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English Language and Literature
১।36. 'Please write to me at the above address." The word 'above' in this
sentence is a/an --
(a)
noun
(b) pronoun
(c) adjective (d) adverb
Correct Ans: (c) adjective
37. In which sentence is the word 'past used as a preposition?
(a)Tania was a wonderful singer, but she's past her prime,
(b) wtitting letters is a
thing of past
(c) I look Back on the past without regret
(d) I called
out to him as he ran past
Correct Ans: (a)Tania was a wonderful singer, but she's past
her prime,
38. The word "sibling" means
(a) a brother (b) a
brother or sister
(c) a sister
(d) an infant
Correct Ans: (b) a brother or sister
39. Fill in the blank: As she was talking, he suddenly broke........ ,
saying, 'That's a lie!
(a)off (b)
down
(c)in (d)
into
Correct Ans: (c) in
40. Fill in the blank: You may go for a walk if you feel -- it.
(a)like
(b)about
(c)on
(d) for
Correct Ans: (a)like
41. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly.
(a) perseverance
(b)convalescence
(c) maintenance
(d)
conscientious
Correct Ans: (d) conscientious
42. 'You look terrific in that dress! The word "terrific' in the above
sentence means
(a) funny
(b) very ugly
(c) horrible (d)
excellent
Correct Ans: (d) excellent
43. Someone who is capricious is...
(a) eassily irritate
(b) wise and
willing to cooperate
(c)known for sudden changes in attitude or behaviour
(d) exceedingly conceited and
arrogant
Correct Ans: (c)known for sudden changes in attitude or
behaviour
44.Which one of the following words is masculine?
(a) lad
(b) mare
(b)pillow (d) pony
Correct Ans: (a) lad
45. A man whose wife has died is called a..
(a) widow
(b) widower
(c) spinster
(d) bachelor
Correct Ans: (b) widower
46. Which word is similar to 'appal?
(a) deceive
(b) dismay
(c) confuse
(d)solicit
Correct Ans: (b) dismay
47. Which word means the opposite of dearth
(a) aboundance (b)lack
(c) poverty
(d) shortage
Correct Ans: (a) aboundance
48. Identify the word which remains the same form..
(b)intenion (b) mouse
(c)aircraft
(d) thesis
Correct Ans: (c)aircraft
49. Identify the determiner in the following sentence - I have no news for
you. –
(a) have (b) news
(c) for (d)
no
Correct Ans: (d) no
50. A lost opportunity never returns.Here lost is a ...
(a) gerund
(b) participle
(c) verbal noun (d) gerundilal
infinitive
Correct Ans: (b) participle
51. The saying 'enough is enough' is used when you want –
(a)something to stop
(b) something
to continue
(c) something to continue untin it's enough
(d) to tell instructions are clear
Correct Ans: (a)something to stop
52. 'He ran with great speed. The underlined part of the sentence is –
(a)noun phrase
(b)adjective phrase
(c) participle phrase (d)
adverb phrase
Correct Ans: (d) adverb phrase
53. 'We must not be late, else we will miss the train.
(a)complex scentence
(b)simple scentence
(c) compound scentence
(d)interrogative scentence
Correct Ans: (c) compound scentence
54. Change the voice: 'Who is calling me?'
(b) By whom am I being called?
(b) By whom am i called?
(c) By whom i am called?
(d) Whom am i called by?
Correct Ans: (a)By whom am I being called?
55. An extra message added at the end of a letter after it is signed is
called -
(a) postscript
(b) NB
(c) corrigenbum (d) RSVP
Correct Ans: (a) postscript
56. 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope is a/an
(a) epic
(b)ballad
(c) plegy (d)
mock-heroic poem
Correct Ans: (d) mock-heroic poem
57. Which of the following is not an American poet?
(a) Roberd Frost
(b)W.B. Yeats
(c) Emily Bicaison
(d) Langston
Hughes
Correct Ans: (b)W.B. Yeats
58. William Shakespeare was born in –
(a) 1616 (b)
1664
(c) 1564 (d)
1493
Correct Ans: (c) 1564
59. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam is an elegy on the death of
(a)Arthur Henry Hallam (b)Jhon Milton
(c) Jhon Keats
(d) Sydney Smith
Correct Ans: (a)Arthur Henry Hallam
60. Sweet Helen' make me inmortal with a kiss! The sentence has been taken
from the play.
(a)Romeo and juliet
(b) Caesar
and cleopatra
(c)Doctor Faustus
(d) Antony and cleopatra
Correct Ans: (c)Doctor Faustus
61. What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would
smell as sweet. Who said this?
(a)Romeo
(b)Portia
(c) Rosalind
(d) Juliet
Correct Ans: (d)Juliet
62. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, Tis woman's whole
existence. - This is taken from the poem
(a)P.B. Shelley
(b)Lord Byron
(c) John Keats
(d) Edmund
Spenser
Correct Ans: (b)Lord Byron
63. Who translated the 'Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyam' into English?
(a)Thomas Carlyle
(b) D.G. Rossetti
(c)Edward Fitzgerald
(d) William
Hackeray
Correct Ans: (c)Edward Fitzgerald
64. 'Ulysses' is a novel written by -
(a) James Joyce
(b) Joseph Conrad
(c) Thomas Hardy
(d) Charles
Dickens
Correct Ans: (a) James Joyce
65. The short story "The Diamond Necklace' was written by --
(a) Guy de Maupassant (b)Somerset Maugham
(c) O Henry
(d) George Orwell
Correct Ans: (a) Guy de Maupassant
66. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.' - Who
said this?
(a) Macbeth
(b) Lady Macbeth
(c) Lady Macduff (d) Macduff
Correct Ans: (b) Lady Macbeth
67. "Where are the songs of Spring? Aye, where are they? Think not of
them, thou hast thy music too.' - Who wrote this?
(a) William Wordsworth (b) Robert Browning
(c) Samuel Coleridge
(d) John
Keats
Correct Ans: (d) John Keats
68. Who is the central character of 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte-
(a) Heathcliff
(b) MR.
Earnshaw
(c) Catherine
(d) Hindley Earnshaw
Correct Ans: (a) Heathcliff
69. "The old order changeth. yielding place to new. - This line is
extracted from Tennyson's poem -
(a) The lotos-Eaters (b) Morte
d' Arthur
(c) Tithonus
(d) Locksley Hall
Correct Ans: (b) Morte d' Arthur
70. Who wrote the poem 'The Good-Morrow'?
(a) George Herbert (b) Andrew
Marvell
(c) John Donne
(d) Henry vaughan
Correct Ans: ( (c) John Donne
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