A group of leading Elizabethan playwrights was known as…*University Wits
A nineteenth-century writer known for his Romantic poetry and macabre * Edgar Allan Poe
A good definition of American Realism is:*An examination of life as it actually is
Аbolitionism is a …*.movement against slavery
An English poet known as “prince of poets” in his time *Geoffrey Chaucer
An outstanding realistic writer of the XXth century English literature who wrote about the British society is… *John Galsworthy
A black writer known for his antiracist essays and novels of black life is *James Baldwin
Alexander Pope is ... *an English classicist.
All Shakespeare’s tragedies finish with …*Pessimism
A famous writer of fantastic fiction of the XX Isaac Asimov belongs to *American Literature
“A Study in Scarlet” is a detective fiction written by…“A Study in Scarlet” is a detective fiction written by…*Arthur Conan Doyle
African American cultural movement of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City is…*The Harlem Renaissance
American playwrights of the XX century are … *Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Eugene O’Neill
Any real or imaginary society, place, state, etc., considered to be perfect or ideal is … Utopia
“A Streetcar Named Desire” is written by…*Tennessee Williams
African-American writers of the XX century are…*Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison
Anti-colonial novel by Graham Greene that deals with the war in Vietnam is…*“The Quiet American”
A 14-lined poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm is a… *a sonnet
A term applied to a group of English writers of the 1950s whose heroes share certain rebellious and critical attitudes toward society.*The Lost Generation
An allegorical poem “Piers a Plowman” is written by*William Langland
А well-to-do Englishmаn with а pаssion for seаfаring, is the cаptаin of а ship heаded on а dаngerousvoyаge to theNorth Pole. Who is this chаrаcter in “Frаnkenstein”?*Robert Wаlton
An Irish playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is …*George Bernard Shaw
A movement to end slavery called__________, grew in strength throughout the U.S.*Abolitionism
After President ___________read, “The Jungle” ordered an investigation of the meat-packing industry. He also met Sinclair Lewis and told him that while he disapproved of the way the book preached socialism.*Theodore Roosevelt
About which book did Richard Wright assert that it “carries no theme, no message, no thought,” but is like a minstrel show?* “Their Eyes were Watching God” (B)
Black Boy is an autobiographical account of whose Southern boyhood? *Richard Wright
By whom “The old man and the sea” is written?* E. Hemingway
Bernard Shaw concerns the issues of perfection of the English language in the play entitled as…*“Pygmalion”
___by Edith Wharton is a story of a beautiful but poor woman, Lily Bart, trying to survive in the pitiless New York City* “The House of Mirth”
___ by Edith Wharton presents a picture of upper-class New York society in the 1870s. *“The Age of Innocence”
Billy Pilgrim, the novel’s protagonist, has become “unstuck in time.” He travels between periods of his life, unable to control which period he lands in.* “Slaughterhouse-Five”
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Chose the list with Washington Irving's works The Legend of Sllepy Hollow, The Sketch Book, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
Christopher Marlowe’s three greatest tragedies are:“Tamburlaine the Great”, “Doctor Faustus”, “The Jew of Malta”.
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The "Lost Generation" was the generation that came of age during World War I
Choose the works of E. Hemingway? A Farewell to Arms, The Sun Also Rises
Choose the short story writers from the list Katherine Anne and Eudora Welty
Carpe Diem (“seize the day”) poetry is… a poetry that dealt with swift passage of time and deeds of youth
“Chrome Yellow”, “A Brave New World” are the novels written by the English writer of the 20 century whose name is …? Aldous Huxley
Charlotte Bronte’s famous novel published in 1847 that reflects a status of a woman in England. “Jane Eyre”
Cultural movement that began in Italy and proclaimed Humanism is…Renaissance
Choose the works by MаyShаlley “Vаlpergа”, “The LаstMаn”
….. –called druids –made sacrifices in forest shrines*Priests
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Death of a Hero" by Richard aldington is known as* Lost Generation novel
Dietrich Knickerbocker, JonathanOldstyle and Geoffrey Crayon are pseudonyms of ___*Washington Irving
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Ezra Pound was known for….*his poetry, criticism, and political views
Eugene O'Neill is the author of….*The Emperor Jones, A Long Day's Journey Into Night, and
EnglishRomanticistsare…*John Keats, Walter Scott, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Walter Scott
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Find the list with Passive Romantics* Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey
Fable is ….*is a short story about supernatural or extraordinary persons
FindRudyardKipling’sworks*The Five Nations” “Barrack room Ballads”, “The seven seas”
Find M.Twains works*The prince and the pauper”, “The adventures of Huck Finn”Our Innocent abroad
Find the works of Sherwood Anderson*Windy Mc Pherson’s son, The triumph of the Egg, Horses / Men
Find the novels written by Charles Dickens*Oliver Twist”, “American notes”, “Nicholas Nickleby”
Find the novels written by John Steinbeck.*Cup of Gold, Pastures of Heaven, To a God Unknown
Find the description of the monster given birth by Victor.*The eight-foot-tаll, hideously ugly creаtion who is intelligent аnd sensitive
Find Edgar Allan Poe’s story.*«The Manuscript Found in a bottle».
