MCQs - life and works of G.B.Shaw

1. What was George Bernard Shaw's occupation?

A. Playwright and writer

B. Scientist

C. Politician

D. Athlete

Answer: A

 

2. Where was George Bernard Shaw born?

A) London

B) Dublin

C) Edinburgh

D) Manchester

Answer: B) Dublin

 

3. Which literary prize did George Bernard Shaw win in 1925?

A. Nobel Prize in Literature

B. Pulitzer Prize for Drama

C. Man Booker Prize

D. National Book Award

Answer: A

 

4. What was Shaw's political affiliation?

A. Socialist

B. Conservative

C. Liberal

D. Fascist

Answer: A

 

5. Which of the following is one of Shaw's most famous plays?

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. The Importance of Being Earnest

C. Arms and the Man

D. The Tempest

Answer: C

 

6. What was the name of Shaw's wife?

A. Jane Austen

B. Virginia Woolf

C. Margaret Thatcher

D. Charlotte Payne-Townshend

Answer: D

 

7. Which of the following statements is true about Shaw's play "Pygmalion"?

A. It was later adapted into the musical "My Fair Lady"

B.  It is a tragedy set in ancient Greece

C.  It is a science fiction play set in the future

D. It is a romance set in Victorian England

Answer: A

 

8. Shaw's play about a young French heroine, known as Joan of Arc, leads the armed forces against the English during the Hundred Years' War?

A. Saint Joan

B.  Caesar and Cleopatra

C.  Major Barbara

D. The Devil's Disciple

Answer: A

 

9. George Bernard Shaw is most famously associated with which socialist organization?

A) The Communist Party

B) The Fabian Society

C) The Labour Party

D) The Suffragette Movement

Answer: B) The Fabian Society

 

10. What was Shaw's view on religion?

A. He was an atheist

B.  He was a devout Christian

C.  He practiced Hinduism

D. He followed Judaism

Answer: A

 

11. Captain Shotover, a retired seafarer who lives on a houseboat in?

A. Heartbreak House

B.  Mrs. Warren's Profession

C.  Candida

D. The Devil's Disciple

Answer: A

 

12. Shaw's first commercially successful play?

A. Man and Superman

B. Pygmalion

C. Candida

D. Arms and the Man

Answer: D

 

13. G B Shaw’s play which was written in 1893, and banned when it was first performed in New York in 1905, all the actors and crew were arrested - but later released without charge?

A. Arms and Man

B. The Philanderer

C. Saint Joan

D. Mrs. Warren's Profession

Answer: D

 

14. Shaw's play that satirizes the British class system and features the character of John Tanner, a wealthy intellectual who is pursued by the determined Ann Whitefield?

A. Arms and the Man

B.  The Doctor's Dilemma

C.  Caesar and Cleopatra

D. Man and Superman

Answer: D

 

15. What was the name of the film adaptation of Shaw's play "Pygmalion" that was released in 1938?

A. My Fair Lady

B.  Pygmalion

C.  The Importance of Being Earnest

D. An Ideal Husband

Answer: A

 

16. Which of the following is true about G B Shaw’s Nobel Prize in Literature?

A. He declined the award comparing it to ‘life-belt thrown to a swimmer’

B. He accepted the award but refused the prize money.

C. Nobel committee announced Nobel in 1925; he received it in 1926.

D. All the above

Answer: D

 

17. Sir Colenso Ridgeon is a doctor knighted for discovering a cure for tuberculosis, appears in ?

A. The Doctor's Dilemma

B.  Arms and the Man

C.  Major Barbara

D. Candida

Answer: A

 

18. Which of Shaw's plays is cantered on a young woman, Barbara Undershaft, who is engaged in helping the poor as a Major in the Salvation Army in London?

A. Pygmalion

B. Arms and the Man

C. Major Barbara

D. Mrs. Warren's Profession

Answer: C

 

19. Shaw's play in which Eliza Doolittle, a working-class girl who is transformed into a lady by a phonetics professor?

A. Pygmalion

B. Man and Superman

C. Candida

D. The Philanderer

Answer: A

 

20. Who is called as “the chocolate-cream soldier” as he carries chocolates instead of ammunition on the battlefield in ‘Arms and the Man’?

A. Raina

B. Captain Bluntschli

C. Major Petkoff

D. Louka

Answer: B

 

21. Vivie Warren, a young woman, discovers that her mother has made a fortune as a brothel owner appears in?

A. Major Barbara

B.  Candida

C.  Mrs. Warren's Profession

D. The Philanderer

Answer: C

 

22. Which Shaw play features Don Juan in Hell as a dream sequence?

A) Man and Superman

B) Back to Methuselah

C) Heartbreak House

D) The Apple Cart

Answer: A) Man and Superman   

 

23. Shaw's play about Richard Dudgeon, a young rebel in American Revolution?

A. The Devil's Disciple

B.  Caesar and Cleopatra

C.  Saint Joan

D. Man and Superman

Answer: A

 

24. Captain Bluntschli, a soldier who takes refuge in the bedroom of a young Bulgarian lady during a battle, appears in?

A. The Doctor's Dilemma

B.  Major Barbara

C.  Arms and the Man

D. Mrs. Warren's Profession

Answer: C

 

25. Which musical is based on Shaw's Pygmalion?

A) The Sound of Music

B) My Fair Lady

C) Camelot

D) Oliver!

Answer: B) My Fair Lady

 

26. Shaw's only film screenplay was for:

A) Pygmalion (1938)

B) Major Barbara (1941)

C) Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)

D) Saint Joan (1957)

Answer: A) Pygmalion (1938)

 

27. Shaw's writing style is characterized by:

A) Long soliloquies

B) Prefaces longer than the plays

C) Minimalist staging

D) Absence of humor

Answer: B) Prefaces longer than the plays

 

28. Which play introduces the concept of the "Life Force"?

A) Arms and the Man

B) Man and Superman

C) Heartbreak House

D) The Doctor's Dilemma

Answer: B) Man and Superman

 

29. Which of the following plays was NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?

A. Pygmalion

B. Saint Joan

C. Waiting for Godot

D. Man and Superman

Answer: C

 

30.In Arms and the Man, what does Bluntschli carry instead of bullets?

A) Books

B) Chocolates

C) Letters

D) Maps

Answer: B) Chocolates