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

1.Who was the British isles inhabited by 250000 years ago?
Angles,Celts and Jutes
Invaders from Iberian peninsula
Cave dwellers
Romans

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

Druids were ….

builders of Stonehenge

priests; their role was to go between the gods and the people
leaders of the Celtic tribes
Britons

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

The powerful State of Rome invaded the British Isles in the … .

II century A.D.

I century A.D.
I century B.C.
IV century

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

In V century The British isles were invaded by … .

Celtic tribes

Angles, Saxons and Jutes
Iberian tribes
Romans

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

Runes were … .

Priests of Celtic tribes

letters of the Germanic tribes
Singers
Bards

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

Bards were ….

writers of the Germanic tribes

singers of the Germanic tribes
warriors of the Germanic tribes
the people who live in England

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

Many old English poems glorified … .

beauty of women and nature

love of one’s country and devotion for it
imaginary heroes and the values of bravery and generosity
gods and goddesses

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

Anglo-Saxon Heptarchy is …

seven sovereign kingdoms

land of seven rivers
seven germanic tribes
seven lakes

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

Alliteration, Kennings and Caesura are …

the poetic devices which are popular nowadays

the poetic stylistic devices which were commonly used in old English literature
popular stanzas
famous literary characters

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

Alliteration is …

the repetition of the same initial sound (usually a consonant) to create a unifying sound effect or enhance a description

a special kind of metaphor that uses compound words, prepositional phrases, or possessives to modify or indirectly name a character or thing
is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins
a kind of stanza

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

A kenning is …

the repetition of the same initial sound (usually a consonant) to create a unifying sound effect or enhance a description

a special kind of metaphor that uses compound words, prepositional phrases, or possessives to modify or indirectly name a character or thing
is a metrical pause or break in a verse where one phrase ends and another phrase begins
a kind of stanza

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

“Sky-candle” for sun,“whale-road”for sea,“mankind’s enemy” for Grendel are examples of ….

Alliteration

Caesura
Kenning
Iambic pentameter

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

“To feast his fill of the flesh of men”, “gulped the blood and gobbled the flesh” , “for fear of a feud were forced to disown him”, “Bound to the bank then the broad-bosomed vessel”are examples of … .

Alliteration

Caesura
Kenning
Iambic pentameter

14. How long is the epic poem “Beowulf”?

2500 lines long
3000 lines long
3182 lines long
4000 lines long

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

The beautiful Anglo-Saxon poem “…” may be called the foundation-stone of all British poetry.

Beowulf
Ecclesiastical history …

Elene
The wife of Usher’s Well

16. Beowulf’s first battle was against …

a dragon
Grendel’s mother
Grendel
Wiglaf


17. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.
Beowulf’s last battle was against … .

a dragon
Grendel’s mother

Grendel
Wiglaf

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

Beowulf was the strongest and the bravest of all the warriors. He was said to have the strength of … men.

Thirty
Three

Forty
Fifty

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

Hrothgar (in “Beowulf”) is ….

A king of Geats

A king of Danes
A beautiful palace
A witch

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

Heorot (in “Beowulf”) is …

a king of Jutes

A beautiful palace built by Hrothgar
A sea monster
Beowulf’s friend

21. Where did Grendel live?

in the mead hall
in the sea
inside the cave in his lair in dark fens
in the palace

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

Hygelac was … .

Beowulf’s uncle, a king of Jutes

A king Danes, Beowulf’s father
Beowulf’s wife
Beowulf’s friend

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

Grendel’s mother was ....

a sea monster

a water witch
a queen of witches
a goddess

24. Why did Grendel’s mother came to fight with Beowulf?

to show that she was the best warrior

to conquer the land of Danes
to avenge her sons’ death
to eat people

25. How did Beowulf kill Grendel?

with a sword

fighting bare-handed
with a punch
with a kick

26. How did Beowulf overcome Grendel’s mother?

with his own sword

fighting bare-handed
with the help of the huge magic sword
with a punch

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

Beowulf became the king of Jutes after … .

