TGT English Mock Test 19 Welcome to your TGT English Mock Test 19 1. Which one is a dramatic romance ? A) Pericles (B) Macbeth (C) Hanlet (D) Othello None 2. Which one is a dramatic romance ? (A) Othello (B) Macbeth (C) Hamlet (D) The Winter's Tale None 3. Which one is not mentioned as one of Shakespeare's four great trage- dies ? (A) Othello (B) King Lear (C) Macbeth (D) Romeo and Juliet None 4. Madame Sosostris, a clairvoyant and psychic fortune teller woman, and Tiresias, a blind. bisexual, who has prophetic vision, are the characters in: A. The Waste Land B. Prufrock C. Four Quatrets D. The Hollow Man None 5. The theme of The Waste Land is: A. Post-war disillusionment of European civilization B. Pre-war disillusionment C. Personal life of the author D. Current Politics None 6. Who wrote the poem "In Memory of Sigmund Freud"? A. T.S. Eliot B. W.B. Yeats C. Christopher Isherwood D. W.H. Auden None 7. Which work of Auden won the 1956 National Book Award for Poetry? A. The Shield of Achilles B. About the House C. Secondary Worlds D. The Dyer's Hand None 8. The theme of the poem "Wants" is- A. Loneliness and death B. Sin and Expiation C. Marriage and Marital life D. None of these None 9. What is the name of Walt Whitman's poem celebrating the completion of the Suez Canal and the Transcontinental Railroad? A. A Passage to India B. Passage to India C. Train to Pakistan D. Prayers of Columbus None 10. Which poem of Whitman touches and transcendentalism? A. O Captain! My Captain! B. Passage to India C. Earth My Likeness D. Indian Wonderland None 11. Dickinson is considered a great poet of America of the Country - (A) 19th (B) 20th (C) 18th (D) None of them None 12. "I own any form of humor shows fear and inferiority. Irony is simply a kind of guardedness. So is a twinkle. It keeps the reader from criticism, Humor is the most engaging cowardice." Who said? A. Philip Larkin B. T.S. Eliot C. Robert Frost D. Walt Whitman None 13. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. The lines are taken from- A. The Road Not Taken B. The Onset C. A Considerable Speck D. West Running Brook None 14. "I don't want the Yogi's concentration. I don't want the perfect charity Of saints, nor the tyrant's endless power I want a human balance humanly." Which poem of Ezekiel the above lines are taken from? A. A Poem of Dedication B. Jewish Wedding in Bombay C. The Night of Scorpion D. Background Casually None 15. What loophole in Shylock's bond allows Portia to stop him from taking a pound of Antonio's flesh? A. Jewish law prohibits Shylock from practicing his trade on the Sabbath. B. Shylock is entitled only to flesh, but not blood. C. Shylock forgot to sign the bond. D. There is no hard evidence that Antonio's ships have sunk, and that he cannot pay the bond. None 16. How is Shylock punished for seeking to take Antonio's life? A. He is banished. B. He is ordered to surrender all his property to the Church of Rome. C. He must convert to Christianity and will his possessions to Jessica and Lorenzo upon his death. D. He must work as Antonio's servant for the remainder of his life None 17. What words does Shylock utter after accepting the court's sentence? A. A pox upon Venice B. These are most unlawful laws C. Forgive me my sins D. I am not well None 18. What does Bassanio offer the young law clerk who saves Antonio? A. His gloves B. His wife C. The ring that Portia gave him D. The three thousand ducats originally due to Shylock None 19. What does Lorenzo order when he learns that Portia is on her way to Belmont? A. A banquet to welcome the lady of the house B. Music C. A ring to match the one she once gave to Bassanio D. Flowers None 20. What does Portia vow to do when she learns that Bassanio no longer has the ring she gave him? A. Never again speak to her husband B. Deny her husband children C. Leave her husband D. Make her husband a cuckold None 21. For what caused Ben Jonson dramatic powers suffered? (A) Bartholomew fair (B) Health break down (C) Contemporaries (D) None of them None 22. Which years were the years of fame and achievement for Ben Jonson? (A) Past twelve years (B) First twelve years (C) Last twelve years (D) None of them None 23. Who is known as "Rare Ben Jonson"? (A) Ben Jonson (B) Dr. Johnson (C) Milton (D) None of them None 24. Prospero is a character in- (A) Othello (B) Pericles (C) The Tempest (D) None of these None 25. The line, "O brave new world" occurs in the play- (A) The Tempest (B) Othello (C) Macbeth (D) Hamlet