Drama - II Question bank with Answers

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SEMESTER- VI, DRAMA-II
COURSE: ENG/VI/CC/10

Unit – 1: Major Barbara – George Bernard Shaw
1. Lomax will not receive his trust fund until he is
a) 30
b) 35
c) 37
d) 39

2. The Undershaft tradition is to appoint
a) The eldest son as successor
b) The youngest son as successor
c) A foundling as successor
d) A brilliant daughter as successor

3. Barbara is pleased that her father is going to visit them because
a) She misses him
b) She has something important to tell him
c) He had always wanted to give her monetary help
d) He had a soul to be saved

4. The bargain that Barbara and her father struck was that
a) Each would try to convert the other to their cause
b) Each would try to convert as many converts as possible to their cause
c) Each would try to excel in uplifting the poor
d) Each would try to surpass the other in acquiring wealth

5. Britomart accused Cusins of joining the Salvation Army to
a) Play the trumpet
b) Convert people to the worship of Dionysus
c) To worship Barbara
d) Help people in the Army

6. Barbararealizes that those who hold the means of salvation are
a) Holy people
b) Humble people
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c) Talented writers
d) Millionaires

7. A Doll’s House opens on
a) New Year‟s Eve
b) Passover Eve
c) Christmas Eve
d) Palm Sunday
8. Barbara is engaged to
a) AdolphusCusins
b) Charles Lomax
c) Bill Walker
d) Horace Bodger
9. What does Undershaft identify as necessary for salvation?
a) Money and religion
b) Morality and money
c) Money and gunpowder
d) Money and marriage
10. What job does Peter Shirley take on at the foundry?
a) Gravedigger
b) Gatekeeper
c) Foreman
d) Driver
11. Where do Cusin‟s parents reside?
a) Canada
b) India
c) Spain
d) Australia
12. Who steals Bill Walker‟s money?
a) Rummy Mitchens
b) Jenny Hill
c) Snobby Price
d) Peter Shirley
13. What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?
a) A politician
b) A philosopher
c) A Professor
d) A lawyer
14. When Sarah is to be married to her fiancé Charles Lomax, at what age could Lomax
come into his wealth?
a) Twenty one
b) Eighteen
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c) Thirty five
d) Twenty seven.
15. To what does Andrew Undershaft compare his munition factory to and found many
similarities with?
a) His daughter‟s upbringing
b) The Salvation Army
c) Lady Britomart‟s outlook on life
d) None of the above
16. When Bill Walker refused to give his name to Barbara, she had to write down his
name as _________
a) The homeless man
b) The man with no food
c) The man who struck Jenny
d) The man with a temper
17. To whom did Barbara say that one cannot „buy‟ his/her salvation?
a) Lady Britomart
b) AdolphusCusins
c) Charles Lomax
d) Andrew Undershaft
18. To whom did Barbara say that The Salvation Army cannot be bought?
a) Bill Walker
b) Andrew Undershaft
c) Mrs. Baines
d) Bodger
19. Both Lady Britomart and Andrew Undershaft said that Stephen would make a good
journalist because of what?
a) Because he was good at spending a lot of money
b) Because he knows how to use words that have no meaning
c) Because he liked to ask a lot of questions
d) Because there was no one who was vain enough like him
20. What is Cusins‟s first name?
a) Horace
b) Adolphus
c) Charles
d) Andrew
21. What is the inscription on the dome of the Labor Church in Perivale St. Andrews?
a) If God gave the hand, let not man withhold the sword.
b) No man is good enough to be another man‟s master
c) To man the weapon: the heaven the victory
d) All have the right to fight: None have the right to judge
22. Who is Lord Saxmundham?
a) Andrew Undershaft
b) Lazarus
c) Horace Bodger
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d) TodgerFairmille
23. What does Undershaft identify as necessary to Salvation?
a) Baptism and first communion
b) Money and gunpowder
c) Money and mind
d) Money and courage
24. What profession does Undershaft suggest to Stephen?
a) To become a politician
b) To write
c) To become a philosopher
d) To go into law
25. Who does Barbara ask for at the end of the play?
a) God
b) Undershaft
c) Cusins
d) Lady Britomart
26. In Major Barbara, how old is Lady Britomart Undershaft
a) 44
b) 47
c) 49
d) In her fifties

27. Lady Britomart and her children lives in Wilton Crescent in the city of
a) Southamthon
b) London
c) West Ham
d) Birmingham

28. Who does AdolphusCusins believe is responsible for providing Barbara?
a) Himself
b) Lady Britomart
c) Mr. Undershaft
d) Stephen Undershaft

29. The Salvation Army only takes what type of people
a) Bad people that need to be saved
b) Religious people
c) Hard workers
d) Good people who are out of work

30. What is the primary reason Mr. Undershaft does not want Stephen to inherit the
business?
a) Stephen is too young
b) Stephen is skittish
c) Stephen is not a foundling
d) Stephen is incompetent

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31. What changed Barbara‟s opinion on the source of power?
a) Seeing the success of his father
b) Seeing how easily a soul could be bought
c) Seeing the success of the Salvation Army
d) Seeing how easily a soul could be saved
32. According to Undershaft, what is the most destructive and worst of all crimes?
a) Lying
b) Thieving
c) Poverty
d) Laziness
33. Barbara symbolically leaves the Salvation Army when she ______ and hands it to her
father.
a) Breaks her sword
b) Removes her badge of office
c) Rips up her enlistment form
d) Removes her whistle
34. Why did Cusins join the Salvation Army?
a) To help the poor
b) To save souls
c) To be in the band
d) To be with Barbara

