TGT English Mock Test 20

1. Which drama originated in the medieval church and its ritual forms of worship, especially that of the chanted dialogue between the celebrant and the congregation during Mass?

2. Arnold calls Thyrsis:

3. A line consisting of ten syllabies is known as:

4. When did Browning die?

5. Who is Thyrsis in the poem of the same name?

6. Matthew Arnold was not a/ an

7. Identify the correct group of writers who belonged to the Rhymer's Club-

8. "What the Thunder said" is a section of the poem:

9. Which one of these is not one of the five sections of Eliot's "The Waste Land'?

10. "In Memory of W. B. Yeats' is a poem written by:-

11. The poem "Wants" points out the poet's desire-

12. In which famous poem does Walt Whitman make a reference to Suez Canal and Wire-line across the Atlantic? (PGT-05)

13. Dickinson longed for poetic,

14. "We love the things we love for what they are"

15. "You're searching For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things. (A) There are only middles." The above lines are from-

16. Kamala Das got 'Kerla Sahitya Akademi Award' in the year-

17. What is the pen name of Kamala Das? (PGT-09)

18. What news does Antonio receive at the play's end?

19. What was William Shakespeare's father's profession?

20. What title did King James bestow upon Shakespeare's acting company?

21. This play contains some of Shakespeare's most characters, but it's unclear if Shakespeare shared this view.

22. This play contains Shakespeare's first great hero.

23. Why does Bassanio need a loan?

24. 'Imagery' helps in translating

25. The essence of the Imagist poetry was

26. Who enriched the quality of 'empathy' in abundant measures ?

27. In which figure of speech, two different nouns are governed by a verb or an adjective in the sane sentence ?

28. Alliteration, the repetition of a speech, sound in a sequence of words, is usually applied only to-

29. The term 'epiphany' was coined by-

30. 'Hyperbole' is a figure of speech containing exaggeration or extravagance of statement for the purposeof-

31. How much money does Shylock offer to lend Bassanio?

32. Who does Shylock's daughter Jessica plan to clope with?

33. Who has written The Sad Shepherd"?

34. Who is known for writing classical drama?

35. Who was the greatest scholar and critic of Elizabethan age?

36. "Jonson mirrored what he saw of men and manners" whose words are these?

37. Ben Jonson was 'the great scholar and critic of:

38. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr is a tragedy by John Dryden in rhymed couplets, first acted in June 1669, and published in-

39. Which play of John Dryden is a retelling of the story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and her martyrdom by the Roman Emperor Maximinus, who is enraged at Catherine's refusal to submit to his violent sexual passion?

40. Which of the following plays is reported to have been written in only seven weeks?

41. "I think we two have found the higher love. When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought." Who speaks this to Sergius?

42. "Which of the six of me is the real man? That's the question that torments me. One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard. And one, at least, is a coward-jealous, like all cowards. "Who says this to Louka?

43. "He is but a poor philosopher who holds a view so narrow as to exclude forms not to his personal taste." Who said?

44. "Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place-service-social service-the ants' creed, the bees' creed." Who said?

45. "When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different." Who said?

46. Who quotes the following line in Justice?- "The quality of mercy is not strained..."

47. In Harold Pinter's own words: "one of my main obsessions in life is the game of I play and watch and read about it all the time."

48. From January to July 1951, Harold Pinter attended the

49. In which play of Harold Pinter his first wife, Vivien Merchant, played the role of Ruth?

50. Which play of Karnad is about a rashly idealist 14th century Sultan of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughluq, and allegory on the Nehruvian era which started with ambitious idealism and ended up disillusionment?