1. Who was the British isles inhabited by 250000 years ago? Angles,Celts and Jutes

ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.


Sonnets
Tragedies
Histories
Ballads


117. Choose the most suitable work for this description.
The King divides his kingdom among the two daughters who flatter him and banishes the third one who loves him. His eldest daughters both then reject him at their homes, so the king goes mad and wanders through a storm. His banished daughter returns with an army, but they lose the battle and the king, all his daughters and more, die.

Coriolanus

King Lear
King John
The Comedy of Errors

118. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The greatest of all publicists during the Puritan Revolution was the poet …. His pamphlets gave theoretical foundation to the struggle of the puritans against the monarchy.

John Dryden

John Milton
John Donne
Thomas More

119.Choose the works which were written by John Milton.

“Paradise Lost”, “Paradise Regained”, “Samson Agonistes”

“The Winter’s Tale”, “Pericles”, “Measure for Measure”
“Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell”, “Astraea Redux”
“Absalom and Achitophel”, “Mac Flecknoe”, “Annus Mirabilis”

120. Choose the most suitable work for this description.

Some character features of the hero of the tragedy are identical with those of the author, Milton. In it Milton shows that he remained faithful to his ideals. It is considered his most powerful work. The great hero, is imprisoned and blinded, but manages to destroy his enemies, although he perishes himself.

“Paradise lost”

“Paradise regained”
“Samson Agonistes”
“Annus Mirabilis”

121. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

“…” is an epic, divided into twelve books, or chapters. The characters are God, three guardian angels - Raphael, Gabriel and Michael, Satan and his rebel angels, and the first man and woman - Adam and Eve.

“Paradise lost”

“Paradise regained”
“Samson Agonistes”
“Annus Mirabilis”

122. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

“Paradise Lost” is an epic, divided into … books, or chapters. The characters are God, three guardian angels - Raphael, Gabriel and Michael, Satan and his rebel angels, and the first man and woman - Adam and Eve.

12
10

7
15

123. Which epic are these lines extracted from?

“… Certain my resolution is to die.
How can I live without thee?
How forgo. Thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined,
To live again in these wild woods forlorn?...”

“Paradise regained”

“The bait”
“Paradise lost”
“Samson Agonistes”

124. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

In 1667 Dryden published “…”, a poem commemorating three events of the previous year: the end of the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Dutch War. This is a most unusual feat in transferring almost immediately contemporary events into poetry.

“Absalom and Achitophel”

“Annus Mirabilis”
“Astraea Redux”
“Mac Flecknoe”

125. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

… wrote verse in several forms: odes, poetic drama, biting satires, and translations of classic authors. His early poem “Heroic Stanzas on the Death of Cromwell“ was published in 1659.

John Milton

John Dryden
John Donne
Oliver Cromwell

126. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The eighteenth-century philosophical impulse known as the … rested on five general beliefs: the inevitability of progress; the perfectibility of man and his institutions; the efficacy of reason; the beneficence of God; and the plentitude and perfection of nature.

Puritanism

Enlightenment
Renaissance
Classicism

127. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The eighteenth century had many other titles. It has been called the Age of …, because many writers and poets of that time were fascinated by ancient Greece and Rome.

Classicism

Reason
Elegance
Enlightenment

128. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The eighteenth century has been called the Age of …, for the display of elegant style of life among the upper classes.

Classicism

Reason
Elegance
Enlightenment

129. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The main literary trends of the age of the Enlightenment in England were classicism, realism, sentimentalism and early romanticism, out of which, … is a very English phenomenon.

Classicism

Realism
Sentimentalism
Early romanticism

130. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

Satire was one of the most common types of literature during the Augustan Age. The leading satirists of the period were … in prose and … in poetry.

Daniel Defoe / Ben Jonson

Jonathan Swift /Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope / Daniel Defoe
Tobias Smollet / Jonathan Swift

131. What was the leading genre of the Enlightenment in literature?

Poetry
Essay
Novel
Verse
132. … is the founder of the early realistic novel. He was a journalist, and in many ways, the father of modern English periodicals. He founded and conducted the first English newspaper “The Review” (1704 - 1713).

