RIDERS TO THE SEA

1. What’s the name of the writer of the play 7. Michael was missing from how many days?
“Riders to the Sea’’? a. Ten
a. Robert Ibsen b. Three
b. John Millington Synge c. Nine
c. Charles Dickens d. Two
d. George Bernard Shaw
8. Where was Bartley heading?
2. Where the play is set? a. Bay of Gregory
a. Aron Islands b. Dublin
b. Bay of Gregory c. Connemara
c. Red Sea d. None of the above
d. None of the above
9. Who Maurya believes will stop Bartley from
3. What is Cathleen’s age? Going?
a. 18 years a. Cathleen
b. 19 years b. Nora
c. 20 years c. His friends
d. 21 years d. Young Priest

4. What Cathleen was doing in opening scene? 10. Why Bartley was going to Connemara?
a. Kneading cake a. To buy some breads
b. Baking cheese b. To sell breads
c. Cleaning the house c. To sell horses in fair
d. Talking to Nora d. All of the above

5. Who gave Nora, a shirt and a plain 11. Who said, ‘what is the price of a thousand
stocking? horses against son where there is one son
a. Michael only?’ ?
b. Maurya a. Maurya
c. Young Priest b. Cathleen
d. Cathleen c. Nora
d. Bartley
6. Whose clothes, did Priest gave to Nora?
a. Bartley 12. Who said, ‘It’s the life of a young man to be
b. Michael going on the sea, and who would listen to
c. Maurya an old woman with one thing and saying it
d. Shawn over ’?
a. Maurya
 b. Nora 18. Whom Maurya saw on that grey pony?
c. Michael a. Michael
d. Cathleen b. Bartley
c. Patch
13. Who said, ‘I’ll ride down on the red mare, d. Shawn
and the grey pony ‘Ill run behind me…’?
a. Bartley 19. Synge is a ____ playwright.
b. Michael a. British
c. Shawn b. American
d. Patch c. Irish
d. Australian
14. Who said, ‘He’s gone now, god spare us,
and we’ll not see him again. He’s gone now, 20. Synge died from ___.
and when the black night is falling I’ll have a. Cancer
no son left me in the world’? b. Hodgkin Lymphoma
a. Cathleen c. Liver Failure
b. Nora d. Heart Attack
c. Bartley
d. Maurya 21. Who said, ‘Synge was the greatest dramatic
genius of Ireland’?
15. Who said, ‘in the big world the old people a. John Milton
the young men do be leaving things after b. Charles Dickens
them for their sons and children, but in this c. Yeats
place it is the young men do be leaving d. Henrik Ibsen
things behind for them that do be old.’?
a. Cathleen 22. When Synge suffered, attack of Hodgkin?
b. Maurya a. 1897
c. Nora b. 1898
d. None of the above c. 1899
d. 1900
16. Michael was a great __.
a. Rower 23. When JM Synge was born?
b. Fisher a. 16th August 1871
c. Both a and b b. 16th April 1871
d. None of the above c. 15th August 1871
d. 14th April 1871
17. How Bartley died?
a. By drowning 24. Where Synge was born?
b. By falling from roof a. Dubai
c. Was attacked by horse b. England
d. None of the above c. Dublin
d. Connemara
25. When JM Synge died? c. 1906
a. 28th March 1909 d. 1908
b. 24th May 1909
c. 28th May 1909 32. How many acts are in ‘Riders to the Sea’?
d. 24th March 1909 a. 5
b. 4
26. Where Synge got his degree? c. 2
a. Cambridge University d. 1
b. Oxford University
c. Trinity University 33. The play is a __.
d. None of the above a. Tragedy
b. Comedy
27. When did Synge started writing poem and c. Satire
literary criticism? d. None
a. 1890
b. 1894 34. What Nora brings into the cottage, at the
c. 1892 beginning of the play?
d. 1891 a. Turf
b. Bread
28. When Synge went to Aron Islands, Ireland c. Bundle of clothes
from Paris? d. Cooking Utensils
a. 1899
b. 1898 35. How do they supposed, Michael died?
c. 1897 a. Suicide
d. 1896 b. Illness
c. Drowning
29. Synge’s first play, ‘When the Moon has set’ d. Gunshot
was written in in which year?
a. 1900 36. What Maurya was doing in the beginning of
b. 1901 the play?
c. 1902 a. Singing
d. 1903 b. Kneading Cake
c. Lying Down/Sleeping
30. Synge come from ___ family d. Wailing
a. An old Anglo-Irish
b. An Anglo-Indian 37. Who want to go to the Galway Fair?
c. An American a. Cathleen
d. An Australian b. Nora
c. Bartley
31. When play ‘Riders to the Sea’ was written? d. Michael
a. 1904
b. 1905
38. Who is confident that God wouldn’t take c. Bartley
away Maurya’s sons? d. Nora
a. Nora
b. Michael 45. What Maurya thinks about Bartley’s visit to
c. Young Priest Sea?
d. Cathleen a. She is supportive
b. She is adamantly against it
39. What is the girls attitude towards their c. We do not know her opinion
mother? d. None of the above
a. Hostile
b. Subtly Derisive 46. Who was the Maurya’s youngest son?
c. Benevolent a. Michael
d. Obsequious b. Bartley
c. Stephan
40. What is Bartley looking foe when he comes d. Shawn
home?
a. Food 47. Maurya believes the presence of a single
b. Clothes star by the side of the moon to be?
c. Rope a. A Bliss
d. Money b. A very bad omen
c. A sign of feature
41. What animal was chewing on the rope? d. None
a. Pig
b. Sheep 48. How many man did Maurya lost?
c. Cat a. 5
d. Dog b. 6
c. 7
42. Why did Bartley wanted the rope? d. 8
a. For Well
b. For Coffin 49. ‘I seen the fearfulest thing’. The fearfulest
c. For Halter thing refers to-
d. None a. Nora forgetting to give Bartley the
bread
43. Why did Maurya wanted the rope? b. Michael missing
a. For Coffin c. The ghost of Michael
b. For Halter d. All
c. For Well
d. None 50. Michael, one of the sons of Maurya was
drowned in-
44. For whom the coffin was made for, initially? a. Donegal
a. Maurya b. England
b. Michael c. Europe
 d. None of the above b. Bay of Bengal
c. Sea of Dublin
51. ‘Riders to the Sea’ opens on the 9 th day of d. Red Sea
the missing of –
a. Bartley 57. Which of the following son of Maurya died
b. Michael by boat turning upside down?
c. Shawn a. Patch
d. Stephan b. Michael
c. Stephan
52. Just before leaving for Galway Fair, Bartley d. Shawn
advises Cathleen to sell ___ if the jobber
happens to come. 58. JM Synge was one of the major products of-
a. Pig with black feet a. Irish Dramatic Movement
b. Coffin b. Scottish Dramatic Movement
c. Sheep c. American Dramatic Movement
d. Horse d. None of the above

