DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

BISHOP HEBER COLLEGE (Autonomous)

Nationally Reaccredited at the A+ Level by NAAC
(Affiliated to Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli)
(Recognized by UGC as “College with Potential for Excellence”)
Tiruchirappalli 620 017

I M.A. ENGLISH
Question Bank: Twentieth Century Literature

1. ____________ is referred to in the line: "Barbed wire enclosed an arbitrary spot."

a) The claustrophobia of confinement and enslavement
b) the travesty of Christ's ordeal c) loss of religious conviction
d the crucifixion of Christ

2. The people of the world die before their bodies as _________.

a) their self-respect is crushed under the totalitarian forces.
b) they could not hope for help
c) they were cheated by the so-called commander into the logic of their reason
d) no help came from anywhere

3. Hephaestus is the ________ and the metal smith who made the shield of Achilles.
a) God of fire b) God of thunder c) God of the Sea d) God of the
underworld

4. "The strong/ Iron-hearted man" referred to in the poem is.

a) Agamemnon b) Hector c) Achilles d) Priam

5. Achilles happens to be the most celebrated Greek warrior who was an important
member of the _____________.
a) Carthage b) Great War of Mount Olympus c) Spartan War d) Trojan War

6. Eliot originally considered the title of the poem The Waste Land as _______, taken
from Charles Dickens’s Our Mutual Friend.
a) He do the Police in Different Voices b) Wasteland
c) The Waste Land d) Police Academy

7. Following the epigraph, the poem is dedicated to ________ (in 1925).

a) Chaucer b) Ezra c) Ezekiel, the prophet d) Dante
Pound

8. The myth of the Fisher King and the Grail Legend is associated with the
 _____________.
a) Chapel Saint Mary Woolnoth b) Chapel Perilous
c) Magnus Martyr d) Chapel at Canterbury

While there are many different voices in the poem, there is only one central
9. consciousness. Which is that one central consciousness in the text?
a) Tiresias b) the Fire Sermon of Buddhac) St. Augustine
d) Brihadharanyak Uppanishad

10. The basic theme of “A Game of Chess” revolves around the theme of sterility in
a) man, animals and trees b) love, sex and marriage
c) love, literature and marriage d) marriage, philosophy and life

11. AGC opens with a grandiose description of

a) Dido’s house b) Philomela’s suffering c) Cleopatra’s boudoir
d) Madame Sosostris’s Tarot pack

12. Philomela symbolizes

a) the violence perpetrated on birds in nature in the wasteland
b) the violence perpetrated on all human beings in the wasteland
c) the violence perpetrated on Tiresius in the wasteland
d) the violence perpetrated on women in the wasteland

13. Philomela was transformed into a

a) sparrow b) a cuckoo c) a whoopee d) a swan

14. AGC centers on human

a) frustrations and failures in love and marriage
b) frustrations and failures in work and leisure
c) frustrations and failures in winning and losing
d) frustrations and failures on religion and myth

15. Who is "throbbing between two lives"?

a) Tiresias b) the typist c) Phlebas d) Mr. Eugenides

16. “I entangle myself with these outward beauties, but thou pluckest me out O Lord” is
from
a) Buddha’s Fire Sermon b) St. Paul’s letter to the Corinthians
c) St Augustine’s Confessions d) Tiresius’s lament to Zeus

17. "When lovely woman stoops to folly" is an allusion to:

a) Ovid's Metamorphoses b) the Koran
c) Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield d) Hamlet

18. Who rapes Philomela?

a) Tereus b) Zeus c) Tiresius d) Odysseus
19. The subtitle TFS is based on
a) St. Antony’s sentiments against unholy passions
b) St Augustine’s dictates against unholy passions
c) Lord Buddha’s sermon against unholy passions
d) All the above three mentioned

20. Death by Water reflects

a) the inevitable drowning of all b) the Alexandrian fertility rites
c) Tiresius’s instruction against travelling by ship d) the ritual of death

21. The Indian legend of Thunder is drawn by Eliot from

a) the Mahabharatha b) the Ramayana
c) the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad d) the Bagwath Geetha

22.The incident on the road to Emmaus appears in the Gospel according to

a) Mathew 5:14-41 b) Luke 24: 13-31 c) Mark 12: 2-12 d) John 1: 5-10

23. “After the frosty silence in the garden” – the garden referred to here is
a) the hyacinth garden b) the Holfgarten
c) the garden of Eden d) the garden of Gethsemane

24. Cicada is
a) a surveillance aircraft b) an insect
c) One of the unreal cities d) a place in Rome where the oracle was revealed

25) Eliot’s reference Blick ins Chaos was written by

a) Melville b) Herman Hesse
c) Wagner d) Baudelaire

26. Shantih, shantih, shantih means

a) an overwhelming peace b) an unimaginable peace
c) a peace that passeth understanding d) a peace that should never be spoken about.

