21.
"Give me good mothers, I will give you a good nation." was the observation of__
a) Hitler
b) Napoleon
✓
c) Abraham Lincoln
d) Plato
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Napoleon
22.
Who has written "He prayeth best, who loveth best, all things great and small."?
a) John Keats
b) Lord Byron
c) P. B. Shelley
d) Coleridge
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Coleridge
Explanation: Famous quotes by Coleridge :
1. "Alone, alone, all, all alone
Alone on a wide, wide sea."
2. "Water, water, everywhere
Not a drop to drink."
23.
"Cowards die many times before their death." বাক্যটি শেক্সপিয়ারের কোন নাটক হতে উদ্ধৃত হয়েছে?
a) Macbeth
b) Hamlet
c) Julius Caesar
✓
d) Othello
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Julius Caesar
Explanation: Famous quotes from Julius Caesar:
1. Brutus, you too!
2. "Veni, vidi, vici"; ("I came; I saw; I conquered" আসলাম, দেখলাম, জয় করলাম) is a Latin phrase popularly attributed to Julius Caesar.
4. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones. [Julius Caeser]
24.
"Veni, Vidi, Vici." this quotation is extracted from Shakespeare’s__
a) Hamlet
b) Othello
c) Merchant of Venice
d) Julius Caesar
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Julius Caesar
Explanation: Famous quotes from Julius Caesar:
1. Brutus, you too!
2. Cowards die many times before their death, But the valiant never taste of death but once.
3. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
25.
“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." said by__
a) Joseph Addison
b) Dr. Johnson
c) Charles Lamb
d) Francis Bacon
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Francis 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. "Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
4. "Histories make men wise; poets
witty; trie Of Studies mathematics
subtle; natural philosophy, deep;
moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
5. "A mixture of lie doth ever add pleasure."
6. "Opportunity makes a thief."
26.
"If winter comes, can _____be far behind? "
a) Autumn
b) Spring
✓
c) Summer
d) Rain
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Spring
Explanation: This is a famous quote by P.B. Shelley.
Some other quotes are:
1. I am daughter of Earth and Water, The C And the nursing of the sky.
2. Oh, lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud, I flat upon thorns of life! I bleed.
3. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest.
4. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
27.
"A little learning is a dangerous thing." is a quotation from__
a) Alfred Tennyson
b) Alexander Pope
✓
c) Voltaire
d) Oscar Wilde
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Alexander Pope
Explanation: Two famous quotes by Alexander Pope :
1. "To err is human, forgive is divine."
2. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
28.
"Govt. of the people, by the people, for the people." was observed by-
a) Clinton
b) Abraham Lincoln
✓
c) M. K. Gandhi
d) Yasir Arafat
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Abraham Lincoln
29.
"Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon." who is the writer of these beautiful lines?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Robert Herrick
✓
c) William Blake
d) John Keats
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Robert Herrick
Explanation : Robert Herrick এর বিখ্যাত কবিতা 'To Daffodils' থেকে এই লাইনটি নেয়া হয়েছে।
কবিতার বিষয়বস্তু হলো ক্ষণস্থায়ী মানবজীবন (Short-lived human life).
30.
"Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven." Who said this and where?
a) Satan in 'Paradise Lost'
✓
b) Adam in 'Paradise Lost'
c) Satan in 'Paradise Regained'
d) Adam in 'Paradise Regained'
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Satan in 'Paradise Lost'
Explanation : John Milton এর মহাকাব্য 'Paradise Lost' থেকে এই উক্তিটি নেয়া হয়েছে। এই উক্তিটি শয়তান করেছিল, "স্বর্গের দাসত্বের চেয়ে, নরকের রাজত্ব উত্তম"।
Another quote by Milton:
"Childhood shows the man, As morning shows the day".
31.
Who said "Cowards die many times before their death."?
a) Shakespeare
✓
b) Franklin
c) Dryden
d) Alexander Pope
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Shakespeare
Explanation : এই উক্তিটির নিহিতার্থ, ভীতুরা তাদের মৃত্যুর আগে আরো কয়েকবার মরে।
Famous quotes from Julius Caesar:
1. Brutus, you too!
2. Cowards die many times before their death, But the valiant never taste of death but once.
3. The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
32.
Who wrote the famous poetic line "To err is human, to forgive is divine."?
a) Pope
✓
b) Keats
c) Shelley
d) Dryden
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Pope
Explanation : Two famous quotes by Alexander Pope :
1. "A little learning is a dangerous thing."
2. "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
33.
"Nature never did betray the heart that loved her." is a quotation from__
a) Wordsworth
✓
b) P. B. Shelley
c) Milton
d) J. Keats
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Wordsworth
Explanation : উক্তিটির অর্থ "প্রকৃতিে ভালোবাসলে সে কখনোই প্রতারণা করে না।
Quotes by Wordsworth:
i) Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.
ii) The child is father of man.( My Heart Leaps up when I Behold)
iii) Ten thousands saw I at a glance tossing their heads.
iv) Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.”
v) The music in my heart I bore/Long after it was heard no more.
34.
Who authored the statement "The government is the best which governs least."?
a) Hobart Spancer
b) Harold Laski
c) Tocqueville
d) Henry David Thoreau
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Henry David Thoreau
35.
"Sweet are the uses of adversity." was stated by__
a) Voltaire
b) Shakespeare
✓
c) Milton
d) Tolstoy
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Shakespeare
Explanation : Some Quotations by Shakespeare:
1.Cowards die many times before their death.
2. To be, or not to be; that is the question.
3. There are more things in heaven and earth.
4. Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
5. Brevity is the soul of wit.
6. Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude.
7. All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players.
8. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
36.
"Knowledge is power." was stated by__
a) Bacon
✓
b) Socrates
c) Hamlet
d) Rousseau
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Bacon.
Explanation : Francis Bacon is called 'the father of English Essay '.
His famous quotes:
1. Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
2. It is impossible to love and to be wise.
3. Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man,and writing an exact man.
37.
"Cowards die _____before death."
a) much time
b) enough time
c) much times
d) many times
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: many times
Explanation : এই উক্তিটি শেক্সপিয়রের বিখ্যাত নাটক Julius Caesar থেকে নেয়া হয়েছে।
38.
"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever." was stated by__
a) John Keats
✓
b) Bacon
c) William Shakespeare
d) Milton
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: John Keats
Explanation : Keats এর: Quotations:
1. Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
2. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.
3. My heart aches, a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.
4. Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.
39.
"The music in my heart I bore long after it was heard no more." these lines are from the poem__
a) The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
✓
b) Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
c) To a lady with a Guitar by P. B. Shelley
d) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: The Solitary Reaper by Wordsworth
40.
"Our Sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought." is a quotation from Shelley's__
a) Ode to a Skylark
✓
b) The Cloud
c) Ode to the West Wind
d) Adonais
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Ode to a Skylark
Explanation : 'To a Skylark' is a notable poem by P. B. Shelley.
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).
