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UGC UNIT TEST-I

Total questions: 100

Worksheet time: 50mins

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Class
Date
1.

In which tale of Chaucer, a daughter is killed by her father?

a)

The Monk’s Tale

b)

The Physician’s Tale

c)

The Friar’s Tale

d)

The Clerk’s Tale

2.

‘He found English a dialect and left it a language'. Here he stands for

a)

Langland

b)

Gower

c)

Chaucer

d)

Mandeville

3.

The expression ‘a faire felde ful of folke’ appears in

a)

The Canterbury Tales

b)

Piers the Plowman

c)

Morte d’ Arthur

d)

Pardoner’s Tale

4.

About Cowley’s collection of poems The Mistress, who remarked that it had no power of seduction?

a)

Dr. Johnson

b)

Charles Lamb

c)

A.C. Swinburne

d)

Eliot

5.

“London” is a poem by

a)

Pope

b)

Johnson

c)

Addison

d)

Steele

6.

To whom did Carew pay tribute as a poet who ‘ruled as he thought fit/ The universal monarchy of wit’?

a)

Donne

b)

Herrick

c)

Crashaw

d)

Henry Vaughan

7.

The Influence of Dante’s Divine Commedia is apparent in which of Chaucer’s works?

a)

Troilus and Cryseyde

b)

The Parliament of Fouls

c)

The Book of Duchess

d)

The House of Fame

8.

How many books are there in “Paradise Lost”?

a)

18

b)

12

c)

15

d)

5

9.

Arnold’s “The Scholar Gypsy” a pastoral poem is based upon an old legend related by

a)

Alfred Tennyson

b)

Robert Browning

c)

Mrs. Browning

d)

Joseph Glanvil

10.

In “Idanare”, a poem with epic dimensions Soyinka has employed

a)

Mythopoeic mode, Yoruba

b)

Mythic mode

c)

National myth

d)

The Myth of Ogun

11.

The title of the play “The Woman Killed with Kindness” is taken from the proverb quoted in ----

a)

King Lear

b)

The Tempest

c)

Macbeth

d)

The Taming of the Shrew

12.

“The Glass Menagerie” and “A Street Car Named Desire” are the plays written by----

a)

Eugene O’Neill

b)

Arthur Miller

c)

Tennessee Williams

d)

None

13.

“Chidambaram”, a flashback chronicle play in 14 episodes has been written by----

a)

K.Nagarajan

b)

Girish Karnad

c)

M.V.Rama Sharma

d)

Gurcharan Das

14.

The play Naga- Mandala has been written by

a)

Aurobindo

b)

Rabindranath Tagore

c)

Girish Karnad

d)

Vijay Tendulkar

15.

The ‘Theatre of Absurd’ is linked with----

a)

Sartre

b)

Samuel Beckett

c)

Osborne

d)

Wesker

16.

Silvia is a character in which of Farquhar’s plays?

a)

Love and a Bottle

b)

The Constant Couple

c)

The Recruiting Officer

d)

The Beaux Stratagem

17.

There is a reference to Malvern Hills in

a)

Piers the Plowman

b)

Morte d’ Arthur

c)

The Canterbury Tales

d)

The Christ

18.

“The vanity of Human Wishes is a poem by

a)

Samuel Johnson

b)

Thomson

c)

Cowper

d)

Crabbe

19.

“Holy Thursday” is a poem by

a)

Blake

b)

Cowper

c)

Arnold

d)

Pope

20.

From which poem of Poe these lines have been taken? “Take thy beak from out my heart and take thy form from off my door!”

a)

“To One in Paradise”

b)

“Raven”

c)

“To Helen”

d)

“Israel”

21.

Which play of Shakespeare is a dramatization of a story told by Chaucer in his “Knight’s Tale”?

a)

The Merchant of Venice

b)

As You Like it

c)

The Two Noble Kinsmen

d)

The Tempest

22.

Shirley wrote “The Gamester” and “The Lady of Pleasure” in ------

a)

London

b)

Dublin

c)

Italy

d)

France

23.

“Malapropism” is coined after a character in ---- 

a)

The Way of the World 

b)

Love of Love  

c)

The Rivals 

d)

None

24.

