Interactive Literature MCQs

Q1. A legend grew up that Bridges' poetry is passionless. How does the text respond to this?

Q2. What did Robert Bridges always seek to naturalize in English poetry as an experimenter?

Q3. What 'loose' metric form did Bridges invent and use in The Testament of Beauty?

Q4. Why would Bridges have been more popular according to the text?

Q5. Bridges' succession to the laureateship in 1913 coincided with an effort by young poets to popularize what?

Q6. Which anthology of new verse was issued in the autumn of 1913, starting a boom in poetry?

Q7. Who was largely enterprising this 1913 anthology of new verse, along with editor Edward Marsh?

Q8. What event gave the boom in poetry a further impetus by providing an outlet for unusually insistent emotions?

Q9. On which island was Rupert Brooke flung into a premature grave during the war?

Q10. Which poet is singled out as giving the most sincere expression to courageous idealism in his poem 'Into Battle'?

Q1. Which poet began the 'war of the fountain pen against the machine gun' in works like Counter Attack?

Q2. Ralph Hodgson's poems, such as The Bull and The Song of Honour, are remarkable for what?

Q3. Who was Robert Bridges' successor as Poet Laureate?

Q4. What type of diction and fervour did John Masefield combine in his narrative poems after passing from sea songs?

Q5. In Reynard the Fox, the accurate adjustment of the metrical movement is managed to match what?

Q6. Which of Masefield's poems preludes the tremendous tragedy of the War with a moving sense of still loveliness over the English countryside?

Q7. Whose work in stage naturalism in the eighteen-sixties prepared the way for Pinero and Jones?

Q8. What type of play did A. W. Pinero and Henry Arthur Jones popularize in the eighties and nineties?

Q9. Which of the following is true about Pinero and Jones as playwrights?

Q10. In Henry Arthur Jones's play Mrs. Dane's Defence, what is described as being in substance wholly artificial, yet managed with genius?

Q1. According to the text, what did the 'efficient' dramatists (creators of 'the well-made play') neglect to take into the theatre?

Q2. Who brought about a revolution in the drama by hauling Life unceremoniously into the theatre?

Q3. In what traditional almost-penniless condition did Shaw come to London in 1876?

Q4. What passion drove Shaw to impose himself upon the theatre?

Q5. When Shaw dragged Life into the theatre, his plays began to talk about what?

Q6. What did the stage become by Shaw's contrivance?

Q7. Between Widowers' Houses and Candida, how did Shaw develop?

Q8. In Man and Superman, what philosophic idea did Shaw present?

Q9. According to Man and Superman, what is the purpose of the Life Force?

Q10. Faced with man's inertia, who does the Life Force select as the more willing instrument in evolving the Superman?

Q1. In which play did Shaw's conception of a Life Force merge into his larger theory of Creative Evolution?

Q2. As a dramatist, Shaw's unmatched abilities lay in his combination of effervescing wit and what?

Q3. Which of Shaw's works comes nearest to the general idea of what a good play should be?

Q4. Which of Shaw's plays is noted for its prophetic vision?

Q5. For roughly ten years up to 1899, who strove to bring into existence an Irish National Theatre?

Q6. Which of the following is a notable poetic play contributed by W. B. Yeats?

Q7. Writing under the pseudonym 'A.E.', who became an honoured figure as poet, dramatist, and agricultural reformer?

Q8. The Irish National Theatre was housed at which theatre in Dublin?

Q9. Who was the chief of the capable body of new dramatists in the first period of the Irish National Theatre?

Q10. Which of the following plays was written by J. M. Synge?

Q1. Who was acclaimed for two plays of contemporary town life in Ireland: Juno and the Paycock (1925) and The Plough and the Stars (1926)?

Q2. Which of Sean O'Casey's plays are described as less comprehensible experimental pieces?

Q3. Who contributed a succession of uncommonly well-observed little plays of modern Irish life and character, such as Seven Short Plays?

Q4. Who wrote the history of the modern Irish drama in Our Irish Theatre?

