English Literature

Додано: 26 травня
Предмет: Англійська мова
40 запитань
Запитання 1

What does English Literature include?

варіанти відповідей

novels, stories, poetry

prose and drama

novels, stories, epic and lyric poetry, essays,

literary criticism and drama. 

literary critiicism and essays

Запитання 2

Many Old English poems glorified ...

варіанти відповідей

 a real or imaginary hero

love and bravery

motherland

brave knights and kngs

values of bravery and generosity

Запитання 3

The first Old English poet is..

варіанти відповідей

Caedmon

Saint Aldhelm

Cynewulf

Venerable Bede

Beowulf

Aelfric

Запитання 4

Who wrote the first history of the English people? 

варіанти відповідей

Alfred the Great, King of Wessex 

 a monk known as the Venerable Bede

 a monk named Aelfric

a number of authors

Запитання 5

Who came to the British Isles from France about 3000 years ago, absorbed the early Britons and became the ancestors of the Scotch,

Irish and Welsh people?

варіанти відповідей

Germanic tribes

Anglo-Saxons

Celts

Jutes, Picts and Scots

Запитання 6

Who is the greatest

hero of Celtis sagas?

варіанти відповідей

Cuchulainn

Beowulf

King Arthur

Cynewulf

Запитання 7

Who is the hero of the most important epic poem of the Anglo-Saxon period?

варіанти відповідей

Cuchulainn 

Cynewulf

Beowulf

King Arthur

Grendel

Запитання 8

Who is the author of The Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of

the Round Table?

варіанти відповідей

Thomas Malory

The Normans

It's a collective work

Merlin

William Langland

John Wycliffe

Geoffrey Chaucer

Запитання 9

What was G. Chaucer's masterpiece about pilgrimage called?

варіанти відповідей

The Canterbury Tales

Robin Hood

The House of Fame

The Parliament of Fowls 

Beowulf

Запитання 10

In which story is there a knight, a yeoman, a nun, a monk, a priest, a merchant, a

clerk, a sailor, the author himself and others, thirty-one pilgrims in all?

варіанти відповідей

The Canterbury Tales

The Legands of Robin Hood

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table

Beowulf

Celtic Sagas

The Midlle Ages Pilgrimage

Запитання 11

What is a sonnet?

варіанти відповідей

It is a short poem that expresses a poet’s personal emotions in a

songlike style

It is a poem tells a story

 It isa group of poems based on a single theme or about one

person 

It is a 14-line poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and

rhythm

Запитання 12

What was the period between 1485 and 1603 in English Literature called?

варіанти відповідей

Middle English

Modern English

Renaissance

Elizabethan Age

Romanticism

Realism

Pre-Romantic Period

Запитання 13

Who wrote

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;

Coral is far more red than her lips' red ?

варіанти відповідей

W. Shakespeare

R. Burns

W. Blake

Ed. Spenser

Запитання 14

Who is the author of Utopia ?

варіанти відповідей

T. More

J. Swift

J. Milton

W. Shakespeare

Запитання 15

How many sonnets did W. Shakespeare write? 

варіанти відповідей

37

137

54

154

151

122

157

Запитання 16

Which of these plays by W. Shakespeare are not comedies?

варіанти відповідей

The Merchant of Venice

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

Midsummer Night's Dream

Love's Labour's Lost

The Comedy of Errors

Romeo and Juliet

King Lear

Hamlet

Запитання 17

How are the 17th and 18th centuries known in the history of European

culture?

варіанти відповідей

Enlightenment

Renaissance

Romanticims

Realism

Classical Realism

Modernism

Запитання 18

Who wrote the poem Paradise Lost?

варіанти відповідей

Jonathan Swift

John Milton

Robert Burns

Richard Sheridan

Oliver Goldsmith

Henry Fielding

Запитання 19

What did D. Defoe write?

варіанти відповідей

The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Paradise Lost

Gulliver's Travels

Paradise Regained

Jane Eyre

Запитання 20

This period saw a remarkable rise of literature. People wrote on many

subjects and made great contribution in the fields of philosophy, history and

natural sciences. The problem of vital importance to the writers was the

study of man and the origin of his good and evil qualities.

What period of literarure is it?

варіанти відповідей

Enlightenment

Realism

Romanticism

Renaissance

Modernism

Postmodernism

Middle English

Old English

Запитання 21

This period saw a transition from poetry to the prosaic age of the

essayists. Satire became popular. This period also saw the

rise of the political pamphlet

What period is it?

варіанти відповідей

Romanticism

Renaissance

Enlightenment

Preromantic Period

Realism

Запитання 22

It is an epic poem about the Creation of the Universe, the

first humans Adam and Eve, the Fall of Man, the temptation of Adam and

Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Name the author and the work.

варіанти відповідей

J. Milton

Paradise Lost

Paradise Regained

J. Swift

D. Defoe

Gulliver's Travels

Robinson Crusoe

Запитання 23

He learns to tame wild goats, grow corn and

make bread. One day he saves a man from cannibals and calls him Friday.

Friday turns out to be a clever man. He learns English and becomes a

devoted servant and companion to his master.

What work of literature is it? Who is the authour?

варіанти відповідей

D. Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

J. Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Captain Singleton

H. Fielding

S. Richardson

Запитання 24

The first voyage is a trip to Lilliput.

The second is a voyage to Brobdingnag, the country of giants. 

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island.

The fourth voyage is to the island where intellectual creatures were

horses and all the human beings, Yahoos, were reduced to the level of

brutes.

Name the author and the book.

варіанти відповідей

J. Swift

Gulliver's Travels

R. Burns

The Tree of Liberty

G. Byron

Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

Mary Shelley 

Frankenstein 

Запитання 25

Who is called the founder of the historical novel?

варіанти відповідей

D. Defoe

Ch. Dickens

W. Scott

J. Austen

R. Kipling

O. Wilde

Запитання 26

Who is the author of the famous poem "My heart in the Highlands"?

варіанти відповідей

P. Shelly

J. Austen

W. Scott

R. Burns

W. Blake

W. Wordsworth

G. Byron

Запитання 27

Ch. Dickens, W. Thackeray, Ch. Bronte,  A. Trollope and Th. Hardy are famous representatives of English ...

варіанти відповідей

Realism

Romanticism

Enlightenment

Modernism

Post Modern Period

Middle English

Запитання 28

He learnt much from his mother, who

was a well-educated woman, and from the books

she gave him to read. He and his eldest sister

didn’t go to school for a long time. Their father lost

his job and was imprisoned for debt. All the

property the family had was sold, and the boy was

put to work in a blacking factory. He worked hard washing bottles for shoe-42

polish and putting labels on them, while his father, mother, sisters and

brothers all lived in debtors’ prison.

варіанти відповідей

Ch. Dickens

W. Scott

Ch. Bronte

R. Burns

L. Carrol

R.L. Stevenson

Запитання 29

Who is the author of David Copperfield, Little Dorrit, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, Great Expectations, David Copperfield?

варіанти відповідей

Ch. Bronte

D. Defoe

W. Scott

Ch. Dickens

O.Wilde

L. Carrol

R. L. Stevenson

R.Kipling

Запитання 30

Who is the author of The Happy Prince and Other Tales?

варіанти відповідей

O. Wilde

W. Scott

R. Stevenson

L. Carrol

Ch. Dickens

R. Kipling

Запитання 31

Who do these sayings belong to?

A moment may ruin a life.

Don't use big words. They mean so little. 

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what

one wants, and the other is getting it. 

варіанти відповідей

O. Wilde

W. Scott

Ch. Dickens

W. Shakespeare

R. Kipling

Запитання 32

What themes did Oscar Wilde touch on in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray?

варіанти відповідей

morality

art

beauty 

great and selfless love

sympathy for the poor

greed 

Запитання 33

What are R. Kipling's most popular works?

варіанти відповідей

The Jungle Book

Just So Stories

Wee Willie Winkie 

The Seven Seas 

Schoolboy Lyrics

Запитання 34

What is the leading genre of the XX century literature?

варіанти відповідей

short story

novel

play

poem

essay

Запитання 35

Which of these authors used ‘the stream of consciousness’ literary technique?

варіанти відповідей

James Joyce

John Galsworthy

Herbert Wells

Bernard Shaw

Запитання 36

Which of these writers are famous for writing detective novels?

варіанти відповідей

Agatha Christie

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Aldous Huxley 

Thomas Stearns Eliot

Sherlock Holmes

William Somerset Maugham

Запитання 37

Who is the author of the following novels

The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds,

The First Men in the Moon?

варіанти відповідей

Herbert Wells 

Ocsar Wilde

Agatha Christie 

Arthur Conan Doyle

William Somerset Maugham 

Graham Greene 

Joanne Rowling

Запитання 38

Who are these words about?

His science-fiction novels are always built on a scientific basis and

based on real scientific discoveries. Some of his works show his scientific

foresight.

варіанти відповідей

H. Wells 

J. Rowling

A.C. Doyle

Sh. Holmes

A. Christie

B. Show

Запитання 39

Which of these authors didn't write plays?

варіанти відповідей

B. Shaw

O. Wilde

A. Christie

H. Wells

J. R. R. Tolkien 

W. Shakespeare

Запитання 40

Who wrote about elflike beings called hobbits  and is considered "the father of modern fantasy"?

варіанти відповідей

J. R. R. Tolkien 

John Le Carre

Doris Lessing

Anthony Powell

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