“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers…

 

An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

“The Knowledge Library”

Knowledge for All, without Barriers……….
An Initiative by: Kausik Chakraborty.

The Knowledge Library

MCQs on Play & Playwrights

Q. Who wrote “The Road Not Taken”?

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Langston Hughes

Answer: A. Robert Frost

Q. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a poem by:

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Ezra Pound

C. W.B. Yeats

D. Wallace Stevens

Answer: A. T.S. Eliot

Q. Which poet is known for the epic poem “Paradise Lost”?

A. John Milton

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. John Donne

D. Alexander Pope

Answer: A. John Milton

Q. “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is the opening line of a poem by:

A. William Wordsworth

B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

C. Percy Bysshe Shelley

D. Lord Byron

Answer: A. William Wordsworth

Q. Who wrote “Ode to a Nightingale”?

A. John Keats

B. William Blake

C. Robert Burns

D. Thomas Gray

Answer: A. John Keats

Q. Which poet coined the phrase “a thing of beauty is a joy forever”?

A. John Keats

B. William Wordsworth

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Answer: A. John Keats

Q. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was written by:

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Lord Byron

C. William Blake

D. William Wordsworth

Answer: A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Q. Which poet is known for the poem “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”?

A. Dylan Thomas

B. W.H. Auden

C. T.S. Eliot

D. Seamus Heaney

Answer: A. Dylan Thomas

Q. “Because I could not stop for Death” is a poem by:

A. Emily Dickinson

B. Sylvia Plath

C. Anne Sexton

D. Elizabeth Bishop

Answer: A. Emily Dickinson

Q. Who wrote “Howl”?

 A. Allen Ginsberg

 B. Jack Kerouac

 C. Lawrence Ferlinghetti

 D. Gary Snyder

 Answer: A. Allen Ginsberg

Q. Who wrote “The Raven”?

 A. Edgar Allan Poe

 B. Walt Whitman

 C. Emily Dickinson

 D. Robert Frost

 Answer: A. Edgar Allan Poe

Q. Which poet is known for the collection “Leaves of Grass”?

 A. Walt Whitman

 B. Robert Frost

 C. Langston Hughes

 D. Allen Ginsberg

 Answer: A. Walt Whitman

Q. “The Waste Land” is a work by:

 A. T.S. Eliot

 B. Ezra Pound

 C. W.B. Yeats

 D. Robert Frost

 Answer: A. T.S. Eliot

Q. Who wrote “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

 A. John Keats

 B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

 C. William Wordsworth

 D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Answer: A. John Keats

Q. Which poet is known for the poem “If—”?

 A. Rudyard Kipling

 B. Robert Browning

 C. Alfred Tennyson

 D. William Blake

 Answer: A. Rudyard Kipling

Q. Who wrote “Daffodils”?

 A. William Wordsworth

 B. John Keats

 C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Answer: A. William Wordsworth

Q. Which poet wrote “The Second Coming”?

 A. W.B. Yeats

 B. T.S. Eliot

 C. Ezra Pound

 D. Robert Frost

 Answer: A. W.B. Yeats

Q. Who is the author of “Annabel Lee”?

 A. Edgar Allan Poe

 B. Walt Whitman

 C. Emily Dickinson

 D. Robert Frost

 Answer: A. Edgar Allan Poe

Q. “Ozymandias” is a poem by:

 A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

 B. John Keats

 C. William Wordsworth

 D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

 Answer: A. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Q. Who wrote “My Last Duchess”?

