McqMate
1. |
Who is the author of the work ‘Poetics”? |
A. | aristotle |
B. | plato |
C. | socrates |
D. | homer |
Answer» A. aristotle |
2. |
Who is the author of the work “Republic”? |
A. | aristotle |
B. | plato |
C. | socrates |
D. | homer |
Answer» B. plato |
3. |
Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as ------ |
A. | poetica |
B. | hymns |
C. | chantings |
D. | dithyrambs. |
Answer» D. dithyrambs. |
4. |
Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ imbibes the conventions of --------- drama. |
A. | greek |
B. | roman |
C. | italian |
D. | indian. |
Answer» A. greek |
5. |
The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with ------- |
A. | the absurd drama |
B. | the epic theatre |
C. | comedy of humours |
D. | feminist theatre |
Answer» B. the epic theatre |
6. |
The term drama is derived from the Greek word------------. |
A. | dran |
B. | dram. |
C. | darn. |
D. | drame. |
Answer» A. dran |
7. |
Drama originated in ancient--------- A .Greece b. Italy c. Rome d. India 8. Who wrote “Spanish Tragedy”? |
A. | thomas kyd |
B. | thomas norton |
C. | thomas sackville |
D. | none of these. |
Answer» A. thomas kyd |
8. |
Milton’s “Comus ” is a --------- |
A. | masque |
B. | farce |
C. | elegy |
D. | epic |
Answer» A. masque |
9. |
The term ‘denoumnet’ refers to ---------in a play. |
A. | the rising action |
B. | the falling action |
C. | the climax |
D. | none of these. |
Answer» B. the falling action |
10. |
The French term for ‘unknotting’ ---------- |
A. | denouement |
B. | due ex machina |
C. | decorum |
D. | none of these. |
Answer» A. denouement |
11. |
The term -------- is applied to the falling action in a tragedy |
A. | catastrophe |
B. | catharsis |
C. | crisis |
D. | none of these |
Answer» A. catastrophe |
12. |
The term anagnorisis means ---------- |
A. | recognition |
B. | reversal |
C. | both “a’ and “b” |
D. | neither “a” nor “b” |
Answer» A. recognition |
13. |
The term peripetia means---------- |
A. | recognition |
B. | reversal |
C. | both “a’ and “b” |
D. | neither “a” nor “b” |
Answer» B. reversal |
14. |
In Greek drama, the hero is called------ |
A. | the protagonist |
B. | a foil |
C. | a confidant |
D. | none of these. |
Answer» A. the protagonist |
15. |
---------is someone in whom the central character confides |
A. | the protagonist |
B. | a foil |
C. | a confidant |
D. | none of these. |
Answer» C. a confidant |
16. |
Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called ------ |
A. | stock characters. |
B. | round characters |
C. | flat characters |
D. | fools. |
Answer» A. stock characters. |
17. |
A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright is called-------- |
A. | raisonneur |
B. | confidant |
C. | stock character |
D. | foil. |
Answer» A. raisonneur |
18. |
Plato was the most celebrated disciple of ----- |
A. | socrates |
B. | aristotle |
C. | aristophanes |
D. | none of the above |
Answer» A. socrates |
19. |
Which among the following books contains Plato’s ideas? |
A. | poetics |
B. | the new atlantis |
C. | on the sublime |
D. | republic |
Answer» D. republic |
20. |
Who is the author of “Dialogues” |
A. | plato |
B. | aristotle |
C. | longinus |
D. | francis bacon |
Answer» A. plato |
21. |
Art, according to ---------is twice removed from reality |
A. | plato |
B. | aristotle |
C. | longinus |
D. | francis bacon |
Answer» A. plato |
22. |
Who said “the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote the well-being of the state” |
A. | plato |
B. | aristotle |
C. | longinus |
D. | francis bacon |
Answer» A. plato |
23. |
Plato’s view of art is closely bound up with his theory of ------ |
A. | rasa |
B. | ideas |
C. | sublimity |
D. | decorum |
Answer» B. ideas |
24. |
Who is the author of the book “Rhetoric” |
A. | socrates |
B. | aristotle |
C. | aristophanes |
D. | plato |
Answer» B. aristotle |
25. |
Who is the author of the book “Poetics” |
A. | aristotle |
B. | aristophanes |
C. | plato |
D. | socrates |
Answer» A. aristotle |
26. |
---------arouses the emotions of pity and fear |