27) Mens Sana In Corpora Sana means

a) a healthy man is a corporate man b) a healthy body speaks of a healthy reader
c) a healthy mind in a healthy body d) Novelists never die

28. Lawrence’s idea is that its no good inventing

a) thou shall nots b) thou shall be c) thou shall have d) thou shall not have

29. The novel matters to Lawrence because it helps one to be

a) a whole man alive b) man alive
c) to have fixed sense of self d) have the sense of right or wrong
30. Alvin Toffler is the author of _________________.
a. Future Shock b. The Third Wave c. Power Shift d. all the above
31. The psychological state caused by too many changes in too short a period of time is
called ____________.
a. culture lag b. adhocracy c. Future Shock d. none of the above
32. Early in March 1967, in eastern Canada, Ricky Gallant, a twelve year old boy died of
_________________.
a. Progeria b. Dementia c. Leukemia d.
Haemophilia
33. Toffler says that change is ________________.
a. uncontrollable b. incessant c. accelerated d. all the above
34. A majority of people, including the educated and sophisticated find the idea of change
___________.
a. encouraging b. prospective c. threatening d.
uninteresting
35. According to Toffler, change is difficult to measure as it is ______________ .
a. uneven b. Relative c. arbitrary d. all the above
36. _______________ is the yardstick with which change can be measured.
a. mass b. time c. space d. gravity
37. The term ‘culture lag’ was coined by _______________.
a. William Ogburn b. Jane Addams c. Adorno d. none of the above
38.In the wake of extensive urbanization and modernization, urban planners are planning
to build_____________ .
a. new satellites b. subterranean cities c. new villages d. submarines
39. ___________ informs us that ‘The tempo of human evolution during recorded history
is at least 100,000 times as rapid as that of pre-human evolution.’
a. C.P.Snow b. Warren Bennis c. Julian Huxley d. J.P.Thysse

40. Due to rapid economic growth, the total output of goods and services in the advanced
societies is doubled every ___________.
a. 20 years b. 5 years c. 60 years d. 15 years
41.. According to Toffler, ______________ is the great engine of change.
a.technology b.evolution c. education d. agriculture
42. The invention of ___________ in the Middle ages led to major changes in the
agricultural methods.
a. Bessemer furnace b. steam engine c. horse collar d.
None of these
43. Toffler says that there are _________ stages in the self reinforcing cycle of
technological innovation.
a. 3 b.4 c. 5 d. 6
44.. ________________ is the fuel which feeds the technological engine.
a. acceleration b. money c.knowledge d. time
45. Toffler writes about the flow of situation in which every situation is composed of
_____ components.
a. 2 b. 5 c.4 d.3
46.. According to Toffler, ___________is ‘one of the most important and least
understood of all social forces.’
a. Innovation b. Advancement c. acceleration d. all the above
47. The acceleration of change in society increases the difficulty of _______________.
a. earning money b. coping with life c. gaining knowledge d. making new
inventions
48. To survive future shock, Toffler stresses the need for individuals to be
more___________.
a. spiritual b.emotional c.intellectual d.adaptable
49. In order to understand the effects of the accelerative thrust, one must understand
_________.
a. transience b. transcendence c. existence d. immanence

