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WorksheetsReading Drama
Total questions: 37
Worksheet time: 22mins
1. The term drama is derived from the Greek word ---------
dramos
draein
drame
dramatikos
1. Drama originated in ancient ---------
Rome
India
Greece
Italy
The earliest English Comedy
Ferrex and Porrux
Spanish tragedy
Ralph roister doister
Gammer gurton's needle
The author of Ralph Roister Doister is
Nicholars Udorn
Thomas Sackville
Nicholas Udall
Thomas Kyd
The author of Spanish Tragedy is?
Thomas Norton
Thomas Sackville
Thomas Kyd
Seneca
Whose comedies are popularly known as ‘Comedy of humours’?
Samuel Johnson
Aristophanes
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Which among the following is an example for ‘Comedy of Humours” ?
Edward II
Bartholomew fair
Duchess of Malfi
As you like it
Theatres in England were closed in the year ----
1660
1643
1644
1642
The year 1660 in the history of Britain signifies -----
Renaissance
Reformation
Restoration
Romantic movement
The Restoration play in England were mainly----
tragedies
revenge plays
comedies
histories
The author of the play ‘The way of the World’
(a)
The author of the play ‘The Country Wife”
(a)
The Way of the World and ‘The Country Wife’ are the best examples of ----
revenge plays
melodrama
satires
restoration comedies / comedy of manners
Henrik Ibsen’s plays belong to the class of plays referred to as -----
revenge plays
problem plays
kitchen-sink drama
satires
T.S. Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a -------
feminist play
problem play
poetic drama
magic fiction
Who is the author of ‘Look Back in Anger’?
Congreve
Marlowe
John Osborne
Oscar Wilde
‘Look Back in Anger’ portrays------
The existential predicament of human life
Emancipation of women in society.
Absurdity
The angry young man
The term ‘absurd’ is first used by --------
Nietzsche
Sartre
Samuel Beckett
Albert Camus
Identify the philosopher
Albert Camus
Franz Kafka
Jean Paul Sartre
Friedrich Nietzsche
He is ___?
Kafka
Sartre
Nietzsche
Camus
The tern ‘absurd is first used by Albert Camus in his ____
The Golden Bough
The Myth of Sisyphus
Waiting for Godot
Theatre of the Absurd
. The Epic Theatre was introduced by --------
. Bertolt Brecht was a -------- poet
Who is referred to as the mother of American Feminist Drama?
Ezra Pound
Emily Dickinson
Meghan Trainor
Megan Terry
Who is the author of the play ‘A Doll’s House’?
Henrik Ibsen
Samuel Beckett
Ezra Pound
Megan Terry
Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as ___?
poetica
hymns
chantings
dithyrambs
Who among the following does not belong to the group of playwrights known as ‘ The University Wits”?
George Peele
Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlow
John Heywood
Aristotle regarded ----------as the highest form of poetry
tragedy
comedy
epic
poetic drama
Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is an example of -------
(a)
A light dramatic work with improbable plot and exaggerated characters is called
comedy
humour
satire
farce
The type of play in which the plot was centered round intrigues and violent actions and which contains improbable events and sensational actions is called ___
melodrama
burlesque
farce
kitchen sink drama
In which among the following plays of Shakespeare is the element of masque introduced?
Hamlet
Othello
Tempest
Macbeth
In which among the following plays of Shakespeare is ‘play within the play’ introduced?
othello
king lear
macbeth
hamlet
The first English melodrama is (a)
Milton's Comus is an example of a ?
(a)
Which of these is not a characteristic feature of epic drama?
breaking the dramatic illusion
ironic commentary
changing roles midway
sensationalism
The first full-fledged heroic drama is _____ by ____
(a)