Q5. While Shaw dealt with specific modern problems, what did J. M. Barrie deal with in terms of fantasy?

Q6. In settled pessimism, where did J. M. Barrie take refuge from the ugliness of modern life?

Q7. In which play did Barrie skirt about the edges of a modern problem only to fly from its full implications in the last act?

Q8. How is Barrie described as a humorist?

Q9. As the author of Peter Pan, which kind of critic did Barrie completely satisfy?

Q10. Whose creation of Alice in 1865 is described as one of those strokes of sublime genius that do not occur more than once or twice?

Q1. Which play is NOT written by John Galsworthy?

Q2. Who is the author of the naturalistic play 'The Voysey Inheritance'?

Q3. 'Milestones' is a study in the dynamics of progress by Arnold Bennett and:

Q4. Which of the following is a contribution to modern tragic drama by John Masefield?

Q5. From about 1885 onward, English novelists began to treat realistic themes:

Q6. George Moore's 'Esther Waters' was a landmark in the movement toward:

Q7. George Gissing wrote a number of grim novels close to:

Q8. Which Gissing novel introduces much slightly-veiled autobiography?

Q9. What weakens George Gissing's fiction despite its literary integrity?

Q10. In his later years, George Gissing wrote a book of reflections in fine prose titled:

Q1. George Moore's 'The Brook Kerith' deals with the legend that Jesus lived on among the:

Q2. Which of the following is NOT a historical novel by George Moore?

Q3. In his final period, George Moore's prose style austerely rejected:

Q4. Who had no equal among English short-story writers of the traditional type according to the text?

Q5. Rudyard Kipling widened the range of fiction with stories of:

Q6. Which novel by Rudyard Kipling is considered comparable in merit with his short stories?

Q7. Kipling's 'Kim' does for the Tibetan borderland what 'Pickwick' did for:

Q8. 'A Gentleman of France' and 'The House of the Wolf' were written by:

Q9. Maurice Hewlett's 'The Forest Lovers' and Anthony Hope's 'The Prisoner of Zenda' are products of the:

Q10. Who is the author of 'Sherlock Holmes'?

Q1. After Dickens' death, the custody of tradition in the English novel was vested in:

Q2. 'The Time Machine' was one of the early fantastic romances of:

Q3. Which of the following novels established H.G. Wells as a novelist with a special genius for comedy?

Q4. Many people ranked which book as H.G. Wells' best novel?

Q5. In 'Tono-Bungay', the national change from aristocracy to democracy is seen through the mind of:

Q6. From 1912 onward, H.G. Wells believed that the novel should serve as a platform for:

Q7. Joseph Conrad's original name was:

Q8. Before settling in England to write, Joseph Conrad served on:

Q9. Which of the following is considered one of Conrad's penetrating psychological novels?

Q10. Who was the Anglicized-American author whose example of making the novel a work of art Conrad followed?

Q1. Joseph Conrad's narrative method is described as:

Q2. Which novel by Conrad is described as 'near to the absolute greatness of poetic tragedy'?

Q3. Conrad's 'Victory' is placed lower than 'Lord Jim' because it plunges into:

Q4. A unifying idea running through Conrad's novels is the imperative need for:

Q5. According to Conrad, against the treachery of the ocean, what must be maintained?

Q6. In 'Lord Jim', after breaking human solidarity, what must be made?

Q7. 'The Old Wives' Tale' and 'Clayhanger' were written by:

Q8. John Galsworthy's 'The Forsyte Saga' gives a picture of which social classes in modern England?

Q9. Arnold Bennett's literary style is described as:

Q10. Which of the following is an accurate description of Galsworthy's literary style?

Q1. Arnold Bennett wrote a first-rate humorous novel titled:

Q2. William De Morgan spent the main part of his life designing and manufacturing:

Q3. When did William De Morgan turn to novel-writing?

Q4. Which of the following is NOT one of William De Morgan's best first three novels?

