The Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period  (450-1066)

The Middle English Period (1066-1500)

The Renaissance Period (1500-1660)

Renaissance

Period

The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)

The Age of Johnson

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)

The Victorian Period (1832-1901)

The Modern Period (till the World War II)

The Georgian Period (1910-1939)

The Postmodern Period (1939-)

A. The Augustan Age              B. The Victorian Age

C. The Georgian Age               D. The Restoration Age

Note: প্রদত্ত Age-গুলোর মধ্যে latest Age হচ্ছে The Georgian Age (1910-1939).

Ans: C

(1066-1340)

(1340-1400)- 14th Century

(1400-1485)

(1558-1603)

(1603-1625)

(1625-1649)

(1649-1660)

(1564-1593)

William Shakespeare

(1564-1616)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -1586)

A. The Victorian age

B. Elizabethan Age

C. The restoration age

D. The Eighteenth Century

Ans: B

A. 1558-1603   B. 1625-1649

C. 1603-1625   D. 1649-1660

Ans: C

A. Christopher Marlowe    B. Alexander Pope

C. John Dryden                   D. Samuel Beckett

Ans: A

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A. fifteenth        B. sixteenth

C. fourteenth     D. seventeenth

Ans: B

A. Medieval        B. Romantic

C. Elizabethan   D. Modern

Ans: C

A. Arthur Miller             B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Samuel Becket           D. William Congreve

Ans: B

(1660-1700)

A. Mathew Arnold         B. Alexander Pope

C. Robert Browning      D. Alfred Tennyson

Ans:

Famous Writers of The Romantic Period

S.T. Coleridge ,     William Wordsworth,      William Blake,

Lord Byron,           P. B. Shelly,                        John Keats

A. Preface to Shakespeare

B. Preface to Lyrical Ballads

C. Preface to Ancient Mariners

D. Preface to Dr. Johnson

Ans: B

A. A. Tennyson          B. Alexander Pope

C. John Dryden         D. S. T. Coleridge

Ans: D

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A. T. S. Eliot           B. Lord Tennyson

C. Lord Byron        D. G. M. Hopkins

Note: এধরণের প্রশ্নের ক্ষেত্রে সমসাময়িক যুগের Writer-কে সঠিক উত্তর হিসেবে বেছে নিতে হবে।

Ans: C

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A. T. S. Eliot              B. John Keats

C. Ezra Pound           D. G. M. Hopkins

Ans: B

A. 1550-1558     B. 1649-1660

C. 1798-1832     D. 1910-1936

Ans: C

A. John Keats                        B. T. S. Eliot

C. Rabindranath Tagore     D. William Wordsworth

Ans: B

Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

George Eliot (1819-1880)- George Eliot was a English Woman

Robert Browning (7 May 1812– 12 December 1889)

Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888)

A. George Eliot                B. Thomas Hardy

C. Joseph Conrad           D. James Joyce

Note: উপরিউক্ত লেখকদের মধ্যে কেবল George Eliot-এর জন্ম এবং মৃত্যু উনবিংশ শতকের মধ্যে

Ans: A

A. 17^th Century          B. 18^th Century

C. 19^th Century          D. 20^th Century

Ans: C

A. Helen Keller         B. Matthew Arnold

C. Shakespeare         D. Robert Browning

Ans: B, D

A. King Victor 1

B. Victory of the British empire

C. Queen Victoria

D. The Victors in the war against the French

Ans: C

(1901-1910)

(1910-1939)

[Polish বংশোদ্ভূত English Novelist]

James Joyce (1882-1941) [Irish Novelist & Poet]

