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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ is a---------drama. |
| A. | poetic |
| B. | roman |
| C. | italian |
| D. | indian. |
| Answer» B. roman | |
| 2. |
“Spanish Tragedy” is-------- |
| A. | a revengeplay |
| B. | acomedy |
| C. | a problemplay |
| D. | a feministplay. |
| Answer» B. acomedy | |
| 3. |
Drama originated inancient--------- A.Greece b.Italy c. Rome d.India22. Who wrote “SpanishTragedy”? |
| A. | thomaskyd |
| B. | thomasnorton |
| C. | thomassackville |
| D. | none ofthese. |
| Answer» B. thomasnorton | |
| 4. |
The name of Bertolt Brecht is associated with------- |
| A. | the absurd drama |
| B. | the epictheatre |
| C. | comedy of humours |
| D. | feministtheatre |
| Answer» C. comedy of humours | |
| 5. |
Eliot’s play ‘Murder in the Cathedral’ imbibes the conventions of ---------drama. |
| A. | greek |
| B. | roman |
| C. | italian |
| D. | indian. |
| Answer» B. roman | |
| 6. |
Choral odes sung in honour of Dionysus were Known as------ |
| A. | poetica |
| B. | hymns |
| C. | chantings |
| D. | dithyrambs. |
| Answer» C. chantings | |
| 7. |
Who is the author of the work“Republic”? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | homer |
| Answer» C. socrates | |
| 8. |
Who is the author of the work‘Poetics”? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | homer |
| Answer» B. plato | |
| 9. |
What is the hamartia of Oedipus? |
| A. | hubris |
| B. | envy |
| C. | procrastination |
| D. | laziness |
| Answer» B. envy | |
| 10. |
Who coined the term “Oedipus Complex”? |
| A. | karl jung |
| B. | sigmond freud |
| C. | lacan |
| D. | karl rogers |
| Answer» C. lacan | |
| 11. |
Chorus in Oedipus Rex represents the people of --------- |
| A. | thebes |
| B. | corinth |
| C. | delphi |
| D. | greece |
| Answer» B. corinth | |
| 12. |
Who solves the riddle of the Sphynx in Oedipus Rex? |
| A. | oedipus |
| B. | tiresias |
| C. | lius |
| D. | jocasta |
| Answer» B. tiresias | |
| 13. |
I Love You is a poem written by |
| A. | pushkin |
| B. | goethe |
| C. | homer |
| D. | dante |
| Answer» B. goethe | |
| 14. |
Who was called “the last true polymath to walk on earth”? |
| A. | a. s. pushkin |
| B. | bhasa |
| C. | goethe |
| D. | hesse |
| Answer» D. hesse | |
| 15. |
Which one is the seventh Heaven in Dante’s The Divine Comedy? |
| A. | the sphere of the moon |
| B. | the sphere of mercury |
| C. | the sphere of the sun |
| D. | the sphere of saturn |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
Wolfgang Goethe is a --------- writer. |
| A. | german |
| B. | english |
| C. | indian |
| D. | russian |
| Answer» B. english | |
| 17. |
Where does the Golden Ladder appear in The Divine Comedy? |
| A. | in the third heaven |
| B. | in the fourth heaven |
| C. | in the sixth heaven |
| D. | in the seventh heaven |
| Answer» E. | |
| 18. |
Who was called ilsammopoeta (the supreme poet)? |
| A. | shakespeare |
| B. | goethe |
| C. | plato |
| D. | dante |
| Answer» E. | |
| 19. |
Who accompanies Dante on his journey to Heaven? |
| A. | venus |
| B. | beatrice |
| C. | cleopatra |
| D. | helen |
| Answer» C. cleopatra | |
| 20. |
Poetry is a word of ------origin which comes from a verb which means “to create”. |
| A. | latin |
| B. | english |
| C. | greek |
| D. | arabic |
| Answer» D. arabic | |
| 21. |
Who is called the father of Italian language? |
| A. | homer |
| B. | virgil |
| C. | dante |
| D. | chaucer |
| Answer» D. chaucer | |
| 22. |
Who opined “poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhereand at all times”? |
| A. | wolfgang goethe |
| B. | bertolt brecht |
| C. | hermann hesse |
| D. | homer |
| Answer» B. bertolt brecht | |
| 23. |
St. Anselm’s ontological argument proceeds from the idea of God to Godas…………… as existent. |
| A. | an idea |
| B. | the cause |
| C. | a reality |
| D. | a number |
| Answer» D. a number | |
| 24. |
According to………………. faith and reason are neither mutuallyexclusive nor contradictory but are mutually complementary |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | st.augustine, |
| Answer» E. | |
| 25. |
Aristotle gives ………..supreme categories of thought. |
| A. | eight |
| B. | ten |
| C. | nine |
| D. | seven |
| Answer» C. nine | |
| 26. |
Plato wrote………………… |
| A. | the city of god |
| B. | phaedo |
| C. | summa theologica |