Q5. De Morgan's novels excelled in:

Q6. Revolutionary changes in journalism in the late 19th century were influenced by Alfred Harmsworth, T.P. O'Connor, and:

Q7. Which essayist wrote under the pseudonym 'Alpha of the Plough'?

Q8. E.V. Lucas made a definite mark with 'Over Bemerton's', combining qualities of a familiar essay and:

Q9. Who was the most brilliant caricaturist of his generation and a parodist of genius?

Q10. 'The Golden Age', 'Dream Days', and 'The Wind in the Willows' were written by:

Q1. W.H. Hudson's prose was notable for its:

Q2. Which of the following is a nature book by W.H. Hudson?

Q3. 'Far Away and Long Ago' was written by:

Q4. Who made a genuine advance in biography in the early twentieth century?

Q5. Which epoch-making book altered the outlook of a whole generation of English biographers?

Q6. Lytton Strachey found biography a depressed industry and transformed it into:

Q7. According to the table, in which year was Thomas Hardy's 'The Return of the Native' published?

Q8. Robert Bridges's 'Shorter Poems' were published during the years:

Q9. In what year did Gerard Manley Hopkins die?

Q10. According to the table, 'The Second Mrs. Tanqueray' was written by:

Q1. George Moore's 'Esther Waters' was published in:

Q2. Thomas Hardy's 'Jude the Obscure' was published in:

Q3. Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' was published in the same year as:

Q4. A.E. Housman's 'A Shropshire Lad' was published in:

Q5. Who wrote 'Trelawny of the Wells' published in 1897?

Q6. Oscar Wilde's 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' was published in:

Q7. Bernard Shaw's 'Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant' was published in:

Q8. 'Kim' by Rudyard Kipling was published in:

Q9. Samuel Butler's 'The Way of All Flesh' and Shaw's 'Man and Superman' were both published in:

Q10. J.M. Barrie's 'Peter Pan' first appeared in:

Q1. Arnold Bennett's 'The Old Wives' Tale' was published in:

Q2. J.M. Synge's 'The Playboy of the Western World' was published in:

Q3. H.G. Wells's 'Tono-Bungay' and Galsworthy's 'Strife' were both published in:

Q4. In 1909, which writers passed away?

Q5. John Masefield's 'The Everlasting Mercy' and Rupert Brooke's 'Poems' were published in:

Q6. 'Milestones' by Bennett & Knoblock was published in:

Q7. D.H. Lawrence's 'Sons and Lovers' was published in:

Q8. 'Georgian Poetry 1911-1912' was published in:

Q9. Joseph Conrad's 'Victory' was published in:

Q10. Norman Douglas's 'South Wind' was published in:

Q1. Siegfried Sassoon's 'Counter Attack' was published in:

Q2. Which play by John Drinkwater was published in 1918?

Q3. Gerard Manley Hopkins's 'Poems' were posthumously published in:

Q4. Bernard Shaw's 'Back to Methuselah' was published in:

Q5. Which major literary work by T.S. Eliot was published in 1922?

Q6. James Joyce's 'Ulysses' was published in:

Q7. E.M. Forster's 'A Passage to India' was published in:

Q8. In what year did Joseph Conrad die?

Q9. Noel Coward's 'Hay Fever' and Sean O'Casey's 'Juno and the Paycock' were published in:

Q10. Robert Bridges's 'The Testament of Beauty' was published in:

Q1. Chapter 26 deals with 'The Present Age' covering the years:

Q2. The text warns against the impression that writers in each 'age' can be treated:

Q3. According to the text, whatever seems new in literature is found on examination to have roots stretching back into:

Q4. The text mentions that writers of the present age have been deeply indebted to which age of nearly 2500 years ago?

Q5. Which novel is described in form as the most 'revolutionary' novel of the twentieth century?

Q6. James Joyce's 'Ulysses' is designed upon the plan of:

Q7. Who is the author of 'The Waste Land'?

