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Mock 17 – Modern & Contemporary British Literature (Part 4)

Unit 1: British Literature · 22 questions · about 26 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

All 20 topic-wise mocks in this unit

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Q1.

Which of the following are novels by David Lodge?

A. The British Museum Is Falling Down
B. The Seven Sisters
C. Changing Places
D. Nice Work
E. Empire of the Sun

AA, B and C only BB, D and E only CA, C and D only DC, D and E only

Q2.

Which of the following characters appear in Waiting for Godot?

A. Estragon
B. Pozzo
C. Bassanio
D. Murphy

AA and B only BB and C only CC and D only DA and D only

Q3.

What is the poem Orlando writes in Virginia Woolf's Orlando?

A'The Evergreen Tree' B'The Poison Tree' C'The Oak Tree' D'The Magic Tree'

Q4.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Essay	List II: Essayist
A. 'The Tory Fox-Hunter'	I. Francis Bacon
B. 'What I Believe'	II. Joseph Addison
C. 'The Death of the Moth'	III. E. M. Forster
D. 'Of Ambition'	IV. Virginia Woolf

AA-I, B-III, C-IV, D-II BA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I CA-II, B-III, C-IV, D-I DA-IV, B-I, C-II, D-III

Q5.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Character	List II: Novel
A. Winston Smith	I. Sons and Lovers
B. Paul Morel	II. Ulysses
C. The 'whisky priest'	III. Nineteen Eighty-Four
D. Leopold Bloom	IV. Decline and Fall
E. Paul Pennyfeather	V. The Power and the Glory

AA-III, B-I, C-V, D-II, E-IV BA-I, B-V, C-II, D-III, E-IV CA-IV, B-III, C-V, D-II, E-I DA-V, B-I, C-IV, D-II, E-III

Q6.

Whose poem inspired Yeats's 'When You Are Old'?

AFrançois Villon BPierre de Ronsard CEdmund Spenser DHeinrich Heine

Q7.

Which of the following are novels by Ian McEwan?

A. Atonement
B. The Man with Two Left Feet
C. The Child in Time
D. The Rachel Papers

AA and C only BB and D only CC and D only DD and A only

Q8.

Which of the following are features of the Theatre of the Absurd?

A. A central role for God
B. Futile, goalless actions
C. Situations pointing to life's meaningfulness
D. An absence of conventional conflict and dramatic tension
E. Characters in stasis or drift, without defined roles

AA, C and E only BB, D and E only CA, B and D only DB, C and D only

Q9.

Which of the following are stage directions in Pinter's The Birthday Party?

A. The living-room of a house in a seaside town
B. A garbage pail beside the porch steps
C. Light from an upstairs bedroom
D. Stanley hangs the drum round his neck, marches and beats it

AA and D only BC and D only CB and C only DA and C only

Q10.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Playwright	List II: Play
A. Sean O'Casey	I. I'm Talking About Jerusalem
B. Dylan Thomas	II. The Winslow Boy
C. Terence Rattigan	III. Juno and the Paycock
D. Arnold Wesker	IV. In the Shadow of the Glen
E. J. M. Synge	V. Under Milk Wood

AA-II, B-I, C-III, D-V, E-IV BA-V, B-IV, C-II, D-I, E-III CA-III, B-V, C-II, D-I, E-IV DA-IV, B-II, C-III, D-V, E-I

Q11.

Which two of the following are interludes in Galsworthy's The Forsyte Saga?

A. To Let
B. Indian Summer of a Forsyte
C. Awakening
D. In Chancery

AA and B only BB and C only CA and C only DB and D only

Q12.

Which two of the following are Virginia Woolf's autobiographical essays?

A. 'A Will to Word It'
B. 'A Sketch of the Past'
C. 'A Faint Hue of the Past'
D. 'Am I a Snob?'

AA and B only BB and C only CA and C only DB and D only

Q13.

Which Larkin poem ends 'Never such innocence again'?

A'An Arundel Tomb' B'This Be the Verse' C'MCMXIV' D'Aubade'

Q14.

Which two of the following are Heaney's 'bog poems'?

A. 'Personal Helicon'
B. 'Punishment'
C. 'The Early Purges'
D. 'The Tollund Man'

AA and B only BB and C only CA and C only DB and D only

Q15.

In Pinter's The Birthday Party, who suggests the party?

AMeg BLulu CGoldberg DMcCann

Q16.

Which of the following are plays by John Osborne?

A. Look Back in Anger
B. Loot
C. Funeral Games
D. Déjàvu

AA and B only BA and C only CA and D only DB and C only

Q17.

Which two of the following poems are dramatic monologues?

A. Tennyson, 'Ulysses'
B. Larkin, 'Church Going'
C. Carol Ann Duffy, 'Medusa'
D. Katherine Philips, 'A Married State'

AA and D only BB and C only CC and D only DA and C only

Q18.

Arrange the following novels in chronological order of publication:

A. Crome Yellow
B. Sons and Lovers
C. Mrs Dalloway
D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

AB, A, D, C BA, B, D, C CA, C, B, D DB, D, A, C

Q19.

Which of the following is most appropriately true of Pinter's plays?

AMenace leads to bloody violence. BMenace is realised through female characters. CMenace is present but never pinned down or explained. DAnarchy follows systematically.

Q20.

Which Larkin poem deals with the trauma of a rape victim?

A'Deceptions' B'Faith Healing' C'Sad Steps' D'Wild Oats'

Q21.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Line	List II: Yeats poem
A. 'Monuments of unageing intellect'	I. 'Leda and the Swan'
B. 'In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart'	II. 'Adam's Curse'
C. 'So mastered by the brute blood of the air'	III. 'Sailing to Byzantium'
D. 'As weary-hearted as that hollow moon'	IV. 'The Circus Animals' Desertion'

AA-III, B-IV, C-II, D-I BA-III, B-I, C-IV, D-II CA-III, B-IV, C-I, D-II DA-II, B-I, C-IV, D-III

Q22.

Which of Heaney's bog poems contains the line 'Murdered, forgotten, nameless, terrible'?

A'Bog Queen' B'The Grauballe Man' C'Punishment' D'Strange Fruit'

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