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261.
September on the Jessore Road is written by-
  • A Madhusudan Dutt
  • B Allen Ginsberg
  • C Kaisar Hoq
  • D Vikram Seth
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

September on Jessore Road বাংলাদেশের মুক্তিযুদ্ধকালে শরণার্থীদের দুর্দশা নিয়ে লেখা বিখ্যাত কবিতা। রচয়িতা মার্কিন কবি অ্যালেন গিন্সবার্গ।

262.
Identify the correctly spelled one.
  • A Caesarian
  • B Ceasarian
  • C Ciserian
  • D Scissorian
সঠিক উত্তর: Option A

Caesarian (সিজারিয়ান) অর্থ অস্ত্রোপচারের মাধ্যমে সন্তান প্রসব। সঠিক বানান: C-A-E-S-A-R-I-A-N।

263.
What is the function of a topic sentence?
  • A To introduce the topic
  • B To analyse the topic
  • C To present the main idea
  • D To expand the idea
সঠিক উত্তর: Option C

Topic Sentence অনুচ্ছেদের শুরুতে বসে ওই অনুচ্ছেদের মূল ধারণা (main idea) উপস্থাপন করে।

264.
For God's sake hold your tongue and let me love occurs in a novel by-
  • A Jane Austin
  • B Syed Waliullah
  • C Somerset Maugham
  • D Rabindranath Tagore
সঠিক উত্তর: Option D

John Donne-এর "The Canonization" কবিতার এই লাইনটি রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর তাঁর 'শেষের কবিতা' উপন্যাসে অমিত রায়ের মাধ্যমে উদ্ধৃত করেছেন।

265.
To win a prize is my ambition. The underlined part is a/an-
  • A adjective phrase
  • B noun phrase
  • C adverb phrase
  • D conjunctional phrase
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

The infinitive phrase "To win a prize" acts as the subject of the verb "is". A phrase functioning as subject object or complement is a noun phrase.

266.
Choose the word opposite in meaning to "terse"-
  • A concise
  • B detailed
  • C expressive
  • D descriptive
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

'Terse' means sparing in words; abrupt. Its antonym is 'detailed' — long and full of information. 'Concise' is a synonym.

267.
Who's that? In this sentence "that" is a/an-
  • A pronoun
  • B conjunction
  • C adjective
  • D adverb
সঠিক উত্তর: Option A

Here "that" is a demonstrative pronoun standing in for "that person".

268.
What is the noun form of the word "know"?
  • A knowing
  • B knowledge
  • C knowledgeable
  • D Known
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

The noun form of 'know' is 'knowledge' — facts information and skills acquired through experience or education.

269.
Why then 'tis none to you for there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so. This extract is taken from-
  • A King Lear
  • B Macbeth
  • C As You Like It
  • D Hamlet
সঠিক উত্তর: Option D

This philosophical line is spoken by Prince Hamlet to Rosencrantz in Act II Scene 2 of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

270.
Made weak by time and fate but strong in will To strive to seek to find and not to yield is taken from a poem written by-
  • A Robert Browning
  • B Matthew Arnold
  • C Alfred Tennyson
  • D Lord Byron
সঠিক উত্তর: Option C

These are the closing lines of the dramatic monologue "Ulysses" by Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson.

271.
Give somebody a piece of your mind means to-
  • A tell someone that you are very angry with them.
  • B say exactly what you feel or think.
  • C return or help somebody return to a normal situation.
  • D give somebody mental peace
সঠিক উত্তর: Option A

This idiom means to speak angrily to someone because they have done something wrong.

272.
I shall help you provided you obey me. Here the underlined word 'provided' is a/an-
  • A adverb
  • B adjective
  • C conjunction
  • D verb
সঠিক উত্তর: Option C

'Provided' or 'provided that' is used as a subordinating conjunction meaning 'if' or 'on the condition that'.

273.
Identify the correct spelling
  • A questionaire
  • B questionoir
  • C questionnaire
  • D questionair
সঠিক উত্তর: Option C

The correct spelling for the set of printed questions with a choice of answers is 'questionnaire'.

274.
Which "but" is a preposition?
  • A It is but right to admit our faults.
  • B What can we do but sit and wait?
  • C We tried hard but did not succeed.
  • D There is no one but likes him.
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

In sentence (b) 'but' is used as a preposition meaning 'except' or 'other than'. In others it is an adverb or conjunction.

275.
Who is not a romantic poet?
  • A P. B. Shelley
  • B S. T. Coleridge
  • C John Keats
  • D T. S. Eliot
সঠিক উত্তর: Option D

T. S. Eliot was a leading Modernist poet. Shelley Coleridge and Keats were major poets of the Romantic era.

276.
In Shakespeare's play Hamlet was prince of
  • A Norway
  • B Britain
  • C Denmark
  • D France
সঠিক উত্তর: Option C

The full title is "The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark". The setting is the royal castle of Elsinore in Denmark.

277.
Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are characters from the novel-
  • A David Copperfield
  • B The Return of the Native
  • C A Passage to India
  • D Adam Bede
সঠিক উত্তর: Option C

Adela Quested and Mrs. Moore are central characters in E. M. Forster's novel "A Passage to India" (1924).

278.
Shylock is a character in the play-
  • A Twelfth Night
  • B The Merchant of Venice
  • C Romeo and Juliet
  • D Measure for Measure
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

Shylock is the principal antagonist — a Venetian Jewish moneylender — in Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice".

279.
'Vanity Fair' is a novel written by-
  • A D. H. Lawrence
  • B William Makepeace Thackeray
  • C Joseph Conrad
  • D Virginia Woolf
সঠিক উত্তর: Option B

Vanity Fair is a satirical novel by William Makepeace Thackeray first published in 1847-48 critiquing early 19th-century British society.

280.
'Pip' is the protagonist in Charles Dickens' novel-
  • A A Christmas Carol
  • B A Tale of Two Cities
  • C Oliver Twist
  • D Great Expectations
সঠিক উত্তর: Option D

Philip Pirrip (Pip) is the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dickens's novel "Great Expectations" (1861).