1.
‘To the Ends of the Earth’ is a trilogy
written by :
a. D.H. Lawrence
b.
George Orwell
c. William
Golding
d. Aldous Huxley
2.
Which novel of William Golding won him the Nobel
Prize?
a. Lord of the Flies
b. Rites
of Passage
c. Darkness
Visible
d. The Inheritors
3.
Kingsley Amis is associated with which of the
Literary Movement?
a. Symbolist movement
b.
The Angry Young Man
c. Comedy of Manners
d.
Pre-Raphaelites
4.
Which of the following is a novel by Kingsley
Amis?
a. Ending Up
b. Jake’s Thing
c. The Old Devils
d. All of them
5.
‘Young Shoulders’ is a novel written by :
a. D.H. Lawrence
b.
John Wain
c. William Golding
d.
Aldous Huxley
6.
'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' is a debut novel by :
a. Allan Sillitoe
b.
John Wain
c. William Golding
d.
Aldous Huxley
7.
'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' is a short story written by :
a. Allan Sillitoe
b.
John Wain
c. William Golding
d.
Aldous Huxley
8.
Which one of the following is a work of Henrik
Ibsen?
a. Peer Gynt
b. A Doll’s
House
c. An Enemy of
the People
d. All of them
9.
'The Playboy of the Western World' is a play written by :
a. Allan Sillitoe
b.
John Wain
c. William Golding
d.
Edmund Synge
10.
‘Juno and the Paycock’ is a play written
by :
a. Sean O’Casey
b.
John Wain
c. William Golding
d.
Edmund Synge
11.
Which one of the following is a work by John Osborne?
a. Look Back in Anger
b. The Entertainer
c. Inadmissible Evidence
d. All of them
12.
‘Chicken Soup’ and ‘Their Very Own and
Golden City’ are plays of :
a. Sean O’Casey
b.
Arnold Wesker
c. William
Golding
d. Edmund Synge
13.
Match the following writers with their works:
i.
William Golding - (a) The James Bond Dossier
ii.
Kingsley Amis - (b) Strike the Father Dead
iii.
John Wain - (c) A Man of his Time
iv.
Alan Sillitoe - (d) Pincher Martin
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d,
(iv)-a
c. (i)-d, (ii)-c,
(iii)-a, (iv)-b
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
14.
The Brass Butterfly is a play written by
:
a. Allan Sillitoe
b.
John Wain
c. William
Golding
d. Aldous Huxley
15.
Who among the following is NOT in the group of
writers called ‘The Movement’?
a. Philip Larkin
b.
Kingsley Amis
c. Thom Gunn
d. William Golding
16.
Match the Kingsley Amis’s Novels with their
genre:
i.
Take a Girl Like You - (a) Horror Novel
ii.
Lucky Jim - (b) Comic Novel
iii.
The Green Man - (c) Alternative History
iv.
The Alteration - (d) Campus Novel
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d,
(iv)-a
c. (i)-d, (ii)-c, (iii)-a,
(iv)-b
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
17.
John Wain is associated with which of the
Literary Movement?
a. Symbolist movement
b. The
Movement
c. Comedy of Manners
d. Pre-Raphaelites
18.
Apology
for Understatement is a
poem written by :
a. Allan Sillitoe
b.
John Wain
c. William
Golding
d. Aldous Huxley
19.
Which among the following is an autobiography of
Alan Sillitoe?
a. Life Without Armour
b. Life Goes On
c.
Out of the Whirlpool
d. The
Open Door
20.
Who among the following wrote the ‘Seaton family
trilogy’?
a. Allan Sillitoe
b.
John Wain
c. William
Golding
d. Aldous Huxley
21.
Which among the following Norwegian playwright
is considered as the father of realism?
a. John Osborne
b.
Arnold Wesker
c. Henrik Ibsen
d.
Harold Pinter
22.
Rosmersholm is a masterpiece play written by :
a. John Osborne
b.
Arnold Wesker
c. Henrik Ibsen
d.
Harold Pinter
23.
Which among the Ibsen’s paly tells the story of
a young man, Gregers Werle?
a. Hedda Gabler
b.
The Wild Duck
c. The
Master Builder
d. Catiline
24.
Which year was declared as Ibsen Year by the
Norwegian Government on the occasion of his 100th death anniversary?
a. 2002
b.
2006
c.
2012
d. 2017
25.
Nora is a character in which of the following
Ibsen’s play?
a. A Doll’s House
b.
An Enemy of the People
c. The Wild Duck
d. Hedda
Gabler
26.
Which one of the following is a play by Bernard
Shaw?
a. Major Barbara
b. The Doctor’s Dilemma
c. Caesar and Cleopatra
d. All
27.
Which among the following is a pleasant play of
Bernard Shaw?
a. Widower’s Houses
b. The
Philanderer
c. Arms and the Man
d. Mrs.
Warren’s Profession
28.
‘Man and Superman’ is famous play by :
a. Oscar Wilde
b.
Charles Dickens
c. Bernard Shaw
d. R.L. Stevenson
29.
My Fair Lady is a musical based on which
of George Bernard’s play?
a. Pygmalion
b.
Saint Joan
c. Caesar
and Cleopatra
d. Major Barbara
30.
