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Test for English Literature
I. Multiple choice: make the best choice
from a), b), c) and d) to complete the statement or answer the question.
1. Which of the flowing is not concerned with Alfred the Great?
A The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
B Father of English Prose”.
C Translation of numerous works from Latin into
English. D Beowulf
2. Beowulf is written in
A alliterative verse
B heroic couplet C blank verse
D terza rima
3. Which of the following poem tells stories from the Old Testament that are
concerned with punishments for impurity?
A Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B Pearl C
Cleaness D Piers the Plowman
4. Which of the following statement is wrong about Piers the Plowman?
A Piers the Plowman is an allegorical poem.
B Piers the Plowman is written by William
Langland
C Piers the Plowman is composed of a series of dreams,
sometimes, even dreams within dreams.
D Piers the Plowman present a realistic picture
of the 15th century in England.
5. The House of Fame is written by Chaucer in
A the first period of his literary career
B the second period of his literary career
C the third period of his literary career
D the final period of his literary career
6. “Now Robin Hood is to Nottingham gone,
With a link-a-down and a day,
And there he met a silly old woman,
Was weeping on the way.” must be selected from
A an epic
B a ballad C an allegorical poem
D a legendary story
7. The poet who introduces blank verse into English with his translation of
Virgil’s The Aeneid is
A Sir Thomas Wyatt
B Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
C Edmund Spenser
D Sir Philip Sidney
8. The Faerie Queene can be read as the following types of writing
except
A romantic epic
B spiritual allegory C
political allegory D romance
9. Which of the following playwright firmly supported the “ three unities ”
and strongly disagreed with a mixture of serious and comic episodes in a
play.
A Ben Jonson
B William Shakespeare C Sheridan
D Goldsmith
10. The first greatest writer of English drama is
A William Shakespeare
B Christopher Marlowe C Thomas Kyd
D Edmund Spenser
11. All of the following plays are tragedies by Shakespeare except
A Othello
B Hamlet
C The Tempest
D Macbeth
12. Which of the following works is based on the Book of Judges of the
Bible?
A Paradise Lost
B Samson Agonistes C
Pilgrim’s Progress D Paradise Regained
13. Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan reflects the spirit of
A romanticism
B neo- classicism
C Catholicism
D Puritanism
14. “the lady of Christ’s” is the nick name of
A John Donne
B Defoe
C Shelly
D Milton
15. The person who uses the term of Metaphysical Poets first is
A John Donne
B Marvell
C Dryden
D Herrick
16. The motif of carpe diem (seize the day ) is evident in the poem of
A To His Coy Mistress
B To the Virgins , to Make Much of Time
C To Lucasta, On Going to the Wars
D Woman’s Constancy
17. Which one of the following writers is not Neo-classicist
A Johnson
B Addison
C Steele
D Pope
18. Which one of the following novelist starts as a dramatist and then
turned to write novels?
A Daniel Defoe
B Henry Fielding C Smollet
D Dickens
19.The first English woman to break the male monopoly of novel writing is
A George Eliot
B Jane Austen C Mary
Shelley D
Charlotte Bronte
20. Waiting for Godot is a play of
A absurdism
B black humor C
romanticism D
realism
II. Match the works in column A and the authors in column B
A
B
1. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Bernard Shaw
2. Widower’s Houses
T. S. Eliot
3. Animal Farm
George Eliot
4. Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
5. Sons and Lovers
Walter Scott
6. The Mill on the Floss
D. H. Lawrence
7. Wuthering Heights
Laurence Sterne
8. Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
9. Waverly to A Legend of Montrose
Emily Bronte
10. Tristram Shandy
George Orwell
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