Literature - Exercise - 8 for University Admission Test, Job Application Test, BCS Exam and Any Competitive Examination

TOPIC: ENGLISH LITERATURE

Exercise - 8

Leo Tolstoy

1. Who is the author of the book ‘War and Peace’? [36th BCS]

A. Leo Tolstoy

B. William Cowper

C. Shakespeare

D. John Ruskin

Ans: A

2. ‘War and peace’ is a novel of Napoleonic invasion written by- [CGA: 22]

A. George Eliot

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. Karl Marx

D. Oscar wilde

Ans: B

3. Tolstoy was born in- [National Savings: 09]

A. 1828

B. 1924

C. 1800

D. 1928

Ans: A

4. Leo Tolstoy is a __ novelist. [Krishi Bank: 15]

A. British

B. German

C. French

D. Russian

Ans: D

5. Who wrote ‘Crime and Punishment’? [Islamic Univ: 11-12]

A. George Eliot

B. Dostoyevsky

C. Anglo Saxon

D. John Keats

Ans: B (Note: Fyodor Dostoevsky is the author).

6. Who is the writer of ‘War and Peace’?

A. Leo Tolstoy

B. T.S. Eliot

C. G. B. Shaw

D. John Milton

Ans: A

7. ‘War and Peace’ is the best work [Rajshahi Univ: 07-08]

A. James

B. Tolstoy

C. John

D. Homer

Ans: B

8. ‘War and Peace’ an epic tale of Napoleonic invasion is written by- [Environment Dept: 07]

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Leo Tolstoy

D. Anne Frank

Ans: C

9. Which of the following is a novel by Tolstoy? [Bangladesh Bank: 11]

A. The Da Vinci Code

B. Anna Karenina

C. The Great Gatsby

D. David Coperfield

Ans: B

10. Who did not receive Nobel Prize in Literature? [Bangladesh Bank: 13]

A. Leo Tolstoy

B. Bernard Shaw

C. T. S Eliot

D. Bertrand Russell

Ans: A

Karl Marx

1. Which one of the following theories of Communism is not a Doctrine of Karl Marx? [Expatriate Welfare Bank: 21]

A. Dialectical Materialism

B. Historical Materialist

C. Class Struggle

D. Theory of New Democracy

Ans: D

2. The book ‘Das Kapital’ was written by – [Rajshahi Krishi Bank: 14]

A. William Shakespeare

B. Karl Mark

C. Charles Dickens

D. G. B. Shaw

Ans: B

3. Who said 'The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles'? [Dhaka Univ: 14-15]

A. Karl Marx

B. Lenin

C. Che Guevara

D. Adam Smith

Ans: A

4. Who is the proponent of socialist theory in economics? [Barisal Univ: 15-16]

A. Marshall

B. Karl Marx

C. L. Robbins

D. Keynes

Ans: B

5. Which of the following is associated with Marx’s economics? [Jahangirnagar Univ: 15-16]

A. Theories of Surplus value

B. On the Principles of Political Economy and Taxation

C. Okishi’s theorem

D. Essay on the Principle of Population

Ans: A

Edgar Allan Poe

1. Who is called the father of Short story? [Jahangirnagar Univ: 08-09]

A. Edgar Allan Poe

B. T.S.Eliot

C. W. S. Maugham

D. None of the above

Ans: A

John Stuart Mill

1. Who is the writer of ‘Utilitarianism’? [45th BCS]

A. John Stuart Mill

B. Immanuel Kant

C. Bertrand Russell

D. Jeremy Bentham

Ans: A

2. Who is the writer of ‘On Liberty’? [43rd BCS]

A. John Stuart Mill

B. Karl Marx

C. L. Robbins

D. Keynes

Ans: A

Alexandre Dumas

1. One of the following authors is French. Who is he? [Railway: 00]

A. W. Somerset Maugham

B. Sir Arthur Doyle

C. Edward Fitzgerald

D. Alexander Dumas

Ans: D

2. Who is the author of the novel ‘Three Musketeers’? [Cooperative Dept: 97]

A. R.L. Stevenson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Sir Walter Scott

D. Alexander Dumas

Ans: D

Samuel Butler

1. ‘Erewhon’ was written by – [NBR: 03]

A. Swift

B. G.B. Shaw

C. Mark Twain

D. Samuel Butler

Ans: D

Edward Fitzgerald

1. Who translated the ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam’ into English? [40th BCS]

A. Thomas Carlyle

B. Edward Fitzgerald

C. D. G. Rossetti

D. William Thackeray

Ans: B

2. ‘The Rubaiyat Omar Khayyam’ was written by- [Environment Dept: 05]

A. Swift

B. G. B. Shaw

C. Mark Twain

D. Edward Fitzgerald

Ans: D

3. Who is well-known for his translation of ‘Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam’ into English? [Labor Dept: 03]