 A. Robert Browning

 B. Alfred Tennyson

 C. Matthew Arnold

 D. Thomas Hardy

 Answer: A. Robert Browning

 Playwrights

Q. Who wrote “Hamlet”?

 A. William Shakespeare

 B. Christopher Marlowe

 C. Ben Jonson

 D. Thomas Kyd

 Answer: A. William Shakespeare

Q. “Death of a Salesman” is a play by:

 A. Arthur Miller

 B. Tennessee Williams

 C. Eugene O’Neill

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Arthur Miller

Q. Who wrote “A Streetcar Named Desire”?

 A. Tennessee Williams

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Eugene O’Neill

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Tennessee Williams

Q. “Waiting for Godot” is a play by:

 A. Samuel Beckett

 B. Harold Pinter

 C. Tom Stoppard

 D. Jean-Paul Sartre

 Answer: A. Samuel Beckett

Q. Who is the author of “The Importance of Being Earnest”?

 A. Oscar Wilde

 B. George Bernard Shaw

 C. Henrik Ibsen

 D. Anton Chekhov

 Answer: A. Oscar Wilde

Q. “The Glass Menagerie” was written by:

 A. Tennessee Williams

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Eugene O’Neill

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Tennessee Williams

Q. Who wrote “A Doll’s House”?

 A. Henrik Ibsen

 B. Anton Chekhov

 C. George Bernard Shaw

 D. Oscar Wilde

 Answer: A. Henrik Ibsen

Q. “Pygmalion” is a play by:

 A. George Bernard Shaw

 B. Oscar Wilde

 C. Henrik Ibsen

 D. Anton Chekhov

 Answer: A. George Bernard Shaw

Q. Who wrote “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”?

 A. Eugene O’Neill

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Tennessee Williams

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Eugene O’Neill

Q. “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is a play by:

 A. Edward Albee

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Tennessee Williams

 D. Eugene O’Neill

 Answer: A. Edward Albee

Q. Who wrote “King Lear”?

 A. William Shakespeare

 B. Christopher Marlowe

 C. Ben Jonson

 D. Thomas Middleton

 Answer: A. William Shakespeare

Q. “The Cherry Orchard” is a play by:

 A. Anton Chekhov

 B. Henrik Ibsen

 C. George Bernard Shaw

 D. August Strindberg

 Answer: A. Anton Chekhov

Q. Who is the author of “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead”?

 A. Tom Stoppard

 B. Harold Pinter

 C. Samuel Beckett

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Tom Stoppard

Q. “The Crucible” was written by:

 A. Arthur Miller

 B. Tennessee Williams

 C. Eugene O’Neill

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Arthur Miller

Q. Who wrote “Medea”?

 A. Euripides

 B. Sophocles

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 C. Aeschylus

 D. Aristophanes

 Answer: A. Euripides

Q. “Antigone” is a play by:

 A. Sophocles

 B. Euripides

 C. Aeschylus

 D. Aristophanes

 Answer: A. Sophocles

Q. Who wrote “The Seagull”?

 A. Anton Chekhov

 B. Henrik Ibsen

 C. August Strindberg

 D. George Bernard Shaw

 Answer: A. Anton Chekhov

Q. “An Ideal Husband” is a play by:

 A. Oscar Wilde

 B. George Bernard Shaw

 C. Henrik Ibsen

 D. Anton Chekhov

 Answer: A. Oscar Wilde

Q. Who is the author of “The Birthday Party”?

 A. Harold Pinter

 B. Tom Stoppard

 C. Samuel Beckett

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Harold Pinter

Q. “Tartuffe” is a play by:

 A. Molière

 B. Pierre Corneille

 C. Jean Racine

 D. Voltaire

 Answer: A. Molière

Q. Who wrote “Mother Courage and Her Children”?

 A. Bertolt Brecht

 B. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

 C. Max Frisch

 D. Jean-Paul Sartre

 Answer: A. Bertolt Brecht

Q. “The Tempest” is a play by:

 A. William Shakespeare

 B. Christopher Marlowe

 C. Ben Jonson

 D. Thomas Kyd

 Answer: A. William Shakespeare

Q. Who wrote “Oedipus Rex”?

 A. Sophocles

 B. Euripides

 C. Aeschylus

 D. Aristophanes

 Answer: A. Sophocles

Q. “Our Town” is a play by:

 A. Thornton Wilder

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Tennessee Williams

 D. Eugene O’Neill

 Answer: A. Thornton Wilder