2. All’s Well that Ends well

3. Antony and Cleopatra

4. Love’s Labour’s Lost

5. The Merchant of Venice

6. As You Like It (Pastoral Comedy)

7. The Tempest (swansong)

8. Twelfth Night

9. Comedy of Errors

10. Measure for Measure

11. Much Ado About Nothing

12. Taming of the Shrew

2. King Lear

3. Julius Caesar

4. Othello

5. Hamlet

6. Titus Andronicus

A. tragedy        B. comedy

C. melodrama  D. tragi-comedy

Ans: B

A. a Jew           B. a Moor

C. A roman      D. a Turk

Note: Shylock নামক একজন ইহুদি (Jewish)-কে উপজীব্য করে ‘The Merchant of Venice’ Comedy-টি লিখিত।

Ans: A

A. A Jew          B. A Roman

C. A Turk        D. A Moor

Ans: D

A. Ben Johnson               B. Christopher

C. John Dryden               D. William Shakespeare

Ans: D

A. poetry         B. novels

C. plays           D. autobiography

Ans: C

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A. King Lear     B. The Duchess of Malfi

C. Candida       D. Waiting for Godot

Ans: A

A. Hamlet              B. Macbeth

C. The Tempest    D. Twelfth Night

Note: Swansong – Last Work বা শেষ কর্ম

Ans: C

‘এ’ (বিজোড়) ইউনিট ২০১৩-১৪

A. play                  B. novel

C. short story      D. poem

Ans: A

‘এ’ (বিজোড়) ইউনিট ২০১৩-১৪

A. a dramatist  B. a playwright

C. a poet          D. a story writer

Ans: D

A. Milton         B. Shaw

C. Ibsen           D. Shakespeare

Ans: D

A. Titus Andronicus    B. Taming of the shrew

C. White Devil            D. Hamlet

Ans: C

A. Sun             B. Winter

C. Forest          D. Wild animals

Ans: B

A. life in the forest is dangerous

B. urban life is disgusting

C. we all should live simple life

D. life in nature is simple and free

Ans: D

A. William Wordsworth

B. Robert Browning

C. William Shakespeare

D. Ralph Hodgson

Ans: C

A. Comedy      B. Tragedy

C. Romance     D. Morality play

Ans: B

A. novel           B. short story

C. verse           D. play

Ans:D

A. nature          B. forest

C. sun              D. a big tree

Ans: B

2. The Philanderer

3. Buoyant Billions

4. The Millionairess

5. The Apple Cart

6. Arms and the Man

7. Heartbreak House

8. Fanny’s First Play

9. The Devil’s Disciple

10. Man and Superman

11.Back to Methuselah

12. Caesar and Cleopatra

13. Mrs Warren’s Profession

14.John Bull’s Other Island

15. The Doctor’s Dilemma

16. Androcles and the Lion

17. Captain Brassbound’s Conversion

18.The Simpleton of the Unexpected Isles

19. In Good King Charles’s Golden Days

20.Saint Joan

21. Candida

22. Geneva

23. Misalliance

24. On the Rocks

25. Major Barbara

26. Pygmalion

27. Getting Married

28. You Never Can Tell

29. Too True to Be Good

30. Joan of Arc

2. Farfetched Fables

3. A Village Wooing

4.Great Catherine

5.Shakes versus Shav

6.Why She Would Not

7.The Glimpse of Reality

8. The Inca of Perusalem

9. Augustus Does His Bit

10. Cymbeline Refinished

11. The Admirable Bashville

12. The Fascinating Foundling

13. How He Lied to Her Husband

14. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

15. Passion, Poison, and Petrifaction

16. The Shewing-Up of Blanco Posnet

17. Annajanska, the Bolshevik Empress

18. The Music Cure

19. O’Flaherty V.C.

20. The Six of Calais

21. Overruled

22. Press Cuttings

ইসলামী বিশ্ববিদ্যালয় ‘সি’ ইউনিট ২০১১-১২

A. Henry Fielding        B. H. G. Wells

C. Walter Scott             D. G. B. Shaw

Ans: D

A. James Joyce           B. Shakespeare

C. G. B. Shaw              D. Arthur Miller

Ans: C

A. James Joyce            B. Samuel Beckett

C. Arthur Miller           D. George Bernard Shaw

Note: ‘Arms and the man’ is a Comedy.