A. Thomas Carlyle

B. Edward Fitzgerald

C. D. G. Rossetti

D. William Thackeray

Ans: B

Charles Darwin

1. Who is the author of ‘The origin of Species’? [Primary School: 02]

A. C. Darwin

B. A. Pope

C. T. Hardy

D. O. Goldsmith

Ans: A

Oscar Wilde

1. Who is the author of ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’? [Begum Rokeya Univ: 13-14]

A. Oscar Wilde

B. Legouis Emile

C. D. H. Lawrence

D. J. M. Lyinge

Ans: A

2. Author of ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’- [Information Ministry: 03]

A. Boris Pasternak

B. Fitzgerald

C. Aldous Huxly

D. Oscar Wilde

Ans: D

Maxim Gorky

1. In which language was Maxim Gorky's novel 'Mother' written? [Bangladesh Bank: 16]

A. English

B. Russian

C. French

D. Turkish

Ans: B

2. Who is the writer of the book ‘Mother’? [Sonali Bank: 13]

A. Bernard Shaw

B. Shakespeare

C. Leo Tolstoy

D. Maxim Gorky

Ans: D

3. Who was Maxim Gorky? [Islamic Univ: 02-03]

A. French scientist

B. Greek philosopher

C. European astronomer

D. Russian litterateur

Ans: D

Walt Whitman

1. Who wrote ‘Leaves of Grass’? [Social Welfare: 05]

A. T S Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Walt Whitman

D. Ezra Pound

Ans: C

2. Walt Whitman was __ poet. [Jahangirnagar Univ: 16-17]

A. an American

B. an English

C. a Canadian

D. an Australian

Ans: A

Victor Hugo

1. Victor Hugo was a – [Govt. High School: 11]

A. English Novelist

B. American Novelist

C. Scottish Novelist

D. French Novelist

Ans: D

2. Who wrote ‘Les Miserables’? [Jahangirnagar Univ: 15-16]

A. Victor Hugo

B. George Orwell

C. Antonio Gramsci

D. Jacques Rousseau

Ans: A

Nathaniel Hawthorne

1. ‘The story of ‘Moby Dick’ centres on – [44th BCS]

A. a mermaid

B. a whale

C. a crocodile

D. a shark

Ans: B (Note: Moby Dick is written by Herman Melville).

2. ‘Moby Dick’ a novel, was written by – [43rd BCS]

A. Herman Melville

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Mark Twain

D. William Faulkner

Ans: A

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1. ‘Sherlock Holmes’ was written by – [LGED: 23]

A. William Shakespeare

B. Dylan Thomas

C. John Galsworthy

D. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Ans: D

2. Who is the author of ‘Sherlock Holmes’? [Islamic Univ: 11-12]

A. John Gay

B. W. Somerset Maugham

C. Sir A. conon Doyle

D. Dylan Thomas

Ans: C

Robert Louis Stevenson

1. ‘Treasure Island’ is the best work of – [Primary School: 19]

A. Stevenson

B. James Joyce

C. Arthur Miller

D. Homer

Ans: A

Lewis Carroll

1. Who is the author of ‘Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland’? [Mercantile Bank: 09]

A. Rudyard Kipling

B. John Keats

C. Lewis Carroll

D. H.G.Walls

Ans: C

2. ‘Alice in Wonderland’ belongs to – [Passport Dept: 07]

A. detective literature

B. satirical literature

C. juvenile literature

D. religious literature

Ans: C

George Bernard Shaw

1. ‘Caesar and Cleopatra’ is –– [44th BCS]

A. a tragedy by William Shakespeare

B. A poem by Byron

C. a play by Bernard Shaw

D. a novel by S. T. Coleridge

Ans: C

2. Who is the writer of ‘Man and Superman’? [Rural Electrification: 23]

A. G. B. Shaw

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. Charles Dickens

Ans: A

3. The play ‘Candida’ is by – [36th BCS]

A. James Joyce

B. Shakespeare

C. G. B. Shaw

D. Arhtur Miller

Ans: C

4. The play ‘Arms and the Man’ is written by- [35th BCS]

A. James Joyce

B. Arthur Miller

C. Samuel Beckett

D. G. B. Shaw

Ans: D

5. Who is the greatest modern English dramatist? [Foreign Ministry: 22]

A. Virginia Woolf

B. G.B. Shaw

C. P. B. Shelley

D. S. T Coleridge

Ans: B

6. ‘Pygmalion’ is a— [CGA: 22]

