2011
English
Code: 1162
Introduction to Drama
Time: 4 hours Full Marks: 100
PART-A
1. Answer any twenty questions. 20 * 1 =20
(a) What sort of book is Aristotle’s Poetics!
(b) What are the three unities?
(c) Who are Oedipus’ foster parents?
Ans: Oedipus's foster parents are Polybus, the King of Corinth and Queen Merope.
(d) Who are the chorus in Oedipus Rex?
Ans: In Oedipus Rex the chorus is a group of elder citizens of Thebes.
(e) What is hamartia or tragic flaw?
(f) Whom does Demetrius love at the end of the play?
(g) What do the fairies do after the palace goes to sleep?
(h) Who are the ‘Riders’ mentioned in the play Riders to the Sea?
Ans: In "Riders to the Sea", the riders are Maurya’s husband, six sons and her father in law. But on broader sense all the fishermen of the Aran Islands are the ‘riders’.
(i) Why did Bartley go to the Galway fair?
Ans: Bartley want to go to the Galway fair to sell two horses: his red mare and Michael’s grey pony.
(j) How does Maurya console herself at the end of the play?
Ans: Maurya consoles herself at the end of the play by saying that “No man at all can be living forever”.
(k) Who is the man in the title of the play Arms and the .Man?
Ans: Bluntschli is the man in the title of the play "Arms and the Man.
(l) What was written at the back of the photograph of Raina?
Ans: “Raina, to her Chocolate Cream Soldier: a Souvenir” was written at the back of the photograph of Raina.
(m) What is a cavalry charge?
Ans: Cavalry charge means the attack by the mounted Soldier on horseback.
(n) Whom did Captain Bluntschli call Don Quixote?
Ans: Captain Bluntsclihi called Sergius Don Quixote.
(o) What kind of tragedy is Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex"?
(p) What is the meaning of the word ‘Oedipus’?
Ans: The meaning of the word “Oedipus’ is “swollen-foot”.
(q) Why was Delphi famous for?
Ans: Delphi was famous for its prediction of the future which has accuracy.
(r) What is Sphinx?
Ans: Sphinx is a creature with the head of a human and the body of a lion. It asks riddle and those who cannot answer its riddle suffer a fate. Oedipus solved the riddle of Sphinx.
(s) Where was Laius killed?
Ans: Laius was killed by Oedipus at the place called Phocis.
Write a short note on Maurya.
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