101.
"Handsome is that handsome does" is said by-
a) Oliver Goldsmith
✓
b) Thomas Gray
c) John Dryden
d) John Milton
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Oliver Goldsmith.
Explanation: Oliver Goldsmith is an Irish novelist, playwright and poet.
যে গ্রন্থটির জন্য তিনি অমরত্ব লাভ করেছিলেন সেটি হলো একটি উপন্যাস 'The Vicar of the Wakefield'.
102.
The Vicar of the Wakefield' written by Oliver Goldsmith is a/an-
a) Essay
b) Drama
c) Poem
d) Novel
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Novel.
Explanation: 'The Vicar of the Wakefield' written by Oliver Goldsmith is a Novel.
Quote: Handsome is that handsome does.
103.
Who is the father of English Grammar?
a) Lindley Murray
✓
b) Samuel Johnson
c) Edmund Burke
d) Oliver Goldsmith
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Lindley Murray.
Explanation: Lindley Murray is called 'Father of English Grammar'.
104.
Who was considered the precursor of Romanticism?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T. Coleridge
c) William Blake
✓
d) John Keats
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: William Blake.
Explanation: William Blake কে অনেকে Romantic কবি হিসেবে বিবেচনা করেন।
আসলে William Blake - Romantic Poet নন। তিনি হলেন Precursor of the Romanticism.
তার রচিত বিখ্যাত দুটি গ্রন্থ হলো Songs of Innocence ও Songs of experience.
105.
The character 'Yahoo' is found in the fiction -
a) The rape of The Lock
b) Gulliver's Travels
✓
c) Robinson Crusoe
d) Pamela
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Gulliver's Travels
Explanation:
- The character 'Yahoo' is found in the fiction - Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift.
- এই novel টি ১৭২৬ সালে প্রকাশিত হয়।
• It's important characters are:
- Gulliver
- Blefuscudian
- Yahoos
- Houyhnhnms
- Lilliputians
- Laputans.
106.
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air" is phrased by -
a) Thomas Hardy
b) Jane Austen
c) Oliver Goldsmith
d) Thomas Gray
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Thomas Gray
Explanation: "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air" is phrased by - Thomas Gray.
- তাঁর রচিত 'Elegy Written in Country Churchyard' কবিতার বিখ্যাত উক্তি হচ্ছে - "Full many a flower is born to blush unseen and waste its sweetness on the desert air"
107.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." Who phrased this line?
a) John Milton
b) Samuel Johnson
c) Alexander Pope
✓
d) Jonathan Swift
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Alexander Pope
Explanation:
This line is phrased by 'Alexander Pope' in his writing "An Essay on Criticism.".
• Alexander Pope:
- তিনি একজন English author.
- তিনি English Augustan period এর একজন poet ও satirist.
- He is one of the most epigrammatic of all English authors.
• Some of his famous quotes from 'An Essay on Criticism.':
- To err is human; to forgive, divine.
- Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
- An honest man is the noblest work of God.
- A little learning is a dangerous thing.
- Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.
108.
'Friday' is the character from?
a) A Tale of a Tub
b) Gulliver's Travels
c) Robinson Crusoe
✓
d) The Rape of the Lock
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Robinson Crusoe
Explanation:
- Daniel Defoe রচিত এই উপন্যাসটি ১৭১৯ সালে লন্ডনে প্রথম প্রকাশিত হয়।
- Robinson Crusoe এবং Friday হলো উপন্যাসটির দুইটি Most-enduring characters.
109.
Who is the most famous lexicographer among them?
a) Dr. Samuel Johnson
✓
b) Jonathan Swift
c) Alexander Pope
d) None of the above
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Dr. Samuel Johnson
Explanation:
Dr. Samuel Johnson:
- তিনি একাধারে একজন English critic, biographer, essayist, poet এবং lexicographer.
- তাকে English Dictionary এর জনক বলা হয়।
- The Age of Sensibility (১৭৪৫-১৭৮৫)-কে The Age of Johnson বলা হয় কারণ Dr. Samuel Johnson এই সময়টাকে dominate করেছেন।
• Some notable work:
- A Dictionary of the English Language,
- Debates in the Senate of Magna Lilliputia,
- Irene,
- London,
- Rasselas,
- The False Alarm.
110.
Whose pseudonym was Isaac Bickerstaff?
a) Samuel Butler
b) John Dryden
c) Daniel Defoe
d) Jonathan Swift
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Jonathan Swif
Explanation:
• Jonathan Swift:
- তিনি Augustan age এর একজন Author.
- ইংরেজি সাহিত্যের সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ব্যঙ্গরচয়িতা বা satirist হলেন Jonathan Swift.
- তার রচিত বিখ্যাত satire হলো ‘Gulliver’s Travels’.
- তাঁর ছদ্মনাম Isaac Bickerstaff.
• Famous works:
- Gulliver's Travels,
- A Tale of a Tub,
- A Modest Proposal,
- The Battle of Books.
111.
Which of the following is not written by Daniel Defoe?
a) Captain Singleton
b) The Double-Dealer
✓
c) Moll Flanders
d) Colonel Jack
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: The Double-Dealer
Explanation: The Double-dealer is not wrriten by Daniel Defoe.
