Petrarch
1. Identify Petrarch’s sonnet sequence from among the following :
(A) Rine Sparse
(B) Astrophel and Stella
(C) Amoretti
(D) Delia
Answer: A
2. Where Sir Thomas Wyatt adapted Petrarch and Petrarchanism to English sounds and metres, Survey’s verse tends to look back beyond Petrarch to the
(A) French verse
(B) Italian verse
(C) Spanish verse
(D) Latin verse
Answer: * (Marks given to all)
Giovanni Boccaccio
1. Which Keat’s poem was originally intended to be part of a collection of verse-tales based on stories by Boccaccio?
(1) The Eve of St. Agnes
(2) Lamia
(3) Isabella
(4) Hyperion
Answer: 3
Luigi Pirandello
1. “There is no set and there are no wings; the stage is empty and in almost total darkness. This is in order that right from the beginning the audience shall receive the impression of being present not at a performance of a carefully rehearsed play, but at a performance of a play that suddenly happens.” Which of the following plays have the above stage directions?
(1) Eugene Ionesco’s The Chairs
(2) August Strindberg’s A Dream Play
(3) Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author
(4) Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape
Answer: 3
2. What happens to the character Boy at the end of Luigi Pirandello’s play Six Characters in Search of an Author?
(1) He drowns in the fountain.
(2) He is shot dead by the Father.
(3) He leaves the stage alone.
(4) He commits suicide.
Answer: 4
3. Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author deliberately blurs the boarder lines between the world of the theatre and the world of ‘real life’ by carefully chiselled dialogues like :
“Don’t you feel the ground beneath your feet as you react that this ‘you’ which you feel today, all this present reality of yours, is destined to seem a mere illusion to you tomorrow?”
Who is the speaker? Who is it addressed to?
(1) Stepdaughter to Father
(2) Father to Stage Manager
(3) Stage Manager to Director
(4) Mother to Director
Answer: 2
4. When Luigi Pirandello’s Six Characters in Search of an Author opens the audience find the producer attempting to stage a play. What is the title of this play ?
(1) “Rites of Performance”
(2) “Rules of the Game”
(3) “Tonight We Stage a Play”
(4) “Modes of Acting”
Answer: 2
5. In which of the following plays of Luigi Pirandello the stage itself, the symbol of appearance and reality, becomes the setting of the play?
(A) Right You Are (If You Think, You Are)
(B) To Clothe the Naked
(C) The Life I Gave You
(D) Six Characters in Search of an Author
Answer: (D)
Italo Calvino
1. In which of his novels does Italo Calvino construct his narrative through a tarot pack of cards and re-interpret the Western canon providing new versions of Oedipus Rex, Faust, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear?
1. The Castle of Crossed Destinations
2. Our Ancestors
3. Invisible Cities
4. The Path to the Nest of Spiders
Answer: 1
2. The quintessentially metafictional novel, If On a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino has alternate chapters with chapter numbers and titles. Which of the following are the titles of the chapters in the novel?
I. Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow
II. In a Network of Lines that Enlace
III. In a Network of Lines that Interface
IV. What Story there Awaits its End?
The right combination according to the code is
(1) I and II
(2) I and IV
(3) III and IV
(4) II and IV
Answer: 1
Umberto Eco
1. Who wrote a guide called How to Write a Doctoral Thesis : The Humanistic Subjects, considered equal in standard to the American MLS Handbook or The Chicago Manual of Style?
1. Alain Robbe-Grillet
2. Cesare Pavese
3. Umberto Eco
4. Leo Spitzer
Answer: 3
2. Who wrote a guide called How to Write a Doctoral Thesis : The Humanistic Subjects, considered equal in standard to the American MLS Handbook or The Chicago Manual of Style?
1. Alain Robbe-Grillet
2. Cesare Pavese
3. Umberto Eco
4. Leo Spitzer
Answer: 3