Jonathan Swift

Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Tobias Smollet

133. What suggested the idea for the novel “Robinson Crusoe” to Defoe?

A story in a magazine about Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor

A true story about a captain of a ship crew, Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish man
A newspaper article about a native American
Defoe’s dream

134. Which literary work is this description about?

At the beginning of the story the main character of the novel, the hero, is an unexperienced youth, a rather light- minded boy. Then he develops into a strong-willed man, able to fight against all the calamities of his unusual destiny. He knew that he should not give way to self-pity or fear, or spend time in mourning for his lost companions.

Gulliver
Robinson Crusoe

Macbeth
Hamlet

135. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

… was the greatest of English satirists. He is generally thought to be the greatest prose writer of the eighteenth century. He was a man whom many considered a misanthrope (one who hates humankind) because his writings were deeply critical of humanity.

Jonathan Swift

Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
Tobias Smollet

136. Swift’s “…” is a mock debate between ancient and modern authors.

Gulliver’s travels

A Tale of a Tub
The Battle of Books
Journal to Stella

137. Swift criticized and satirized the evils of the existing society in the form of fictitious travels. Apart from being a good story, it is the indictment of the human race for refusing reason and benevolence as the ways of life.

Gulliver’s travels

A Tale of a Tub
The Battle of Books
Journal to Stella

138. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The novel “Gulliver’s Travels” is divided into four parts that are actually …voyages.

2
3
4

5

139. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

Gulliver first visits …- tiny people whose bodies and surroundings are only 1/12 the size of normal people and things.

Lilliputians

the country of Brobdingnag
Houyhnhnms
Yahoos

140. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

Gulliver’s … voyage takes him to several strange kingdoms. The conduct of the strange people of these countries shows the types of foolishness Swift saw in his world. For example, in the academy of Lagado, scholars waist all their time on useless projects such as extracting sunbeams from cucumbers. Here Swift satirizes impractical scientists and philosophers.

First
Second

Third
Fourth

141. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

In his last voyage, Gulliver discovers a land ruled by wise and gentle … called Houyhnhnms. Stupid, savage creatures called Yahoos also live there. The Yahoos look like human beings.

Giants
Horses

Sheep
Tiny people

142. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

The greatest merit of the novel “Gulliver’s Travels” is the satirical description of all the … of the society of the time. Under the cloak of fantasy Swift satirized the politics of the time, religious prejudices, wars of ambition and the absurdity of many aspects of science.

Virtue
Vices

Advantages
Conclusions

143. When was Swift’s masterpiece “Gulliver’s Travels” written?

1726
1722
1723
1718

144. Whose romance is the most complete English version of stories about

King Arthur?

Christopher Marlowe’s.

Ben Jonson’s.
William Langland’s.
Sir Thomas Malory’s

145. What writer are the following lines about?

In 1701 he wrote a satire in verse, “The True-born Englishman”. It was
written against those, who declared that the English race should be kept pure.
Jonathan Swift.
Daniel Defoe.
Henry Fielding.
Tobias Smollet.

146. Which tragedy written by W. Shakespeare is considered the hardest of his works to understand because of the main character’s behaviour?

Othello.
Hamlet.
King Lear.
Julius Caesar

147. Whom was founded and conducted the first English newspaper?

“The Review” by?

Walter Scott.

Daniel Defoe.
Jonathan Swift.
Alexander Pope.

148. In what form did Satan return at night in order to persuade Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? (“Paradise Lost”)

Swallow .
Serpent.
Cat.
Fox.

149. When did English poets begin to write on Carpe diem theme?

In the Age of Reason.
In the Age of Enlightenment.
In the Renaissance period.
In the XVII century.

150. What type of poetry do the following lines belong to?

Come live with me and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
Or woods, or steepy mountain yields.
(Christopher Marlowe. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love.)

Romantic poetry.

Religious poetry.
Puritan poetry.
Carpe diem poetry.

151. How many lines does a sonnet consist of?

twelve lines.
thirteen lines.
eleven lines.
fourteen lines.

152. What poet does the following stanzas belong to?

“…And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals…”

Sir Walter Raleigh.

Christopher Marlowe.
George Gordon Byron.
William Shakespeare.

153. Who taught Gulliver the language of the Brobdingnag people?

The Queen.

