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১.
Who is regarded as the Father of English Prose?
  1. ক
    ক) John Wycliff
  2. খ
    খ) Sir Thomas Malory
  3. গ
    গ) Arthur Golding
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) William Langland
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) John Wycliff
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) John Wycliff
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
John Wycliffe (1324 - 1384):
-He is called the father of English prose.
-He Translated Bible / New Testament into English from Latin.
Alfred the Great is being called the founder of English prose.
Francis Bacon is the Father of English Essay and Father of Modern Prose.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.
২.
‘The Divine Comedy’ is a/an -
  1. ক
    ক) Epic
  2. খ
    খ) Play
  3. গ
    গ) Novel
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Short Story
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Epic
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Epic
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321):
-Father of Italian Language or The Supreme Poet of Italy.
-He wrote the monumental epic 'The Divine Comedy. It is usually held to be one of the world's great works of literature.
-The Divine Comedy Divided into three major sections--Inferno. Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
-His famous poem is Inferno. It is the first part of The Divine Comedy.
Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopedia Britannica.
৩.
‘Amoretti’ was written by -
  1. ক
    ক) Edmund Spenser
  2. খ
    খ) John Webster
  3. গ
    গ) Philip Sidney
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Willam Sidney Porter
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Edmund Spenser
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Edmund Spenser
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
Edmund Spenser (1552-99):
-Edmund Spenser is called the poet of poets.
-His famous sonnet collection is Amoretti.
His notable works:
-The Faerie Queene (Epic),
-The Shepherds Calendar,
-The Ruins of Time.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopedia Britannica.
৪.
Who wrote ‘Ralph Roister Doister’?
  1. ক
    ক) Richard Hooker
  2. খ
    খ) Nicholas Udall
  3. গ
    গ) Ben Jonson
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Thomas Sackville
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Nicholas Udall
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Nicholas Udall
খ
ব্যাখ্যা
Nicholas Udall (1505-1556): English playwright, translator, and schoolmaster.
- He is a writer from Elizabethan age.
- He wrote 'Ralph Roister Doister (1553)' which is the first English Comedy.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman.
৫.
Which literary work is by Ben Jonson?
  1. ক
    ক) Arcadia
  2. খ
    খ) Volpone
  3. গ
    গ) The Prince
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Tintern Abbey
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Volpone
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Volpone
খ
ব্যাখ্যা
Ben Jonson (1572-1637):
English Stuart dramatist, lyric poet, and literary critic.
Volpone (1605) is a famous play written by Ben Jonson. Its important character are Volpone, Mosca, Celia, Bonario, Corvino.
His other major plays are-
-Every Man in His Humour (1598),
-The Silent Woman (1609),
-The Alchemist (1610),
-Bartholomew Fair (1614).
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
৬.
‘Orlando’ is a character of the play -
  1. ক
    ক) As You Like It
  2. খ
    খ) Twelfth Night
  3. গ
    গ) King Lear
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) The Taming of the Shrew
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) As You Like It
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) As You Like It
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
'As You Like It' is a famous comedy by William Shakespeare.
Important characters of 'As You Like It':
-Oliver,
-Orlando,
-Rosalind etc.
Source:Encyclopedia Britannica.
৭.
Which one is not written by John Milton -
  1. ক
    ক) Paradise Lost
  2. খ
    খ) Paradise Regained
  3. গ
    গ) Lycidas
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Hudibras
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) Hudibras
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) Hudibras
ঘ
ব্যাখ্যা
John Milton is called Epic Poet. He is also called 'A great master of verse in Puritan Period'.
- His famous epics are Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
- 'Lycidas' is a famous Elegy written by John Milton.

