Modern English Literature Multiple Choice Questions
1. ‘This man had kept a school……’ Who is referred to here by W B Yeats?
A. patrick henry pearse
B. thomas macdonagh
C. major john macbride
D. maud gonne
Answer:
A. patrick henry pearse
2. Ted Hughes was honoured with the Poet Laureateship in the year——-
A. 1989
B. 1984
C. 1979
D. 1978
Answer:
B. 1984
3. The opening lines of Journey of the Magi are a quotation from—–
A. lancelot andrewes’s 1622 nativity sermon
B. the fly
C. cannonization
D. mathews
Answer:
A. lancelot andrewes’s 1622 nativity sermon
4. ‘The black sailed ship’ metaphorically alludes to…………….
A. birth
B. death
C. resurrection
D. fall
Answer:
B. death
5. Name the theatre found by W. B Yeats?
A. globe theatre
B. abbey theatre
C. greek theatre
D. theatre of maud gonne
Answer:
B. abbey theatre
6. The prototype of modern Angry Young Man in the play Look Back in Anger?
A. cliff
B. colonel redfurn
C. jimmy porter
D. john graham
Answer:
C. jimmy porter
7. Name the German dramatist most associated with epic theatre?
A. eugene o’neill
B. bertolt brecht
C. benjamin fondane
D. elmer rice
Answer:
B. bertolt brecht
8. The term avant-garde literally means——-
A. advance-guard
B. carry on guards
C. cheers guards
D. come on guards
Answer:
A. advance-guard
9. The anthology New Lines was edited by———–
A. catherine
B. robert brook
C. philip larkin
D. robert conquest
Answer:
D. robert conquest
10. Virginia Wolf belongs to the famous———– group.
A. clapham group
B. bloomsbury group
C. feminist group
D. london group
Answer:
B. bloomsbury group
11. ——— is Sarah Woodruff’s alleged French lover.
A. varguennes
B. ernestina freeman
C. charles smithson
D. sam farrow
Answer:
A. varguennes
12. An example of oxymoron in Easter 1916.
A. terrible beauty
B. horse-hoof slides
C. green is worn
D. vainglorious lout
Answer:
A. terrible beauty
13. ‘He had done most bitter wrong’—To whom was the wrong done?
A. w.b yeats
B. thomas macdonagh
C. major john macbride
D. maud gonne
Answer:
D. maud gonne
14. —— was the verse memoir for Plath written by Ted Hughes.
A. cave birds
B. birthday letters
C. river
D. moor town
Answer:
B. birthday letters
15. ‘Watching from a bluff the sparkling armada of ——draw near’
A. promises
B. faith
C. hope
D. trust
Answer:
A. promises
16. Harold Pinter’s plays are typical examples of comedy of …….
A. menace
B. manners
C. humours
D. life
Answer:
A. menace
17. In Dumb Waiter Ben and Gus quarrel over the phrase——-
A. lighting the kettle
B. capitalist slavery
C. naked vulnerability
D. life’s burden
Answer:
A. lighting the kettle
18. In Easter 1916 Yeats commemorates ——-in Dublin on 24 April 1916.
A. uprising
B. marriage party
C. battle
D. religious function
Answer:
A. uprising
19. Marchbanks is a character from G B Shaw’s play……….
A. pygmalion
B. arms and the man
C. candida
D. the irrational knot
Answer:
C. candida
20.Name the character mentioned as the mistress of Jimmy Porter.
A. helena charles
B. alison
C. madeline
D. lisa
Answer:
B. alison
21. Sarah Woodruff enjoys an artistic, creative life in the house of ———-in the last part of French Lieutenant’s Woman.
A. rosetti
B. rose
C. magnum
D. freeman
Answer:
A. rosetti
22. The essay ‘How should One Read a Book’ appears in——
A. the common reader: second series
B. orlando: a biography .
C. mrs dollway
D. to the lighthouse
Answer:
A. the common reader: second series
23. The Magi are the three wise men from the east who travelled to—–
A. bethalhem
B. israel
C. jerusalem
D. rome
Answer:
A. bethalhem
24. Who among the following is Alison’s father
A. colonel redfern
B. webster
C. nigel
D. morgan
Answer:
A. colonel redfern
25. The winged horse mentioned in the poem ‘Easter 1916’
A. pegasus
B. sleipinir
C. unicorn
D. hippocampus
Answer:
A. pegasus
26. The autobiographical novel “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is being written by__________.
A. d.h lawrence
B. thomas hardy
C. james augustine joyce
D. virginia woolf
Answer:
C. james augustine joyce
27. Who coined the word ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
A. albert camus
B. franz kafka
C. martin eslin
D. robert
Answer:
C. martin eslin
28. According to Woolf the best way to understand a novel is to———- what we have read
A. criticize
B. compare
C. write
D. analyse
Answer:
C. write
29. Name Joyce’s only collection of short stories
A. the dubliners
B. ulysses
C. the portrait
D. araby
Answer:
A. the dubliners
30. The short story “Araby” is narrated by
A. a boy
B. an young woman
C. an elderly
D. author
Answer:
A. a boy
31. Mention the name of pawnbroker’s widow in the story “Araby”
A. mrs.mercer
B. mrs. pekker
C. mrs. sampson
D. mrs. heidegger
Answer:
A. mrs.mercer
32. Who wrote the screen play Karel Reisz’ Adaptation of “ The French Lieutenant’s Woman”
A. harold pinter
B. bernard shaw
C. henrik ibsen
D. virginia woolf
Answer:
A. harold pinter
33. The short story “The Rocking-Horse Winner” appeared in
A. new lines
B. harper’s bazaar
C. horse collections
D. mariner’s win
Answer:
B. harper’s bazaar
34. The narrative technique usually employed by James Joyce___________.
A. stream of consciousness
B. symbolism
C. imagism
D. modernism
Answer:
A. stream of consciousness
35. Osborne’s “Look Back in Anger” was first performed in the year
A. 1945
B. 1950
C. 1954
D. 1956
Answer:
B. 1950
36. The early stories in Joyce’s “Dubliners” have ——– as protagonists
A. women
B. irish peasants
C. children
D. mythical characters
Answer:
A. women
37. ————— is the only play published by James Joyce
A. exiles
B. the dead
C. the black sun
D. chamber music
Answer:
C. the black sun
38. Who among the following is a Movement poet?
A. elizabeth jennings
B. ted hughes
C. t.s eliot
D. w.h auden
Answer:
A. elizabeth jennings
39. “Dubliners” was first published in the year
A. 1912
B. 1914
C. 1918
D. 1921
Answer:
B. 1914
40. Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of
A. 18 c
B. 16c
C. 17c
D. 20c
Answer:
D. 20c
41. Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent critic and scholar. Who was he?
A. matthew arnold
B. carlyle
C. john ruskin
D. leslie stephen
Answer:
D. leslie stephen
42. Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?
A. alan sillitoe
B. john wain
C. colin wilson
D. john osborne
Answer:
D. john osborne
43. Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in
A. 1903
B. 1910
C. 1917
D. 1923
Answer:
D. 1923
44. Eliot’s “Journey of the Magi” occurs in his
A. ariel poems
B. poems (1920)
C. the wasteland
D. four quartets
Answer:
A. ariel poems