Ans: D

A. a tragedy by Shakespeare

B. a play by G. B. Shaw

C. a poem by Lord Byron

D. a novel by S. T. Coleridge

Ans: B

A. G. B. Shaw        B. Lord Byron

C. P. B. Shelley     D. Charles Dickens

Ans: A

2. Oliver Twist (2^nd Novel)                    9. Bleak House

3. Nicholas Nickleby                              11. Little Dorrit

4. The Old Curiosity Shop                      10. Hard Times

5. Martin Chuzzlewit                             8. David Copperfield

5. Barnaby Rudge(Historical Novel)     13. Our Mutual Friend

14. Edwin Drood (Last Novel)              12. Great Expectations

12. A Tale of Two Cities (set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.)

2. The Cricket on the Hearth

3. The Haunted Man

4. The Chimes

A. Victorian     B. Elizabethan C. Romantic     D. Modern

Note: Charles Dickensযেহেতু Victorian যুগের Writerসেহেতু তাঁর সকল সৃষ্টিই Victorianযুগের হবে।

Ans: A

A. Thomas Hardy                    B. Charles Dickens

C. W. Congreve                                   D. D. H. Lawrence

Note: Charles Dickens তাঁরপ্রায় সব উপন্যাসেই London শহরকে ‘a living being’ হিসেবে চিত্রিত করেছেন।

Ans: B

A. Thomas Hardy                    B. Jane Austen

C. George Eliot                                    D. Charles Dickens

Ans: D

A. Poet             B. Critic           C. Play-wright  D. Novelist

Ans: D

2. A Clergyman’s Daughter

4. Coming Up for Air 

3. Keep the Aspidistra Flying

5. Animal Farm

6. Nineteen Eighty-Four

2. The Road to Wigan Pier

3. Homage to Catalonia 

A. George Orwell          B. Stevenson

C. Swift                           D. Mark Twain

Ans: A

5. Northanger Abbey                3. Mansfield Park                     7. Lady Susan

2. Ode to the West Wind

3. To a Skylark

4. Music

5. When Soft Voices Die

6. The Cloud

7. The Masque of Anarchy.

8. The Revolt of Islam

A. The traveller                        B. The speaker

C. Ozymandias himself                       D. Other kings

Ans: C

A. B. Irony      D. Humour      C. Sarcasm       D. Exaggeration

Ans:

A. body           B. Sculpture     C. face             D. statue

Note: Visage-মুখম-ল

Ans: C

A. the pedestal of the statue     B. desert sand

C. two trunkless legs                D. shattered visage

Ans: D

A. man is mortal, art immortal             B. all things, both great and small, will perish

C. history repeats                     D. imagination is stronger than fact

Ans: B

A. the poet       B. an old man  C. a traveller    D. a sculptor

Ans: C

A. on a mountain                     B. beside a river

C. in a desert                            D. in a valley

Ans: C

A. huge legs                             B. legs without toes

C. legs without body                D. beautiful legs

Ans: C

A. the visage of the statue        B. the pedestal of the statue

C. the hand of the statue          D. the sand of the antique land

Ans: B

2. Fra Lippo Lippi

3. Andrea Del Sarto

4. My last Duchess

2. How They Brought the Good News From Ghent to Aix,

3. The Diptych Meeting at Night,

4. The Patriotic Home thoughts from Abroad,

A. Tow Voices                         B. The Scholar Gipsy

C. Andrea Del Sarto                 D. Oenone

Ans: C

3. The Cop and the Anthem                  4. The Gift of the Magi

5. Conscience in Art                              6. The Last Leaf

7. The Third Ingredient                         8. The Ransom of Red Chief

9. Makes the Whole World Kin

2. Roads of Destiny

3. Whirligigs

4. Waifs and Strays

A. Samuel L. Clemen               B. William Sydney Porter

C. Fitz-James O’ Brien             D. William Huntington Wright

Ans:

