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Modern English Literature | Set 1

1. ‘This man had kept a school……’ Who is referred to here by W B Yeats?

Correct : A. patrick henry pearse

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

Correct : B. 1984

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

Correct : A. lancelot andrewes's 1622 nativity sermon

4. ‘The black sailed ship’ metaphorically alludes to…………….

Correct : B. death

5. Name the theatre found by W. B Yeats?

Correct : B. abbey theatre

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

Correct : C. jimmy porter

7. Name the German dramatist most associated with epic theatre?

Correct : B. bertolt brecht

8. The term avant-garde literally means-------

Correct : A. advance-guard

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

Correct : D. robert conquest

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

Correct : B. bloomsbury group

11. --------- is Sarah Woodruff’s alleged French lover.

Correct : A. varguennes

12. An example of oxymoron in Easter 1916.

Correct : A. terrible beauty

13. ‘He had done most bitter wrong’—To whom was the wrong done?

Correct : D. maud gonne

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

Correct : B. birthday letters

15. ‘Watching from a bluff the sparkling armada of ------draw near’

Correct : A. promises

16. Harold Pinter’s plays are typical examples of comedy of …….

Correct : A. menace

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

Correct : A. lighting the kettle

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

Correct : A. uprising

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

Correct : C. candida

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

Correct : B. alison

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

Correct : A. rosetti

22. The essay ‘How should One Read a Book’ appears in------

Correct : A. the common reader: second series

23. The Magi are the three wise men from the east who travelled to-----

Correct : A. bethalhem

24. Who among the following is Alison’s father

Correct : A. colonel redfern

25. The winged horse mentioned in the poem ‘Easter 1916’

Correct : A. pegasus

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

Correct : C. james augustine joyce

27. Who coined the word ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?

Correct : C. martin eslin

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

Correct : C. write

29. Name Joyce’s only collection of short stories

Correct : A. the dubliners

30. The short story “Araby” is narrated by

Correct : A. a boy

31. Mention the name of pawnbroker’s widow in the story “Araby”

Correct : A. mrs.mercer

32. Who wrote the screen play Karel Reisz’ Adaptation of “ The French Lieutenant’s Woman”

Correct : A. harold pinter

33. The short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” appeared in

Correct : B. harper’s bazaar

34. The narrative technique usually employed by James Joyce___________.

Correct : A. stream of consciousness

35. Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” was first performed in the year

Correct : B. 1950

36. The early stories in Joyce’s “Dubliners” have -------- as protagonists

Correct : A. women

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

Correct : C. the black sun

38. Who among the following is a Movement poet?

Correct : A. elizabeth jennings

39. “Dubliners” was first published in the year

Correct : B. 1914

40. Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of

Correct : D. 20c

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

Correct : D. leslie stephen

42. Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?

Correct : D. john osborne

43. Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in

Correct : D. 1923

44. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” occurs in his

Correct : A. ariel poems