Tests "Literature. School Library. Famous writers of the world."

                Test  yourself

           (School       Library)

I.     Choose the correct answer

1.    A place where the books are kept is…..

       a) shop       b) library    c)gymnasium

2.    A person who writes books is a …….

       a)  worker   b)author      c)doctor

3.    A story about  historical events is…….

       a) comedy  b)historical novel   c)drama

4.    An Englishman   who made the first English printed

       book in 1474   was  …..

       a)W.Shakespeare      b)Ch. Dickens    c)W.Caxton

5.   The author of ,,Alice in Wonderland”was..........

      a)R.Burns       b)Lewis Carroll      c)Joan Rowling

6. ………….wrote Winnie –the-Pooh.

      a)Arthur Conan Doyle       b)John Tolkien

       c)A.A. Milne

7.    The word  ,,library”comes from the ………..word

        ,,liber”,meaning   book.

        a)French     b)Latin     c)English

8.     ……….appeared  in ancient times    in  Assyria,Egypt,

         Greece and Rome.

       a)Schools      b)Libraries     c)Markets

9.Central ………..library is  the largest  one in Ukraine.

        a)scientific    b)war    c)school

2. Complete the sentences

  1.     Charles Dickens was the greatest critical realist in   …..

          century   English literature.

2. Ch.Dickens was born in a family of  a poor …….

3. Dickens’s father was taken to………for  debts.

4. Dickens described the period of his……in the novel

,,David  Copperfield”.

5. In 1836  Dickens published his first book ………….,a

collection of short stories about London life.

6. The novel …………….made Dickens  famous.

3. Answer the questions

       1.Who was the author of the historical novels ,,Sviatoslav”

        and ,,Volodymyr?

       2.When and Where was T. Shevchenko born?

       3. What poems,dramas,collection of verses written by 

          Shevchenko do you know?                               

       4. Is  T. Shevchenko a national pride of the Ukrainian

           people?

        5.How do you understand ,,My Testament”

               by Shevchenko?

                          Keys

I.    1.b                  4.a               7.b

       2.b                 5.b               8.b

       3.b                 6.c                9.a

II.        1) 19                  4)childhood

            2)clerk              5),,Sketches by Boz”

            3)prison             6)the Pickwick Paper