When Bernard Shaw was awarded Nobel Prize?
a. 1920
b.
1925
c.
1930
d. 1935
31.
Cashel
Byron's Profession and An
Unsocial Socialist are ……….. of Bernand Shaw.
a. Plays
b.
Novels
c. Short
Stories
d.
Poems
32.
The
political treatise, The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and
Capitalism was written by :
a. Ibsen
b.
Shaw
c.
Arnold
d. Tennyson
33.
Match the following works with their authors :
i.
Bernard Shaw - (a) The Well of the Saints
ii.
John Millington Synge - (b)
A Dialogue Between Self and Soul
iii.
Sean O’Casey - (c) The Apple Cart
iv.
W.B. Yeats - (d) The Plough and the Stars
a. (i)-b, (ii)-d, (iii)-a, (iv)-c
b. (i)-b, (ii)-c, (iii)-d,
(iv)-a
c. (i)-d, (ii)-c,
(iii)-a, (iv)-b
d. (i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-d, (iv)-b
34.
The alternate title of Bernard Shaw’s last play Why
She Would Not is :
a. A Little Tragedy
b.
A Little Play
c. A
little Comedy
d. A Little Story
35.
Which among the following is a puppet play
written by Bernard Shaw?
a. Farfetched Fables
b. Buoyant Billions
c. Shakes versus Shav
d. A Village Wooing
36.
The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her
Search for God is a book of short stories written by :
a. Shaw
b.
Yeats
c.
Synge
d. Ibsen
37.
When was Abbey Theatre opened to the public?
a. 1901
b.
1902
c.
1903
d. 1904
38.
Who among the following is NOT associated with
Irish Literary Revival?
a. Lady Gregory
b.
W.B. Yeats
c. Sean O’
Casey
d. James Joyce
39.
Which among the following is a play by Sean O’
Casey?
a. Red Roses for Me
b. Cock-a-Doodle Dandy
c. The End of the
Beginning
d. All
40.
What is Act III of Shaw’s Man and Superman
famously called?
a. Ann Whitefield in Pursuit
b. John Tanner
c. Don Juan in Turkey
d. Don
Juan in Hell
41.
The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
was first serialized in :
a. The Criterion
b.
The Egoist
c. The
Scrutiny
d. Times
Literary Supplement
42.
The plays of W.B. Yeats were influenced by :
a. Indian theatre
b.
Japanese theatre
c.
French theatre
d. African theatre
43.
Name Yeat’s long narrative poem which draws on
Gaelic legends :
a. The Circus Animals’ Desertion
b.
An Irishman Foresees His Death
c. The Wild Swans at Coole
d. The
Wanderings of Oisin
44.
The character King Magnus appears in Shaw’s play
:
a. Back to Methuselah
b. John Bull’s Other Island
c. Androcles and the Lion
d. The
Apple Cart
45.
Which of the following is one of the later
political novels of Joseph Conrad, which move away from his earlier theme of
seafaring?
a. The Secret Agent
b. The Man of Property
c.
A Great Man
d. The Prime Minister
46.
Who said, “I write plays with the deliberate
object of converting the nation to my opinion in these matters”?
a. G.B. Shaw
b.
Oscar Wilde
c.
Henrik Ibsen
d. W.B. Yeats
47.
“We have no more right to consume happiness
without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it” – this is a
line from :
a. Man and Superman
b. Candida
c.
The Apple Cart
d. The
Arms and the Man
48.
Which of the following is NOT true about the
play Pygmalion?
i.
There are five acts in Pygmalion.
ii.
Eliza married Freddy Eynsford Hill, not Higgins.
iii.
The play has a Preface and an Epilogue.
iv.
Higgins represents Pygmalion and Eliza
represents Galatea
a. (i) only
b.
(i) and (ii)
c.
(ii) and (iii)
d. None of these
49.
Which of the following is NOT the theme of Pygmalion?
a. Mother-fixation
b.
Man-woman relationship
c. Life force
d.
Art for Art’s Sake
50.
Match the following :
i.
Sir Colenso Ridgeon - (a) Arms and the Man
ii.
Andrew Undershaft - (b) The Apple Cart
iii.
Magnus - (c) Candida
iv.
Bluntschli - (d) Major Barbara
v.
Eugene Marchbanks - (e) The Doctor’s Dilemma
a. (i)-d, (ii)-e, (iii)-b, (iv)-a, (v)-c
b.
(i)-e, (ii)-d, (iii)-b, (iv)-a, (v)-c
c. (i)-e, (ii)-c, (iii)-b, (iv)-d, (v)-a
d.
(i)-c, (ii)-a, (iii)-b, (iv)-e, (v)-d
1. C
ReplyDelete2. A
3. B
4. D
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. D
9. D
10. A
11. D
12. B
13. B
14. C
15. D
16. A
17. B
18. B
19. A
20. A
21. C
22. C
23. B
24. B
25. A
26. D
27. C
28. C
29. A
30. B
31. B
32. B
33. D
34. C
35. C
36. A
37. D
38. D
39. D
40. D
41. B
42. B
43. D
44. D
45. A
46. A
47. B
48. D
49. D
50. B