Literature Exercise -1 for University Admission Test, Job Application Test, BCS Exam and Any Competitive Examination

Topic: Literature

Questions:

1. Epic means

a) A long story dealing with brave deeds.

b) A short story dealing with brave deeds.

c) A medium story dealing with trivial deeds.

d) A long story dealing with funny deeds.

2. The 'Poet laureate' is-

a) a winner of Novel Prize in literature

b) a classical poet

c) the court Poet of England

d) the best poet of the country

3. Who is called the poet of poets?

a) Geoffrey Chaucer

b) Edmund Spenser

c) Thomas Kyd

d) William Shakespeare

4. The 'poet of nature' is

a) John Keats

b) Lord Tennyson

c) Lord Byron

d) William Wordsworth

5. Who is called the poet of supernaturalism?

a) Shelly

b) Keats

c) S.T. Coleridge

d) Byron

6. Who translated the Gitanjali into English?

a) T.S. Eliot

b) John Keats

c) W.B. Yeats

d) Sir Walton Scott

7. Who is the greatest modern English Dramatist?

a) Virginia Wolf

b) George Bernard Shaw

c) P.B. Shelly

d) S.T. Coleridge

8. Who is the author of 'Animal Farm'?

a) More

b) George Orwell

c) Shakespeare

d) Dickens

9. Who wrote "Crime and Punishment"?

a) Shelly

b) Tolstoy

c) Dostoyvosky

d) Byron

10. The book 'Das Capital' written -

a) William Shakespeare

b) Karl Marx

c) Charles Dickens

d) George Barnard Shaw

11. Who is the author of 'A Farewell to Arms'?

a) Helen Keller

b) Bertrand Russel

c) Ernest Hemingway

d) Charles Dickens

12. Who is the author of "Gulliver's Travels"?

a) Jonathan Swift

b) H.G. Wells

c) D.H. Lawrence

d) Pearl S. Buck

13. Who is the author of 'Haven and Earth'?

a) Lord Tennyson

b) Lord Byron

c) John Keats

d) William Wordsworth

14. "History of II World War" is written by-

a) Winston Churchill

b) Keats

c) Clinton

d) None of them

15. W.B. Yeats is-

a) a British poet

b) an American poet

c) a French poet

d) none of these

16. The author of 'Man and Superman' is:

a) Arther Miller

b) G. B. Shaw

c) John Milton

d) William Shakespeare

17. 'Merchant of Venice' is written by-

a) Wordsworth

b) Shelly

c) Shakespeare

d) Milton

18. Romeo and Julliet is a

a) Comedy

b) Tragedy

c) Romance

d) Morality Play

19. 'The Rape of Bangladesh' গ্রন্থের লেখক কে? (Who is the author of 'The Rape of Bangladesh'?)

a) Anthony Mascarenhas

b) Mathew Arnold

c) G.B. Shaw

d) Alexander Dumas

20. O. Henry is famous/renowned for

a) drama

b) novel

c) short story

d) poem

Answers With Explanation:

1. a) A long story dealing with brave deeds. 

2. c) the court Poet of England 

3. b) Edmund Spenser 

4. d) William Wordsworth 

5. c) S.T. Coleridge

6. c) W.B. Yeats (Note: Rabindranath Tagore translated it himself, but W.B. Yeats wrote the introduction and is often associated with it in MCQs. প্রশ্নে ইয়েটস উত্তর হিসেবে প্রচলিত।)

7. b) George Bernard Shaw 

8. b) George Orwell 

9. c) Dostoyvosky 

10. b) Karl Marx 

11. c) Ernest Hemingway 

12. a) Jonathan Swift 

13. b) Lord Byron 

14. a) Winston Churchill 

15. b) an American poet (Note: The source answer key indicates '15.b', and the corresponding option in the text is 'an American poet'. However, W.B. Yeats was actually an Irish poet. Please exercise caution with this specific question from the source.) 

16. b) G. B. Shaw 

17. c) Shakespeare 

18. b) Tragedy 

19. a) Anthony Mascarenhas 

20. c) short story