1. Poetry is a word of ------origin which comes from a verb which means “to create”.
Correct : C. greek
2. Who opined “poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere
and at all times”?
Correct : A. wolfgang goethe
3. Who is called the father of Italian language?
Correct : C. dante
4. Who was called ilsammopoeta (the supreme poet)?
Correct : D. dante
5. Who accompanies Dante on his journey to Heaven?
Correct : B. beatrice
6. Which one is the seventh Heaven in Dante’s The Divine Comedy?
Correct : D. the sphere of saturn
7. Where does the Golden Ladder appear in The Divine Comedy?
Correct : D. in the seventh heaven
8. Wolfgang Goethe is a --------- writer.
Correct : A. german
9. Who was called “the last true polymath to walk on earth”?
Correct : C. goethe
10. I Love You is a poem written by
Correct : A. pushkin
11. Who solves the riddle of the Sphynx in Oedipus Rex?
Correct : A. oedipus
12. Chorus in Oedipus Rex represents the people of ---------
Correct : A. thebes
13. Who coined the term “Oedipus Complex”?
Correct : B. sigmond freud
14. What is the hamartia of Oedipus?
Correct : A. hubris
15. Who is the author of the work‘Poetics”?
Correct : A. aristotle
16. Who is the author of the work“Republic”?
Correct : B. plato
17. Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as------
Correct : B. hymns
18. Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ imbibes the conventions of ---------drama.
Correct : A. greek
19. The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with-------
Correct : B. the epictheatre
20. Drama originated inancient--------- A.Greece b.Italy c. Rome d.India
22. Who wrote “SpanishTragedy”?
Correct : A. thomaskyd
21. “Spanish Tragedy” is--------
Correct : A. a revengeplay
22. Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a---------drama.
Correct : A. poetic
23. Milton’s “Comus ” is a---------
Correct : A. masque
24. The term ‘denoumnet’ refers to ---------in aplay.
Correct : B. the fallingaction
25. The French term for ‘unknotting’----------
Correct : A. denouement
26. The term -------- is applied to the falling action in atragedy
Correct : A. catastrophe
27. The term anagnorisis means----------
Correct : A. recognition
28. The term peripetiameans----------
Correct : B. reversal
29. In Greek drama, the hero iscalled------
Correct : A. theprotagonist
30. ---------is someone in whom the central characterconfides
Correct : C. aconfidant
31. Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called------
Correct : A. stockcharacters.
32. A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright iscalled--------
Correct : A. raisonneur
33. Plato was the most celebrated disciple of-----
Correct : A. socrates
34. Which among the following books contains Plato’sideas?
Correct : D. republic
35. Who is the author of“Dialogues”
Correct : A. plato
36. Art, according to ---------is twice removed fromreality
Correct : A. plato
37. Who said “the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote thewell-being
of thestate”
Correct : A. plato
38. Plato’s view of art is closely bound up with his theory of------
Correct : B. ideas
39. Who is the author of the book“Rhetoric”
Correct : B. aristotle
40. Who is the author of the book“Poetics”
Correct : A. aristotle
41. ---------arouses the emotions of pity andfear
Correct : A. tragedy
42. In tragedy, the emotions of pity and fear are aroused with a view to-------
Correct : B. anagnorisis
43. Purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is referred toas------
Correct : C. catharsis
44. The term used by Aristotle to mean tragic flaw is---- a. Hamartia b.Anagnorisis c.Catharsis d.Peripetia
50. The term used by Aristotle to mean ‘recognition’.
Correct : A. hamartia
45. The term used by Aristotle to mean “reversal of situations” in a tragedy.
Correct : D. peripetia
46. Aristotle classified plot into simple and complex plot on the basis of ------
Correct : B. anagnoris&peripetia
47. The English equivalent of the term “hamartia”
Correct : B. tragic flaw
48. Who made the distinction between simple and complex plot on the basis of Anagnorisis and
Peripetia.
Correct : A. aristotle
49. According to Aristotle, tragedy was born from ------
Correct : C. the nobler actions of good men
50. The author of Illiad.
Correct : A. homer
51. The Author of Odessey
Correct : A. homer
52. The author of DIVINE COMEDY?
Correct : D. dante
53. The author of AENEID?
Correct : C. virgil
54. The author of Decameron?
Correct : B. boccaccio
55. The concept of Purgatory occurs in ______
Correct : D. dante’s devine comedy
56. The strategy of the wooden horse emerged in the cunning brain of _______
Correct : A. ulysses
57. Which among the following does Aristotle consider as the best example for a complex plot?
Correct : A. oedipus rex
58. The tragedy of Oedipus Rexis due to
Correct : D. both b and c
59. The mother of Oedipus?
Correct : D. penelope
60. The father of Oedipus?
Correct : A. laius
61. The term OedipusComplex takes its origin from-------?
Correct : A. oedipus rex
62. Ulysses’ Wife?
Correct : B. jocasta
63. Ulysses’s Son?
Correct : C. telemachus
64. The TrojanWar was fought between
Correct : A. the trojans and the greek
65. The Trojan War was fought on account of
Correct : B. helen
66. The Adventure of Ulysses is dealt with in ______?
Correct : A. tennyson’s ulysses
67. Siddharta is a novel by
Correct : C. herman hesse
68. Who is the protagonist of the play Karnabharam?
Correct : C. karna
69. Karnabharam was originally written in-------
Correct : B. sanskrit
70. Who is disguised as a Brahmin in Karnabharam?
Correct : A. indra
71. Who takes the Kavacha and Kundala away from Karna?
Correct : B. indra
72. What is the name of the protagonist in Notes from Underground?
Correct : C. he is unnamed
73. Which of the following is considered to be the first Existentialist novel?
Correct : B. notes from underground
74. Notes from Underground is divided into ------ parts.
Correct : A. two
75. Who is the friend of Siddhartha?
Correct : D. govinda
76. What is the name of the ferryman in Siddhartha?
Correct : B. vasudeva
77. Choose the one who does not appear in front of the Repentant Sinner at the gates of the Heaven.