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A revision of British Literature.
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1
Charles Dickens
wrote a book about his childhood called
Rob Roy
Tom Jones
David Copperfield
Oliver Twist
2
A
gothic novel
is a genre of literature which combines a fiction with
a satire
a detective story
a horror
a romance
3
British recipients of the Nobel Prize in Literature do not include
J.K. Rowling
William Golding
John Galsworthy
Rudyard Kipling
4
Geoffrey Chaucer
(1340 - 1400) wrote the
Cantenbury Tales
Carterbury Tales
Of Pilgrims
Mock them!
5
Frankenstein
, a
Gothic novel
, was written by ____________.
Sir Walter Scott
Percy Bysshey Shelley
Mary Shelley
George Gordon, LordByron
6
In his book
Animal Farm
George Orwell
warns against
totalitarianism
poverty
globalization
famine
7
William Shakespeare
lived
1564-1601
1579-1610
1564-1616
1587-1685
8
In
1611
the English translation of _____________ was published.
Hostory of Virginia
King James Bible
Petrarca's sonnets
Ulysses
9
J. K. Rowling
's
Harry Potter
fantasy series about an adolescent wizard was translated into
57 languages
37 languages
67 languages
47 languages
10
The most popular author of detective stories and a creator of
Hercule Poirot
is called
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
Thomas Hardy
T.S.Eliot
11
Anglo-Saxons
wrote a lot of ____________.
novels
poetry and religious texts
comics
dramas
12
Alfred the Great
supported writing of the __________________ .
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
English Bible
Anglo Chronicle
13
Which
wizard
are the
Taliesin poems
about?
Voldermort
Merlin
Čáryfuk
Rumburak
14
An author of a famous
Jungle Book
is called
Robert L. Stevenson
Daniel Defoe
Rudyard Kipling
Walter Scott
15
How many plays did Shakespeare write?
32
37
38
34
16
Who does not represent
Romanticism
?
Charles Dickens
George Gordon, LordByron
Mary Shelley
Sir Walter Scott
17
Jane Austen’s
novels concentrate on the
child's labour in factories.
poverty of people in London.
dependence of men on women who would nag them.
dependence of women on a good marriage to secure themselves
18
Shakespeare
wrote in
iambic hexameter
trochee
iambic pentameter
dactylic pentameter
19
Which is not a
modernist
work?
Mrs Dalloway
The Wasteland
Ivanhoe
Ulysses
20
Do we know the
author of Beowulf
?
No
Yes
21
One of these is
not
connected with
'The Golden Age of Poetry'
.
Edmund Spenser
JohnDonne
Lord Byron
Christopher Marlowe,
22
Oscar Wilde did not write
The Importance of Being Ernest
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The TimeMachine.
An Ideal Husband
23
Whose
sermons
were written down?
John Radcliffe
John de Arc
John Wycliffe
24
Shakespeare
´s theatre was called
the Goal
the Earth
the World
the Globe
25
Eliza Doolittle is the main character of a book called
Pygmalion
written by
G.B. Shaw
Oscar Wilde
Virginia Woolf
G.G. Byron
26
Waiting for Godot
is a famous theatre play written by
Douglas Adams
Kingsley Amis
John Osborne
Samuel Beckett
27
Dissolution of monasteries
in the 16
th
century is connected with
Henry III.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
burning the libraries there.
28
Tolkien
´s fantasy novel about Middle-Earth –
Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings
was filmed
in Australia
in the USA
in New Zealand
in Scotland
29
To be or not to be
that is my duty.
that is the question.
that I will see.
that is my death.
30
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson is about the __.
the duality of human nature
corrupt MPs in the 19th century
romantic poets living at the Lake District.
the first English hospital
31
Jonathan Swift
´s book
Gulliver´s Travels
is
a detective story
a non-fiction novel
a satire of British Society
a theatre play
32
Pagan Irish
stories were passed down by word of
ear
word
media
mouth
33
18th century
and
Jonathan Swift
are connected with the
Age of Rebellion.
Age of Rennaissance.
Age of Reason.
Age of Rum.
34
A horse, a horse, my _________________ for a horse.
wife
daughter
army
kingdom
35
William Golding (1911-1993), a novelist, playwright, and poet is famous for his
Live with Flies
Love of my Life
Lady of the World
Lord of the Flies
36
What is
not
a
Shakespeare's
play?
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
Henry V.
37
The Romantics were interested mainly in
social problems
death, love, nature, the cult of individual
black humour, satire
the cult of beauty
38
Beowulf
was written in ______
century
.
6th
8th
the 5th
7th
39
In his book
Moll Flanders
Daniel Defoe
describes a life of
an orphan
a prostitue in London
his family
a rich man
40
Which
British female author
can you see in the film
The Hours
?
Virginia Woolf
EmilyBrontë
Charlotte Brontë
Jane Austen
41
Henry Fielding's
masterpiece about an
adventurous sincere boy who is immoral:
Tom Jones
Tom Riddley
Tom Niklleby
Tom Hardy
42
Charlotte Brontë
wrote
Jane Eyre
Wuthering Heights
43
The phrase “Big Brother is watching you”comes from a book
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Mrs Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
Ulysses, James Joyce
Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
44
In
Robinson Crusoe
by
Daniel Defoe
is not one of these themes. Which one?
colonialism
repentance
jealousy
economics
45
A narrative of a character’s thoughts instead of a description of his actions is ___.
stream of consciousness
a romantic novella
typical for realism
in absurd drama.
46
Beowulf
- the hero is _______________.
Scottish
Irish
Danish
English
47
Jane Austen
´s most famous book is called
Money and Prejudice
Pride and Money
Pride and Prejudice
Beauty and Love
48
Charles Dickens
, an author of the Victorian age, wrote mainly about
colonialism
love
nature
appaling conditions people lived in
49
„Angry young men“ was a group of authors who.....
expressed disillusionment with the end of WWII
were angry because they were poor
expressed disillusionment and emptiness after WWII.
were angry because they were bored after the WWII ended
50
Paradise Lost
by
John Milton
is
a lyrical ellegy.
an epic poem.
a novella.
a sonnet.