PG TRB ENGLISH Study Material – 09

1.  The Passion of New Eve 1947) was written by

A. Angela Carter

B. Willa Cather

C. Doris Lessing

D. Anthony Burgess

2.  Which of the following novels of John Fowles is best known?

A. The Collector

B. The French Lieutinant’s Woman

C. The Magus 

D. Mantissa

3.  Antony Burgess‘s A clockwork Orange is

A. A conventional novel

B. an epistolary novel

C. an experimental novel

D. a lyrical novel

4.  Who among the following wrote The Ice Age 1977)?

A. Doris Lessing

B. Iris Murdoch

C. H.G. Wells

D. Margaret Drabble

5. John Arden‘s Live Like Pigs is

A. A Brechtian play 

B. A Freudian play

C. An Ibsenian play

D. A Shakespearean play

6. Chips With Everything was written by

A. John Arden  

B. Arnold Wesker

C. Harold Pinter

D. Tom Stoppard

7. Which of the following is not part of Wesker‘s trilogy?

A. Roots  

B. Chicken Soup with Barley

C. The Kitchen

D. I‘m Talking about Jerusamen

8. Which of the following is the last of the four plays by Harold Pinter? 

A. The Birthday Party

B. The Caretaker

C. No Man’s Land 

D. The Homecoming

9.  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 1967) is based on a play by

A. Shakespeare

B. Shaw

C. Osborne

D. Beckett

10. Stoppard‘s play, based on Hamlet, is an example of

A. Imitation

B. Parody  

C. Decentring

D. Refining