Literary Genres
Objective Type Questions (Multiple
Choice):
1. Who is the tragic hero in Macbeth?
a) Banquo
b) Duncan
c) Macbeth ✅
d) Malcolm
2. What is Macbeth’s tragic flaw?
a) Indecision
b) Ambition ✅
c) Jealousy
d) Cowardice
3. Who wrote The Tempest?
a) Marlowe
b) Ben Jonson
c) Shakespeare ✅
d) Kyd
4. Tragedy ends in—
a) Marriage
b) Reconciliation
c) The downfall or death of the hero ✅
d) None of these
5. Comedy often ends in—
a) Death
b) Tragedy
c) Marriage or happiness ✅
d) War
6. Which of the following is a
Tragi-Comedy?
a) Hamlet
b) The Tempest ✅
c) Othello
d) Richard III
7. Tragi-Comedy blends—
a) Tragedy
and Comedy ✅
b) Romance and Satire
c) Mystery and Horror
d) Farce and Masque
8. Which of these plays deals
with mistaken identity?
a) Macbeth
b) Twelfth Night ✅
c) King Lear
d) Hamlet
9. Catharsis is a concept
associated with—
a) Comedy
b) Tragedy ✅
c) Masque
d) Chronicle Play
10. Which playwright
popularized the Tragic genre in Elizabethan theatre?
a) Ben
Jonson
b) Christopher Marlowe ✅
c) Shakespeare
d) Kyd
11. In a Tragi-Comedy, the hero usually—
a) Dies
b) Lives happily ✅
c) Goes to war
d) None of the above
12. What genre is As You Like It?
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy ✅
c) Chronicle Play
d) Masque
13. The Merchant of Venice is
best classified as—
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) Tragi-Comedy ✅
d) Farce
14. Who kills Macbeth?
a) Banquo
b) Macduff ✅
c) Duncan
d) Lady Macbeth
15. A key theme of Tragedy is—
a) Triumph
of love
b) Fate and downfall ✅
c) Comedy of errors
d) Romantic love
16. Who is the hero of Othello?
a) Iago
b) Othello ✅
c) Cassio
d) Desdemona
17. Tragi-Comedies avoid the—
a) Death
of the main characters ✅
b) Use of humor
c) Use of serious themes
d) Comic relief
18. Which genre was often
accompanied by music and dance in court performances?
a) Tragi-Comedy
b) Masque ✅
c) Chronicle Play
d) Tragedy
19. Volpone by Ben Jonson is—
a) A
Tragedy
b) A Comedy ✅
c) A Masque
d) An Allegory
20. Which genre evokes pity and
fear?
a) Tragedy
✅
b) Comedy
c) Farce
d) Masque
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Dr. Noojilla Srinivas
Lecturer in English, Government College (Autonomous),
Rajahmundry
Phone: 7981862200
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