UG TRB English - Fast expreXx - 8 / 50 - Stop 3

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UG TRB English
Fast exprexx
8 / 50 
Stop 3
Can you score 15 / 15?

1. The Importance of Being Earnest was originally subtitled as

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

A Serious Comedy for Trivial People

A Serious Comedy for Serious People

Answer: A Serious Comedy for Trivial People

2. Choose the correct one regarding the play ' Importance of Being Earnest' 

It was 1st performed in 1895

It is a Tragi-Comedy

It is written by H G Wells

Answer : It was 1st performed in 1895

3. Choose the odd one 

The Lady's World

Lady Windermere's Fan

A Women of No Importance 

Answer : The Lady's World  ( Magazine )

4. Statement 1 : The story of The Importance of Being Earnest is set in Ireland in the 1890s

Statement 2 : Some characters in the story lead double life.

Both statements are true.

Statement 1 is true

Statement 2 is true

Answer : statement 2 is true

5. Choose the correct pair

Jack Worthing - Gwendolyn Fairfax

Algernon Moncrief   - Miss Prism

Dr. Chasuble - Cecily Cardew

Answer : A

6. Where was Jack left behind by Miss. Prism

New Gate

The Park

Brighton Line

Answer : Brighton Line ( Victoria Station)

7. Jack's father's name is 

Ernest

Earnest

Earnwest

Answer: Ernest

8. Pygmalion's creation is

Eliza

Liza

Galatea

Answer : Galatea

9. i. The play Pygmalion was 1st performed in England in 1914

ii. The play Pygmalion was set into a stage musical as My Fair Lady

iii. Shaw wanted Mrs.Patrick Cambell to act in the play 'Pygmalion'

Only i stamens are correct

Two statements are correct and one is wrong

All statements are correct

Answer : Two statements are correct

Explanation : ii. The play Pygmalion was set into a stage musical as My Fair Lady in 1956 by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe 

iii. Shaw wanted Mrs.Patrick Cambell to act in the play 'Pygmalion'

10. Shaw's plays Press Cuttings and Mrs. Warren's Profession were banned by

Lord Chamberlain

The British Censor committee

Lord Admiral

Answer : Lord Chamberlain 

11. Why Liza says that she won't give more than a Shilling to Higgins.

Higgins wanted only a Shilling

Her friend's French lesson only cost her 18 pence an hour

She do not have more money

Answer: Her friend's French lesson only cost her 18 pence an hour

12. Nepommuck thought Liza as a

English

Spanish

Hungarian

Answer : Hungarian

13. This phrase of Higgins made Liza angry

Thank God it's over

You presumptuous insect

You infamous creature 

Answer : Thank God it's over 

14. Hairyfaced Hungarian is

Higgins

Nepommuck

Colonel

Answer : Nepommuck 

15. Inventor of Visible Speech

Alexander Melville Bell

Henry Sweet

Higgins

Answer: Alexander Melville Bell

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