- Hudibras is an English mock-heroic narrative poem by Samuel Butler.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman
৮.
The literary work ‘All for Love’ is written by -
  1. ক
    ক) John Dryden
  2. খ
    খ) John Donne
  3. গ
    গ) John Locke
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) John Bunyan
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) John Dryden
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) John Dryden
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
John Dryden is the father of Modern English Criticism.
Famous works of John Dryden:
-All for Love,
-The Mistaken Husband,
-Absalom and Achitophel,
-Mac Flecknoe etc.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
৯.
‘Comedy of Manners’ was written by -
  1. ক
    ক) Aphra Behn
  2. খ
    খ) Samuel Butler
  3. গ
    গ) William Congreve
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) William Wycherley
সঠিক উত্তর: গ
গ) William Congreve
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: গ
গ) William Congreve
গ
ব্যাখ্যা
‘Comedy of Manners’ was written by William Congreve.
-He is a writer from The Restoration Period.

His other notable works are:
-The Double Dealer,
-Love for Love,
-The Way of The World,
-The Old Bachelor etc.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman.
১০.
‘Robinson Crusoe’ is a/an -
  1. ক
    ক) Short Story
  2. খ
    খ) Novel
  3. গ
    গ) Play
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Poem
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Novel
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Novel
খ
ব্যাখ্যা
Daniel Defoe (1659 - 1761):
-He was an English novelist, pamphleteer, and journalist.
-His famous novels are- Robinson Crusoe, Captain Singleton.
-Characters of Robinson Crusoe are: Robinson Crusoe, Friday, Xury.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
১১.
Thomas Gray is well known for his -
  1. ক
    ক) Elegy
  2. খ
    খ) Tragedy
  3. গ
    গ) Comedy
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Satire
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Elegy
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Elegy
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
Thomas Gray was an English poet. Mostly Famous for his Elegies.
Famous works:
-Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751),
-Alexander's Feast,
-Ode to Adversity,
-The Bard.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
১২.
The poem ‘Isabella’ was written by -
  1. ক
    ক) P.B. Shelley
  2. খ
    খ) William Wordsworth
  3. গ
    গ) William Blake
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) John Keats
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) John Keats
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) John Keats
ঘ
ব্যাখ্যা

John Keats (1795 - 1821):
John Keats was a writer from the Romantic period.
- He belonged to the Nineteenth century.
- He is called the Poet of beauty.
His notable works are:
- Isabella
- Endymion (1818),
- Hyperion (1820),
- Ode to a Nightingale,
- Ode to Autumn,
- Odes and Other Poems,
- Letters.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman & Britannica.

১৩.
The full name of E.M. Forster is -
  1. ক
    ক) Emerson Milford Forster
  2. খ
    খ) Edward Morgan Forster
  3. গ
    গ) Edward Milford Forster
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Earnest Morgan Forster
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Edward Morgan Forster
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) Edward Morgan Forster
খ
ব্যাখ্যা
E.M. Forster (1879-1970):
-In full Edward Morgan Forster.
-British novelist, essayist, and social and literary critic.
-His fame rests largely on his novels Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924).
Foster's other works:
-Aspects of Novel,
-Where Angels Fear to Tread,
-The Longest Journey,
-A Room With a View,
-The Celestial Omnibus(Collection of short stories).
source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopedia Britannica.
১৪.
‘Winston Churchill’ got Nobel Prize in Literature in the year of -
  1. ক
    ক) 1947
  2. খ
    খ) 1948
  3. গ
    গ) 1953
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) 1955
সঠিক উত্তর: গ
গ) 1953
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: গ
গ) 1953
গ
ব্যাখ্যা
Winston Churchill, British statesman, orator, author and prime minister (1940-45, 1951-55).
-In 1953 Churchill was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature ''for his mastery of historical and biographical description as well as for brilliant oratory in defending exalted human values''.
Source: nobelprize.org.
১৫.
Who is a Nobel Prize winner American woman novelist?
  1. ক
    ক) Pearl S. Buck
  2. খ
    খ) Austen
  3. গ
    গ) Woolf
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Bronte
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Pearl S. Buck
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Pearl S. Buck
ক
ব্যাখ্যা

Pearl S. Buck is an American novelist and writer.
-She was awarded the Nobel prize in 1938 for her rich and truly epic description of peasant life in China. The name of the novel was 'The Good Earth'.
-Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.

