TGT English Mock Test 3

Welcome to your TGT English Mock Test 3

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1. The selection and arrangement of words in speech and writing is:

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2. Forceful verbal attack or criticism is:

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3. Two written or spoken vowels pronounced in one syllable:

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4. Who called 18th century "an age of prose and reason"?

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5 Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre with-

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6.. T.S. Eliot was awarded U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in:

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7. T.S. Eliot's first volume of poems appeared in 1917. The collection was-

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8. W.H. Auden was an -

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9. Philip Larkin was born at/in-

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10. The age of Walt Whitman is generally known as:

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11. Dickinson's father was an eminent –

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12. She was educated at-

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13. Who made the following comment on his death? "The death of Robert Frost leaves a vacancy in the American spirit. His death impoverishes us all; but he has bequeathed his Nation a body of imperishable verse which Americans will forever gain and understand."

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14. Which of the following was the first American to write a favourable review of Frost's work?

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15. Gitanjali ("Song offering") is a collection of poems by the Bengali poet-

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16. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature, largely for the English translation-

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17. The central theme of Nissim Ezekiel's work is-

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18. Who among the following writers was a University Professor of English?

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19. The tone of the poem "Obituary" is-

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20. A piece of writing about a person's life that is printed in a newspaper soon after he/she has died' is called-

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21. What does Lady Macbeth resolve to do?

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22. What does Lady Macbeth think Macbeth lacks?

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23. What do Lady Macbeth's words "unsex me here" mean?

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24. What does Macbeth realize about the consequences of Duncan's murder?

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25. Which literary form is meant to be read in a closet (a private library), rather than acted upon the stage?

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26. Which term denotes the final resolution of all conflicts in the last act or scene of a play?

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27. Which one is a silent form of drama?

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28. Which one is known as the 'irregular ode' ?

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29. Cowleyan ode was established by

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30. Black Comedy is a form of dramatic writing which-

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31. Who said, "Fiction is to the grown up man what play is to the child ? R. L. Stevenson

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32. What is Lady Macbeth's plan for murdering Duncan?

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33. 'Every man in his humour' was first acted by:

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34. In which year was 'Every man in his Humour' acted by Lord Chamberlain's company?

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35. In which year did Jonson restart his writing?

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36. After how many years of silence did he restart writing?

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37. What has been described in the play?

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38. Which critical work of Dryden takes the form of a dialogue and debates the merits of classical, French and English drama?

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39. Which mock-heroic of Dryden was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright Thomas Shadwell?

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40. Which play of Dryden is an acknowledged imitation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra?

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41. Which celebrated satirical poem of Dryden is an allegorical story of King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679-1681)?

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42. From where does Bluntschli hail?

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43. Whose picture does Raina keep in her room at the start of the play?

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44. Galsworthy began his literary career as:

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45. Galsworthy belongs to -

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46. Pinter was born and raised in Hackney, cast London, and educated at -

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47. He attended the of Dramatic Art but did not complete the course.

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48. Which of the following author "was born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room"?

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49. Eugene O' Neil died on , at the age of 65.

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50. Who was a recipient of the 1998 Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honour conferred in India?

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51. Who among the following is not a modern Indian playwright?