Welcome to your TGT English Mock Test 20
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1. Which drama originated in the medieval church and its ritual forms of worship, especially that of the chanted dialogue between the celebrant and the congregation during Mass?
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2. Arnold calls Thyrsis:
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3. A line consisting of ten syllabies is known as:
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4. When did Browning die?
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5. Who is Thyrsis in the poem of the same name?
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6. Matthew Arnold was not a/ an
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7. Identify the correct group of writers who belonged to the Rhymer's Club-
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8. "What the Thunder said" is a section of the poem:
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9. Which one of these is not one of the five sections of Eliot's "The Waste Land'?
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10. "In Memory of W. B. Yeats' is a poem written by:-
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11. The poem "Wants" points out the poet's desire-
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12. In which famous poem does Walt Whitman make a reference to Suez Canal and Wire-line across the Atlantic? (PGT-05)
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13. Dickinson longed for poetic,
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14. "We love the things we love for what they are"
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15. "You're searching For things that don't exist; I mean beginnings. Ends and beginnings-there are no such things. (A) There are only middles." The above lines are from-
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16. Kamala Das got 'Kerla Sahitya Akademi Award' in the year-
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17. What is the pen name of Kamala Das? (PGT-09)
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18. What news does Antonio receive at the play's end?
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19. What was William Shakespeare's father's profession?
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20. What title did King James bestow upon Shakespeare's acting company?
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21. This play contains some of Shakespeare's most characters, but it's unclear if Shakespeare shared this view.
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22. This play contains Shakespeare's first great hero.
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23. Why does Bassanio need a loan?
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24. 'Imagery' helps in translating
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25. The essence of the Imagist poetry was
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26. Who enriched the quality of 'empathy' in abundant measures ?
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27. In which figure of speech, two different nouns are governed by a verb or an adjective in the sane sentence ?
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28. Alliteration, the repetition of a speech, sound in a sequence of words, is usually applied only to-
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29. The term 'epiphany' was coined by-
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30. 'Hyperbole' is a figure of speech containing exaggeration or extravagance of statement for the purposeof-
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31. How much money does Shylock offer to lend Bassanio?
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32. Who does Shylock's daughter Jessica plan to clope with?
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33. Who has written The Sad Shepherd"?
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34. Who is known for writing classical drama?
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35. Who was the greatest scholar and critic of Elizabethan age?
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36. "Jonson mirrored what he saw of men and manners" whose words are these?
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37. Ben Jonson was 'the great scholar and critic of:
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38. Tyrannick Love, or The Royal Martyr is a tragedy by John Dryden in rhymed couplets, first acted in June 1669, and published in-
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39. Which play of John Dryden is a retelling of the story of Saint Catherine of Alexandria and her martyrdom by the Roman Emperor Maximinus, who is enraged at Catherine's refusal to submit to his violent sexual passion?
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40. Which of the following plays is reported to have been written in only seven weeks?
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41. "I think we two have found the higher love. When I think of you, I feel that I could never do a base deed, or think an ignoble thought." Who speaks this to Sergius?
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42. "Which of the six of me is the real man? That's the question that torments me. One of them is a hero, another a buffoon, another a humbug, another perhaps a bit of a blackguard. And one, at least, is a coward-jealous, like all cowards. "Who says this to Louka?
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43. "He is but a poor philosopher who holds a view so narrow as to exclude forms not to his personal taste." Who said?
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44. "Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place-service-social service-the ants' creed, the bees' creed." Who said?
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45. "When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing- deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different." Who said?
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46. Who quotes the following line in Justice?- "The quality of mercy is not strained..."
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47. In Harold Pinter's own words: "one of my main obsessions in life is the game of I play and watch and read about it all the time."
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48. From January to July 1951, Harold Pinter attended the
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49. In which play of Harold Pinter his first wife, Vivien Merchant, played the role of Ruth?
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50. Which play of Karnad is about a rashly idealist 14th century Sultan of Delhi, Muhammad bin Tughluq, and allegory on the Nehruvian era which started with ambitious idealism and ended up disillusionment?
