Unit-III Part-V

1.      John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger is a :

                        a.  History Play   

                        b. Kitchen Sink Drama      

                        c. Political Play 

                        d. Heroic Drama

2.      Which of the statements is true?

a.      The "angry young men" were a group of mostly working and middle class British playwrights and novelists who became prominent in the 1950s.

b.      Kitchen sink realism is a British cultural movement that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

c.      The term "Angry theatre" was coined by critic John Russell Taylor.

d.      All of them

3.      Which among the following is a play by Arnold Wesker?

                        a.  Roots        

                        b. The Kitchen  

                        c. Their Very Own and Golden City  

                        d. All of them

4.      Match the following books with their authors :

                 i.          The Birth of Shylock and the Death of Zero Mostel                       -              (a) Samuel Beckett

                ii.          A Patriot for Me                                                                                 -              (b) Tom Stoppard

               iii.          Dream of Fair to Middling Women                                                   -              (c) John Osborne

               iv.          Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead                                        -              (d) Arnold Wesker

                  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

5.      All Things Tire of Themselves is a collection of poetry written by :

                        a.  Arnold Wesker  

                        b. John Osborne      

                        c. W.B. Yeats      

                        d. John Wain

6.      Chicken Soup with Barley is a play written by :

                        a.  Arnold Wesker    

                        b. John Osborne

                        c. W.B. Yeats 

                        d. John Wain

7.      Who among the following is NOT associated with “Angry young men” group?

                        a. John Osborne    

                        b. Allan Sillitoe 

                        c. Arnold Wesker 

                        d. Henrik Ibsen

8.      Which among the following was the concern of the “Angry young men”?

a.      Impatience with the status quo

b.      Refusal to be co-opted by a bankrupt society

c.      An instinctive solidarity with the lower classes

d.      All of them

9.      Who among the following was NOT a part of ‘The New University Wits’?

                        a.  Christopher Marlowe  

                        b. Kingsley Amis 

                        c. Philip Larkin

                        d. John Wain

10.   A Better Class of Person and Almost a Gentleman are autobiographies written by :

                        a.  Arnold Wesker 

                        b. John Osborne   

                        c. W.B. Yeats   

                        d. John Wain

11.   Which of the following is a play written by John Osborne?

                        a.  The Entertainer    

                        b. Dejavu      

                        c. Personal Enemy  

                        d. All of them

12.   Which of the following is Samuel Beckett’s play which lasts only for 35 seconds and has no characters?

                        a.  Play            

                        b. Breath    

                        c. Come and Go   

                        d. Not I

13.   Who is the author of the play ‘Waiting for Godot’?

                        a.  Harold Pinter       

                        b. Robert Lowell 

                        c. Sally Morgan

                        d. Samuel Beckett

14.   Who among these play writers who perform the title role in Samuel Beckett’s one-act monologue Krapp's Last Tape?

                        a.  Harold Pinter          

                        b. Tom Stoppard  

                        c. Edward Bond 

                        d. Albert Camus

15.   Which among the following statements is true?

a.      Theatre of the Absurd is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s.

b.      The Theatre of the Absurd attacks the comfortable certainties of religious or political orthodoxy.

c.      The mode of most "absurdist" plays is tragicomedy.

d.      All of them

16.   End Game  is a play written by :

                        a.  Harold Pinter    

                        b. Robert Lowell     

                        c. Sally Morgan       

                        d. Samuel Beckett

17.   Which of the following is a ‘memory play’ of Harold Pinter?

                        a.  Not I            

                        b. Waiting for Godot 

                        c. No Man’s land

                        d. Come and Go

18.   Who co-wrote the screen play for 'Shakespeare in Love'?

                        a.  Harold Pinter           

                        b. Tom Stoppard    

                        c. Edward Bond     

                        d. Albert Camus

19.   Which of the following is Tom Stoppard’s only Novel?

                        a.  Lord Malquist and Mr Moon  

                        b. The Nothing

                        c. Never Let Me Go

                        d. The Cleft

20.   Who is the author of the theoretical work  'A Short Organum for the Theatre' which discussed the priorities and approach of epic theatre?

                        a. Erwin Piscator 

                        b. Vladimir Mayakovsky 

                        c. Vsevolod Meyerhold

                        d. Bertolt Brecht

21.   Who among these wrote the play ‘Saved’?

                        a.  Harold Pinter 

                        b. Tom Stoppard       

                        c. Edward Bond 

                        d. Albert Camus

22.   Who among these wrote the play ‘Dea’?

                        a.  Harold Pinter   

                        b. Tom Stoppard        

                        c. Edward Bond 

                        d. Albert Camus

23.   Which among the following is a play written by Harold Pinter?

                        a.  The Birthday Party

                        b. The Homecoming   

                        c. Betrayal 

                        d. All of them

24.   Who among the following is NOT associated with “comedy of menace”?

                        a.  David Compton      

                        b. Harold Pinter

                        c. Nigel Dennis     

                        d. Tom Stoppard

25.   The Servant, The Trial, The French Lieutenant’s Woman and The Go-Between are screenplay adaptations of :

                        a.  Harold Pinter  

                        b. Tom Stoppard    

                        c. Edward Bond    

                        d. Albert Camus

26.   Which among the play is written by Tom Stoppard?
                        a.  Arcadia
                        b. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
                        c. Professional Foul  
                        d. All of them

