A Modern Comedy and The End of the Chapter have been written by
(a) Conrad
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) Bennett
(d) John Galsworthy
Question’s Answer: John Galsworthy
Which novel of Galsworthy portrays a miserly London bookseller and is à masterly study of human eccentricity?
(a) Riceyman Steps
(b) Lord Raingo
(c) Clayhanger
(d) Anna of the Pille Towns
Question’s Answer: Riceyman Steps
John Galsworthy was born in the year
(a) 1865
(b) 1871
(c) 1869
(d) 1867
Question’s Answer: 1867
Galsworthy became reputed in 1906 after the publication of
(a) The Man of Property
(b) Indian Summer of a Forsyte
(c) The Silver Box
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: The Man of Property
John Galsworthy was a better
(a) Dramatist
(b) Novelist
(c) Critic
(d) Poet
Question’s Answer: Novelist
In The Man of Property Galsworthy paints the life of
(a) Lower middle class
(b) Middle class
(c) Upper class
(d) Upper middle class
Question’s Answer: Upper middle class
The plays Justice and Loyalties, which are known for their technical
competence and humane feelings have been written by
(a) Beckett
(b) Shaw
(c) Galsworthy
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Galsworthy
Lady Adla is a character in Galsworthy’s
(a) Loyalties
(b) Justice
(c) The Pigeon
(d) The Man of Property
Question’s Answer: Loyalties
The characters of Galsworthy are never drawn from
(a) Aristocratic class
(b) Middle class
(c) Lower class
(d) Upper class
Question’s Answer: Aristocratic class
‘I didn’t come because I feel Christian; I am a Jew. I’ll take no money….
Give it to a charity
These lines occur in
(a) St. Joan
(b) Loyalties
(c) Justice
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Loyalties
Jolyon is a character who appears in Galsworthy’s
(a) The Silver Box
(b) Indian Summer of a Forsyte
(c) The Man of Property
(d) Justice
Question’s Answer: Indian Summer of a Forsyte
Who is author of the Forsyte Saga?
(a) Bennett
(b) Shaw
(c) Galsworthy
(d) H.G. Wells
Question’s Answer: Galsworthy
Which novel of Galsworthy depicts a younger generation, disillusioned by the First World War?
(a) The Man of Property
(b) Indian Summer of a Forsyte
(c) Flowering Wilderness
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Flowering Wilderness
Galsworthy became the first President of P.E.N. Club in
(a) 1922
(b) 1921
(c) 1923
(d) 1924
Question’s Answer: 1921
The Pigeon is a well known play written by
(a) Galsworthy
(b) Oscar Wilde
(c) Shaw
(d) J.M. Barrie
Question’s Answer: Galsworthy
Galsworthy had close friendship with
(a) Bennett
(b) Chesterton
(c) Conrad
(d) Butler
Question’s Answer: Conrad
Which was Galsworthy’s first publication?
(a) The Silver Box
(b) From the Four Winds
(c) The Island Pharisees
(d) The Man of Property
Question’s Answer: The Island Pharisees
Which play of Galsworthy was immediately accepted by Shaw and H.G. Barker and was produced at the
Court Theatre in 1906?
(a) Loyalties
(b) Justice
(c) The Skin Game
(d) The Silver Box
Question’s Answer: The Silver Box
Which play of Galsworthy was first staged?
(a) Loyalties
(b) The Skin Game
(c) Justice
(d) The Fugitive
Question’s Answer: The Skin Game
Galsworthy was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature In
(a) 1930
(b) 1931
(c) 1932
(d) 1933
Question’s Answer: 1932
G.B. Shaw was born in Dublin in
(a) 1854
(b) 1860
(c) 1858
(d) 1856
Question’s Answer: 1856
‘He has improved philosophic discussions by making them more popular. But he has also improved
popular amusements by making them more philosophic.’
This remark of Chesterton applies to
(a) Beckett
(c) Shaw
(b) Galsworthy
(d) Barrie
Question’s Answer: Shaw
“I am a typical Irishman. My family came from Yorkshire” Who has said this?
(A) Shaw
(b) Galsworthy
(c) Bennett
(d) Beckett
Question’s Answer: Shaw
Shaw’s first comedy was
(a) Pygmalion
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Widower’s House
(d) Candida
Question’s Answer: Widower’s House
Which dramatist has given the philosophy of Life Forve?
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) Oscar Wilde
(e) John Galsworthy
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: G.B. Shaw
Eugene Marchbanks, a Shavian character, appears in the play
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Major Barbara
(d) Candida
Question’s Answer: Candida
Which work of G.B. Shaw opened the religious phase in his career?
(a) Back to Methuselah
(b) The Doctor’s Dilemma
(c) Major Barbara
(d) Arms and the Man
Question’s Answer: Back to Methuselah
Which play of Shaw is considered to be the most Ibsen like play?
