বিভিন্ন চাকরির পরীক্ষায় (বিসিএস ব্যতীত) ইংরেজি সাহিত্য থেকে যে প্রশ্নগুলো পরীক্ষায় এসেছে তা এখানে দেয়া হল। বিসিএস পরীক্ষায় এখান থেকে প্রশ্ন কমন পাওয়া যাবে:
কাকে Short Story ’র জনক বলা হয়?
A. এড. এলাপ পো b. টি. এস. এলিয়ট
C. সমারসেট মত D. ওয়াল্টার স্কট
Francis Bacon is a/an –
A. Novelist B. Dramatist
C. Poet d. Essayist
Paradise Lost is…………
a. an epic B a satirical work
C a tragedy D a ballad
Who is the famous satirist in English literature?
A. Alexander Pope b. Jonathan Swift
C. William Wordsworth D. Butler Yeats
Which poem is written by sir Walter Scott?
b. Patriotism B. The Patriot
C. A Frosty Night D. All of the above
P. B. Shelly is known as—
A. Epic Poet b. Romantic Poet
C. Poet of nature D. Poet of beauty
John Keats is a—
a. Poet B. dramatist
C. artist D. none
‘The Rime of the ancient Mariner’ is a—
A. play B. short story
C. novel d. poem
Who is the poet of the ‘Victorian Age’?
A. Helen Keller B. Mathew Arnold
C. Shakespeare d. Robert Browning
William Wordsworth is per-eminently—
a. a poet of nature B. a poet of love
C. a poet of human nature D. a poet of liberty
Chose the right answer : Chaucer is the representative poet of —
A. 17th Century b. 14th Century
C. 16th Century D. 18th Century
All the word’s stage
And all the men and women merely players;
the poet of the poem is—
A. John Keats b. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton D. William Wordsworth
“Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven” – Who said this and where?
A. Satan in ‘Paradise Lost’
B. Satan in ‘Paradise Regained’
C. Adam in ‘Paradise Lost’
D. Adam in ‘Paradise regained’
Note : “Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven” The line is coined from the book Paradise Lost by John Milton — These line is spoken by the Satan after he had fallen from heaven.
Who is the author of the first English dictionary?
A. Sir Thomas Malory B. G. Chaucer
c. Samuel Johnson D. Christopher Marlowe
Most important feature of romantic poetry—
A. Beauty B. Nature
c. Subjectivity D. Imagination
Who among the following is a revolutionary poet?
A. John Keats b. P. B. Shelley
C. S. T. Coleridge D William Wordsworth
“The Music is my heart I long after it was heard no more.” This line is from the poem–
A. ‘The Solitary Reaper’ by Wordsworth
b. ‘Ode to Nightingale’ by John keats
C. ‘To a lady with a guitar’ by P. B. Shelly
D. ‘Elegy written in a Country Churchyard’ by Thoman Gray
Wordsworth was inspired by—
a. The French Revolution
B. The American Revolution
C. The Russian Revolution
D. The Industrial Revolution
‘The Patriot’ কবিতাটি কে লিখেছেন?
A. Sir Walter Scott b. Robert Browning
C. Robert Herrick D. Robert Frost
Leo Tolstoy is a –– novelist.
A. British B. German
C. French d. Russian
Who is the author of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’?
A. Charles Dickens B. Homer
C. Lord Tennyson d. Ernest Hemingway
Who is the greatest modern English dramatist?
A. Virginia Woolf b. George Bernard Shaw
C. John Osborne D. Eugene O’Neill
Who is considered to be the father of English novel?
A. Francis Bacon B. Geoffrey Chaucer
c. Henry Fielding D. King Alfred the Great
Which was the oldest period in English literature?
A. Anglo-Norman b. Anglo-Saxon
C. Chaucer’s period D. Middle Age
‘Macbeth’ is a —
a. A play B. A novel
C. An essay D. A poem
Courtesy to: প্রিলিমিনারি ইংরেজি সাহিত্য
