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These multiple-choice questions (MCQs) are designed to enhance your knowledge and understanding in the following areas: Bachelor of Arts in English (BA English) .
| 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 | |
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