1. 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
2. The principal idea/theme of Saint Joan is:
(A) Martyrdom of a saint
(B) Religion and Faith
(C) Reason Vs. Religion
(D) Atheism
3. 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
4. Arms and the Man is a satire on:
(A) Love and Marriage
(B) War and Heroism
(C) Matrimonial maladjustment
(D) War and mutual hostility
5. The phrase Don Juan in Hell is part of Shaw’s:
(A) St. Joan
(B) Man and Superman
(C) Back to Methuselah
(D) Caesar and Cleopatra
6. Shaw was primarily a:
(A) Novelist
(B) Dramatist
(C) Social Critic
(D) Journalist
7. 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
8. One of Shaw’s plays was proscribed on the charge of obscenity. Which play?
(A) Widowers’ Houses
(B) The Philanderer
(C) Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(D) Heartbreak House
9. Shaw refinished one of the plays of Shakespeare. Which?
(A) The Tempest
(B) Cymbeline
(C) The Winter’s Tale
(D) Pericles
10. 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
11. Which play is not created and written by Shaw?
(A) You Never Can Tell
(B) Getting Married
(C) Major Barbara
(D) The Skin Game
12. Name the last novel written by Shaw:
(A) An Unsocial Socialist
(B) Immaturity
(C) The Irrational Knot
(D) Love Among the Artists
13. 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
14. 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
15. In which year was Shaw awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(A) 1925
(B) 1927
(C) 1930
(D) 1932
16. In which of Shaw’s plays does the “Chocolate Cream Hero” appear?
(A) Arms and the Man
(B) St. Joan
(C) Man and Superman
(D) Candida
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
