MODERNIST PERIOD MCQ TEST -1



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

MODERNIST PERIOD
MCQ MOCK TEST – 1
Total Marks - 40
Time – 1:30 Hours

1. What is common amongst Rupert Brooke, Julian Grenfell and Siegfried Sassoon as poets ?
(a) They were all romantic poets
(b) They were all nature poets
(c) They were all metaphysical poets
(d) They were all war poets

2. Who was the author of the popular tragic play Riders to the Sea?
(a) Ruskin
(b) J.M.Synge
(c) Arnold
(d) Wilkie Collins

3. The poet who supported British Imperialism in India?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) J.M.Synge
(c) Arnold
(d) Wilkie Collins

4. Rudyard Kipling was born in :
(a) Bombay
(b) Delhi
(c) Kolkata
(d) Madurai

5. "Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain can meet." Whose lines are these?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) J.M.Synge
(c) Arnold
(d) Wilkie Collins

6. T.S.Eliot dedicated his The Waste Land to :
(a) Maria Pound
(b) J.M.Synge
(c) Arnold
(d) Ezra Pound

7. In how many parts is The Waste Land divided ?
(a) Three parts
(b) Six parts
(c) Five parts
(d)Four parts

8. Which of the poem of T.S.Eliot ends with the lines?
"Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata, Shanti, Shanti, Shanti."
(a) Tess
(b) A Tale of Two Cities
(c) The Waste Land
(d) Mayor of Casterbridge

9. James Joyce's Ulysses is based on the pattern of :
(a) Odyssey
(b) Aenied
(c) The Waste Land
(d) Mayor of Casterbridge

10. James Joyce initiated :
(a) Stream of consciousness technique
(b) Stream of seriousness technique
(c) Stream of boldness technique
(d) Stream of motiveless technique

11. Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent critic. Who is he ?
(a) Maria Pound
(b) Leslie Stephen
(c) Arnold
(d) Ezra Pound

12. A character in Virginia Woolf's novels changes his sex. Which is that novel ?
(a) Tess
(b) A Tale of Two Cities
(c) The Waste Land
(d) Orlando

13. What is the Central theme of Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman ?
(a) A woman's search for a fitting mate
(b) A dog's search for a fitting mate
(c) A cat's search for a fitting mate
(d) A man's search for a fitting mate

14. In which of Shaw's plays the 'Chocolate cream hero' appears ?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Tess
(d) A Tale of Two Cities

15. The phrase 'Don Juan in Hell' occurs in Shaw's :
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Tess
(d) A Tale of Two Cities

16. What is the central theme of Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession ?
(a) Prostitution
(b) Business
(c) Teachership
(d) Physician

17. "The law is what it is -a majestic edifice sheltering all of us, each stone of which rests on another."In which play of Galsworthy do these lines occur?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Tess
(d) Justice

18. In which year was Bernard Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize ?
(a) 1924
(b) 1923
(c) 1925
(d) 1930

19. Joseph Conrad's novels are generally set in the background of :
(a) the playground
(b) the sea
(c) the moon
(d) the lanscape

20. E.M.Forster's A Passage to India deals with :
(a) relationship between the Hindus and Muslims
(b) relationship between the Christianms and Muslims
(c) relationship between the Britishers and Bengalees
(d) relationship between the Britishers and Indians

B. Answer any two of the following questions.  Marks - 5X2 = 10
1. Discuss the symbolism of the Swans.
2. What does Yeats mean ‘lover by lover’?
3. Describe the episode of Marabar Caves.
4. Discuss the significance of title ‘A Passage to India’.

C. Answer any one of the following questions.  Marks - 10X1 = 10
1. Write a critical appreciation of the poem ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’.
2. How does Dickens illustrate religions, races and society in the novel ‘A Passage to India’?

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