he defeated Grendel and his mother

after the death of his uncle Hygelac
after defeating the dragon
when he was elected

28. Who helped Beowulf in the last battle against the dragon?

Hygelac
his warriors
Wiglaf,his friend and heir
Heorot

29. What caused Beowulf’s death?

his injuries when battling with the third monster, a raging dragon.
the betrayal of his loyal warriors
Grendel’s punch
an illness

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

Beowulf’s victory over the monsters symbolizes … .

the importance of being physically strong

the triumph of a man over the powers of darkness and evil
the power of human’s will
the power of love

31. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gaps.

The narrative of “Beowulf” falls into two halves: the first part takes place in … where, coming to the aid of King Hrothgar, Beowulf fights the monster Grendel and Grendel’s mother. The second part is set in Southern ….

England, Scotland

Denmark, Sweden
Denmark, England
Ireland, Wales

32. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gaps.

According to Bede, Caedmon was … and …at Whitby, a monastery founded in 657 by St. Hilda.

Herdsman (shepherd)/ lay brother

monk/master
Carpenter/ singer
painter/poet

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

… was an illiterate herdsman, retired from company one night in shame because he could not comply with the demand made of each guest to sing. Then in a dream a stranger appeared commanding him to sing of “the beginning of things,” and the herdsman found himself uttering “verses which he had never heard.” 

Cynewulf
Caedmon

Bede
Raleigh

34. Which of the following works are attributed to Caedmon?

Paraphrase,Hymn of Creation, Exodus,Daniel
Juliana,Elene,The Ascension
The Ecclesiastical history of the English Race
Beowulf

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

… was a monk who lived at the end of the 8th century. His name was not forgotten, as he signed his name in runes in the last line of his works. Two of his poems, “Elene” and “Juliana” are notable because they are the first Anglo-Saxon works to introduce women characters.

Caedmon
Cynewulf

Bede
Alfred the Great

36. Two of his poems,”Elene” and “Juliana” are notable because they are the first Anglo-Saxon works to introduce women characters.

Caedmon’s
Bede’s
Cynewulf’s
Alfred’s

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

… masterpiece, completed in 731,when he was 51 years old, is his “The Ecclesiastical History of the English Race”, which describes the growth of Christianity in England.

Caedmon’s

The Venerable Bede’s
Cynewulf’s
Alfred the Great’s

38. He translated a part of the Bible as well. He created the first history of England, the first prose in English literature, the famous “Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”

Caedmon
Alfred the Great

The Venerable Bede
Cynewulf

39. In what languages did communication go in England in Norman period?

Latin at monasteries and church, French at court and official documentation, English among common people

French at monasteries, Latin among common people, English at court and official documentation
English at monasteries, French among common people, Latin at courts and official documentation
Only in English

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

In the 15th century … (1395? -1471) collected the romances of King Arthur and arranged them in a series of stories in prose, intelligible to any modern reader.

Sir Thomas Malory

Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spencer
Sir Walter Raleigh

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

In the medieval period the term “…” meant a long narrative in verse or prose telling of the adventures of a hero. These stories of adventure usually include knights, ladies in distress, kings, and villains.

Romance
Narrative poem

History
Epic poem

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

Central to the medieval romance was the code of chivalry, the rules and customs connected with . ….

Knighthood

Parents
Family
Education

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

… is a short tale or prolonged personification with animal characters intended to convey a moral truth; it’s a myth, a fiction, a falsehood. It’s a short story about supernatural or extraordinary persons or incidents

Fable
Fabliaux

Romance
Narrative poetry

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

… are funny metrical short stories about cunning humbugs and the unfaithful wives of rich merchants.

Fabliaux
Fable

Romance
Narrative poetry

45. Who is this description about?

He denounced the rich churchmen and said that everybody was obliged to work. His name is remembered for a poem he wrote, “The Visions of William Concerning Piers the Ploughman”. Nowadays the poem is called “Piers Plowman”

William Langland

Walter Raleigh
Francis Bacon
Edmund Spencer

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

… is considered the father of English history, as he was the author of the most important history of early England.

