PG TRB - ENGLISH


1.A classic comedian, close friends with Hal until the end of the play is Sir John Falstaff. He is acted in _________.
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra

Answer : a).King Henry IV (Part I)

2.Rape attempt have the power to changes the social position from high to low. Which of the following Shakespeare’s novel depicts this content in minor part?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).The Tempest
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra

Answer : b).The Tempest

3.Where can you find character ‘Gadshill’ in the following Shakespeare’s plays?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).Antonio and Cleopatra

Answer : a).King Henry IV (Part I)

4.Which of the following play has connectivity between Rome and Egypt from beginning to end?
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest

Answer : a).Antonio and Cleopatra

5.‘Death is a fearful thing’ and ‘And shamed life a hateful’ are the famous quotes has appeared in one of the play given below.
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest

Answer : b).Measure for Measure

6.Which of the following Shakespeare play allowed to make sin to save a person, the audience can feel the sin profound the judgement to escape from punishment?
a).Antonio and Cleopatra
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest

Answer : b).Measure for Measure

7.In which of the following Shakespeare play expose sin, sexual intercourse, prostitution, fate, sacrifice virginity, and marriage?
a).King Henry IV (Part I)
b).Measure for Measure
c).Macbeth
d).The Tempest

Answer : b).Measure for Measure

8.Who is the king in England when ‘Measure for Measure’ performed first time in Shakespeare’s days?
a).Queen Elizabeth
b).King James I
c).Charles I
d).Charles II

Answer : b).King James I

9.Who begs Angelo to release Claudio in Measure for Measure?
a).Vincentio
b).Lucio
c).Isabella
d).Juliet

Answer : c).Isabella

10.Duke has pretended to leave town but instead dresses as a ______to observe the conditions of his absence.
a).Angelo
b).Friar
c).A peasant
d).A horse man

Answer : b).Friar

11.Who has entered Angelo’s place to satisfy him instead of Isabella who is asked by Angelo intercourse with him ?
a).Mariana
b).Lucio
c).Francesca
d).Juliet

Answer : a).Mariana

12.A character and his / her fate leads the way to drag the story from beginning to end, in case the audience or the author has removed his or her role in this play, there is a difficult to find plot in Measure for Measure. Who is the prominent character in this play?
a).Vincentio, The Duke
b).Angelo
c).Claudio
d).Isabella

Answer : c).Claudio

13.To whom did Duke grant the temporary leadership of ________? in Measure for Measure?
a).Isabella , Claudio
b).Angelo , Vienna
c).Claudio , Vienna
d).Angelo, Norway

Answer : b).Angelo , Vienna

14.Whose order is that to capture Claudio and taken him into prison in Measure for Measure?
a).Pompey
b).Vincentio, the Duke
c).Angelo
d).Escalus

Answer : c).Angelo

15.Whose soliloquy ‘Dost thou desire her foully for those things that make her good? Oh, let her brother live’ in Measure for Measure?
a).Duke Vincentio
b).Angelo
c).Lucio
d).Julliet

Answer : b).Angelo

16.Who gave advice to Isabella as she begs for Angelo to have mercy on Claudio?
a).Elbow
b).The Duke Vincentio
c).Lucio
d).Froth

Answer : c).Lucio

17.Who said ‘I had rather give my body than my soul’ in Measure for Measure?
a).Isabella
b).Juliet
c).Mariana
d).Mistress Overdone

Answer : a).Isabella

18.Who blackmailed Isabella in Measure for Measure?
a).Duke Vincentio
b).Angelo
c).Lucio
d).Julliet

Answer : b).Angelo

19.How does Isabella respond when Angelo asks her to lose her virginity with him at first time?
a).She accepts very first time
b).She replied I will come tomorrow
c).She would rather die
d).She slap him

Answer : c).She would rather die

20.Who describes to Duke how life is more frightening than death in Measure for Measure?
a).Lucio
b).Angelo
c).Claudio
d).Isabella

Answer : c).Claudio

21.‘Death is a fearful thing’ Who says this quote and who is the listener ?
a).Angelo says to Claudio
b).Claudio says to Isabella
c).Isabella says to Lucio
d).Angelo says to Isabella

Answer : b).Claudio says to Isabella

22.Who has overheard the conversation of Isabella and Claudio, when Isabella said Claudio what was Angelo’s demand to release him?
a).Angelo
b).The Duke
c).Provost
d).Mariana

