1.
"I have a ______ that one day this nation will live out the true meaning of its creed that all men are created equal."
a) desire
b) dream
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c) hope
d) wish
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: dream
Explanation: This Quotation has been taken from American Parliament Minister Martin Luther King's famous speech "I Have a Dream".
2.
Where is expressed the view that "There is a divinity that shapes our ends."?
a) In King Lear
b) In Hamlet
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c) In The Tempest
d) In Merry Wives of Windsor
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: In Hamlet
Explanation: Quotations From Hamlet:
1. "To be or not to be that is the question."
2. "Frailty the name is woman."
3. "Brevity is the soul of wit."
4. "There are nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
5. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend."
6. "When sorrows come, they come not single spices but in battalions."
7. "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
8. "There is divinity that shapes our ends."
3.
“All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, and one man in his time plays many part.” These lines are written by__
a) Oliver Goldsmith
b) Alfred Tennyson
c) William Shakespeare
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d) D. H. Lawrence
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: William Shakespeare
Explanation: This quote has been taken from Shakespeare’s 'As You Like It'.
Some other famous quotes from this comedy are:
1. "Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man's ingratitude."
2. "Sweet are the uses of adversity."
4.
"The child is the father of the man." is taken from the writings of__
a) P. B Shelly
b) S.T. Coleridge
c) W. Wordsworth
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d) A.C. Swinburne
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: W. Wordsworth
Explanation: Quotations by Wordsworth:
1. "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
2. "The child is father of man."
3. "All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils."
Ten thousands saw I at a glance tossing their heads."
4. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
5. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"The childhood shows the man as morning shows the day"- by John Milton.
5.
Who said "An unexamined life is not worth living."?
a) Socrates
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b) Plato
c) Zeno
d) Aristotle
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Socrates
Explanation: Quotes by Socrates:
1. "I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
2. "It is perfectly certain that the soul is immortal and imperishable, and our souls will actually exist in another world".
6.
"Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world." Who told it?
a) Browning
b) Shelley
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c) Tennyson
d) Byron
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Shelley
Explanation: Quotes by Shelley:
1. "I am daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursing of the sky."
2. "If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" (Ode to the West Wind).
3. "Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud,
I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed." (Ode to the West Wind).
4. "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest." (To a Skylark).
7.
"Behold her, single in the field,
Yon solitary Highland Lass!
Reaping and singing by herself;
Stop here, or gently pass!" these are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
a) P. B. Shelley
b) Sir W. Scott
c) W. Wordsworth
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d) J. Keats
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: W. Wordsworth
Explanation: Quotations by Wordsworth:
1. "Nature never did betray the heart that loved her."
2. "The child is father of man."
3. "All at once I saw a crowd, a host of golden daffodils."
Ten thousands saw I at a glance tossing their heads."
4. "Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting."
5. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
8.
"There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in our philosophy." উক্তিটি Shakespeare এর কোন নাটক থেকে উদ্ধৃত হয়েছে?
a) Hamlet
✓
b) Macbeth
c) King Lear
d) Othello
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Hamlet
Explanation: Quotations From Hamlet:
1. "To be or not to be that is the question".
2. "Frailty the name is woman".
3. "Brevity is the soul of wit".
4. "There are nothing either good or bad but thinking_makes it so".
5. "Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend".
6. "When sorrows come, they come not single spices but in battalions".
7. There is divinity that shapes our ends.
9.
"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind." these are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
a) J. Webster
b) C. Marlowe
c) W. Shakespeare
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d) Lord Bacon
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: W. Shakespeare
Explanation: This quote has been taken from Shakespear’s 'As You Like It'. Some other famous quotes from this comedy are:
✔ “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
✔ “Love is merely a madness…”
✔“Oh, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes!”
10.
"Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, and waste its sweetness in the desert air." who said this?
a) P. B. Shelly
b) Thomas Gray
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c) William Wordsworth
d) John Keats
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Thomas Gray
Explanation: This line has been extracted from 'Elegy Written in an Country Churchyard' by Thomas Gray.
