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Test: Classical and Modern Drama

Time Allowed: 100 Minutes Total Marks: 100

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1. The A ______is a form of literature that is intended to be performed before an audience.

a. poem (b). play (c). performance (d). stage.
1. A major division of a play is calle(d).
a. Chapter
b. act
c. canto
d. scene

2. The resolution or outcome of the a plot is .

a. end
b. conflict
c. denouement
d. climax

3. In drama, introductory material introducing characters and situation is calle(d).

a. plot
b. climax
c. falling action
d. exposition

4. A flaw in a tragic hero or an error made by the tragic hero is.

(a). hamartia
(b). rejection
(c). sin
(d). evil

5. A drama that involves threatening situations presented through sensations but ends happily is
__________.
a. melodrama
b. tragedy
c. comedy
d. tragicomedy
6. In Oedipus Rex, the priest is _________ at the beginning of the play.
(a) Asking the gods for help
(b) Accusing Oedipus
(c) Asking Teiresias for help
(d) None of these

7. According to Creon’s report, the man who is the cause of plague, they will find, must
_________.
(a) Become the next king
(b) Be sacrificed to the Sphinx
(c) Be banished or killed
(d) None of these

8. Jocasta attempts to prove to Oedipus that_________.

(a) There is no truth in prophesy
(b) Teiresias is really his father
(c) Creon killed Laius
(d) None of these

9. Jocasta’s story upset Oedipus because_________.

(a) His father was killed in a similar way
(b) He was a witness to this death
(c) He killed a man at a crossroads
(d) None of these

10. Literal meaning of “Oedipus” is_________.

(a) “Incest-monger”
(b) “King of Thebes”
(c) “Swollen foot”
(d) None of these

11. Oedipus used ________ to stab out his own eyes.

(a) Knives
(b) Sticks
(c) The brooches from Jocasta’s robe
(d) None of these

12. _________ speaks last in each of the Theban plays.

 (a) Ismene
(b) Creon
(c) The Chorus
(d) None of these

13. To which Greek mythological character is Faustus compared in the Prologue?

(a) Hercules
(b) Perseus
(c) Icarus
(d) Theseus

14. What fields of learning does Faustus consider before he turns to magic?
(a)Chemistry, biology, and physics
(b)Logic, medicine, law, and theology
(c )Navigation, astronomy, rhetoric, and theology
(d)Grammar, history, science, and Latin

15. Which characters instruct Faustus in the dark arts?

(a) The scholars
(b)Wagner and Robin
(c)The good and bad angels
(d) Cornelius and Valdes

16. When he first summons Mephastophilis, how does Faustus ask him to appear?
(a) In the shape of a Franciscan friar
(b) In the shape of a beautiful woman
(c)As a winged creature with horns
(d) As a handsome young man

17. How does Faustus sign his compact with Lucifer?

(a) In his own blood
(b) In the blood of a virgin
(c )In ink produced in hell
(c) He doesn’t

18. What is the meaning of the words that appear on Faustus’s arm in Latin?
(a) “Satan’s own”
(b) “Prince of Darkness”
(c ) “Fly, man”
(d) “You are doomed
19. Who agrees, under duress, to become Wagner’s servant?
(a) Faustus
(b)The clown
(c)Belzebub
(d) Helen of Troy

20. How does Faustus humiliate the skeptic knight?

(a) He turns his skin green
(b) He makes him unable to speak
(c )He makes antlers sprout from the skeptic’s head
(d) He hypnotizes him and makes him strip naked

21. At the start of the play, what are Francisco and Bernardo doing?
(a) They are on watch.
(b) They are fighting in a battle.
(c) They are getting ready to go to sleep.
(d) They are eating a meal together

22. What country did the late King go to battle against?

(a) Denmark
(b) England
(c) France
(d) Norway

23. Hamlet said, “There are more things in Heaven and Earth, _________, than are dreamt of in your
philosophy.”
(a) Horatio
(b) Laertes
(c) Mother
(d) King

24. Hamlet recalls about dignity of man , “What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason, how
______in faculty!”
(a) Great
(b) Infinite
(c) Noble
(d) Magnificent
25. Man, Hamlet says, is ___________ of dust.
(a) Charisma
(b) Quintessence
(c) Handful
(d) wonder
26. Polonius says, “Though this be madness, yet there is _______in’t.”
(a) Method
(b) Craft
(c) Plan
(d) Plot
27. Claudius utters, My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to
_______go.”
(a) Reality
(b) Belief
(c) Form
(d) Heaven
28. At the death of Hamlet, Horatio speaks, ““Now cracks a noble heart. Good-night, sweet prince;
and flights of ______sing thee to thy rest. ”
(a) Birds
(b) Fairies
(c) Angels
(d) Doves
29. What was the Kings reaction to the play, and what did Hamlet and Horatio decide his reaction
meant?
(a). The King had no reaction to the play. They decided it meant they were wrong, and that he
was innocent after all.
(b). The King laughed and laughe(d). They decided he didnt really get the point, and they would
have to be more direct the next time.
(c). The King got up and called for the lights. They were convinced that the ghost had been
correct.
(d). The King clenched his teeth and gripped the arms of his chair, but said nothing.

