৫০তম BCS

১. Which play is filled with nonsensical conversations, meaningless dialogues, and characters who often become forgetful?

২. In Gulliver’s Travels, which of these traits Swift does not show in his depiction of the land of the Lilliput?

৩. Which of these is not characteristic of English Romantic Poetry?

৪. In which of these poems did Matthew Arnold express a pessimistic worldview, reflecting on a world full of conflicts and lacking in joy, evincing an implicit criticism of Victorian era’s aggressive spirit?

৫. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility’ is a statement ascribed to-

৬. In William Shakeseapre’s play As you like it, the Seven Ages of Man speech was delivered by-

৭. Which novel chronicles intense, destructive love fueling multigenerational cruelty & obsession?

৮. Themes like racial prejudice, oppressive power dynamics, unbridgeable gulf between Eastern & Western cultures, etc. are best exemplified in-

৯. Which of these works contains a defence of the right of freedom of speech and expression?

১০. The lines ‘A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,/ A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread – and Thou/ Beside me singing in the Wilderness….’ are taken from a famous translation work by.

১১. The killing of albatross in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner was indicative of-