1.Who wrote the screenplay for the film version of John Fowles’s novel The
French Lieutenant`s Woman?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Torn Stoppard
(3) David Marnet
(4) Caryl Phillips
Answer: 1
2. The concept of “eugenics” finds its illustration predominantly in the writings of:
[A] John Osborne
[B] George Bernard Shaw
[C] Eugene O’Neil
[D] Harold Pinter
[E] Arthur miller
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
[1] Aand B only
[2] Aand C only
[3] B and C only
[4] D and E only
Answer: 3
3.In which of the following texts do Aston, Davies and Mick appear as
characters?
(A) Wyndham Lewis’s Enemy
(B) Harold Pinter’s Caretaker
(C) Katherine Mansfield’s “Life of Ma Parker”
(D) Graham Greene’s Brighton Rock
Answer: (B)
3.“When true silence falls we are still left with echo but are nearer
nakedness. One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant
stratagem to cover nakedness”.
Identify the playwright who underlines the significance of silence thus.
(1) Samuel Beckett
(2) Harold Pinter
(3) Luigi Pirandello
(4) Joe Orton
Answer: 2
4.What is the occupation of Max’s son, Lenny, in Harold Pinter’s The Home
Coming ?
(1) boxer
(2) butcher
(3) pimp
(4) cab driver
Answer: 3
5.Who among the following English playwrights wrote screenplays on novels
such as Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, John Fowles’s French
Lieutenant’s Woman, and Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale ?
1. John Arden
2. Edward Bond
3. Harold Pinter
4. David Hare
Answer: 3
6. Harold Pinter’s first four plays are :
(A) The Caretaker, The Room, The Homecoming, The Birthday Party
(B) The Room, The Dumb Waiter, The Birthday Party, The Caretaker
(C) The Homecoming, The Caretaker, Old Times, Betrayal
(D) The Dumb Waiter, The Caretaker, No Man’s Land, Betrayal
Answer: B
7.The term ‘the comedy of menace’ is associated with the early plays of
(A) Arnold Wesker
(B) John Arden
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) David Hare
Answer: (C)
8. Who among the following playwrights was the son of a gardener?
(1) Harold Pinter
(2) Joe Orton
(3) Tom Stoppard
(4) Edward Bond
Answer: 2
9.Which of the modern plays by a British playwright actually puts
Shakespeare as character on stage ?
(1) Edward Bond’s Bingo
(2) Harold Pinter’s Mountain Language
(3) Terence Rattigan’s Inspector calls
(4) Joe Orton’s Loot
Answer: 1
10. Which pair of plays belongs to the early career of Harold Pinter?
I. The Caretaker
II. One for the Road
III. Celebration
IV. The Room
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and III
(2) II and III
(3) I and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 3
11. Match List – I with List – II according to the code given below :
(Dramatists)
i. Arnold Wesker
ii. Harold Pinter
iii. Joe Orton
iv. Tom Stoppard
(Plays)
1. Jumpers
2. What the Butler Saw
3. The Room
4. Roots
Codes :
i ii iii iv
(A) 3 2 4 1
(B) 1 2 4 3
(C) 4 3 2 1
(D) 4 3 1 2
Answer: C
12. Which one of the following statements is appropriately true of Harold
Pinter’s plays?
1. Menace is in the air and it leads to bloody violence.
2. Menace is in the air and it is realized through the female characters.
3. Menace is in the air, but it is not pinned down, or explained.
4. Menace is in the air and anarchy follows in a systematic manner.
Answer: 3
13.What game do the characters play in Act II of Harold Pinter’s The Birthday
Party?
1. A game of chess
2. A game of cards
3. Blind man’s buff
4. Musical chairs
Answer: 3
17. Which two of the following stage directions are from Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party?
A. The living-room of a house on a seaside town.
B. A garbage pail on the ground next to the porch steps.
C. A light shows from upstairs bedroom, lower floor windows being dark.
D. He hangs the drum around his neck, taps it gently with the sticks, then marches round the
table, beating it regularly.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
A. A and C only
B. A and D only
C. B and C only
D. C and D only
Answer: B