1. The word 'Plebiscite' is a term related to —
a) Law
b) Politics
c) Administration
d) Medicine
Answer: Politics
2. Which of the following is the correct plural form of 'Locus'?
a) Locusses
b) Locuseses
c) Loci
d) Locuses
Answer: Loci
3. 'Had I known you were coming, I ___ to the station.'
a) would go
b) would have gone
c) will go
d) had gone
Answer: would have gone
4. Who is the author of 'Jane Eyre'?
a) Emily Bronte
b) Charlotte Bronte
c) Anne Bronte
d) Jane Austen
Answer: Charlotte Bronte
5. Identify the correctly spelled word:
a) Humurous
b) Humorouss
c) Humaorous
d) Humorous
Answer: Humorous
6. Which word is similar to 'Appal'?
a) Solicit
b) Confuse
c) Dismay
d) Deceive
Answer: Dismay
7. 'The Old Man and the Sea' was written by —
a) Ernest Hemingway
b) Mark Twain
c) Herman Melville
d) Nathaniel Hawthorne
Answer: Ernest Hemingway
8. The word 'Panegyric' means —
a) Elaborate praise
b) A curse
c) Criticism
d) Medicine
Answer: Elaborate praise
9. Who wrote the play 'The Way of the World'?
a) William Shakespeare
b) Ben Jonson
c) Oscar Wilde
d) William Congreve
Answer: William Congreve
10. 'Geriatrics' is the branch of medicine concerned with the diseases and care of —
a) Children
b) Old people
c) Women
d) Newborn babies
Answer: Old people
11. What is the antonym of 'Honorific'?
a) Soothing
b) Humiliating
c) Ritualistic
d) Honorary
Answer: Humiliating
12. Who wrote the novel 'The Golden Ash'?
a) Nadine Gordimer
b) Virginia Woolf
c) Edith Wharton
d) Toni Morrison
Answer: Edith Wharton
13. "To be, or not to be, that is the question" — is a famous soliloquy from:
a) Othello
b) Macbeth
c) Hamlet
d) King Lear
Answer: Hamlet
14. A 'Pilgrim' is a person who undertakes a journey to a —
a) New country
b) Holy place
c) Foreign land
d) Remote village
Answer: Holy place
15. Which of the following words is in singular form?
a) Formulae
b) Data
c) Radius
d) Media
Answer: Radius
16. 'To genuflect' means —
a) To bend the knee
b) To be genuine
c) To reflect
d) To bend the elbow
Answer: To bend the knee
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17. Fill in the blank: 'I finally killed the fly ___ a fly swatter.'
a) by
b) with
c) through
d) from
Answer: with
18. Identify the correctly spelled word:
a) Questionnare
b) Questionairee
c) Questionaire
d) Questionnaire
Answer: Questionnaire
19. 'To keep one's head' means —
a) To believe in oneself
b) To save oneself
c) To keep calm
d) To be self-respecting
Answer: To keep calm
20. Change the voice: 'Who is calling me?'
a) By whom am I being called?
b) By whom I am being called?
c) Whom am I called by?
d) Who is being called by me?
Answer: By whom am I being called?
21. Who is the author of 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'?
a) William Wordsworth
b) S.T. Coleridge
c) Lord Byron
d) P.B. Shelley
Answer: S.T. Coleridge
22. 'Moby Dick', a novel, was written by —
a) Herman Melville
b) Nathaniel Hawthorne
c) Mark Twain
d) Ernest Hemingway
Answer: Herman Melville
23. 'The Rape of the Lock' by Alexander Pope is a/an —
a) Epic
b) Mock-heroic poem
c) Ballad
d) Elegy
Answer: Mock-heroic poem
24. Which of the following is not a poetic tradition?
a) The Comic
b) The Epic
c) The Occult
d) The Tragic
Answer: The Occult
25. 'Adela Quested' and 'Mrs. Moore' are characters from the novel —
a) A Passage to India
b) Heart of Darkness
c) Kim
d) Of Human Bondage
Answer: A Passage to India
26. Fill in the gap: 'Birds fly ___ in the sky.
a) random
b) at large
c) at a stretch
d) long way
Answer: at large
27. 'Let us begin by looking at the minutes of the meeting.' Here 'minutes' means —
a) Brief period
b) Time
c) Measurement
d) Written record
Answer: Written record
28. The word 'Substantial' means —
a) Efficient
b) Significant
c) Exorbitant
d) Adaptive
Answer: Significant
Explanation: বি.দ্র. context অনুযায়ী এটি 'প্রভূত' বা 'তাৎপর্যপূর্ণ' বোঝায়
29. Who wrote the picaresque novel 'Tom Jones'?
a) Samuel Richardson
b) Henry Fielding
c) Tobias Smollett
d) Laurence Sterne
Answer: Henry Fielding
30. 'Patience is its own reward' — Here 'Patience' is a/an:
a) Common Noun
b) Proper Noun
c) Abstract Noun
d) Collective Noun
Answer: Abstract Noun
