Literary Movements

Choose from the following options the correct combination of playwrights who contributed to the movement called “Kitchen Sink Drama”.

1) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden

2) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Harold Pinter and Shelagh Delaney

3) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Antonin Artaud and John Arden

4) John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden

Answer: 1) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden

Arrange the following groups of poets in their chronological sequence in relation to English literary history:

(a) The Imagist poets

(b) The Cavalier poets

(c) The Movement Poets

(d) The Lake poets

[1] (b), (d), (a), (c)

[2] (b), (d), (c), (a)

[3] (d), (a), (b), (c)

[4] (d), (b), (a), (c)

Answer: 1

With which of the following movements is Charles Baudelaire’s Flowers of Evil generally associated?

(a) Neo-classic

(b) Symbolist

(c) Modernist

(d) Postmodernist

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c)only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Who among the following coined the term ‘The movement’?

[1] F.W. Bateson

[2] F.R. Leavis

[3] J.D. Scott

[4] I.A. Richards

Answer: [3] J.D. Scott

In kannada literature, ‘vachana movement’ addressed

[1] Progressive values

[2] Vedic themes

[3] Vedantic thoughts

[4] Upanishadic ideas

Answer: [1] Progressive values

Who among the following in the article. “Fleshly school of poetry”. Attacked the pre-Raphaelites, especially D.G. Rossetti?

[1] Robert browning

[2] William Holeman hunt

[3] Robert Buchanan

[4] Christina Rossetti

Answer: [3] Robert Buchanan

Which writer does not belong to the angry young men movement?

[1] John Osborne

[2] Kingsley Amis

[3] Seamus Heaney

[4] Philip Larkin

Answer: [3] Seamus Heaney & [4] Philip Larkin

Which among the following is true about the Tractarian Movement?

[A] It was widespread across the world

[B] The other leaders of the movement were Paul Newman and R.H. Fronde

[C] The movement began with a sermon by John Keble in 1833

[D] Pusey gave the movement cohesion, fame and a class

[E] The ideal of the Christian church was praised by oxford convocation

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

[1] A, B and C only

[2] A, C and E only

[3] C, D and E only

[4] B, C and D only

Answer: [4] B, C and D only

Q.68) Match List I with List II

LIST I (Output Device) LIST II (Description)

A) Blood I. Phlegmatic

B) Yellow Bile II. Sanguine

C) Phlegm III. Melancholy

D) Black Bile IV. Choleric

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A-I, B-II, C-III, D-IV

2) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

3) A-IV, B- III, C-II, D-I

4) A-III, B-I, C-II, D-IV

Answer: 2) A-II, B-IV, C-I, D-III

Apart from Bertolt Brecht others who have influenced Epic theatre are:

1) Erwin Piscator and Antonin Artaud

2) Martin Esslin and Max Reinhardt

3) Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt

4) Constantin Stanislavski and Max Reinhardt

Answer: 3) Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt

The Movement poets included:

A) Donald Davie

B) Hilda Dolittle

C) Michael Longley

D) Philip Larkin

E) Derek Walcott

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and E

2) A and D

3) B and E

4) C and D

Answer: 3) B and E

Who among the following was NOT a member of the Beat Generation?

1) Allen Ginsberg

2) Gregory Corso

3) Jack Kerouac

4) Rita Dove

Answer: 4) Rita Dove

Transcendental Club was a group of American intellectuals for philosophical discussions. Which text among the following is taken as a short treatise on Transcendentalism?

(1) Emerson’s Nature

(2) Thoreau’s Walden

(3) Whitman’s Leaves of Grass

(4) Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience

Answer: (1) Emerson’s Nature

Which one of these is not a literary journal/magazine?

(1) The Egoist

(2) The Criterion

(3) The English Review

(4) The Hundred and One Dalmatians

Answer: (4) The Hundred and One Dalmatians

Which of the following qualities of heroic treatment was not needed in the plays of the University Wits?

(1) Splendid descriptions

(2) Long swelling speeches

(3) The handling of violent incidents and emotions

(4) Lives of common figures

Answer: (4) Lives of common figures

In Absurd Theatre, the characters often use disjointed, repetitive and clichéd speech to:

(A) Suggest that meaninglessness is also about a meaning.

(B) Suggest the working of the subconscious.

(C) Bring about the comic action and relief.

(D) Illustrate the illogical and purposelessness of human condition.

(E) Defy the self-professed ‘modern’ notion of dignity and wisdom.

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

(1) (A) and (B) Only

(2) (B) and (C) Only

(3) (D) and (E) Only

(4) (A) and (D) Only

Answer: (4) (A) and (D) Only

Literary Awards

Who among the following were poet laureates of England?

[A] Alfred Austin

[B] Robert bridges

[C] Watts-Dunton

[D] Oscar Wilde

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (A) and (C) only

[2] (A) and (D) only

[3] (B) and (C) and (D)

[4] (A) (B) and (C) only

Answer: [1] (A) and (C) only

Who among the following is not a recipient of the Nobel prize for literature?

[1] Winston Churchill

[2] T.S. Eliot

[3] W.H. Auden

[4] Madam curie

Answer: [3] W.H. Auden & [4] Madam curie

Identify the film/films that were based on booker winning novels:-

[A] Life of pi

[B] The remains of the day

[C] Milkman

[D] The sellout

[E] The inheritance of loss

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] B and E only

[2] A and B only

[3] C and D only

[4] B and D only

Answer: [2] A and B only

Who among these, are songwriters who have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

(a) Elton John

(b) Rabindranath Tagore

(c) Bob Dylan

(d) Bob Marley

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (a) and (d) only

[2] (a) and (b) only

[3] (b) and (c) only

[4] (c) and (d) only

Answer: 3

Magazines

Joseph Addison was associated with which of the following?

A) The London Magazine

B) The Spectator

C) The Gentleman’s Magazine

D) The Tatler

E) The Rambler

Choose the Correct answer from the options given below

1) A and D

2) B and D

3) C and E

4) D and E

Answer:2) B and D

Arrange the following journals in the chronological order of publication.

(a) Longman’s Magazine

(b) Cornhill Magazine

(c) Blackwood’s Magazine

(d) Bentley’s Miscellany

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] (b), (c), (a), (d)

[2] (b), (c), (d), (a)

[3] (c), (b), (a), (d)

[4] (c), (d), (b), (a)

Answer: 4

The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by

1) I. A) Richards

2) F) R. Leavis

3) Cleanth Brooks

4) John Crowe Ransom

Answer: 2) F R. Leavis

Match List-I with List-II.

List-I(Author)

(a) Robert Browning

(b) S.T. Coleridge

(c) A.W. Pinero

(d) Alfred Tennyson

(e) William Wordsworth

List-II

I. Queen Mary

II. The Second Mrs. Tanqueray

III. Remorse

IV. The Borderers

V. Strafford

Choose the correct answer from the option given below:

[1] (a)-II; (b)-IV; (c)-III; (d)-V; (e)-I

[2] (a)-III; (b)-V; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

[3] (a)-IV; (b)-II; (c)-I; (d)-V; (e)-III

[4] (a)-V; (b)-III; (c)-II; (d)-I; (e)-IV

Answer: 4

Bible

Emblems by Francis quarries is:

[1] A commentary on homer’s lliad

[2] A commentary on a volume of biblical illustrations

[3] A commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid

[4] A commentary on Thomas Moore’s utopia

Answer: [2] A commentary on a volume of biblical illustrations

In which year miles Coverdale translated The old testament of the bible?

[1] 1533

[2] 1534

[3] 1535

[4] 1536

Answer: [3] 1535