Who is waiting for Godot in the play "Waiting for Godot"?

a)

Vladimir and Estragon

b)

Lucky and Pozzo

c)

The Little boy

d)

The Audience

25.

Who translated Higden’s Polychronicon?

a)

John Wyclif

b)

John of Trevisa

c)

Langland

d)

Gower

26.

Which poet introduced ‘Eclogues’ (pastoral poems) to England?

a)

Alexander Barclay

b)

John Skelton

c)

Gawain Douglas

d)

Robert Henryson

27.

‘Annihilating all that’s made, To a green thought in green shade’ these lines occur in Marvell’s

a)

Thoughts in a Garden

b)

The Nymph

c)

Affairs of State

d)

Growth of Popery and Arbitrary

28.

Motiveless Malignity is a phrase from

a)

Eliot

b)

Coleridge

c)

Donne

d)

Keats

29.

“Summer in Calcutta” is a poetical collection of

a)

Sarojini Naidu

b)

Kamala Das

c)

Anita Desai

d)

Amrita Pritam

30.

John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She is a Whore has------ theme

a)

Revenge

b)

Jealousy

c)

Incest

d)

Over-ambition

31.

The plays of William Congreve were categorized under

a)

Comedy of Humor

b)

Comedy of Manners

c)

Farce

d)

Comedy of Errors

32.

‘The Kitchen-Sink drama’ is marked by----

a)

Neo-realism

b)

Pseudo-realism

c)

Kitchen scenes

d)

Domestic life

33.

What is the relationship of Stanley with Meg in Pinter’s “The Birthday party”

a)

Caretaker and Guest

b)

Motherly

c)

Full of Motherliness, almost incestuous

d)

Man-Woman love despite the age difference

34.

Which Play of Asif Currimbhoy is a powerful study of kathakali dancer?

a)

The Doldrummers

b)

The Dumb Dancers

c)

Thorns on a Canvas

d)

The Restaurant

35.

The play “Murder at the Prayer Meeting” which echoes the title of Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral has been written by ----

a)

Lakhan Deb

b)

Gurcharan das

c)

Gieve Patel

d)

Girish Karnad

36.

“Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is written by---

a)

Eugene O’Neill

b)

Arthur Miller

c)

Tennessee Williams

d)

Edward Albee

37.

Which work of Dunbar deals with the union of two countries- England and Scotland?

a)

The Golden Targe

b)

The Thistle and the Rose

c)

The Dance of Seven Deadly Sins

d)

The Two Married Women and the Widow

38.

‘Nor second He, that road sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy’ these lines quoted from Gray’s “The Progress of Poesy” alludes to

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Milton

c)

Spencer

d)

Donne

39.

To which of the following poets does the phrase “Willing Suspension of Disbelief” apply?

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Coleridge

c)

Shelley

d)

Keats

40.

Which of Kipling’s poems is an English version of an Indian lullaby?

a)

Our Lady of the Snows

b)

Shiva and the Grasshopper

c)

Mother O’ Mine

d)

Gungadin

41.

Mosca is a character found in -----

a)

Volpone

b)

The Alchemist

c)

The Poetaster

d)

None

42.

Which play of Middleton landed him in trouble?

a)

A Game of Chess

b)

The Changeling

c)

The Old Law

d)

The Fairie Quarrel.

43.

Simon Eyre is a character in -----

a)

Eastward Ho

b)

Poetaster

c)

The Shoemaker’s Holiday

d)

None

44.

Love’s Last Shift is a sentimental comedy written by ----

a)

Colley Cibber

b)

Collins

c)

Steele

d)

Goldsmith

45.

Which work of John Donne was highly approved by James –I as a contribution to Anti- Catholic Controversy?

a)

Pseudo Martyr

b)

The Progress of the Soul

c)

An Anatomy of the World

d)

Epithalamium

46.

Lord Randal is a famous

a)

Lyric

b)

Allegory

c)

Ballad

d)

Epic

47.

George Wither was imprisoned for his

a)

Juvenalia

b)

Abuses Stript and Whipt

c)

The Manly Heart

d)

Shall I Waste in Despair

48.

