TGT English Mock Test 28

1. Bunyan's Pilgrim Progress is an instance of:

2. Spenser's Faerie Queene is an instance of:

3. Reversal of situation is:

4. Every stanza in the poem "Wants" consist of-

5. Whitman's poem' Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' contains: (PGT-09)

6. Dickinson came to be regarded as.

7. Frost's first volume of poetry was published in 1913. When was his last volume of poetry published?

8. Which of the following poems by Kamala Das is in dialogue form? (P-02)

9. "I am every woman who seeks love." These lines are from the poem of- (P-03)

10. In Act III, scene ii, Portia compares Bassanio to which figure?

11. What piece of bad news interrupts the celebrations at Belmont?

12. What animal does Shylock remember Antonio comparing him to?

13. Lorenzo and Portia discuss helping Antonio. Why does Portia agree to help?

14. Who does Portia send to Padua to secure clothing and documents for herself and Nerissa?

15. When Shakespeare died, who said, "He was not of an age, but for all time."

16. The play Everyman in His Humour was entered into the Register of the Stationers' Company on

17. Whose son is Edward in Everyman in His Humour?

18. Why does Old Kno'well not happy with his son?

19. Edward does not have interest in-

20. Which play of Dryden is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, and focuses on the last hours of the lives of its hero and heroine?

21. What is the subtitle of Dryden's tragedy All for Love?

22. Which play of Dryden (in blank verse) was his only play written for himself, and not to please the Queen or the crowd?

23. All for Love, or the World Well Lost is dedicated to-

24. Wordsworth's poem "London 1802" is addressed to-

25. Which poem ends with the following lines ? "O'er rough and smooth she trips along. And never looks behind; And sings a solitary song That whistles in the wind."

26. Which poem of Wordsworth is some- times considered as an introduction to his longest poem The Recluse?

27. Which poem of Wordsworth has the sub-title "The Growth of a Poet's Mind" ?

28. The Prelude is divided into books.

29. The first edition of Wordsworth's longest poem The Excursion cameout in the year

30. Who said, "The Prelude has a large measure of poetic unity because it has a single hero-the poet himself?"

31. The characters Marian Lind, a lady of the upper class, to Edward Conolly, a workman, appear in:

32. "Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time." The above line is taken from:

33. He was one of the greatest dramatists of the school of realism and naturalism in drama, and played a conspicuous part in popularizing the Problem Play in the twentieth century. The dramatist is

34. "His work is rooted in contemporary English life, and provides a vivid and fairly accurate picture of the conditions of the society of the times in which he lived." The author is-

35. Who defined art as "the perfect expression of self in contact with the world," and his dramatic art at least is based on his reaction to the world at large?

36. Who are the two sinister strangers that arrive looking for Stanley Webber, supposedly on his birthday, and turn his apparently innocuous birthday party organised by Meg into a nightmare?

37. How many Acts are there in Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party (1957)?

38. All My Sons is a play.

39. All My Sons was written in -

40. Tughlaq is a 1964 Indian Kannada language play written by

41. Which play of Girish Karnad has thirteen-scenes and is set during the reign of Muhammad bin Tughlaq?

42. "Some book are to be chewed and digested". What does the statement mean?

43. Which character "calls the sea the British Common"?

44. Who believes that "it is a stupid and barbarous way to extend dominion by arms; for true power is to be got by arts and industry"?

45. Who holds the opinion, "diligence makes more lasting acquisitions than valor, and that sloth has ruined more nations than the sword"?

46. In which essay Gardiner wrote, "For Nature is a cunning nurse. She gives us lollipops all the way, and when the lollipop of hope and the lollipop of achievement are done, she gently inserts in our toothless gums the lollipop of remembrance. And with that pleasant vanity we are soothed to sleep"?

47. The salient features of Gardiner's essays are-

48. Who wrote a letter to the author and requested him to tell him what books he should read?

49. Mahatma Gandhi was born in_

50. Who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence?