William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech, Exam Based Questions

William Faulkner’s

Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech

1. In which year did William Faulkner deliver his Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech? (UPSC, NET, CUET, PGTRB)

a) 1945

b) 1949

c) 1950

d) 1955

Answer: c) 1950

2. William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature for which year? (TNPSC, NET, SET)

a) 1945

b) 1949

c) 1952

d) 1954

Answer: b) 1949

3. According to Faulkner’s Nobel speech, what is the writer’s duty? (UPSC, NET, CUET)

a) To document history faithfully

b) To remind man of the courage, compassion, and honor within him

c) To predict the future of humanity

d) To represent political and social struggles

Answer: b) To remind man of the courage, compassion, and honor within him

4. Faulkner said the “universal truths” writers must address are: (PGTRB, TNPSC, NET)

a) Science and technology

b) Love, honor, pity, pride, compassion, sacrifice

c) Politics and power

d) War and peace

Answer: b) Love, honor, pity, pride, compassion, sacrifice

5. Faulkner contrasts “the old universal truths” with which modern fear? (UPSC, CUET, SET)

a) Fear of hunger

b) Fear of war

c) Fear of being blown up in nuclear war

d) Fear of economic downfall

Answer: c) Fear of being blown up in nuclear war

6. What does Faulkner insist man will not merely endure but will prevail? (NET, TNPSC, PGTRB)

a) Because of his intelligence

b) Because of his nuclear power

c) Because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice, and endurance

d) Because of his progress in science

Answer: c) Because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion, sacrifice, and endurance

7. Who said in his Nobel Prize speech: “The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about the human heart in conflict with itself”? (UPSC, NET, SET)

a) T.S. Eliot

b) Ernest Hemingway

c) William Faulkner

d) George Orwell

Answer: c) William Faulkner

8. Which historical context shaped Faulkner’s Nobel speech? (UPSC, TNPSC, PGTRB)

a) World War I aftermath

b) The Great Depression

c) Cold War and threat of nuclear destruction

d) Civil Rights Movement

Answer: c) Cold War and threat of nuclear destruction