Find Edgar Allan Poe’s short story*Taler of the Grotesque and Anabesque»
Find the detective story of Edgar Allan Poe.*The Munders in the Rue Morgue »
From which sound did the man wake up ?*Sound of the cat
Find Edgar *«Legia», «The Haunted Palace»
For which story did Edgar Allan Poe win a hundred dollars?*The Gold
Find out the traits of science fiction genre. A setting in the future, an alternate time, or a past that is different from our actual past*1,2,3,4,5
Find out Oscar Wilde’s works*The Happy Prince and other Tales (1888),
Fill in the gaps. The two writers, though very similar also in their use of the stream of consciousness *Virginia Woolf ; James Joyce
Find out the book written by Doris Lessing used five-color-strategy to her literary character Anna Woolf.*“The Golden Notebook”
Find the best-selling book after “Bible” of the 19th century.* “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
Find out the most famous opening sentence in world literature taken from “Moby Dick”.*Call me Ishmael
Find out a poor and innocent girl working in Griffith’s department, who falls in love with Clyde.*Roberta
Find out Dreiser’s greatest novel, the hero (or “anti-hero”), *“An American Tragedy”
Find out the story of the perfect conformist; a man who tries to act the same way everybody else does.* “Babbitt”
Firefighters do not stop fires; they start them. They are the happiness squad. *“Fahrenheit 451”
Find out one of many repeated, mantra-like words and phrases that run through Kurt Vonnegut’s books*So it goes”
Find out the war novel by William Faulner.*“Soldier’s Pay”
Find out the author of the pamphlets such as “We are Americanizing Europe”, “The United States of Lynchdom” and “Running for Governor”.*Mark Twain
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John Milton’s most famous works are:*“Paradise Lost”, “Paradise Regained”, “Samson Agonistes”.
Jonathan Swift was the greatest English.....*satirist
John Dryden’s work that commemorates three events: Great fire of London, the end of a plague, and the Dutch War*Annus Mirabilis”
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How many main conquests were there on the territory of modern Great Britain?*3
How many stories Geoffrey Chacer planned to wright?*120
How many periods are there in English Renaissance*3
How many sonnets did Shakepeare write?*154
How many books are there in J. Swift's "Gulliver's Travels"?*4
How many submovements were there in English Romantic Poetry?*2
How many cantoes does "Don Juan" by Byron consist of?*17
How many novels did Charlotte Bronte manage to write?* 4
How many novels are there in the cycle "Strangers and Brothers" by Charles Percy Snow*11
How many lines does a sonnet consist of?*fourteen lines.
How many books is “Paradise Lost” composed of?*12 book
How many sonnets did Shakespeare write?*154
How many parts are there in the novel "Gulliver's Travels"?*4
How was the first playhouse called?*The Theatre
How were Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s first poems entitled*Voices of Night”
How was the period of Enlightenment also called*Age of Reason
How were the first poems written by Henry Longfellow entitled?*Voices of the Night”
How did Shakespeare entitle his historical dramas*With the names of English kings
How does “Frаnkenstein” begin?*From Cаptаin Robert Wаlton writing letters to his sister
How does “Frаnkenstein” end?*With the deаth of Victor аnddisаppeаrаnce of the Creаture
How does the monster learn to speak?*from the listening and imitating his neighbors’ speech in the village
How did the man injure the Pluto in «The Black Cat»?*He cut his bod
How did the man tried to will the cat ?*With axe
human fallibility and proneness to sin andself-destruction*Dark Romanticism
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches” “England and America are two countries divided by a common language.” Which play written by G. B. Shaw can you come across with these quotes? *School for Scandal
His novels often end without any sense of resolution. The issues *Kazuo Ishiguro
Henry Fielding was one of the greatest representative of ...
Sentimentalism
Classicism
Enlightenment
Romanticism
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In which work by M. Twain there is a time machine travel*A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
In the novel “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling” Henry Fielding depicts Eng*the XVIII century. ... is the first masterpiece or foundation stone in all British literature.*Beowul
In what form did Satan return at night in order to persuade Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? * Serpent.
In what line are the Romanticists of America listed?*Alan Poe, Cooper Fenimore, Nathaniel
In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature *Henry David Thoreau
In what novel did Theodore Dreiser describe the atmosphere of moral oppression?*Sister Carrie
In what work did Hemingway divide the world into 2?*“To Have and have not”
In the 1st century before our era Britain was conquered by ..*The State of Rome
….is the first masterpiece or foundation stone in all British literature.*Canterbury tales
In which novel the term "Lost generation" used as an epigraph?*The Sun Also Rises
In what line are the Romanticists of America listed*Alan Poe, Cooper Fenimore, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving
In Walden, who urges people to simplify their lives and look to nature for meaning?*Henry David Thoreau
Into how many groups may Walter Scott’s historical novels be divided?*3
Unfound Generation writers reflected their military experience of the …*World War I
I,Robot” is a novel that written by…*Isaac Asimov time and deeds of youth
In which work did Daniel Defoe raise an issue of an educational reform for the women?*Essays on Projects"
Identify the works written by John Milton.*Paradise Lost”, “Samson Agonists”
It is a tragedy that deals with two teen- aged lovers in Verona, Italy.*Romeo and Juliet
It is an imaginary place where everything is as bad as it can be.*Wild life
In whаt form is “Frаnkenstein” is written?*In the form of epistolаry novel
in which year did the Edgar Alln Poe die ?*October 7. 1849
In which university did Edgar Allan Poe study?*Virginim,,It is the story of Professor Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics*Pygmalion
It is a collection of 15 short stories by James Joyce, first published in 1914. *Dubliners
___is a 1985 novel by Doris Lessing. The story examines the events in the life of a well-intentioned squatter, Alice, who is drawn into organizing acts of violence.*“The Good Terrorist”
In the nineteenth century, there was a ____________ in *“double standard”
It is a sprawling semi-autobiographical chronicle of *“The Genius”
In which book did Lewis portrays a woman pathetically *“Main Street”
I aimed at the public’s heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.” Which book did Upton Sinclair mention about?*“The Jungle”
In “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, what are considered dangerous and therefore are illegal and no one can own them? *Books
____ is the novel describing the process of awakening and becoming collectivism among small farmers.*Grapes of Wrath”
In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s work “The Scarlet Letter”, what does this letter refer to?*Adultery