The Dunciad,                           Essay of Man (Poem)

Idylls of the King (Verse),       (Break, Break, Break) -Lyrical Poem

Silent Woman (Drama),                       The Alchemist (Play)

SilasMarner,                             The Mill on the Floss (Novel),

Emma (Novel)

Lycidas (Elegy),                       Samson Agonistes(Tragic closet drama)

Voyage to Liliput (Satire)         A Tale of Tub (A Satire on Extremist)

A room of One’s Own,                        A Haunted House (Novel)

A. John Milton             B. Jane Mansfield

C. William Cowper      D. William Shakespeare

Ans: A

A. Justify the ways of man to God.

B. Justify the ways of God to man

C. Show that the Satan and God have equal power

D. Explain why good and evil are necessary

Ans: B

A. William Shakespeare                       B. John Donne

C. John Milton                         D. Ben Jonson             E. John Dryden

Ans: C

A. H. G. Wells                         B. Jonathan Swift

C. Charles dickens                   D. Bernard Shaw

Ans: B

‘খ’ ইউনিট ২০১২-১৩

A. Homer         B. Tagore         C. Dante          D. Milton

Ans: D

A. John Milton                         B. Robert Browning

C. S. T. Coleridge                    D. William Wordsworth

Ans: A

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (Religious Poem)

A Woman of No Importance (Novel)

The Scholar Gypsy(Poem)

Ancient Mariner (Poem)

The Reutrn of the Native (Novel),       Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Novel),

Under the Greenwood Tree (Novel)

“Alone, alone, all, all alone

Alone on a wide, wide sea….”

A. Kubla Khan                                    B. The Nightingale

C. The Dungeon                      D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Ans: D

A. Vanity Fair                          B. The Return of the Native

C. Pride and Prejudice                         D. Oliver Twist

Ans: B

A. a history by Vincent Smith  B. a verse by Coleridge

C. a drama by Oscar Wilde      D. a short story by Somerset Maugham

Ans:

Michael,                       Tintern Abbey,                        The Solitary Reaper (Poem)

A. W. H. Auden                       B. W. Wordsworth

C. W. B. Yeats                         D. Ezra Pound

Ans: B

A. The bluest Eye                    B. Sula

C. As I Lay Dying                    D. A Mercy

Note: “The bluest Eye, Sula এবং A Mercy” Toni Morrison এর তিনটি Novel আর ‘As I Lay Dying’ হচ্ছে William Faulkner-এর একটি Novel. সুতরাং Option-টিই odd one.

Ans: C

A. the 1^st half of 19^th Century  B. the 2^nd half of 18^th Century

C. the 1^st half of 18^th Century  D. the 2^nd half of 19^th Century

Ans: A

A. Charles Dickens                  B. William Thackeray

C. P. B. Shelley                                    D. Wordsworth

Ans: B

A. The poet was day dreaming            B. The flowers had cheerful company

C. There was a strong wind      D. The sea waves beside them had gone wild

Ans: C

A. The poet is sad because the flowers have not bloomed fully.

B. The poet is sad because the winter will soon arrive.

C. The poet is sad because the flowers remind him of his death.

D. The poet is sad because flowers bring very hot weather.

Ans: C

A. nature is beautiful               B. nature excites human imagination

C. we can find solace in nature            D. nature is harmful for human being

Ans: C

The rainbow (Novel)

Allen Ginsberg

Iron Horse (poem),                  Planet News (Book of Poetry)

