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1 Waiting for Godot (1955) was originally written in
A French
B Russian
C German
D English

Answer: French
2 Lord Byron was a great interpreter of
A Political revolution
B Revolutionary idealism
C Revolutionary iconoclasm
D None of these

Answer: Revolutionary iconoclasm
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3 The mystery plays dealt with-
A Philosophical themes
B Medieval themes
C Biblical themes
D Moral themes

Answer: Biblical themes
4 Who translated the entire Mahabharata into English?
A R.K. Narayan
B P. Lal
C Vikram Seth
D none of the mentioned

Answer: P. Lal
5 Who is called the father of English classical comedy?
A Thomas Heywood
B Thomas Middleton
C Ben Jonson
D William Shakespeare

Answer: Ben Jonson
6 Tennyson’s The Princess deals with the theme of?
A The new woman
B The aristocratic woman
C The illiterate woman
D None of these

Answer: The new woman
7 Dryden used blank verse giving up the heroic couplet in –
A The Rehearsal
B Aurengzebe
C All For Love
D Wild Gallant

Answer: All For Love
8 Who is known as “the peasant poet”?
A Sir Walter Scott
B Robert Southey
C Robert Burns
D John Clare

Answer: John Clare
9 Harold Pinter was awarded the Noble Prize for Literature in:
A 2005
B 2003
C 2000
D 2002

Answer: 2005
10 Riders to the Sea is a play written by-
A T.W. Robertson
B Harley Granville-Barker
C John Galsworthy
D all of the mentioned

Answer: J.M. Synge
11 The Hundred’s Years war began in the year –
A 1356
B 1338
C 1348
D none of the mentioned

Answer: 1338
12 Who gave the Romantic period the title of The Renaissance of Wonder in Poetry ?
A Theodore Watts
B Professor Herford
C William Shakespeare
D William Wordsworth

Answer: Theodore Watts
13 The Globe was set on fire in the year-
A 1613
B 1616
C 1612
D 1620

Answer: 1613
14 Who is renowned as a poet ‘in exile from himself’ ?
A Nissim Ezekiel
B Dilip Kumar Roy
C Gieve Patel
D None of the above

Answer: Nissim Ezekiel
15 The theatre ‘The Globe’ was built in the year-
A 1598
B 1600
C 1590
D None of the above

Answer: 1598
16 Ernest Hemingway was greatly influenced by Ezra Pound and
A Gertrude Stein
B Thomas James Farrell
C Henry James
D None of the above is correct.

Answer: Gertrude Stein
17 The Puritan attack on Elizabeth took place in the year-
A 1579
B 1590
C 1569
D 1558

Answer: 1579
18 Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror is a response to
A Shakespeare
B Milton
C Yeats
D Freud

Answer: Shakespeare
19 The lines, “What a piece of work is man. How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty” are from the play?
A King Lear
B Macbeth
C Othello
D Hamlet

Answer: Hamlet
20 The phrase ‘Religion of the blood’ is associated with
A Reduced training costs
B Virginia Woolf
C H.G. Wells
D E.M. Forster

Answer: D.H. Lawrence
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