53. Who of the following had brought a stick for 59. Which one of the following is Synge’s
Maurya for support, from Connemara? works?
a. Bartley a. Riders of the Sea
b. Cathleen b. The Playboy of the Western World
c. Nora c. Deirdre of Sorrows
d. Michael d. All of the Above

54. Bartley goes to the Galway Fair wearing 60. The ‘Riders to the Sea’ is a –
Michael’s shirt because- a. Dramatic Monologue
a. Bartley’s shirt becomes heavy from salt b. Poetic Drama
b. Bartley lost his shirt c. One Act Play
c. Bartley wanted to d. Both b and c
d. None the following
61. Who of the following has lost her son-
55. By seeing ___ Nora confirms that the a. Maurya
stocking and shirt definitely belonged to b. Nora
Michael. c. Cathleen
a. Three stitches on stocking d. None of the above
b. Colour of stocking
c. Odour of stocking 62. ‘and what time would a man take, and he
d. None of the above floating?’. Who is the speaker here?
a. Cathleen
56. The dead bodies of Stephan and Shawn b. Nora
were found in ___ c. Maurya
a. Bay of Gregory d. Young Priest
63. What were the items that Priest gives nora 69. Which of the following son of Maurya died
for identification? by the boat turning upside down?
a. A shirt and a trousers a. Shawn
b. A shirt and a jacket b. Patch
c. A pair of trousers and stockings c. Michael
d. A pair of shirt and stockings d. Sheamus

64. Who was Colum Shawn? 70. Who of the following goes to Spring Well to
a. Bartley’s Friend hand over the cake to Bartley?
b. Maurya’s neighbor a. Cathleen
c. Both a and b b. Nora
d. None of the above c. Maurya
d. Colum
65. What does Cathleen offers, Colum and
Eamon in exchange for building her 71. Where do Cathleen and Nora hide the
brother’s coffin? bundle?
a. Fresh baked bread a. Outside
b. Fresh cheese b. Under the bed
c. House cleaning services c. Cupboard
d. Sewing services d. In the turf-loft

