PGT English Mock Test 31

1. Comedy of Humour is the term applied to the type of comic drama written by John Fletcher and:

2. Comedy of intrigue originated in:

3. Comedy of Manners was originated in France with:

4. The complete name of W.B. Yeats was-

5. When was T.S. Eliot born?

6. What abbreviation does "T.S." stand for?

7. The complete name of W.H. Auden is-

8. The complete name of Philip Larkin is-

9. Who is known as 'The Bard of Democracy' among the following: (PGT-2000, 10)

10. Emily Dickinson is the eminent poetess of -

11. When was Dickinson born?

12. Which of these poets is associated with New England?

13. Robert Frost was born on-

14. Tagore began his career in short stories in 1877- when he was only sixteen-with-

15. Kabuliwala is a Bengali short story written by. In 1892. The story is of a merchant from Kabul, who comes to Calcutta (present day Kolkata), India each year for selling dry-fruits and while living in India he becomes friends with a five-year-old girl Mini from a middle-class aristocratic family.

16. When was Nissim Ezekiel born in?

17. Who is of a Jewish origin? (PGT-02)

18. Macbeth by William Shakespeare was first performed in -

19. His works include translations from Old Tamil and-

20. Who commented: "Ramanujan tries on masks and explores what others have told him."

21. Shakespeare's main source for the story of Macbeth was-

22. Events in Shakespeare's play Macbeth are usually associated with-

23. Which one of the following is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy?

24. The test of a good lyric is-

25. Who invented the term 'comic-epic in prose' ?

26. 'Doggerel' is rather a term of abuse which is-

27. 'Epic theatre' was developed by-

28. 'Epic theatre' is a form of drama which-

29. Poetry is classified as epic, narrative or dramatic on the basis of-

30. A short singing poem, which expre-sses a single emotion usually per- sonal, is known as-

31. In this play, Macbeth is a Scottish general under the rule of -

32. The first great English Neo-classic was:

33. Ben Jonson revolted against:

34. Classics according to Jonson was a cure for:

35. Who was called "Glorious John" by Walter Scott?

36. According to Ben Jonson what was the chief function of literature?

37. Ben Jonson has presented the social life of:

38. Who was made England's first Poet Laureate in 1668?

39. Dryden published his first important poem, Heroic Stanzas (1658), a eulogy on which is cautious and prudent in its emotional display.

40. In there is a single voice bewailing the death of a person.

41. A ………….is a speech of praise, typically delivered at a funeral.

42. Galsworthy was born on-

43. Galsworthy was born at-

44. Harold Pinter was born on-

45. Harold Pinter was the only child of Eastern European descent.

46. The complete name of Eugene O'Neill was-

47. Bacon was born in

48. Who wrote the following lines - “The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar? From the sphere of our borrow"

49. Coriolanus, Coriolanus is the sur- name of-

50. What is name of the wife of Pericle in Shakespeare's play Pericles ?