William Congreve:
- তিনি একজন English dramatist.
- তিনি comedy of manners এর জন্য বিখ্যাত।
- তিনি Restoration period এর একজন বিখ্যাত সাহিত্যিক।
• Notable works:
- Love for Love,
- The Double-Dealer,
- The Mourning Bride,
- The Old Bachelour,
- The Way of the World.
112.
Which one is written by Samuel Johnson?
a) On Shakespeare
b) Preface to Shakespeare
✓
c) Tales from Shakespeare
d) A Tale of Two Cities
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Preface to Shakespeare
Explanation: 'Preface to Shakespeare' is a work of literary criticism by Samuel Johnson
113.
Which of the following is considered as the greatest tragedy of the Restoration period?
a) Tom Jones
b) The Dunciad
c) All for Love
✓
d) Love for Love
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: All for Love
Explanation: All for Love is considered as the greatest tragedy of the Restoration period.
- এটি John Dryden রচিত একটি ট্র্যাজেডি নাটক যা প্রথম ১৬৭৭ সালে Perform করা হয়েছিল।
- Blank verse এ রচিত এই নাটকটি Dryden এর সবচেয়ে পরিচিত এবং most often performed play হিসেবে বিবেচিত।
Other options:
• The Dunciad - Alexander Pope রচিত কবিতা।
• Tom Jones - Comic novel by Henry Fielding.
• Love for Love - Play by William Congreve.
114.
Who wrote 'Reflection on the Revolution in France'?
a) John Locke
b) Edmund Burke
✓
c) Lindley Murray
d) Wiliam Blake
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Edmund Burke
Explanation: 'Reflection on the Revolution in France' is a political pamphlet written by British statesmen Edmund Burke.
Edmund Burke:
- তিনি একাধারে একজন author, political theorist ও philosopher.
- He is a British statesman.
- British parliament member (House of Commons).
• Major Works:
- On American Taxation (speech given in House of common).
- Speech on Conciliation with America
- Speech on Mr. Fox's East India Bill
115.
Who of the following authors doesn't belong to the 'Neoclassical period'?
a) Joseph Addison
b) Matthew Arnold
✓
c) Edward Gibbon
d) Oliver Goldsmith
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Matthew Arnold
Explanation: Matthew Arnold ব্যতিত বাকি তিনজন Neoclassical period এর author.
- তিনি Victorian period এর লেখক।
116.
The Famous writer 'Daniel Defoe' belongs to which literary Period?
a) The Age of Sensibility
b) Augustan Period
✓
c) The Romantic Period
d) Restoration Period
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Augustan Period
Explanation: Daniel Defoe is a famous English writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy.
- He belongs to the Augustan Period.
117.
'Love for Love' written by William Congreve is a -
a) tragedy
b) sonnet
c) narrative poem
d) comedy
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: comedy
Explanation: 'Love for Love' written by William Congreve is a comedy play.
• William Congreve:
- তিনি একজন English dramatist.
- তিনি comedy of manners এর জন্য বিখ্যাত।
- তিনি Restoration period এর একজন বিখ্যাত সাহিত্যিক।
• Notable works:
- Love for Love,
- The Double-Dealer,
- The Mourning Bride,
- The Old Bachelour,
- The Way of the World.
118.
Who is the protagonist and main character of the literary work 'The Pilgrim's Progress'?
a) John
b) Christian
✓
c) Alexander
d) Nicholas
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Christian
Explanation:
The Pilgrim's Progress:
- এটি John Bunyan রচিত।
- এটি একটি religious allegory.
- এর প্রধান চরিত্র Christian নামের এক যুবক যে নিজের আত্মিক মুক্তি লাভের জন্য স্বর্গ পানে যাত্রা করে, পথিমধ্যে সে মুখোমুখী হয় অসংখ্য প্রতিকূলতার।
• Notable works of John Bunyan:
- Grace Abounding,
- The Holy War,
- The Life and Death of Mr. Badman,
- The Pilgrim’s Progress.
119.
'Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn’d to stray' – These lines are composed by-
a) William Wordsworth
b) John Keats
c) Thomas Gray
✓
d) Samuel Richardson
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Thomas Gray
Explanation: লাইনটি Thomas Gray-এর লেখা Elegy written in the Country Churchyard নামক কবিতা থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে।
- The Age of Sensibility এর বিখ্যাত কবি Thomas Gray is known as a Graveyard poet.
• His famous quotations:
- Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
- The paths of glory lead but to grave.
Note: Far from the madding crowd নামে Thomas Hardy-এর একটি উপন্যাস আছে।
120.
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." is a quotation by -
a) Daniel Defoe
b) Edmund Burke
✓
c) Samuel Butler
d) Edward Gibbon
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Edmund Burke
Explanation:
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." is a quotation by - Edmund Burke.
∗ Edmund Burke এর আরও কিছু বিখ্যাত উক্তি হলো -
- Custom reconciles us to everything.
- Good order is the foundation of all good things.
- All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
