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Test for English Literature
I. Select one from the choices. (20%)
1. “the father of English tragedy and creator of English blank verse was
therefore also the teacher and the guide of Shakespeare” is the description
of the following writer,
a. Surrey
b. Marlowe c. Spenser d.
Jonson
2. Beowulf deals with the following plots except
a. Beowulf fights with the monster with no weapons and cuts off one
arm of the monster, Gerendel.
b. Beowulf fights with Gerendel’s mother, and cuts off her and her
son’s heads.
c. Beowulf sets out to fight the fire dragon.
d. Beowulf fights a giant knight clothed all in green and riding a
green horse.
3.Alfred the Great’ s contributions to English literature lies in the
following except
a. With the help of scholars from England and abroad, he mastered Latin,
studied Christian classics and he also organized scholars to translate
numerous works from Latin into English
b. Alfred created an Anglo-Saxon prose style. He changed the old
disconnected Latin style, making it easier to understand and to express
fluently.
c. Alfred order to write the literary work The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a very
important historical document and example of Anglo-Saxon prose.
d. Alfred’s writings, all in Latin, covered all kinds of subjects, including
grammatical and critical handbooks, scientific theses, biblical comments,
sermons and saint’s lives.
4. A type of narrative literature called romance emerged in
a. 10th century b.
11th century c. 12th century
d. 13th century
5. The title “Poet’s poet” is given to following writer?
a. Shakespeare
b. Edmund Spenser c. Wordsworth
d. William Blake
6. One of the following is not known as sonnet writer
a. Sidney
b. Wyatt c. Spenser
d. Moore
7.In the English Renaissance period, the important form of literature is
poetry, but Thomas More wrote his famous prose work
a. Utopia
b. Robinson Crusoe c.
Gulliver’s Travels d. Of study
8. which play is not a comedy?
a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. Twelfth Night
d. The Merchant of Venice
9. Which works were not written by Milton?
a. Paradise Lost
b. Paradise Regained c. Samson
Agonistes d. Volpone
10. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?
a. Goldsmith
b. Sheridan c. Coleridge
d. Fielding
11. In the 18th century of English literature, the representative writer of
neo-classicism is
a. Pope
b. Swift c. Defoe
d. Milton
12. was an intellectual movement thought in the western Europe in the 18th
century,
a. The Enlightenment b. The Renaissance c.
The Religious Reformation d. the Chartist Movement
13. There were two major novelists in English Romantic period. They were
a. Byron and Shelley
b. Wordsworth and Coleridge
c. Scott and Austen
d. Lamb and Scott
14.The publication of “ Lyrical Ballads” written by marked the beginning of
the Romantic period.
a. William Wordsworth
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Samuel Taylor
Coleridge d. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15. Which is Shelley’s works of literary criticism?
a. An Essay on Criticism
b. A Defense of Poetry
c.
On the Necessity of Atheism d. Of
studies
16.The subtitle of Tess is
a. A pure Woman Faithfully Portrayed
b. The Spirit and the Flesh
c. A Nobel Without a Hero
d. The First Impression
17. “My Last Duchess” is
a. a dramatic monologue b. a
lyric c. a novel d. an essay
18. The greatest English critical realist novelist was who criticized the
bourgeois civilization and showed the misery life of common people.
a. William Makepeace Thackeray
b. Charles Dickens c. Walt Scott d.
Charlotte Bronte
19.Which writer belongs to “stream of consciousness” school?
a. Virginia Woolf b.D. H.
Lawrence c. Thomas Hardy d.
T.S.Eliot
20.which following sentence is not true?
a. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin on 26th July, 1856.
b. George went to local schools but never went to university and was largely
self-taught.
c. In May 1884 Shaw joined the Fabian Society, a socialist league
d. Shaw’s means of transforming the social institution was revolutionary
II. Match the works in column A and the authors in column B. (5 %)
A
B
1. Tess of D’Urbervilles
a. William Shakespeare
2. Vanity Fair
b. D. H. Lawrence
3.The Mill on the Floss
c. Cynewulf
4. The Canterbury Tales
d. Thackeray
5 The Shepheards Calender
e. Chaucer
6.The Merchant of Venice
f. Hardy
7.LadyChatterlay’slover
g. Edmund Spenser
8. The Christ
h. George Eliot
9. Ulysses
i. James Joyce
10. Heart of Darkness
j. Joseph Conrad
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