Harold Pinter, Beckett, Bertolt Brecht and Ben Jonson Previous Year UGC-NET

UGC-NET PYQs

Harold Pinter

1. Which among the following are true about Harold Pinter?

[A] Harold Pinter was born in the year 1925
[B] He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd.
[C] The Caretaker and The Alchemist are his famous plays
[D] Stanley is a character in The Birthday Party
[E] Betrayal is a story of a married couple

1)A, D and E only
2)B, D and E only
3)B, C and D only
4)A, C and D only

2. Which of the following are plays written by Harold Pinter?

A) Family Voices
B) A Moon for the Misbegotten
C) The Room
D) No Man’s Land
E) Krapp’s Last Tape

1)A, B and E
2)B, C and D
3)A, C and D
4)C, D and E

Samuel Beckett

3. Which of the following is true about Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?

(A) It illustrates vanity of human kind.
(B) It has uncompromising views on humanitarian communism.
(C) It projects self-deception, striving to disguise failure.
(D) It is a static representation without structure or development.
(E) Its incoherent dialogue suggests despair of a society.

1)(A) and (C) Only
2)(C) and (D) Only
3)(A) and (B) Only
4)(D) and (E) Only

Bertolt Brecht

4. What term did Bertolt Brecht use for his mode of drama-writing to distinguish it from traditional theatre?

1)Epic theatre
2)Kitchen-sink theatre
3)Musical theatre
4)Proletarian theatre

5. Which of these are plays written by Bertolt Brecht?

A) The Caucasian Chalk Circle
B) Galileo
C) Copernicus
D) Archimedes
E) Man Equals Man

1)A, B and C
2)B, C and D
3)A, B and E
4)B, C and D

Ben Jonson

6. Which of the following are true of the dramatic legacy of Ben Jonson?

(a) Jonson’s physiological interpretation of character and personality did not have any precedent.
(b) Taking after the practice of the Moralities and interludes, Jonson named his dramatis personae patronymically.
(c) Chapman’s All Fools and Middleton’s A Trick To Catch the Old One belong to the genre of Comedy of Humours that Jonson is said to have pioneered.
(d) John Marston and Thomas Dekker collaborated with Jonson in writing for a children’s company of players.

1)(a) and (b) only
2)(b) and (c) only
3)(c) and (d) only
4)(d) and (a) only

7. Which of the playwrights have been correctly matched with their works?

A) William Wycherley – The Rivals
B) Ben Jonson – Volpone, or the Fox
C) William Congreve – The Country Wife
D) Aphra Behn – The Dutch Lover
E) Richard Sheridan – A School for Scandal