Answer: B

35. One whose attitude is ‘eat, drink and be merry is-
A. materialistic
B. epicurean
C. cynic
D. stoic
Answer: B

42th BCS English Questions Solutions

1. What is the correct indirect form of: He said, “You had better see a doctor”.

A. He advised him to see a doctor.

B. He advised that he should see a doctor.

C. He suggested that he had seen a doctor.

D. He proposed to see a doctor.

Answer: A

2. Identify the word that remains same in plural form:

A. Deer

B. Horse

C. Elephant

D. Tiger

Answer: A

3. Which word is correct?

A. Furnitures

B. Informations

C. Sceneries

D. Proceeds

Answer: D

4. যদি ICE: COLDNESS হয়, তবে EARTH:?

A. Weight

B. Jungle

C. Sea

D. Gravity

Answer: D

5. To doctor an animal means:

A. To treat it

B. To sterilize it

C. To poison it

D. To cure it

Answer: B

6. The word flying in the sentence ‘Look at the flying bird’ is a:

A. Gerund

B. Participle

C. Verbal noun

D. Gerundal infinitive

Answer: B

7. Identify the determiner in the sentence ‘Bring me that book’

A. Bring

B. Me

C. That

D. Book

Answer: C

8. What is the meaning of musk?

A. A form of drama

B. A face cover

C. A substance used in making perfume

D. A disguise

Answer: C

9. Identify the correct spelled one:

A. Caesarean

B. caeserean

C. Ciserian

D. Scissorian

Answer: A

10. What is the function of a topic sentence?

A. To introduce the topic

B. To analyse the topic

C. To present the main Idea

D. To expand the Idea

Answer: C

11. Who wrote Dr. Zivago?

A. Maxim Gorky

B. Boris Pastornak

C. Fyodor Dostoevsky

D. Leo Tolstoy

Answer: B

12. Would you please find out Bangladesh--- the map.

A. In

B. On

C. Over

D. At

Answer: On

13. Hasan has read most of the --- of Shakespeare:

A. Poem

B. Play

C. Drama

D. Works

Answer: D

14. Complete the sentence: If I were you, I --- take the money:

A. Shall

B. Will

C. Would

D. May

Answer: C

15. Go and catch the falling star. Here the falling is:

A. An adverb

B. A preposition

C. An adjective

D. A verb

Answer: C

16. Film in the gap with the correct form of verb:

The police --- informed yesterday.

A. is

B. are

C. was

D. were

Answer: D

17. Giving someone the cold shoulder means:

A. To torture somebody

B. To harm someone

C. To appreciate someone

D. To ignore somebody

Answer: D

18. September on Jessore Road is written by:

A. Madhusudan Dutt

B. Allen Ginsberg

C. Kaiser Huq

D. Vikram Seth

Answer: B

19. Liza had given me two:

A. Pair of jean

B. pairs of jean

C. Pair of jeans

D. Pairs of jeans

Answer: D

20. অনুকম্প‌ শব্দের ইংরেজি কোনটি?

 A. Clemency

 B. Enthral

 C. Erudition

 D. Fathom

Answer: A