In which book did Ernest Hemingway divide the whole world into two parts –the world of the rich and the world of the poor?*“To Have and Have Not”
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George Bernard Shaw’s _________, ideological *unpleasant plays
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Kurt Vonnegut’ novel “Slaughterhouse- Five” reflects…*War experience
Kingsley Amis’s novel “Lucky Jim” regarded as the…*Fiction of “Angry Young Men” Movement
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Literary subgenre opposed to perfectionistic beliefs of Trancsendentalism, main representatives of which were Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville. It emphasized Samuel Langhorne Clemens is the original name of ...*Mark Twain
Literature at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century *The Edwardian period
Literature of Pre- Renaissance in England was divided into the following types: …*Religious and secular literature
Listen my children and you will hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” * “Paul Revere’s Ride”
Love triangle given in “An American Tragedy”*Clyde, Roberta, Sondra
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Main hero in the epic Anglo-Saxon poem "Beowulf" is*Beowulf
Main heroes in Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" are...*Robinson Crusoe, Friday
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets is an example of naturalist fiction. Whowroteit?*Stephen Crane
Match the names of the most famous writers of the “Lost generation”*Ernest Hemingway; Gertrude Stein; and T.S. Eliot;
Martin Eden” is partially autobiographical novel written by…*Jack London
Many critics have suggested that there is no clear distinction between realism and its related late nineteenth-century movement __*Naturalism
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Narrative poetry is ….*is a narrative poem tells a story.
Jew of Malta”. Hawthorne, Washington Irving
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter” depicts a belief in individual choice and consequence. This ideal is a characteristic of … *Puritanism
Norwegian The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"."In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshir.*Pygmalion
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter” depicts a belief in individual choice and consequence. This ideal is a characteristic of which of the following? *Puritanism
Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer are about ...*American Army Forces and the beginning of the World War II
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One of the greatest woman writers of the Romantic period in English Literature,*Jane Austen
Oscar Wilde's only novel is called ... *The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sketch Book, The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus
One of the major themes of The Great Gatsby is….*the corruption of American innocence through the pursuit of wealth
The Iceman Cometh
One of the major themes of The Great Gatsby is….*the corruption of American innocence through the pursuit of wealth The Iceman Cometh
One of the major themes of The Great Gatsby is*the corruption of American innocence through the pursuit of wealth
Of Human Bondage” is a novel by …*Somerset Maugham
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Pre-romantic Scottish poet whose best poems were dedicated to his Motherland*Robert Burns
Poems "The Little Boy Lost", "The Lamb", "Spring" are in the poetic*Songs of Innocence
Perfection of man___2.Beneficence of God___3.Perfection of Nature___4.Efficacy of reason___are the key features of … .*Enlightenment
Poem “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is written by …*George Byron
Postmodern writing often uses ___________ and __________ as literary devices.*Black humor; metafiction
PICKERING: Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE: Can't afford them, Governor.Which play are these lines taken from?*Pygmalion
Portraying a changing society, Dreiser wrote about a young *“Sister Carrie” POEMS
1)Dream singers,
Storytellers,
Dancers,
Laud laughers in the hand of fate –
My people. What is the title of the poem?*“Laughers”
2)Dream singers,
Storytellers,
Dancers,
Laud laughers in the hand of fate –
My people. Who is the author of this poem?*Langston Hughes
3) I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong. What is the title of the poem?*“I, too, sing America”
4) I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong. Who is the author of this poem?*Langston Hughes
5) I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.*What is the title of the poem?*“The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
6) I've known rivers:
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the
flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers. Who is the author of this poem?*Langston Hughes
7) If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
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Romanticism appeared as the reaction against …*Reason and Enlightenment
Robert Wаlton’s ship stаlls between huge sheets of ice*Victor Frankenstein
Read the description and find the character. ‘The African prince who is captured and enslaved by a British slave trader and brought to Surinam, where he leads slave revolt and dies’*Oronooko
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Sir Thomas More's masterpiece is...*Utopia
Sir Francis Bacon is mostly known for his essay ...*Of Studies
Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include*The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry
Stream of consciousness, flash-back, flash-forward, fragmentation, juxtaposition, inner monologue are..*Modernism
Strangers and Brothers" is a cycle of the novels written by *Charles Percy Snow
Short stories “Rip Van Winkle,” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow*Washington I
Set in London at the end of the 19th century*The Picture of Dorian Gray
Set in England during the late Victorian era*The Importance of Being Earnest
So this is the little lady who made this Great War”. Whom are these words devoted by the…*Harriet Beecher Stowe
She is Legree’s slave. Her son and daughter were sold*Cassy
Select Dreiser’s books on political issues.*“Dreiser Looks at Russia”, “Tragic America” and “America is….
Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include:
The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.
Transcendentalism, Symbolism, and Dark Romanticism.
There were no movements during the modernist time period.
Symbolism, Naturalism, and Postmodernism.
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To which of Scott's 3 groups Ivanhoe refers *novels about English history
To which group of novels do we refer the following ones: The Pioneers*Leather Stocking Tales
To whom did Melville dedicate his novel “Moby Dick”*Hawthorne
To whom the term Lost Generation was originally used?*To those who were defeated
The play by P.B. Shelley derived from Italian history is called...*Cenci
The last Victorian writer is considered to be...*Thomas Hardy
The first English writer who got the Nobel Prize in Literature is...* Rudyard Kipling
The sonnet is ….*is a 14 – line poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm.
