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১.
The literary work 'Pygmalion' was written by Nobel Prize winner-
  1. ক
    ক) W.B.Yeats
  2. খ
    খ) Harold Pinter
  3. গ
    গ) G.B. Shaw
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) T.S. Eliot
ব্যাখ্যা
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950):
Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.
Famous Plays of G.B. Shaw are-
Pygmalion
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Arms and the Man
Heartbreak House
Caesar and Cleopatra
Man and Superman
The Doctor’s Dilemma
St. Joan of Arc
[Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica]
২.
Who is the author of the novel 'Brave New World'?
  1. ক
    ক) Harold Pinter
  2. খ
    খ) Aldous Huxley
  3. গ
    গ) John Masefield
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Victor Hugo
ব্যাখ্যা

Aldous Huxley(1894–1963), English novelist and critic. He remains best known for one novel, ‘Brave New World (1932)’, a model for much dystopian science fiction that followed.
His other notable works: Eyeless in Gaza, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan, Point Counter Point, Crome Yellow, Antic Hay, The Doors of Perception, Those Barren Leaves, The Devils of Loudun etc.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]

 
৩.
Alice Munro is a Canadian-
  1. ক
    ক) Poet
  2. খ
    খ) Dramatist
  3. গ
    গ) Science fiction writer
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Short story writer
ব্যাখ্যা
Alice Munro:
Canadian short-story writer who gained international recognition with her exquisitely drawn narratives.
-The Swedish Academy dubbed her a “master of the contemporary short story” when it awarded her the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2013.
Her notable works: Runaway, Dance of the Happy Shades, The Lives of Girls and Women, The Bear Came over the Mountain, The View from Castle Rock, Dear Life, etc.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
৪.
Who wrote the book ‘The Luminous Sparks’?
  1. ক
    ক) A. C. Bradley
  2. খ
    খ) Marshall Mcluhan
  3. গ
    গ) A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Arthur Miller
ব্যাখ্যা
The Luminous Sparks:
A Biography In Verse And Colours Written By Dr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam.
Other notable works of A.P.J. Abdul Kalam: Wings of Fire, Ignited Mind, Inspiring Thought, Turning Points, You are Born to Bloom, Target 3 Billion, Indomitable Spirit, My Journey etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
৫.
Who wrote the preamble of Rabindranath Tagore’s ''Song Offerings''?
  1. ক
    ক) T.S. Eliot
  2. খ
    খ) William Wordsworth
  3. গ
    গ) Alexander Pope
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) W.B.Yeats
ব্যাখ্যা
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939):
- Irish dramatist, poet and critic.
- He is famous for his use of “Symbolism and Mysticism”.
- He wrote the preamble of Tagore's ''Song Offerings'' in 1912, which later got nobel prize in 1913.
- W.B Yeats got the Nobel prize in 1923.
Major Works:
Poems: The wild swans at coole, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other poems, The Resurrection, The Second Coming, The Cat and the Moon, Byzantium, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Among School Children, The Lord of Harts, falling of leaves, A prayer for My Daughter, When You Are Old.
Drama: The countess Cathleen, Cathleen in Houlihan.
[Source: Brittanica.com and Live MCQ Lecture]
৬.
‘The Raven’ is a famous poem written by-
  1. ক
    ক) T.S. Eliot
  2. খ
    খ) W.B. Yeats
  3. গ
    গ) G.B. Shaw
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Edgar Allan Poe
ব্যাখ্যা
Edgar Allan Poe(1809–49):
American short-story writer, poet, critic, and editor who is famous for his cultivation of mystery and the macabre.
His tale ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue'' (1841) initiated the modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of horror is unrivaled in American fiction.
His some other notable works are:
- The Black Cat
- The Tell-Tale Heart
- The Masque of the Red Death
- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- The Fall of the House of Usher etc.
His ''The Raven'' (1845) numbers among the best-known poems in the national literature.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
৭.
Who wrote ‘The Cantos’?
  1. ক
    ক) T.S. Eliot
  2. খ
    খ) Ezra Pound
  3. গ
    গ) W.B. Yeats
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Robert Browning
ব্যাখ্যা
The Cantos, collection of poems by Ezra Pound(American poet and critic), who began writing these more or less philosophical reveries in 1915.
