1. Kenneth Allsop referred to a group of writers from the late 1950s as full of “irreverence, stridency, vulgarity resentment against the cultivated.” They were called:
(A) New drama
(B) Angry Young Men
(C) The Theatre of Cruelty
(D) The Theatre of Revolt
2. What was presented by “The Angry Young Men?”
(A) Frustration and deprivation
(B) Post war reforms
(C) A sense of alienation
(D) Betrayal and futility
3. Osborne’s later plays show:
(A) Anger
(B) Anger as a matter of the past
(C) More disgruntled than angry
(D) Acceptance of the world order
4. The post-Second World War drama presents:
(A) War related problems predicament
(B) Crisis of human
(C) Economic questions
(D) Fate of nations
5. Which is the most famous play of this movement?
(A) Room at the Top
(B) Look Back in Anger
(C) The Outsider
(D) Lucky Jim
6. Today, Look Back in Anger is:
(A) Manifestation of post-Second World War phenomenon
(B) A voice of dissent
(C) A comment of non-redressal of working-class grievances
(D) A social critique
7. What was presented by “Angry Young Men?”
(A) Jaded aristocracy
(B) Lower middle class and working class
(C) War machinery
(D) Rich business class
8. In Look Back in Anger Jimmy Porter is:
(A) The hero
(B) Unrealistic mouthpiece protagonist
(C) The playwright’s
(D) The anti-hero
9. Look Back in Anger is:
(A) A significant drama
(B) A great theatre experience
(C) A harbinger of a revolution in English drama
(D) A good book
10. Who has been identified as the Angry Young Men’s leader?
(A) Alan Sillitoe
(B) John Osborne
(C) Colin Wilson
(D) John Wain
11. Why is Look Back in Anger considered a classic?
(A) Because it was taken as a revolt
(B) Because it shook the foundation of pro-aristocracy governance
(C) Because it was an attack on British complacency
(D) Because it awakened the policymakers from their slumber
12. The Entertainer and Luther lacked:
(A) Force and vigour
(B) The anger of his first play
(C) Commitment
(D) Smouldering anger
13. The Theatre of Absurd is marked by:
(A) Funny situations
(B) Divinity
(C) Human conflicts
(D) Surprise and shock
14. The Kitchen-sink drama is marked by:
(A) Neo-realism
(B) Domestic life
(C) Kitchen scenes
(D) Pseudo-realism
15. The comedy of menace and dark comedy were written in:
(A) 18th century
(B) 19th century
(C) Mid-twentieth century and after
(D) Early twentieth century during First World War
16. What label is linked with Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Arthur Adamov, and Jean Genet?
(A) The Theatre of Revolt
(B) The Theatre of Cruelty
(C) The Theatre of Paradox
(D) The Theatre of the Absurd
17. Waiting for Godot was published in:
(A) 1960
(B) 1951
(C) 1952
(D) 1956
18. The Theatre of Absurd is linked with:
(A) Sartre
(B) Osborne
(C) Samuel Beckett
(D) Wesker
19. Who uses labels like “Kitchen-sink drama,” “Absurd drama,” “Comedy of menace,” “Dark comedy,” and “Drama of cruelty?”
(A) Journalists
(B) Playwrights
(C) Men of literature
(D) Drama critics
20. Who first used the term “The Theatre of the Absurd?”
(A) John Russell Taylor
(B) Laurence Kitchin
(C) Martin Esslin
(D) Hugh Kenner
21. Who among the following dramatists is known for his comedy of menace?
(A) Arthur Adamov
(B) Eugene Ionesco
(C) Harold Pinter
(D) Jean Genet
22. In Waiting for Godot, the arrival of the boy serves as a symbol of:
(A) Hope deferred
(B) Final salvation
(C) Utter despair
(D) Knowledge and wisdom
23. In Waiting for Godot, the tramps’ inability to leave signifies:
(A) Their contentment with life
(B) Their free will
(C) Their existential paralysis
(D) Their devotion to Godot
24. What aspect of human life does Samuel Beckett mainly depict in Waiting for Godot?
(A) Material success
(B) Religious awakening
(C) Absurdity and meaninglessness
(D) Political revolution
25. The characters Vladimir and Estragon mainly engage in which activity throughout Waiting for Godot?
(A) Fighting
(B) Sleeping
(C) Waiting
(D) Singing
26. Samuel Beckett originally wrote Waiting for Godot in which language?
(A) English
(B) French
(C) German
(D) Irish
27. Which term best describes Waiting for Godot in terms of genre?
(A) Realistic drama
(B) Theatre of the Absurd
(C) Naturalism
(D) Expressionism
28. What is a major theme in Harold Pinter’s plays?
(A) The horrors of war
(B) The collapse of language and communication
(C) Celebration of human spirit
(D) Mystical revelations
29. In The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, the protagonist suffers from:
(A) Paranoia and persecution
(B) Financial distress
(C) Romantic betrayal
(D) Religious doubt
30. The tone of Waiting for Godot can best be described as:
(A) Solemn and tragic
(B) Darkly comic and bleak
(C) Romantic and hopeful
(D) Ironic and satirical
31. What happens to Daisy before Berenger also discovers his own skin turning green and thick and growth of horns?
(A) She leaves the town to escape her change into rhinoceros
(B) Nothing happens to Daisy
(C) She is unaffected by this mysterious transformation
(D) She also shows signs of transformation and joins the herd
32. What is the relationship of Stanley with Meg?
(A) Motherly
(B) Caretaker and guest
(C) Man-woman love despite age difference
(D) Full of motherliness, almost incestuous
33. Goldberg and McCann are sinister visitors who intimidate Stanley by:
(A) Blocking his exit
(B) Taking away his glasses leaving him almost blind
(C) Beating him
(D) Forcing him to play blind man’s buff
34. The autobiography of Jean Genet is known as:
(A) A Hall of Mirrors
(B) The Thief’s Journal
(C) Saint Genet
(D) The Lesson
35. What is a perpetual image of man that Genet presents in his plays?
(A) Man in a hall of mirrors, distorted perception
(B) Man is vulnerable
(C) Man in solitude
(D) Caged man
36. Harold Pinter turned a commonplace situation into:
(A) One invested with menace, dread and mystery
(B) An experience of hell
(C) A claustrophobic experience
(D) One with existential dimension
37. Berenger’s transformation in Rhinoceros shows:
(A) The whole town has been transformed into rhinoceros
(B) Interchange in nature
(C) Regeneration
(D) Insensitivity of man
38. The Room presents:
(A) A situation with two people in a room
(B) The two people in the room who are afraid of overbearing outside world
(C) The world outside full of apprehensions
(D) The idea that the room is a refuge
39. The house may have many rooms, but the room in which Rose is provides her with:
(A) Bondage
(B) Limitations
(C) Security and warmth
(D) Her domain however bad it may be
40. What is the focal point of The Room?
(A) The door which may open ushering in someone with lurking danger
(B) The window
(C) The characters huddled together awaiting disaster
(D) The fireplace