John Galsworthy MCQs [English Literature & Famous Authors]

Collection of important MCQs on John Galsworthy

The Show is a satire on-

(A) the journalists

(B) religious hypocrisy

(D) the capitalists

Question’s Answer: the journalists

The Escape depicts the pitiable condition of-

(A) the poor labourers who work in the factories

(B) the persons who come out from the jail after completing their term of imprisonment

(D) the convicts who escape from the jails

Question’s Answer: the persons who come out from the jail after completing their term of imprisonment

The Skin Game brings out the conflict between-

(A) industrialists of different industries

(B) landed aristocrats and the industrialists

(D) different political parties

Question’s Answer: landed aristocrats and the industrialists

The Loyalties exposes clash of loyalties towards-

(A) different social classes

(B) regional affiliations

(D) different religious sects

Question’s Answer: different religious sects

The play Justice is a satire on which of the following?

(A) the system of paying wages

(B) the system of imprisonment

(D) the system of social disparity

Question’s Answer: the system of legal trial

Galsworthy writes “Jocelyn” was a _____.

(A) A story

(B) A poem

(D) A novel

Question’s Answer: A novel

Galsworthy writes” Dark Flower” was a _____.

(A) A play

(B) A short story

(D) A story

Question’s Answer: A story

On the models of whose problem plays did John Galsworthy write his plays?

(A) Henrick Ibsen

(B) Arthur Pinero

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: Henrick Ibsen

Galsworthy writes “From the Four Winds” was a _______.

(A) A collection of his verses

(B) A collection of character sketches

(D) A dramatic series

Question’s Answer: A collection of his stories

Galsworthy writes “The White Monkey” was a ____.

(A) A short story

(B) A poem

(D) A play

Question’s Answer: A novel

Galsworthy writes “The Patrician” was a __.

(A) A character-sketch

(B) A novel

(D) A story

Question’s Answer: A play

In which play does David Roberts appear as a leading character?

(A) The Pigeon

(B) The Fugitive

(D) The Strife

Question’s Answer: he Strife

Ann says to her father, “You know what you really are, I suppose, a sickly

sentimentalist.” These lines are taken from which of the following play?

(A) The Pigeon

(B) A Family Man

(D) The Male

Question’s Answer: The Pigeon

In which play is John Barthwick a leading character?

(A) The Pigeon

(B) The Silver Box

(D) The Eldest Son

Question’s Answer: The Silver Box

Galsworthy writes “The stoan” was a ____.

(A) A play

(B) A novel

(D) poem

Question’s Answer: A novel

What is central idea/theme of The Silver Box?

(A) conflict between the rich and the poor

(B) labour and capital conflict

(D) social disparity

Question’s Answer: disparity in law

In which year was Galsworthy awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?

(A) 1930

(B) 1933

(D) 1931

Question’s Answer: 1932

John Galsworthy published some of his early works under a pseudonym. What name

did he assume?

(A) John Sinjohn

(B) John fiebastian

(D) John Semplin

Question’s Answer: John Sinjohn

The play Joy exposes the strain and stress of-

(A) a young girl growing into adulthood

(B) a student completing his educational career

(D) an unemployed young man

Question’s Answer: a young girl growing into adulthood

In which play does Falder appear as the central character?

(A) Loyalties

(B) Justice

(D) The Skin Game

Question’s Answer: Justice

In which play does Stephen More appear as an idealist ?

(A) The Forest

(B) The Skin Game

(D) The Mob

Question’s Answer: The Mob

De Levis and Dancy are the leading characters in which of the following plays? Which

play?

(A) Loyalties

(B) The Eldest Son

(D) Escape

Question’s Answer: Loyalties

In which play is there a conflict between Hillchrist and Hornblower?

(A) Loyalties

(B) The Mob

(D) The Pigeon

Question’s Answer: The Skin Gam

Galsworthy writes “Awakening” was a ___.

(A) A play

(B) A novel

(D) A character-sketch

Question’s Answer: A novel

“Call this justice? What about ‘im? It’s ‘is money got ‘im off-justice!”

In which play do these lines appear?

(A) Justice

(B) The Fugitive

(D) None of these

Question’s Answer: The Silver Box

“Gentlemen, men like the prisoner are destroyed daily under our law for want of that human insight which sees them as they are, patients, and not criminals”.

These lines are taken from which of the following play?

(A) Justice

(B) The Strife

(D) The Fugitive

Question’s Answer: Justice

The central idea/theme of the Strife is-

(A) conflict between the literate and the illiterate

(B) conflict between the rich and the poor.

(D) conflict between labour and capital

Question’s Answer: conflict between labour and capital

The Pigeon exposes the evils of-

(A) dark cells in the prisons

(B) the insanitary conditions in which the workers work in the factories

(D) slums in big cities

Question’s Answer: shelter-homes and poor-homes

The Fugitive exposes the tragedy of-

(A) a young woman who marries an elderly man

(B) a child who is left an orphan

(D) a wife who leaves her husband

Question’s Answer: a wife who leaves her husband

John Galsworthy has treated the idea/theme of law and justice in many of his plays. Why?

(A) because his father was an advocate

(B) because he was interested in stories of crime and punishment

(D) because he had an intimate friend who was a professional detective

Question’s Answer: because he was himself a qualified advocate

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