A ten-year-old girl Guendolen.
A nine-year-old girl Glumdalclitch.
A nine-year-old boy Glundenlitch.

154. Which English writer wrote a literary work about Amir Temur “Tamburlaine the Great”?

Ben Jonson..
Walter Scott.
Christopher Marlowe.
John Milton

155. Which author is also known as “Bard of Avon”,”Swan of Avon”?

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe
Sir Edmund Spencer
Sir Philip Sidney

156. What poet does the following epigrams belong to?

T’is education forms the common mind:
Just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.
( - Moral Essays, Epistle IV, lines 247-248.)
To err is human, to forgive divine. ( - Ibid., line 325.)
A little learning is a dangerous thing;
( - Essay on Criticism, Part II, lines 15-16.)

Alexander Pope

William Shakespeare
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Francis Bacon

157. In which voyage in the novel “Gulliver’s travels” Gulliver went to the island where giant people live?

First
Second

Third
Fourth

158. Who is the author of Beowulf?

The Venerable Bede

Alfred the Great
Cynewulf
Unknown author

159. How many eclogues does Spenser’s “Shepherd’s Calendar ”consist of ?

13
10

7
12

160. What group of ballads do Robin Hood ballads belong to?

Historical

Romantic
Heroic
Theologic

161. Who is the author of the literary works “Volpone, or the Fox”(1606), “The Silent Woman”, “The Alchemist”(1610), “Bartholomew Fair” and tragedies “Sejanus His Fall” and “Catiline His Conspiracy” ?

Ben Jonson

Thomas Malory
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe

162. Why did Christopher Marlowe die so young?

He died of bronchitis

He died because of a battle wound
He was killed in a brawl
He drowned

163. Which of Shakespeare’s comedies are often called “problem” comedies or “bitter” comedies?

“All’s Well That Ends Well”, “Measure for Measure”

“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “Love’s Labour’s Lost”
“The Merchant of Venice”, “As You Like It”
“Twelfth Night”, “The Merry Wives of Windsor”

164. What was Shakespeare’s first romance play?

“Pericles”

“All’s Well That Ends Well”
“Timon of Athens”
“Hamlet”

165. What is the last literary work written by Shakespeare?

Henry VIII

Henry VI
The Comedy of Errors
Romeo and Juliet

166. What is “Romeo and Juliet” based on?

Thomas Malory’s “Morte d’Arthur”

Arthur Brook’s poem of a similar title
Philip Sidney’s “Astrophel And Stella”
Folk ballads about Robin Hood

167. “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”- These words were written by ….

Francis bacon
William Shakespeare
Edmund Spencer
Daniel Defoe


168. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.
The greatest of all publicists during the Puritan Revolution was the poet …. His pamphlets gave theoretical foundation to the struggle of the puritans against the monarchy.

John Dryden

John Milton
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson

169. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

Adam and Eve are allowed by God to live, in Paradise, in the Garden of Eden, as long as do not eat the apple that grows on the Tree of the … of good and evil. (from “Paradise lost”)

Wealth
Health

Well-being
Knowledge

170. Who is known as the father of English novel?

Daniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
William Shakespeare
John Milton

171.Who is the father of English criticism?

John Milton

William Shakespeare
John Dryden
Daniel Defoe

172.Which of the following works commemorates three events of the XVII century: the end of the plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Dutch War?

“Annus Mirabilis”

“Mac Flecknoe”
“Astraea Redux”
“Aeneid”

173.Who is the father of journalism in England?

Daniel Defoe

Jonathan Swift
William Shakespeare
John Milton

174. Which of the angels shows Adam a vision of the tyranny and lawlessness which are to befall mankind ?(“Paradise Lost”)

Raphael
Gabriel

Michael
Satan

175. The greatest merit of the novel “Gulliver’s travels” is the … description of all the vices of the society of the time.

Satirical

Lyrical
Tragic
Realistic

176. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

Swift’s conversations with the leaders of the English political parties are described in his letters to … (Esther)

Penelope
Stella

Mary
Anne Hathaway

177. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

“The Battle of Books” and “A Tale of a Tub” were the first satires by ….

