Q:1) Who called TS Eliot ‘a very penetrating influence, perhaps not unlike the east wind’ ?
A:) F.R. Leavis
B:) W.B. Yeats
C:) Ezra Pound
D:) W.H. Auden
Correct: A
Q:2) In which of the following collection of essays by TS Eliot is consisted ‘Hamlet and His Problems’
A:) Four Quartets
B:) Tradition and the Individual Talent
C:) Ash Wednesday
D:) The Sacred Wood
Correct: D
Q:3) Which of the following literary theory is used by TS Eliot in ‘Hamlet and His Problems’?
A:) unification sensibility
B:) a fusion of thought
C:) objective correlative
D:) Dissociation of sensibility
Correct: C
Q:4) ‘For they both possessed unquestionable critical insight, and both make their critical aberrations the more plausible by the substitution- of their own Hamlet for Shakespeare’s which their creative gift effects’ who are two authors is mention by TS Eliot in this para?
A:) Coleridge and William Wordsworth
B:) Goethe and Coleridge
C:) Shakespeare and Ben Jonson
D:) Samuel Johnson and Daniel Defoe
Correct: B
Q:5) The Critic with a mind which is naturally of the _____________, but which through some weakness in creative power exercises itself in criticism instead.
A:) Powerful Mind
B:) Creative Order
C:) Standard and Stability
D:) Neutral Judgement
Correct: B
Q:6) Who made of Hamlet a Werther?
A:) TS Eliot
B:) Coleridge
C:) Goethe
D:) Walter Pater
Correct: C
Q:7) Whose criticism, in writing of Hamlet, is the most misleading kind possible?
A:) TS Eliot and DH Lawrence
B:) Jacques Derrida and Roland Barthes
C:) Shakespeare and Senecan
D:) Goethe and Coleridge
Correct: D
Q:8) According to TS Eliot, who among the writer should be thanked by us, because he did not fix his attention on the play Hamlet ?
A:) Walter Pater
B:) J.M. Robertson
C:) Mr. Stoll
D:) Ruskin Pond
Correct: A
Q:9) Who are the two writers of Eliot’s own time have issued small books which can be praised for moving in other direction.
A:) Mr. Prufrock and Harold Monro
B:) E. F. A. Geach and D. E. A. Wallace
C:) J.M. Roberston and Stoll
D:) Jed Esty and Anna E. Dun
Correct: C
Q:10) Who performs a service in recalling to our attention the labors of the critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries?
A:) J.M. Roberston
B:) Mr. Stoll
C:) Jed Esty
D:) Anna E. Dun
Correct: B
Q:11) The labors of the critics of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were _________
A:) praised tragedy
B:) related the theory objective Correlative
C:) faraway the concept of tragedy
D:) nearer in spirit to Shakespeare’s art
Correct: D
Q:12) ‘They knew less about _________ than more recent Hamlet critics, but they were nearer in spirit to Shakespeare’s art’
A:) psychology
B:) emotion
C:) objective
D:) dramatic art
Correct: A
Q:13) Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries critics insisted on the importance of the effect of the whole rather than on ___________.
A:) partial
B:) importance of the leading character
C:) nearer to the plot construction
D:) using vocabulary
Correct: B
Q:14) According to TS Eliot, who among the following were nearer in their old fashioned way?
A:) Coleridge and Goethe
B:) J.M. Robertson and Mr. Stoll
C:) Thomas Kyd and Mr. Robertson
D:) Jed Esty and Anna E. Dun
Correct: B
Q:15) Mr Robertson points out how critics have failed in their __________ of Hamlet.
A:) interpretation
B:) revenge
C:) tragedy
D:) plot
Correct: A
Q:16) Who Wrote the Elizabethan play ‘Arden of Feversham’?
A:) Christopher Marlowe
B:) Thomas Nashe
C:) Thomas Kyd
D:) John Lyly
Correct: C
Q:17) Which of the following is not correct to the essay ‘Hamlet and His Problems’. TS Eliot explained his thought about the play Hamlet. (Except)
A:) explicitly ‘blunts’
B:) the delay in revenge is unexplained on grounds of necessity or expediency
C:) the interpretation of historical facts related with psychology
D:) the effect of the ‘madness’ is not to lull but to arouse the king’s suspicion
Correct: C
Q:18) The play Hamlet has verbal parallels so close to __________ as to leave no doubt that in places Shakespeare was merely revising the text.
A:) Duchess of Malfi
B:) Arden of Feversham’
C:) Edward II
D:) Spanish Tragedy
Correct: D
Q:19) Who believes to be scenes in the original play of Kyd reworked by a third hand, perhaps Chapman, before Shakespeare touched the play.
A:) Thomas Kyd
B:) Mr. Robertson
C:) Mr. Stoll
D:) TS Eliot
Correct: B
Q:20) Which of the following Shakespeare’s play is dealing with the effect of a mother’s guilt upon her son?
A:) Macbeth
B:) Othello
C:) Hamlet
D:) King Lear
Correct: C