101.
"If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers." -who wrote this?
a) John Donne
b) John Keats
c) Charles Dickens
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d) Lord Byron
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Victorian Period এর সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ঔপন্যাসিক Charles Dickens. তাঁর বিখ্যাত উপন্যাসগুলো হল-
- Great Expectations
- The Adventure of Oliver Twist
- A Christmas Carol
- Hard Times
- David Copperfield (Autobiographical).
102.
Who wrote "A Confession"?
a) a. Christina Rossetti
b) b. Thomas Hardy
c) c. Leo Tolstoy
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d) d. Samuel Butler
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Leo Tolstoy একজন রুশ সাহিত্যিক।
Leo Tolstoy এর উল্লেখযোগ্য সাহিত্যকর্ম:
Novel: War and Peace, Anna Karenina, A Confession.
103.
"Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you to their level and then beat you with" quoted by-
a) a. Samuel Butler
b) b. Thomas Hardy
c) c. Mark Twain
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d) d. Oscar Wilde
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Mark Twain একজন আমেরিকান সাহিত্যিক।
তাঁর বিখ্যাত Novel: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
104.
Which one was written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky?
a) Crime and Punishment
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b) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
c) A Christmas Carol
d) David Copperfield (Autobiographical)
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Crime and Punishment.
Explanation: Dostoevsky একজন বিখ্যাত রুশ সাহিত্যিক ও দার্শনিক।
তাঁর উল্লেখযোগ্য উপন্যাস:
Novel:
Crime and Punishment
The House of the Dead
105.
Which is not written by Emily Dickinson?
a) a. I taste a liquor never brewed
b) b. The house of the dead
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c) c. Wild nights-wild nights
d) d. Because I could not stop death
106.
Who is not a Scottish?
a) a. Walter scott
b) b. A.C Doyle
c) c. W.B Yeats
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d) d. R.L Stevenson
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: W.B Yeats – Irish writer
107.
Who was not awarded noble prize?
a) a. G.B. Shaw
b) b. H.G. Wells
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c) c. Rudyard Kipling
d) d. Pearl buck
108.
কোনটি Ernest Hemingway রচিত নয়?
a) A Farewell to Arms
b) Oliver Twist
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c) For whom the bell tolls
d) Old Man and the sea
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Oliver Twist
Explanation: Oliver twist Charles Dickens রচিত। Victorian period এর সবচেয়ে বিখ্যাত ঔপন্যাসিক Charles Dickens. তাঁর বিখ্যাত উপন্যাসগুলো হল-
- Great Expectations
- The Adventure of Oliver Twist
- A Christmas Carol
- Hard Times
- David Copperfield (Autobiographical)
109.
"Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will to strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."- is taken from the poem written by-
a) a. Robert Browning
b) b. Matthew Arnold
c) c. Alfred Tennyson
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d) d. Lord Byron
ব্যাখ্যা:
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." is taken from Ulysses By Alfred Tennyson
110.
Who of the following is not a poet?
a) a. William Wordsworth
b) b. Charles Dickens
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c) c. John Keats
d) d. Alfred Tennyson
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: William Wordsworth (Poet of Nature) & John Keats (Poet of Beauty) Romantic age এর কবি। আর Alfred Lord Tennyson হচ্ছেন Victorian age এর কবি। অন্যদিকে Charles Dickens হলেন Victorian age এর Novelist এবং Social Critic
111.
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” - this is an excerpt from which iconic novel?
a) a. Great Expectations
b) b. Treasure Island
c) c. Oliver Twist
d) d. A Tale of Two Cities
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: A tale of two cities is written by Charles dickens.
112.
'Beauty lay not in the thing, but in what the thing symbolized' this is quoted from –
a) Far from the Madding Crowd
b) Jane Eyre
c) Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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d) The Bluest Eye
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
Explanation: Tess of the d'Urbervilles is written by Thomas Hardy.
113.
Who wrote 'New Arabian Nights'?
a) a. Charles Dickens
b) b. Robert Louis Stevenson
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c) c. Oscar Wilde
d) d. William Hazlitt
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Robert Louis Stevenson wrote "New Arabian Nights."
114.
Mark Twain is known as –
a) a. The Father of Scottish literature
b) b. The Father of Modern Drama
c) c. The Father of American Literature
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d) d. The Father of American Poetry
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Mark Twain is known as - The Father of American Literature.
- Mark Twain American humorist, journalist, lecturer এবং novelist ছিলেন। - তার আসল নাম ছিল Samuel Langhorne Clemens. তিনি ১৮৩৫ সালে ফ্লোরিডায় জন্মগ্রহণ করেন।
- William Faulkner ই প্রথম Mark Twain কে আমেরিকান সাহিত্যের "পিতা" বলে ডাকেন।
115.
Which author used the name 'Ellis Bell' as a pseudonym?
a) a. Anne Bronte
b) b. Emily Bronte
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c) c. Charlotte Bronte
d) d. Emma Bronte
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Emily Bronte used the name 'Ellis Bell' as a pseudonym.
Emily Bronte (1818-1848) একজন British author ছিলেন।
"Wuthering Heights" Emily Bronte এর রচিত একমাত্র উপন্যাস যা তাকে বিখ্যাত করে তোলে।
116.
“The Return of the Native” is written by the author of-
a) a. Tamburline the Great
b) b. The Cocktail Party
c) c. The Mayor of Casterbridge
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d) d. The Spanish Tragedy
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: “The Return of the Native” and “The Mayor of Casterbridge” is written by Thomas Hardy.
Tamburlaine the Great – Cristopher Marlowe
The Cocktail Party – T.s Eliot
The Spanish Tragedy – Thomas Kyd
117.
Which of the following is not a novel written by Thomas Hardy?
a) a. The Mayor of Casterbridge
b) b. The Return of the Native
c) c. A Pair of Blue Eyes
d) d. The Rainbow
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: Thomas Hardy is known as the pessimistic Novelist.
Thomas Hardy-এর লেখা কয়েকটি উপন্যাস হলো
- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- Far from the Madding Crowd
-The Return of the Native
-The Mayor of Casterbridge
118.
"A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other." - this is an excerpt from which iconic novel?
a) a. Great Expectations
b) b. Treasure Island
c) c. Oliver Twist
d) d. A Tale of Two Cities
✓
ব্যাখ্যা:
Explanation: "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that human creature is constituted to be that every profound secret and mystery to every other." this is an excerpt from A Tale of Two Cities.
Charles Dickens এর এই উপন্যাসটি ১৮৫৯ সালে ধারাবাহিকভাবে এবং বই আকারে প্রকাশিত হয়েছিল। এটি ১৮ শতকের শেষের দিকে ফরাসি বিপ্লবের পটভূমিতে রচিত।
119.
Which one of the following works is not written by Joseph Conrad?
a) a. The Secret Agent
b) b. Howards End
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c) c. Lord Jim
d) d. Nostromo
120.
An anti-romantic novelist in romantic period-
a) Jane Austen
✓
b) Lord Byron
c) Charles Lamb
d) Walter Scott
ব্যাখ্যা:
Ans: Jane Austen.
Explanation: Jana Austen হলেন Romantic যুগের অন্যতম একজন মহিলা উপন্যাসিক। তিনি anti-romantic novelist হিসেবে বেশি পরিচিত।
তাঁর বিখ্যাত গ্রন্থ :
1. Sense and Sensibility.
2. Pride and Prejudice (1813)
3. Emma (1815)
4. Northanger Abbey (1818)
5. Persuasion (1818)
6.The History of England.