- The first were published in Poetry magazine in 1917; through the decades, the writing of cantos gradually became Pound’s major poetic occupation, and the last were published in 1968.
-The complete edition of The Cantos (1970) consists of 117 sections.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
৮.
George Orwell's novel ‘Nineteen Eighty Four’ was published in-
  1. ক
    ক) 1945
  2. খ
    খ) 1949
  3. গ
    গ) 1967
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) 1984
ব্যাখ্যা
Nineteen Eighty-four, novel by English author George Orwell (pseudonym of Eric Arthur Blair) published in 1949 as a warning against totalitarianism. His other famous novel is ‘Animal Farm (1945)’.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
৯.
‘The Power and the Glory’ a famous work of-
  1. ক
    ক) Graham Greene
  2. খ
    খ) Mark Twain
  3. গ
    গ) William Faulkner
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) James Joyce
ব্যাখ্যা
Graham Greene(2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991):
-In full Henry Graham Greene.
-English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist whose novels treat life’s moral ambiguities in the context of contemporary political settings.
His notable works: Brighton Rock, The Power and the Glory (1940), The End of the Affair, A Burnt-Out Case, The Comedians, Our Man in Havana, The Quiet American, The Human Factor, Stamboul Train.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১০.
Which of these is a science fiction novel by English author H.G. Wells?
  1. ক
    ক) Tono-Bungay
  2. খ
    খ) The Stolen Bacillus
  3. গ
    গ) The War of the Worlds
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) The History of Mr. Polly
ব্যাখ্যা
H.G. Wells(1866-1946):
-In full Herbert George Wells.
-English novelist, journalist, sociologist, and historian best known for such science fiction novels as The Time Machine and The War of the Worlds and such comic novels as Tono-Bungay and The History of Mr. Polly.
His other science fiction novels: The Wonderful Visit (1895), The Island of Doctor Moreau (1896), The Invisible Man (1897), The First Men in the Moon (1901), and The Food of the Gods (1904).
He also wrote many short stories, which were collected in The Stolen Bacillus (1895), The Plattner Story (1897), and Tales of Space and Time (1899).
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১১.
‘The Wings of the Dove’ is a novel written by -
  1. ক
    ক) Henry James
  2. খ
    খ) james joyce
  3. গ
    গ) Thomas Hardy
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Joseph Conrad
ব্যাখ্যা
The Wings of the Dove, novel by Henry James, published in 1902.
-It explores one of James’s favourite themes: the cultural clash between naive Americans and sophisticated, often decadent Europeans.
Jame's other novels: Daisy Miller (1879), The Portrait of a Lady (1881), The Bostonians (1886), The Ambassadors (1903), Washington Square etc.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১২.
Which one is a three-act play by John Millington Synge?
  1. ক
    ক) The Maiden Aunt
  2. খ
    খ) Love Thy Neighbour
  3. গ
    গ) A Memory of Two Mondays
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) The Playboy of the Western World
ব্যাখ্যা
J.M. Synge(1871-1909):
In full John Millington Synge, leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance. The Playboy of the Western World, comedy in three acts by J.M. Synge, published and produced in 1907.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১৩.
‘Ulysses’ is a novel written by ___ James Joyce.
  1. ক
    ক) American writer
  2. খ
    খ) Irish writer
  3. গ
    গ) Canadian writer
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) French writer
ব্যাখ্যা
Ulysses, novel by Irish writer James Joyce, first published in book form in 1922.
The novel is constructed as a modern parallel to Homer’s Odyssey.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১৪.
Who among the following voluntarily refused the Nobel Prize?
  1. ক
    ক) Jean-paul Sartre
  2. খ
    খ) Pearl S. Buck
  3. গ
    গ) Harold Pinter
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Alice Munro
ব্যাখ্যা
Jean-Paul Sartre(1905–1980):
-He was a French novelist, playwright, and philosopher.
-A leading figure in 20th-century French philosophy, he was an exponent of a philosophy of existence known as existentialism.
His most notable works included Nausea (1938), Being and Nothingness (1943), and Existentialism and Humanism (1946).He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, but he declined it.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১৫.
‘Salt-Water Ballads’ is a literary work by-
  1. ক
    ক) John Masefield
  2. খ
    খ) Mattthew Arnold
  3. গ
    গ) Shakespeares
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) W. H. Auden.
ব্যাখ্যা
John Masefield(1878-1967):
-He is a British poet.
