Indian Modern Theatre PYQs UGC-NET English
1. Which of these themes best sums up the preoccupation of most of Vijay Tendulkar’s plays?
2. Which of the following are NOT by Rabindranath Tagore?
[A] Visarjan
[B] Chandalika
[C] Muktadhara
[D] Parineeta
[E] Punarnava
3. Name the playwright who has written Larins Sahib.
4. Identify the plays originally written by Vijay Tendulkar from the following:
[A] The Cyclist and His Fifth Woman
[B] Scandal in Fairyland
[C] The Vultures and Encounter in Umbugland
[D] Sakharam Binder
[E] Fire and the Rain
5. Identify the plays written by Asif Currimbhoy from the following:
[A] Princes
[B] The Captives
[C] An Experiment with Truth
[D] Angkor
[E] Dance Like a Man
6. Which of the following plays of William Shakespeare was translated into Bengali and directed by Girish Chandra Ghosh?
7. Which of the following have NOT been written by Mahesh Dattani?
[A] Dance Like a Man
[B] Fire and the Rain
[C] On A Muggy Night in Mumbai
[D] A Touch of Brightness
[E] Bravely Fought the Queen
8. Which two of the following dramatists have won the Sultan Padamsee Award?
[A] Mahesh Dattani
[B] Gurcharan Das
[C] Girish Karnad
[D] Cyrus Mistry
9. Arrange the following playwrights chronologically in accordance with the years of their birth:
[A] Asif Currimbhoy
[B] Gurcharan Das
[C] Nissim Ezekiel
[D] Gieve Patel
[E] Cyrus Mistry
10. Match List I with List II:
List I (Playwrights)
[A] Pratap Sharma
[B] Asif Currimbhoy
[C] Gurcharan Das
[D] Nissim Ezekiel
List II (Works)
[I] Sleepwalkers
[II] Mira
[III] A Touch of Brightness
[IV] The Hungry Ones
11. Who among the following displays an influence of the Yakshagana folk tradition in his plays?
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