Solved NET question 95

1.     (This part contains 25 questions for convenience)

 The author of Revaluations is

1)      F.R Leavis

2)      I.A Richards

3)      Wilson Knight

4)      Cleanth Brooks

2.       Which war poet made the statement that his subject was the pity of war, that the poetry was in the pity?

1)      Rupert Brooke

2)      Sigfried Sassoon

3)      Wilfred Owen

4)      Issac Rosenberg

3.       Geraldine is a character in

1)      Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

2)      Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

3)      George Eliot’s Mill on the Floss

4)      Coleridge’s Christabel

4.       “I have measured out my life in coffee spoons” is a statement made by

1)      Mrs. Warren

2)      Elizabeth Bennet

3)      Alfred Prufrock

4)      Celia Copplestone

5.       Waiting for Godot is an example of

1)      Theatre of Cruelty

2)      Classical Tragedy

3)      The absurd Drama

4)      An expressionist Drama

6.       A European playwright who had a dominant influence on British drama of the first half of the twentieth century was

1)      Racine

2)      Goethe

3)      Ibsen

4)      Chekov

7.       The author of The Beggar’s Opera is

1)      John Arbuthnot

2)      John Gay

3)      Oliver Goldsmith

4)      Sheridan

8.       Which twentieth century poet has made the phrase “to Stand and Stare” popular?

1)      Walter de la Mare

2)      John Drinkwater

3)      W.H Davies

4)      Hillaire Belloc

9.       The medal was written by?

1)      Dryden

2)      Pope

3)      Nahum Tate

4)      Abraham Cowley

10.   The year in which the famous modernist novel Ulysses appeared

1)      1922     2)1917      3) 1936      4) 1928

11.   The technical name for unrhymed iambic pentameter is

Blank verse

12.   The commonwealth was established in England in the

Mid 17^th century

13.   George Eliot was the pen name of

Mary Ann Evans

14.   If you say “contagious countries” instead of “continguous countries”, you would be making a mistake known as

Malapropism

15.   Comedy is related to farce in the same way as Tragedy is related to

Melodrama

16.   According to Sidney, a poet

Represents an idealized world

17.   The dramatist who first introduced blank verse in English drama was

Christopher Marlow

18.   The defeat of the Spanish Armada took place in the

1588

19.   What according to Johnson was a ‘fatal Cleopatra’ to Shakespeare?

Pun

20.   One of the following was a famous diarist of 17^th century

1)      William Congreve

2)      Joseph Addison

3)      Samuel Pepys

4)      Richard Steele

21.   This English writer wrote a delightful essay on children he never had

Charles Lamb

22.   One of the following terms was NOT a movement in art or literature

1)      Cubism

2)      Empiricism

3)      Expressionism

4)      Surrealism

23.   One of the following did NOT belong to the group of writers known as ‘The Angry Young Men’

1)      Kingsley Amis

2)      Lawrence Durrell

3)      John Osborne

4)      John Wayne

24.   A play in which a spendthrift young man auctions away the portraits of his ancestors is?

The School for Scandal

25.   About which famous character in literature is it said “Age cannot wither her”?

Cleopatra