The Venerable Bede

Caedmon
Cynewulf
Malory

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

The qualities of the …in the Middle Ages were bravery, honor, courtesy, protection of the weak, respect for women, generosity, and fairness to enemies.

Ideal love

Ideal courtly knight
Ideal hero
Poetry

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

“…” is an allegorical poem. In it Vice and Virtue are spoken of as if they were human beings. Truth is a young maiden, Greed is an old witch.

Piers Plowman

Morte d’Arthur
Matter of Britain
Canterbury tales

49.Which work is this description about?

It begins with a vision which the poet William had on the Malvern Hills. In a long and complicated succession of scenes Langland portrays almost every side of fourteenth-century life. In his dream the poet sees a peasant. He tells him about the hard life of the people.

Piers Plowman

Morte d’Arthur
Matter of Britain
Canterbury tales

50. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gaps.

Chaucer’s poetry is generally divided into … periods. They are … .

two, The English and The Italian periods

four, The Spanish,The French, The Italian and The English periods
three, The French,The Italian and The French periods
three, The Spanish, The English and The Italian periods

51.Who is this description about?

He wrote “The House of Fame”, a didactic poem; “The Parliament of Fowls” (birds), an allegorical poem satirizing Parliament; “Troilus and Criseyda”, “The Legend of Good Women”, a dream-poem, his masterpiece “The Canterbury Tales”, but it remained unfinished.

William Langland

Geoffrey Chaucer
John Wyclif
Sir Thomas Malory

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

“…”, for which Chaucer’s name is best remembered, is a long poem with a general introduction (“The Prologue”), the clearest picture of late medieval life existent anywhere. The framework, which serves to connect twenty-four stories, told in verse, is a pilgrimage.

The Parliament of Fowls

Troilus and Criseyda
Piers Plowman
Canterbury tales

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

Chaucer planned to include … stories in “Canterbury tales”, but he managed only …, some of them were not completed.

120/24
100/30

30/24
80/20

54. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gaps.

Harry Bailly proposes the following plan: each pilgrim was to tell … stories on the way to the shrine and … on the way back. The host would be their guide and would judge their stories. He who told the best story was to have a fine supper at the expense of the others.

2/2
4/4

1/1
3/3

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

In “Canterbury Tales” Chaucer introduced a rhythmic pattern called … into English poetry. This pattern, or meter, consists of 10 syllables alternately unaccented and accented in each line. The lines may or may not rhyme.

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse
Sonnet
A quatrain,rhyming ABCB

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

… flourished in England and Scotland in the 15th century. The most interesting examples of its were ballads. Ballads and songs expressed the sentiments and thoughts of people.

Folk poetry

Prose
Romance
Novels

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

Folk poetry flourished in England and Scotland in the 15th century. The most interesting examples of folk poetry were …. They expressed the sentiments and thoughts of people. They were handed down orally from generation to generation.

Ballads
Poems

Short stories
Plays

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

In “Piers plowman” truth is described as ….

an old witch

a young maiden
an old man
a child

59. What is the usual rhyming pattern which is mostly used in folk ballads?

a,a,b,a
a,b,c,b
a,b,a,b
a,a,b,b

60. Which literary work are these lines extracted from?

“… I wish the wind may never cease,
Nor flashes in the flood,
Till my three sons come home to me,
In earthly flesh and blood….”

The wife of Usher’s Well

Robin Hood and Allan a Dale
Piers Plowman
King Arthur and the knights of Round Table

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

The use of dreams was a conventional literary device, but … is unusual in containing not one dream sequence but eight, and two more “dreams within dreams.”

The Wife of Usher’s Well

Piers Plowman
Robin Hood and Allan a Dale
The Canterbury Tales

62. Which author’s work was published in 1485 by Caxton, the first English printer, at Westminster (London), under the title of “… Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of Round Table”?