27.   Match the following works with their authors:

                 i.          The Coast of Utopia                                               -              (a) Iris Murdoch

                ii.          The Angry Roads                                                    -              (b) Tom Stoppard

               iii.          The Grass is Singing                                             -              (c) Edward Bond

               iv.          Jackson’s Dilemma                                                -              (d) Doris Lessing

                  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

28.   Which among the following statements is true about ‘epic theatre’?

a.      The "estrangement effect" or the "alienation effect", which was made popular by Brecht is one of the most significant characteristics of Epic theatre.

b.      Historicisation is a technique employed in epic theatre.

c.      Epic theatre emphasizes the audience's perspective on and reaction to the piece through a variety of techniques that deliberately cause them to individually engage in a different way.

d.     All of them

29.    ………… is a performance convention in which an invisible, imagined wall separates actors from the audience.
                        a.  The fourth wall 
                        b. Soliloquy  
                        c. Alienation    
                        d. Gestus

30.   Which among the following is a play by Edward Bond which reinterprets the life of the rural 19th century poet John Clare?
                        a.  Bingo           
                        b. The Fool     
                        c. The Pope’s Wedding  
                        d. Olly’s Prison

31.   Which among the following is a play by Edward Bond that portrayed the retired Shakespeare as an exploitative landlord?
                        a.  Bingo           
                        b. The Fool     
                        c. The Pope’s Wedding  
                        d. Olly’s Prison                      

32.   The Man Booker Prize award winning novel ‘The Remains of the Day’ is written by :
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro
                        b. Doris Lessing      
                        c. V.S. Naipaul     
                        d. Tom Stoppard

33.   Which of the following is Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel?
                        a.  The Buried Giant 
                        b. Never Let Me Go
                        c. An Artist of the Floating World 
                        d. All of them

34.   ‘The Buddha of Suburbia’ is written by :
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro
                        b. Hanif Kureishi      
                        c. V.S. Naipaul     
                        d. Tom Stoppard

35.   Who is the writer of five novels collectively called ‘Children of Violence’?
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro
                        b. Doris Lessing      
                        c. V.S. Naipaul     
                        d. Tom Stoppard

36.   Who is the writer of five novels collectively called 'The Canopus in Argos'?
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro
                        b. Doris Lessing      
                        c. V.S. Naipaul     
                        d. Tom Stoppard

37.   Doris Lessing’s  ‘The Canopus in Argos’ is :
                        a.  Drama 
                        b. Collection  of Short Stories
                        c. Science Fiction
                        d. Autobiography

38.   Which of the following Novel of Doris Lessing is considered as a feminist classic?
                        a.  The Golden Notebook 
                        b. All and Everything
                        c. The Cleft
                        d. The Sweetest Dream

39.   Match the following writers with their native land :

                 i.          Tom Stoppard                                           -              (a)Ireland

                ii.          Doris Lessing                                            -              (b)Japan

               iii.          Iris Murdoch                                             -              (c)Iran

               iv.          Kazuo Ishiguro                                         -              (d)Czechoslovakia

                  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

40.   Match the following writers with their year of Nobel Prize winning :

                 i.          Doris Lessing                                            -              (a) 2005

                ii.          Kazuo Ishiguro                                         -              (b) 2007

               iii.          Harold Pinter                                            -              (c) 2001

               iv.          V.S. Naipaul                                              -              (d) 2017

                  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

41.   The Good Terrorist is a political novel written by :
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro
                        b. Doris Lessing      
                        c. V.S. Naipaul     
                        d. Tom Stoppard

42.   Whose Nobel lecture was titled as On Not Winning the Nobel Prize?
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro
                        b. Doris Lessing      
                        c. V.S. Naipaul     
                        d. Tom Stoppard

43.   Who wrote the novel  ‘Under The Net’?
                        a.  Emily Dickinson 
                        b. Edward Bond  
                        c. Iris Murdoch  
                        d. Les Murray

44.   The Booker Prize winning Novel ‘The Sea, The Sea’ is written by : 
                        a.  Emily Dickinson 
                        b. Edward Bond  
                        c. Iris Murdoch  
                        d. Les Murray

45.   Which of the following is Jeanette Winterson’s famous semi-autobiographical novel?
                        a.  Oranges are not the only fruit
                        b. The Grass Is Singing
                        c.  The Nothing   
                        d. The Good Terrorist

46.   Which of the following is Jeanette Winterson’s Novella based on the real-life woman Alice Nutter?
                        a. The Passion
                        b. The Gap of Time          
                        c.  The Daylight Gate   
                        d. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

47.   Which among the following are novels written by Iris Murdoch?
                        a.  The Unicorn     
                        b. The Black Prince
                        c. The Red and the Green 
                        d. All of them

48.   Match the following authors with their works :

                 i.          Iris Murdoch                                             -              (a) A Pale View of Hills

                ii.          Jeanette Winterson                                  -              (b)My Beautiful Laundrette

               iii.          Kazuo Ishiguro                                        -              (c)The Stone Gods

               iv.          Hanif Kureishi                                          -              (d) A Severed Head

                  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

49.   The Unconsoled is a novel written by :
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro  
                        b. Doris Lessing    
                        c. V.S. Naipaul    
                        d. Tom Stoppard

50.   The screenplay for the film Sammy and Rosie Get Laid is written by :
                        a.  Kazuo Ishiguro    
                        b. Doris Lessing
                        c. Hanif Kureishi 
                        d. Tom Stoppard