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WorksheetsUGC UNIT TEST-I
Total questions: 100
Worksheet time: 50mins
In which tale of Chaucer, a daughter is killed by her father?
The Monk’s Tale
The Physician’s Tale
The Friar’s Tale
The Clerk’s Tale
‘He found English a dialect and left it a language'. Here he stands for
Langland
Gower
Chaucer
Mandeville
The expression ‘a faire felde ful of folke’ appears in
The Canterbury Tales
Piers the Plowman
Morte d’ Arthur
Pardoner’s Tale
About Cowley’s collection of poems The Mistress, who remarked that it had no power of seduction?
Dr. Johnson
Charles Lamb
A.C. Swinburne
Eliot
“London” is a poem by
Pope
Johnson
Addison
Steele
To whom did Carew pay tribute as a poet who ‘ruled as he thought fit/ The universal monarchy of wit’?
Donne
Herrick
Crashaw
Henry Vaughan
The Influence of Dante’s Divine Commedia is apparent in which of Chaucer’s works?
Troilus and Cryseyde
The Parliament of Fouls
The Book of Duchess
The House of Fame
How many books are there in “Paradise Lost”?
18
12
15
5
Arnold’s “The Scholar Gypsy” a pastoral poem is based upon an old legend related by
Alfred Tennyson
Robert Browning
Mrs. Browning
Joseph Glanvil
In “Idanare”, a poem with epic dimensions Soyinka has employed
Mythopoeic mode, Yoruba
Mythic mode
National myth
The Myth of Ogun
The title of the play “The Woman Killed with Kindness” is taken from the proverb quoted in ----
King Lear
The Tempest
Macbeth
The Taming of the Shrew
“The Glass Menagerie” and “A Street Car Named Desire” are the plays written by----
Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
None
“Chidambaram”, a flashback chronicle play in 14 episodes has been written by----
K.Nagarajan
Girish Karnad
M.V.Rama Sharma
Gurcharan Das
The play Naga- Mandala has been written by
Aurobindo
Rabindranath Tagore
Girish Karnad
Vijay Tendulkar
The ‘Theatre of Absurd’ is linked with----
Sartre
Samuel Beckett
Osborne
Wesker
Silvia is a character in which of Farquhar’s plays?
Love and a Bottle
The Constant Couple
The Recruiting Officer
The Beaux Stratagem
There is a reference to Malvern Hills in
Piers the Plowman
Morte d’ Arthur
The Canterbury Tales
The Christ
“The vanity of Human Wishes is a poem by
Samuel Johnson
Thomson
Cowper
Crabbe
“Holy Thursday” is a poem by
Blake
Cowper
Arnold
Pope
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!”
“To One in Paradise”
“Raven”
“To Helen”
“Israel”
Which play of Shakespeare is a dramatization of a story told by Chaucer in his “Knight’s Tale”?
The Merchant of Venice
As You Like it
The Two Noble Kinsmen
The Tempest
Shirley wrote “The Gamester” and “The Lady of Pleasure” in ------
London
Dublin
Italy
France
“Malapropism”
is coined after a character in ----
The Way of the World
Love of Love
The Rivals
None
Who is waiting for Godot in the play "Waiting for Godot"?
Vladimir and Estragon
Lucky and Pozzo
The Little boy
The Audience
Who translated Higden’s Polychronicon?
John Wyclif
John of Trevisa
Langland
Gower
Which poet introduced ‘Eclogues’ (pastoral poems) to England?
Alexander Barclay
John Skelton
Gawain Douglas
Robert Henryson
‘Annihilating all that’s made, To a green thought in green shade’ these lines occur in Marvell’s
Thoughts in a Garden
The Nymph
Affairs of State
Growth of Popery and Arbitrary
Motiveless Malignity is a phrase from
Eliot
Coleridge
Donne
Keats
“Summer in Calcutta” is a poetical collection of
Sarojini Naidu
Kamala Das
Anita Desai
Amrita Pritam
John Ford’s ‘Tis Pity She is a Whore has------ theme
Revenge
Jealousy
Incest
Over-ambition
The plays of William Congreve were categorized under
Comedy of Humor
Comedy of Manners
Farce
Comedy of Errors
‘The Kitchen-Sink drama’ is marked by----
Neo-realism
Pseudo-realism
Kitchen scenes
Domestic life
What is the relationship of Stanley with Meg in Pinter’s “The Birthday party”
Caretaker and Guest
Motherly
Full of Motherliness, almost incestuous
Man-Woman love despite the age difference
Which Play of Asif Currimbhoy is a powerful study of kathakali dancer?
