In what decade did the \angry young men\come to prominence on the theatrical scene ?

Related Mcqs:

1. Shakespeare joined the Chamber lain’s Men Theatrical Company as a ?

   A. Actor and playwright
   B. Playwright and poet
   C. Playwright and writer
   D. None of above

2. Who owned the rights to a theatrical script ?

   A. the patron of the acting company, eg, the Lord Chamberlain
   B. the bishop of London
   C. the printer
   D. the acting company

3. Which of the following offers the best definition of a Greek theatrical comedy ?

   A. A play in which characters make humorous remarks
   B. A play in which characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the better
   C. A play in which no characters die or suffer
   D. A play in which elite members of society are mocked

4. Which of the following offers the best definition of a theatrical tragedy ?

   A. A play that depicts the downfall of a noble person
   B. A play in which someone gets revenge
   C. A play in which a hero faces likely defeat and overcomes it
   D. A play in which no form of humor appears

5. A postmodern play would most likely not make use of which of the following theatrical traditions ?

   A. A minimalist stage and strict adherence to the script
   B. Video clips and the use of popular music
   C. Nonlinear storytelling and the embracement of popular culture
   D. A pastiche of different literary and historical sources

6. Which of the following offers the best definition of the theatrical concept of a chorus ?

   A. Members of the audience who comment on the play’s actions
   B. Characters who remind the audience that the play is fictional
   C. A group of characters who comment
   on the actions of the play while participating in them
   D. A group of characters who comment on the actions of the play while not participating in them

7. Which scene happens first chronologically ?

   A. Satan and the devils rise up from the lake in Hell
   B. The Son is chosen as God’s second-incommand
   C. God and the Son create the universe
   D. The angels battle in Heaven

8. As a boy, Frederick Douglass witnesses a scene that mortifies him and brings him face to face for the first time with the horrors of slavery. What is it ?

   A. Seeing his mother die
   B. Watching a slave get beaten to death
   C. Watching his aunt get whipped
   D. Watching his dad beat his mother

9. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of this picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression; and, acting upon this idea, I reined my horse to the precipitous brink of a black and lurid tarn that lay in unruffled lustre by the dwelling, and gazed down – but with a shudder even more thrilling than before – upon the re-modelled and inverted images of the gray sedge, and the ghastly tree-stems, and the vacant eyelike windows. What is the meaning of the word tarn? Veldu eitt ?

   A. A bird
   B. A small mountain lake
   C. A wide river
   D. A high cliff

10. Which best describes the general feeling expressed in literature during the last decade of the Victorian era ?

    A. studied melancholy and aestheticism
    B. sincere earnestness and Protestant zeal
    C. raucous celebration mixed with selfcongratulatory sophistication
    D. paranoid introspection and cryptic dissent