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Reading Drama | Set 1

1. Who is the author of the work ‘Poetics”?

Correct : A. aristotle

2. Who is the author of the work “Republic”?

Correct : B. plato

3. Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as ------

Correct : D. dithyrambs.

4. Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ imbibes the conventions of --------- drama.

Correct : A. greek

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

Correct : B. the epic theatre

6. The term drama is derived from the Greek word------------.

Correct : A. dran

7. Drama originated in ancient--------- A .Greece b. Italy c. Rome d. India 8. Who wrote “Spanish Tragedy”?

Correct : A. thomas kyd

8. Milton’s “Comus ” is a ---------

Correct : A. masque

9. The term ‘denoumnet’ refers to ---------in a play.

Correct : B. the falling action

10. The French term for ‘unknotting’ ----------

Correct : A. denouement

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

Correct : A. catastrophe

12. The term anagnorisis means ----------

Correct : A. recognition

13. The term peripetia means----------

Correct : B. reversal

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

Correct : A. the protagonist

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

Correct : C. a confidant

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

Correct : A. stock characters.

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

Correct : A. raisonneur

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

Correct : A. socrates

19. Which among the following books contains Plato’s ideas?

Correct : D. republic

20. Who is the author of “Dialogues”

Correct : A. plato

21. Art, according to ---------is twice removed from reality

Correct : A. plato

22. Who said “the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote the well-being of the state”

Correct : A. plato

23. Plato’s view of art is closely bound up with his theory of ------

Correct : B. ideas

24. Who is the author of the book “Rhetoric”

Correct : B. aristotle

25. Who is the author of the book “Poetics”

Correct : A. aristotle

26. ---------arouses the emotions of pity and fear

Correct : A. tragedy

27. In tragedy, the emotions of pity and fear are aroused with a view to -------

Correct : B. anagnorisis

28. Purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is referred to as------

Correct : C. catharsis

29. The term used by Aristotle to mean tragic flaw is ----

Correct : A. hamartia

30. The term used by Aristotle to mean ‘recognition’

Correct : B. anagnorisis

31. The term used by Aristotle to mean “reversal of situations” in a tragedy

Correct : D. peripetia

32. Aristotle classified plot into simple and complex plot on the basis of ------

Correct : B. anagnoris & peripetia

33. The English equivalent of the term “hamartia”

Correct : B. tragic flaw

34. Who made the distinction between simple and complex plot on the basis of anagnorisis and peripetia

Correct : A. aristotle

35. the author of Illiad

Correct : A. Homer

36. the Author of odessey

Correct : A. Homer

37. the author of DIVINE COMEDY

Correct : D. Dante

38. the Author AENEAD

Correct : C. virgil

39. the author of Decameron

Correct : B. Baccaccio

40. Chaucer’s “Canterbur- tales” is model down _______

Correct : D. D Dante’s Devine Comedy

41. ithe strategy of the wodden horse emerged in the cunning brain of _______

Correct : A. Ulysses

42. Which amoung the following does Aristotle consider as the best example for a complex plot

Correct : A. OEDIPUS REX

43. the tragedy of OEDIPUS REX is due to

Correct : D. both ‘b’ and ‘c’

44. The mother of OEDIPUS

Correct : B. jocusta

45. The father of OEDIPUS

Correct : A. Laius

46. the term OEDIPUS REX Takes its orgin from

Correct : A. OEDIPUS REX

47. Ulysses Wife

Correct : B. jocusta

48. Ulysses’s Son

Correct : C. Telemachus

49. the trogen war was faught between

Correct : A. The Trojns and The Greek

50. the trogen war was fought on account of

Correct : B. Helen

51. the Adventure of Ulysses is dealt in ______

Correct : A. Tennyson’s Ulysses

52. Siddharta is a novel by

Correct : C. Herman Hesse