PGT English Mock Test 6

1. Understanding and entering into another's feelings

2. A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

3. An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there

4. For which year was Yeats offered Knighthood by the British Government that he refused?

5. T.S. Eliot migrated to England from-

6. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is:

7. W.H. Auden moved to the United States in-

8. In which year Larkin was appointed librarian of the public library in Wellington, Shropshire?

9. Who founded an antislavery newspaper called the Weekly Freeman?

10. Who guided Dickinson in her poetry?

11. Which of the poem expresses Frost's statement that a poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"?

12. In September 1912 Frost sailed with his family to Glasgow, and later settled in -

13. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English-

14. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the-

15. Nissim Ezekiel "was the first Indian poet to express a modern Indian sensibility in modern idiom." Who said these words?

16. "I regard myself as an Indian poet writing in English." Who said these words about his own poetry?

17. In which newspaper the young boy reads the obituary column:

18. Why does the poet buy from the market?

19. What does Banquo wonder about the witches' prophecy?

20. How does Macbeth feel about Banquo?

21. What does Macbeth hire three men to do?

22. Does Lady Macbeth think this murder of Banquo and his son are necessary?

24. Do the assassins succeed in killing Banquo and Fleance?

25. Which one is known as the Regular Ode ?

26. Which odes were generally written for public occasions ?

27. As a literary genre, 'Biography' which means a account of a person's life, became popular during the second half of the........century.

28. In novels, epilogues are often inten-ded-

29. The term 'fiction', which is broadly applied to the narrative literature ented by the author's imagi- nation, now stands for only-

30. The term hero' in modern times, roughly refers to the-

31. Naturalisn' in literature was a reaction against the subjectivism and imnaginative escapism of the Romantic School. Who introduced this term ?

32. Who is Cob?

33. Master Kitely is a:

34. What were Mathew and Bobadil discussing?

35. What type of advice did Bobadil give to Mathews?

36. Ben Jonson created:

37. In his preface to , Dryden says that "the expressions of a poem designed purely for instruction ought to be plain and natural, yet majestic... A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth."

38. Which tragedy by John Dryden in rhymed couplets is a retelling of the story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and her martyrdom by the Roman Emperor Maximinus?

39. The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and

40. Which poem of Dryden, published in 1667, commemorated 1665-1666, the "year of miracles" of London?

41. Why has Sergius resigned his army commission?

41. What does Petkoff do instead of using the electric bell to call the servants?

42. Who is given solitary punishment in The Justice?

43. In which play of Galsworthy do we have William Falder? (T-09)

44. Which of the following plays of Harold Pinter are known as "memory plays"?

45. Harold Pinter's early works were described by critics as-

46. The Manchester Guardian wrote of one of the plays of when it first appeared at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1958: 'What all this means only Mr Pinter knows, for his characters speak in non-sequiturs, half gibberish and lunatic ravings'. The play was...

47. Why are Mildred and her Aunt travelling together?

48. What upsets Yank when he hears a tenor yearningly sing "about a lass at home?"

49. Who among the following was involved with local amateur theatre group, The Madras Players?

50. Who among the following during 1987-88 was at the University of Chicago as visiting professor and Fulbright playwright-in-residence?