The poem” My heart’s in the Highlands” was written by …*Robert Burns
The novel “Adam Bede” written by George Eliot is a …. story.*is a tragic love story.
The short story “A cup of Tea” was written by …*Katherine Mansfield
The novel “Death of a Hero» written by Richard Aldington is dedicated to ….*the First World War
The manuscript of “Beowulf” is in the ….* British museum, in London
The Canterbury Tales” consists of … stories*24
The most famous novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is …*The Scarlet Letter
The novelist who satirized small-town life, the scientist's search for truth, and evangelism is….* Sinclair Lewis
The book that made Ralph Ellison famous is the story of….* a black man's search for identity in the 1930s
The writer of Common Sense died in poverty. Whowashe?* Thomas Paine
The novel where the problems of relationship between art and reality is described*“The picture of Dorian Gray”*
The Mayor of Casterbridge” is written by …*Thomas Hardy
The founder of "iceberg" principle in American Literatureis....*E. Hemingway
The novel for which Nathaniel Hawthorne is best known is*Scarlet Letter
The novelist who satirized small-town life, the scientist's search for truth, and evangelism is*Sinclair Lewis
The Scarlet Letter is set where?*Puritan America
The novel where the problems of relationship between art and reality is described*The picture of Dorian Gray”
The principal character of the sory “A Cup of Tea” is ….*Rosemary Fell
The influence of existentialist ideas left a profound impression on the work of … *Iris Murdoch.
The Forsyte Saga” is written by an English realist of the 20th century …* John Galsworthy
The two great novelists of American Realism after the US Civil War are …*Mark Twain and Henry James
The novel by S. Maugham that shows the passionate devotion to art is…*The Moon and Sixpence
The author of the novels “Animal Farm” and “1984” is ...*George Orwell
The novel that portrays rebellious adolescence is…*The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
The author of the novels “Dombey and Son”, “David Copperfield” and is…Charles Dickens
The working class novel “The Day of the Sardine” by Sid Chaplin focuses on …*Sardine- like existence
The novel “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison is about…* a black man
The modernist novel “Ulysses” is written by…*James Joyce
The only novel written by Oscar Wilde is …* The Picture of Dorian Gray
The author of the short story “A Cup of Tea”, who regarded herself *Katherine Mansfield
The first American writer who got the Noble Prize in 1930?* Sinclair Lewis
The Norman-French period in England began in the year …*1066
The works written by Mark Twain are …The Adventures of T.S”, “The A....s of H.F ”, “The P and the P.
The sonnet by Elizabeth Browning addressed to Robert Browning is the most-*How do I love thee”
The narrative method “stream of consciousness” was used by ….*James Joyce and Virginia Woolf
The historical novel “Ivanhoe” is written by…* Sir Walter Scott
The poem “The Raven” is written by…*Edgar Allan Poe
The power of absolute rule is shown in the tragedy by C. Marlowe … *Tamburlaine the Great
The realistic novel by W.M. &Thackeray that focuses on the fate of the two girls with*Vanity Fair
The pamphlet by Daniel Defoe devoted to the origin of English nation.*The True- born Englishman
The writer who describes the problems of Native Americans today is…*Jack Kerouac
The first notable work by W.M. Thackeray was…*Vanity Fair
The printing press was invented by…* W. Caxton
The first writer of a tragedy in the reign of Elizabeth I is …* Christopher Marlowe
The American detective novel “Maltese Falcon” is written by …*Dashell Hammett
The famous novel by Jack Kerouac that belongs to the fiction of Beatniks is…*On the Road
The Anglo- Saxon epic poem Beowulf belongs to …*Primary epic
The Octopus written by Frank Norris in 1901 depicts…*the conflict between farmers and the railroad owners over..
The novel that portrays rebellious adolescence is…*The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D. Salinger
The “Byronic type of a hero” first appeared in…*Childe Harold’s *Pilgrimage”
The leader of Aesthetic movement in English literature is …*Oscar Wilde
The novel “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” is written by…*Mark Twain
The author of historical books depicted American history.*J.F. Cooper
The Celtic Twilight” is written by a modernist of Irish origin whose name is…*W.B. Yeats
The first American writer who got the Noble Prize in 1930?*Sinclair Lewis
The modernist writer T.S. Eliot is famous for his poem …*The “Waste Land
The English writer of Victorian Era, the author of “Treasure Island” is ...* Robert Louis Stevenson
The book “The life and voyages of Christopher Columbus” is written by…* Washington Irving
The playwright Henrik Ibsen had a great influence on ________'s thinking. *George Bernard Shaw
The night after his daughter’s wedding in 1967, as he later reveals on a radio talk show*Tralfamadorians
The Tralfamadorians explain to Billy their perception of time*Nicer
The novel’s author and a minor character was a prisoner of war during the firebombing of Dresden*Kurt Vonnegut
The Anglo-Saxons were advanced people and by the time they conquered Britain, they had already the.*Letters
The period of his literary career was rather brief but he wrote three hundred short stories and his first *O’Henry
To be, or not to be - that is the question.___Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer”…___is a part of a *Hamlet
Tom befriends a young white girl named ________ (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”)*Eva
Thomas Bigger is the main character of the novel ____________ by Richard Wright.*“Native Son”
Tick the plays written by Henry Fielding*“Goseph Andrews”, “The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling”, “Amelia”.
