TEST – 22

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QUESTIONS

George Bernard Shaw was born in which country on July 26, 1856?
A. England
B. Wales
C. Ireland
D. Scotland

2. At what age did Shaw marry?

A. 19
B. 42
C. 51
D. 59

3. Which of the following plays by Shaw was used as the basis for the film "My Fair Lady"?
A. Major Barbara
B. Saint Joan
C. Heartbreak House
D. Pygmalion

4. Which of the following is not true of George Bernard Shaw?

A. His chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce once crashed wth Shaw and Laurence Olivier as passengers.
B. He was a vegetarian.
C. He was an advocate of spelling reform.
D. He was an admirer of Hitler and Mussolini

5. Which writer said of Shaw, "He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friends like him"?
A. Oscar Wilde
B. H. G. Wells
C. Saki
D. G. K. Chesterton

6. Which of Shaw's plays has the Don Juan legend as its underlying theme?
A. Anthony and Cleopatra
B. Man and Superman
C. Candida
D. The Devil's Disciple

7. Which nationality did George Bernard Shaw describe as "...99 per cent an idiot"?
A. American
B. English
C. French
D. Irish
8. Shaw lived to the age of 94. Which of the following health precautions did he not adopt?
A. Never drank spirits, tea or coffee
B. Used coffee enemas
C. Sang every night before retiring
D. Ate grapefruit for breakfast

9. Which fellow writer caustically said of Shaw, "(his) work makes me admire the magnificent
tolerance and broadmindedness of the English"?
A. Hilaire Belloc
B. W. H. Auden
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. James Joyce

10. From what cause did Shaw die in 1950?

A. Suffered a heart attack and drowned on a long distance swim.
B. He fell out of a tree
C. He caught pneumonia while ice swimming
D. Suffered a stroke in a sauna

11. Shaw was born on 26 July 1856. His middle-class childhood in Dublin was marked by many
problems, especially his father’s alcoholism. What did his mother Bessie finally do when her son was
a teenager?
A. She killed his father during an argument, by pushing him out of a window.
B. She ran off to London with her singing teacher.
C. She had all three of her children legally adopted by their grandparents.
D. She boarded the early morning boat to Canada without telling anyone

12. Shaw’s Heartbreak House is modeled on :

A. Chekhov’s Cherry orchard
B. Galsworthy’s justice
C. Ibsen’s A Doll’s House
D. None of these

13. To what experience did Shaw attribute his conversion to socialism, which became the dominant
focus of his writing life?
A. A lecture by the American political economist Henry George.
B. Meeting Karl Marx at that lecture.
C. His first visit, as a sketch-writer, to the House of Lords.
D. His time distributing payments to farmers while working for his father’s grain business.
14. Seldom precious about his work, Shaw once said that a baby could have written the central
speech in Mrs Warren’s Profession. Which French author did he admit stealing the story from?
A. Guy de Maupassant
B. Emile Zola
C. Honoré de Balzac
D. Gustave Flaubert

15. Now rarely seen, the play that made Shaw’s name in Britain was John Bull’s Other Island, a
comedy about the Irish question that premiered at the Royal Court in 1904. What rumour about the
play helped make it such a hit?
A. That King Edward VII had personally contributed several lines of dialogue.
B. That when King Edward VII watched the play, he laughed so hard he broke his chair.
C. That the play had actually been written by Oscar Wilde.
D. That the central character was closely based on the prime minister, Arthur Balfour.

16. Shaw's first financial success as a playwright came with his eighth play, The Devil’s Disciple,
which was a big hit in America. What is it about?
A. An American pilgrim who fails to convert the natives to Christianity.
B. The quarrels between two church sects during the American civil war.
C. The attempted hanging of a rebel during the American war of independence.
D. A prince who pretends to be unpleasant to his courtiers in order to find out who he can trust.

