MODERNIST PERIOD MOCK TEST – 2

31/10/2017

For the students of University of Gour Banga, West Bengal, India

MODERNIST PERIOD 
 MOCK TEST – II

Total Marks - 40

Time – 1:30 Hours

1. Who is the author of Human Bondage ?

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Leslie Stephen

(c) Arnold

(d) Rudyard Kipling

2. Who has written the poem If ?

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Leslie Stephen

(c) Arnold

(d) Rudyard Kipling

3. Who is the author of Two Cheers for Democracy?

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Leslie Stephen

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) Rudyard Kipling

4. Who is the originator of  'Sprung Rhythm' ?

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Hopkins

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) Rudyard Kipling

5. The term 'Stream of consciousness' was first used by:

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Hopkins

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) William James

6. The terms 'Inscape' and 'Instress' are associated with :

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Hopkins

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) William James

7. Who called 'Hamlet' an artistic failure ?

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) Hopkins

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) T.S.Eliot

8. Who said, "For art's sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence ?"

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) G. B. Shaw

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) T.S.Eliot

9. Who was believed to be "a classicist in literature, royalist in politics and anglocatholic in religion ?"

(a) Somerset Maugham

(b) G. B. Shaw

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) T.S.Eliot

10. Who was the founder of the Bloomsbury Group, a literary club of England ?

(a) Virginia Woolf

(b) G. B. Shaw

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) T.S.Eliot

11. How should Rudyard Kipling be rightly called ?

(a) An Anglo – Dalit  poet

(b) An Anglo - Indian poet

(c) An Anglo - American poet

(d) An Anglo – British poet

12. Who initiated the term 'New Criticism' in English literary criticism ?

(a) David Daiches

(b) Albert

(c) E.M.Forster

(d) T.S.Eliot

13. In which verse - form is T.S. Eliot's Waste Land written ?

(a) Blank Verse

(b) Free Verse

(c) Rhyming Verse

(d) Heroic Verse

14. Rupert Brooke wrote his poetry during which conflict?

(a) Boer War

(b) Second World War

(c) Korean War

(d) First World War

15. Who wrote about the idyllic 'Isle of Innisfree'?

(a) Dylan Thomas

(b) Ezra Pound

(c) W. B. Yeats

(d) E. E. Cummings

16. Who was the King of England in the second decade of England?

(a) George II

(b) George III

(c) George Iv

(d) George V

17. When did George V die?

(a) 1914

(b) 1936

(c) 1940

(d) 1935

18. After George V who sat on the throne of England?

(a)Edward VIII

(b) George VI

(c) Elizabeth II

(d) Elizabeth

19. Which of the following is the period of World War I?

(a) 1939-1944

(b) 1914-1919

(c) 1917-1920

(d) 1920-1924

20. Which of the following is the period of World War II? 

(a) 1939-1944

(b) 1914-1919

(c) 1917-1920

(d) 1920-1924

B. Answer any two of the following questions.  Marks - 5X2 = 10

1. Elaborate the statement ‘Chocolate Cream Soldier’

2. How does Conrad relate Lagoon to the life of Arsat?

3. ‘That was his last charge’ – How did Arsat’s brother die?

4. “Our romance is shattered. Life is a farce” - Explain

C. Answer any one of the following questions.  Marks - 10X1 = 10

1. Justify the title of the play ‘Arms and the Man’.

2. Discuss the character of Arsat.