30. William Shakespeare was born in 1564 at _______ , a market town on the river Avon in
Warwickshire.
(a)Bradford
(b) Stratford
(c ) Nottinghamshire
(d) Hartford

31. Shakespeare(1564-1616) married at 18, ____Hathway, eight years senior to him.

(a) Anne
(b). Mary
(c ). Jane
(d). Ruth
32. _________ is Greco Macbeth -Roman goddess of witchcraft and crossroads.
 (a).Dianah
(b). Penelope
((c). Hecate
(d). Artemis

33. William Hazlitt believes that Macbeth is built on the principle of contrast and he contrasts
Macbeth with _________ .
(a). Hamlet
(b). Richard III
(c). Faustus
(d). Iago
34. _______, the protagonist of A Merchant of Venice has all the virtues a woman can possess:
beautiful, courteous, well-educated and intelligent.
(a). Portia
(b). Jessica
(c ). Viola
(d). Ophelia

35. ________, a Jew, insists on his one pound of flesh from Antonio’s body.
(a). Barabas
(b). Shylock
(c). Malta
(d). Bossanio

36. George Barnard Shaw’s play, Major Barbara, is about the alliance of
(a) Government, trade union and religion
(b) Arms dealers, salvation army and the pacifist
(c) Women, NGOs and suffragette
(d) War, peace and progress

37. The ‘angry young man’ appeared, most significantly in the figure of _______Porter in Look
Back in Anger by John Osborne.
a. Jermy
b. Jimmy
c. George
d. William

38. Look Back in Anger was staged at the Royal Court Theatre in 1956, a milestone in the history of
______ dram(a).
(a). American
(b). German
 ((c). French
(d). British
39. ________was seen as the testament of a new generation, heralding a new spirit in drama, and in
culture in general.
a. The Caretaker
b. The Kitchen
c. Loot
d. Look Back in Anger

40. John Osborne and Arnold Wesker were the most significant figures in this reaction of
______class domestic realism against the ‘drawing-room comedies’.
(a). upper
(b). middle
(c). elite
(d). lower
41. The influential dramatist of the19th century , __________, was interested in socio-economic
issues.
(a). Henrik Ibsen
(b). Samuel Beckett
(c ). Bertolt Brecht
(d). Tennessee Williams
42. _______ revolutionized the way in which plays were staged by introducing elaborate, detailed
sets that often changed from act to act.
(a). Ibsen
(b). Beckett
(c ). Brecht
(d ). Williams

43. Ibsen uses _________directions to instruct actors about how they should interpret certain lines of
dialogue.
(a). scenery
(b). lighting
(c). stage
(d ). Studio

44. Shaw always wrote a Preface to the published texts of his plays, justifying his ‘determination to
accept ________as the normal material of the drama’.
(a) problems
(b). love
(c). romance
(d ). relationship
45. Shaw’s Widowers’ Houses (1892), dealt with a slum landlord’s ______of the poor, Candida
(1895) with female equality, John Bull’s Other Island (1904), with the Irish question.
(a). exploitation
(b). love
(c). help
(d). care

46. Shaw’s play Man and Superman (1903), explores the idea of a ‘Life________’.
a. Force
b. battle
c. struggle
d. long

47. ________(1912) reveals Shaw’s constant fascination with language, famously presented in Eliza
Doolittle’s cockney English.
a. Pygmalion
b. Candida
c. Major Barbara
d. Man and Superman

48. Shaw’s plays are of_______, debate, and discussion, rather than dramas of character, action, and
passion.
a. crisis
b. crimes
c. ideas
d. discipline

49. Oscar Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, is full of wit and ________.
(a). pathos
(b). tragedies
(c). suffering
(d). paradoxes

50. Jack is in love with Gwendolen Fairfax, the cousin of his best friend, _______ Moncrieff.
(a). Ernest
(b)Algernon
(c). Cecily
(d). John
51. Algernon, who knows Jack as __________ has begun to suspect something, having found an
inscription inside Jack’s cigarette case addressed to “Uncle Jack” from “little Cecily.”
(a). Ernest
 (b). Algernon
(c). Cecily
(d). John
52. ________ calls a person who leads a double life a “Bunburyist,” after a nonexistent friend he
pretends to have, a chronic invalid named Bunbury, to whose deathbed he is forever being
summoned whenever he wants to get out of some tiresome social obligation.