Q8. T.S. Eliot's poetry draws from:

Q9. In 'The Waste Land', Eliot's use of past sources is evidenced by:

Q10. The text suggests that the 'advanced' writers of the Atomic Age are indebted to:

Q1. When Thomas Hardy died in 1928, the world was still recovering from the consequences of:

Q2. What organization had failed to bring about the state of international harmony hoped for by its founders?

Q3. In the 1930s, a worldwide financial crisis struck, creating millions of unemployed and regions known as:

Q4. An account of the state of Britain during the 1930s can be found in J.B. Priestley's:

Q5. In Germany, the burden of unemployment created conditions exploited by:

Q6. Mussolini dreamt of a modern Roman Empire and prepared for conquest in:

Q7. In the 1930s, a civil war raged with terrifying savagery in:

Q8. In these circumstances, many writers became convinced that literature was useless if it did not serve a definite:

Q9. The literature of the 1930s returned to the serious mood which had dominated the:

Q10. The Victorians had been mainly preoccupied with the 'condition of England' question and their literature was permeated by:

Q1. The writings of the 1930s were as much preoccupied with the condition of:

Q2. What had made the world appear as small a place as Britain a century before?

Q3. In the 1930s, humanitarian hopefulness had been displaced by:

Q4. According to the text, literature is a creative art, written by creative literary artists, and its motive power is:

Q5. A vision of truth is described as the peculiar and special contribution of:

Q6. Politics, according to the text, has been said to be the art of the:

Q7. In contrast to politics, the text suggests that poetry is the art of the:

Q8. When a poet attempts to harness his talent to current practical problems, he is more likely to:

Q9. If a poet loses his vision through a misapplied concern with facts, he is compared to:

Q10. The text suggests that a poet may see more and speak more saving wisdom from:

Q1. Gerard Manley Hopkins published how much poetry during his own lifetime?

Q2. When were Hopkins's collected poems first issued?

Q3. Hopkins turned Roman Catholic and later joined which order?

Q4. As a devout Jesuit, Hopkins considered it a religious duty to:

Q5. What event inspired Hopkins to write 'The Wreck of the Deutschland'?

Q6. Hopkins served as Professor of Greek at which university from 1884?

Q7. Which poem by Hopkins begins 'Glory be to God for dappled things'?

Q8. To describe his own system of prosody, Hopkins used the term:

Q9. What word did Hopkins use to denote his aim in the treatment of subject material?

Q10. Who edited the 1918 volume of Hopkins's poems?

Q1. The spirit of Victorian times was mostly:

Q2. Before 1914, the educated classes had enjoyed long periods of:

Q3. All the simple and comfortable life of the educated classes was changed by:

Q4. After 1914, the smooth romantic writings which had satisfied the older generation now appeared to the younger generation as:

Q5. After the outbreak of war, religion requiring hardly more than a quiet round of Christian observances had:

Q6. The new generation viewed life not as a pastoral landscape, but as:

Q7. When Hopkins's poems were introduced, they were recognized as the work of:

Q8. Hopkins's poetry acted for the new generation not as a smoothing-plane, but as a:

Q9. Who found Hopkins's realities useful for their own purposes?

Q10. The text notes that because they were tired of easy poetry, a good many of his followers neglected to observe that:

Q1. The far-reaching influence of Hopkins after 1918 encouraged lesser minds to foster the illusion that:

Q2. According to the text, a good poet is never obscure if:

Q3. Milton is considered obscure until we:

Q4. Many of Hopkins's imitators are obscure because:

Q5. What is the text's view on any literary cult?

Q6. A literary cult is said to destroy the faculty of:

Q7. It is difficult to separate the Hopkins cult from the cult of:

Q8. T.S. Eliot published his first poems (Prufrock and Other Observations) in:

Q9. Where was T.S. Eliot born?

Q10. With which poem published in 1922 did Eliot establish his reputation as the leading living poet of the English-speaking world?

Q1. T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' presented a disturbing vision of the state of:

Q2. 'The Waste Land' is written in:

Q3. Eliot's vision in 'The Waste Land' is described as a Jeremiah-like vision of human society that is:

Q4. The imagery in 'The Waste Land' was deliberately unromantic and drawn from the shabby side of:

Q5. What was the purpose of the deliberate ugliness in 'The Waste Land'?

