Remaining Dramatists And Works UGC-NET English Previous Questions

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:

[1] Both statement I and Statement II are true

[2] Both statement I and Statement II are false

[3] Statement I is true, but statement II is false

[4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true

Answer: [4] Statement I is false, but statement II is true

Besides being a playwright, who among the following has translated homer?

[1] Ben Johnson

[2] Thomas Dekker

[3] Thomas Heywood

[4] George Chapman

Answer: [4] George Chapman

The deserted village by Oliver goldsmith

[1] Critiques the rural institutions

[2] Voices revolt of the individual man against institutions

[3] Reflects upon different views on the human soul

[4] Advocates urbanism over rural backwardness

Answer: [2] Voices revolt of the individual man against institutions

Who among the following has authored The revenger’s Tragedie?

[1] Cyril Tourneur

[2] John Webster

[3] John Fletcher

[4] Thomas Heywood

Answer: [1] Cyril Tourneur

Who among the following attached himself to the Earl of Nottingham’s theatrical company?

[1] William Shakespeare

[2] Christopher Marlowe

[3] George Peele

[4] Ben Johnson

Answer: [2] Christopher Marlowe

Name the playwright who composed the play A Woman Killed with Kindness.

1) Francis Beaumont

2) Beaumont and Fletcher

3) Thomas Kyd

4) Thomas Heywood

Answer: 4) Thomas Heywood

Name the celebrated actor who played the leading role in the first production of John Osborne’s The Entertainer (1957).

1) Peter Brook

2) Laurence Olivier

3) Al Pacino

4) Robert De Niro

Answer: 2) Laurence Olivier

Which of the following statements holds true in regard to “Sentimental Comedy”?

1) It is a dramatic composition which satirises the manners and affectations of a class.

2) It is a dramatic composition that focuses on characters, each of them representing a type personality.

3) It is a dramatic composition that depicts how seriously young people take love, and how foolishly it makes them behave.

4) It is a species of dramatic composition in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make our interest in the piece.

Answer: 4) It is a species of dramatic composition in which the virtues of private life are exhibited, rather than the vices exposed; and the distresses rather than the faults of mankind make our interest in the piece.

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) B and D only.

2) A and E only.

3) B and E only.

4) C and E only.

Answer: 3) B and E only.

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) B, C and D only

2) A, C and E only.

3) A, C and D only.

4) C, D and E only.

Answer: 2) A, C and E only.

Which of the following poems is written by Oliver Goldsmith?

1) A Deserted Village

2) A Deserted Villa

3) The Deserted Village

4) A Deserted City

Answer: 3) The Deserted Village

Name the playwright who wrote the play Epicene, or the Silent Woman?

1) William Congreve

2) Thomas Kyd

3) Ben Jonson

4) Thomas Farquhar

Answer: 3) Ben Jonson

The theological treatise Ecclesiastical Polity was written by

1) Richard Hakluyt

2) Francis Bacon

3) Raphael Holinshed

4) Richard Hooker

Answer: 4) Richard Hooker

Who wrote the popular instruction manual for fishermen titled The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man’s Recreation?

1) Isaac Walton

2) Jeremy Taylor

3) Richard Baxter

4) Thomas Hobbes

Answer: 1) Isaac Walton

Dr Primrose is a character in

1) Nicholas Nickleby

2) Adam Bede

3) The Vicar of Wakefield

4) Joseph Andrews

Answer: 3) The Vicar of Wakefield

Q.48) Choose the plays written by Lord Byron

A) Sardanapalus

B) Hellas

C) Cain

D) The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy

E) The Cenci

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B and C

2) B, C and E

3) A, B and D

4) A, C and D

Answer: 4) A, C and D

Match List I with List II

LIST I

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

I. Man, and Superman

II. A Doll’s House

III. Death of a Salesman

IV. Look Back in Anger

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

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

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

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

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

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

Choose the correct answers from the options given below:

1) B, D, C, A and E

2) D, A, C, E and B

3) C, D, A, B and E

4) E, B, D, C and A

Answer: 2) D, A, C, E and B

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:

1) Both Statement I and Statement II are true

2) Both Statement I and Statement II are false

3) Statement I is true and Statement II is false

4) Statement I is false and Statement II is true

Answer: 3) Statement I is true and Statement II is false

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A & B

2) C & D

3) B & C

4) A & E

Answer: 3) B & C

Thomas Love Peacock authored the essay

1) “Revolt of the Tartars”

2) “An Essay on the Principles of Human Action”

3) “Four Ages of Poetry”

4) “Seven Lamps of Architecture”

Answer: 3) “Four Ages of Poetry”

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A & D

2) B & D

3) A & C

4) B & C

Answer: 3) A & C

Ted Hughes’ Wodwo is

1) A volume named from the wild men of the woods of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

2) A volume named after the elves of the masque of The Tempest.

3) A volume named after the central character of Pearl.

4) A volume named after the name of the monster of Beowulf.

Answer: 1) A volume named from the wild men of the woods of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.

Name the book in which Peter Brook makes a study of late 1940s theatre.

1) The Empty Space

2) Experimental Drama

3) After Brecht: British Epic Theatre

4) Around the Absurd: Essays on Modern and Postmodern Drama

Answer: 1) The Empty Space

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A, B and D

2) A, C and E

3) A, B and E

4) A, D and E

Answer: 2) A, C and E

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and D

2) B and E

3) A and C

4) C and D

Answer: 2) B and E

Match List I with List II

LIST I LIST II

A Charles Lamb I Imaginary Conversations

B William Hazlitt II Specimens of the English Dramatic Poets who Lived about the Time of Shakespeare

C Walter SavageLandor III Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays

D Thomas LovePeacock IV Gryll Grange

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

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

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

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

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

Name the playwright who has written Gallathea?

1) Robert Greene

2) Thomas Lodge

3) Thomas Nashe

4) John Lyly

Answer:4) John Lyly

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

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and B

2) C and D

3) A and C

4) B, C, and D

Answer:3) A and C

Which of the following characteristics of She Stoops to Conquer is not correct?

(1) It is endowed with an ingenious and lively plot.

(2) It does not cast excellent characters.

(3) It has a vivacious and delightful style.

(4) It lacks the Restoration grossness.

Answer: (2) It does not cast excellent characters.

Who of the following was the immediate predecessor of the drama proper?

(1) The Interlude

(2) The Morality Play

(3) The Miracle Play

(4) The Liturgical Play

Answer: (1) The Interlude