TGT English Mock Test 3

1. The selection and arrangement of words in speech and writing is:

2. Forceful verbal attack or criticism is:

3. Two written or spoken vowels pronounced in one syllable:

4. Who called 18th century "an age of prose and reason"?

5 Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre with-

6.. T.S. Eliot was awarded U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in:

7. T.S. Eliot's first volume of poems appeared in 1917. The collection was-

8. W.H. Auden was an -

9. Philip Larkin was born at/in-

10. The age of Walt Whitman is generally known as:

11. Dickinson's father was an eminent –

12. She was educated at-

13. Who made the following comment on his death? "The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit. His death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his Nation a body of imperishable verse which Americans will forever gain and understand."

14. Which of the following was the first American to write a favourable review of Frost's work?

15. Gitanjali ("Song offering") is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet-

16. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English translation-

17. The central theme of Nissim Ezekiel's work is-

18. Who among the following writers was a University Professor of English?

19. The tone of the poem "Obituary" is-

20. A piece of writing about a person's life that is printed in a newspaper soon after he/she has died' is called-

21. What does Lady Macbeth resolve to do?

22. What does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth lacks?

23. What do Lady Macbeth's words "unsex me here" mean?

24. What does Macbeth realize about the consequences of Duncan's murder?

25. Which literary form is meant to be read in a closet (a private library), rather than acted upon the stage?

26. Which term denotes the final resolution of all conflicts in the last act or scene of a play?

27. Which one is a silent form of drama?

28. Which one is known as the 'irregular ode' ?

29. Cowleyan ode was established by

30. Black Comedy is a form of dramatic writing which-

31. Who said, "Fiction is to the grown up man what play is to the child ? R. L. Stevenson

32. What is Lady Macbeth's plan for murdering Duncan?

33. 'Every man in his humour' was first acted by:

34. In which year was 'Every man in his Humour' acted by Lord Chamberlain's company?

35. In which year did Jonson restart his writing?

36. After how many years of silence did he restart writing?

37. What has been described in the play?

38. Which critical work of Dryden takes the form of a dialogue and debates the merits of classical, French and English drama?

39. Which mock-heroic of Dryden was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright Thomas Shadwell?

40. Which play of Dryden is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra?

41. Which celebrated satirical poem of Dryden is an allegorical story of King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679-1681)?

42. From where does Bluntschli hail?

43. Whose picture does Raina keep in her room at the start of the play?

44. Galsworthy began his literary career as:

45. Galsworthy belongs to -

46. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, cast London, and educated at -

47. He attended the of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course.

48. Which of the following author "was born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room"?

49. Eugene O' Neil died on , at the age of 65.

50. Who was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India?

51. Who among the following is not a modern Indian playwright?