Alfred the Great’s
William Langland’s
Thomas Malory’s
John Milton’s

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

As regards to content, the ballads are usually divided into … groups.

3
4
2

5

64. Which literary work are these lines extracted from?

“I have no money,”
the young man said,
“But five shillings and a ring;
And that I have kept this seven long years,
To have it at my wedding.
Yesterday I should have married a maid, But she soon from me was tane,
And chosen to be an old knight’s delight, Whereby my poor heart is slain.”

Beowulf
The Wife of Usher’s Well

Robin Hood and Allan a Dale
Paradise lost

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

Thus, … was an outlaw and lived in Sherwood Forest. He was smart and clever “with a twinkle in the eye”.

Pier, the ploughman

Robin Hood
Allan a Dale
Little John

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

The word “Renaissance”comes from the Latin which means ….

Refreshment

Recreation
Rebirth
Renovation

67. Which literary work are these lines extracted from?

“Come listen to me, you gallants so free
All you that love mirth for to hear,
And I will tell you of a bold outlaw
That lived in Nottinghamshier….”

Robin Hood and Allan a Dale

The Wife of Usher’s Well
The Bait
The passionate shepherd to his love

68. A 14-line poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm.

Lyric
narrative poetry

sonnet
ballad

69. A short poem that expresses a poet’s personal emotions and thoughts in a song-like style.

blank verse

sonnet
lyric
narrative poetry

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

The Renaissance in English literature is usually studied by dividing it into … parts.
3
4
2
5

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

… and improved methods of manufacturing paper made possible the rapid spread of knowledge. In 1476, during the Wars of the Roses, William Caxton set up the first of the above mentioned in London.

The invention of paper

The invention of ink
The invention of printing press
The invention of new writing tools

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

… was imported by Wyatt and Surrey from Italian literature.

essay
narrative poetry

sonnet
drama

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

… has since become an example of individual who places conscience above the claims of authority. The Roman Catholic Church declared him a saint in 1935.
Sir Thomas More
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Edmund Spencer
Sir Philip Sidney

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

The essay was imported by Sir … from France during the period of Renaissance.
Francis Bacon
Walter Raleigh
Edmund Spencer
Philip Sidney

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

In 1576, James Burbage built England’s first playhouse, called The …, in a suburb of London. Until this time, drama had been performed in the streets, in homes and palaces, and at English universities.

Theatre
Playhouse

Arena
Hall

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

William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and other more than a dozen first-rate playwrights also created their skillful dramas at that period. …, introduced into the language by Surrey, became the main form for writing tragedies and comedies.

Iambic pentameter

Blank verse
A quatrain,rhyming ABCB
A sonnet stanza

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

The greatest of the Puritan poets, and one of the greatest English poets was … , Latin secretary to the Puritan Commonwealth. While in this position his sight began to fail ; eventually he became blind. He composed “Paradise Lost”.

John Dryden

John Milton
Thomas More
William Shakespeare

78. A kind of a poem which tells a story. Shakespeare’s “Venus and Adonis” and Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene” are the examples.

Lyric
narrative poetry

sonnet
song

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

More published his famous work “…” at the age of thirty-eight. It was written in Latin. It is an account of an ideal society, with justice and equality for all citizens.

Utopia
A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation

The History of King Richard III
The New Atlantis

80. How many books is “Utopia” divided into ?

2
3
4
5

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

… (Utopia) is dedicated to Hythloday’s description of the island of Utopia (meaning Nowhere), which he visited during one of his journeys. It is a state that has achieved absolute social and economic harmony.

Book I
Book II

Book III
Book IV

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

More, the Flemish humanist Petrus Aegidius, and a philosophical sailor Raphael Hythloday are main characters of … .