66. What can no man do, according to Maurya? 72. Where was Bartley in the beginning of the
a. Live without regret play?
b. Live in fear a. Riding horses
c. Live forever b. Seeing about ship
d. Live without home c. Talking to the priest
d. None of the above
67. How many days does it take to walk to
Donegal? 73. How many female characters are there in
a. Seven ‘Riders to the Sea’?
b. Six a. Three
c. Five b. Five
d. Four c. Six
d. Ten
68. Which of the following is true about ‘Riders
to the Sea’? 74. ‘Riders to the Sea’ has a universal appeal for
a. It is a one act play it’s –
b. Based on writer’s experience a. Mythology
c. First published in 1904 b. Symbolism
d. All of the above c. Dedication
d. Tragic Note
75. ‘Riders to the Sea’ has been written in ___ 81. What is the Synge’s unfinished work?
manner. a. Deirdre of the Sorrows
a. Shakespearean b. Well of the Saints
b. Greek c. Riders to the Sea
c. Victorian d. All of the above
d. Irish
82. ___ was a key figure in Irish Literary Revival
76. What color petticoats were worn by women and was one of the co-founders of the
who came to mourn Bartley’s death? Abbey Theatre.
a. Blue a. JM Synge
b. Red b. GB Shaw
c. Green c. Henrik Ibsen
d. Pink d. Anton Chekhov

77. What are white boards for? 83. What is Maurya’s attitude towards the sea
a. Coffin at the end of the play?
b. New kitchen a. She is fearful, terrified and cowering at
c. Cupboard the thought of the terror the sea has
d. To repair cottage caused her and her family
b. She is defiant, cursing the air around
78. Who are the riders to the sea? her and antagonizing God.
a. All the men who never came home c. She is defiant and tired. She spent all
from the sea of her days praying and worrying and
b. Irishmen now the sea has taken everything from
c. The women left behind her. She can finally rest.
d. The horse who led the men to their d. She thinks that sea was dangerous for
deaths her family.

79. Synge’s most famous play is-

a. Playboy of the western world
b. Riders to the Sea
c. In the Shadow of the Glen
d. None of the above

80. At what age, Synge died?

a. 38
b. 37
c. 36
d. 35
 A MARRIAGE PROPOSAL
1. Who is the writer of the play, ‘A Marriage 7. ‘The Sea-Gull’ was published in which year?
Proposal’? A. 1898
a. Henrik Ibsen B. 1897
b. George Bernard Shaw C. 1896
c. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov D. 1895
d. JM Synge
8. How many acts are there in ‘A Marriage
2. When Anton was born? Proposal’?
a. 28th January 1860 a. 1
b. 29th January 1860 b. 2
c. 30th January 1860 c. 3
d. 31st January 1860 d. 4

3. When Anton died? 9. When ‘A Marriage Proposal’ was first

a. 15th June 1904 performed?
b. 15th January 1904 a. 1888
c. 15th June 1904 b. 1889
d. 15th August 1904 c. 1890
d. 1891
4. Anton Chekhov is a ___ playwright and
short story writer. 10. Anton entered which college as a student of
a. British medicine?
b. Australian a. Oxford University
c. Irish b. University of Moscow
d. Russian c. Trinity College
d. None of the above
5. When ‘A Marriage Proposal’ published?
a. 1888 11. Anton’s first story appeared in Moscow
b. 1887 paper in which year?
c. 1890 a. 1880
d. 1889 b. 1881
c. 1882
6. When Anton won Pushkin Prize? d. 1883
a. 1888
b. 1889 12. Who was the translator who first translated
c. 1890 Chekhov’s work into English?
d. 1891 a. Constance Garnett
b. Constance Pearl
 c. Constance Diamond 19. Anton started his career by _.
d. Constance Emerald a. Novel
b. Drama
13. ‘medicine is my lawful wife, and literature is c. Poetry
my mistress. When I get tired with one, I d. Comic Sketches
spend the night with the other’. Whose
quote is this? 20. Lomov is a man of ___ temperament.
a. Henrik Ibsen a. Nervous
b. GB Shaw b. Greedy
c. JM Synge c. Jealous
d. Anton Chekhov d. None of the above