Q6. Eliot's theory of verse-making in poetic drama was that poetry should conform to the rhythms of:

Q7. Which two plays by T.S. Eliot conform to his theory of verse-making more closely than his earlier plays?

Q8. Eliot's development into a religious poet culminated in the sequence of poems collected as:

Q9. Under the sway of T.S. Eliot's authority, poets grew timid of poetry marked by:

Q10. It became the fashion to speak Shakespeare on stage in a manner which made it seem that poetry was intended to be:

Q1. The illusion that audiences do not like poetry on stage was dispelled by Christopher Fry's play:

Q2. 'The Lady's Not For Burning' is the strange love story of a vagabond and a reputed:

Q3. Christopher Fry's first published play, showing the influence of Eliot, was:

Q4. In the 1930s, W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood collaboratively wrote which plays?

Q5. Who wrote the play 'Trial of a Judge'?

Q6. W.H. Auden succeeded which poet in the Professorship of Poetry at Oxford?

Q7. Louis MacNeice wrote a number of interesting plays in later years for:

Q8. The outburst of poetry which was remarkable during the first World War was:

Q9. The second World War was entered upon in 1939 with no popular fervour or:

Q10. Poetry written during the darker stages of the second World War was for the most part:

Q1. Which poet began in the 1930s and reached a larger audience mainly through his success as a radio broadcaster?

Q2. Dylan Thomas received much posthumous acclaim for which poetical radio fantasy?

Q3. The Sitwell family were at first derided as:

Q4. The early poetry of Edith Sitwell seemed often artificial and toy-like due to her desire to:

Q5. With the coming of war in 1939, Edith Sitwell's work received a strong impetus toward:

Q6. The text suggests Edith Sitwell must be considered on the level of the greatest:

Q7. Who is mentioned as a woman poet that wrote a few perfect short poems but produced nothing comparable with Sitwell's more substantial works?

Q8. Osbert Sitwell surpassed his varied works as a poet and novelist with a remarkable five-volume autobiography titled:

Q9. Sacheverell Sitwell devoted himself mainly to writings on:

Q10. W.B. Yeats began as a late-Victorian romantic poet and ended as a twentieth-century:

Q1. W.B. Yeats' progress can be assessed by comparing the simple 'Lake Isle of Innisfree' with the profound:

Q2. Walter de la Mare was comparatively little affected by:

Q3. Walter de la Mare wrote many delightful poems for children in volumes such as:

Q4. Like all first-class writings intended for young people, de la Mare's children's poems:

Q5. De la Mare always makes his poems suggest depths of meaning beyond what the words actually say, writing with an appearance of such:

Q6. De la Mare hints at mystery, magic, and the breathless uncanniness of:

Q7. Walter de la Mare also wrote novels, such as:

Q8. Virginia Woolf took which novelist as a typical example of the older kind of novelists?

Q9. In which essay did Virginia Woolf criticize the older kind of novelists?

Q10. Virginia Woolf aimed at something finer in her novels that would convey the:

Q1. Virginia Woolf (Virginia Stephen) had been born into a literary household where her father was:

Q2. When she married Leonard Woolf, Virginia became a principal figure among the group known as the:

Q3. The Bloomsbury Set lived in what the text describes as very largely a:

Q4. According to the text, human life in the main is rough and coarse; to ignore that it is so deludes us into a:

Q5. Virginia Woolf created a fictional world which was not a reflection of the actual world, but only a world made in the image of:

Q6. The text argues that whereas Arnold Bennett creates characters outside himself, all Virginia Woolf's characters are:

Q7. The author of the text asserts that Virginia Woolf was a great writer, but not a great:

Q8. According to the text, what could Virginia Woolf not do?