Spencer’s autobiographical poem is

a)

Fairie Queen

b)

Cynthia

c)

The Shepherd’s calendar

d)

Colin Clouts Come Home Again

49.

“The Village” is a poem composed by

a)

George Crabbe

b)

James Thomson

c)

Goldsmith

d)

William Collins

50.

Vaughan’s ‘The Retreat’ has been compared to Wordsworth's

a)

Daffodils

b)

Lucy poems

c)

Immortality ode

d)

The Solitary Reaper

51.

Which poem of Lovelace uses imagery that is as much Petrarchan as metaphysical?

a)

To Althea from Prison

b)

Lucasta

c)

On Going to the Wars

d)

The Grasshopper.

52.

Who said that human sadness cannot be abolished?

a)

Arthur Adamov

b)

Jean Genet

c)

Harold Pinter

d)

Eugene Ionesco

53.

“The Hairy Ape” is the drama which can be labeled as ---

a)

Realistic

b)

Expressionist

c)

American Transcendentalist

d)

Symbolic

54.

“Goblin Market” of Christina Rossetti is a charming excursion into

a)

Fairyland

b)

Dreamland

c)

Wasteland

d)

Real-world

55.

Who said, “Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her”?

a)

Byron

b)

Coleridge

c)

Wordsworth

d)

None

56.

The phrase “the high road of life” was used by

a)

Eliot

b)

Kipling

c)

Wordsworth

d)

Coleridge

57.

The French revolution is the poem by -----

a)

Blake

b)

Gray

c)

Johnson

d)

None

58.

Which Milton’s poem is based on patience?

a)

“Paradise regained

b)

“L’Allegro”

c)

“Paradise Lost”

d)

“On His Blindness”

59.

“Pity would be no more if we did not make somebody poor” Who wrote these lines?

a)

Wordsworth

b)

Coleridge

c)

Shelley

d)

Blake

60.

Browning’s Ottima and Sebald in “Pippa Passes are equivalent to

a)

Othello and Desdemona

b)

Ferdinand and Miranda

c)

Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.

d)

Romeo and Juliet

61.

“Lycidas” of Milton is an/a

a)

Epic

b)

Masque

c)

Comedy

d)

Elegy

62.

In Lycidas the king has been presented as a

a)

Poet

b)

Priest

c)

Shepherd

d)

None

63.

Tom O’ Shanter was written by

a)

Crabbe

b)

Fielding

c)

Burns

d)

None

64.

Tennyson’s “Ulysses” was written soon after the death of

a)

Browning

b)

Arnold

c)

Hallam

d)

A.C. Clough

65.

Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is a critique of the man-woman relationship in modern society?

a)

“Island”

b)

“Woman and Child”

c)

“Philosophy”

d)

“Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”

66.

Problem plays deals with---

a)

Social problems

b)

Ethical problems

c)

Moral problems

d)

Problems of Humanism

67.

Whose plays are inspired by Puranic themes?

a)

Sri Aurobindo

b)

Vasudeva rao

c)

T. P. Kailasam

d)

Harindranath Chattopadhyay

68.

Which play of Asif Currimbhoy centers around the Bengal Naxalite movement?

a)

The Refugee

b)

Inquilab

c)

The Miracle Seed

d)

Monsoon

69.

“The Definition of Love” is a poem written by

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Donne

c)

William Cowper

d)

Andrew Marvell

70.

Which poet was lamented by William Collins in his poem “In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies”

a)

Pope

b)

James Thomson

c)

Crabbe

d)

None

71.

Who said: “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all”

a)

Keats

b)

Coleridge

c)

Spencer

d)

Shelley.

72.

Adonais is an elegy on

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Dryden

c)

Keats

d)

Wordsworth

73.

Falstaff appears in which of Shakespeare’s plays?

a)

Henry –IV

b)

Henry-I

c)

Henry-II

d)

Richard-II

74.

Which work of Dekker is a graphic picture of London smitten by plague?

a)

The Wonderful Year

b)

The Shoemaker’s Holiday

c)

The Gull’s Hornbook

d)

The Seven Deadly Sins of London

75.

The Shoemaker’s Holiday was written by ---

a)

Heywood

b)

Marston

c)

Dekker

d)

Ben Jonson

76.