-Best known for his poems of the sea, ‘Salt-Water Ballads’ (1902, including “Sea Fever” and “Cargoes”), and for his long narrative poems, such as ‘The Everlasting Mercy’ (1911).
His other notable works: Dauber, Reynard the Fox.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১৬.
‘Around the World in Eighty Days’ is a adventure novel written by-
  1. ক
    ক) Orhan Pamuk
  2. খ
    খ) Jules Verne
  3. গ
    গ) Victor Hugo
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) H.G. Wells
ব্যাখ্যা
Around the World in Eighty Days, travel adventure novel by French author Jules Verne, published serially in 1872 in Le Temps and in book form in 1873.
His notable works: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, The Mysterious Island, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, From the Earth to the Moon, Five Weeks in a Balloon.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১৭.
Who wrote the historical novel ‘War and Peace’?
  1. ক
    ক) J.W. von Goethe
  2. খ
    খ) Leo Tolstoy
  3. গ
    গ) Gustave Flaubert
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Boris Pasternak
ব্যাখ্যা
Leo Tolstoy(1828-1910):
Russian author Leo Tolstoy is considered a master of realistic fiction and one of the world’s greatest novelists, especially known for his two longest works, War and Peace (1865–69) and Anna Karenina (1875–77), which are commonly regarded as among the finest novels ever written..
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
১৮.
Who was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature?
  1. ক
    ক) Alice Munro
  2. খ
    খ) Pearl S. Buck
  3. গ
    গ) Toni Morrison
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Doris Lessing
ব্যাখ্যা
Pearl S. Buck(1892 - 1973):
-She 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.
-Pearl S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature.
Works: The good earth, Pavilion of women, Imperial women, A House Divided.
[Source: Live MCQ lecture.]
১৯.
‘Mending Wall’ is a poem by-
  1. ক
    ক) Matthew Arnold
  2. খ
    খ) W.B. Yeats
  3. গ
    গ) T.S. Eliot
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Robert Frost
ব্যাখ্যা
Robert Frost(1874-1963): He is an American poet.
His famous poems: Road not Taken, Mending Wall, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Christmas Trees, A Boy’s Will, North of Boston, Nothing Gold Can Stay, After Apple-picking, Home Burial, A Way Out.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture]
২০.
Who wrote the absurd play 'Waiting for Godot'?
  1. ক
    ক) Arthur Miller
  2. খ
    খ) Samuel Beckett
  3. গ
    গ) Tennessee Williams
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Edward Albee
ব্যাখ্যা
Samuel Becket(1906-1989):
He is an Irish novelist, author, critic, and playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969. He wrote in both French and English and is perhaps best known for his plays, especially Waiting for Godot(Absurd play).
His Other notable works: The Unnamable, Molloy, Watt, Endgame, Malone Dies, Murphy, Krapp’s Last Tape, Dream of Fair to Middling Women, Whoroscope etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
২১.
‘Les Miserable’ is a famous French novel by-
  1. ক
    ক) Alexandre Dumas
  2. খ
    খ) Gustave Flaubert
  3. গ
    গ) Victor Hugo
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Jules Verne
ব্যাখ্যা
Victor Hugo(1802-1885): He is a French Poet, Novelist and Dramatist.
His famous Novels are Les Miserable, Ninety-Three, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (First Novel), The Man Who Laughs. Autumn Leaves, Songs of the Twilight, Inner Voice, Rays and Shadows his famous poems.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture]
২২.
Among the following, who is famous for 'Presentation of inner realities'?
  1. ক
    ক) T.S. Eliot
  2. খ
    খ) James Joyce
  3. গ
    গ) Virginia Woolf
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) W.H. Auden
ব্যাখ্যা
Virginia woolf(1882–1941):
She was a British female novelist. She is famous for ‘Presentation of inner realities’.
Her famous novels are: The Voyage Out (first novel), To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando: A biography etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture]
২৩.
‘The Sound and the Fury’ and ‘As I Lay Dying’ written by-
  1. ক
    ক) Ernest Hemingway
  2. খ
    খ) William Faulkner
  3. গ
    গ) E.M. Forster
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Thomas Hardy
ব্যাখ্যা
William Faulkner(1897-1962):
-American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
-He is best remembered for his novels ‘The Sound and the Fury (1929)’, ‘As I Lay Dying (1930)’, ‘Sanctuary (1931)’, and ‘Absalom, Absalom! (1936)’ etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture]
২৪.