A. Romantic Tragedy

B. Romantic Comedy

C. Sad Novels

D. None of the above

Ans: B

7. Who of the following is not a novelist? [Technical Edu: 21]

A. Henry Fielding

B. H. G. Wells

C. Walter Scott

D. G. B. Shaw

Ans: D

8. Who wrote ‘Saint Joan’? [Textile: 18]

A. Shakespeare

B. Wordsworth

C. G.B. Shaw

D. Rudyard Kipling

Ans: C

9. Who is the writer of ‘Arms and the Man’- [Edu Officer: 16]

A. W. Shakespeare

B. G. B. Shaw

C. Somerset Maugham

D. Ben Jonson

Ans: B

10. Who was an Irish dramatist? [Passport Dept: 14]

A. G. B. Shaw

B. E. M. Forster

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Stephan Spender

Ans: A

11. Who is the author of the drama, ‘You Never Can Tell’? [Power Grid: 24]

A. W.Shakespeare

B. G. B. Shaw

C. Ben Jonson

D. Christopher Marlowe

Ans: B

12. Bernard Shaw wrote – [Jahangirnagar Univ: 16-17]

A. Macbeth

B. Pygmalion

C. The Iliad

D. A Passage to India

Ans: B

13. Shaw is a/an – [Commerce Ministry: 07]

A. essayist

B. dramatist

C. poet

D. novelist

Ans: B

14. Who wrote 'Man and Superman'? [Labor Dept: 03]

A. William Shakespeare

B. George Bernard Shaw

C. Leo Tolstoy

D. Charles Dickens

Ans: B

15. George Bernard Shaw is – . [Foreign Ministry: 01]

A. a playwright

B. a film-maker

C. a historian

D. a modern painter

Ans: A

16. Which is the author of the drama ‘Joan of Arc’? [Rajshahi Univ: 11-12]

A. G. B. Shaw

B. Lord Byron

C. Charles Dickens

D. P. B. Shelley

Ans: A

H.G. Wells

1. Who is regarded as ‘The father of Science Fiction’? [Krishi Bank: 11]

A. Isaac Asimov

B. Jules Verne

C. Arther C. Clarke

D. H. G. Wells

Ans: B

2. Who is the author of ‘Around the World in Eighty Days’? [Social Welfare: 08]

A. Hugo Gernsback

B. H. G. Wells

C. Jules Gabriel Verne

D. W. Shakespeare

Ans: C

3. Who is the author of the first scientific romance ‘The Time Machine’? [41st BCS]

A. H.G. Wells

B. Samuel Butler

C. Henry James

D. George Moore

Ans: A

4. The author of the book ‘The Time Machine’ is – [Pubali Bank: 12]

A. Lewis Carroll

B. R. L.Stevenson

C. Charles Lamb

D. H.G. Wells

Ans: D

5. Write the type of work ‘Time machine’ by H. G. Wells – [Rajshahi Univ: 15-16]

A. essay

B. verse

C. comedy

D. science fiction

Ans: D

Joseph Conrad

1. Who is the author of the novel ‘Heart of Darkness’? [Combined Bank: 20]

A. Ralph Ellison

B. Hemingway

C. Joseph Conrad

D. Peter Craey

Ans: C

2. ‘The Secret Agent’ was written by- [Family Planning: 12]

A. Swift

B. G B Shaw

C. Mark Twain

D. Joseph Conrad

Ans: D

3. Who wrote the book ‘Lord Jim: A Tale’? [Govt. High School: 06]

A. Joseph Conrad

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Thomas Hardy

D. Virginia Woolf

Ans: A

William Butler Yeats

1. ‘No Second Troy’ is a – [43rd BCS]

A. short story

B. novel

C. poem

D. drama

Ans: C

2. Who of the following writers was not a novelist? [36th BCS]

A. Charles Dickens

B. W. B. Yeats

C. James Joyce

D. Jane Austen

Ans: B

3. ‘Gitanjali’ of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by- [36th BCS]

A. W. B. Yeats

B. Robert Frost

C. John Keats

D. Rudyard Kipling

Ans: A (Introduction by Yeats).

4. The poem ‘Isle of Innisfree’ is written by- [35th BCS]

A. Dylan Thomas

B. Ezra Pound

C. W. H. Auden

D. W. B. Yeats

Ans: D

5. Which one of the following writers was not a novelist? [Defence Ministry: 23]

A. Charles Dickens

B. W. B. Yeats

C. James Joyce

D. Jane Austen

Ans: B

6. ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ by W.B. Yeats is a/an— [GST: 22-23]

A. play

B. elegy

C. sonnet

D. poem

Ans: D

7. W. B. Yeats was a/an __ poet. [Islamic Univ: 04-05]

A. American

B. Irish

C. English

D. Scottish

Ans: B

8. Famous Irish poet and dramatist is- [Housing Dept: 06]

A. W. B Yeats

B. L. Tolstoy

C. A. Pope

D. H. G. Wells

Ans: A

9. A Senator and a poet who won the Nobel prize for literature was _. [Islamic Univ: 10-11]

A. Winston Churchill

B. Mathew Arnold

C. J. M. Synge

D. W. B. Yeats

Ans: D

10. Who wrote the introduction of Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘Songs Offerings’? [Sonali Bank: 14]

A. T.S. Eliot

B. W. H Auden

C. Ezra Pound

D. W. B. Yeats

Ans: D

11. ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is written by- .