Answer : b).The Duke

23.How does Mariana lost her dowry, as well as her engagement with Angelo broke of due to this dowry in Measure for Measure?
a).A person has stolen
b).Angelo taken and hide the dowry to break off the engagement
c).She lost in shipwreck
d).She lost in a mob

Answer : c).She lost in shipwreck

24.Who gave the idea to Isabella to send Mariana instead of Isabella to sacrifice Angelo?
a).Claudio
b).The Duke
c).Lucio
d).Mariana

Answer : b).The Duke

25.‘Triumvirate’ means
a). a group of two men holding power
b). a group of three men holding power
c).Share the power to all according to law
d).A group of three men joining to board a school

Answer : b). a group of three men holding power

26.Where does Cleopatra’s palace situated in Antony and Cleopatra?
a).Lipidia
b).Argentina
c).Alexandria
d).Austria

Answer : c).Alexandria

27.What was intoxicated to Antony to lose his caring with his wife and dishonest to ruling power
a).Cleopatra’s love
b).Drinking alcoholic
c).A Soothsayer’s curse
d).Antony’s insanity of Egypt

Answer : a).Cleopatra’s love

28.Who got married with Caesar’s sister, Octavia, in Antony and Cleopatra?
a).Antony
b).Enobarbus
c).M. Aemilius Lepidus
d).Sextus Pompeius

Answer : a).Antony

29.To whom did Antony ask to slay him in Antony and Cleopatra?
a).Domitius Enobarbus
b).Eros
c).Decretas
d).Cleopatra

Answer : b).Eros

30.Who brings Antony's bloody sword to Caesar in after Antony’s suicide attempt?
a).Domitius Enobarbus
b).Eros
c).Decretas
d).Cleopatra

Answer : c).Decretas

31.Who pulled the sword from Antony’s wound after Antony killed himself?
a).Domitius Enobarbus
b).Eros
c).Decretas
d).Cleopatra

Answer : c).Decretas

32.According to Freytag’s Pyramid, ‘Cleopatra abandons Antony during the second naval battle, leaving him to suffer an insurmountable defeat’ is indicated to ________.
a).Rising Action
b).Climax
c).Falling Action
d).Denouement

Answer : c).Falling Action

33.Whose quote is ‘I dreamt there was an emperor Antony.Oh, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man!’?
a).Cleopatra
b).Dolabella
c).Fulvia
d).Octavia

Answer : a).Cleopatra

34.Who is nicknamed as Henry Percy
a).Hal
b).Prince Harry
c).Hotspur
d).Sir John Falstaff

Answer : c).Hotspur

35.At the beginning of the play, how does Henry feel about Harry?
a).Proud
b).Disappointed
c).Indifferent
d).Fearful

Answer : b).Disappointed

36.Choose the wrong match of character and characteristics.
a).Hal - son of King Henry IV
b).Hotspur - son of Percy
c).John of Lancaster - son of King Henry IV
d).Earl Of Westmoreland - Hotspur’s uncle

Answer : d).Earl Of Westmoreland - Hotspur’s uncle

37.King Henry IV is a _______ play
a).Historical
b).Tragedy
c).Revenge
d).Comedy

Answer : a).Historical

38.Who has married Glyndwr's daughter in Henry IV – i?
a).Price Hal
b).King Henry
c).Mortimer
d).Hotspur

Answer : c).Mortimer

39.Who is the another one of these characters and suitable for this group, Edward Poins, Peto and _________.
a).Francis
b).Bardolph
c).Glyndwr
d).Hotspur

Answer : b).Bardolph

40.How does Falstaff survive the battle?
a).By fighting fiercely
b).By playing dead
c).By hiding underwater
d).By fleeing to France

Answer : b).By playing dead

41.Who is the daughter of Alonso in The Tempest?
a).Claribel
b).Miranda
c).Juno
d).Sycorax

Answer : a).Claribel

42.Who told Miranda about her past, who is she, how did she reach the island?
a).Caliban
b).Iris
c).Prospero
d).Gonzalo

Answer : c).Prospero

43.Who helps Prospero and his daughter, and leaves supplies and some magic books ?
a). Francisco
b).Adrian
c).Trinculo
d).Gonzalo

Answer : d).Gonzalo

44.who is a captive servant to Prospero?
a).Ferdinand
b).Trinculo
c).Ariel
d).Adrian

