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Questions Related to reading comprehension

Fill in the blank with the best possible option:

In a farce, we often find_________________________ .

drama reading comprehension english

  1. use of blank verse

  2. use of deliberate absurdity or nonsense

  3. the fall of a good man

  4. a brutal death

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Option A is incorrect as Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines.
Option B is correct as absurdity of nonsense means extremely foolish, unreasonable and not taken seriously sort of a thing which is what farce abounds in.
Option C is incorrect because tragedy entails the downfall of a good man.
Option D is incorrect because we do not find such bleak, morbid or dark scenes in a farce.

SCENE I. Court of Macbeth's castle.

Enter BANQUO, and FLEANCE bearing a torch before him

BANQUO

How goes the night, boy?

FLEANCE

The moon is down; I have not heard the clock.

What does the line 'Enter Banquo and Fleance bearing a torch before him' indicate?

 

drama reading comprehension english

  1. Prologue

  2. Epilogue

  3. Stage Direction

  4. Aside

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The line indicates that the characters are about to enter the scene of the play. Hence, it is a stage direction. So, option C is correct and the other options are not.

State whether the statement is True of False:

Although a farce may appear only to be funny, they often contain deeper implications on account of the use of satirical elements.

drama reading comprehension english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

State whether the statement is True or False:

The basic purpose of a farcical comedy is to evoke laughter.

drama reading comprehension english

  1. True

  2. False

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Correct Option: A

Fill in the blank with the best suitable option:

Farces have been written for _____________ .

drama reading comprehension english

  1. Intellectual gatherings

  2. Poetry Sessions

  3. Psychoanalytical readings

  4. Stage and Films

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Correct Option: D
Explanation:

Farce is a light-hearted comedy with unreasonable nonsense meant to entertain audience galore. So, it's obviously meant for stage and films where actors can present the play and make it popular. It's not to cater to any intellectual round-table meet or for poetry sessions or analytical study. Hence, Option D is correct and the other options are not.

BANQUO

Thanks, sir: the like to you!

Exeunt BANQUO and FLEANCE

MACBETH

Go bid thy mistress, when my drink is ready,
She strike upon the bell. Get thee to bed.

What does the line 'Exeunt Banquo and Fleance' indicate?

 

drama reading comprehension english

  1. Aside

  2. Stage Direction

  3. Epilogue

  4. Soliloquy

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

The line indicates that the characters are about to exit the stage. Hence, it's a stage direction. So, option B is correct.

SCENE IV. Forres. The palace.

Flourish. Enter DUNCAN, MALCOLM, DONALBAIN, LENNOX, and Attendants

DUNCAN

Is execution done on Cawdor? Are not
Those in commission yet return'd?

MALCOLM

My liege,
They are not yet come back. But I have spoke
With one that saw him die: who did report
That very frankly he confess'd his treasons,
Implored your highness' pardon and set forth
A deep repentance: nothing in his life
Became him like the leaving it; he died
As one that had been studied in his death
To throw away the dearest thing he owed,
As 'twere a careless trifle.

What does the line 'Enter Malcom, Duncan, Donalbin, Lennox and Attendants' indicate?

 

drama reading comprehension english

  1. stage direction

  2. aside

  3. soliloquy

  4. monologue

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Correct Option: A
Explanation:

The line suggests that the characters are about to enter the scene of the play. Hence, it's a stage direction. So, option A is correct.

Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:

Miss Prism.  Lady Bracknell, I admit with shame that I do not know.  I only wish I did.  The plain facts of the case are these.  On the morning of the day you mention, a day that is forever branded on my memory, I prepared, as usual, to take the baby out in its perambulator.  I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious handbag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.  In a moment of mental abstraction, for which I never can forgive myself, I deposited the manuscript in the bassinette and placed the baby in the handbag.

Jack.  [Who has been listening attentively.] 

But where did you deposit the handbag?

Miss Prism.  Do not ask me, Mr. Worthing.

Jack.  Miss Prism, this is a matter of no small importance to me.  I insist on knowing where you deposited the handbag that contained that infant.

Miss Prism.  I left it in the cloak-room of one of the larger railway stations in London.

Jack.  What railway station?

Miss Prism.  [Quite crushed.] 


Victoria.  The Brighton line.  [Sinks into a hair.]

Jack.  I must retire to my room for a moment.  Gwendolen, wait here for me.

Gwendolen.  If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.  [Exit Jack in great excitement.]

....

Gwendolen.  This suspense is terrible.  I hope it will last.  [Enter Jack with a handbag of black leather in his hand.]

Jack.  [Rushing over to Miss Prism.] 
Is this the hand-bag, Miss Prism?  Examine it carefully before you speak.  The happiness of more than one life depends on your answer.

Miss Prism.  [Calmly.]  It seems to be mine.  Yes, here is the injury it received through the upsetting of a Gower Street omnibus in younger and happier

days.  Here is the stain on the lining caused by the explosion of a temperance beverage, an incident that occurred at Leamington.  And here, on the lock, are my initials.  I had forgotten that in an extravagant mood I had had them placed there.  The bag is undoubtedly mine.  I am delighted to have it so unexpectedly restored to me.  It has been a great inconvenience being without it all these years.

Jack.  [In a pathetic voice.]  Miss Prism, more is restored to you than this handbag.  I was the baby you placed in it.

The passage above is taken from a __________.

drama reading comprehension english

  1. historical enactment

  2. tragedy

  3. farce

  4. political play

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

Farce is a dramatic work that uses humor and highly improbable situations to entertain the audience. The passage given here describes an improbable situation with humorous dialogues. So, the passage qualifies as a farce. Option C is the answer.

Identify the literary device used in the following statement:
I am not young enough to know everything.

techniques of style reading comprehension english

  1. Analogy

  2. Satire

  3. Paean

  4. Pastoral

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Correct Option: B
Explanation:

Satire is a literary device that uses humor, exaggeration, irony or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity and vices. Here, the given sentence employs sarcasm to make a comment on a general vice. So, option B is the best answer.

Identify the literary device in the following statement:
Marriage is the chief cause of divorce.

techniques of style reading comprehension english

  1. Epic

  2. Allegory

  3. Satire

  4. Allusion

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Correct Option: C
Explanation:

The given sentence mocks the institution of marriage and so we can conclude that the literary device used here is satire (which uses irony, humor or ridicule to criticize people's stupidity or vices). Option C is the best answer.