Question 1

Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in

Accepted Answer

A)  1903
B)  1910
C)  1917
D)  1923 D

Question 2

Who coined the word 'Theatre of the Absurd'?

Accepted Answer

A)  albert camus
B)  franz kafka
C)  martin eslin
D)  robert C

Question 3

According to Woolf the best way to understand a novel is to---------- what we have read

Accepted Answer

A)  criticize
B)  compare
C)  write
D)  analyse C

Question 4

The early stories in Joyce's "Dubliners" have -------- as protagonists

Accepted Answer

A)  women
B)  irish peasants
C)  children
D)  mythical characters

Question 5

Mention the name of pawnbroker's widow in the story "Araby"

Accepted Answer

A)  mrs.mercer
B)  mrs. pekker
C)  mrs. sampson
D)  mrs. heidegger

Question 6

Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" was first performed in the year

Accepted Answer

A)  1945
B)  1950
C)  1954
D)  1956

Question 7

Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent critic and scholar. Who was he?

Accepted Answer

A)  matthew arnold
B)  carlyle
C)  john ruskin
D)  leslie stephen

Question 8

The narrative technique usually employed by James Joyce___________.

Accepted Answer

A)  stream of consciousness
B)  symbolism
C)  imagism
D)  modernism

Question 9

"Dubliners" was first published in the year

Accepted Answer

A)  1912
B)  1914
C)  1918
D)  1921

Question 10

Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?

Accepted Answer

A)  alan sillitoe
B)  john wain
C)  colin wilson
D)  john osborne

Question 11

The autobiographical novel "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is being written by__________.

Accepted Answer

A)  d.h lawrence
B)  thomas hardy
C)  james augustine joyce
D)  virginia woolf

Question 12

The short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" appeared in

Accepted Answer

A)  new lines
B)  harper's bazaar
C)  horse collections
D)  mariner's win

Question 13

Name Joyce's only collection of short stories

Accepted Answer

A)  the dubliners
B)  ulysses
C)  the portrait
D)  araby

Question 14

Who among the following is a Movement poet?

Accepted Answer

A)  elizabeth jennings
B)  ted hughes
C)  t.s eliot
D)  w.h auden

Question 15

--------------- is the only play published by James Joyce

Accepted Answer

A)  exiles
B)  the dead
C)  the black sun
D)  chamber music

Question 16

Who wrote the screen play Karel Reisz' Adaptation of " The French Lieutenant's Woman"

Accepted Answer

A)  harold pinter
B)  bernard shaw
C)  henrik ibsen
D)  virginia woolf

Question 17

The short story "Araby" is narrated by

Accepted Answer

A)  a boy
B)  an young woman
C)  an elderly
D)  author

Question 18

Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" occurs in his

Accepted Answer

A)  ariel poems
B)  poems (1920) 
C)  the wasteland
D)  four quartets

Question 19

Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of

Accepted Answer

A)  18 c
B)  16c
C)  17c
D)  20c

Exam 2: Literary Trivia: Authors and Their Works