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CCAA - Final Review - British Literature
CCAA - Final Review - British Literature
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Final Review for the TC Course - British literature credit.
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1
Which character in the British literature represents the Anglo-Saxon heroic ideal?
The King
Winston Churchill
Beowulf
Robin Hood
2
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of
romances and fantastic stories of knights and their love affairs.
narratives of the Battle of Hastings, won by King William the Conqueror.
a group of people making a pilgrimage from London to Becket's shrine.
tales describing the struggles between the Anglo-Saxons with the Normans.
3
These authors do not hesitate to dictate their own personal opinion, except for...
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
William Shakespeare
Doris Lessing
4
Animal farm is a fable satirizing the ---. Their intention is to turn Animal farm into a perfect society, a ---.
Modern society - technological utopia
Russian Revolution - Socialist utopia
The Fisrt World War - Capitalist utopia
Age of reason - Enlightment utopia
5
A Clockwork orange is an example of what kind of literary tradition?
Modern novel
Romantic novel
Contemporary Fiction
Science Fiction
6
Winston Churchill, know for his oratory, helped forge the Big Three alliance of Great Britain, the U.S and the URSS.
True
False
7
What can be said about Romantic and Modern poetry?
Both favor irony, humor and understatement.
Both dramatize the complexities of problems without providing answers.
Both treat every subject with intense seriousness.
None of the alternatives.
8
Thomas More's island is called "Utopia" because he was aware that the perfect society did not and could never exist.
True
False
9
What does Jane Austen's style have in common with Shakespeare's?
Comic plots that end in marriage.
Complex metaphors.
Marriage as a storm of passion.
Marriage as an economic security between moral and intellectual equals.
10
Because of the social inequalities in the Victorian age, writers focused on fantasies. An example of that is;
Man and superman.
Animal farm.
Through the looking glass.
The time machine.
11
Which one is NOT a characteristic of Romanticism?
Individuality
Subjectivity
Rationality
Imortality
12
While Joseph Conrad explores man's moral decay he presents colonialism as an alternative for the development of humanity
False
True
13
As a result of winning the First World War, the working class in Britain experienced an increase in wages and leisure.
True
False
14
Who better displays the injustices of the Industrial Revolution?
Charles Dickens
James Joyce
H. G. Wells
Lewis Carrol
15
Which literary movement appeared as a response to the age of reason?
Enlightment
Modernism
Renaissance
Romanticism
16
At "the Caretaker", Harold Pinter illustrates with a realistic cast a problem in the modern British society. That is...
lack of trust in strangers
poverty
lack of generosity
lack of communication
17
Which technique is used by James Joyce to allow the reader to listen in on the characters' innermost thoughts?
Stream of consciousness.
Flashbacks.
Metaphors.
Symbolism.
18
--- was not interested in the ego or personality of his characters but in the ---, or their instinctive life.
William Wordsmorth - natural being
D. H Lawrence - essential being
William Butler Yeats - most common being
William Blake - romanticized being
19
Which was NOT part of the Age of Austerity, the post-war period?
The loss of foreign assets
Economic crisis
Food rationing
Consumption of luxurious goods
20
Their plane crashed on a deserted island, and the boys must survive and govern themseleves. This is a description of
The Lord of the Flies
Coketown
Robinson Crusoe
The Caretaker