Which is Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems?

a)

The Bird of Time

b)

The Golden Threshold

c)

The Broken Wing

d)

The Feather of the Dawn

77.

“The Woman Hater” was written by ---

a)

Beaumont

b)

Fletcher

c)

Shakespeare

d)

Marlowe

78.

The style and treatment of the subject in the story of The Duchess of Malfi has been inspired by-----

a)

Shakespeare

b)

Sidney

c)

Shelley

d)

Keats

79.

Which of the following plays has been written by William Wycherley?

a)

The Way of the World

b)

She Stoops to Conquer

c)

The Plain Dealer

d)

The Man of Mode

80.

Which is the most famous play of the “Angry Young Men” movement?

a)

Room at the Top

b)

The Birthday Party

c)

The Outsider

d)

Look Back in Anger

81.

Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” stands for-----

a)

Success

b)

Love

c)

Failure

d)

Alcoholism

82.

The two leading female characters in the play “the Vulture” are----

a)

Mani and Rani

b)

Manik and Rama

c)

Rani and manic

d)

Rita and Rama

83.

Jimmy Porter is a character in ---

a)

“Look Back in Anger”

b)

“The Outsider”

c)

“Room at the Top”

d)

"Lucky Jim"

84.

Which poem of Ramanujan is associated with the Hindu myth of Lord Vishnu?

a)

“The Striders”

b)

“Still View of Another Grace”

c)

“Obituary”

d)

"Breaded Fish”

85.

Which poem of Daruwalla revolves around the experiences of hatred, violence, and death?

a)

Rumination

b)

Death of a Bird

c)

The Ghaghra in Spate

d)

The Professor Condoles

86.

Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”?

a)

Groat’s Worth of Wit

b)

Pandosto

c)

Orlando furioso

d)

Friar Bacon

87.

In Australian poetry the recurrent central theme is

a)

The Image of native land

b)

The desert

c)

The Creatures

d)

The immigrants/Settlers.

88.

“The Castle of Perseverance" is a significant

a)

Miracle play

b)

Morality play

c)

Mystery play

d)

Interlude

89.

A play jointly written by Johnson, Marston, and Chapman is-----

a)

The Poetaster

b)

The Silent Woman

c)

Eastward Hoe

d)

Volpone

90.

Face and Subtle are the characters of -----

a)

The Poetaster

b)

Volpone

c)

Epicoene

d)

The Alchemist

91.

In “The Malcontent” Webster collaborated with----

a)

Middleton

b)

Marston

c)

Dekker

d)

Massinger

92.

The only one of the plays of John Webster presented on the modern stage was---

a)

The White Devil

b)

The Duchess of Malfi

c)

The Devil’s Law Case

d)

Appuis and Virginia

93.

Massinger collaborated with Dekker in----

a)

The Virgin Martyr

b)

The City Madam

c)

The Unnatural Combat

d)

The Empire of the East

94.

The subtitle of Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” is -----

a)

The Mistakes of a Night

b)

The Mistakes of a Morning

c)

The mistakes of an Evening

d)

The Mistakes of a Noon

95.

Which play of Aurobindo is posthumously published in 1858?

a)

The Viziers of Bassora

b)

Eric

c)

Rodogune

d)

Perseus, the Deliverer

96.

The play entitled Nala and Damayanti was written by----

a)

P.A.Krishnaswamy

b)

Sri Aurobindo

c)

Vasudeva rao

d)

None

97.

Which play of Nissim Ezekiel deals with the life of a painter?

a)

The Sleepwalkers

b)

Nalini: A Comedy

c)

Marriage Poem: A Tragic- comedy

d)

None

98.

Who is the author of the play “The Provoked Wife”

a)

William Wycherley

b)

William Congreve

c)

George Etherage

d)

John Vanbrugh

99.

Which of the following is the first play written by George Etherage?

a)

She Would if She Would

b)

The Comical Revenge

c)

The man of Mode

d)

The Silent Woman

100.

In which play of Etherage, does the character Harriet appears?

a)

The Man of Mode

b)

The Comical Revenge

c)

She Would if She Would

d)

None