The Doldrummers
The Dumb Dancers
Thorns on a Canvas
The Restaurant
The play “Murder at the Prayer Meeting” which echoes the title of Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral has been written by ----
Lakhan Deb
Gurcharan das
Gieve Patel
Girish Karnad
“Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is written by---
Eugene O’Neill
Arthur Miller
Tennessee Williams
Edward Albee
Which work of Dunbar deals with the union of two countries- England and Scotland?
The Golden Targe
The Thistle and the Rose
The Dance of Seven Deadly Sins
The Two Married Women and the Widow
‘Nor second He, that road sublime Upon the seraph-wings of Ecstasy’ these lines quoted from Gray’s “The Progress of Poesy” alludes to
Shakespeare
Milton
Spencer
Donne
To which of the following poets does the phrase “Willing Suspension of Disbelief” apply?
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Shelley
Keats
Which of Kipling’s poems is an English version of an Indian lullaby?
Our Lady of the Snows
Shiva and the Grasshopper
Mother O’ Mine
Gungadin
Mosca is a character found in -----
Volpone
The Alchemist
The Poetaster
None
Which play of Middleton landed him in trouble?
A Game of Chess
The Changeling
The Old Law
The Fairie Quarrel.
Simon Eyre is a character in -----
Eastward Ho
Poetaster
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
None
Love’s Last Shift is a sentimental comedy written by ----
Colley Cibber
Collins
Steele
Goldsmith
Which work of John Donne was highly approved by James –I as a contribution to Anti- Catholic Controversy?
Pseudo Martyr
The Progress of the Soul
An Anatomy of the World
Epithalamium
Lord Randal is a famous
Lyric
Allegory
Ballad
Epic
George Wither was imprisoned for his
Juvenalia
Abuses Stript and Whipt
The Manly Heart
Shall I Waste in Despair
Spencer’s autobiographical poem is
Fairie Queen
Cynthia
The Shepherd’s calendar
Colin Clouts Come Home Again
“The Village” is a poem composed by
George Crabbe
James Thomson
Goldsmith
William Collins
Vaughan’s ‘The Retreat’ has been compared to Wordsworth's
Daffodils
Lucy poems
Immortality ode
The Solitary Reaper
Which poem of Lovelace uses imagery that is as much Petrarchan as metaphysical?
To Althea from Prison
Lucasta
On Going to the Wars
The Grasshopper.
Who said that human sadness cannot be abolished?
Arthur Adamov
Jean Genet
Harold Pinter
Eugene Ionesco
“The Hairy Ape” is the drama which can be labeled as ---
Realistic
Expressionist
American Transcendentalist
Symbolic
“Goblin Market” of Christina Rossetti is a charming excursion into
Fairyland
Dreamland
Wasteland
Real-world
Who said, “Nature never did betray/ The heart that loved her”?
Byron
Coleridge
Wordsworth
None
The phrase “the high road of life” was used by
Eliot
Kipling
Wordsworth
Coleridge
The French revolution is the poem by -----
Blake
Gray
Johnson
None
Which Milton’s poem is based on patience?
“Paradise regained
“L’Allegro”
“Paradise Lost”
“On His Blindness”
“Pity would be no more if we did not make somebody poor” Who wrote these lines?
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Shelley
Blake
Browning’s Ottima and Sebald in “Pippa Passes are equivalent to
Othello and Desdemona
Ferdinand and Miranda
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth.
Romeo and Juliet
“Lycidas” of Milton is an/a
Epic
Masque
Comedy
Elegy
In Lycidas the king has been presented as a
Poet
Priest
Shepherd
None
Tom O’ Shanter was written by
Crabbe
Fielding
Burns
None
Tennyson’s “Ulysses” was written soon after the death of
Browning
Arnold
Hallam
A.C. Clough
Which poem of Nissim Ezekiel is a critique of the man-woman relationship in modern society?
“Island”
“Woman and Child”
“Philosophy”
“Poet, Lover, Birdwatcher”
Problem plays deals with---
Social problems
Ethical problems
Moral problems
Problems of Humanism
Whose plays are inspired by Puranic themes?
