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UGC-NET PYQs – Literature Quiz
18th Century Theatre & Drama
1. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The theatre was at a greater popularity in eighteenth century England.
Statement II: Theatre had court patronage in and around London.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Statement II: Theatre had court patronage in and around London.
In light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
2. Which of the following statements holds true in regard to “Sentimental Comedy”?
Elizabethan & Jacobean Drama
3. Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated Homer?
4. Who among the following has authored The Revenger’s Tragedy?
5. Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham’s theatrical company?
6. Name the playwright who composed the play A Woman Killed with Kindness.
7. Which of the following are the plays written by Robert Greene?
A) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B) Alphonsus
C) A Moon for the Misbegotten
D) The Old Wives’ Tale
E) King of Aragon
B) Alphonsus
C) A Moon for the Misbegotten
D) The Old Wives’ Tale
E) King of Aragon
8. Which of the following are written by George Peele?
A) The Famous Chronicle of King Edward the First
B) A Moon for the Misbegotten
C) The Arraignment of Paris
D) The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth
E) The Old Wives’ Tale
B) A Moon for the Misbegotten
C) The Arraignment of Paris
D) The Scottish Historie of James the Fourth
E) The Old Wives’ Tale
9. Name the playwright who wrote the play Epicene, or the Silent Woman?
10. Name the playwright who has written Gallathea?
11. Who of the following was the immediate predecessor of the drama proper?
18th Century Literature
12. The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith:
13. Which of the following poems is written by Oliver Goldsmith?
14. Which of the following characteristics of She Stoops to Conquer is not correct?
15. The theological treatise Ecclesiastical Polity was written by:
16. Who wrote the popular instruction manual for fishermen titled The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation?
17. Dr Primrose is a character in:
18. Identify the works written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan:
A) Richelieu
B) St Patrick’s Day
C) The Duenna
D) The Citizen of the World
E) Irene
B) St Patrick’s Day
C) The Duenna
D) The Citizen of the World
E) Irene
Modern & Contemporary Literature
19. Name the celebrated actor who played the leading role in the first production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer (1957).
20. Choose the plays written by Lord Byron:
A) Sardanapalus
B) Hellas
C) Cain
D) The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy
E) The Cenci
B) Hellas
C) Cain
D) The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy
E) The Cenci
21. Which two of the following plays have been written by Edward Albee?
A) The Zoo Story
B) The Price
C) A Delicate Balance
D) Fences
E) Operation Sidewinder
B) The Price
C) A Delicate Balance
D) Fences
E) Operation Sidewinder
22. Ted Hughes’ Wodwo is:
23. Name the book in which Peter Brook makes a study of late 1940s theatre.
24. Which of the following playwrights have collaborated in writing the satire Three Hours after Marriage?
A) John Gay
B) John Dryden
C) Alexander Pope
D) William Congreve
E) John Arbuthnot
B) John Dryden
C) Alexander Pope
D) William Congreve
E) John Arbuthnot
25. Which of these plays feature the rehearsal of a play within the body of the main play?
A) William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
B) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
C) Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
D) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi
E) Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session
B) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
C) Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman
D) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi
E) Vijay Tendulkar’s Silence! The Court is in Session
26. Thomas Love Peacock authored the essay:
27. Which of the following novels are written by Wilkie Collins?
A) Basil
B) A Tale of a Tub
C) The Woman in White
D) Lapsing
E) A School for Lovers
B) A Tale of a Tub
C) The Woman in White
D) Lapsing
E) A School for Lovers
Critical Theory & Literature
28. Given below are two statements:
Statement I: The Book The Theatre of Revolt was written by Robert Brustein
Statement II: The Book The Theatre of Revolt is written in the context of French Revolution.
In the light of the statements given above choose the correct answer given below:
Statement II: The Book The Theatre of Revolt is written in the context of French Revolution.
In the light of the statements given above choose the correct answer given below:
Matching & Chronological Questions
29. Match List I with List II
LIST I (Quotes)
A) “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away- a man is not a piece of fruit.”
B) “Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
C) “Nobody thinks, nobody cares. No beliefs, no convictions and no enthusiasm. Just another Sunday evening.”
D) “Our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa’s doll-child; and here the children have been my dolls.”
LIST II (Plays)
I. Man and Superman
II. A Doll’s House
III. Death of a Salesman
IV. Look Back in Anger
30. Arrange the works in the chronological order of the staging/publication of the following plays:
A) A Woman Killed with Kindness
B) John Bull’s Other Island
C) The Double Dealer
D) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
E) The Conscious Lovers
B) John Bull’s Other Island
C) The Double Dealer
D) The Shoemaker’s Holiday
E) The Conscious Lovers
31. Match List I with List II
LIST I (Authors)
A Charles Lamb
B William Hazlitt
C Walter Savage Landor
D Thomas Love Peacock
LIST II (Works)
I Imaginary Conversations
II Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare
III Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays
IV Gryll Grange