১৬.
Who wrote the play ‘Desire Under the Elms’?
  1. ক
    ক) Eugene O’Neil
  2. খ
    খ) Francis Fokuama
  3. গ
    গ) Gunnar Myrdal
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) E.M. Forster
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Eugene O’Neil
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Eugene O’Neil
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953):
American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936.
- ‘Desire Under the Elms’ is a play written by Eugene O'Neill.
His other plays-
-The Hairy Ape,
-Anna Christie (1922),
-Strange Interlude (1928),
-Ah! Wilderness (1933),
-The Iceman Cometh (1946),
-Long Day’s Journey into Night.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
১৭.
Who wrote the short story ‘Heart of the West’?
  1. ক
    ক) O’ Henry
  2. খ
    খ) Joseph Conrad
  3. গ
    গ) Edgar Allan Poe
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Noam Chomsky
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) O’ Henry
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) O’ Henry
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
The real name of O'Henry is William Sidney Porter.
His famous works:
- Heart of the West,
- The Gift of the Magi,
- Sixes and Sevens,
- Roads of Destiny,
- Cabbage and Kings,
- The Four million,
- The Voice of the city etc.
Source: Encyclopedia britannica.
১৮.
‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a play written by -
  1. ক
    ক) T.S. Eliot
  2. খ
    খ) W.B. Yeats
  3. গ
    গ) Ted Hughes
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Toni Morrison
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) T.S. Eliot
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) T.S. Eliot
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
T. S. Elliot is an American Born British poet, dramatist and social critic.
-He is famous for his 'Theory of Objective correlative'.

His well known plays:
-Murder in the Cathedral,
-The Cocktail Party,
-The Trail of a Judge etc.

His notable works:
-The Waste Land (1922),
-Four Quartets,
-The Hollow Men,
-Ash Wednesday etc.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman.
১৯.
Who is not an American poet?
  1. ক
    ক) Robert Frost
  2. খ
    খ) W.B Yeats
  3. গ
    গ) Emily Dickinson
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Walt Whitman
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) W.B Yeats
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: খ
খ) W.B Yeats
খ
ব্যাখ্যা
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):
- Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century.
- He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman are three American poets.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
২০.
Who wrote the novel ‘Of Human Bondage’?
  1. ক
    ক) William Hunter
  2. খ
    খ) W.H. Auden
  3. গ
    গ) William Faulkner
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) William Somerset Maugham
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) William Somerset Maugham
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) William Somerset Maugham
ঘ
ব্যাখ্যা
William Somerset Maugham is a English novelist, playwright and story writer.
His famous Novels are-
- Of Human Bondage,
- The Sacred Flames,
- The Razor's Edge,
- The Moon and Sixpence etc.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica and An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman.
২১.
Who wrote the novel ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’?
  1. ক
    ক) Bertrand Russell
  2. খ
    খ) Emily Bronte
  3. গ
    গ) Christina Rossetti
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Gabriel Garcia
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) Gabriel Garcia
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ঘ
ঘ) Gabriel Garcia
ঘ
ব্যাখ্যা
Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist and one of the greatest writers of the 20th century.
-He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982.
-His masterpiece work 'One Hundred Years of Solitude'.
His other notable works are:
- Love in the Time of Cholera,
- No One Writes to the Colonel,
- The Leaf Storm,
- Memories of My Melancholy Whores,
- News of a Kidnapping etc.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.
২২.
‘Twelfth Night’ is a -
  1. ক
    ক) Comedy
  2. খ
    খ) Tragedy
  3. গ
    গ) Historical play
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Tagi-comedy
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Comedy
উত্তর
সঠিক উত্তর: ক
ক) Comedy
ক
ব্যাখ্যা
Notable comedy of William Shakespeare:
- Twelfth night,
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Two gentlemen of Verona,
- The Merchant of Venice,
- As you like it,
- All's well that ends well,
- A Midsummer Night Dreams,
- The tempest.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica.