William Shakespeare Previous Year UGC-NET English

Directions (Q.no. 1 to 2): Read the following extract and answer the questions that follow:

Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow ‘st the worm not silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. —Ha! here’s three one’s are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art.

Shakespeare, King Lear

Q.1) Which one of the following best captures what Shakespeare means?

[1] Animals unlike man are more complex.

[2] Animal’s attributes are external.

[3] Man can accommodate same properties.

[4] Man just uses what animals possess.

Answer: 1

2. ‘Is man no more than this?’ means:

[1] Accommodated man is well endowed.

[2] As an animal, man is a superior animal.

[3] Man is far more than what he seems to be.

[4] Man is not as well-endowed as some other animals.

Answer: 4

Which character in Hamlet utters the line: “Something is rotten in the state of Denmark”?

[1] Bernardo

[2] Ghost

[3] Horatio

[4] Marcellus

Answer: 4

Which Shakespearean comedy is structured as a play within a play?

[1] A Midsummer Night’s Dream

[2] Love’s Labour ‘s Lost

[3] The comedy of Errors

[4] The Taming of the Shrew

Answer: 4

Match List I with List II

List I

[A] “There is no art to find mind’s construction in the face”

[B] “Time out of joint”.

[C] “The better part of valour is discretion”.

[D] “My kingdom for a horse”.

List II

[I] Hamlet

[II] Richard III

[III] Macbeth

[IV] Twelfth night

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II

[2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

[3] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

[4] A-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I

Answer: [2] A-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II

Match List I with List II

List I

[A] Doll common

[B] Malvolio

[C] Mortimer

[D] Bosola

List II

[I] Twelfth night

[II] The alchemist

[III] The duchess of Malfi

[IV] Edward II

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

[1] A-I, B-IV, C-III, D-II

[2] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

[3] A-IV, B-III, C-II, D-I

[4] A-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II

Answer: [2] A-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Dev virahsawmy’s toufann is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s play ___

[1] Hamlet

[2] Macbeth

[3] The twelfth night

[4] The tempest

Answer: [4] The tempest

Match List I with List II:

List I

[1] Hamlet

[2] Macbeth

[3] Julius Caesar

[4] Othello

List II

[1] 1606

[2] 1599

[3] 1604

[4] 1600

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Match List I with List II

LIST I (Output Device)

A) Some are born great, others achieve greatness.

B) Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind

C) III deeds is doubled with an evil word

D) We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

LIST II (Description)

I The Tempest

II. The Comedy of Errors

III. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

IV. Twelfth Night

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Match List I with List II

LIST I

A) Come what come may, Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

B) When sorrows come, they come not single spies. But in battalions!

C) I am a man more sinned against than sinning.

D) But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For Daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

LIST II 

I. Othello

II. King Lear

III. Macbeth

IV. Hamlet

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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

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

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

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

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

Name the play during the performance of which the Globe Theatre was burned down in 1613.

1) Henry VI

2) Henry VIII

3) Richard II

4) Richard III

Answer: 2) Henry VIII

Who, among the following. has written Lear (a play), an adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear?

1) Edward Bond

2) Arthur Miller

3) Steven Berkoff

4) Virginia Woolf

Answer:1) Edward Bond

Which of the following plays may be considered as a parody of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, and some parts of Hamlet and King Lear?

1) G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion

2) Luigi Pirandello’s Bellavita

3) August Strindberg’s The Dance of Death

4) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi

Answer:4) Alfred Jarry’s Ubu Roi

Which two plays of Anton Chekhov made creative use of Shakespeare’s Hamlet?

A) A Marriage Proposal

B) Three Sisters

C) The Cherry Orchard

D) Uncle Vanya

E) The Seagull

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

1) A and D

2) C and E

3) B and D

4) B and E

Answer:4) B and E