BCS 36th Preliminary Question Bank Quiz and Solution English 2016

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Question 1

Question:

Which one is a correct sentence?

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	paper is made by wood
	paper is made from wood
	paper is made on wood
	paper is made of wood

Question 2

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Who of the following writers was not a novelist?

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	W.B. Yeats
	Jane Austen
	James Joyce
	Charles Dickens

Question 3

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‘To do away with’ means--

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	to start
	to drive off
	to repeat
	to get rid of

Question 4

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Credit tk 5000 ___ my account.

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	with
	to
	in
	against

Question 5

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“Venerate” Means–-

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	respect
	defame
	abuse
	accuse

Question 6

Question:

“Gitanjali” of Rabindranath Tagore was translated by--

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	John Keats
	W.B. Yeats
	Rudyard Kipling
	Robert Frost

Question 7

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“A Passage to India” is written by--

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	E.M. Forster
	Galls Worthy
	A.H. Auden
	Rudyard Kipling

Question 8

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Identify the correct sentence?

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	Yesterday, he went home
	Yesterday, he had gone home
	Yesterday, he did gone home
	Yesterday, he has gone home

Question 9

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Who is known as “the Poet of Nature” in English Literature?

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	john keats
	William Wordsworth
	Load Tennyson
	john Miltion

Question 10

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“Man is a political animal” – who said this?

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	Dante
	Aristotle
	Socrates
	Plato

Question 11

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Slow and steady ___ the race. (Fill in the gap)

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	win
	wins
	won
	has won

Question 12

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‘Child is the father of man’ is taken from the poem of—-

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	S.T. Coleridge
	P.B. Shelley
	A.C. Swinburne
	W. Wordsworth

Question 13

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Verb of “Number” is--

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	enumerate
	numberning
	number
	numerical

Question 14

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Give the antonym of the word “transitory”

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	permanent
	short-lived
	transparent
	temporary

Question 15

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I have been living in Dhaka ____ 2000.

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	from
	till
	since
	after

Question 16

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London town is found a living being in the works of--

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	Thomas Hardy
	D.H. Lawrence
	W. Congreve
	Charles Dickens

Question 17

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The Climax of a plot is what happens--

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	at the height
	in the beginning
	at the end
	in the confrontation

Question 18

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This could have worked if I ___ been more cautious.

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	have
	had
	might
	would

Question 19

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Which of the following writers belongs to the romantic period in English literature?

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	S.T. Coleridge
	John Dryden
	A. Tennyson
	Alexander Pope

Question 20

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The play ‘Candida’ is by--

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	Shakespeare
	G. B. Shaw
	James Joyce
	Arthur Miller

Question 21

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What would be the right antonym for ‘initiative’?

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	indolence
	apathy
	activity
	enterprise

Question 22

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‘The Merchant of Venice’ is a Shakespearean play about--

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	A Roman
	a Turk
	a Jew
	a Moor

Question 23

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The poem ‘The Solitary Reaper’ is written by____

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	W.B. Yeats
	W. Wordsworth
	W.H. Auden
	Ezra Pound

Question 24

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“Frailty thy name is woman” ___ is a famous dialogue from.

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	W. Shakespeare
	Johns Webstar
	Christopher Marlow
	T.S. Eliot

Question 25

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The idiom ‘A stitch is times saves nine’ – refers to the importance of--

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	saving lives
	timely action
	saving time
	time tailoring

Question 26

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He insisted ____ there. (Fill in the gap)

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	over Going
	on my going
	is to go
	to go

Question 27

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Which of the followings books is written by Thomas Hardy?

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	Oliver Twist
	The Return of the Native
	Pride and Prejudice
	Vanity Fair

Question 28

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In English grammar, ______ deals with formation of sentences.

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	Syntax
	Etymology
	Morphology
	Semantics

Question 29

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The romantic age in English literature began with the publication of ___.

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	Preface to Lyrical Ballads
	Preface to Ancient Mariners
	Preface to Shakespeare
	Preface to Dr. Johnson

Question 30

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Teacher said, “The earth ____ round the sun.”

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	moved
	moves
	has moved
	Will be moving

Question 31

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Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure is a successful_____

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	Tragedy
	Tragi-comedy
	Comedy
	Melo drama

Question 32

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John Smith is good ___ Mathematics. (Fill in the gap)

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	in
	after
	of
	at

Question 33

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‘Elegy written in a country churchyard’ is written by--

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	John Keats
	W.B. Yeats
	William Wordsworth
	Thomas Gray

Question 34

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‘David Coperfield’ is a/an ___ novel.

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	Eligabethan
	Modern
	Romantic
	Victorian

Question 35

Question:

Professor Razzak was a scholar ____ refute.(Fill in the gap)

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	In
	After
	Of
	by