50.. William Golding was awarded the Nobel prize in the year _______________
.
a. 1988 b. 1985 c.1983 d. 1984
51.. The novel Lord of the Flies is a __________________ .
a. children’s adventure b. symbolic allegory c. dystopian novel d. all the
above
52. _______________ is the central character of the novel Lord of the Flies.
a.Simon b.Ralph c. Jack d.Roger
53.24. The novel Lord of the Flies is set in ______________.
a. an island b. a restaurant c. a castle d. an aircraft
54. _____________ in the novel Lord of the Flies discovers a conch and uses it as a
trumpet to summon the other stranded boys.
a. Samneric b. Simon c. Piggy d. Percival Wemys Madison
55.. The boy with a mulberry mark on his face in the novel Lord of the Flies claims that
he saw a _________________ on the island
a. Cannibal b.beast c. ghost d. saint
56.. In the words of Golding, the novel Lord of the Flies is about the ‘_____________ in
the heart of man.’
a. darkness b. kindness c. piety d. naiveté
57. Golding projects man as a __________________ being in his novels.
a. sinful b. tragic c. destructive d. all the above
58. ________________ becomes the leader of the hunters in the island in Golding’s
novel.
a. Ralph b. Jack c. Piggy d. Simon
59. The title Lord of the Flies alludes to ________________.
a. Beelzebub b. Daniel c. Samson d..None of
these
60.. The novel Lord of the Flies is based on R.M. Ballantyne’s __________________, a
Victorian story of boyish adventure .
a. Coral Island b. Cast Away c. Marooned d. Shipwrecked
61. The novel Lord of the Flies discusses the theme of __________________
a. man’s propensity to evil b.man’s relapse into savagery c. precarity of
civilization d. all the above
62. The ______________ in the novel Lord of the Flies is a symbol of order, authority
and disciplined behavior.
a. fire b. beast c.conch d. spear
63. Simon, in the novel Lord of the Flies discovers that the dreaded beast in the island is
actually ___________________
a. a sea monster b. an alien c. corpse of a dead pilot d. tribal hunter
64..’We saw your smoke. What have you been doing? Having a war or something? Who
said this to Ralph in the novel Lord of the Flies?
a. His father b. an officer c. hunters d. soldiers

65. Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook was first published in the year ___________

a. 1972 b. 1962 c. 1952 d. 1982

66. In the words of Lessing, ___________ is the theme of The Golden Notebook.

a. Breakdown b. Exploitation c. revelation d. none of these

67. Anna Wulf, the central character in Lessing’s novel suffers from ___________

a. amnesia b. progeria c. writer’s block d. paranoia

68. Anna keeps __________ notebooks, each reflecting a part of her personality.

a. three b. four c. two d. ten

69.. The Red notebook deals with Anna’s tryst with ___________

a. communism b. feminism c. socialism d. positivism

70.. The Black notebook contains Anna’s account of her early life in ___________

a. Australia b. Canada c. Africa d. Russia

71. The Yellow notebook reads like a novel about a writer by name __________

a. Marion b. Ella c. Janet d. Julia

72. The Blue notebook records Anna’s visit to the psychoanalyst ____________

a. Mrs. Marks b. Mrs. Flemming c. Mrs. Brod d. Mrs. Richard

73.. The Yellow notebook contains a novel titled ______________

a. Free Woman b. Shadow of the Third c. My Story d. Women in Love

74. Paul calls himself and Ella _________, a phrase used for those who are failures.

a. boulder pushers b. scapegoats c. stoics d. shadows

75.. Anna’s experience of studying with a group of people in Africa is the subject of her
novel ___________

a. Under My Skin b. Shadow of the Third c. Frontiers of War d. Walking in

the Shade

76.. Ella lived with her four year old son ___________ in Julia’s house

a. Richard b. Michael c. Willie d. Ted

77. Ivor, the one who rents a room in Anna’s flat has a homosexual relationship with
_________, an actor.

a. Tommy b. Ronnie c. Milt d. Charles

78.. Anna’s disintegration and crisis plummets with the arrival of __________, the
American.

a. Paul Tanner b. Paul Blackenhurst c. Saul Green d. Richard Portmain

79. ‘On a dry hillside in Algeria, the soldier watched the moonlight glinting on his rifle’ –
This is the first sentence of _____’s novel.

a. Anna’s b. Ella’s c.Saul’s d. Paul’s

80. Ted Hughes first collection of poem was titled as -------------

(a) Hawk is the Desert (b) Hawk in the Rain
(c) Hawk is the Ship (d) Hawk is the Mud
81. Ted Hughes feels that the thrushes on the lawn are _______
(a) beautiful (b) terrifying
(c) lazy (d) noisy
82. The poet calls thrushes as ________
(a) soft virtues (b) killing machines
(c) week birds (d) unmindful flyers
83. Mozart was a famous ____________
(a) musician (b) painter
(c) writer (d) philosopher

84. According to the poet Thrushes are always ___________ is their purpose
(a) Doubt minded (b) Inattentive
 (c) Single minded (d) Unpurposeful
85. According to Ted Hughes the actions of human incline towards ________
(a) materialism (b) heroism
(c) humanism (d) Eternity
86. The ________ automatic purpose is to attack the smell of blood.
(a) Thrushes (b) Shark’s
(c) Hawk’s (d) Evil

