PGTRB ENGLISH NEW SYLLABUS TEST - 4

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 PGTRB ENGLISH TEST - 4 

1. Who coined the term "Theatre of the Absurd"?

A) Martin Esslin
B) Samuel Beckett
C) Eugene Ionesco
D) Albert Camus

ANSWER (D) Martin Esslin

2. "Shakespeare has no heroes, only heroines". Who said?

A) Milton
B) Ruskin
C) Thomas Kyd
D) Milton

ANSWER (B) Ruskin

3. "Nature never did betray, the heart had loved her". These lines are in _________?

A) Daffodils
B) Tintern Abbey
C) Solitary Reaper
D) The Prelude

ANSWER (B) Tintern Abbey

4. Which play is regarded as the masterpiece of the Theatre of the Absurd?

A) The Birthday Party
B) Endgame
C) Rhinoceros
D) Waiting for Godot

ANSWER (D) Waiting for Godot

5. Who wrote Waiting for Godot?

A) Harold Pinter
B) Jean Genet
C) Samuel Beckett
D) Arthur Adamov

ANSWER (C) Samuel Beckett

6. Martin Esslin's book The Theatre of the Absurd was published in __________?

A) 1961
B) 1965
C) 1963
D) 1960

ANSWER (A) 1961

7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of the Theatre of the Absurd?

A) Illogical dialogue
B) Circular plot
C) Clear moral resolution
D) Meaninglessness of life

ANSWER (C) Clear moral resolution

8. Who is the author of A Passage to India?

A) George Orwell
B) E. M. Forster
C) Rudyard Kipling
D) Graham Greene

ANSWER (B) E. M. Forster

9. "Every great poet is a teacher. I wish to be considered as a teacher or as nothing.” Who said?

A) Milton
B) Shelley
C) Wordsworth
D) Tennyson

ANSWER (C) Wordsworth

10. Which pair of characters spend most of Waiting for Godot waiting for someone who never arrives?

A) Pozzo and Lucky
B) Vladimir and Estragon
C) Hamm and Clov
D) Nagg and Nell

ANSWER (B) Vladimir and Estragon