None 26. Who says, "Of all his women, Imogen is most perfect ?" (A) Mrs. Jameson (B) Ruskin (C) Lamb (D) Eliot None 27. The first play in English with a regular plot, acts and scenes is (A) Ralph Roister Doister (B) Grammer Gurton's Needle (C) Everyman (D) Tamburlaine None 28. Shakespeare 'myriad-minded' by- (A) Bradley (B) Johnson (C) Coleridge (D) Arnold None 29. Who is known as the "Translatorn general" of the Elizabeth? se Othello (A) Chapman (B) Philemon Holland (C) Langland (D) Surrey None 30. The lines, "What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason ! How infinite in faculty" are from the play ? (A) Hamlet (B) Macbeth (C) Othello (D) King Lear None 31. Who has written Ode to Himself? (A) Ben Jonson (B) Dr. Johnson (C) Milton (D) None of them None 32. The Magnetic Lady of Humours Reconciled' is composed by: (A) Ben Jonson (B) Milton (C) Shakespeare (D) Shelley None 33. When did Ben Jonson die? (A) 1632 (B) 1637 (C) 1638 (D) 1640 None 34. Who mocked in his farce The Mock Tempest, or the Enchanted Castle Shadwell's 1674 operatic version of Dryden and D'Avenant's adaptation? A. Thomas Duffet B. William Wycherley C. John Vanbrugh D. George Farquhar None 35. An Evening's Love, or The Mock Astrologer is a by John Dryden. comedy in A. Poetry B. Prose C. Blank Verse D. Heroic Couplet None 36. Which play of Dryden was called "very smutty" by Samuel Pepys in his Diary? A. An Evening's Love, or The Mock Astrologer B. An Evening's Love C. Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr D. Almanzor and Almahide None 37. The action of which play of Dryden takes place in Madrid on the last night before Lent, 1665, and involves two young English gentlemen, Wildblood and Bellamy, and their comic servant Maskall, who fall in love with two beautiful young Spanish ladies, Donna Theodosia and Donna Jacinta, and their clever servant Beatrix? A. An Evening's Love, or The Mock Astrologer B. An Evening's Love C. Tyrannick Love, or the Royal Martyr D. Almanzor and Almahide None 38. "Sergius Saranoff...is a tall, romantically handsome man...the result is precisely what the advent of the nineteenth century thought first produced in England: to wit, Byronism...it is clear that here is Raina's ideal hero" Who speaks? A. Raina B. Sergius C. Louka D. Bluntschli None 39. "Dearest, all my deeds have been yours. You inspired me. I have gone through the war like a knight in a tournament with his lady looking down on him!" Who says this to Raina? A. Nicola B. Sergius C. Louka D. Bluntschli None 40. "How to save the old that's worth saving, whether in landscape, houses, manners, institutions, or human types, is one of our greatest problems, and the one that we bother least about." The above lines are taken from: A. Over the River B. Maid in Waiting C. Moods, Songs and Doggerels D. Saint's Progress None 41. "Art is the one form of human energy the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal." Who said? A. John Galsworthy B. Bernard Shaw C. Thomas Hardy D. D.H. Lawrence None 42. A major influence on Pinter was his inspirational English teacher_ , who directed him in school plays and with whom he took long walks, talking about literature. A. Joseph Brearley B. Joseph Addison C. Richard Brearley D. None of these None 43. At the age of 12, Harold Pinter Pinter began writing poetry, and in spring 1947, his poetry was first published in the - A. Hackney Downs School Magazine B. London Magazine C. South Sea House Magazine D. Red Carpet Magazine None 44. Who is referred as as a "filthy beast" by the rich daughter of an industrialist in the steel business in The Hairy Ape? A. long B. Paddy C. Yank D. None of these None 45. The play The Hairy Ape is divided into- A. Five scenes B. Six scenes C. Seven Scenes D. Eight scenes. None 46. The play Hayavadana was published in a theatre journal - A. Enact B. Scopus C. Writer's Workshop D. None of these None 47. Tughlaq, Hayavadana, Bali: The Sacrifice, and Naga Mandala are published in Collected Plays, Vol.1 by Oxford University Press, New Delhi in the year... A. 2006 B. 2004 C. 2000 D. 2005 None 48. Knowledge provided by books perfect our nature, and the knowledge itself is perfected by A. Other books B. experience C. Parents D. Teachers None 49. Natural abilities are like natural plants that need. A. perfection B. reading C. writing D. pruning None 50. Who wrote The Spectator Club? A. Addison B. Steele C. Gardiner D. Dr. Johnson None Please fill in the comment box below. Time's up