Deck 1: Literature and Drama: Authors and Terminology

Question 1

Who is the author of the work 'Poetics"?

A)aristotle
B)plato
C)socrates
D)homer

Answer 1

aristotle

Question 2

Who is the author of the work "Republic"?

A)aristotle
B)plato
C)socrates
D)homer

Answer 2

plato

Question 3

Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as ------

A)poetica
B)hymns
C)chantings
D)dithyrambs.

Answer 3

dithyrambs.

Question 4

Eliot's play 'Murder in the Cathedral' imbibes the conventions of --------- drama.

A)greek
B)roman
C)italian
D)indian.

Question 5

The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with -------

A)the absurd drama
B)the epic theatre
C)comedy of humours
D)feminist theatre

Question 6

The term drama is derived from the Greek word------------.

A)dran
B)dram.
C)darn.
D)drame.

Question 7

Drama originated in ancient---------

A)Greece
B) Italy
C) Rome
D) India

Question 8

Milton's "Comus " is a ---------

A)masque
B)farce
C)elegy
D)epic

Question 9

The term 'denoumnet' refers to ---------in a play.

A)the rising action
B)the falling action
C)the climax
D)none of these.

Question 10

The French term for 'unknotting' ----------

A)denouement
B)due ex machina
C)decorum
D)none of these.

Question 11

The term -------- is applied to the falling action in a tragedy

A)catastrophe
B)catharsis
C)crisis
D)none of these

Question 12

The term anagnorisis means ----------

A)recognition
B)reversal
C)both "a' and "b"
D)neither "a" nor "b"

Question 13

The term peripetia means----------

A)recognition
B)reversal
C)both "a' and "b"
D)neither "a" nor "b"

Question 14

In Greek drama, the hero is called------

A)the protagonist
B)a foil
C)a confidant
D)none of these.

Question 15

---------is someone in whom the central character confides

A)the protagonist
B)a foil
C)a confidant
D)none of these.

Question 16

Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called ------

A)stock characters.
B)round characters
C)flat characters
D)fools.

Question 17

A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright is called--------

A)raisonneur
B)confidant
C)stock character
D)foil.

Question 18

Plato was the most celebrated disciple of -----

A)socrates
B)aristotle
C)aristophanes
D)none of the above

Question 19

Which among the following books contains Plato's ideas?

A)poetics
B)the new atlantis
C)on the sublime
D)republic

Question 20

Who is the author of "Dialogues"

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)longinus
D)francis bacon

Question 21

Art, according to ---------is twice removed from reality

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)longinus
D)francis bacon

Question 22

Who said "the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote the well-being of the state"

A)plato
B)aristotle
C)longinus
D)francis bacon

Question 23

Plato's view of art is closely bound up with his theory of ------

A)rasa
B)ideas
C)sublimity
D)decorum

Question 24

Who is the author of the book "Rhetoric"

A)socrates
B)aristotle
C)aristophanes
D)plato

Question 25

Who is the author of the book "Poetics"

A)aristotle
B)aristophanes
C)plato
D)socrates