87. The word orgy means

(a) uncountable happiness (b) unrestraint joy
(c) never ending search (d) uncontrollable lust

88. Dylan Thomas first collection of poetry was titled as -----------

(a) 21 poems (b) 18 poems

(c) 26 poems (d)

89. The hand that rejoices is the tasks of life is bound to do the tasks of ______
(a) protection (b) death
(c) creation (d) maintenance
90. The life that rejoices is the breeze is destined for a _______
(a) heaven (b) shroud
(c) shore (d) haven

91. ________ is nature’s elemental force

(a) Time (b) The sun
(c) The wind (d) The stars
92. ________ creates a universe for us be acting upon the stars.
(a) The Moon (b) Time
(c) A Force (d) The Wind
93. Dylan Thomas first collection of poetry was published in the year ________
(a) 1938 (b) 1934 (c) 1932 (d) 1931

94. The colour green is the poem symbolises

(a) youth & facility (b) death & destruction
(c) creation & destination (d) force & fever

95.________ is a citizen like everyone

(a) Engineer (b) lawyer
(c) Stockbroker (d) artist

96.________ certainly has a duty to its members

(a) Government (b) Law
(c) Society (d) Parliament
97.Which is a queer job?
(a) Law (b) Art
(c) Made cine (d) Teaching

98. Name the war that E.M. Forster mentions is his essay
(a) Word war I (b) W.W. - II
(c) American Civil War (d) Spanish Civil War

99. After the war Forster expects a society that is highly ________
(a) Complicated (b) separated
(c) Individual (d) centralized

100. ________ in a technical age is inevitable

(a) War (b) bureaucracy
(c) Diplomacy (d) power

101.Mr. Bumble represents ________

(a) State (b) artists
(c) stock-broken (d) engineers

102.What did the artist wanted to do through his painting?

(a) Instruct (b) inspire
(c) Amuse (d) experiment

103.________never fits in the society

(a) Artist (b) lawyer
(c) Butcher (d) stock-broken

104.Who was interested in the relation between the artist and the state?
(a) Aristotle (b) Plato
(c) Somers (d) Alexander

105. People believe that the world has been wiped clean by science and cannot profit by
________
(a) Culture (b) art
(c) Literature (d) tradition

106.________ makes one unkind

(a) Religion (b) politics
(c) Love (d) faith

107.Sir Richard Terry is a ________

(a) Cartoonist (b) philosopher
(c) Archeologist (d) organist

108. Who is Mrs.Leavis?

 (a) Author (b) Singer
(c) Painter (d) Archeologist

109.The power to enjoy and understand art was acquired through ________
(a) Culture (b) tradition
(c) Science (d) religion

110.________ people are a drop of ink in the ocean

(a) Modern (b) civilized
(c) Cultivated (d) religious

111.The change among the cultivated people has been shown in Mrs. Woolf’s biography
of ________
(a) Roger French (b) Roger Fry
(c) Roger Fish (d) Roger Francis

112.Higher pleasures resemble ________

(a) Science (b) art
(c) Religion (d) philosophy

113.Conceit means ________

(a) Extreme joy (b) extreme love
(c) Extreme pleasure (d) extreme pride
114. Queen Elizabeth becomes furious at Orlando and smashes her mirror because
_______
a. He has run away
b. He is a liar
c. He insults her
d. Sees her kissing a girl
115.Princess Sasha starts to love Orlando because of his _____
a. Good looks b. kindness c. strength d. ability to speak French
116. Orlando continually works to write ______ poem
a. The Oak Tree b. The Pine Tree c. Hercules d. The Poison Tree

117. The novel New Orlando ends in the year _____

a. 1800 b. 1588 c. 2020 d. 1928

118. In New Orlando Woolf explores ____

a. Genre of biography b, sexual identity c. gender difference d. all the above

119. In New Orlando the story is told by ____

a. Orlando b. an omniscient narrator c. Vita d. Sasha
120.The story New Orlando opens in ______ century.
a. 15th b. 18th c. 16th d. 17th

121.The clouds appearing over London at the end of 18th century symbolizes ___
a. Industrialization b. gender change c. nature of Victorian Era d. none of the above

122.The poem Orlando writes is of his _____

a. Internal life b. love affairs c. travels d. friendship

123. _______ is a cross – dresser

a. Shell b. Archdue Harry c. Sir Nicholas Greene d. Sasha.