Daniel Defoe

John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
John Milton

178. Which writer are these lines about?

He was a man whom many considered a misanthrope (one who hates humankind) because his writings were deeply critical of humanity. He was born on November 30, 1667. In 1740 his memory and reason were gone and he became completely deaf. He died on the 19th of October, in 1745.

Daniel Defoe

John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
John Milton

179. What was original title of the novel “Gulliver’s travels ”?

“Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon and then a Captain of Several Ships”

“Lemuel Gulliver’s travels into Several Remote Nations of the World as a Surgeon ”

“Travels of Gulliver’s into Several Remote Islands of the World, first a Surgeon and then a captain of Several Ships”

“Lemuel Gulliver’s travels into Several Remote Nations of the World”

180. Who was the pamphlet “Education of Women” written by?

Daniel Defoe

John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
Francis Bacon

181. Which author’s works are characterized by their duality (which means that two independent views go together). He chooses his themes from the Bible, but under his treatment they became revolutionary in spirit.

Daniel Defoe

John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
John Milton

182. Who solved the problem of the chronology of Shakespeare’s plays in 1930?

Sir Walter Raleigh

Sir Edmund K. Chambers
John Dryden
Henry Fielding

183. Which author lived from 1564 to 1616?

William Shakespeare

Philip Sidney
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson

184. Which of the following literary men translated Homer’s “”Iliad” and “Odyssey” into English in 1715?

William Shakespeare

Alexander Pope
John Dryden
Joseph Addison

185. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.

”The Tattler”, “The Spectator” and “The Guardian” were … which helped to establish contact between writers and readers in XVIII century.

Magazines (periodicals)

Essays
Pamphlets
Poems (sonnets)

186. Which list of the following characters is from the epic “Beowulf’?

Beowulf, Surpent, Higgins, Harry
Higelac, Beowulf, Hrothgar, Grendel
Hrothgar, Adam, Pamela, George
Beowulf, Faustus, Lear, Higelac

187. What is expressed in the tragedies “Sejanus His Fall” and “Catiline His Conspiracy” by Ben Jonson?

His love to his Motherland

The hostility to tyrants
The problems of art
Happiness

188. A dramatic composition, treating of sorrowful or terrible events in a serious and dignified style, with an unhappy or disastrous ending.

Tragedy
Comedy

Essay
Pamphlet

189. Which literary trend paid much attention to the description of the inner world of the characters, they believed in innate virtue of man and his ability of moral improvement. They considered that civilization was harmful to humanity, that man should live close to nature and be free from the corrupting influence of town life?

Sentimentalists

Classicists
Romanticism
Realists

190. Use of ridicule, irony, sarcasm in writing or speech for the

purpose of exposing some moral or social vice.

Fable
Prose

Satire
Tragedy

191. A time of cultural development in Europe between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Romanticism

Enlightenment
Renaissance
Sentimentalism

192. A philosophy that emphasized the role of reason rather than of sensory experience and faith in answering basic questions of human existence. It was most influential during the Age of Reason (1660-1780).

Rationalism

Realism
Sentimentalism
Enlightenment

193. The leading character or hero in a literary work.

Protagonist

Antagonist
Caesura
Kenning

194. A section preceding the main body of a work and serving as an introduction.

Prologue
Eclogue

Protagonist
Prototype

195. A conventional form of lyric poetry presenting an idealized picture of rural life.

Prologue
Pastoral

Sonnet
Ode

196. A story told or sung in verse, transmitted orally from generation to generation.

Pastoral
Folk ballad

Fable
Fabliaux

197. A long narrative poem in elevated style presenting the adventures of a central hero who possesses superhuman qualities and generally embodies national ideals.

Pastoral
Folk ballads

Epic
Narrative poetry

198. Moralizing or instructive characteristic of literature.

Didactic
Epic

Comedy
Rational

199. A play of amusing character, in which either wit or good humour prevails, usually with a happy end.

Comedy
Tragedy

Poetry
Prose

200. A professional singer and poet among ancient Celts,whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honour of heroes and their deeds.

Bard
Singer

Druid
Artist

201. A short statement expressing a wise or clever observation about life.

Monologue

Dialogue
Aphorism
Verse

202. … is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement. The word is derived from the Greek "inscription" and the literary device has been employed for over two millennia.

Eclogue
Prologue
Epigram
Epistle