TGT English Mock Test 25

1: Staffrod and Pippa Passes are the poetic plays. Identify the writer.

2. Cenci is the poetic play of:

3. Rabbi Ben Ezra, My Last Duchess, Porphyria's Lover, Evelyn Hope and Fra Lippo Lippi are famous dramatic monologues. Identify the author.

4. Which of the following statement is true about "In Memory of W.B. Yeats"?

5. According to the poem "Wants" which is the basic of human desires underlying all desirest

6. The image of "A gigantic beauty of a stallion" is

7. Dickinson kept contact with the members of her

8. "Courage is of the heart by derivation. And great it is. But fear is of the soul." The above lines are from

9. "Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." The above line is from

10. What is the title of Kamala Das's autobiography?

11. Who wrote "From every city I have lived, I have remembered the noons in Malabar with an ache growing inside me, a home sickness?"

12. What does Shylock say that Antonio has done to him in the past?

13. In what capacity does Antonio insist Shylock lend him the money?

14. How does Bassanio feel about the arrangement and the conditions of the loan?

15. What is the penalty for Portia's suitors if they guess the wrong casket?

16. Who is the first suitor that actually chooses a casket?

17. Why does Launcelot want to leave his master Shylock?

18. What does Ben Jonson express in his comedies?

19. What quality does Ben Jonson show in his comedies?

20. What was Jonson's great concern?

21. What is the meaning of humour?

22. 'Ben Jonson was not only an author of genius' who says so?

23. The personality of Jonson detaches itself from....

24. Who was kicked by Sir Roger in a public coffee- house?

25. Thomas Gradgrind is a practical character in the novel

26. The poem "The Two Voices" was written by-

27. Who defined criticism to be "sincere. flexible, ardent, ever widening its knowledge ?"

28. Shakespeare's first Roman tragedy is-

29. Titus AndronicuS came out in the year

30. "It is not the fashion to see the lady" is a monologue in Shakespeare's play-

31. Which poem of Wordsworth deals with the tragedy of a Shepherd's shattered hopes ?

32. The plot of the play The Mistaken Husband is based on the -

33. Which play of Dryden has the following characters - Learcut, Manley, Hazard, Underwit?

34. Which work of Dryden was intended to be performed as an opera, with the libretto written in 1674, (first published in 1677)? It is basically a musical stage adaptation of John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, a tribute to Milton rather than a satire of the poem.

35. G.B. Shaw started writing dramatic criticism for:

36. Who opines that marriage is all about "Two persons who accept slavery to one another"?

37. "Good men ... are destroyed daily under our law for want of that human insight which views them as they are patients and not criminals."

38. "...the press is pilloried mercilessly and Galsworthy pleads for good sense for those who are managing the press today." Which play is referred in these lines?

39. The play is a criticism of the war. Galsworthy presents his indictment of the Great War in an allegorical manner. Which play is being referred here?

40. The term "Comedy of menace" was coined by drama critic -

41. The drama critic Irving Wardle borrowed the term "Comedy of menace" from the subtitle of Campton's play-

42. Comedy of menace is the body of plays written by David Campton, Nigel Dennis, N. F. Simpson, and -

43. Arthur Miller was a

44. Who published an account of his early years under the title "A Boy Grew in Brooklyn"?

45. In which movie Karnad played the role of the ruthless cricket coach that got him critical acclaim?

46. Which of the following movies Karnad didn't act in-

47. Shooting is useful for

48. Who called Bacon's style an index of the emergence of modern prose?

49. Which character is being talked about in the following line "he is rather beloved than esteemed. His tenants grow rich, his servants look satisfied, all the young women profess love to him, and the young men are glad of his company"?

50. Who had often supped with Lord Rochester and Sir George Etherege?