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1
Marry Shelley
is known for her work:
Frankenstein, a Gothic novel (features of horror and mystery)
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, a long narrative poem
Pride and Prejudice, a domestic novel
Ivanhoe, a historical novel
2
What's the name of
John Milton
's epic poem concerning the biblical story of the fall of man
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lose
Paradise Losing
Paradise Loss
3
Arthur Conan Doyle
wrote detective stories and invented detectives
Hercule Poirot
and
Miss Marple
.
False
True
4
Shakespeare's
theatre
company
(a group of actors for whom Shakespeare wrote) was called the
Globe.
True
False
5
Who wrote novels where heroes and
villains
were taken from the
hustle and bustle
of Victorian London?
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
6
Who wrote
the Lord of the Rings
Jean Rhys
Joanne Rowling
William Golding
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
7
Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales
records the imagined
conversations of
pilgrims
as they journeyed from London to Canterbury
False
True
8
The structure of an English
sonnet
is:
a two-stanza, 13-line poem, written in iambic pentameter
a one-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic pentameter
a one-stanza, 13-line poem, written in iambic pentameter
a two-stanza, 14-line poem, written in iambic heptameter
9
The play
Romeo and Juliet
is a tragic love story surrounded by
a feud between two families
. What are their names?
Cupulets and Montasques
Capulets and Montagues
Kapulets and Montecs
Capulets and Montaques
10
Oscar Wilde
is the author of
the Picture of Dorian Gray
.
False
True
11
Choose which Shakespeare's play is
not
a tragedy:
Romeo and Juliet
The Taming of the Shrew
Hamlet
Macbeth
12
William Shakespeare wrote in the era of Renaissance during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
False
True
13
Old English Epic written in the 8th century about a hero who kills frightening creatures
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Canterbury Tales
Grendel
Beowulf
14
Gulliver's Travels
which is a satire on British society was written by
Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
15
The 18th century is the period of
Enlightenment
and it is also called
the Age of Reason
.
False
True
16
Who wrote dystopian novels?
George Orwell
Wiliam Golding
Ian Fleming
Virginia Woolf