Collection of important MCQs on John Galsworthy
The Show is a satire on-
(A) the journalists
(B) religious hypocrisy
(C) the Labour Unions
(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
(C) the miserable life of women in their homes
(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
(C) the industrialists and the bureaucrats
(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
(C) different benefactors who are opposed to each other
(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
(C) the system of legal trial
(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
(C) A play
(D) A novel
Question’s Answer: A novel
Galsworthy writes” Dark Flower” was a _____.
(A) A play
(B) A short story
(C) A poem
(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
(C) Henry Arthur Jones
(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
(C) A collection of his stories
(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
(C) A novel
(D) A play
Question’s Answer: A novel
Galsworthy writes “The Patrician” was a __.
(A) A character-sketch
(B) A novel
(C) A play
(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
(C) The Silver Box
(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
(C) The Strife
(D) The Male
Question’s Answer: The Pigeon
In which play is John Barthwick a leading character?
(A) The Pigeon
(B) The Silver Box
(C) The Strife
(D) The Eldest Son
Question’s Answer: The Silver Box
Galsworthy writes “The stoan” was a ____.
(A) A play
(B) A novel
(C) A short story
(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
(C) disparity in law
(D) social disparity
Question’s Answer: disparity in law
In which year was Galsworthy awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature?
(A) 1930
(B) 1933
(C) 1932
(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
(C) John Simpkins
(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
(C) a woman unhappily married
(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
(C) The Silver Box
(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
(C) Loyalties
(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
(C) The Pigeon
(D) Escape
Question’s Answer: Loyalties
In which play is there a conflict between Hillchrist and Hornblower?
(A) Loyalties
(B) The Mob
(C) The Skin Game
(D) The Pigeon
Question’s Answer: The Skin Gam
Galsworthy writes “Awakening” was a ___.
(A) A play
(B) A novel
(C) A poem
(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
(C) The Silver Box
(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
(C) The Silver Box
(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.
(C) conflict between different religious sects
(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
(C) shelter-homes and poor-homes
(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
(C) a young widow
(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
(C) because he was himself a qualified advocate
(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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