Answer Key
1. (b)
2. (c)
3. (d)
4. (a)
5. (c)
6. (d)
7. (c)
8. (a)
9. (c)
10. (b)
11. (d)
12. (c)
13. (a)
14. (c)
15. (b)
16. (c)
17. (d)
18. (a)
19. (b)
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20. (b)
21. (b)
22. (c)
23. (b)
24. (a)
25. (d)
26. (d)
27. (b)
28. (c)
29. (a)
30. (c)
31. (b)
32. (c)
33. (b)
34. (d)

Unit – 2: A Doll’s House – Henrik Ibsen
1. Torvald accuses Nora of
a) Being lazy
b) Being too generous
c) Being wasteful
d) Being forgetful

2. Krogstad had sullied his reputation at the bank by
a) Being flirtatious
b) Being rude to customers
c) Forging signatures
d) Being late at work all the time

3. Krogstad tried to blackmail Nora because she
a) Had a secret lover that he knew about
b) Was his mistress even now
c) She was very flirtatious
d) She had forged her father‟s signature

4. The amount of time that Nora had before her secret was revealed to her husband was
a) 30 hours
b) 31 hours
c) 32 hours
d) 33 hours

5. Nora left the dollhouse mainly because
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a) She was tired of the way her husband treated her
b) She did not love her husband anymore
c) She wanted to learn how to live life for herself
d) She was in love with Dr Rank
6. Whose signature did Nora forge to borrow money?
a) TorvaldHelmer
b) Her father
c) Dr. Rank
d) Korgstad
7. How much money did Nora borrow for her husband's treatment?
a) Twelve hundred dollars
b) Ten thousand dollars
c) Fifteen hundred dollars
d) Fourteen hundred dollars
8. How many children do Torvald and Nora have?
a) one
b) two
c) three
d) four
9. What does Nora expect Torvald to do when he learns about the forgery?
a) Divorce her
b) Take the blame himself
c) Report her to the police
d) Act as if nothing happened
10. What is the last thing the audience of ADoll's House hears?
a) The sound of a door slamming
b) The sound of laughter
c) The sound of children crying
d) The sound of a gun shot
11. Which of the following phrases is not used by TorvaldHelmer as terms of endearment
and condescension for Nora?
a) little skylark
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b) little squirrel
c) little featherbrain
d) sweet kitten
12. Why does Torvald never take his wife Nora seriously?
a) Because she has a sweet tooth and cannot be trusted
b) Because he thinks her childlike and calls her his doll
c) Because Nora like to twitter about and sing
d) None of the above
13. When Dr. Rank sees Nils Krogstad, he characterized him as
a) Angry and bitter
b) Full of lies
c) Unhelpful and a nuisance
d) Morally diseased
14. When Christine Linde goes to meet with Nora, she tells her that she had been
widowed for the past
a) Three years
b) Two years
c) Five years
d) Seven years
15. What is the significance of the title of the play A Doll’s House?
a) The Helmer‟s children symbolised dolls
b) Torvald was a famous dollmaker
c) The Helmer‟s house is small and represents the children
d) Nora is a doll that is being owned and played with
16. What kind of relationship did Krogstad and Christine have years earlier?
a) They were enemies
b) They were engaged
c) They were friends
d) They were married
17. “When a poor girl‟s been in trouble she must make the best of things,” who said this
line in the play, A Doll’s House?
a) Nora
b) Christine
c) Anne
d) Dr. Rank
18. Mr. Rank is by occupation
a) a lawyer
b) a medical practitioner
c) an engineer
d) a businessman
19. What did Mrs. Kristine Linde‟s husband leave behind after his death?
a) A huge mansion on the outskirts of Paris
b) 1.5 million euros
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c) Not even a broken heart to grieve over.
d) Three children.
20. One of the following persons helped Nora in procuring a loan. Who is he/she?
a) TorvaldHelmer
b) Mrs. Kristine Linde
c) Nora‟s father
d) Krogstad
21. “All these eight years…this woman who was my pride and joy…a hypocrite, a liar,
worse than that, a criminal!” Who said this?
a) TorvaldHelmer
b) Krogstad
c) Nora‟s father
d) Mr.Linde
22. “Nils, what about us two castaways joining forces.” Who said this and to whom?
a) Nora to TorvaldHelmer
b) Nora to Krogstad
c) Mrs.Linde to Krogstad
d) Mrs.Linde to Nora Helmer
23. Helmer calls Nora by the following name.
a) My little skylark
b) My little bird
c) My dear grasshopper
d) My dear apple
24. Mrs. Christine Linde arrived at Nora‟s house to seek
a) employment
b) money
c) her husband
d) her children

25. Dr. Rank has always been secretly in love with ________.
a) Christine Linde
b) Anne Marie
c) Nora Helmer
d) Helen

26. For Nora Helmer, it is a wonderful thing to be
a) famous
b) rich
c) lying and cheating
d) alive and happy

27. Nora Helmer owed money to _________.
a) Krogstad
b) Dr. Rank
c) Christine Linde
d) Helmer
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28. Nora and Helmer have ________ small children.
a) two
b) five
c) three
d) four

29. According to Nora, she has been treated like a __________ for her whole life by her
father, then by her husband.
a) doll
b) child
c) criminal
d) mother

Answer Key
1. (c)
2. (c)
3. (d)
4. (b)
5. (c)
6. (b)
7. (a)
8. (c)
9. (b)
10. (a)
11. (a)
12. (b)
13. (d)
14. (a)
15. (d)
16. (b)
17. (c)
18. (b)
19. (c)
20. (d)
21. (a)
22. (c)
23. (a)
24. (a)
25. (c)
26. (d)
27. (a)
28. (c)
29. (a)
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