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Question 1
the Author of odessey
A. Homer
B. Aristotle
C. virgil
D. Dante
Question 2
Who opined “poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhereand at all times”?
A. wolfgang goethe
B. bertolt brecht
C. hermann hesse
D. homer
Question 3
Who is called the father of Italian language?
A. homer
B. virgil
C. dante
D. chaucer
Question 4
Who was called ilsammopoeta (the supreme poet)?
A. shakespeare
B. goethe
C. plato
D. dante
Question 5
Who accompanies Dante on his journey to Heaven?
A. venus
B. beatrice
C. cleopatra
D. helen
Question 6
Which one is the seventh Heaven in Dante’s The Divine Comedy?
A. the sphere of the moon
B. the sphere of mercury
C. the sphere of the sun
D. the sphere of saturn
Question 7
Where does the Golden Ladder appear in The Divine Comedy?
A. in the third heaven
B. in the fourth heaven
C. in the sixth heaven
D. in the seventh heaven
Question 8
Who was called “the last true polymath to walk on earth”?
A. a. s. pushkin
B. bhasa
C. goethe
D. hesse
Question 9
I Love You is a poem written by
A. pushkin
B. goethe
C. homer
D. dante
Question 10
Who solves the riddle of the Sphynx in Oedipus Rex?
A. oedipus
B. tiresias
C. lius
D. jocasta
Question 11
Who coined the term “Oedipus Complex”?
A. karl jung
B. sigmond freud
C. lacan
D. karl rogers
Question 12
What is the hamartia of Oedipus?
A. hubris
B. envy
C. procrastination
D. laziness
Question 13
Who is the author of the work‘Poetics”?
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. homer
Question 14
Who is the author of the work“Republic”?
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. socrates
D. homer
Question 15
Which among the following books contains Plato’sideas?
A. poetics
B. thenewatlantis
C. on thesublime
D. republic
Question 16
Who is the author of“Dialogues”
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. francisbacon
Question 17
Who said “the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote thewell-beingof thestate”
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. francisbacon
Question 18
Who is the author of the book“Rhetoric”
A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. aristophanes
D. plato
Question 19
Who is the author of the book“Poetics”
A. aristotle
B. aristophanes
C. plato
D. socrates
Question 20
The term used by Aristotle to mean tragic flaw is____ a. Hamartia b.Anagnorisis c.Catharsis d.Peripetia50. The term used by Aristotle to mean ‘recognition’.
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia.
Question 21
The term used by Aristotle to mean “reversal of situations” in a tragedy.
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Question 22
Who made the distinction between simple and complex plot on the basis of Anagnorisis andPeripetia.
A. aristotle
B. plato
C. words worth
D. coleridge
Question 23
The author of Illiad.
A. homer
B. aristotle
C. virgil
D. dante
Question 24
The author of DIVINE COMEDY?
A. homer
B. aristotle
C. virgil
D. dante
Question 25
The author of AENEID?
A. homer
B. aristotle
C. virgil
D. dante
Question 26
The author of Decameron?
A. homer
B. boccaccio
C. virgil
D. dante
Question 27
The concept of Purgatory occurs in ______
A. homer’s iliad
B. boccaccio’s decameron
C. virgil’s aeneid
D. dante’s devine comedy
Question 28
The strategy of the wooden horse emerged in the cunning brain of _______
A. ulysses
B. agamemnon
C. achilles
D. none of these
Question 29
Which among the following does Aristotle consider as the best example for a complex plot?
A. oedipus rex
B. spanish tragedy
C. hamlet
D. none of the above
Question 30
The tragedy of Oedipus Rexis due to
A. blinding himself
B. marrying his mother
C. killing of his father
D. both b and c
Question 31
The mother of Oedipus?
A. laius
B. jocasta
C. venus
D. penelope
Question 32
The father of Oedipus?
A. laius
B. jocasta
C. venus
D. penelope
Question 33
Ulysses’ Wife?
A. laius
B. jocasta
C. venus
D. penelope
Question 34
Ulysses’s Son?
A. achilles
B. hector
C. telemachus
D. oedipus
Question 35
The TrojanWar was fought between
A. the trojans and the greek
B. the athenians and the greek
C. trojans and the athenians
D. none of above
Question 36
The Trojan War was fought on account of
A. aphrodite
B. helen
C. hecuba
D. penelope
Question 37
The Adventure of Ulysses is dealt with in ______?
A. tennyson’s ulysses
B. james joyce’s ulysses
C. browning’s andrea del sarto
D. all the above
Question 38
Siddharta is a novel by
A. tagore
B. mulkrajanand
C. herman hesse
D. none of these
Question 39
Who is the protagonist of the play Karnabharam?