This king translated Latin works into the Old English language.*Alfred the Great
This king translated Latin works into the Old English language.*Alfred the Great
This book was the first American novel in which whites could read of black *Uncle Tom’s Cabin
This short story explained how Miss Meadow’s thought disrupted* The Singing Lesson” by Katherine Mansfield
This genre is a long narrative poem about deeds of warriors and heroes.* a tragedy
Tennessee Williams… (continuethestatement)*....wrote more than 30 full-length dramas.
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Under the Net” is the existentialistic novel written by…*Iris Murdoch
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Very shortly before Tom’s death George Shelby arrives to buy *Frees all his slaves
Victor’s youngest brother аnd the dаrling of the Frаnkensteinfаmily. *WilliаmFrаnkenstein (W)
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Who is the author of these lines?*Rudyard Kipling
Who were the first inhabitans of the British Isles? * Iberians
Who is the author of "Poor Richard's Almanac"? * Benjamin Franklin
Who is the creator of the most famous detective Sherlock Holmes? ** Arthur Conan Doyle
Who was the creator of the characters Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer? ** Mark Twain
Who created a new type of novel-a social novel? ** Charles Dickens
Who is the author of the novel “Wuthering Heights”? ** Emily Bronte
Who is a British writer, who created Sherlock Holmes? ** Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Who is the founder of the short story genre in America?
Nathaniel Hawthorne
James Cooper
Benjamin Franklin
Washington Irving
Who is the author of the poem “The Raven and Other Poems”? ** Edgar Allan Poe
Who is the author of the novel “Moby - Dick”? ** Herman Melville
Who is the author of the novel “Moby - Dick”? ** Herman Melville
Who are the principal characters of the novel “Moby - Dick”? ** Ahab, Ishmael
Who is master of humorous short stores in American literature? ** O .Henry
Who is the author of the novel ”King Coal”? ** Upton Sinclair
Who was the author of “Ecclesiastical History of the English People”? ** The Venerable Bede
Who was the founder of English literature? ** Geoffrey Chaucer
Who was the New York-born dramatist reached his personal pinnacle…“Death of a Salesman”? ** Arthur Miller
Who is considered the member of “Lost generation” of the 20th ? ** Scott Fitzgerald
Who wrote Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, A Streetcar Named Desire, and The Glass Menagerie? **Tennesse Williams
Who was the creator of the characters Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer, and Pudd'nhead Wilson? ** Mark Twain
Who is the narrator in The Great Gatsby? ** Nick Carraway
Who was the leader of the “Aesthetic Movement” in English literature? ** Oscar Wilde.
Who wrote Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five? ** Kurt Vonnegut
Who used lowercase letters in his poetry? ** E. E. Cummings
Who ranks next to Shakespeare among English playrights? ** George Bernard Shaw.
Who was the first representative of the sentimental school in English literature? ** Samuel Richardson.
Who was the first great writer of historical novels in English literature? ** Sir Walter Scott.
Who gave the best definition to the word realism as “Realism is nothing more or nothing less than the truthful treatment of material”. ** William Dean Howells
Who were the main protagonists of Shakespeare’s sonnets? ** The author, his friend and the Dark Lady
Who is the author of “Lamia”, “Isabella” and “The Eve of St. Agnes”? ** John Keats
Who are the writers of the Great Depression Era? ** Erskine Caldwell and John Steinbeck
Who of the following writers are American Romanticists? ** Washington Irving, J.F. Cooper E.A. Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville
Who is a founder of Enlightenment novel in English literature? ** Jonathan Swift
Who were the leaders of Beat generation movement in US literature? ** Allan Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs
Who of the English writers contributed to the development of science fiction**Herbert Wells
Who was the founder of a historical novel in English literature? ** Sir Walter Scott
Who is the author of Nathaniel Bammpo- Leather Stocking Tales? ** J.F. Cooper
Who is the author of the poem “IF”? ** Rudyard Kipling
Who is the founder of Christmas genre in English literature? ** Charles Dickens
Who are the representatives of the “Lost Generation” in American Literature? ** E.Hemingway, Sh.Anderson and F.S.Fitzgerald
Who wrote the gothic novel “Frankenstein”? ** Mary Shelley
Who is known as a “Prince of poets”? ** R. Burns
Who is the author of “Samson Agonists”? ** John Milton
Who is the author of the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin ” ** Harriet Beecher- Stowe
Who is the author of the novel “The Green Mile”? ** Stephan King
Who wrote that “All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain, called “Huckleberry Finn”? ** Ernest Hemingway
Who called his own country “The United States of Lynchdom”? ** Mark Twain
Who of the Victorian writers depicted country life in his novels? **Thomas Hardy
Who is the author of the novel “Moby Dick”? ** Herman Melville
Who is the founder of a short story genre in American literature? ** Washington Irving
Who wrote this poem?___My heart is in the highlands, my heart is not here,___My heart’s in the Highlands, a chasing the deer,___Chasing the wild deer and following the roe.___My heat …. ** Robert Burns
Who is the author of the novels “Song of Solomon”, “Beloved”, “The Bluest Eye”? ** Tony Morrison
Who is not an anti-colonial writer? ** Somerset Maugham
Who is the author of “Agnes Grey” and “The Tenant of the Wildfield Hall”? ** Anne Bronte
Who is the representative of the sentimental school in English literature? ** Samuel Richardson
Who of the following writers was NOT influenced by Darwinism and Realism? ** Jack London
Who of the following authors was dubbed "The Poet of the American Revolution"? ** Philip Freneau
Who was the leader of the “Aesthetic Movement” in English literature? ** Oscar Wilde
Who used lowercase letters in his poetry? ** E. E. Cummings
Who is the author of “Wuthering Heights”? ** Emily Bronte
Who is the author of the novels “Cat's Cradle” and “Slaughterhouse- Five”? ** Kurt Vonnegut
Who is the representative of the “Lost Generation” in England? ** Richard Aldington
Who invented in his writing the method of “iceberg”? ** E.Hemingway
Who is the author of the book “Death of Arthur”? ** Thomas Malory
Who is known as a “Farther of the English language and literature”?** Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the author of the following words? “First of all, I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's “Fahrenheit 451”, based on reality ** Ray Bradbury
Who is the author of the fairy tale “Winnie the Pooh”? ** A. Milne
Who is the author of the poem “I have Known Rivers” and “I too am America”? ** Langston Hughes
Who are the principal characters of the novel “Moby Dick”? ** Ahab, Ishmael
Who is the author of the comedy “The School for Scandal”? ** Richard Sheridan
Who was the leader of Transcendental movement? ** 4) Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who are the fantasy fiction writers of the XX century in English literature?
Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Iris Murdock
William Golding, C.S. Lewis, Ted Hughes
Agatha Christie, Edgar Poe, Dashell Hammet
J. K. Rowling, J.K. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis
Who of African American writers is the author of the poem “If We Must Die”? ** Claude McKay
Who is the mаin chаrаcter in “Frаnkenstein”? ** Victor Frаnkenstein
Who was Emily Dickinson? ** a nineteenth-century poet who used the imagery of nature to explore human cons…
Who is Robert Wаlton in “Frаnkenstein”? ** А cаptаin who sets out to explore the North Poleаnd who sаved Victor Frаnkenstein
Who wаs mаrry Shаlley’s husbаnd? ** Percy Shаlley
Who sаid thаt "upon the whole, the work impresses us with а high ideа of the аuthor's originаl genius аnd hаppy power of expression"аbout “Frаnkenstein”? ** Wаlter Scott
Who helped Mаry Shаlley to write the novel “Frаnkenstein”? ** Percy Bysshe Shelley
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley? ** English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travelwriter
Who is the author of these books: Lodore (1835) and Falkner (1837)? ** Mary Shalley
Who is the first character we are introduced to in the beginning of the play?
Lucy
Oroonoko
Charlotte
Welldone
Who is the ambitious but ill-educated, illusioned and immature character of the book “An American T-dy”? **Clyde
Who is the first American author to win the Nobel Prize for literature in 1930? ** Sinclair Lewis
Who is the author of “Testament of Youth”? ** Vera Brittain
Who coined the Harlem Renaissance in the book “The New Negro”? ** Alain LeRoy Locke
Who is the daughter of Mr. Dalton and killed by pressing pillow of Bigger and then burnt the body … **Mary
Who is the main character of “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury? ** Guy Montag
Who is the author of the book “Ten Days that Shook the World”? ** John Sailes Reed
Who were called “scribes”? ** Writers
Who is the author of the book “Poor White”? ** Sherwood Anderson
Who is the founder of science fiction genre in English literature? ** Herbert Wells
Who was the eleventh woman and the oldest person ever to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature? ** Doris Lessing
Who is the worst slave owner in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? ** Simon Legree
Who is the author of “The Song of Hiawatha”? ** H.W. Longfellow
Who wrote the lines: "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep,…. ** Robert Frost
Who is the author of the following works:“Tamburlaine the Great”, “The Jew of Malta”,.. ** Christopher Marlowe
Who wrote the epic poem “Paradise Lost”? ** John Milton
Who is the author of “Samson Agonists”? ** John Milton
Who is the author of the comedy “The Rivals”? ** Richard Sheridan
Who wrote this poem?
My heart is in the highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart’s in the Highlands, a chasing the deer,
Chasing the wild deer and following the roe.
My heat is in the Highlands wherever I go ** Robert Burns
Who is the author of the novels Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth? ** Edith Wharton
Who were the two greatest novelists of the romantic period? ** Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.
Who earned the title “father of English tragedy”? ** Christopher Marlowe
Who is the author of “Vanity Fair”? ** William Makepeace Thackeray
Who is the author of” Robinson Crusoe”? ** Daniel Defoe
Who introduced a rhythmic pattern called iambic pentameter? ** Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the author of the following works “An apology for the Young Man”, “Old Mistresses Apologue” , “The way to wealth”? ** Benjamin Franklin
Who are the heroes of O Henry's short stories ** ordinary poor people
Who set up the first printing press in London, in 1476? ** William Caxton”
Who was the first Elizabethan writer of tragedy? ** Christopher Marlowe.
Who was the first great writer of historical novels in English literature? ** Sir Walter Scott.
Who are the main heroes in "The Scarlet Letter" by N. Hawthorn? ** Hester, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, Pearl
Who has earned the nickname “The Father of the American Novel”? ** Charles Brockden Brown
Who taught Gulliver the language of the Brobdingnag people? **A nine-year-old girl Glumdalclitch.
Who is considered to be the founder of the dectective genre in American Literature ** Edgar Allan Poe
Who created detective fiction in American Literature? ** EdgarAllanPoe
Who is the author of “The British Prison Ship”? ** Philip Freneau
Who is the author of "Poems on Slavery"collection ** Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Who was the leader of the movement known as Transcendentalism? **Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who is considered to be the founder of English historical novel ** Sir Walter Scott
Who is the great English writer who looked into the future? ** Herbert Wells
Who is "The Man of Property" in the first novel of the trilogy "The Forsyte Saga" ** Soams Forsyte
Who were writing in the style which is known as "stream of consciousness" ** James Joyce, Virginia Woolf
Who of English writers was writing in the manner of Chekhov? ** Katherine Mansfield
Who was the president of the USA at the time of Abolitionism? ** Lincoln
Who are the main heroes in Great Expectations ** Pip, Miss Havisham, Estella, Abel Magwitch
Who is the author of "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"? ** Henry Fielding
Who is Protagonist? * the leading character or hero in a literary work.