11.
"Water, water, everywhere, not a drop to drink." these are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
a) Gray
b) Wordsworth
c) Scott
d) Coleridge
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Coleridge
Explanation: Famous quotes by Coleridge :
1. "Alone, alone, all, all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea."
2. "He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small".
12.
"Good face is the best letter of recommendation." was stated by__
a) Queen Victoria
b) Queen Elizabeth
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c) Queen Anne
d) Queen Marry
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Queen Elizabeth.
Explanation: রানি এলিজাবেথের বিখ্যাত লাইন। এর অর্থ "আগে দর্শনধারী পরে গুণবিচারী"।
13.
"Come live with me and be my love, and we will all the pleasures prove, that hills and valleys, dale and fields, and all the craggy mountains yield." These are a few lines of a poem of a great poet. Who is the poet?
a) J. Webster
b) W. Shakespeare
c) C. Marlowe
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d) Lord Byron
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: C. Marlowe
Explanation: This quote has been taken from Christopher Marlowe's 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'.
A famous quote from 'Doctor Faustus' is:-
"Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss."
14.
"You may fool some of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all the people all time." was stated by__
a) George Washington
b) Abraham Lincoln
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c) Lenin
d) Churchill
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Abraham Lincoln
Explanation: A another famous quotes by Abraham Lincoln:
"Democracy is a rule of the people, for the people and by the people."
15.
"But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep." was written by__
a) T. S. Eliot
b) W.B. Yeats
c) Ted Hughes
d) Robert Frost
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Robert Frost
Explanation: Frost's quote:
1. "Good fences make good neighbors."
2. "I took the one less traveled by/ And sorry I could not travel both."
16.
“Ten thousand saw I at a glance, Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.” What is the poet William Wordsworth referring to?
a) birds
b) daffodils
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c) leaves
d) bees
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: daffodils
Explanation: Wordsworth's famous quote:
1. "The child is the father of the Man".
2. "Behold her, single in the field, you solitary Highland Lass!"
17.
Which ode begins with the lines "My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains. My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."?
a) Ode on the Spring
b) Ode to Duty
c) Ode to a Nightingale
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d) Ode to the West Wind
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Ode to a Nightingale
Explanation: 'Ode to a Nightingale' is a fanous poem by John Keats.
Keats এর কিছু বিখ্যাত Quotations:
1. "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever."
2. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."
3. "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter."
4. "My heart aches, a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk."
5. "Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too."
6. "She dwells with beauty - Beauty that must die".
18.
Identify the poet of the verse: "Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought."
a) John Keats
b) Lord Byron
c) P. B. Shelley
✓
d) William Wordsworth
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: P. B. Shelley
Explanation: Quotes by Shelley:
1. I am daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursing of the sky.
2. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Ode to the West Wind).
3. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud,
I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed. (Ode to the West Wind).
4. Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world.
19.
"Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud; I fall upon the thorns of life! bleed." This quotation is from P. B. Shelley's__
a) The Cloud
b) Ode to the West Wind
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c) To a Skylark
d) Adonais
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Ode to the West Wind
Explanation:Quotes by Shelley:
1. I am daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursing of the sky.
2. If winter comes, can Spring be far behind? (Ode to the West Wind).
3. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud,
I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed. (Ode to the West Wind).
4. Poets are unacknowledged legislators of the world.
5. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of the saddest thought.
20.
"Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; writing an exact man." Who said this?
a) Shakespeare
b) Keats
c) Bacon
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d) Kyd
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Bacon
Explanation: Quotes by Francis Bacon:
1. "A crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
2. "Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
3. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
4. "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
5. "Histories make men wise; poets
witty; trie Of Studies mathematics
subtle; natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
6. "A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure."
7. "Opportunity makes a thief."