124. The Power and the Glory was published is the year ________
(a) 1942 (b) 1948 (c) 1950 (d) 1940

125. The epigraph of the novel The Power and the Glory is taken from ________
(a) Dryden (b) Milton
(c) Shelly (d) Kurts

126.The Power and the Glory is based on Green’s experience in ________

(a) Vietnam (b) West Africa
(c) Mexico (d) Sweden

127.The sight of the ________ filled Mr. Tench with disgust

(a) Vultures (b) monkeys
(c) crows (d) snakes

128.The priest left a ________ is Mr. Tench’s home

(a) Pen (b) purse
(c) Book (d) watch

129.The book that the priest left was in ________ language

(a) Spanish (b) Latin
(c) Italian (d) German

130.Where did Mr.Tench hid the book?

(a) Attic (b) Oven
(c) Garden (d) Tub

131.Name the priest who married to escape punishment

(a) Padre John (b) Padre Jeffry
(c) Padre Jose (d) Padre Joel

132.A woman read out the story of ________ to her children

(a) Juan (b) Jose
(c) John (d) Joel

133.________ is the daughter of Captain Fellows

(a) Maria (b) Catherine
(c) Coral (d) Bridget
134.Who was taken as a hostage by the lieutenant from the village?
(a) Maria (b) Priest
(c) Miguel (d) Briggita

135.________ was the birth place of the priest

(a) Cruz (b) Carmen
(c) La Candelia (d) Mexico

136.What was the name given by the priest to himself before the lieutenant?
(a) Miguel (b) Miachel
(c) Montez (d) Mountagne

137.Who offered to take the priest to a place where he could get wine?
(a) Gringo (b) A Beggar
(c) Padra Jose (d) Mestizo

138.The priest was imprisoned for the first time because of carrying ________
(a) Illegal money (b) religious book
(c) pistol (d) liquor

139.In coral’s home the priest read the lines of a poem by ________
(a) Milton (b) Byron
(c) Tennyson (d) Shelly

140.How many prestos was declared as reward for the priest’s head?
(a) 300 (b) 500(c) 800 (d) 400
141. What was the name of the cruising yawl?
(a) Nicker (b) Nelie
(c) Nall (d) Nile

142.How many men were there is the yawl?

(a) 8 (b) 6 (c) 7 (d) 5

143.The man in the yawl were ________

(a) Sleeping (b) reading
(c) Meditating (d) fighting

144.Who is the narrator of the novel Heart of Darkness?

(a) Kurtz (b) Amontar
(c) Captain (d) Marlow

145.Below the Inner station, Marlow & his men are confronted with ________
(a) Rocks (b) Adam
(c) Gunfire (d) arrows and spear
146.Marlow wants to visit the Congo is order to __________
(a) Have a good fortune (b) teach the natives
(c) Explore the wildness (d) avoid paying taxes

147.Marlow and his men are greeted by ________ upon arriving at the Inner statire
(a) black man covered in body pant
(b) a university dressed Russian
(c) an angry mob
(d) kurtz

148What shipment does Marlow require in order to continue his journey?

(a) Food (b) ivory
(c) Rivets (d) tobacco

149.Marlow admires the cannibal crewmen’s ________ while cruising up the congo
(a) Eloquence (b) intelligence
(c) Restraint (d) strength

150.Who said the following words ‘The horror! The horror!’?

(a) Kurtz (b) Marlow
(c) The Accountant (d) The Mayer

151.Marlow has been on a voyage through ________ before he goes to Africa

(a) The South Pacific (b) Asia
(c) Central America (d) Alaska

152.Who helps Marlow to get a job with the company?

(a) Kurtz (b) his aunt
(c) The Director of companies (d) his father

153.The last person Marlow sees in Brussels is _________

(a) The President of the company (b) his aunt
(c) Kurt’s cousin (d) Kurt’s fiancé

154.The natives in the story are described as _________

(a) Insects (b) Labours (c) Animals (d) Savages

155._________ is Marlow’s direct supervisor

(a) Kurtz (b) Chief Accountant
(c) Manger (d) Brick maker

156.Marlow had an obsession with _________ when he was young

(a) Travel books (b) Microscope
(c) Balls (d) Maps
157.According to Marlow Kurtz, wanted _________ more than anything
(a) Redemption (b) justice
(c) Respect (d) friendship

158.Kurtz heads towards a _________ when he escapes in the middle of the night.
(a) The steamship (b) The mangers quest
(b) In search of the Russian (d) A native camp