Who is the main detective in the novel "Curtain" by Mary Westmacott? ** Poirot
Who is the author of the only prose fiction work of the 18th century "Arcadia"? ** Sir Philllip Sidney
Who is the author of "Volpone, or the Fox"? ** Ben Jonson
Who was the head of the Puritans during the Civil War in 1642? ** Oliver Cromwell
Who are the main heroes in 'Paradise Lost" by John Milton ** Adam and Eve
Who is the author of "Astrea Redux", "Annus Mirabilis"? ** John Dryden
Who are the best representatives of Romanticism? **Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville
Who are the best representatives of Abolitionism? **Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglas
Who are the best representatives of Realism? **Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, O'Henry, Jack London
Who was the first president of the USA at the time of Abolitionism? **Lincoln
Who were the two greatest novelists of the romantic period? ** Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.
Who taught Gulliver the language of the Brobdingnag people? ** nineyearold girl Glumdalclitch.
Who was the first Elizabethan writer of tragedy? **Christopher Marlowe.
Who was the first great writer of historical novels in English literature? **Sir Walter Scott.
Who was the first American writer who got the Noble Prize in 1930.. **Sinclair Lewis
Who wrote “Canterbury Tales” ? **Geoffrey Chaucer
Who is the author of “Vanity Fair”? ** William Langland
Who is considered the father of historical novels? **Sir Walter Scott
Who is the author of “ An Ideal Husband”? **Oscar Wilde
(WHAT)
What does "Carpe Diem" mean? ** take advantage of the day
What writer named the post-WWI generation, "The Lost Generation?" ** Ernest Hemingway
What is a pamphlet? ** a book of a few sheets of print, commonly with a paper cover.
What novel was thr first novel of Frank Norris? ** “Mac Teage”
What is transcendentalism? ** a movement led by Ralph Waldo Emerson that stressed the divinity of man
What is satirized in Jonathan Swift’s “A Tale of a Tub”? ** Social institutions of the day.
What was the name of the magazine which was published quarterly by Transcendentalists? ** The dial
What was Harriet Beecher-Stowe’s first novel? ** “Uncle Tom’s cabin”
What books belong to Charles Dickens? ** All of them
What novel of Scott is about the struggle of the Anglo-Saxon landowners ….. understanding? ** Ivanhoe
What novel is a novel without a hero? ** “Vanity Fair”
What work made Alfred Tennyson a leading poet of his time? ** In Memoriam
What was the pen name of Charlotte Bronte? ** Currer Bell
What was the pen name of Mary Ann Evans? ** George Eliot
What novel of George Eliot displays the author’s knowledge and sensitivity to Jewish culture? ** Daniel Deronda
What play of Bernard Shaw concerns for the perfection of the English language? ** Pygmalion
What novel of James Cooper referred to the period of Independence war? ** The Spy
What is the first novel of O. Henry? ** Cabbages and Kings
What novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald tells the story about the American dream of self…** The Great Gatsby
What is a 14-lined poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhythm? ** Sonnet
What are Jack London's best-known novels? ** White Fang and The Call of the Wild
What is transcendentalism? ** a movement led by Ralf Waldo Emerson that stressed the dininity of a man
What belief did the Naturalist movement in America stress** the limitations of social conditions and heredity on man's capacity to change
What writer named the post-WWI generation, "The Lost Generation?" ** Gertrude Stein
What event gave official birth to the Romantic Age in English literature ** The publication of “Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
What event gave an official birth to the Age of Romanticism in English literature? ** The publication of “Lyrical Ballads”
What theme dominates in Richard Aldington’s novel “Death of a Hero” ** Childhood
What are the novels written by Henry James? ** “Daisy Miller” and “The Portrait of a Lady”
What genre was Sheridan's last work "Pizarro” ** A political tragedy
What did Charles Dickens describe in his novels “Oliver Twist” and “David Copperfield” ***The lives of children made miserable by cruel and thoughtless adults
What is the pen name of William Sydney Porter? ** O. Henry
What novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald tells the story about the Amer…**“The Great Gatsby”
What work shows the panorama of social life in England in the…** The Canterbury Tales
What are the two main modernist works William F.“The Sound and the Fury”, “As I Lay Dying”
What trends of Romanticism do you know? ** Progressive and Regressive
What is the theme of the novel “Absalom, Absalom! ”William Faulkner** The theme of South America
What historical novel of Walter Scott describes the conflict between Christians and Muslims? ** Talisman
What types of detective genre developed after the WWI and WWII in American literature? ** Spy novels, neo-Victorian novels, dystopian novels
What poem written by Henry Longfellow is about the culture of old American Indians and the… settlers? ** “Evangeline”
What novel written by E. Hemingway has two themes – the….. sufferings? ** “A Farewell to Arms”
What work was published by Harriet Beecher- Stowe in answer to the criticism of her novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”? ** “A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
What did the enlighteners want to bring to the people? ** knowledge
What work by the Victorian writer Alfred Tennyson made him a leading poet….** ”In Memoriam”
What is the first play of Tennessee Williams? ** ”The Glass Menagerie”
What novel of Upton Sinclair is about the negative sides of American Business?