A. W. B. Yeats

B. P.B.Shelley

C. John Keats

D. Jane Austen

Ans: A

Bertrand Russell

1. Who is the author of ‘Human Society in Ethics & Politics’? [43rd BCS]

A. Plato

B. Rousseau

C. Russell

D. John Stuart Mill

Ans: C

2. Who is the author of ‘Political Ideals’? [41st BCS]

A. Machiavelli

B. Russell

C. Plato

D. Aristotle

Ans: B

3. Who is the modern Philosopher who was awarded Nobel Prize for literature? [12th BCS]

A. James Baker

B. Dr. Kissinger

C. Bertrand Russell

D. Lenin

Ans: C

4. Bertrand Russell was a British – [Labor Dept: 03]

A. Journalist

B. Scientist

C. Philosopher

D. Astronaut

Ans: C

5. The author of ‘Road to Freedom’ is – [Sonali Bank: 08]

A. James Baker

B. Dr. Kissinger

C. Bertrand Russell

D. Lenin

Ans: C

John Millington Synge

1. ‘Riders to the Sea’ is – [35th BCS]

A. an epic poem

B. a novella

C. a one-act play

D. theatrical adaption poem

Ans: C

Rudyard Kipling

1. Kipling was born in – [Primary School: 07]

A. 1865

B. 1924

C. 1800

D. 1918

Ans: A

2. Kim was written by – [Sub-Registrar: 16]

A. Kipling

B. Forster

C. Conrad

D. Hardy

Ans: A

3. Who is the author of ‘The Jungle Book’? [Labor Dept: 03]

A. Hans Christian Andersen

B. Enid Blyton

C. Rudyard Kipling

D. H. G. Wells

Ans: C

Robert Frost

1. ‘Mending wall’ is the poem composed by – [Combined Bank: 22]

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Edgar Allan Poe

D. Emily Dickinson

Ans: B

2. Robert Frost is a poet of – [Dhaka Univ: 20-21]

A. UK

B. Ireland

C. Germany

D. USA

Ans: D

3. ‘But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep’ was written by – [Labor Dept: 01]

A. T. S. Eliot

B. W. B. Yeats

C. Robert Frost

D. Ted Hughes

Ans: C

4. ‘The doctor put him in the dark of the either’ Who wrote the line? [Islamic Univ: 17-18]

A. Matthew Arnold

B. P. B. Shelley

C. Robert Frost

D. Robert Browning

Ans: C

5. ‘No more to build on there. And they, since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs.’ These lines are written by: [Islamic Univ: 17-18]

A. S. T. Coleridge

B. W. H. Auden

C. D. H. Lawrence

D. Robert Frost

Ans: D

6. ‘The light tongues talking aloud’ in Tree at my window’ are – [Dhaka Univ: 98-99]

A. The wind rustling the leaves and twins

B. The birds singing

C. The sound of the sash being lowered

D. The sound of the rain

Ans: A

7. Who has written ‘Fire and Ice’? [Begum Rokeya Univ: 16-17]

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Arthur

D. John Keats

Ans: B

8. In ‘Tree at My Window’, ‘Inner weather’ refers to – [Dhaka Univ: 97-98]

A. the speaker’s mental state

B. the condition indoors.

C. the wind in the tunnel

D. room temperature.

Ans: A

9. In ‘Tree at My Window’ the line ‘Fate had her imagination about her’ is preceded by the line- [Dhaka Univ: 96-97]

A. Mine with inner weather

B. Your head so much concerned with outer

C. That day she our heads together

D. And all but lost

Ans: B

O. Henry

1. O’Henry was from – . [43rd BCS]

A. Canada

B. America

C. England

D. Ireland

Ans: B

2. What was the real name of the great American short-story writer ‘O’ Henry’? [13th BCS]

A. Samuel L. Clemens

B. William Sydney Porter

C. Fitz-James O Brien

D. William Huntington Wright

Ans: B

3. Who wrote the short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’? [Food Dept: 21]

A. Shakespeare

B. Robert Frost

C. T.S.Eliot

D. O’ Henry

Ans: D

4. O’ Henry was famous for – [BCS: 14]

A. drama

B. novel

C. short story

D. poem

Ans: C

5. Who was the writer of ‘The Last Leaf’? [Islamic Univ: 05-06]

A. Robert Herrick

B. O’ Henry

C. John Keats

D. W. Wordsworth

Ans: B