159.Marlow first learns about Kurtz from _________

(a) Chief Accountant (b) General Manger
(b) Brick maker (d) Helmsman

160.How many months is Marlow told it will take to repair the ship?
(a) 4 (b) 6 (b) 2 (d) 3

161. What does Orlando find shocking about Archduchess Harriet?

a. She is wealthier b. she is a part of a gypsy group c. she is really a man

d. She is an athlete.
162. With whom does Orlando have her first romantic encounter once she is a woman?
a. Archduchess Harriet b. Captain Nicholas Bartolus c. Nell d. Mr. Pope

163. Which three ladies enter Orlando's room right before he turns into a woman?

a. Amnesty, Honesty, Travesty b. Bippety, Boppity, Boo

c. Drew, Cameron, Lucy d. Purity, Chastity, Modesty

164. What natural disaster overtakes Britain the season that Orlando meets Sasha?

a. the Great Frost b. the Great Fire c. the Great Volcano d. the Great Earthquake

165. What kind of animal does the priest allow the sick mestizo to ride during their brief
journey together?

a. A camel b. A horse c. A mule d. An unusually large antelope

166. Who is the lieutenant's boss?

a. The Fuja b. The jufo c. The juju d. The jefe

167. Why does the priest tell the prisoners who he is?

a. So they won't kill him

b. Because he thinks it is pointless to try to hide any longer

c. Because he wants to say mass in the jail cell

 d. To impress them

168. Who is Juan?

a. A priest who has gotten married

b. A boy in a story

c. A man who helps the priest procure alcohol

d. A person the priest meets in the jail cell

169. Who shot the dead boy the priest finds in the hut?

a. The gringo b. The lieutenant c. The jefe d. An Indian medicine man

170. Who urges the priest to flee from the authorities?

A. The gringo b. The lieutenant c. The mestizo d. Mr. Tench

171. What does the lieutenant bring the priest on the night before he dies?

a. A bottle of alcohol b. Rosary beads c. A blanket d. A cigarette

172. Where is Mr. Tench from?

a. England b. Germany c. The United States d. Guatemala

173. For what does the priest fight the crippled dog?

a. A place to sleep for the night b. a bone c. a bottle d. a bed

174. What does the Russian trader leave downriver for the approaching steamer?

a. Water b. food c. map d. firewood

175. Who is ultimately responsible for the attack on the steamer?

a. Kurtz b. Marlow b. Chief Accountant d, General Manger

176. The Company is

a. Mexican b. Belgian c. American d. German

177. At the end of his “Report” on the natives, Kurtz writes:

a. “Exterminate all the brutes!” b. “ Horror Horror”

 c. “No more death!” d.’ God help us”
178. Most of Marlow’s adventures take place in

a. Kenya b. Congo c. America d. England

179. Where does Kurtz die?

a. Inner Station b. Company c. Steamer d.forest

180 . The main reason Marlow admires the Chief Accountant is because of his

a. Politeness b. sincerity c. dress d. food habits.

181. Marlow is given the position of __________ with the Company.

a. Skipper b. Accountant c. Manager d. Helmsman

182. The blind-folded woman in Kurtz's sketch carries a

a. Purse b. Candle c. Sketch d. Torch

183. The crew of the ship is composed of

a. Pilgrims b. Cannibals c. Natives d. None of the above

184. W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” was originally titled as _____

a.The Rebirth b. The Second Birth c. The Beast d. None of the above

185. Yeats’s poem “The Second Coming” was first published in _______

a.1920 b. 1915 c. 1914 d. 1918

186. ________ is the title of the novel by an African writer, which is taken from the
poem “The Second Coming”

a.Mere Anarchy b. Centre cannot Hold c. Things Fall Apart d. The blood-
dimmed Tide

187. Yeats is troubled by “a vast image out of the Spiritus Mundi” when he utters the
words _______

a.Mere anarchy b. Widening Gyre c. The Second Coming d. Things

fall apart

188. Whose gaze was blank and pitiless as the sun in the poem “The Second Coming”?
 a.Falconer’s gaze b. God’s gaze c. Falcon’s gaze d. the Sphnix’s or
Beast’s gaze