Q9. The modern belief that a story is unnecessary in a novel is described by the text as the outcome of a general decline in:

Q10. If Virginia Woolf had lived in the sixteenth century, the text suggests she would have written:

Q1. For most readers, Virginia Woolf's easiest book is:

Q2. 'Orlando' is described as a fantasy released from the bonds of:

Q3. Which two novels have a firmer structure but are selected by many admirers as Virginia Woolf's masterpieces?

Q4. Virginia Woolf's critical essays were collected in volumes such as:

Q5. E.M. Forster wrote literary criticism of exceptional quality in:

Q6. E.M. Forster carried into the twentieth century the ideals of which period?

Q7. E.M. Forster can be called a 'novelist's novelist' whose influence on other writers has been pervasive, though in twenty years he produced only:

Q8. Which novel by E.M. Forster was the most widely read until 'A Passage to India'?

Q9. 'A Passage to India' is a troubling novel with a subtly studied character in the unjustly accused:

Q10. The basis of personal experience for 'A Passage to India' can be found in a later book by Forster called:

Q1. The works of James Joyce have attracted a small army of expositors and explainers, and his greatest novel is considered to be:

Q2. 'Ulysses' is a long prose epic dealing with how many hours in the lives of a group of people in Dublin?

Q3. Which of James Joyce's novels resembles a vast musical composition where sense gives way to sound?

Q4. 'Finnegans Wake' is described as a night in the dream world of a character named:

Q5. An earlier book by Joyce, which is relatively straightforward, is:

Q6. Somerset Maugham began to write in the:

Q7. Somerset Maugham was for a long time underestimated by critics who were misled by his:

Q8. Which of the following is considered one of Somerset Maugham's first-rate novels?

Q9. 'The Circle' and 'Our Betters' are notable plays by:

Q10. Who was the controversial figure who might have been accepted as a great novelist if not for his mission to release people from moral restraints?

Q1. In the 1920s, Aldous Huxley appeared like a modern:

Q2. 'Point Counter Point' was a book by Aldous Huxley that contained:

Q3. In 1932, Aldous Huxley envisaged a future in which the populace would be mentally conditioned by totalitarian despots in his book:

Q4. Who developed the theme of a totalitarian future in still darker tones in 'Nineteen Eighty-Four'?

Q5. George Orwell suddenly became widely known in 1945 for his short political satire titled:

Q6. 'Sinister Street', a fine novel of childhood and young manhood at Oxford, made which author famous?

Q7. J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions' seemed to restore to general favour the full-blooded novel resembling the works of:

Q8. Which younger novelist took a leading place after the second World War by plunging his characters into depths of degradation?

Q9. In Graham Greene's novels, characters are often redeemed only by the way of:

Q10. Like Graham Greene, Evelyn Waugh has religious implications in his novels because he is a:

Q1. Evelyn Waugh began as a farcical humorist in stories such as:

Q2. Which of the following is considered Evelyn Waugh's best sober novel?

Q3. Charles Morgan's novels, such as 'The Fountain' and 'The Judge's Story', are marked rather by a:

Q4. Which novelist was outstanding among recent novelists for his varied selection and treatment of subjects, passing from African life to wartime evacuee children?

Q5. Joyce Cary wrote a novel about the shameless doings of a rascally artist named Jimson titled:

Q6. The rapid growth of what led increasing numbers of women to take up a literary career?

Q7. Rose Macaulay wrote an excellent historical novel of the seventeenth century titled:

Q8. Ivy Compton-Burnett is described as a more difficult but more original and penetrating writer, known for novels such as:

Q9. Whose novels and short stories are said to have the literary distinction of Virginia Woolf but with a firmer outline and satisfying grasp of character?

Q10. Dorothy Sayers gave the detective novel an intellectual and religious significance before turning to broadcast Christian plays like:

Q1. The English short story ventured into different paths in the 1920s, largely under the influence of the Russian writer:

Q2. The influence of Tchekov concentrated on:

Q3. Katherine Mansfield was born in:

Q4. Katherine Mansfield's carefully composed style was allied with a remarkable power of understanding:

Q5. Bernard Shaw continued to write almost up to the time of his death in 1950 at the age of:

Q6. It is the general opinion that Bernard Shaw wrote nothing important after:

Q7. The text asserts it is obtuse to deny high merit to which two later plays by Bernard Shaw?

