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Harold Pinter – Previous Year UGC-NET English Literature Quiz
1. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below:
(Dramatists):
i. Arnold Wesker
ii. Harold Pinter
iii. Joe Orton
iv. Tom Stoppard
(Plays):
1. Jumpers
2. What the Butler Saw
3. The Room
4. Roots
Codes: i ii iii iv
2. What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party?
3. In Pinter’s Birthday Party Stanley is terrorised by two visitors to a seaside boarding house. Identify the two
(a) McGrath
(b) Goldberg
(c) McCann
(d) Robinson
The right combination according to the code is:
4. In Pinter’s Birthday Party, Stanley is given a birthday present. What is it?
5. Aston is a character in Pinter’s
6. In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as characters?
7. The tramp in Pinter’s first big hit, The Caretaker, often travels under an assumed name. It is
8. “When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness”. Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.
9. What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming?
10. Pinter once admitted that he first became aware of the dramatic power of the pause from seeing a popular American comedian. Which one?
11. Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels such as Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles’s French Lieutenant’s Woman, and Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale?
12. Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold Pinter’s plays?
13. Which is the correct sequence of publication of Pinter’s plays?