| D. | proslogium |
| Answer» C. summa theologica | |
| 27. |
Crito is a work of…………………. |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | protagoras |
| Answer» B. aristotle | |
| 28. |
The Milesian philosophers were also known as………….. |
| A. | rationalists |
| B. | empiricists |
| C. | atomists |
| D. | the first materialists |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
.………………is considered as the founder of the atomistic school. |
| A. | thales |
| B. | anaxiander |
| C. | leucippus |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» D. aristotle | |
| 30. |
St. Augustine was very much influenced by the philosophy of-- |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | anselm |
| Answer» C. socrates | |
| 31. |
Who is called the father of Scholasticism? |
| A. | anaxagoras |
| B. | st. anselm |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» C. aristotle | |
| 32. |
According to------,we have two sources of knowledge: faith and reason. |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | st.anselm |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» D. socrates | |
| 33. |
Who is famous for the so-called ontological argument for the existent ofgod? |
| A. | st. anselm |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | plato |
| D. | all are false |
| Answer» B. socrates | |
| 34. |
Who wrote the work the proslogium |
| A. | plato |
| B. | socrates |
| C. | tales |
| D. | st. anselm |
| Answer» E. | |
| 35. |
St. Augustine says that knowledge of Divine is through --- |
| A. | phenomena |
| B. | perception |
| C. | soul |
| D. | sensation |
| Answer» D. sensation | |
| 36. |
According to Augustine the lowest level of knowledge is called ------ |
| A. | sensation |
| B. | reason |
| C. | god |
| D. | noumena |
| Answer» B. reason | |
| 37. |
St. Augustin based his philosophy and theology on the teachings of ------ |
| A. | thales |
| B. | pythagoras |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» E. | |
| 38. |
St. Thomas Aquinas was very much influenced the philosophy of ------- |
| A. | plato |
| B. | st. anselm |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 39. |
The authoritative philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church is called ----- |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | st.thomas aquinas |
| C. | st. anselm |
| D. | plato |
| Answer» C. st. anselm | |
| 40. |
According to Aristotle, there are nine Categories and one---- |
| A. | universal |
| B. | logic |
| C. | substance |
| D. | god |
| Answer» D. god | |
| 41. |
An uncaused cause according to Aristotle is called ------ |
| A. | potentiality |
| B. | the prime mover |
| C. | actuality |
| D. | atom |
| Answer» C. actuality | |
| 42. |
Who says that there are two state of being i.e., Potentiality and Actuality. |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | anselm |
| C. | aquinas |
| D. | thale |
| Answer» B. anselm | |
| 43. |
Who made the statement that Universals are extremely real but are notseparable from their particulars. |
| A. | socrates |
| B. | aquinas |
| C. | plato |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 44. |
Who wrote the famous work the Metaphysics? |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | st. augustine |
| Answer» B. plato | |
| 45. |
Who defined substance is something that we can point out as ‘this’ |
| A. | st. augustine |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | pythagoras |
| Answer» D. pythagoras | |
| 46. |
The works of------ are divided into two types-exoteric and esoteric. |
| A. | plato |
| B. | aristotle |
| C. | st.augustine |
| D. | st.anselm |
| Answer» C. st.augustine | |
| 47. |
Which thinker who went to Athens and joined Plato’s Academy. |
| A. | anaxagoras |
| B. | plato |
| C. | aristotle |
| D. | socrates |
| Answer» D. socrates | |
| 48. |
Which of the following philosopher who taught Alexander, the Great |
| A. | leucippus |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | aristotle |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
Plato admit the immortality of soul in his ---- dialogue |
| A. | apology |
| B. | republic |
| C. | theaetetus |
| D. | phaedo |
| Answer» E. | |
| 50. |
----------is a philosopher who was born at Stagira |
| A. | aristotle |
| B. | plato |
| C. | socrates |
| D. | thles |
| Answer» B. plato | |