(a). Ernest

(b)Algernon
(c). Cecily
(d). John
53. Anton Chekhov’s father Pavel was a shopkeeper in the town, and his grandfather, Egor Chekhov,
was a ________.
(a). dramatist
(b). teacher
(c). farm owner
(d). serf
54. The play, The Cherry Orchard, is about a family of impoverished nobles whose beautiful
_________(which they are attached to) is heavily mortgage(d).
(a). theatre
(b). villa
(c). country club
(d). cherry orchard
55. Mrs. Ranevksy is a middle-aged _______ woman, the owner of the estate and the cherry orchard
around which the story revolves.
(a). Norwegian
(b). American
(c). English
(d). Russian
56. Mrs. Ravensky has faced _____ many times in her life, or rather has tried to escape from it.
(a). romance
(b). comedy
(c). tragedy
(d). tragicomedy

57. Varya, 24 and Ranevksy's adopted daughter, is in love with________, but she doubts that he will
ever propose to her.
(a).Yasha
(b). Trofimov
(c). Gaev
 (d). Lopakhin

58. Varya is hard-working and responsible and has a similar work ethic to __________.
(a).Yasha
(b). Trofimov
(c). Gaev
(d). Lopakhin

59. For _________, memories are oppressive, for they are memories of a brutal, uncultured peasant
upbringing. They conflict with his identity as a well-heeled businessman.
(a).Yasha
(b). Trofimov
(c). Gaev
(d). Lopakhin

60. Merchant _______ buys the garden and “lays an axe to it”.
(a).Yasha
(b). Trofimov
(c). Gaev
(d). Lopakhin
61. Naturalist drama creates the illusion of presenting __________whereas non-illusionist drama
breaks the illusion of presenting____________.
(a). characters
(b). forms
(c). narrator
(d). reality
62. Naturalist or realist drama prefers __________ stage setting and costumes.
(a). minimalistic
(b). artificial
(c). realistic
(d). fanciful
63. Epic drama prefers __________ stage setting and costumes.
(a). minimalistic
(b). artificial
(c). realistic
(d). fanciful
64. Through distancing or _______ method the actor tries to demonstrate rather than impersonate his
role.
(a). association
(b). acting
(c). alienation
 (d). life-like
65. Epic drama explores the notion that life imitates__________ and not otherwise.
(a). art
(b). life
(c). essence
(d). meaning
66. Brecht was devoted to highlight the real _________ causes and effects of human action.
(a). spiritual
(b). material
(c). intellectual
(d). fanciful
67. Brecht tries to develop an atmosphere in which ______ could ponder on the performance issues.
(a). audience
(b). administration
(c). monitors
(d). censorship
68. The term ‘__________ theatre’ was coined by Erwin Piscator to describe a direct form of theatre.
(a). modern
(b).naturalist
(c). epic
(d). realistic
69. Film strips are used in _________ theatre.
(a). modern
(b). naturalist
(c). epic
(d). realistic
70. Brecht refers to Hauptman, Tolstoy, Strindberg and Ibsen as the dramatists who wrote_______
plays.
(a). modern
(b). naturalistic
(c). epic
(d). realistic
71. _________ was hired as dramaturge at Man Reinhardt’s Deutsches Theatre in Berlin.
(a).Shaw
(b).Ibsen
(c).Brecht
(d).Galsworthy
72. Theatre as a vehicle for social change was advocated by_________ .
(a).Shaw
(b).Ibsen
(c).Brecht
 (d).Williams
73. Mother Courage’s son _________ dies for his honesty.
(a). Swiss Cheese
(b).Eillif
(c).Kattrin
(d).Chaplain
74. Mother Courage does not identify the ________ of her son, Swiss Cheese.
(a). puppets
(b). uniform
(c). dead body
(d). nature
75. Yvetti recognizes _______ as her Peter Piper.
(a). Cook
(b). Cheese
(c). Chaplain
(d). Colonel
76. War is a ________ but the common people cannot make profit out of it.
(a). crime
(b). strategy
(c). business
(d). cause
77. Brecht’s play, Life of Galileo Galilie creates a _________ whether Galileo is a hero or not for his
compromise with the church.
(a). discourse
(b). sympathy
(c). hope
(d).heroism
78. In 1899 the Irish ________Theatre was founded by the poet and playwright W.(B). Yeats, with
Lady Augusta Gregory and Edward Martyn.
(a).Literary
(b). Poetic
(c). Dramatic
(d). Abbey
79. From 1904, the _______Theatre in Dublin was the home of the Irish National Theatre Society, as
the Irish Literary Theatre was rename(d).
(a).Literary
(b). Poetic
(c). Dramatic
(d). Abbey
80. John Millington Synge’s plays Riders to the Sea (1904), The Playboy of the Western World
(1907), and Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910) use the language of _______ and in particular of the
Aran Islands, off the West Coast.
(a).Ireland
(b). England
(c). Scotland
(d). Island
81. Synge uses the language of _______ to create potent images of the culture and the people, in his
drama, both tragedy and comedy.
a. Ireland
(b). England
(c). Scotland
(d). Island
82. Sean O’Casey’s plays portray, in realistic language and action, the Irish_______, and the issues
of patriotism, self-deceit, resignation, and tragedy.
(a).character
(b). tragedy
(c). dilemma
(d). issue
83. Juno and the Paycock (1924) is O’Casey’s best-known play, with its Dublin tenement setting,
and the tragedy of its inhabitants’__________.
(a).ideals
(b). letter
(c). hate
(d). self-deceptions
84. Juno is the wife of the________, Jack Boyle.
(a).peacock
(b). hero
(c). lion
(d). ideal man
85. The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and The Plough and the Stars (1926) were the last plays
________ wrote in Ireland before he moved to Englan(d).
(a).Sean O’Casey
(b). J. M. Synge
(c). W.(B). Yeats
(d). Brien Friel
86. _____ has reached audiences worldwide with Philadelphia! Here I Come! (1968), Translations
(1986), and Dancing at Lughnasa (1990).
(a) O’Casey
(b) J. M. Synge
(c) W.(B). Yeats
 (d). Brien Friel
87. Friel’s plays combine the _____ sense of dislocation and chaos with an evocation of the past in
lyrical, yet realistic, terms.
(a). tragic
(b). comic
(c). Irish
(d). welsh
88. The plays of Beckett, Osborne, Pinter, or Orton in the 1950s and 1960s are more ________ and
slangy, in keeping with the setting and the characters: tramps, gangsters, newspaper vendors,
unemployed youths.
(a). colloquial
(b). formal
(c). ornate
(d). embellished