William Gerald Golding awarded Nobel Prize in 1983 for his novel -
  1. ক
    ক) Free Fall
  2. খ
    খ) Lord of the Files
  3. গ
    গ) Darkness Visible
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) The Pyramid
ব্যাখ্যা
William Gerald Golding(1911-1993):
-British novelist, dramatist and poet.
-Awarded Nobel Prize in 1983 for his novel ‘Lord of the Files’.
His other Notable works: Darkness Visible,The Pyramid, Pincher Martin, Free Fall, The Inheritors, The Spire etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
২৫.
The literary work ‘The Land of Promise' is-
  1. ক
    ক) A novel by D.H. Lawrence
  2. খ
    খ) A short story by Samuel Beckett
  3. গ
    গ) A play by W. Somerset Maugham
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) A poem by T.S. Eliot
ব্যাখ্যা
William Somerset Maugham(1874 – 1965):
He is a novelist playwright and story writer. He wrote the play 'The Land of Promise'.
His famous Novels are- Of Human Bondage, The Sacred Flames, The Razor's Edge, Cakes and Ale, The Musician, The Moon and Sixpence, Lady Frederick.
Short Stories: The Ant and the Grasshopper, the Luncheon.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture.]
২৬.
Alexandre Dumas was a famous-
  1. ক
    ক) German poet
  2. খ
    খ) Russian novelist
  3. গ
    গ) French author
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Canadian writer
ব্যাখ্যা
Alexandre Dumas one of the most prolific and most popular French authors of the 19th century. Without ever attaining indisputable literary merit, Dumas succeeded in gaining a great reputation first as a dramatist and then as a historical novelist, especially for such works as ‘The Count of Monte Cristo’ and ‘The Three Musketeers’.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
২৭.
‘The White Peacock’ is a novel written by-
  1. ক
    ক) W.B. Yeats
  2. খ
    খ) Thomas Hardy
  3. গ
    গ) H.G. Wells
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) D.H. Lawrence
ব্যাখ্যা
D.H. Lawrence(1885-1930):
In full David Herbert Lawrence.
-English author of novels, short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel books, and letters.
-His novels Sons and Lovers (1913), The Rainbow (1915), and Women in Love (1920) made him one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century.
His other novels: The White Peacock, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Aaron’s Rod, Kangaroo etc.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
২৮.
Which of the following novels was written by Ernest Hemingway?
  1. ক
    ক) A Passage to India
  2. খ
    খ) In Our Time
  3. গ
    গ) A Room with a View
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) To Have and Have not
ব্যাখ্যা
Ernest Hemingway(1899-1961): He is an American novelist and short-story writer.
To Have and Have Not, minor novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1937.
His other famous novels are- For Whom The Bell Tolls, The Old Man and The Sea, A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon.
In 1925 his first important book, a collection of stories called In Our Time, was published in New York City; it was originally released in Paris in 1924.
[Source: Live MCQ Lecture and Encyclopaedia Britannica]
২৯.
‘Love in the Time of Cholera’ is a novel written by-
  1. ক
    ক) Isabel Allende
  2. খ
    খ) Carlos Fuentes
  3. গ
    গ) Alejo Carpentier
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ব্যাখ্যা
Gabriel García Márquez(1927-2014):
-He was one of the best-known Latin American writers in history.
-Love in the Time of Cholera, novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, published in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del cólera. The story, which treats the themes of love, aging, and death, takes place between the late 1870s and the early 1930s in a South American community troubled by wars and outbreaks of cholera.
-It is a tale of two lovers, artistic Florentino Ariza and wealthy Fermina Daza, who reunite after a lifetime apart.
[Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica]
৩০.
‘We are only strong as we are united as weak as we are divided’ is a quote by-
  1. ক
    ক) G.B. Shaw
  2. খ
    খ) John Keats
  3. গ
    গ) J.K. Rowling
  4. ঘ
    ঘ) Robert Browning
ব্যাখ্যা
‘We are only strong as we are united as weak as we are divided’ is a quote by J.K. Rowling.
She is a British author, creator of the popular and critically acclaimed Harry Potter series.[ Verified Source: https://www.researchgate.net/]