35th BCS English MCQ

35th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) English MCQ

01. Let us begin by looking at 'the minutes of the meeting'. Here the quoted word means_______.

a) time record

b) written record

c) time frame

d) written analysis

Answer: b) written record

02. Cricket enjoys a huge _____ in Bangladesh.

a) follow on

b) follow

c) fall out

d) following

Answer: d) following

03. Who wrote the following lines - "All at once I saw / a crowd, a host of golden daffodils"?

a) Wordsworth

b) Shelly

c) Herrick

d) Keats

Answer: a) Wordsworth

04. What would be the right synonym for 'initiative'?

a) apathy

b) enterprise

c) indolence

d) activity

Answer: b) enterprise

05. Which of the following words can be used as a verb?

a) Mister

b) Mistress

c) Master

d) Mastery

Answer: c) Master

06. Who among the following writers is not a Nobel Laureate?

a) T.S. Elliot

b) Grahame Greene

c) Toni Morrison

d) William Faulkner

Answer: b) Grahame Greene

07. The film was directed in the director's usual _____ style.

a) confusion

b) personifying

c) idiosyncratic

d) purifying

Answer: c) idiosyncratic

08. Which word is the determiner in the sentence "Will it take much time?"?

a) will

b) much

c) take

d) time

Answer: b) much

09. The play "Arms and the Man" is by _____

a) James Joyce

b) Arthur Miller

c) Samuel Beckett

d) George Bernard Shaw

Answer:  d) George Bernard Shaw

10. He was a rather "disagreeable" man. Here the quoted word is a/an

a) Noun

b) Adverb

c) Adjective

d) Preposition

Answer: b) Adjective

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11. This could have worked if I _____ been more far-sighted.

a) have

b) had

c) might

d) would

Answer:  b) had

12. The "climax" of a plot is what happens ______

a) in the beginning

b) at the height

c) at the end

d) in the confrontation

Answer:  b) at the height

13. relationship similar to "Harm : Damage" ?

a) Sweet : Sour

b) Stout : Week

c) Injure : Incapacitate

d) Hook : Crook

Answer:  c) Injure : Incapacitate

14. Othello is a Shakespeare's play about _____

a) A Jew

b) A Turk

c) A Roman

d) A Moor

Answer:  d) A Moor

[ Othello: Othello, the Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in approximately 1603, and based on the Italian short story 'Un Capitano Moro' ('A Moorish Captain') by Cinthio, a disciple of Boccaccio, first published in 1565. ]

15. In the 18th Century, the Mughal Empire begun to _____

a) discriminate

b) differentiate

c) disintegrate

d) dislocate

Answer:  c) disintegrate

16. Being fat does not necessarily kill you, but it _____ the risk that you will suffer from nasty diseases.

a) increases

b) encourages

c) emphasizes

d) involves

Answer:   a) increases

17. The poem "Isle of Innisfree" is written by _____

a) Dylan Thomas

b) W.H. Auden

c) Ezra Pound

d) W.B. Yeats

Answer:   W.B. Yeats

[ "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the National Observer in 1890. It was reprinted in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics in 1892 and as an illustrated Cuala Press Broadside in 1932. ]

18. "Riders to the sea" is  _____

a) an epic poem

b) a novella

c) a one-act play

d) a theatrical adaptation of a poem

Answer:   c) a one-act play

[ Riders to the sea: Riders to the Sea is a play written by Irish Literary Renaissance playwright John Millington Synge. It was first performed on 25 February 1904 at the Molesworth Hall, Dublin, by the Irish National Theater Society with Helen Laird playing Maurya. ]

19. It is time to review the "protocol" on testing nuclear weapons. Here the quoted word means _____

a) Record of rules

b) Procedures

c) Summary of rules

d) Problems

Answer:  b) Procedures

20. _____ song haunted me for a long time.

a) These

b) Thus

c) That

d) Those

Answer: c) That

21. The noise level in Dhaka city has increased "exponentially". Here the quoted word means _____

a) amazingly

b) steadily

c) shockingly

d) rapidly

Answer:   d) rapidly

22. Which of the following writers belong to the Elizabethan period?

a) Christopher Marlowe

b) John Dryden

c) Alexander Pope

d) Samuel Beckett

Answer:   a) Christopher Marlowe

23. Women are too often _____ by family commitments.

a) confused

b) contaminated

c) controlled

d) constrained

Answer:   d) constrained

24. "To be, or not to be that is the question" - is a famous dialogue from -

a) Othello

b) Hamlet

c) Romeo and Juliet

d) Macbeth

Answer:   b) Hamlet

25. Class relations and societal conflict is the key understanding of -

a) Feminism

b) Structuralism

c) Formalism

d) Marxism

Answer:   d) Marxism

26. Societies living in the "periphery" are always ignored. Here the quoted word means _____

a) offshore areas

b) remote places

c) marginal areas

d) backward regions

Answer:  c) marginal areas

27. The idiom "A stitch in time saves nine" _____ refers to the importance of -

a) saving lives

b) saving time

c) timely action

d) time tailoring

Answer:   c) timely action

28. Which is the correct sentence?

a) He insisted on seeing her

b) He insisted for seeing her

c) He insisted in seeing her

d) He insisted to be seeing her

Answer: a) He insisted on seeing her

29. The phrase "nouveau riche" means _____

a) Riche rich

b) New high class

c) Well off

d) New rich

Answer: d) New rich

30. What would be the best antonym of "hibernate"?

a) dormancy

b) sluggishness

c) liveliness

d) democracy

Answer:  c) liveliness

31. I am in the process of collecting "material" for my story. The quoted word is _____

a) Verb

b) Adverb

c) Noun

d) Adjective

Answer:   c) Noun

32. Depression if often "hereditary" . here the quoted word is _____

a) Adverb

b) Noun

c) Adjective

d) Verb

Answer:  c) Adjective

33. Find the odd-man-out _____

a) The Bluest Eye

b) As I Lay Dying

c) Sula

d) A Mercy

Answer:   b) As I Lay Dying

34. Find the odd-man-out_____

a) George Eliot

b) Joseph Conrad

c) Thomas Hardy

d) James Joyce

Answer: a) George Eliot