(a) Pygmalion
(b) St. Joan
(c) Widower’s House
(d) Candida
Question’s Answer: Candida
The dramatic career of Shaw began. with
(a) Man and Superman
(b) St. Joan
(c) Pygmalion
(d) Widower’s House
Question’s Answer: Widower’s House
The Concept of ‘Life Force’ displayed in Man and Superman is indicative of Shaw’s
(a) Atheism
(b) Theism
(c) Realism
(d) Idealism
Question’s Answer: Theism
In which of Shaw’s plays, there is a reference of three wen discussing a historical probite?
(a) Arms and the Man
(b) Candida
(c) Pygmalion
(d) Saint Joan
Question’s Answer: Saint Joan
Problem plays deal with
(a) Problems of humanism
(b) Ethical problems
(c) Moral problems
(d) Social problems
Question’s Answer: Social problems
‘I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinions.’
This is a statement of
(a) Samuel Butler
(b) G.B. Shaw
(c) Arnold Bennett
(d) Joseph Conrad
Question’s Answer: G.B. Shaw
Which play of Shaw was staged only in America?
(a) The Devil’s Disciple
(b) Back to Methuselah
(c) The Doctor’s Dilemma
(d) Caesar and Cleopatra
Question’s Answer: The Devil’s Disciple
There is an Interlude in
(a) The Apple Cart
(b) St. Joan
(c) Candida
(d) Pygmalion
Question’s Answer: The Apple Cart
In which play of Shaw, a Professor changes the life of a flower girl?
(a) Widower’s House
(b) Candida
(c) Pygmalion
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: Pygmalion
Which play of Shaw has a soldier as its central character?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Major Barbara
(d) St. Joan
Question’s Answer: Arms and the Man
In which play Shaw dramatizes the Greek myth of a sculptor who fell in love with an ivory statue, which at his prayer was changed into a living
woman?
(a) St. Joan
(b) Major Barbara
(c) Pygmalion
(d) Candida
Question’s Answer: Pygmalion
Which play of Shaw has the sub-title ‘A Comedy and a Philosophy”?
(a) tMan and Superman
(b) The Apple Car
(c) Arms and the Man
(d) St. Joan
Question’s Answer: Man and Superman
Which play of Shaw was transformed into a movie?
(a) Candida
(b) St. Joan
(c) Pygmalion
(d) Man and Superman
Question’s Answer: Pygmalion
King Magnus appears in Shaw’s play
(a) Pygmalion
(b) Candida
(c) The Apple Cart
(d) Man and Superman
Question’s Answer: The Apple Cart
No man is a match for a woman except with a poker and a pair of
hobnailed boots…! These lines occur in Shaw’s play
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Major Barbara
(c) Candida
(d) Arms and the Man
Question’s Answer: Man and Superman
‘Life levels all men; death reveals the eminent.’ Who has said this?
(a) Rudyard Kipling
(b) John Masefield
(c) G.B. Shaw
(d) Joseph Conrad
Question’s Answer: G.B. Shaw
Jack Tanner is a character in Shaw’s
(a) Major Barbara
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) Pygmalion
(d) Man and Superman
Question’s Answer: Man and Superman
Which has the longest span of life?
(a) G.B. Shaw
(b) H.G. Wells
(c) John Galsworthy
(d) Rudyard Kipling
Question’s Answer: G.B. Shaw
Which play of Shaw deals with the theme of prostitution?
(a) Candida
(b) Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(c) Caesar and Cleopatra
(d) Pygmalion
Question’s Answer: Mrs. Warren’s Profession
In which play of Shaw there is fusion of social economic theory with human interest?
(a) The Doctor’s Dilemma
(b) Arms and the Man
(c) You Never Can Tell
(d) Major Barbara
Question’s Answer: Major Barbara
Which character in St. Joan has been called the ‘most effective piece of
character creation”?
(a) Dauphin
(b) The Earl of Warwick
(c) Captain Robert
(d) Cauchon,the Bishop of Beauvais
Question’s Answer: Dauphin
In St. Joan, Joan tried to free the land of France from the English armies in the
(a) 14th century
(b) 17th century
(c) 16th century
(d) 15th century
Question’s Answer: 15th century
In St. Joan, Joan is the daughter of a
(a) Teacher
(b) Doctor
(c) Farmer
(d) Businessman
Question’s Answer: Farmer
The theme of which play of Shaw has been taken from Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle?
(a) Pygmalion
(b) Widower’s House
(c) Candida
(d) Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Question’s Answer: Pygmalion
Octavius is a famous character of
(a) John Galsworthy
(b) James M. Barrie
(c) Conrad
(d) John GalsworthyShaw
Question’s Answer: Shaw
In which play Shaw presents social crisis and has used his study of Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard?
(a) Man and Superman
(b) Heartbreak House
(c) Androcles and the Lion
(d) Back to Methuselah
Question’s Answer: Heartbreak House
Shaw has depicted Joan of Arc in his play
(a) Major Barbara
(b) Pygmalion
(c) The Apple Cart
(d) None of A, B, and C
Question’s Answer: None of A, B, and C