Answer : c).Ariel

45.Who usurped the dukedom of Milan from his brother Prospero, while Prospero was absorbed in study?
a).Antonio
b).Alonso
c).Sebastian
d).Gonzalo

Answer : a).Antonio

46.Who imprisoned Ariel in a tree before Prospero came to the island?
a).Caliban
b).Sycorax
c).Necromancy
d).Ceres

Answer : b).Sycorax

47.Who induces Sebastian to become the ruler of Naples?
a).Antonio
b).Alonso
c).Prospero
d).Gonzalo

Answer : a).Antonio

48.Who is king of Naples in The Tempest?
a).Antonio
b).Alonso
c).Prospero
d).Gonzalo

Answer : b).Alonso

49.Who are the three appear in Prospero’s betrothal masque for Miranda and Ferdinand?
a).Juno, Ceres, Una
b).Juno, Ceres, Diana
c).Juno, Caliban, Iris
d).Juno, Ceres, Iris

Answer : d).Juno, Ceres, Iris

50.In which act Juno, Ceres and Iris appear in Prospero's betrothal masque for Miranda and Ferdinand ?
a).Act II
b).Act III
c).Act IV
d).Act V

Answer : c).Act IV

51.Who is the goddess of the rainbow?
a).Juno
b).Iris
c).Ceres
d).Una

Answer : b).Iris

52.‘A freckled whelp hag-born—not honored with a human shape’ who described Caliban as this in the play The Tempest?
a).Prospero
b).Ariel
c).Sycorax
d).Caliban himself

Answer : a).Prospero

53.Who sings the song ‘I shall no more to sea, to sea,Here shall I die ashore’ in The Tempest?
a).Stephano
b).Trinculo
c).Ferdinand
d).Caliban

Answer : a).Stephano

54.Who is referred as mooncalf in The Tempest?
a).Stephano
b).Trinculo
c).Ferdinand
d).Caliban

Answer : d).Caliban

55.Caliban is _______.
a).Half man and half fish
b).Half man and half ant
c).Half man and half monkey
d).Half man and half horse

Answer : Half man and half fish

56.With whom does Duncan arrives to Inverness before he was murdered __________
a).Malcolm
b).Macduff
c).Donalbain
d).Banquo

Answer : d).Banquo

57.Who told Macbeth that he would only be a man when he carried out Duncan’s murder?
a).Banquo
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Macbeth’s soliloquy
d).Macduff

Answer : b).Lady Macbeth

58.‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’ this line appeared in _____
a).Antony and Cleopatra
b).Tempest
c).Henry IV
d).Macbeth

Answer : d).Macbeth

59.The word ‘weird’ derives from the old English word ‘wyrd’. It means _____
a).Witch
b).Sin
c).Fate
d).Hell

Answer : c).Fate

60.‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and / fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty.’ Who stated this line in Macbeth?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macduff
c).Lady Macbeth
d).Three Witches

Answer : c).Lady Macbeth

61.Lady Macbeth stated, ‘come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.’ What is the meaning for ‘unsex’?
a).Save women from sex
b).Don’t try to rape
c).Reject the feminity
d).Reject the manly thoughts

Answer : c).Reject the feminity

62.Who murders the King Duncan in Macbeth Act 2?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Banquo
d).Duncan’s Body guards

Answer : a).Macbeth

63.Who mourns ‘will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ clean from my hand’?
a).Macbeth
b).Lady Macbeth
c).Duncan
d).Macduff

Answer : a).Macbeth

64.Which of the following character is not attend Macbeth’s feast where Banquo’s ghost appear and the ghost disturbed Macbeth.(i) Macduff, (ii) Fleance, (iii) Lady Macbeth, (iv) Lennox, (v) Ross.
a).III, IV, V
b).I , V
c).II , IV
d).I, II

Answer : d).I, II

65.What did Macbeth say when the quest urge Macbeth to sit and eat with them in the banquet?
a).The table is full
b).Waiting for Lady Macbeth
c).Banquo is murdered so I don’t want
d).This banquet is only for you

Answer : a).The table is full

66.Who announced the death of Lady Macbeth?
a).Seyton
b).Macbeth
c).Siward
d).Macduff