A. Boswell       B. Ben Jonson C. Samuel Johnson      D. Milton

Ans: C

A. a Poem by Wordsworth       B. a short story by Somerset Maugham

C. a Novel by D. H. Lawrence D. a verse by Coleridge

Ans: C

A. American poet Robert Frost            B. English poet William Wordsworth

C. Romantic poet John Keats   D. Bangladeshi poet Shamsur Rahman

E. American poet Allen Ginsberg

Ans: E

A. Sholokor     B. Nobokor      C. Tolstoy        D. Gorky

Ans: C

A. John Lennon                                   B. Richard Mark

C. William Blake                     D. John Keats

Ans: C

A Farewell to Arms (Novel)                 The Sun Also Rises (Novel)

The Wild Bears,                                   The Deer Hunters Bible

A. T. S. Eliot    B. John Milton C. Plato            D. Ernest Hemingway

Ans: D

A. Charles Dickens                  B. Homer

C. Lord Tennison                     D. Ernest Hemingway

Ans: D

A. Life is short, art long                       B. Daffodils are beautiful

C. The ravages of time             D. Nature never dies

Ans: A

A. Hazlitt         B. Johnson       C. Herrick        D. George Laycock

Ans: D

A. Summer’s rain                     B. Morning’s dew

C.Spring                                   D. All three (A, B, C)

Ans: D

A. Viknam Seth                                   B. Monica Ali

C. Ernest Hemingway              D. William Blake         E. None of these

Ans: C

A. Kipling        B. Stevenson    C. Hemingway D. Pearl Buck

Ans: C

A. Charles Darwin                   B. Newton

C. Galileo                                D. Mary Curie

Ans: A

A. sunset                                  B. flowing river

C. morning’s dew                    D. graying hair

Ans: C

A. we feel sad when someone dies

B. we are unhappy because life is short

C. life is short, so live honestly

D. life is short, so live to the fullest

Ans: D

A. wet daffodils                                   B. yellow daffodils

C. fair daffodils                                   D. golden daffodils

Ans: D

A. rising sun, moon                 B. summer’s rain, morning’s dew

C. spring, summer                    D. hasting day, even song

Ans: B

Songs Offerings (Gitanjali)

A. E. M. Forster                       B. Rudyard Kipling

C. Galls Worthy                       D. A. H. Auden

Note: ব্রিটিশ রাজ এবং ১৯২০ সালে Indian Independence Movement-এর উপর ভিত্তি করে E. M. Forster এ উপন্যাসটি লেখেন।

Ans: A

A. W. B. Yeats                         B. Robert Frost

C. John Keats                          D. Rudyard Kipling

Ans: A

A. Dylan Thomas                    B. Ezra Pound

C. W. H. Auden                       D. W. B. Yeats

Ans: D

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A. T. S. Eliot                            B. W. H. Auden

C. Ezra Pound                          D. W. B. Yeats

Ans: D

A. Milton         B. Tennyson    C. Homer         D. Shakespeare

Ans: C

A History of the English-Speaking People,      Life in Marlborough

A. William Wordsworth                       B. Thomas Gray

C. John Keats                          D. W. B. Yeats

Ans: B

A. essay           B. verse           C. comedy       D. science fiction

Ans: D

A. an essay      B. a drama       C. a novel        D. a poem

Ans: D

A. poem by T. S Eliot              B. historical work by Charles Dickens

C. play by P. B. Shelley                       D. none

Ans: A

A. History of Second World War

B. History of the English Speaking People

C. Life in Marlborough

D. Far From the Madding Crowd

Note: ‘Far From the Madding Crowd’ is Thomas Hardy‘s fourth novel.

Ans: D

A. Mahatma Gandhi                B. J. L. Nehru

C. Abul Kalam Azad               D. Moulana Akram Khan

Ans: C

A. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman     B. Khan Ataur Rahman

C. Abraham Lincoln                D. Mahatma Gandhi

Ans: A

The Metamorphosis (Novella)

A. an epic poem

B. a novella

C. a one act play

D. a theatrical adaptation of a poem

Ans: C

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Leo Tolstoy

C. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

D. Franz Kafka                        E. Victor Hugo

Ans: D

A. Romeo and Juliet          B. A Doll’s House

C. Arms and the Men        D. Tartuffe

Note: ‘A Doll’s House’ is a social drama.

