Question 1

------ was the verse memoir for Plath written by Ted Hughes.

Accepted Answer

A)  cave birds
B)  birthday letters
C)  river
D)  moor town B

Question 2

In Dumb Waiter Ben and Gus quarrel over the phrase-------

Accepted Answer

A)  lighting the kettle
B)  capitalist slavery
C)  naked vulnerability
D)  life's burden A

Question 3

The prototype of modern Angry Young Man in the play Look Back in Anger?

Accepted Answer

A)  cliff
B)  colonel redfurn
C)  jimmy porter
D)  john graham C

Question 4

Expressionism originated in __________. a)France b)Germany c)Italy d)England 25.Name the character mentioned as the mistress of Jimmy Porter.

Accepted Answer

A)  helena charles
B)  alison
C)  madeline
D)  lisa

Question 5

Name the German dramatist most associated with epic theatre?

Accepted Answer

A)  eugene o'neill
B)  bertolt brecht
C)  benjamin fondane
D)  elmer rice

Question 6

Sarah Woodruff enjoys an artistic, creative life in the house of ----------in the last part of French Lieutenant's Woman.

Accepted Answer

A)  rosetti
B)  rose
C)  magnum
D)  freeman

Question 7

'The black sailed ship' metaphorically alludes to…………….

Accepted Answer

A)  birth
B)  death
C)  resurrection
D)  fall

Question 8

The essay 'How should One Read a Book' appears in------

Accepted Answer

A)  the common reader: second series
B)  orlando: a biography .
C)  mrs dollway
D)  to the lighthouse

Question 9

Virginia Wolf belongs to the famous----------- group.

Accepted Answer

A)  clapham group
B)  bloomsbury group
C)  feminist group
D)  london group

Question 10

Ted Hughes was honoured with the Poet Laureateship in the year-------

Accepted Answer

A)  1989
B)  1984
C)  1979
D)  1978

Question 11

'Watching from a bluff the sparkling armada of ------draw near'

Accepted Answer

A)  promises
B)  faith
C)  hope
D)  trust

Question 12

The anthology New Lines was edited by-----------

Accepted Answer

A)  catherine
B)  robert brook
C)  philip larkin
D)  robert conquest

Question 13

Name the theatre found by W. B Yeats?

Accepted Answer

A)  globe theatre
B)  abbey theatre
C)  greek theatre
D)  theatre of maud gonne

Question 14

The opening lines of Journey of the Magi are a quotation from-----

Accepted Answer

A)  lancelot andrewes's 1622 nativity sermon
B)  the fly
C)  cannonization
D)  mathews

Question 15

--------- is Sarah Woodruff's alleged French lover.

Accepted Answer

A)  varguennes
B)  ernestina freeman
C)  charles smithson
D)  sam farrow

Question 16

An example of oxymoron in Easter 1916.

Accepted Answer

A)  terrible beauty
B)  horse-hoof slides
C)  green is worn
D)  vainglorious lout

Question 17

Harold Pinter's plays are typical examples of comedy of …….

Accepted Answer

A)  menace
B)  manners
C)  humours
D)  life

Question 18

Marchbanks is a character from G B Shaw's play……….

Accepted Answer

A)  pygmalion
B)  arms and the man
C)  candida
D)  the irrational knot

Question 19

In Easter 1916 Yeats commemorates -------in Dublin on 24 April 1916.

Accepted Answer

A)  uprising
B)  marriage party
C)  battle
D)  religious function

Question 20

Who among the following is Alison's father

Accepted Answer

A)  colonel redfern
B)  webster
C)  nigel
D)  morgan

Exam 1: Literature