Question 1

---------is someone in whom the central character confides

Accepted Answer

A)  the protagonist
B)  a foil
C)  a confidant
D)  none of these. C

Question 2

Plato's view of art is closely bound up with his theory of ------

Accepted Answer

A)  rasa
B)  ideas
C)  sublimity
D)  decorum B

Question 3

In Greek drama, the hero is called------

Accepted Answer

A)  the protagonist
B)  a foil
C)  a confidant
D)  none of these. A

Question 4

Milton's "Comus " is a ---------

Accepted Answer

A)  masque
B)  farce
C)  elegy
D)  epic

Question 5

Eliot's play 'Murder in the Cathedral' imbibes the conventions of --------- drama.

Accepted Answer

A)  greek
B)  roman
C)  italian
D)  indian.

Question 6

The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with -------

Accepted Answer

A)  the absurd drama
B)  the epic theatre
C)  comedy of humours
D)  feminist theatre

Question 7

Who said "the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote the well-being of the state"

Accepted Answer

A)  plato
B)  aristotle
C)  longinus
D)  francis bacon

Question 8

The term -------- is applied to the falling action in a tragedy

Accepted Answer

A)  catastrophe
B)  catharsis
C)  crisis
D)  none of these

Question 9

Which among the following books contains Plato's ideas?

Accepted Answer

A)  poetics
B)  the new atlantis
C)  on the sublime
D)  republic

Question 10

Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called ------

Accepted Answer

A)  stock characters.
B)  round characters
C)  flat characters
D)  fools.

Question 11

Who is the author of the book "Poetics"

Accepted Answer

A)  aristotle
B)  aristophanes
C)  plato
D)  socrates

Question 12

Who is the author of the work 'Poetics"?

Accepted Answer

A)  aristotle
B)  plato
C)  socrates
D)  homer

Question 13

The term anagnorisis means ----------

Accepted Answer

A)  recognition
B)  reversal
C)  both "a' and "b"
D)  neither "a" nor "b"

Question 14

A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright is called--------

Accepted Answer

A)  raisonneur
B)  confidant
C)  stock character
D)  foil.

Question 15

Plato was the most celebrated disciple of -----

Accepted Answer

A)  socrates
B)  aristotle
C)  aristophanes
D)  none of the above

Question 16

The term peripetia means----------

Accepted Answer