Sri Aurobindo
Vasudeva rao
T. P. Kailasam
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
Which play of Asif Currimbhoy centers around the Bengal Naxalite movement?
The Refugee
Inquilab
The Miracle Seed
Monsoon
“The Definition of Love” is a poem written by
Shakespeare
Donne
William Cowper
Andrew Marvell
Which poet was lamented by William Collins in his poem “In Yonder Grave a Druid Lies”
Pope
James Thomson
Crabbe
None
Who said: “If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all”
Keats
Coleridge
Spencer
Shelley.
Adonais is an elegy on
Shakespeare
Dryden
Keats
Wordsworth
Falstaff appears in which of Shakespeare’s plays?
Henry –IV
Henry-I
Henry-II
Richard-II
Which work of Dekker is a graphic picture of London smitten by plague?
The Wonderful Year
The Shoemaker’s Holiday
The Gull’s Hornbook
The Seven Deadly Sins of London
The Shoemaker’s Holiday was written by ---
Heywood
Marston
Dekker
Ben Jonson
Which is Sarojini Naidu’s first collection of poems?
The Bird of Time
The Golden Threshold
The Broken Wing
The Feather of the Dawn
“The Woman Hater” was written by ---
Beaumont
Fletcher
Shakespeare
Marlowe
The style and treatment of the subject in the story of The Duchess of Malfi has been inspired by-----
Shakespeare
Sidney
Shelley
Keats
Which of the following plays has been written by William Wycherley?
The Way of the World
She Stoops to Conquer
The Plain Dealer
The Man of Mode
Which is the most famous play of the “Angry Young Men” movement?
Room at the Top
The Birthday Party
The Outsider
Look Back in Anger
Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” stands for-----
Success
Love
Failure
Alcoholism
The two leading female characters in the play “the Vulture” are----
Mani and Rani
Manik and Rama
Rani and manic
Rita and Rama
Jimmy Porter is a character in ---
“Look Back in Anger”
“The Outsider”
“Room at the Top”
"Lucky Jim"
Which poem of Ramanujan is associated with the Hindu myth of Lord Vishnu?
“The Striders”
“Still View of Another Grace”
“Obituary”
"Breaded Fish”
Which poem of Daruwalla revolves around the experiences of hatred, violence, and death?
Rumination
Death of a Bird
The Ghaghra in Spate
The Professor Condoles
Which work of Robert Greene gave the plot to Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale”?
Groat’s Worth of Wit
Pandosto
Orlando furioso
Friar Bacon
In Australian poetry the recurrent central theme is
The Image of native land
The desert
The Creatures
The immigrants/Settlers.
“The Castle of Perseverance" is a significant
Miracle play
Morality play
Mystery play
Interlude
A play jointly written by Johnson, Marston, and Chapman is-----
The Poetaster
The Silent Woman
Eastward Hoe
Volpone
Face and Subtle are the characters of -----
The Poetaster
Volpone
Epicoene
The Alchemist
In “The Malcontent” Webster collaborated with----
Middleton
Marston
Dekker
Massinger
The only one of the plays of John Webster presented on the modern stage was---
The White Devil
The Duchess of Malfi
The Devil’s Law Case
Appuis and Virginia
Massinger collaborated with Dekker in----
The Virgin Martyr
The City Madam
The Unnatural Combat
The Empire of the East
The subtitle of Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” is -----
The Mistakes of a Night
The Mistakes of a Morning
The mistakes of an Evening
The Mistakes of a Noon
Which play of Aurobindo is posthumously published in 1858?
The Viziers of Bassora
Eric
Rodogune
Perseus, the Deliverer
The play entitled Nala and Damayanti was written by----
P.A.Krishnaswamy
Sri Aurobindo
Vasudeva rao
None
Which play of Nissim Ezekiel deals with the life of a painter?
The Sleepwalkers
Nalini: A Comedy
Marriage Poem: A Tragic- comedy
None
Who is the author of the play “The Provoked Wife”
William Wycherley
William Congreve
George Etherage
John Vanbrugh
Which of the following is the first play written by George Etherage?
She Would if She Would
The Comical Revenge
The man of Mode
The Silent Woman
In which play of Etherage, does the character Harriet appears?
The Man of Mode
The Comical Revenge
She Would if She Would
None