Q8. Bernard Shaw's great virtue as a writer on current topics was that he:

Q9. Who was the only other prose dramatist in the second quarter of this century whose plays are as good to read in print as to see in a theatre?

Q10. Before turning to authorship, James Bridie practised as a:

Q1. James Bridie chose his themes from a more varied field than Bernard Shaw and was more restlessly:

Q2. Bridie wrote only three plays which are good throughout, including:

Q3. Bridie's play 'Mr. Bolfry' administers a dose of:

Q4. Only fragments of genius can be extracted from which of Bridie's plays?

Q5. The darkening political scene in 1928 led James Bridie to write:

Q6. In 1944, Bridie wrote a wildly contrasting play with bewildering abandon titled:

Q7. According to the text, a play that fails on the stage yet is good to read suggests the author should have written a:

Q8. The text asserts that theatres are temples of:

Q9. If a playwright can create for the audience an illusion of reality, he will succeed in the theatre even though he may not produce anything that is:

Q10. Noel Coward made his mark just after the first World War with a tense and emotionally strained play titled:

Q1. Noel Coward wrote brittle comedies about trivial leisured people, characterized by:

Q2. With which comedy did Noel Coward move up a step in the literary scale, comparable to Oscar Wilde's work?

Q3. As Noel Coward grew older, he grew more serious without growing duller, as seen in:

Q4. Which play by Noel Coward provided two great players with excellent parts, particularly in a witty scene in Act III?

Q5. Terence Rattigan's 'The Winslow Boy' is based on an actual case involving a:

Q6. J.B. Priestley turned to playwriting after his great success as a novelist with:

Q7. Priestley made his most original contributions to the theatre with plays dealing with the new theories of:

Q8. Which of Priestley's plays touches upon the theory that time consists of a continuous present?

Q9. In which play did Priestley attempt to explore deeper themes, leading him to scold the public for its inattentiveness?

Q10. The text suggests that the failure of Priestley's deeper attempts was mainly due to:

Q1. Laurence Housman wrote 'Happy and Glorious', a series of episodes in the life of:

Q2. Benjamin Disraeli wrote a good many novels in the nineteenth century, including:

Q3. Arthur James Balfour was the author of philosophical works such as:

Q4. Which author's lifetime of experience as a soldier, statesman, and writer coincided with the most troubled period of modern world history?

Q5. In 'My Early Life', Winston Churchill tells the story of his capture and escape during:

Q6. Winston Churchill brought renown to himself as a biographer with the Life of Lord Randolph Churchill and the Life of:

Q7. Churchill obtained chief eminence as a writer with his histories of:

Q8. Churchill's literary style is described as:

Q9. G.M. Trevelyan established his reputation with a three-part work on which figure's campaign for an independent Italy?

Q10. Trevelyan's 'English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries' made the wartime generation of the 1940s eager to read:

Q1. C.V. Wedgwood's excellent biography 'William the Silent' was followed by a larger history of the:

Q2. The first volume of C.V. Wedgwood's history of the English Civil War, published in 1955, is titled:

Q3. Lord David Cecil wrote a life of the poet William Cowper titled:

Q4. Duff Cooper (Viscount Norwich) wrote a biography of:

Q5. Who made philosophy inexhaustibly fascinating in a number of volumes addressed to general readers?

Q6. Bertrand Russell covers an extensive subject in a pleasurable and enlightening style in his book:

Q7. Peter Fleming and Freya Stark are outstanding recent authors of:

Q8. 'Brazilian Adventure' and 'One's Company' were written by:

Q9. Gertrude Bell wrote travel books such as 'The Desert and the Sown' and:

Q10. Norman Douglas's most original work was the unique satirical novel 'South Wind', set in the island of:

Q1. T.E. Lawrence developed remarkable gifts of military leadership when he headed the desert Arabs against:

Q2. Disillusioned by the Allies' failure in their promises to the Arabs, T.E. Lawrence joined the Air Force under the name:

Q3. How did T.E. Lawrence die?

