English Literature-1

1. Which period is known as ‘The golden’ age of English literature?

A) The Victorian age
B) The Eighteenth century
C) The Restoration age
D) The Elizabeth I age.

2. ‘Good face is the best letter of recommendation’ was stated by-

A) Queen Victoria
B) Queen Elizabeth
C) Queen Anne
D) Queen Marry

3. Edmund Spenser is a —

A) Scientist
B) Poet
C) Critics
D) Dramatist

4. 'Faerie Queene' is a—

A) play
B) short story
C) an epic
D) novel

5. Which one is not A) poetic work?

A) The Waste Land
B) An Apology for Poetry
C) The Canterbury Tales
D) Paradise Lost

6. Why is Sidney's Astrophel and Stella noteworthy?

A) It presented intensely bawdy humor.
B) It is the first English-language sonnet cycle.
C) It gave women a voice in poetry.
D) It presented a beautiful picture of courtly love.

7. Francis Bacon is an illustrious—

A) essayist
B) dramatist
C) novelist
D) journalist

8. Who wrote “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed and some few to be chewed and digested”?

A) Joseph Addison
B) Francis Bacon
C) Dr. Johnson
D) Charles Lamb

9. A) great playwright of Shakespeare's time was—

A) Samuel Johnson
B) Christopher Marlowe
C) Oliver Goldsmith
D) John Donne

10. "Doctor Faustus"was written by—

A) W. Shakespeare
B) John Webster
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) Ben Jonson

11. The poem, "A Passionate Shepherd to His Love" is written by —

A) Ben Jonson
B) Robert Herrick
C) Christopher Marlowe
D) Thomas Gray

12. ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ is written by —.

A) Jane Austen
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Shakespeare
D) Virginia Woolf

13. ‘Corruption wins not more than honesty’ উক্তিটি কার?

A) Lord Denning
B) William Shakespeare
C) Thomas Fuller
D) Seneca

14. The play 'Hamlet' is written by---- .

A) W. B. Yeats
√ B) William Shakespeare
C) W. H. Auden
D) W. Wordsworth

15. ‘Brevity is the sould of wit” who told it?

A) Confucius
B) Lord Byron
C) Shakespeare
D) Wordsworth

16. ‘Duncan’ কোন নাটকের গুরুত্বপূর্ণ চরিত্র?

A) Macbeth
B) Othello
C) Hamlet
D) King Lear

17. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. This quote is taken from Shakespearean play titled.

A) Hamlet
B) Macbeth
C) King Lear
D) Othello

18. Cowards die — before death.

A) much time
B) many time
C) enough time
D) many times

19. ‘I am one who loved not wisely but too well’ is A quotation from —.

A) Milton
B) William Shakespeare
C) T. S. Eliot
D) Ruskin

20. ‘Call rose by any name, it will —.’

A) be a great flower
B) smell the name
C) look the same
D) be A) nice flower

21. The quote 'All that glitters is not gold' is from which play of Shakespeare?

A) The Merchant of Venice
B) Romeo and Juliet
C) Hamlet
D) Othello

22. ‘Sweet are the uses of adversity’ is quoted from Shakespeare’s ____.

A) Julius Caesar
B) As You Like It
C) Comedy of Errors
D) Macbeth

23. Which of the following is written by Shakespeare?

A) Man and Superman
B) The Importance of Being Earnest
C) The Tempest
D) All for love

24. Caliban is an important character from Shakespeare’s—

A) King Lear
B) Tempest
C) Man and Superman
D) Othello

25. ‘Twelfth Night’ is—

A) A) comedy
B) An elegy
C) A) novel
D) A) tragedy

26. “Mist and Mellow Fruitfulness”- which of the following figures of speech is used in the sentence?

A) Alliteration
B) Metaphor
C) Onomatopoeia
D) Personification

27. That man is a mad dog now. It is an example of —

A) Metaphor
B) personification
C) simile
D) hyperbole

28. ‘Learning’s bower’ is an example of-

A) metaphor
B) simile
C) image
D) personification

29. The comparison of unlike things using the words like or as is known to be----

A) metaphor
B) simile
C) personification
D) alliteration

30. 'Jaws of death' is an example —

A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Symbol