14. What is the name of female protagonist of 21. Lomov is __ years old.
‘A Marriage Proposal’? a. 33
a. Natasha b. 34
b. Natalya Stepanovna c. 35
c. Nora d. 36
d. Maurya
22. A Marriage Proposal is a type of ___.
15. Who is the daughter of Chubukov? a. Short Story
a. Cinderella b. Drama
b. Ratalia c. Novel
c. Natalya d. None of the above
d. Angela
23. Anton was a __ by profession.
16. Chubukov was the ___ of Lomov? a. Teacher
a. Neighbor b. Doctor
b. Reative c. Preacher
c. Enemy d. Journalist
d. Friend
24. Chubukov’s family had been using the Ox-
17. Lomov wanted to marry whom ? Meadow for ___.
a. Natasha a. 30
b. Natalya b. 40
c. Somalia c. 50
d. None of the above d. 60
18. The ownership of ___ is disputed?
a. Land 25. Lomov’s dog name is __.
b. Oxen-Meadow a. Guess
c. House b. Ruby
d. Marriage c. Leap
d. Buddy
26. Who said that he is having a heart failure? b. Not bad looking
a. Chubukov c. Well educated
b. Natalya d. All of the above
c. Somalia
d. Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov 33. Ivan suffers from-
a. Palpitations
27. Natalia is ___ years old. b. Cancer
a. 20 c. Kidney Failure
b. 25 d. All of the above
c. 35
d. 45 34. The area of Oxen Meadows is equal to ___
dessiantins.
28. Which of the following is true about ‘the a. Three
Proposal’? b. Two
a. It is a play by Anton c. Five
b. It is a one-act play d. Six
c. It is a comedy
d. All these are true 35. Chubukov is Natalya’s __.
a. Friend
29. Anton’s play Entitled, ‘the Marriage b. Uncle
Proposal’ opens in the __. c. Father
a. Street d. Grandfather
b. Theatre
c. Garden of Ivan 36. The first argument between Lomov and
d. Drawing room of Stepan Natalya was over __.
a. Land
30. Who wears the evening dress? b. Labour
a. Lomov c. Hunting dog
b. Chubukov d. None of the above
c. Natalya
d. None of the above 37. According to Chubukov’s younger aunt
eloped with __.
31. Lomov comes to Chubukov’s home to- a. Singer
a. Borrow money b. Architect
b. Give him an invitation c. Doctor
c. Ask his daughter’s hand for marriage d. Labour
purpose
d. Go to shopping with him 38. Squeezer is the son of _
a. Harness and Chisels
32. Ivan thinks Natalya is great life partner b. Rock and Rolls
because she is – c. Rimi and Jhimis
a. An excellent house keeper d. None of the above
39. ‘I don’t want anything of yours and don’t 45. When Natalya comes to know that Lomov
intend to give up what I have..’ who said had come to propose her, she asks her
this to whom? father to –
a. Lomov to Natalya a. Never talk to him
b. Natalya to Lomov b. Never allow him again
c. Chubukov to Lomov c. Bring him back
d. Lomov to Chubukov d. None of the above

40. ‘you are not a neighbor, you’re a grabber’. 46. Lomov inherited Oxen Meadows from –
Who said this to whom? a. Uncle and Aunt
a. Lomov to Natalya b. Parents
b. Natalya to Lomov c. Sisters
c. Lomov to Chubukov d. Brothers
d. Chubukov to Lomov
47. Natalya wear a negligee. Here ‘negligee’
41. ‘go, there’s a merchant come for his goods’. refers to –
The ‘goods’ refers to _ a. An apron
a. Corns b. Shirt
b. Luggage c. Gown
c. Natalya d. Loose gown for doing households
d. Clothes
48. What is the name of Lomov’s aunt?
42. Chubukov ordered Lomov to shut up or he a. Natalya
would shoot him like a __ b. Natasya Mihailovna
a. Partridge c. Natasha Mihailovna
b. Dog d. None of the above
c. Fox
d. Wolf 49. As Chubukov accuses, Ivan’s __ was a
43. According to Lomov, Chubukov’s mother guzzling gambler.
was _ a. Father
a. Ill-tempered b. Grandfather
b. Kind- hearted c. Brother
c. Hump backed d. Uncle
d. Insolent
50. As Natayla accuses, Lomov’s __ was a
44. How many roubles did Lomov paid for his greatest backbiter.
dog? a. Cousin
a. 120 b. Sister
b. 125 c. Aunt
c. 25 d. Mother
d. 35
51. ‘oh, what a burden, lord to be the father of 57. How many times did Lomov feels a pull
a grown up daughter’. Who said this during sleep?
a. Chubukov a. Less than twenty times
b. Ivan b. More than twenty times
c. Natalya c. Twenty times
d. None of the above d. Nineteen times

52. Who much did Chubukov and Natalya’s dog 58. ‘excuse me my precious…’. The word
cost? ‘precious’ refers to –
a. 125 roubles a. Chubukov
b. 85 roubles b. Lomov
c. 60 roubles c. Natalya
d. 35 roubles d. Mironov

53. ‘everybody is always jealous of everybody 59. After hearing Lomov’s proposal, Chubukov
else’. Who said this? is off his balance with ___
a. Chubukov a. Joy
b. Natalya b. Anger
c. Lomov c. Disgust
d. Natasya d. Hatred