Utopia
Novum Organum

The New Atlantis
The History of King Richard III

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

Although Bacon won fame in his day as a philosopher and scientist, he receives most attention today as an author, particularly an essayist. He introduced the essay form into English literature, and from 1597 to 1625 he published, in three collections, a total of … essays.
58
50
68
40
84. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.
In 1620 “Novum Organum” (“The New Instrument”), written in Latin, was published. It influenced future scientific research with its inductive method of inquiry. Thus, scientists today owe their reliance on the inductive method of reasoning to ….
Bacon
Spencer
Raleigh
Marlowe

85. These lines are written by … .

“Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability…. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention….”
Francis Bacon
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spencer
Daniel Defoe

86. He was known as “Prince of poets”, “The poet’s poet” in his time.

Francis Bacon
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spencer
Daniel Defoe

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

The poems “Shepherd’s Calendar” (1579), “The Faerie Queene” (The Fairy Queen, 1595)), the sonnet cycle “Amoretti” (1594) and beautiful marriage hymns “Epithalamionion” (1594), “Prothalamion” (1595) are attributed to ….

Ben Jonson

Sir Francis Bacon
Edmund Spencer
John Donne

88. This work consists of 12 eclogues, or dialogues, between shepherds (one for each month of the year). The most important of these is “October” which deals with the problem of poetry in contemporary life and the responsibility of the poet.

“Shepherd’s calendar”by Spencer

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Marlowe
“The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”by Raleigh
“The bait”by John Donne

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

The title of his sonnet cycle “Amoretti” means “…”. The cycle is dedicated to Elizabeth Boyle.

Little short stories

Little love stories
Long love stories
Little historical stories

90. These lines were written by … .

“One day I wrote her name upon the strand,
But came the waves and washed it away:
Again I wrote it with a second hand,
But came the tide and made my pains his prey…. ”

Ben Jonson

Sir Francis Bacon
Edmund Spencer
John Donne

91. Who is this text about?

He accompanied Elizabeth on a visit to the estate of the Earl of Essex, where he met the Earl’s thirteen-year-old daughter, Penelope. Later he immortalized her as Stella of his sonnet cycle “Astrophel and Stella”.

Francis Bacon

Walter Raleigh
Edmund Spencer
Sir Philip Sidney

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

The sonnet cycle “Astrophel and Stella”, the prose fiction “Arcadia”, a pamphlet titled “Apology for Poetry” were written by … .

Francis Bacon

Walter Raleigh
Edmund Spencer
Sir Philip Sidney

93. … was one of the greatest dramatists of his time, the first Elithabethan writer of tragedy, was born in Canterbury and studied at Cambridge. Born in the same year as Shakespeare, he was killed in a brawl when he was only twenty-nine.

Francis Bacon

Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spencer
Daniel Defoe

94.Which of the following works were written by Christopher Marlowe?

“Astrophel and Stella”, “Arcadia”, “Apology for Poetry”

“Tamburlaine the Great”, “The Jew of Malta”, “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, “Edward II”

“Amoretti”,“Shepherd’s Calendar” (1579), “The Faerie Queene”

“The twelfth night”,”Canterbury tales”

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

If Shakespeare died at twenty-nine, his greatest plays would have remained unwritten, and we would scarcely know his name. Yet, Marlow, by the time of his death had already established himself as a powerful dramatist, earning the title “father of English …”.

Tragedy
Prose

Poetry
Comedy

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

Marlowe established his theatrical reputation with “…” written about 1587. In this tragedy Marlowe wrote about the great Asian conqueror.

“Dido, Queen of Carthage”

“The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”
“Tamburlaine the Great”
“Edward II”

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

… tragedies portray heroes who passionately seek power - the power of absolute rule (Tamburlaine), the power of money (Barabas, the Jew of Malta), the power of knowledge (Faustus).

Shakespeare’s

Marlowe’s
Milton’s
More’s

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

Carpe diem is Latin for “…” and this poetry dealt with the swift passage of time and transiency of youth.

seize the day

take care of
put up with
deal with

99. The following lines are extracted from … .

” 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…”

Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

Raleigh’s The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Donne’s “The bait”
Spencer’s “Amoretti”

100. The following lines are extracted from … .

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying…”

Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Raleigh’s The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Donne’s “The bait”

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

Most scholars agree that there exist … plays written by Shakespeare. Traditionally, Shakespeare’s plays have been divided into three groups: comedies, histories, and tragedies.
39
37
42
58

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

All of the works of the great playwright are written in … periods of his literary career. Each of these periods reflects a general phase of Shakespeare’s artistic development.