A. kunthi
B. bhishma
C. karna
D. duryodhana
Question 40
Who is disguised as a Brahmin in Karnabharam?
A. indra
B. krishna
C. arjuna
D. karna
Question 41
Who takes the Kavacha and Kundala away from Karna?
A. bhishma
B. indra
C. kunthi
D. salya
Question 42
What is the name of the protagonist in Notes from Underground?
A. zverkov
B. liza
C. he is unnamed
D. none of the above
Question 43
Which of the following is considered to be the first Existentialist novel?
A. siddhartha
B. notes from underground
C. brotherskaramozov
D. crime and punishment
Question 44
Who is the friend of Siddhartha?
A. kamala
B. kamaswami
C. buddha
D. govinda
Question 45
What is the name of the ferryman in Siddhartha?
A. kamaswami
B. vasudeva
C. govinda
D. gautama
Question 46
Choose the one who does not appear in front of the Repentant Sinner at the gates of the Heaven.
A. peter the apostle
B. king david
C. dionisius
D. john the apostle
Question 47
Poetry is a word of ______origin which comes from a verb which means “to create”.
A. latin
B. english
C. greek
D. arabic
Question 48
Wolfgang Goethe is a _________ writer.
A. german
B. english
C. indian
D. russian
Question 49
Chorus in Oedipus Rex represents the people of _________
A. thebes
B. corinth
C. delphi
D. greece
Question 50
Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as______
A. poetica
B. hymns
C. chantings
D. dithyrambs.
Question 51
Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ imbibes the conventions of _________drama.
A. greek
B. roman
C. italian
D. indian.
Question 52
The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with_______
A. the absurd drama
B. the epictheatre
C. comedy of humours
D. feministtheatre
Question 53
Drama originated inancient_________ A.Greece b.Italy c. Rome d.India22. Who wrote “SpanishTragedy”?
A. thomaskyd
B. thomasnorton
C. thomassackville
D. none ofthese.
Question 54
“Spanish Tragedy” is________
A. a revengeplay
B. acomedy
C. a problemplay
D. a feministplay.
Question 55
Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a_________drama.
A. poetic
B. roman
C. italian
D. indian.
Question 56
Milton’s “Comus ” is a_________
A. masque
B. farce
C. elegy
D. epic
Question 57
The term ‘denoumnet’ refers to _________in aplay.
A. the risingaction
B. the fallingaction
C. theclimax
D. none ofthese.
Question 58
The French term for ‘unknotting’__________
A. denouement
B. due exmachina
C. decorum
D. none ofthese.
Question 59
The term ________ is applied to the falling action in atragedy
A. catastrophe
B. catharsis
C. crisis
D. none ofthese
Question 60
The term anagnorisis means__________
A. recognition
B. reversal
C. both“a’and“b”
D. neither“a” nor“b”
Question 61
The term peripetiameans__________
A. recognition
B. reversal
C. both“a’and“b”
D. neither“a” nor“b”
Question 62
In Greek drama, the hero iscalled______
A. theprotagonist
B. a foil
C. aconfidant
D. none ofthese.
Question 63
_________is someone in whom the central characterconfides
A. theprotagonist
B. a foil
C. aconfidant
D. none ofthese.
Question 64
Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called______
A. stockcharacters.
B. roundcharacters
C. flatcharacters
D. fools.
Question 65
A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright iscalled________
A. raisonneur
B. confidant
C. stockcharacter
D. foil.
Question 66
Plato was the most celebrated disciple of_____
A. socrates
B. aristotle
C. aristophanes
D. none of theabove
Question 67
Art, according to _________is twice removed fromreality
A. plato
B. aristotle
C. longinus
D. francisbacon
Question 68
Plato’s view of art is closely bound up with his theory of______
A. rasa
B. ideas
C. sublimity
D. decorum
Question 69
_________arouses the emotions of pity andfear
A. tragedy
B. comedy
C. epic
D. revengeplay
Question 70
In tragedy, the emotions of pity and fear are aroused with a view to_______
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Question 71
Purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is referred toas______
A. hamartia
B. anagnorisis
C. catharsis
D. peripetia
Question 72
The term OedipusComplex takes its origin from_______?
A. oedipus rex
B. iliad
C. odyssey.
D. none these
Question 73
Karnabharam was originally written in_______
A. tamil
B. sanskrit
C. malayalam
D. english
Question 74
Notes from Underground is divided into ______ parts.
A. two
B. three
C. four
D. five