Reading Drama Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the author of the work ‘Poetics”?
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. homer
Answer: A. aristotle
2. Who is the author of the work “Republic”?
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. homer
Answer: B. plato
3. Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as ——
A. poetica
B. hymns
C. chantings
D. dithyrambs.
Answer: D. dithyrambs.
4. Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ imbibes the conventions of ——— drama.
A. greek
B. roman
C. italian
D. indian.
Answer: A. greek
5. The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with ——-
A. the absurd drama
B. the epic theatre
C. comedy of humours
D. feminist theatre
Answer: B. the epic theatre
6. The term drama is derived from the Greek word————.
A. dran
B. dram.
C. darn.
D. drame.
Answer: A. dran
7. Who wrote “Spanish Tragedy”?
A. thomas kyd
B. thomas norton
C. thomas sackville
D. none of these.
Answer: A. thomas kyd
8. Milton’s “Comus ” is a ———
A. masque
B. farce
C. elegy
D. epic
Answer: A. masque
9. The term ‘denoumnet’ refers to ———in a play.
A. the rising action
B. the falling action
C. the climax
D. none of these.
Answer: B. the falling action
10. The French term for ‘unknotting’ ———-
A. denouement
B. due ex machina
C. decorum
D. none of these.
Answer: A. denouement
11. The term ——– is applied to the falling action in a tragedy
A. catastrophe
B. catharsis
C. crisis
D. none of these
Answer: A. catastrophe
12. The term anagnorisis means ———-
A. recognition
B. reversal
C. both “a’ and “b”
D. neither “a” nor “b”
Answer: A. recognition
13. The term peripetia means———-
A. recognition
B. reversal
C. both “a’ and “b”
D. neither “a” nor “b”
Answer: B. reversal
14. In Greek drama, the hero is called——
A. the protagonist
B. a foil
C. a confidant
D. none of these.
Answer: A. the protagonist
15. ———is someone in whom the central character confides
A. the protagonist
B. a foil
C. a confidant
D. none of these.
Answer: C. a confidant
16. Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called ——
A. stock characters.
B. round characters
C. flat characters
D. fools.
Answer: A. stock characters.
17. A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright is called——–
A. raisonneur
B. confidant
C. stock character
D. foil.
Answer: A. raisonneur
18. Plato was the most celebrated disciple of —–
A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. aristophanes
D. none of the above
Answer: A. socrates
19. Which among the following books contains Plato’s ideas?
A. poetics
B. the new atlantis
C. on the sublime
D. republic
Answer: D. republic
20. Who is the author of “Dialogues”
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. francis bacon
Answer: A. plato
21. Art, according to ———is twice removed from reality
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. francis bacon
Answer: A. plato
22. Who said “the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote the well-being of the state”
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. francis bacon
Answer: A. plato
23. Plato’s view of art is closely bound up with his theory of ——
A. rasa
B. ideas
C. sublimity
D. decorum
Answer: B. ideas
24. Who is the author of the book “Rhetoric”
A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. aristophanes
D. plato
Answer: B. aristotle
25. Who is the author of the book “Poetics”
A. aristotle
B. aristophanes
C. plato
D. socrates
Answer: A. aristotle
26. ———arouses the emotions of pity and fear
A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. epic
D. revenge play
Answer: A. tragedy
27. In tragedy, the emotions of pity and fear are aroused with a view to ——-
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Answer: B. anagnorisis
28. Purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is referred to as——
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Answer: C. catharsis
29. The term used by Aristotle to mean tragic flaw is —-
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Answer: A. hamartia
30. The term used by Aristotle to mean ‘recognition’
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Answer: B. anagnorisis
31. The term used by Aristotle to mean “reversal of situations” in a tragedy
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Answer: D. peripetia
32. Aristotle classified plot into simple and complex plot on the basis of ——
A. hammartia & catharsis
B. anagnoris & peripetia
C. sublimity & decorum
D. all the above.
Answer: B. anagnoris & peripetia
33. The English equivalent of the term “hamartia”
A. tragedy
B. tragic flaw
C. tragic hero
D. tragic mistake
Answer: B. tragic flaw
34. Who made the distinction between simple and complex plot on the basis of anagnorisis and peripetia
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. words worth
D. coleridge
Answer: A. aristotle
35. the author of Illiad
A. Homer
B. Aristotle
C. virgil
D. Dante
Answer: A. Homer
36. the Author of odessey
A. Homer
B. Aristotle
C. virgil
D. Dante
Answer: A. Homer
37. the author of DIVINE COMEDY
A. Homer
B. Aristotle
C. virgil
D. Dante
Answer: D. Dante
38. the Author AENEAD
A. Homer
B. Aristotle
C. virgil
D. Dante
Answer: C. virgil
39. the author of Decameron
A. Homer
B. Baccaccio
C. virgil
D. Dante
Answer: B. Baccaccio
40. Chaucer’s “Canterbur- tales” is model down _______
A. Homer’s Illead
B. Boccaccio’s Decameron
C. virgil’s aenea
D. D Dante’s Devine Comedy
Answer: D. D Dante’s Devine Comedy
41. ithe strategy of the wodden horse emerged in the cunning brain of _______
A. Ulysses
B. Agamemnon
C. Achilles
D. None of these
Answer: A. Ulysses
42. Which amoung the following does Aristotle consider as the best example for a complex plot
A. OEDIPUS REX
B. Spanish Tragedy
C. Hamlet
D. none of the above
Answer: A. OEDIPUS REX
43. the tragedy of OEDIPUS REX is due to
A. Blindinf himself
B. marrying his mother
C. killing of his father
D. both ‘b’ and ‘c’
Answer: D. both ‘b’ and ‘c’
44. The mother of OEDIPUS
A. Laius
B. jocusta
C. venus
D. Penelope
Answer: B. jocusta
45. The father of OEDIPUS
A. Laius
B. jocusta
C. venus
D. Penelope
Answer: A. Laius
46. the term OEDIPUS REX Takes its orgin from
A. OEDIPUS REX
B. Illead
C. ODESSEY
D. none these
Answer: A. OEDIPUS REX
47. Ulysses Wife
A. Laius
B. jocusta
C. venus
D. Penelope
Answer: B. jocusta
48. Ulysses’s Son
A. Achilles
B. Hector
C. Telemachus
D. Oedipus
Answer: C. Telemachus
49. the trogen war was faught between
A. The Trojns and The Greek
B. the Athenianas and the Greek
C. Trojns an
D. the Athenians D none of above
Answer: A. The Trojns and The Greek
50. the trogen war was fought on account of
A. Aphrodite
B. Helen
C. Hecuba
D. Penelope
Answer: B. Helen
51. the Adventure of Ulysses is dealt in ______
A. Tennyson’s Ulysses
B. James Joyce’s
C. Browning’s Andrea Del sarto
D. all the above
Answer: A. Tennyson’s Ulysses
52. Siddharta is a novel by
A. Tagore
B. Mulkraj Anand
C. Herman Hesse
D. none of these
Answer: C. Herman Hesse