ASSESSMENT TEST

1. ………………….comedy is a kind of drama that ridicules some political or philosophical doctrine or ridicules
those who violates the norms of society.
a. Revenge b. Satirical c. Black d. None of these
2. The dramas of Oscar Wilde can be placed under…….
a. Tragedy of Ideas b. Comedy of ideas c. Comedy of manners d. None of these
3. Which is the first English tragedy?
a. Oedipus Rex b. Agamemnon c. Gorboduc d. None of these
4. Agamemnon starts with a watchman waiting for a beacon that will symbolize the fall of Troy which has been
besieged for ………….years.
a. 01 b. 05 c. 10 d. None of these
5. Marlowe’s dramatic characters are……….in their desires and actions.
a. Naïve b. Overreaching c. Pessimist d. None of these
6. Which of the following Shakespearean drama does not follow three unities?
a. King Lear b. Hamlet c. Macbeth d. All of these
7. “To be or not to be” is a……………of Hamlet.
a. Monologue b. Soliloquy c. Aside d. None of these
8. Father of realism and modernism in theatre, Henrik Ibsen was a………….playwright
a. English b. French c. Norwegian d. None of these
9. Who is named as ‘Chocolate Hero’ by Raina in Shaw’s Arms and the Man?
a. Captain Bluntschli b. Sergius Saranoff c. Sergius Saranoff d. None of these
10. The key character in T. S. Eliot’s The Murder of Cathedral, Thomas Becket was murdered in………..
a. 1120 b. 1162 c. 1170 d. None of these
11. Arthur Miller in his play The Crucible allegorized a practice called…………
a. Salem Witchcraft b. American McCarthyism c. Cold War d. None of these
12. Translations is a three act play authored by…….
a. Anton Chekhov b. Brian Friel c. Tariq Ali d. None of these
13. The ……………period runs from the end of Late Antiquity in the fourth century to the English Renaissance of the
late fifteenth century.
a. Old b. Medieval c. Dark d. Both b & c
14. Which of the following was in trend in Old English Literature?
a. Tragedy b. Comedy c. Heroic poetry d. None of these
15. The…………..was the second great natural disaster to strike Europe and reached in June 1348.
a. Great Famine b. Black Death c. Both a & b d. None of these
16. In 1453,………….proved to be one of the most important development regarding rebirth of Greek knowledge.
a. Establishment of Anglican Church b. Fall of Constantinople c. Invention of Printing Press d. None of these
17. Which of the following era is characterized by the adoption of a Humanist philosophy and the recovery of the
classical literature of Antiquity?
a. Middle b. Renaissance c. Restoration d. None of these
18. ……….. is a form of didactic drama presenting a series of loosely connected scenes that avoid illusion and often
interrupt the story line to address the audience directly with analysis, argument, or documentation.
a. Theatre of Absurd b. Epic Theatre c. Closet drama d. None of these
19. Comedy of Manners was popular in…………….period.
a. Renaissance b. Restoration c. Modern d. None of these
20. ……………literature underwent an inward movement.
a. Renaissance b. Restoration c. Classical d. None of these
21. Drama was least popular in…………..
a. 17th Century b. 18th Century c. 20th Century d. None of these
22. To accept “uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason” is termed as…
a. Objective Co-relative b. Negative Capability c. Both a & b d. None of these
23. According to Aristotle, the least important element of tragedy is………..
a. Plot b. Character c. Spectacles d. None of these