A. | tragedy |
B. | comedy |
C. | epic |
D. | revenge play |
Answer» A. tragedy |
27. |
In tragedy, the emotions of pity and fear are aroused with a view to ------- |
A. | hamartia |
B. | anagnorisis |
C. | catharsis |
D. | peripetia |
Answer» B. anagnorisis |
28. |
Purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is referred to as------ |
A. | hamartia |
B. | anagnorisis |
C. | catharsis |
D. | peripetia |
Answer» C. catharsis |
29. |
The term used by Aristotle to mean tragic flaw is ---- |
A. | hamartia |
B. | anagnorisis |
C. | catharsis |
D. | peripetia |
Answer» A. hamartia |
30. |
The term used by Aristotle to mean ‘recognition’ |
A. | hamartia |
B. | anagnorisis |
C. | catharsis |
D. | peripetia |
Answer» B. anagnorisis |
31. |
The term used by Aristotle to mean “reversal of situations” in a tragedy |
A. | hamartia |
B. | anagnorisis |
C. | catharsis |
D. | peripetia |
Answer» D. peripetia |
32. |
Aristotle classified plot into simple and complex plot on the basis of ------ |
A. | hammartia & catharsis |
B. | anagnoris & peripetia |
C. | sublimity & decorum |
D. | all the above. |
Answer» B. anagnoris & peripetia |
33. |
The English equivalent of the term “hamartia” |
A. | tragedy |
B. | tragic flaw |
C. | tragic hero |
D. | tragic mistake |
Answer» B. tragic flaw |
34. |
Who made the distinction between simple and complex plot on the basis of anagnorisis and peripetia |
A. | aristotle |
B. | plato |
C. | words worth |
D. | coleridge |
Answer» A. aristotle |
35. |
the author of Illiad |
A. | Homer |
B. | Aristotle |
C. | virgil |
D. | Dante |
Answer» A. Homer |
36. |
the Author of odessey |
A. | Homer |
B. | Aristotle |
C. | virgil |
D. | Dante |
Answer» A. Homer |
37. |
the author of DIVINE COMEDY |
A. | Homer |
B. | Aristotle |
C. | virgil |
D. | Dante |
Answer» D. Dante |
38. |
the Author AENEAD |
A. | Homer |
B. | Aristotle |
C. | virgil |
D. | Dante |
Answer» C. virgil |
39. |
the author of Decameron |
A. | Homer |
B. | Baccaccio |
C. | virgil |
D. | Dante |
Answer» B. Baccaccio |
40. |
Chaucer’s “Canterbur- tales” is model down _______ |
A. | Homer’s Illead |
B. | Boccaccio’s Decameron |
C. | virgil’s aenea |
D. | D Dante’s Devine Comedy |
Answer» D. D Dante’s Devine Comedy |
41. |
ithe strategy of the wodden horse emerged in the cunning brain of _______ |
A. | Ulysses |
B. | Agamemnon |
C. | Achilles |
D. | None of these |
Answer» A. Ulysses |
42. |
Which amoung the following does Aristotle consider as the best example for a complex plot |
A. | OEDIPUS REX |
B. | Spanish Tragedy |
C. | Hamlet |
D. | none of the above |
Answer» A. OEDIPUS REX |
43. |
the tragedy of OEDIPUS REX is due to |
A. | Blindinf himself |
B. | marrying his mother |
C. | killing of his father |
D. | both ‘b’ and ‘c’ |
Answer» D. both ‘b’ and ‘c’ |
44. |
The mother of OEDIPUS |
A. | Laius |
B. | jocusta |
C. | venus |
D. | Penelope |
Answer» B. jocusta |
45. |
The father of OEDIPUS |
A. | Laius |
B. | jocusta |
C. | venus |
D. | Penelope |
Answer» A. Laius |
46. |
the term OEDIPUS REX Takes its orgin from |
A. | OEDIPUS REX |
B. | Illead |
C. | ODESSEY |
D. | none these |
Answer» A. OEDIPUS REX |
47. |
Ulysses Wife |
A. | Laius |
B. | jocusta |
C. | venus |
D. | Penelope |
Answer» B. jocusta |
48. |
Ulysses’s Son |
A. | Achilles |
B. | Hector |
C. | Telemachus |
D. | Oedipus |
Answer» C. Telemachus |
49. |
the trogen war was faught between |
A. | The Trojns and The Greek |
B. | the Athenianas and the Greek |
C. | Trojns an |
D. | the Athenians D none of above |
Answer» A. The Trojns and The Greek |
50. |
the trogen war was fought on account of |
A. | Aphrodite |
B. | Helen |
C. | Hecuba |
D. | Penelope |
Answer» B. Helen |
51. |
the Adventure of Ulysses is dealt in ______ |
A. | Tennyson’s Ulysses |
B. | James Joyce’s |
C. | Browning’s Andrea Del sarto |
D. | all the above |
Answer» A. Tennyson’s Ulysses |
52. |
Siddharta is a novel by |
A. | Tagore |
B. | Mulkraj Anand |
C. | Herman Hesse |
D. | none of these |
Answer» C. Herman Hesse |
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