1.Which among the following are true about Harold printer?
[A] Harold printer was born in the year 1925
[B] He was influenced by Samuel Beckett and the theatre of the absurd.
[C] The caretaker and the alchemist are his famous plays
[D] Stanley is a character in the birthday party[
[E] Betrayal is a story of a married couple
Choose the correct answer from the options below:
[1] A,D and E only
[2] B,D and E only
[3] B,C and D only
[4] A,C and D only
Answer: 2
2. Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot has
(A) three Acts
(B) Five Acts
(C) four Acts
(D) two Acts
Answer: D
3. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godot the characters often use dislocated,
repetitious and cliched speech primarily to:
(1) illustrate the essentially illogical, purposeless nature of the human condition
(2) re-create the workings of the subconscious
(3) mock the exaggerated dignity and wisdom of modern, self-professed
intellectuals
(4) reinforce the comic action of farcical plots
Answer: 1
4.Samuel Beckett wrote :
(A) Endgame
(B) Volpone
(C) Mother Courage and Her Children
(D) A Doll’s House
Answer: A
5.’IL Migilor Fabro’ is the expression Eliot used for :
(A) W. B. Yeats
(B) Samuel Beckett
(C) W. H. Auden
(D) Ezra Pound
Answer: D
6. Samuel Beckett’s trilogy published together in London in 1959 under the
English titles is
(A) More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy, Molloy
(B) B. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
(C) Molloy, Murphy, Malone Dies
(D) The Unnamable, More Pricks than Kicks, Murphy
Answer: Marks given to all
7. Which one of the following playwrights will not be covered under the
category / term ‘Theatre of the Absurd’?
(A) Jean Genet
(B) Jean Giraudoux
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Eugene Ionesco
Answer: (B)
8. “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
9.Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
other labelled as Reason (R):
Assertion (A): In the Absurd plays of Pinter and Beckett, lack of communication
seems to be a predominant theme.
Reason (R): Existentialist philosophy had a tremendous influence on the
dramatists of the period, nihilism and meaninglessness of life taking a front seat.
In the context of the above statements, which one of the following is correct?
(A) Both (A) and (R) are true and (R) is the correct explanation of (A).
(B) Both (A) and (R) are true but (R) is not the correct explanation of (A).
(C) (A) is true but (R) is false.
(D) (A) is false but (R) is true.
Answers: (A)
10. In Beckett’s Waiting for Godo, which character has two pages of
unpunctuated speech?
(A) Estragon
(B) Vladimir
(C) Lucky
(D) Pozzo
Answer: (C)
11.Who makes the following speech in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
“Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the
grave-digger puts on the forceps.”
1. Estragon
2. lucky
3. Vladimir
4. Pozzo
Answer: 3
12.. Which of these characters figure in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot?
A. Estragon
B. Pozzo
C. Bassanio
D. Murphy
Choose the correct answer from the options given below
A- A and B only
B- A and D only,
C- B and C only
D- C and D only
Answer: A