3
4
5

2

103. Which of the following works were written by William Shakespeare?

“Astrophel and Stella”, “Arcadia”, “Apology for Poetry”

“Tamburlaine the Great”, “The Jew of Malta”, “The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus”, “Edward II”
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, “All’s well that ends well”, “As You Like It”, “Much Ado About Nothing”
“Amoretti”,“Shepherd’s Calendar” (1579), “The Faerie Queene”

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

… is a story of love and hate. It deals with two teen-aged lovers in Verona, Italy, who are caught in a bitter feud between their families. It is a story of two young people who fall in love at first sight, marry secretly because their families are bitter enemies, and die because each cannot bear to live without the other.

“Macbeth”

“Romeo and Juliet”
“The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
“Othello”

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

“…” is one of Shakespeare’s greatest creations, but it is also considered the hardest of his works to understand. The plot of the tragedy is following: a usurper murders his brother, the lawful king, and seizes the throne. The son of the murdered king and lawful heir to the throne, discovering the crime, struggles against usurper. But the struggle ends tragically for him too.

Hamlet
Macbeth

Othello
As you like it

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

Instead of Claudius, Hamlet, by mistake, kills Polonius, Ophelia’s …. It happens because Polonius, the king’s adviser, decides to eavesdrop on Hamlet while the prince is visiting his mother in her sitting room.

Brother
Father

Uncle
Ghost

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

Later, after talking to …, he learns of the murder of his father. Hamlet sincerely wants to kill Claudius, and avenge for his father.

Hertrude
Gildenstern

Polonius
The ghost

108. The following monologue are extracted from … .

“To be, or not to be - that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,…”

Hamlet
Macbeth

Othello
As you like it

109. Which literary work is this text about?

The solution of the complicated plot is provided by the twin sister and brother, Viola and Sebastian. They become separated during a shipwreck. Finding herself stranded in the country of Illyria, Viola disguises herself as Cesario, a page, and enters the service of Duke Orsino. The duke sends the page to woo the countess Olivia for him. But Olivia falls in love with Caesario. The marriage of Orsino to Viola and Sebastian to Olivia brings the comedy to happy ending.

“Twelfth night”

“Much ado about nothing”
“All’s well that ends well”
“The Winter’s Tale”

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

In addition to his plays and two narrative poems, Shakespeare wrote a sequence of … sonnets. His sonnets were probably written in the 1590s but first published in 1609.

152
158

154
200

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

Shakespeare’s … occupy a unique place in the Shakespearian heritage, because they are his only lyrical pieces, the only things he has written about himself.

Tragedies

Sonnets
Comedies
Poems

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

The three main characters in Shakespeare’s sonnets are the poet, … and ….

The king/the lady

The queen/the friend
The friend/the dark lady
The close friend/the girl with long hair

113. Who were the main protagonists of Shakespeare’s sonnets?

poet, the friend, the The dark lady
The poet, the dark lady
The queen, the king, Penelope
The young poet, the blond girl, his friend

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

A brave Scottish general named … receives a prophecy from the three witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, he murders King Duncan and takes the Scottish throne for himself. Forced to commit more and more murders to protect himself from enmity and suspicion, he soon becomes a tyrannical ruler.
 
Macbeth
All’s well that ends well
Othello
The tempest


115. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.
Shakespeare's works were originally divided into three main styles or genres: …, … and ….


Comedies, histories, tragedies
Plays, tragedies, poems
Songs, ballads, tragedies
Lyric, narrative poetry,sonnets


116. Choose the most appropriate answer to fill in the gap.
Shakespeare's … are divided into three quatrains and a final, concluding couplet, rhyming