Quiz 5 - UGC NET/JRF English
Q.26 Choose the correct alternative.
1) The Staple of News was first performed in 1625.
2) The Staple of News was intended to be part of the second folio collection of Jonson’s works.
3) In the play, the News Staple is a satirical parody on the developments of newspaper and news agency business, especially, that developed and appeared in response to the Thirty Years War.
4) The main source of the play came from the early miracle plays.
A) 1, 2 & 3 B) Only 1
Q.27 Which was the third “seasonal” play by Christopher Fry?
A) The Dark is Light Enough
B) Ring Round the Moon
C) Tiger At the Gates
D) The Lark
Q.28 Who is the devil who is sent by Satan in the play The Devil is an Ass?
A) Meercraft
B) Wittipol
C) Manly
D) Pug
Q.29 Which of the following is NOT true?
A) Miller’s The Crucible is a dramatized and partially fictionalized story of the Salem Witch
Trials that took place during 1792/93.
B) Miller had changed the actual age of Abigail Williams from 11 or 12 to 17 and John Proctor’s age from 60 to around 40 to add credence to the backstory of Proctor’s affair with Abigail.
C) Miller originally called the play Those Familiar Spirits, before renaming it as The Crucible.
D) The play was written as an allegory for McCarthyism.
Q.30 Which of the following is the correctly matched pair?
A B
Protagonist Name of the work
A) Willy Loman I) The Crucible
B) Joe Keller II) All My Sons
C) John Proctor III) A View from the Brigde
D) Eddie Carbone IV) Death of a Salesman
Q.31 August Wilson once said that he was most influenced by “the four B’s”. Which of the following is NOT the correct B?
A) Amiri Baraka
B) Romare Bearden
C) Jorge Luis Borges
D) Enid Bagnold
Q.32 Arthur Miller’s All My Sons is often compared to _____________. In fact, Death of a Salesman also later follows on the same line.
A) Roman tragedies
B) Greek tragedies
C) Italian tragedies
D) Spanish tragedies
Q.33 In the play The Crucible, John Proctor forgets one of the Ten Commandments when challenged to recite. Which Commandment does he forget?
A) Thou shall not bear false witness
B) Thou shall not kill
C) Thou shall not commit adultery
D) Thou shall not steal
Q.34 The following lines appear in which work?
“They also say that I bring back the past;
For instance Helen comes
Brushing the maggots from her eyes,
And, clearing here throat of the dust of several thousand years
She says "I loved ..."; but cannot any longer
Remember names.”
A) The Man Who Had All the Luck by Arthur Miller
B) Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
C) The Lady’s Not for Burning by Christopher Fry
D) Personal Enemy by John Osborne
Q.35 Biff Loman in Death of a Salesman is an athlete and was once a star performer. Which sport did he play?
A) Baseball
B) Hockey
C) Rugby
D) Football
Q.36 Which of the following is NOT true?
A) August Wilson’s Pittsburgh Cycle, also referred as Century Cycle, consists of ten plays and received two Pulitzer prizes for Drama.
B) Each of these plays is set in a different decade from 1900s to 1990s in a series and aim to sketch the Black experience in the 20th century.
C) The Piano Lesson is one of the plays in Pittsburgh Cycle.
D) All the plays are set in Pittsburgh's Hill District.
E) Chicago’s Goodman Theatre was the first theater in the world to produce the entire 10-play cycle, spanning from 1986 to 2007.
Q.37 What phobia does Halvard Solness suffer from in the play The Master Builder?
A) Monophobia
B) Claustrophobia
C) Acrophobia
D) Agoraphobia
Q.38 Which of the following is NOT true of Henrik Ibsen?
A) He is known as “the father of realism.”
B) He is one of the founders of Modernism in theatre.
C) He is the most frequently performed dramatist in the world after Shakespeare.
D) He was a major 19 th century English playwright.
Q.39 How many characters are there in Krapp’s Last Tape?
A) one
B) six
C) nine
D) twelve
Q.40 In the play Hedda Gabler, who is encouraged to commit suicide by the title character?
A) Eilert Lovborg
B) Thea Elvsted
C) George Tesman
D) Juliana Tesman
Q.41 The play The Piano Lesson is set in which year during the aftermath of Great Depression?
A) 1932
B) 1933
C) 1935
D) 1936
Q.42 Which is the last play written by Henrik Ibsen?
A) Hedda Gabler
B) When We Dead Awaken
C) An Enemy of the People
D) Peer Gynt
Q.43 Which of the following is a one-act play?
1) Waiting for Godot
2) Endgame
3) Happy Days
4) Krapp’s Last Tape
A) 1 & 3 B) 2 & 4
C) Only 2 D) Only 1
Q.44 In the play When We Dead Awaken, which character posed for the sculpture called ‘Resurrection’?
A) Maia
B) Nun
C) Irene
D) Ulfheim
Q.45 A Doll’s House draws its story from a real-life incident of a Norwegian writer, who was also Ibsen’s good friend. Who was this writer?
A) Sara Blaedel
B) Naja Marie Aidt
C) Laura Kieler
D) Suzanne Brogger
Q.46 Who of the four characters cannot stand in the play Endgame?
A) Clov
B) Nell
C) Hamm
D) Nagg
Q.47 Waiting for Godot is often compared to which play?
A) Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead
B) The Homecoming
C) The Bald Soprano
D) The Zoo Story
Q.48 In Happy Days, which character is buried waist-deep in the first act and up to the neck in
the second act in the mound?
A) Winnie
B) Willie
C) None of the two
D) Both A & B
Q.49 “People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time about it.” This lines appear in which play?
A) An Enemy of the People
B) Look Back in Anger
C) When We Dead Awaken
D) Krapp’s Last Tape
Q.50 Who is considered to be a great influence on Beckett especially during his early works?
A) Emile Zola
B) James Joyce
C) Ezra Pound
D) Martin Esslin
