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Which of the following poems is written by Oliver Goldsmith?  \n(A) A Deserted Village  \n(B) A Deserted Villa  \n(C) The Deserted Village  \n(D) A Deserted City  \n3. Tribute to Papa is a book of poems written by (A) Kamala Das  \n(B) Mamta Kalia  \n(C) Suniti Namjoshi  \n(D) Meena Alexander  \n4. Which of the following poems is not written by Sylvia Plath?(A) Lady Lazarus (B) Ariel  \n(C) Daddy  \n(D) To Airtel  \n5. Robert Burns was born in  \n(A) Scotland  \n(B) England  \n(C) Ireland  \n(D) America  \n6. Who among the following characters personifies necessity in P. B. Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound?  \n(A) Prometheus  \n(B) Demogorgon  \n(C) Jove  \n(D) Jeus  \n[www.aifer.in](www.aifer.in) 8  \nTo get free NTA NET study materials send \"JOIN\" Via WhatsApp 8714818851  \n7. Who among the following, after watching the performance of William Shakespeare’s play, A Midsummer Night's Dream, observed that “it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life.”  \n(A) John Evelyn  \n(B) Samuel Pepys  \n(C) John Dryden  \n(D) Robert Greene  \n8. Name the playwright who wrote the play Epicoene, or the Silent Woman?  \n(A) William Congreve  \n(B) Thomas Kyd  \n(C) Ben Jonson  \n(D) Thomas Farquhar  \n9. Abhijnanasakuntalam makes use of the following four languages  \n(A) Sanskrit, Shauraseni, Tamil and Maharshtri  \n(B) Sanskrit, Shauraseni, Pali and Oriya  \n(C) Sanskrit, Brajabuli, Maharashtri and Magdhi  \n(D) Sanskrit, Shauraseni, Maharashtri and Magdhi  \n10. Choose from the following options the correct combination of playwrights who contributed to the movement called “Kitchen Sink Drama”.  \n(A) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden  \n(B) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Harold Pinter and Shelagh Delaney  \n(C) John Osborne, Arnold Wesker, Antonin Artaud and John Arden  \n(D) John Osborne, Harold Pinter, Shelagh Delaney and John Arden  \n11. Choose from the following options the correct combination of the plays which made significant use of expressionistic techniques:  \n(A) The Hairy Ape, Machinal, All My Sons, Waiting for Lefty  \n(B) The Hairy Ape, The Crucible, Rapid Transit, The Adding Machine  \n(C) The Hairy Ape, Rapid Transit, All My Sons, The Adding Machine  \n(D) The Hairy Ape, The Emperor Jones, Rapid Transit, The Adding Machine  \n12. Apart from Bertolt Brecht others who have influenced Epic theatre are:  \n(A) Erwin Piscator and Antonin Artaud  \n(B) Martin Esslin and Max Reinhardt  \n(C) Erwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt  \n(D) Constantin Stanislavski and Max Reinhardt  \n13. The theological treatise Ecclesiastical Polity was written by   .  \n(A) Richard Hakluyt  \n(B) Francis Bacon  \n(C) Raphael Holinshed  \n(D) Richard Hooker  \n[www.aifer.in](www.aifer.in) 9  \nTo get free NTA NET study materials send \"JOIN\" Via WhatsApp 8714818851  \n14. Who wrote the popular instruction manual for fishermen titled The Compleat Angler, or The Contemplative Man's Recreation?  \n(A) Isaac Walton  \n(B) Jeremy Taylor  \n(C) Richard Baxter  \n(D)Thomas Hobbes.  \n15. What did Matthew Arnold imply by the term “Hebraism” in his Culture and Anarchy?  \n(A) Moral education  \n(B) Intellectual autonomy  \n(C) Rational outlook  \n(D) Pragmatic attitude  \n16. The journal Scrutiny was founded in 1932 by (A) I. A. Richards  \n(B) F. R. Leavis  \n(C) Cleanth Brooks  \n(D) John Crowe Ransom  \n17. Samuel Pepys’ claim to fame rests on his  \n(A) Biography  \n(B) Autobiography  \n(C) Diary  \n(D) Speculative Fiction  \n18. Dr Primrose is a character in  \n(A) Nicholas Nickleby  \n(B) Adam Bede  \n(C) The Vicar of Wakefield  \n(D) Joseph Andrews  \n","cbCaibapvZK9zRs6","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibapvZK9zRs6","pdf",345457,24,"English","# Questions\n## Multiple-choice literature and theatre prompts","[{\"question\":\"What types of topics are covered in these English Literature PYQ questions?\",\"answer\":\"They cover poems and their authors, novel excerpt identification, playwright and character recognition, and literary movements or concepts related to theatre and criticism.\"},{\"question\":\"How many questions are listed in the provided shift material?\",\"answer\":\"The excerpt contains questions numbered 1 through 27.\"},{\"question\":\"Which concept is tested by asking about the science that studies the function of signs?\",\"answer\":\"The question asks about the science known as Semiology.\"}]","English Literature PYQ - March 2023 Shift 1 | PDF"]