54. ‘A Marriage Proposal’, play comes to an end 60. When Chubukov called Natalya, she was –
by- a. Washing clothes
a. Lomov’s falling unconscious b. Shelling peas for drying
b. Chubukov giving Natalya’s hand to c. Preparing for lunch
Lomov d. All of the above
c. Lomov’’s leaving Chubukov’s house in
anger 61. Chubukov assumes that Lomov paid the
d. None of the above visit to –
a. Ask for his daughter’s hand
55. How many times did Lomov borrowed b. Borrow money
money from Chubukov? c. Retuen Oxen Meadows
a. Once d. Borrow threshing machine
b. Twice
c. Thrice 62. The word ‘pettiforgger’is used for –
d. More than twice a. Mironov
b. Chubukov
56. ‘spit it out’. This expression means- c. Lomov
a. Just take it d. Natalya
b. Just say it
c. Just leave it
d. Just listen
63. According to Natalya, Guess was – c. 500
a. Old d. 300
b. Ugly
c. All of the above 70. Chubukov’s grandmother’s peasants use to
d. None of the above make-
a. Toy
64. Chubukov is a __. b. Delicious food
a. Merchant c. Bricks
b. Landowner d. Cookies
c. Peasant
d. Doctor 71. According to Chubukov, Lomov’s
grandfather was a –
65. According to Natalya, oxen meadows worth a. Doctor
___ roubles. b. Drunkard
a. Hundred c. Peasant
b. Two hundred d. Preacher
c. Three hundred
d. Three hundred and fifty two 72. Lomov calls Chubukov ‘Jesuit’ because of
his –
66. How many characters are there is the play, a. Stubbornness
‘A Marriage Proposal’? b. Happiness
a. Five c. Timidity
b. Four d. Laziness
c. Three
d. Two 73. Lomov warns Chubukov to take the matter
of land dispute to the –
67. Lomov says that for marriage his age is __. a. Police
a. Too young b. Prime Minister
b. Critical c. Court
c. Suitable d. President
d. Perfect
74. What is the name of Natalya’s dog?
68. What was the subject of second argument? a. Guess
a. Lands b. Squeezer
b. Oxen Meadows c. Puppy
c. Dogs d. None of the above
d. All of the above
75. Lomov hoped to go shooting –
69. Natalya argued that they had the oxen a. Before the harvest
meadows for nearly how many years? b. In November
a. 400 c. In spring
b. 450 d. After harvest
76. ‘A Marriage Proposal’ is set in __ d. At Chubukov’s garden
a. England
b. Europe 82. What makes Natalya worried about her
c. Russia hay?
d. All of the above a. That it may rot
b. It may not be sold
77. Whose lower jaw is shorter according to c. It may not be dried
Lomov? d. It might be stolen
a. Chubukov’s
b. Natalya’s 83. What does Natayla offers to Lomov?
c. Squeezer’s a. To have tea
d. Guess’ b. Coffee
c. Smoke
78. ‘I’m off my balance with joy, absolutely off d. Dinner
my balance!’. Why does Chubukov said
this? 84. ‘say it again, I didn’t hear it all!’. This speech
a. On hearing that Lomov wants to buy his suggests that Chubukov is-
land a. Happy
b. On hearing that Lomov wants to sue b. Unhappy
him c. Very pleased
c. On hearing that Lomov wants to marry d. Worried
his daughter
d. None of the above 85. What’s the nickname of Natalya?
a. Nancy
79. According to Lomov, a dog like Squeezer b. Nathura
should not cost more than __ roubls. c. Nathaniel
a. 25 d. Natasha
b. 35
c. 45 86. ‘I have been hoping for it for along time’.
d. 85 Here ‘it’ refers to ?
a. Asking for money
80. What Lomov called, Squeezer? b. Marriage proposal
a. Overshot c. Palpitation
b. Bad hunter d. Refund of money
c. Both a and b
d. None of the above 87. Lomov says that he is very strict about his?
a. Discipline
81. Where is the very first scene of the play b. Dress
set? c. Principle
a. At Chubukov’s farm d. Land
b. At Chubukov’s bed room
c. At Chubukov’s drawing room
88. The person from whom Lomov bought
Guess is ___.
a. Natalya
b. Mironov
c. The aunt
d. None of the above

89. ‘I’ll have the matter taken to court, and

then I’ll show you!’. Who said this?
a. Ivan Vassilevitch Lomov
b. Natalya Stepanovna
c. Stepan Stepanvitch
d. None of the above