Ans: B

A. Francis Bacon         B. Henrick Ibsen

C. E. M. Forster           D. R. K. Narayan

Ans: B

A. George Eliot         B. Dostoyevsky

C. Anglo Saxon         D. John Keats

Ans: B

A. Svetlana Alexievich      B. Lev Mei

C. Leo Tolstoy                    D. Ivan Turgenev

Ans: A

A. Julian Barnes      B. Henry Fielding

C. R. K. Narayan      D. Tomas Transtromer

Ans: A

The Lady of May  (a one-act play)

A. Thomas Kyd        B. Cristopher Marlowe

C. Shakespeare        D. Ben Johnson

Ans: A

A. Einstein                B. Stephen Hawking

C. Blaiac Pascal       D. John Bardeen

Ans: B

A. The waste Land

B. An Apology for Poetry

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Paradise Lost

Ans: B

A. Hugo Gernsback

B. H. G. Wells

C. Jules Gabriel Verne

D. William Shakespeare

Ans: C

A. Novelist      B. Historian

C. Poet             D. Dramatist

Ans:

(Born in USA but Settled in England)

A. Ireland        B. England

C. Wales          D. USA

Ans: D

A. English        B. American

C. Brazilian      D. Spanish

Ans: A

A. An 18^th century poet and critic

B. A dramatist who is Shakespeare’s contemporary

C. A Romantic poet

D. A postmodern theorist

Note: Dr. Johnson’sfull name is Samuel Johnson who was born and died in 18^th century.

Ans: A

A. journalist      B. scientist

C. politician      D. philosopher     E. astronaut

Ans: D

A. Eliot and Pound         B. Yeats and Eliot

C. Pope and Dryden       D. Shelly and Keats

Ans: A

A. Bard

B. Political Leader

C. Acclaimed Philosopher

D. Novelist

Note: Bard – Poet/Writer

Ans: A

A. G. B. Shaw                   B. Daniel Defoe

C. R. L. Stevenson          D. Shakespeare

Ans: B

A. Cynewulf                      B. Jeoffery Chaucer

C. Robert Browning       D. None of the above

Ans: B

A. Alexander Pope                B. Jonathan Swift

C. William Wordsworth      D. Butler

Ans: B

A. Lord Tennyson               B. John Milton

C. William Wordsworth    D. John Keats

Ans: C

A. Keats           B. Donne

C. Blake           D. Spenser

Ans: C

A. William Wordsworth    B. John Keats

C. P. B. Shelley                    D. Shakespeare

Ans: B

A. Shakespeare    B. Wordsworth

C. Keats                 D. Eliot

Ans: C

A. a great deal of pleasure   B. very pleasure

C. many pleasure                  D. much pleasure

Ans: D

A. Robert Herrick      B. William Wordsworth

C. Shelley                    D. William Blake

Ans: B

A. T. S. Eliot                   B. Toni Morrison

C. Grahame Greene      D. William Faulkner

Ans: C

A. James Baker               B. Dr. Kissinger

C. Bertrand Russel         D. Lenin

Ans: C

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A. Rabindranath Tagore

B. W. B. Yeats

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Robert Browning

Ans: D

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A. Alice Munro                B. Gunter Grass

C. Nadine Gordimer      D. V. S. Naipaul

Ans: A

A. Hardy          B. Joyce

C. Thackeray   D. Blake

Ans: D

A. John Galsworthy          B. Orhan Pamuk

C. Winston Churchill       D. Elizabeth Barrett

Ans: D

A. Emily Dickinson          B. T. S. Eliot

C. Mathew Arnold           D. John Donne

Ans: D

A. vague idea      B. a sonnet

C. wise saying     D. in offensive expression

Ans: D