41.
Who authored the statement "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."?
a) Harold Laski
b) Martin Luther King
✓
c) John Adams
d) Abraham Lincoln
42.
"Justice delayed is justice denied." was stated by__
a) Shakespeare
b) Emerson
c) Gladstone
✓
d) John Keats
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Gladstone
Explanation : William E. Gladstone was the president of United Kingdom.
Some quotes of him:
1) Nothing that is morally wrong, can be politically right.
2) Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.
43.
"Frailty, thy name is woman." in which of the following books you find this?
a) Macbeth
b) Romeo and Juliet
c) Tempest
d) Hamlet
✓
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 are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
8. There is divinity that shapes our ends.
44.
"The old order changeth, yielding place to new." this line is extracted from Tennyson's poem__
a) Tithonus
b) Morte d' Arthur
✓
c) Locksley Hall
d) The Lotus-Eaters
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Morte d' Arthur
Explanation : Quotations by Tennyson:
1. "Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all." (In Memoriam).
2. “I am a part of all that I have met."
3. "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." (Ulysses)
5. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers." (Lockley hall)
6. "Death is the end of life, Ah! Why should life all labour be." (Lotus Eaters)
7. "I will never rest from travels.
I will drink life to the less." (Ulysses)
45.
"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." who said this?
a) Macbeth
b) Lady Macbeth
✓
c) Lady Macduff
d) Macduff
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Lady Macbeth
Explanation : উক্তিটি William Shakespeare রচিত 'Macbeth' নামক ট্রাজেডির। Macbeth এর স্ত্রী Lady Macbeth মৃত্যুসজ্জায় উক্তিটি করেছেন।
Some quotes from Macbeth:
1. Life's but a walking shadow
2. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound anf fury, Signifying Nothing.
3. Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
46.
"Man's love is of man's life a thing apart, 'Tis woman's whole existence" this is taken from the poem of__
a) P.B. Shelly
b) Lord Byron
✓
c) John Keats
d) Edmund Spenser
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Lord Byron
Explanation: এটি লর্ড বায়রনের বিখ্যাত কবিতা 'Don Juan'- এর quotation.
1. Man's conscience is the oracle of God.
2. Sweet is revenge-especially to women. (Don Juan)
3. Man's love is of man's life a thing apart. Tis woman's whole existence (Don Juan)
4. I loved, love you, for this love have lost, state, station, heaven, mankind's my own esteem. (Don Juan)
47.
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." Who said this?
a) Juliet
✓
b) Romeo
c) Portia
d) Rosalind
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Juliet
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.
48.
"Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss." The sentence has been taken from the play__
a) Romeo and Juliet
b) Caesar and Cleopatra
c) Doctor Faustus
✓
d) Antony and Cleopatra
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Doctor Faustus
Explanation : Christopher Marlowe রচিত 'Doctor Faustus' নটকে Faustus কালো জাদু দিয়ে যখন বিশ্বসুন্দরী হেলেনকে তার সামনে হাজির করে তখন হেলেনের প্রণয় প্রার্থনা করে এই উক্তিটি করেছিল।
49.
"Why, then, 'tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." this extract is taken from the drama__
a) King Lear
b) Macbeth
c) As You Like It
d) Hamlet
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Hamlet
Explanation : উক্তিটি শেক্সপিয়রের বিখ্যাত নাটক Hamlet থেকে নেয়া হয়েছে। Hamlet নাটকের দুটি উল্লেখযোগ্য চরিত্র রোজেনক্রান্টজ ও গিডেন্সস্টার্নকে (Rosencrantz and Guildenstern) উল্লেখ করে এ উক্তিটি করেন। যার অর্থ “ভাল মন্দ বলে কিছুই নেই; মানুষের চিন্তাই তা সৃষ্টি করে।"
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.
50.
"Was this the face that launched a thousand ships,
And burnt the topless towers of Ilium?" Who speaks the famous lines?
a) Caesar
b) Antony
c) Faustus
✓
d) Romeo
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Faustus
Explanation : উক্তিটি এলিজাবেথান যুগের একজন শ্রেষ্ঠ নাট্যকার ক্রিস্টোফার মারলোর সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত নাটক 'Dr. Faustus' থেকে নেয়া হয়েছে। এ নাটকের কেন্দ্রীয় চরিত্র Dr. Faustus ট্রয়ের রাণি হেলেনকে কামনা থেকে তার সৌন্দর্য ও তার আবেদনময়ীতা বর্ণনায় এমন উক্তি করেছেন।
51.
"For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love." occurs in a novel by:
a) Jane Austen
b) Syed Waliullah
c) Somerset Maugham
d) Rabindranath Tagore
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Rabindranath Tagore
Explanation : প্রদত্ত উক্তিটি রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর তাঁর 'শেষের কবিতা' উপন্যাসে উল্লেখ করেছেন। এ উপন্যাসের নায়ক অমিত নায়িকা লাবণ্যকে উদ্দেশ্য করে এই উক্তিটি করেছেন।
তবে প্রদত্ত ইংরেজি উক্তিটির মূল লেখক John Donne.
John Donne এর কিছু বিখ্যাত উক্তিঃ
1. "She's all states and all princesses I, nothing else is."- The Sun Rising.
2. "I wonder by my truth, what thou and I did till we love."
3. "Love is not so pure, and abstract, as they used to say."
52.
"Man is a political animal" who said this?
a) Dante
b) Aristotle
✓
c) Plato
d) Socrates
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Aristotle
Explanation : Aristotle এর কয়েকটি বিখ্যাত উক্তি-
1. "We make war that we may live in peace." (Nicomachean Ethics)
2. "Probable impossibilities are to be preferred improbable possibilities." (Poetics)
3. "Man is by nature a political animal." (Politics)
4. "He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god." (Politics)
53.
"Into the ______ of death rode the six hundred".
a) city
b) tunnel
c) road
d) valley
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: valley
Explanation : এই লাইনটি Alfred Tennyson এর The Change of the Light Bridge থেকে উদ্ধৃত।
তার বিখ্যাত কিছু উক্তি-
1. "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die."- The Charge of the Light Brigade
2. "Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."- In Memoriam
3. "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."- Locksley Hall
4. "I am a part of all that I have met."- Ulysses
5. "Better not be at all than not be noble."- The Princess
6. "Who are wise in love, love most, say least."- Merlin and Viviene
7. "The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils himself in many ways."- Morte d' Arthur
8. "A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies."
54.
"To be or not to be, that is the ______."
a) meaning
b) answer
c) question
✓
d) issue
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: question
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.
55.
"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" these lines were written by__
a) Keats
b) Frost
c) Eliot
d) Shelley
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Shelley
Explanation : "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" চরণটি P. B. Shelley এর বিখ্যাত কবিতা Ode to the West Wind থেকে নেওয়া হয়েছে।
P. B. Shelley এর বিখ্যাত কিছু উক্তি-
1. "I am daughter of Earth and Water,
And the nursing of the sky."- The Cloud
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
5. "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world."- A Defence of Poetry
56.
Who wrote "Beauty is truth, truth beauty."?
a) Shakespeare
b) Wordsworth
c) Keats
✓
d) Eliot
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Keats
Explanation : Keats এর: Quotations:
Keats কে বলা হয় Poet of beauty। তাই beauty নিয়ে নিচের দুটি বিখ্যাত Quotation Keats এর হওয়া স্বাভাবিক।
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.
