1. Who is the author of the novel 'The Golden Age'?
a) Monica Ali
b) Tahmima Anam
c) Jhumpa Lahiri
d) Zadie Smith
Answer: Tahmima Anam
2. The word 'Ecological' is related to —
a) Demography
b) Dietetics
c) Environment
d) Biology
Answer: Environment
3. What is the synonym of 'Inciting'?
a) Instigating
b) Permitting
c) Discouraging
d) Suppressing
Answer: Instigating
4. The idiom 'A snake in the grass' means—
a) A pet
b) A hidden enemy
c) A poisonous snake
d) An unreliable person
Answer: A hidden enemy
5. Who is the author of 'Spirit of Islam'?
a) Abul Mansur Ahmed
b) Syed Ameer Ali
c) Sir Syed Ahmed Khan
d) Muhammad Iqbal
Answer: Syed Ameer Ali
6. 'Ulysses' is a poem written by—
a) W.B. Yeats
b) Robert Browning
c) Matthew Arnold
d) Alfred Tennyson
Answer: Alfred Tennyson
7. To keep one's chin up' means—
a) To be sad
b) To remain hopeful
c) To be arrogant
d) To look upwards
Answer: To remain hopeful
8. What is the noun form of the word 'Laugh'?
a) Laughing
b) Laughable
c) Laughter
d) Laughed
Answer: Laughter
9. Choose the correct preposition: 'He is devoid ___ common sense.'
a) from
b) of
c) at
d) with
Answer: of
10. Who is the author of 'The Idea of Justice'?
a) Amartya Sen
b) John Rawls
c) Muhammad Yunus
d) Nelson Mandela
Answer: Amartya Sen
11. The word 'Equivocation' means—
a) Clear statement
b) Two contrary things in the same statement
c) Equal opinion
d) Truthfulness
Answer: Two contrary things in the same statement
12. Which word is the opposite of 'Sluggish'?
a) Dull
b) Animated
c) Slow
d) Heavy
Answer: Animated
13. A 'Correctional Institution' is a—
a) School
b) Prison
c) Hospital
d) Court
Answer: Prison
14. 'Look before you leap'— here 'before' is used as a—
a) Noun
b) Pronoun
c) Conjunction
d) Preposition
Answer: Conjunction
15. Which of the following is an 'Epic'?
a) Paradise Lost
b) The Waste Land
c) Daffodils
d) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Answer: Paradise Lost
16. What is the noun of the word 'Brief'?
a) Briefly
b) Brevity
c) Briefness
d) Briefing
Answer: Brevity
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17. Who wrote the poem 'The Solitary Reaper'?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T. Coleridge
c) John Keats
d) P.B. Shelley
Answer: William Wordsworth
18. 'The Good Morrow' is a poem by—
a) Andrew Marvell
b) John Donne
c) George Herbert
d) Henry Vaughan
Answer: John Donne
19. What is the antonym of 'Venerate'?
a) Admire
b) Respect
c) Love
d) Condemn
Answer: Condemn
20. A 'Dark Horse' means—
a) A black horse
b) An unknown person
c) A winning horse
d) A nightmare
Answer: An unknown person
21. Who wrote the play 'Doctor Faustus'?
a) Thomas Kyd
b) William Shakespeare
c) Christopher Marlowe
d) Ben Jonson
Answer: Christopher Marlowe
22. 'An Elegy' is a—
a) Love song
b) Song of lamentation
c) Long poem
d) Funny poem
Answer: Song of lamentation
23. Choose the correct sentence:
a) Each of the three boys got a prize.
b) Each of the three boys gets a prize.
c) Each of the three boy get a prize.
d) Each of the three boys have got a prize.
Answer: Each of the three boys got a prize.
24. 'Measure for Measure' is a—
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) Poem
d) Novel
Answer: Comedy
25. What is the plural of 'Phenomenon'?
a) Phenomenons
b) Phenomena
c) Phenomenas
d) Phenomenoness
Answer: Phenomena
26. 'To be or not to be' is a famous—
a) Song
b) Dialogue
c) Verse
d) Soliloquy
Answer: Soliloquy
27. 'A Passage to India' is written by—
a) E.M. Forster
b) Rudyard Kipling
c) George Orwell
d) Nirad C. Chaudhuri
Answer: E.M. Forster
28. What is the synonym of 'Cordial'?
a) Rude
b) Cold
c) Amiable
d) Hard
Answer: Amiable
29. 'Silent Woman' is a play by—
a) Ben Jonson
b) John Dryden
c) William Shakespeare
d) Christopher Marlowe
Answer: Ben Jonson
30. Which one is a 'Reflexive Pronoun'?
a) Those
b) Who
c) Myself
d) Each
Answer: Myself
