Samuel Beckett, Bertolt Brecht, John Osborne
Previous Year UGC-NET English Literature Quiz
Previous Year UGC-NET English Literature Quiz
Samuel Beckett Questions
1. Match the plays to their setting:
Plays:
(a) Krapp’s last tape
(b) Happy days
(c) Waiting for Godot
(d) Endgame
Settings:
(1) a country road; a tree
(2) bare interior; two small windows high up; grey light
(3) expanse of scorched grass forming a low mound; blinding light
(4) a late evening in future, white light
2. Which of the following plays is characterized by the exclusivity of a single character talking to himself?
3. Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave-digger puts on the forceps.”
4. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has
5. One of the following texts was published earlier than 1955. Identify the text:
6. Who are Didi and Gogo?
7. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the English titles is
8. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated, repetitious and cliched speech primarily to:
Bertolt Brecht Questions
9. Bertolt Brecht’s concept of alienation was a rejection of the idea that realism was the only mode of art a critique of capitalist society should produce. Alienation is best described as
10. In Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children, which song does Yvette sing to Mother Courage and Kattrin?
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11. Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children presents the war-torn Europe as its protagonist as she follows troops with her canteen wagon. What is the real name of Mother Courage?
12. Who of the following playwrights rejects the Aristotelian concept of tragic play as imitation of reality?
John Osborne Questions
13. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger is an example of
14. “Why don’t we have a little game? Let’s pretend that we’re human beings, and that we are actually alive.” This passage forms part of
15. Match the character with the work:
Characters:
(a) Jim Dixon
(b) Jimmy Porter
(c) Joe Lampton
(d) Charles Lumley
Works:
(i) Room at the Top
(ii) Hurry on Down
(iii) Look Back In Anger
(iv) Lucky Jim
Code: (a) (b) (c) (d)
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