Q4. In 1926, Lawrence published an expensive privately-circulated account of the desert campaign titled:

Q5. T.E. Lawrence learned the craft of writing through close consultation with:

Q6. What makes 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' impersonal and remote in tone?

Q7. A condensed version of 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom', issued in 1927, was titled:

Q8. Hilaire Belloc and G.K. Chesterton often worked in double harness in antagonism towards what Belloc called:

Q9. 'The Servile State' is defined by Belloc as a state in which the individual weighs little against:

Q10. Because of their character and temperament belonging to a passing age of idealism, Belloc may be regarded as the last of the:

Q1. 'The Path to Rome' is a travel book written by:

Q2. According to the text, G.K. Chesterton wrote too much and often too carelessly, being in total more a casual journalist than an author of:

Q3. Chesterton's detective stories feature which famous character?

Q4. Hilaire Belloc was described as a convinced propagandist whose fervour was prone to obscure his sense of:

Q5. According to the Table of the Present Age, Osbert Sitwell's 'England Reclaimed' was published in:

Q6. Virginia Woolf's 'Orlando' was published in:

Q7. J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions' was published in:

Q8. Maugham's 'Cakes and Ale', Edith Sitwell's 'Collected Poems', and Shaw's 'The Apple Cart' were all published in:

Q9. In 1931, which prominent author died?

Q10. Eliot's 'Murder in the Cathedral' was published in:

Q1. Virginia Woolf's 'The Years' and Priestley's 'Time and the Conways' were published in:

Q2. J.M. Barrie died in:

Q3. James Joyce's 'Finnegans Wake' was published in the same year that W.B. Yeats died, which was:

Q4. Both James Joyce and Virginia Woolf died in:

Q5. T.S. Eliot's 'Four Quartets' and Joyce Cary's 'The Horse's Mouth' were published in:

Q6. George Orwell's 'Animal Farm' was published in:

Q7. H.G. Wells and Harley Granville-Barker both died in:

Q8. George Orwell's 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' was published in:

Q9. Christopher Fry's 'The Lady's Not For Burning' was published in:

Q10. Bernard Shaw died in:

Q1. James Bridie died in:

Q2. Osbert Sitwell's 'Wrack at Tidesend' and Dylan Thomas' 'Collected Poems' were published in:

Q3. Hilaire Belloc died in:

Q4. Dylan Thomas died in the same year as Belloc, which was:

Q5. Max Beerbohm died in:

Q6. Walter de la Mare died in the same year as Beerbohm, which was:

Q7. Joyce Cary died in:

Q8. According to the table of the Present Age, literature is divided into:

Q9. The last author listed to die in the Table of the Present Age is:

Q10. Which poet's 'Collected Poems' was published just one year before his death in 1953?

Q1. The period from 1930 to 1955 in English literature is often referred to as:

Q2. Who among the following was a leading poet and critic whose work 'The Waste Land' heavily influenced modern literature?

Q3. The Bloomsbury Set, an intellectual circle in the 1920s and 30s, included which prominent novelist?

Q4. The Irish writer James Joyce is best known for his revolutionary novel:

Q5. Which British Prime Minister wrote a six-volume history of 'The Second World War'?

Q6. T.E. Lawrence's 'Seven Pillars of Wisdom' recounts his experiences in the desert with the:

Q7. Which dramatist wrote 'Saint Joan' and 'The Apple Cart' and lived to the age of ninety-four?

Q8. Aldous Huxley and George Orwell both wrote famous novels depicting:

Q9. W.H. Auden, Stephen Spender, and C. Day Lewis were prominent poets who emerged during which decade?

Q10. Gerard Manley Hopkins's poetry was recognized for its 'sprung rhythm' and 'inscape' only after its publication in: