MCQ
141. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
142. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama
143. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
144. O Henry was from –
Canada
America
England
Ireland
145. “Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav’n.” – Who wrote this?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Christopher Marlowe
John Milton
P. B Shelley
146. What is the noun form of the word ‘laugh’?
laughing
laughable
laughter
laughingly
147. Words inscribed on a tomb is an-
epitome
epithet
episode
epitaph
ব্যাখ্যা: সমাধির/কবর স্তম্ভের উপর লিখা/বাণী হচ্ছে epitaph
148. ‘A herd of cattle is passing’. The underlined word ‘herd’ is an/a-
adverb
adjective
collective noun
abstract noun
149. ”He contemplated marrying his cousin.’ Here ‘marrying ‘is an/a-
present participle
gerund
verb
infinitive
150. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
151. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?
populous
popular
popularity
popularize
152. Identify the word which is spelt incorrectly?
fluctuation
remission
ocassion
decision
ব্যাখ্যা: ocassion. শুদ্ধ বানান হলো occasion
153. Which gender is the word ‘orphan’?
neuter
feminine
common
masculine
154. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
155. The phrase ‘dog days’ means –
hot weather
cold shower
rain-soaked streets
ice storm
156. What is the antonym for the word ‘deformation’?
distortion
contortion
wholeness
disfigurement
157. Change the voice: ‘Nobody trusts a traitor.’
A traitor is trusted.
A traitor should not be trusted.
Everybody hates a traitor.
A traitor is not trusted by anybody.
158. Who wrote the play ‘The Way of the World’?
William Shakespeare
William Congreve
Ben Jonson
Oscar Wilde
159. The word ‘to genuflect’ means-
to be genuine
to reflect
to bend the knee
to be flexible
160. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot