Collection of important MCQs on George Bernard Shaw
Shaw’s The Dark Lady of the Sonnets is:
(A) a novel
(B) a full-length drama
(C) a short story
(D) a one-act play
The principal idea/theme of Saint Joan is:
(A) Martyrdom of a saint
(B) Religion and Faith
(C) Reason Vs. Religion
(D) Atheism
Caesar and Cleopatra exposes:
(A) The hollowness of sexual love
(B) The hollowness of feminine beauty
(C) The hollowness of hero-worship
(D) The snares of beauty
Arms and the Man is a satire on:
(A) Love and Marriage
(B) War and Heroism
(C) Matrimonial maladjustment
(D) War and mutual hostility
The phrase ‘Don Juan in Hell’ is part of Shaw’s:
(A) St. Joan
(C) Back to Methuselah
(B) Man and Superman
(D) Caesar and Cleopatra
Shaw was primarily a :
(A) Novelist
(B) Dramatist
(C) Social Critic
(D) Journalist
What is the central idea/theme of Shaw’s Mrs. Warren’s Profession?
(A) Problem of Orphans
(B) Social Service
(C) Nursing profession
(D) Prostitution
One of Shaw’s plays was proscribed on the charge of obscenity. Which
plays?
(A) Widowers’ Houses
(B) The Philanderer
(C) Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(D) Heartbreak House
Shaw refinished one of the plays of Shakespeare. Which?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Cymbeline
(C) The Winter’s Tale
(D) Pericles
What is the central idea/theme of the play The Apple Cart?
(A) The working of Democracy
(B) The working of Monarchy
(C) The working of Autocracy
(D) The working of Theocracy
Which plays is not created and written by Shaw?
(A) You Never Can Tell
(B) Getting Married
(C) Major Barbara
(D) The Skin Game
Name the last novel written by Shaw:
(A) An Unsocial Socialist
(B) Immaturity
(C) The Irrational Knot
(D) Love Among the Artists
At least in one respect Shaw was a greater dramatist than Shakespeare. In what respect?
(A) Shaw was more entertaining than Shakespeare
(B) Shaw wrote more plays than Shakespeare
(C) Shaw was a greater social critic than Shakespeare
(D) Shaw has a more variety of characters than Shakespeare
What reward was given to Shaw as a literary figure?
(A) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
(B) He was appointed the Poet Laureate of England
(C) He was awarded the Order of Merit
(D) He was Knighted
In which year was Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(A) 1925
(B) 1927
(C) 1930
(D) 1932
In which of Shaw’s plays the “Chocolate Cream Hero” appears?
(A) Arms and the Man
(B) St. Joan
(C) Man and Superman
(D) Candida
What is the central idea/theme of Shaw’s Man and Superman?.
(A) Man’s evolution into Superman
(B) The latent faculties of man
(C) The woman’s search for a fitting man
(D) Godly spark in man
Which of Shaw’s plays was first filmed?
(A) How He Lied to Her Husband
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Arms and the Man
(D) Back to Methuselah
Shaw said, “For art’s sake alone I would not face the toil of writing a single sentence.”
Which literary theory was Shaw opposing by this remark?
(A) The Theory of Art for Art’s Sake
(B) The Theory of Art for Life’s Sake
(C) The Theory of Negative Capability
(D) The Theory of Objective Correlative
The central idea/theme of Shaw’s novel Love Among the Artists is:
(A) Love of Music
(B) Love of Painting
(C) Love of Dancing
(D) Love of Acting
What is Shaw’s Village Wooing?
(A) A short story
(B) An article published in a Periodical
(C) A One-Act play
(D) A tale in Verse
Shaw once wrote, “I write plays with the deliberate purpose to convert the nation to my opinion.”
What does this statement signify?
(A) That Shaw was a proud and haughty person
(B) That Shaw was an egoist
(C) That Shaw was a social reformer
(D) That Shaw was a powerful dramatist
The Prefaces of Shaw are significant because:
(A) They explain the central thought of the play concerned
(B) They explain Shaw’s Theory of drama
(C) Without these Prefaces his plays cannot be properly understood
(D) These Prefaces help the Producers of the plays to present them on the stage
Shaw drew his ideas for his play Man and Superman from the philosophical doctrines of which of the following?
(A) Bergson
(B) Spencer
(C) Nietzche
(D) Bradley
How many novels has G.B. Shaw written ?
(A) Three
(B) Four
(C) Five
(D) Six
What is Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist ?
(A) A long treatise on Socialism in prose
(B) A novel
(C) A play
(D) A political article
The film version of Pygmalion is:
(A) The Sound of Music
(B) The Sound and Fury
(C) My Fair Lady
(D) Come September
The idea/theme of Shaw’s Misalliance is:
(A) Man-Woman Relationship
(B) Parent-Child Relationship
(C) Both (A) and (B)
(D) None of the above
Shaw’s plays are famous as:
(A) Plays of ideas
(B) Plays of propaganda
(C) Plays of prophetic vision
(D) Plays of negative criticism
Professor Higgins appears in:
(A) Pygmalion
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Back to Methuselah
(D) Heartbreak House
In Which plays does G.B. Shaw attack Darwinism?
(A) You Never Can Tell
(B) Back to Methuselah
(C) Man and Superman
(D) St. Joan
What is the basic idea/theme of Pygmalion?
(A) Phonetics and Pronunciation
(B) Grammar and Language
(C) Learning of a Foreign Language
(D) Teaching Methods
Shaw’s concept of Life Force is best enunciated in:
(A) Arms and the Man
(B) Candida
(C) Man and Superman
(D) Back to Methuselah
Name the first novel written by G.B. Shaw?
(A) Immaturity
(B) The Irrational Knot
(C) Love Among the Artists
(D) An Unsocial Socialist
Which is a play written by Shaw?
(A) The Patrician
(B) Heartbreak House
(C) A Modern Lover
(D) Sweeney Agonistes
George Bernard Shaw books names
| Mrs. Warren’s Profession | 1893 |
| Arms and the Man | 1894 |
| Candida | 1894 |
| The Devil’s Disciple | 1897 |
| Caesar and Cleopatra | 1898 |
| Man and Superman | 1903 |
| Major Barbara | 1905 |
| The Doctor’s Dilemma | 1906 |
| Pygmalion | 1912 |
| Heartbreak House | 1919 |
| Saint Joan | 1923 |
| Back to Methuselah | 1921 |
| The Intelligent Woman’s Guide to Socialism and Capitalism | 1928 |
George Bernard Shaw Basic info
| Full Name | George Bernard Shaw |
| Birthdate | July 26, 1856 |
| Birthplace | Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Occupation | Playwright, critic, polemicist |
| Notable Works | “Pygmalion,” “Man and Superman,” “Saint Joan” |
| Literary Style | Witty, satirical, social commentary |
| Nobel Prize | Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) |
| Political Views | Socialist, advocate for social reform |
| Death Date | November 2, 1950 |
| Death Place | Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England |
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