MCQ
8101. The most famous romantic poet of English literature is-
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
William Wordsworth
T.S Eliot
8102. ‘No Second Troy’ is a-
short story
novel
poem
drama
8103. Who is the poet of the poem ‘Ozymandias’?
P. B. Shelley
William Wordsworth
S.T Coleridge
John Keat
8104. Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’?
England
Italy
France
Denmark
8105. Choose the right form of verb: It is high time we (act) on the matter.
are acting
acted
have acted
could act
8106. What is the adjective form of the word ‘people’?
populous
popular
popularity
popularize
8107. What kind of play is ‘Julius Caesar’?
romantic
anti-romantic
comedy
historical
8108. Fill in the gap: Birds fly ____ in the sky.
random
at large
at a stitch
are long
8109. A speech full of too many words is –
a big speech
maiden speech
a verbose speech (শব্দবহুল/বাগবহুল বক্তৃতা)
an unimportant speech
8110. Which of the following novels is not written by an English writer?
A Passage of India
Sons and Lovers
One hundred Years of Solitude
Pride and Prejudice
8111. Identify the correct synonym of the word ‘magnanimous’.
unkind
generous
revengeful
friendly
8112. O Henry was from –
Canada
America
England
Ireland
8113. ‘Moby Disk’, a novel, was written by-
Herman Melville
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Mark Twain
William Faulkner
8114. Fill in the blank: ‘She went to New Market __ ‘
on foot
on feet
by foot
by walking
8115. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Who wrote this?
William Blake
S.T Coleridge
Lord Byron
P. B Shelley
8116. Who is not the Modern poet?
W.B Yeats
W.H Auden
John Keats
T.S Eliot
8117. Who is the author of ‘Jane Eyre’?
Charlotte Brontë
Emily Brontë
Jane Austen
Mary Shelley
8118. Who is the author of the novel “The God of Small Things”?
Thomas Hardy
Jhumpa Lahiri
R.K. Narayan
Arundhati Roy
8119. The word ‘to genuflect’ means-
to be genuine
to reflect
to bend the knee
to be flexible
8120. ”He contemplated marrying his cousin.’ Here ‘marrying ‘is an/a-
present participle
gerund
verb
infinitive