89. The two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon, engage in talk about how to fill the time they have while
they wait for________.
(a). Godot
(b). God
(c). Beckett
(d). Pozzo

90. The dialogue in Beckett’s and Pinter’s plays does not conform to the expected norms of _____
dialogue.
(a). colloquial
(b). formal
(c). ornate
(d). poetic

91. The language of Beckett’s and Pinter’s characters is more naturalistic and shows gaps,
repetitions, ________, and incoherences, modelled on normal conversation.
(a). corporate
(b). silences
(c). innate
(d). vivid

92. The critic, ________, first applied the term ‘absurd’ to the plays of Beckett, Ionesco, Gene,
Pinter and others in his book, Theatre of the Absurd.
(a). T.S. Eliot
(b). Martin Esslin
(c). Raymond Williams
 (d). Northrop Frye
93. Waiting for Godot probably Beckett’s best-known play, is based on_______, in the eternal hope
that ‘tomorrow everything will be better’.
(a).waiting
(b). hope
(c). tradition
(d). wisdom
94. The two tramps Vladimir and Estragon spend their time in the same place, day after day,
______in time, waiting for things to happen.
(a). filling
(b). liking
(c). believing
(d). thinking
95. Pinter’s characters do not have the capacity that Beckett’s characters have, to fill their time
with_______, chat, tortured reflections.
(a). memories
(b). pleasures
(c). joys
(d). hopes
96. Pinter’s plays, The Caretaker (1960) and The Homecoming (1965) are full-length plays
of________, ambiguity and unfulfilled ambitions.
a. pleasures
(b). menace
(c). marriage
(d). families
97. Edward Bond suggests _________ in society through his plays.
(a). sense
(b). objectivity
(c). impartiality
(d). change
98. Hatch is afraid of ___________ and he stabs the dead body of Colin in Bond’s play, The Sea.
(a). robbers
(b). rapists
(c). aliens
(d). Carson
99. Who belongs to the Absurd School of Drama?
(a) Shaw
(b) Beckett
(c) Edward Bond
(d)Osborne
100. Lucky’s _________ is absurd and cannot be understood in a coherent way.
(a).Speech
(b). thought
(c). idea
(d). philosophy