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Reading Drama

Total questions: 37

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. The term drama is derived from the Greek word ---------

a)

dramos

b)

draein

c)

drame

d)

dramatikos

2.

1. Drama originated in ancient ---------

a)

Rome

b)

India

c)

Greece

d)

Italy

3.

The earliest English Comedy

a)

Ferrex and Porrux

b)

Spanish tragedy

c)

Ralph roister doister

d)

Gammer gurton's needle

4.

The author of Ralph Roister Doister is

a)

Nicholars Udorn

b)

Thomas Sackville

c)

Nicholas Udall

d)

Thomas Kyd

5.

The author of Spanish Tragedy is?

a)

Thomas Norton

b)

Thomas Sackville

c)

Thomas Kyd

d)

Seneca

6.

Whose comedies are popularly known as ‘Comedy of humours’?

a)

Samuel Johnson

b)

Aristophanes

c)

Shakespeare

d)

Ben Jonson

7.

Which among the following is an example for ‘Comedy of Humours” ?

a)

Edward II

b)

Bartholomew fair

c)

Duchess of Malfi

d)

As you like it

8.

Theatres in England were closed in the year ----

a)

1660

b)

1643

c)

1644

d)

1642

9.

The year 1660 in the history of Britain signifies -----

a)

Renaissance

b)

Reformation

c)

Restoration

d)

Romantic movement

10.

The Restoration play in England were mainly----

a)

tragedies

b)

revenge plays

c)

comedies

d)

histories

11.

The author of the play ‘The way of the World’

(a)  

12.

The author of the play ‘The Country Wife”

(a)  

13.

The Way of the World and ‘The Country Wife’ are the best examples of ----

a)

revenge plays

b)

melodrama

c)

satires

d)

restoration comedies / comedy of manners

14.

Henrik Ibsen’s plays belong to the class of plays referred to as -----

a)

revenge plays

b)

problem plays

c)

kitchen-sink drama

d)

satires

15.

T.S. Eliot’s ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a -------

a)

feminist play

b)

problem play

c)

poetic drama

d)

magic fiction

16.

Who is the author of ‘Look Back in Anger’?

a)

Congreve

b)

Marlowe

c)

John Osborne

d)

Oscar Wilde

17.

‘Look Back in Anger’ portrays------

a)

The existential predicament of human life

b)

Emancipation of women in society.

c)

Absurdity

d)

The angry young man

18.

The term ‘absurd’ is first used by --------

a)

Nietzsche

b)

Sartre

c)

Samuel Beckett

d)

Albert Camus

19.

Identify the philosopher

a)

Albert Camus

b)

Franz Kafka

c)

Jean Paul Sartre

d)

Friedrich Nietzsche

20.

He is ___?

a)

Kafka

b)

Sartre

c)

Nietzsche

d)

Camus

21.

The tern ‘absurd is first used by Albert Camus in his ____

a)

The Golden Bough

b)

The Myth of Sisyphus

c)

Waiting for Godot

d)

Theatre of the Absurd

22.

. The Epic Theatre was introduced by --------

a)
b)
c)
d)
23.

. Bertolt Brecht was a -------- poet

a)
b)
c)
d)
24.

Who is referred to as the mother of American Feminist Drama?

a)

Ezra Pound

b)

Emily Dickinson

c)

Meghan Trainor

d)

Megan Terry

25.

Who is the author of the play ‘A Doll’s House’?

a)

Henrik Ibsen

b)

Samuel Beckett

c)

Ezra Pound

d)

Megan Terry

26.

Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as ___?

a)

poetica

b)

hymns

c)

chantings

d)

dithyrambs

27.

Who among the following does not belong to the group of playwrights known as ‘ The University Wits”?

a)

George Peele

b)

Thomas Kyd

c)

Christopher Marlow

d)

John Heywood

28.

Aristotle regarded ----------as the highest form of poetry

a)

tragedy

b)

comedy

c)

epic

d)

poetic drama

29.

Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is an example of -------

(a)  

30.

A light dramatic work with improbable plot and exaggerated characters is called

a)

comedy

b)

humour

c)

satire

d)

farce

31.

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 ___

a)

melodrama

b)

burlesque

c)

farce

d)

kitchen sink drama

32.

In which among the following plays of Shakespeare is the element of masque introduced?

a)

Hamlet

b)

Othello

c)

Tempest

d)

Macbeth

33.

In which among the following plays of Shakespeare is ‘play within the play’ introduced?

a)

othello

b)

king lear

c)

macbeth

d)

hamlet

34.

The first English melodrama is (a)  

35.

Milton's Comus is an example of a ?

(a)  

36.

Which of these is not a characteristic feature of epic drama?

a)

breaking the dramatic illusion

b)

ironic commentary

c)

changing roles midway

d)

sensationalism

37.

The first full-fledged heroic drama is _____ by ____

(a)