Answer : a).Seyton

67.Who is murdered by Macbeth?, Macbeth thought he must have been ‘born of woman’.
a).Young Siward
b).Mentieth
c).Caithness
d).Angus

Answer : a).Young Siward

68.Name of the play in which Shakespeare and Fletcher collaborated, it was published in quarto in 1634
a).Henry VIII
b).Griselda
c).The Two Noble Kinsmen
d).The Maid’s Tragedy

Answer : The Two Noble Kinsmen

69.The first printed collection of William Shakespeare’s plays was brought out by Heming and Condell who asserted that they did the work in order to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive. What is this first edition now called?
a).Heming and Condell’s Edition
b).Everyman’s Shakespeare
c).First Folio
d).Authentic Shakespeare

Answer : c).First Folio

70.Which of the following books marks the beginning of Shakespeare’s success ?
a).Love’s Labour Lost
b).The Merchant of Venice
c).Venus and Adonis
d).Sonnets

Answer : c).Venus and Adonis

71.Name of the theatre in which Shakespeare had shares.
a).The Blackfriars
b).The Theatre
c).The Universe
d).The Rose

Answer : a).The Blackfriars

72.Shakespeare depended primarily on two sources for his legendary and historical plays. Which is the most important one?
a).King Arthur’s legend
b).Holinshed’s Chronicles
c).Plutrarch’s Lives
d).Legends of Charlemagne

Answer : b).Holinshed’s Chronicles

73.Queen Elizabeth is said to desire to see Falstaff in love. So at her behest Shakespeare wrote a comedy entitled.
a).Henry IV – i
b).Comedy of Errors
c).Merry Wives of Windsor
d).Taming of the Shrew

Answer : c).Merry Wives of Windsor

74.Which of the following plays of Shakespeare has and epilogue?
a).The Tempest
b).Henry IV part I
c).Hamlet
d).Twelfth Night

Answer : a).The Tempest

75.Identify the character in The Tempest who is referred to as an honest old counsellor
a).Alonso
b).Ariel
c).Gonzalo
d).Stephano

Answer : c).Gonzalo

76.Shakespeare’s First Folio was published in
a).1600
b).1610
c).1620
d).1623

Answer : d).1623

77.Sidney’s Arcadia is drawn by Shakespeare in
a).King Lear
b).Macbeth
c).The Tempest
d).The Winter’s Tale

Answer : a).King Lear

78.Shakespeare was born in
a).1550
b).1505
c).1510
d).1564

Answer : d).1564

79.Shakespeare died in
a).1600
b).1616
c).1623
d).1625

Answer : b).1616

80.Bard of Avon is _________
a).Christopher Marlowe
b).John Shakespeare
c).William Shakespeare
d).King James I

Answer : c).William Shakespeare

81. Which of the following traits do Harry and Hotspur have in common?
Age
Love for Kate
Quick temper
Sexual promiscuity

Answer : Age

82. Whom does the Earl of Douglas kill?
King Henry
Sir John Falstaff
Prince Hal
Sir Walter Blunt

Answer : Sir Walter Blunt

83. What is the last vision that the witches show Macbeth?
A procession of bloody corpses
A procession of eight kings
Macduff's head
A stain on his hand

Answer : A procession of eight kings

84. Who warns Lady Macduff to leave her house?
A weird sister
Malcolm
A messenger
Macduff

Answer : A messenger

85. Which of these characters is aware of the Duke's disguise before the end?
Friar Thomas
Angelo
The provost
Isabella

Answer : Friar Thomas

86. Who convinces Isabella to advocate for her brother?
Claudio himself
Lucio
The provost
The duke, in disguise

Answer : Lucio

87. Who is the speaker of the epilogue in The Tempest, and to whom is it addressed?
Alonso , the entire party
Prospero, the audience
Ariel, the audience
Prospero, Miranda

Answer : Prospero, the audience

88. Which of the following is NOT a major theme of The Tempest?
Rebirth through love
Political legitimacy
Forgiveness vs. Vengeance
New colonial issues

Answer : Rebirth through love

89. Who has planned to kill Duncan in Macbeth?
Macbeth
Lady Macbeth
Thane of Lochaber
Banquo

Answer : Lady Macbeth

90. Which of Huxley’s novels has borrowed its title from a phrase occurring in Shakespeare’s play ‘The Tempest’?
After many a summer
Time must stope
A Brave New World
Caliban’s Treachery

Answer : A Brave New World