189. In the poem “The Second Coming,” the Beast slouches towards Bethlehem
__________

a.to rule b. to be born c. to die d. none of the above

190. In the poem “The Second Coming,” Yeats says that __________ was drowned in
the “blood-dimmed tide.”

a.the ceremony of poverty b. the ceremony of guilt

c. the ceremony of innocence d. the ceremony of anarchy

191. In the poem “The Second Coming,” the Beast wakes up from its _________ of
stony sleep.

a. twenty centuries b. two hundred centuries c. thirty centuries d. two

centuries

192. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in __________

a.1933 b. 1922 c. 1925 d. 1923

193. The poem “The Second Coming” was first published in what was one of the most
important literary magazines of the day, ___________

a.The Dial b. The Time c. The Wave d. The Magazine

194. In “The Second Coming,” the end of __________ is thought to be at hand.

a.The Greeco- Roman era b. The Christian era c. The era of Anarchy d.
None of the above

195. ___________is viewed as a prophetic poem by Yeats, which envisions the close
of the Christian epoch and the violent birth of a new age.

a.The Second Coming b. Sailing to Byzantium c. Leda and the Swan d. A

Vision

196. Who are full of “passionate intensity” in the poem “The Second Coming”?

a.those who lack all conviction b. those who are innocent

c. those who are worst or anarchic d. All the Above

197. The poem “The Second Coming” forebodes about the coming of _________
 a.Christ b. Falcon C. World War II d. Beast

198. _____ in “The Second Coming” symbolizes the alternation between two historical
cycles: one characterized by order and growth, the other by chaos and decay.

a.falcon b. tide c. gyre d. rocking cradle

199. _________ is the major element in the poem “Little Gidding”

a. water b. fire c. earth d air

200. In “Little Gidding,” the “broken king” is a reference to ____

a. Charles I b. James I c. Cromwell d. Charles III

201. The compound ghost in “Little Gidding” says that _________ renders pain of
reenactment of all that one has “done and been”

a. war b. human folly c. love d. old age

202. The exasperated spirit proceeds from wrong to wrong, unless restored by ______

a. the eternal fire b. the refining fire c. destructive fire d pyre

203. ______ is the unflowering nettle, growing between the live and dead nettle in the
third movement of “Little Gidding.”

a. attachment b. detachment c. indifference d. liberation

204. Eliot says, in “Little Gidding,” that _______ is behovely.

a. faith b, patience c. honesty d. sin

205. The recurring line “All shall be well” is taken from __________ book of Christian
mystical devotions.

a. King James’ b. Julian of Norwich’s C. Nicholas Ferrar’s d. Milton’s

206. Who was the king who came to Little Gidding “at nightfall” seeking refuge?

a. Charles I b. James I c. Richard I d. Cromwell

207. The line “of one who died blind and quiet,” in the poem “Little Gidding,” refers
to _____

a. Cromwell b. Charles I c. Milton d. Pope

208. In the poem “Little Gidding,” the incandescent terror of the intolerable “shirt of
flame” refers to the shirt of _________

a. Achilles b. Hector c. Heracles d. Tiresias

209. T.S. Eliot was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in the year _____

a. 1946 b. 1940 c. 1928 d. 1948

210. In “Little Gidding,” _____ descends with “flame of incandescent terror.”

a. dove b. falcon c. ghost d. old age

211. According to Eliot, the only hope of discharging oneself from _________lies in
the choice of pyre of pyre.

a. shirt of flame b. sin and error c. incandescent terror d. torments of old age

212. Complete the following line from “Little Gidding,” “Every phrase and ever
sentence is an end and a beginning, / Every poem ________.”

a. an eulogy b. an epitaph c. an elegy d. dirge

213. What offers the bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit, when “body and soul begin to
fall asunder”?

a. ghost b. war c. history d. old age

214. Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in _____________

a. 1969 b. 1950 c.1959 d. 1968

215. What language was the play Waiting for Godot originally written in?

a. Latin b. German c. Japanese d. French

216. Who coined the term “Theatre of Absurd”?

a. Tom Stoppard b. Samuel Beckett c. Martin Esslin d. Sisyphus

217. The play Waiting for Godot is a _________

a. tragedy b. tragicomedy c. Melodrama d. Dramatic Monologue

218. Pozzo is on his way to the market to sell his slave, ____________

a. Vladimir b. Estragon c. Godot d. Lucky

219. ____________ discards traditional plot, characters, and action to assault its
audience with a disorienting experience.

a. The Absurd play b. The Gothic play c. Melodrama d. Abbey

Theatre

220. Vladimir and Estragon are waiting for the arrival of the mysterious _________

a. Messenger b. Lucky c. Gydda d. Godot

221. The small boy, in Waiting for Godot, calls ____________ as Mr. Albert

a. Estragon b. Pozzo c. Vladimir d. Godot

222. _____________ represents the intellectual side of the main characters in Waiting
for Godot.

a. Estragon b. Pozzo c. Vladimir d. the small boy

223. When Vladimir asks the boy, in Waiting for Godot, Act II, whether he is the same
boy who came yesterday, the boy tells him that ______

a. he is not and has never been there. b. he has never heard of Mr. Godot.

c. he doesn't know what he is talking about. d. he is the same boy.

