Deck 2: Literary Trivia: Authors and Their Works

Question 1

The autobiographical novel "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" is being written by__________.

A)d.h lawrence
B)thomas hardy
C)james augustine joyce
D)virginia woolf

Answer 1

james augustine joyce

Question 2

Who coined the word 'Theatre of the Absurd'?

A)albert camus
B)franz kafka
C)martin eslin
D)robert

Answer 2

martin eslin

Question 3

According to Woolf the best way to understand a novel is to---------- what we have read

A)criticize
B)compare
C)write
D)analyse

Answer 3

write

Question 4

Name Joyce's only collection of short stories

A)the dubliners
B)ulysses
C)the portrait
D)araby

Question 5

The short story "Araby" is narrated by

A)a boy
B)an young woman
C)an elderly
D)author

Question 6

Mention the name of pawnbroker's widow in the story "Araby"

A)mrs.mercer
B)mrs. pekker
C)mrs. sampson
D)mrs. heidegger

Question 7

Who wrote the screen play Karel Reisz' Adaptation of " The French Lieutenant's Woman"

A)harold pinter
B)bernard shaw
C)henrik ibsen
D)virginia woolf

Question 8

The short story "The Rocking-Horse Winner" appeared in

A)new lines
B)harper's bazaar
C)horse collections
D)mariner's win

Question 9

The narrative technique usually employed by James Joyce___________.

A)stream of consciousness
B)symbolism
C)imagism
D)modernism

Question 10

Osborne's "Look Back in Anger" was first performed in the year

A)1945
B)1950
C)1954
D)1956

Question 11

The early stories in Joyce's "Dubliners" have -------- as protagonists

A)women
B)irish peasants
C)children
D)mythical characters

Question 12

--------------- is the only play published by James Joyce

A)exiles
B)the dead
C)the black sun
D)chamber music

Question 13

Who among the following is a Movement poet?

A)elizabeth jennings
B)ted hughes
C)t.s eliot
D)w.h auden

Question 14

"Dubliners" was first published in the year

A)1912
B)1914
C)1918
D)1921

Question 15

Stream of Consciousness novel is a product of

A)18 c
B)16c
C)17c
D)20c

Question 16

Virginia Woolf was the daughter of an eminent critic and scholar. Who was he?

A)matthew arnold
B)carlyle
C)john ruskin
D)leslie stephen

Question 17

Who has been called the leader of Angry Young Men?

A)alan sillitoe
B)john wain
C)colin wilson
D)john osborne

Question 18

Yeats was awarded Nobel Prize for Literature in

A)1903
B)1910
C)1917
D)1923

Question 19

Eliot's "Journey of the Magi" occurs in his

A)ariel poems
B)poems (1920)
C)the wasteland
D)four quartets