Top 80+ Solved Reading Drama MCQ Questions Answer
Q. Character types that occur repeatedly in comedies are called ------
a. stock characters.
b. round characters
c. flat characters
d. fools.
Q. A character who serves as the mouth piece of the playwright is called--------
a. raisonneur
b. confidant
c. stock character
d. foil.
Q. Plato was the most celebrated disciple of -----
a. socrates
b. aristotle
c. aristophanes
d. none of the above
Q. Which among the following books contains Plato’s ideas?
a. poetics
b. the new atlantis
c. on the sublime
d. republic
Q. Art, according to ---------is twice removed from reality
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. longinus
d. francis bacon
Q. Who said “the productions of art helped neither to mould character nor to promote the well-beingof the state”
a. plato
b. aristotle
c. longinus
d. francis bacon
Q. Plato’s view of art is closely bound up with his theory of ------
a. rasa
b. ideas
c. sublimity
d. decorum
Q. In tragedy, the emotions of pity and fear are aroused with a view to -------
a. hamartia
b. anagnorisis
c. catharsis
d. peripetia
Q. Purgation of the emotions of pity and fear in tragedy is referred to as------
a. hamartia
b. anagnorisis
c. catharsis
d. peripetia
Q. The term used by Aristotle to mean tragic flaw is ----
a. hamartia
b. anagnorisis
c. catharsis
d. peripetia
Q. The term used by Aristotle to mean ‘recognition’
a. hamartia
b. anagnorisis
c. catharsis
d. peripetia