Q. Who is the author of “No Exit”?

 A. Jean-Paul Sartre

 B. Albert Camus

 C. Samuel Beckett

 D. Eugène Ionesco

 Answer: A. Jean-Paul Sartre

Q. “The Misanthrope” is a play by:

 A. Molière

 B. Pierre Corneille

 C. Jean Racine

 D. Voltaire

 Answer: A. Molière

Q. Who wrote “The Homecoming”?

 A. Harold Pinter

 B. Tom Stoppard

 C. Samuel Beckett

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Harold Pinter

Q. “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” is a play by:

 A. Tennessee Williams

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Eugene O’Neill

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Tennessee Williams

Q. Who wrote “Macbeth”?

 A. William Shakespeare

 B. Christopher Marlowe

 C. Ben Jonson

 D. Thomas Middleton

 Answer: A. William Shakespeare

Q. “The Caucasian Chalk Circle” is a play by:

 A. Bertolt Brecht

 B. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

 C. Max Frisch

 D. Jean-Paul Sartre

 Answer: A. Bertolt Brecht

Q. Who is the author of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”?

 A. William Shakespeare

 B. Christopher Marlowe

 C. Ben Jonson

 D. Thomas Kyd

 Answer: A. William Shakespeare

Q. “The Night of the Iguana” was written by:

 A. Tennessee Williams

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Eugene O’Neill

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Tennessee Williams

Q. Who wrote “Candida”?

 A. George Bernard Shaw

 B. Oscar Wilde

 C. Henrik Ibsen

 D. Anton Chekhov

 Answer: A. George Bernard Shaw

Q. “The Threepenny Opera” is a play by:

 A. Bertolt Brecht

 B. Friedrich Dürrenmatt

 C. Max Frisch

 D. Jean-Paul Sartre

 Answer: A. Bertolt Brecht

Q. Who wrote “The Skin of Our Teeth”?

 A. Thornton Wilder

 B. Arthur Miller

 C. Tennessee Williams

 D. Eugene O’Neill

 Answer: A. Thornton Wilder

Q. “Ghosts” is a play by:

 A. Henrik Ibsen

 B. Anton Chekhov

 C. August Strindberg

 D. George Bernard Shaw

 Answer: A. Henrik Ibsen

Q. Who is the author of “Top Girls”?

 A. Caryl Churchill

 B. Sarah Kane

 C. Harold Pinter

 D. Tom Stoppard

 Answer: A. Caryl Churchill

Q. “Major Barbara” is a play by:

 A. George Bernard Shaw

 B. Oscar Wilde

 C. Henrik Ibsen

 D. Anton Chekhov

 Answer: A. George Bernard Shaw

Q. Who wrote “Tartuffe”?

 A. Molière

 B. Pierre Corneille

 C. Jean Racine

 D. Voltaire

 Answer: A. Molière

Q. “Uncle Vanya” is a play by:

 A. Anton Chekhov

 B. Henrik Ibsen

 C. August Strindberg

 D. George Bernard Shaw

 Answer: A. Anton Chekhov

Q. Who is the author of “The Caretaker”?

 A. Harold Pinter

 B. Tom Stoppard

 C. Samuel Beckett

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Harold Pinter

Q. “Blood Wedding” is a play by:

 A. Federico García Lorca

 B. Luigi Pirandello

 C. Jean Genet

 D. Antonin Artaud

 Answer: A. Federico García Lorca

Q. Who wrote “The Frogs”?

 A. Aristophanes

 B. Sophocles

 C. Euripides

 D. Aeschylus

 Answer: A. Aristophanes

Q. “Endgame” is a play by:

 A. Samuel Beckett

 B. Harold Pinter

 C. Tom Stoppard

 D. Edward Albee

 Answer: A. Samuel Beckett

Q. Who is the author of “Noises Off”?

 A. Michael Frayn

 B. Tom Stoppard

 C. Alan Ayckbourn

 D. Harold Pinter

 Answer: A. Michael Frayn

Q. “Six Characters in Search of an Author” is a play by:

 A. Luigi Pirandello

 B. Federico García Lorca

 C. Jean Genet

 D. Antonin Artaud

 Answer: A. Luigi Pirandello

Q. Who wrote “The Vagina Monologues”?

 A. Eve Ensler

 B. Sarah Kane

 C. Caryl Churchill

 D. Paula Vogel

 Answer: A. Eve Ensler

Q. “The Alchemist” is a play by:

 A. Ben Jonson

 B. William Shakespeare

 C. Christopher Marlowe

 D. Thomas Middleton

 Answer: A. Ben Jonson

Q. Who is the author of “Blithe Spirit”?

 A. Noël Coward

 B. George Bernard Shaw

 C. Oscar Wilde

 D. J.B. Priestley

 Answer: A. Noël Coward

Q. “Lysistrata” is a play by:

 A. Aristophanes

 B. Sophocles

 C. Euripides

 D. Aeschylus

 Answer: A. Aristophanes

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