24. On the Sublime is a critical work of….

a. Plato b. Plotinus c. Longinus d. None of these
25. Poetic language should be rustic. Who had this view?
a. William Wordsworth b. S.T. Coleridge c. Both a & b d. None of these
26. The Function of Criticism is an essay by……..
a. A. Pope b. T. S. Eliot c. M. Arnold d. None of these
27. Bacon modeled his essays on the essays of…..
a. Chaucer b. Montaigne c. Both a & b d. None of these
28. Whose essays are in personal tone?
a. Bacon b. Montaigne c. C. Lambs d. None of these
29. The Crown of Wild Olive is a work of…………. by Ruskin.
a. Prose b. Criticism c. Fiction d. None of these
30. Synonym of NADIR
a. Lower point b. Zenith c. Peak d. None of these
31. The feature of human language that allows speaker to receive and transmit the same signal is called?
a. Interchangeability b) Transitoriness c) Total Feedback d) Arbitrariness
32. According to scholars, some form of written language emerged almost ___________ years ago.
a. 3000 b) 4000 c)5000 d)6000
33. The smallest rhythmic unit in language is _____________.
a. Word b) Phoneme c) Syllable d)Phone
34. According to Hurford, human breathing while speaking is almost 90% ________
a. Inhaling b) Exhaling c) random d) none of these
35. The Sounds which are articulated with weak breath force and less intensity are _____________
a. Lenis b) Fortis c) Voiced d) Voiceless
36. The phonemes that occur at the margins of a syllable are ___________________.
a. Consonants b) Vowels c) allophones d) None of these
37. Consonants that are articulated with the tip of tongue touching the alveolar are named as _____________
a. Velars b) Bilabials c) Palatals d) none of these
38. Consonants that are articulated by almost blocking the airflow and then letting it escape through a narrow gap is
called __________
a. Stops b) Fricatives c) Affricates d) Nasals
39. Phonology is essentially concerned with the knowledge of sounds and sound system in the mind of speaker. It is
therefore concerned with _______________
a. Performance b) Parole c) Competence d) Both a & B
40. The constraints on the permissible combination of sounds in a language is called ____________
a. Co-articulation effect b) Phonotactics c) Assimilation d) None of these
41. A type of borrowing in which each element of a word is translated into the borrowing language is called _________
a. Calque b) Loan translation c) Borrowing d) Both a & b
42. The study of language beyond the sentence, in text and conversation is _______________
a. Stylistics b) Discourse Analysis c) Dialectology d) none of these
43. The space between the vocal folds is called _______________
a. Vocal Cavity b) Nasal Cavity c) Pharynx d) none of these
44. The spelling system of a language is called _______________
a. Alphabet b) Orthography c) Phonography d) None of these
45. “Make your contribution as informative as is required, but not more, or less, than is required.”
a. Quality maxim b) Quantity maxim c) Manner maxim d) None of these
46. The line "No tear-flood, nor sigh-tempest move" is an example of __________________
a. Allegory b) Sibilance c) Analogy d) Hyperbole
47. On which of the following criteria Metaphysical Poetry can be compared with the 16th century poetry?
a. Use of the argument b) use of comparison c) use of language d) All of these
48. Who described Donne as "a great visitor of ladies, a great frequenter of plays and a great writer of conceited verse"?
a. Richard Steele b) Johnson c) Blake d) Richard Baker
49. What is the name of the inn where the pilgrims have gathered before leaving for Canterbury?
a. The Southwark b) The Green Gate c) The Old Bell d) Tabard Inn
50. The usual meter in Shakespearean sonnets is ________________.
a. Iambic tetrameter b) Blank Verse c) Iambic pentameter d) none of these
51. Who among the following poets was among the first ones to write sonnets in English?
a. Shakespeare b) Surrey c) Thomas Wyatt d) Both B & C
52. Which one among the following is an elegy written by Ben Jonson?
a. On My First Son b) Lycidas c) In Memoriam A.H.H. d) None of these
53. Which of the following poets died from drowning?
a. Shelley b) Keats c) Byron d) Yeats
54. The poem The Passionate Shepherd to his Love was written by __________________
a. Spencer b) Wordsworth c) Coleridge d) Marlowe
55. The poem Thinking of Mohenjodaro was written by___________
a. Sara Suleri b) Taufiq Rafat c) Maki Quraishi d)Daud Kamal
56. “and each man kills the thing he loves” is a line from ___________________
a. Ballad of Reading Goal b) Ode to Melancholy c) Ode on a Grecian Urn d) None of these
57. The Portrait of an Artist as Young Man is type of novel called_______________
a. Bildungsroman b) Kunstlerroman c) Epistolary novel d) all of these
58. The scathing criticism against Conrad’s Heart of Darkness comes from ______ who pronounced Conrad as
“thoroughgoing racist”.
a. T.S. Eliot b) Achebe c) Edward Said d) Ngugi
59. “Big Brother is Watching You” is phrase from _______________
a. Animal Farm b) 1984 c) One Hundred Years of Solitude d) Catch-22
60. According to Golding the purpose of writing _____________ was ‘to trace society’s flaws back to their source in
human nature’.
a. Lord of Flies b) Animal Farm c) 1984 d) All of these