PGT English Mock Test 6

Welcome to your PGT English Mock Test 6

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1. Understanding and entering into another's feelings

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2. A quotation at the beginning of some piece of writing

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3. An inscription on a tombstone or monument in memory of the person buried there

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4. For which year was Yeats offered Knighthood by the British Government that he refused?

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5. T.S. Eliot migrated to England from-

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6. Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' is:

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7. W.H. Auden moved to the United States in-

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8. In which year Larkin was appointed librarian of the public library in Wellington, Shropshire?

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9. Who founded an antislavery newspaper called the Weekly Freeman?

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10. Who guided Dickinson in her poetry?

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11. Which of the poem expresses Frost's statement that a poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"?

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12. In September 1912 Frost sailed with his family to Glasgow, and later settled in -

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13. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of 103 English-

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14. The English Gitanjali or Song Offerings is a collection of Tagore's own English translations of his Bengali poems first published in November 1912 by the-

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15. Nissim Ezekiel "was the first Indian poet to express a modern Indian sensibility in modern idiom." Who said these words?

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16. "I regard myself as an Indian poet writing in English." Who said these words about his own poetry?

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17. In which newspaper the young boy reads the obituary column:

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18. Why does the poet buy from the market?

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19. What does Banquo wonder about the witches' prophecy?

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20. How does Macbeth feel about Banquo?

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21. What does Macbeth hire three men to do?

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22. Does Lady Macbeth think this murder of Banquo and his son are necessary?

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24. Do the assassins succeed in killing Banquo and Fleance?

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25. Which one is known as the Regular Ode ?

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26. Which odes were generally written for public occasions ?

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27. As a literary genre, 'Biography' which means a account of a person's life, became popular during the second half of the........century.

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28. In novels, epilogues are often inten-ded-

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29. The term 'fiction', which is broadly applied to the narrative literature ented by the author's imagi- nation, now stands for only-

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30. The term hero' in modern times, roughly refers to the-

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31. Naturalisn' in literature was a reaction against the subjectivism and imnaginative escapism of the Romantic School. Who introduced this term ?

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32. Who is Cob?

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33. Master Kitely is a:

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34. What were Mathew and Bobadil discussing?

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35. What type of advice did Bobadil give to Mathews?

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36. Ben Jonson created:

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37. In his preface to , Dryden says that "the expressions of a poem designed purely for instruction ought to be plain and natural, yet majestic... A man is to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth."

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38. Which tragedy by John Dryden in rhymed couplets is a retelling of the story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and her martyrdom by the Roman Emperor Maximinus?

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39. The heroic drama Oedipus: A Tragedy, is an adaption of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex, written by John Dryden and

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40. Which poem of Dryden, published in 1667, commemorated 1665-1666, the "year of miracles" of London?

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41. Why has Sergius resigned his army commission?

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41. What does Petkoff do instead of using the electric bell to call the servants?

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42. Who is given solitary punishment in The Justice?

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43. In which play of Galsworthy do we have William Falder? (T-09)

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44. Which of the following plays of Harold Pinter are known as "memory plays"?

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45. Harold Pinter's early works were described by critics as-

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46. The Manchester Guardian wrote of one of the plays of when it first appeared at the Lyric Hammersmith in 1958: 'What all this means only Mr Pinter knows, for his characters speak in non-sequiturs, half gibberish and lunatic ravings'. The play was...

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47. Why are Mildred and her Aunt travelling together?

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48. What upsets Yank when he hears a tenor yearningly sing "about a lass at home?"

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49. Who among the following was involved with local amateur theatre group, The Madras Players?

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50. Who among the following during 1987-88 was at the University of Chicago as visiting professor and Fulbright playwright-in-residence?