224. When Pozzo asks Estragon what his name is, what name does Estragon give?

a. Adam b. Patrick c.Lucky d.Joseph.

225. When Vladimir asks if Estragon has read the Bible, Estragon recalls that he liked
________of the Holy Land.

a. sacredness b. Emperors c. colorful maps d. poets

226. In Waiting for Godot, Vladimir informs Estragon that they can not leave the
place, because _____

a. they are waiting for Godot b. Estragon could not take off his boot.

c. they are too tired and hungry to go anywhere d. Vladimir feels sick

227. In Waiting for Godot, when Estragon announces that he is hungry, Vladimir
offers him _________

a. a fruit b. chicken bones c. a carrot d. none of the above

228. Lucky cannot think without his ____________

 a. boots b. blanket c. stick d. bowler

229. Pozzo needs his ________ to speak.

a. hat b. boots c. chicken bones d. vaporizer

230. Who said "But all four were there. And only one ... speaks of a thief being saved.
Why believe him rather than the others” in Waiting for Godot?

a. Vladimir b. Estragon c. Pozzo d. Lucky

231. Pozzo treats Lucky like a __________

a. child b. wise man c. friend d. slave

232. Whose nickname is Gogo?

a. Vladimir’s b. Estragon’s c. Pozzo’s d. Lucky’s

233. Whose nickname is Didi?

a. Vladimir’s b. Estragon’s c. Pozzo’s d. Lucky’s

234. In Waiting for Godot, when Didi asks if Godot has a beard, the boy says he does,
and that the beard is ________

a. long b. grey c. white d. black

235. In Waiting for Godot, the boy claims that he tends goats for ________

a. a local landowner b. Pozzo c. a Merchant d. Mr. Godot

236. In Waiting for Godot, Act II, ______ is mute.

a. Pozzo b. the boy c. Estragon d. Lucky

237. When Pozzo asks Gogo what Didi's age is, Gogo responds that ______

a. he does not know b. Didi is mischievous c. Didi is 11 d. None of the

above

238. ____________ declares that he is made in God's image.

a. Lucky b. the boy c. Pozzo d. Vladimir

239. According to Pozzo, __________ is having the future of Didi and Gogo in his
hands.

a. God b. the messenger c. Godot d. None of the above

240. Why does Lucky cry, in Waiting for Godot, Act I ?

a. because he did not the chicken bones b. because Lucky kicked Gogo violently
c. because Pozzo wants to get rid of him d. because he is blind

241. The setting of the play Waiting for Godot is __________

a. an Inn b. a valley c. a country road d. None of the above

242. In Waiting for Godot,Act II, ______ is blind.

a. Pozzo b. the boy c. Estragon d. Lucky

243. Who gives up more easily, does a lot of sleeping, likes to dream, and forgets more
easily, and even forgets Godot's name at one point, in Waiting for Godot?

a. Didi b. Pozzo c. the boy d. Gogo

244. In Waiting for Godot, _________ seems condemned to forever take his boots on
and off.

a. Vladimir b. Estragon c. Pozzo d. Lucky

245. In Waiting for Godot, both acts end with the line, “Yes, let's go” and they _____

a. Exuent b. close their eyes c. do not move d. lie down

246. How is the setting different in Act Two than it was in Act One, in Waiting for
Godot?

a. It isn't. It's exactly the same b.The ditch has been filled in

c. The tree has some leaves on it d. There are fresh tracks on the road

247. Estragon and Vladimir first choose to have Lucky entertain them by _____

a. acting b. dancing c. reciting d. singing

248. To pass the time, in Waiting for Godot, Act Two, Estragon and Vladimir pretend
to be _______

a. Cain and Abel b. Jesus and Judas c. Pozzo and Lucky d. Apes

249. When Estragon tries to wipe away Lucky's tears, what does Lucky do?

a. kicks him in the shins b. kneels down to thank him c. spits on him d. abuses him
250. The second act, in Waiting for Godot, begins with a discussion about a dog that
was _________

a. beaten to death b. drowned in the Rhone

c. killed in a dog fight d. rescued from starvation