English · UNIT 02 · MOCK TEST

Mock 4 – European & World Literature

Unit 2: American and World Literature · 28 questions · about 33 minutes. Press End Mock any time to see your score and the correct answers.

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Q1.

Herder, Goethe and Schiller experimented with new subjective modes of expression as part of:

Athe Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement Bthe hermeneutic circle Cthe French Revolution Da religious movement

Q2.

Which was Hugo Gernsback's science-fiction magazine, the first of its kind?

ATime and the Conways BHenceforward CNew Worlds DAmazing Stories

Q3.

Arrange the following works by Dostoevsky in chronological order:

A. Notes from Underground
B. Crime and Punishment
C. The Idiot
D. The Brothers Karamazov
E. Poor Folk

AB, C, E, A, D BE, A, B, C, D CA, B, C, D, E DC, A, D, B, E

Q4.

What is the main thrust of Sartre's strongly worded reply to Camus's The Rebel?

ARejection of spiritualistic elements BRenunciation of historical responsibility and commitment CAn ethic of narrative DThe problem of bad faith

Q5.

Choose the correct option in the light of the statement: 'The fact that I am a black working-class man shapes how I see the world more than anything I consciously learn.'

A. Human beings can freely choose intellectually and morally.
B. The unconscious determines thought and behaviour.
C. Man is condemned to be free.
D. We carry a kind of 'otherness' within ourselves.
E. We can no longer speak unequivocally of a writer's intention.

A(B), (D) and (E) only B(A), (B) and (C) only C(C), (D) and (E) only D(A), (B) and (E) only

Q6.

'All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' This is the opening line of:

AAnna Karenina BWar and Peace CNineteen Eighty-Four DJane Eyre

Q7.

'I am a sick man… I am a spiteful man. I am an unattractive man. I believe my liver is diseased.' These are the opening lines of:

ALove in the Time of Cholera BDostoevsky's Notes from Underground CCamus's The Plague DDefoe's A Journal of the Plague Year

Q8.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Story	List II: Author
A. 'A Simple Heart'	I. Joseph Conrad
B. 'An Outpost of Progress'	II. Gustave Flaubert
C. 'Six Feet of the Country'	III. R. K. Narayan
D. 'A Horse and Two Goats'	IV. Nadine Gordimer

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

Q9.

Arrange the following writers by date of birth:

A. Goethe
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Bertolt Brecht
D. Eugene O'Neill
E. Molière

AA, B, D, C, E BB, E, A, C, D CC, D, A, B, E DE, A, B, D, C

Q10.

Which two plays by Chekhov make creative use of Hamlet?

A. The Proposal
B. Three Sisters
C. The Cherry Orchard
D. Uncle Vanya
E. The Seagull

AA and D only BC and E only CB and D only DB and E only

Q11.

Which of the following are plays by Bertolt Brecht?

A. The Caucasian Chalk Circle
B. Life of Galileo
C. Copernicus
D. Archimedes
E. Man Equals Man

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

Q12.

Who wrote The Flies, an adaptation of the Electra myth?

AJean-Paul Sartre BEdward Bond CAlbert Camus DT. S. Eliot

Q13.

Which of the following author–text pairs are correct?

A. Ian McEwan – Amsterdam
B. Italo Calvino – If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
C. Amitav Ghosh – The Circle of Reason
D. D. M. Thomas – The Everest Hotel
E. Doris Lessing – The Testaments

AA, B and C only BA, B and E only CB, C and D only DC, D and E only

Q14.

Besides Brecht, which two figures influenced epic theatre?

AErwin Piscator and Antonin Artaud BMartin Esslin and Max Reinhardt CErwin Piscator and Max Reinhardt DConstantin Stanislavski and Max Reinhardt

Q15.

Statement I: Stanislavski collaborated with Chekhov in staging his plays. Statement II: My Life in Art was written by Stanislavski.

ABoth Statement I and Statement II are true BBoth Statement I and Statement II are false CStatement I is true but Statement II is false DStatement I is false but Statement II is true

Q16.

Which of the following author–title pairs are correct?

A. Gabriel García Márquez – The Feast of the Goat
B. Jorge Luis Borges – The Autumn of the Patriarch
C. Salman Rushdie – The Enchantress of Florence
D. E. L. Doctorow – Ragtime
E. A. S. Byatt – Possession

AA, B and C only BA, B and E only CB, C and D only DC, D and E only

Q17.

García Márquez's postscript to The General in His Labyrinth, on Bolívar's last journey (1830), is an example of:

Areading the archive and using its contents Bprocessing archival information for theoretical judgement Cthe irrelevance of the archive for an artist Da novelist misled by the archive

Q18.

What did Brecht call his drama, to distinguish it from traditional theatre?

AEpic theatre BMusical theatre CProletarian theatre DKitchen-sink theatre

Q19.

Who created the character Julien Sorel?

ABalzac BFlaubert CMolière DStendhal

Q20.

Who wrote The Labyrinth of Solitude?

AGabriel García Márquez BOctavio Paz CGabriela Mistral DJorge Luis Borges

Q21.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Novel	List II: Author
A. Don Quixote	I. Machado de Assis
B. The Sorrows of Young Werther	II. Honoré de Balzac
C. Lost Illusions	III. Goethe
D. Epitaph of a Small Winner	IV. Miguel de Cervantes

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

Q22.

Which two of the following works were written by Flaubert?

A. The Temptation of Saint Anthony
B. Old Goriot
C. Thérèse Raquin
D. Sentimental Education

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

Q23.

Which nineteenth-century term of Russian currency did Nietzsche use for the collapse of traditional Western values?

AAbsolutism BCynicism CNihilism DAnarchism

Q24.

Whom does García Márquez name at the opening of his Nobel lecture, 'The Solitude of Latin America'?

A. Ferdinand Magellan
B. Christopher Columbus
C. Marco Polo
D. Antonio Pigafetta

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

Q25.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Playwright	List II: Play
A. Bertolt Brecht	I. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
B. Tennessee Williams	II. Life of Galileo
C. Václav Havel	III. Miss Julie
D. August Strindberg	IV. Temptation

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

Q26.

Match List I with List II:

List I: Author	List II: Memoir
A. Pablo Neruda	I. Under My Skin
B. Graham Greene	II. Speak, Memory
C. Doris Lessing	III. Memoirs
D. Vladimir Nabokov	IV. A Sort of Life

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

Q27.

Which Borges story has an epigraph from Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy?

A'Borges and I' B'The Library of Babel' C'Death and the Compass' D'The Garden of Forking Paths'

Q28.

Which two dramatists are associated with epic theatre?

A. Fernando Arrabal
B. Bertolt Brecht
C. Arnolt Bronnen
D. James Saunders

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

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