17. The part of the flowergirl Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion was written for Shaw’s friend, the actor
Mrs Patrick Campbell (née Beatrice Tanner). Why was she a strange choice?
A. She was already 49 years old.
B. She had stopped acting 12 years previously.
C. She herself had once been a flowergirl, which embarrassed her.
D. She had not spoken to Shaw for five years, after a falling out.

18. Shaw was susceptible to fads. Which of the following did he not do?
A. Wearing no fabric but wool.
B. Writing almost exclusively inside a revolving hut in his back garden.
C. Drinking his own urine.
D. Staunchly opposing vaccination.

19. Shaw received many honours during his lifetime, but he is still the only person in history to have
achieved one particular distinction. Which is it?
A. He won a Nobel prize in two different categories.
B. He won both a Nobel prize and an Oscar.
C. He won both a Nobel prize and accepted a knighthood.
D. He turned down a Nobel prize, and subsequently accepted another one.
20. For which of these purposes did Shaw bequeath a large sum of money in his will?
A. To promote selective breeding among the poor.
B. To start a bird sanctuary in his name.
C. To create and promote a new alphabet.
D. To lobby for the abolition of British summer time.

21. George Bernard Shaw did not like public awards, and turned down the following honors

A: knighthood
B: Order of Merit
C: the Nobel Prize
D: A and B both

22. Shaw is perhaps best known for a dramatic comedy he wrote exploring the unfair privilege of the
wealthy and the unequal social rights of women titled
A. Saint Joan
B. Pymalion
C. Widowers’ Houses
D. The Doctor’s Dilemma

23. The play Pygmalion, adapted into a movie, won Shaw an Oscar for
A. Knighthood
B. Presidential Medal of Freedom
C. An Academy Award or Oscar
D. An honorary degree

24.George Bernard Shaw is known for being a very productive writer, writing over ______ plays and
250,000 letters.
A. 10
B. 30
C. 40
D. 60

25 Shaw was outspoken about which of the following social concerns?

A. Politics
B. Health care
C. Class privilege
D. All of the above
26.Shaw wrote many brochures and speeches for a popular socialist movement in England at the
time called
A. The Soviet socialists
B. The Nationalists
C. The fabian society
D. The future farmers society

27. Whom did Shaw call his second father or musical father?
A. George John vandaleur Lee
B. George Sampson
C. Michael Angelo
D. None of these

28. Another of Shaw's plays which drew critical acclaim features a famous French girl who is later
canonized. It is called
A. Arms and the man
B. Saint Joan
C. Back to Methuselah
D. The Doctor’s Dilemma

29. George Bernard Shaw considered all of the following values important except
A. Vegetarianism
B. Socialism
C. Equal rights for women
D. Anti-abortionism

Q. Select the right work for the following quotes :

Major Barbara The Quintessence of Ibsenism Back to Methuselah

John Bull’s Other Island Mrs Warren’s Profession Man and Superman

Saint Joan Arms and the man Pygmalion

30.My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

31.He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

32.You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
33.If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

34.There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

35.You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

36. I’ve no ammunition. What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

37. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in
circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the
circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

38. The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe
anyone else.

39. Soldering, my dear madam, is the coward’s art of attacking mercilessly when you are strong, and
keeping out of harm’s way when you are weak.

40. Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And
the loneliness of God is His strength.

Q. Choose the correct works by Shaw for the following characters :-

Pygmalion Mrs Warren’s Profession Arms and the man The Philanderer Widowers' Houses

41. Mr. Sartorius

42. Henry Higgins

43. Leonard Charteris

44. Mr. Praed

45. Raina

Q. State True or false :-

46. “Of Arms and the man I sing” is taken from Homer.

47. G B Shaw married twice.

48. Plays Pleasant has four plays.

49. Arms and the man has the first World War for its background.

50. You truly understand the emphatic importance of the upcoming exam for you and
everyone around you including your family.

NOTE :- Ignore grammatical mistakes like capitalization errors and others