“King Coal”
“Oil”
“The Jungle”
”Between Two Worlds”
What is the first published work by G.G. Byron? ** The Hours of Idleness
What novel written by Sinclair Lewis is devoted to the country life? ** “Babbitt”
What are the Jack London's best- known novels? ** The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf
What are Mark Twain’s two historical works? ** “The Prince and the Pauper ”,”A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court”
What are the three main groups of George Bernard Shaw’s plays ** “The Plays Unpleasant”, “Plays Pleasant” and “Three plays for Puritans”
What novel of Nathaniel Hawthorne tells of the passionate, forbidden love between a young clergyman… ** “The Scarlet Letter”
What does Richard Sheridan expose in the great comedy "The School for Scandal" ** A hypocritical society which loves malicious gossips
What movement was against slavery in the Southern states of the USA? ** Abolitionism
What play by Eugene O’Neill is his literal autobiography? ** ”A Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
What novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald is the first novel? ** ”This Side of Paradise”
What Theodore Dreiser’s novel is a story of a tragic fate of a woman? ** “Sister Carrie”
What literary trends of the Enlightenment age dealt with emotions, feelings,…** Sentimentalism
What does the letter “A” in the novel “Scarlet Letter” written by N. Hawthorne mean ** Adultery
What is the chief inspiration of transcendental writers? ** Nature
What is the first truthful book of John Reed? ** “Ten Days that Shook the World”
What are the first satires of Jonathan Swift? ** "The Battle of Books", "A Tale of a Tub"
What is the main work written by Frank Norris? ** “The Octopus”
What are the key features of Romanticists? ** Emotion, imagination
What did the writers and philosophers of the period of Enlightenment… ** Survival of feudalism
What John Steinbeck’s novel describes the process of awakening and becoming collective…. farmers ** “The Grapes of Wrath”
What novel of George Eliot displays the author’s knowledge and sensitivity to Jewish..**Daniel Deronda
What is the autobiographical novel of Langston Hughes? ** ”Not without Laughter”
What are the works written by Walt Whitman? ** “The Leaves of Grass”, “The Song of Myself”, “The Song of the Broad Axe”
What novel of Saul Bellow is about the American life of the 30th? ** ”The Adventures of Augie March”
What is the name of the king who calls Beowulf to kill the monster? ** Hrothgar
What is the famous novel by Henry Fielding? ** "The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling"
What Erskine Caldwell’s novels are about…** ”Trouble in July”, “Tobacco Road”, “Tragic Ground”
What is the leading genre of English Romanticism? ** Poem
What novel did Jack London write after he had visited the slums of London? ** Martin Eden
What novel of Upton Sinclair is about the ideal sides of political life during the WWI? ** “The Jungle”
What was the leading movement in the literature of the 1st half of the XX century? ** Modernism
What Erskine Caldwell’s novel describes the history of degradation of a farmer’s family? **“Tobacco Road
Whаt is аnother nаme of “Frаnkenstein”? ** The modern Prometheus
Whаt does the Creаture request from Victor? ** To creаte аnother femаle monster like himself
Whаt is the mаin theme in “Frаnkenstein”? ** The pursuit of knowledge
Whаt kind of novel is “Frаnkenstein”? ** Gothic novel
Whаt is gothic novel? ** The novel which shows the mysterious аnd supernаturаl events
Whаt creаture is similаr to the monster in “Frаnkenstein”? ** Drаculа
Whаt period did Mаry Shаlley write? ** Romаntisism
Whаt profession does Victor Frаnkenstein hаve in “Frаnkenstein”? ** Scientist
Whаt does Victor creаte in the novel “Frаnkenstein”? ** а clever monster
Whаt city does the аctions hаppen in “Frаnkenstein”? ** Genevа
“Whаt could not be expected in the country of eternаl light?” аsks Wаlton, displаying а fаith in, аnd optimism аbout, science in “Frаnkenstein”. Whаt does the light symbolize here? ** knowledge, discovery аnd enlightenment
What book does the monster read in “Frankenstein”? ** John Milton’s “Paradise lost”
What was people’s reaction seeing...“Frankenstein”? ** everyone was afraid of him and tried to escape from him
What was the first gothic novel ever written in the English literature? ** The Castle of Otranto by H. Walpole
What was the first published book by Mary Shalley? ** Mounseer Nongtongpaw
What age did Edgar Allan Poe die? ** 40
What was the name of the cat in «The Black Cat»? ** Pluto
What did the the man see in the wall after fire ** The shape of a cat
What age did he joined the U.S army ? ** 22
What is the first novel written by Theodore Dreiser? ** “Sister Carrie”
What is the collection of four short stories by Richard Wright gained national attention? ** “Uncle Tom’s Children”
What does the title “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury refer to? ** The temperature at which… fire and burns
What kind of information does “Beowulf” give us? ** c and d
What does the word “mead” mean?
Beer
Wolf
Butterfly
Fox
What literary and phonetic devices are used in this epic poem? ** Kenning, alliteration, litotes
What is the major theme in Romanticism? ** Nature
What is the first satirical story by Mark Twain? ** “The Gilded Age”
What century was the poem “Beowulf” written in, and who was author? ** The X century, an unknown author.
What books belong to Oscar Wilde? ** “The picture of Dorian Gray”, “An Ideal Husband”
What is the title of the poetic collection in which the poem "The Song of Myself"… ** The Leaves of Grass
What is transcendentalism? ** all answers are correct
What is the first novel of Scott Fitzgerald? ** “This Side of Paradise”
What does the word Utopia mean? ** Nowhere
What does American Literature begin with? ** All of them are correct
What is Enlightenment? is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century…approximate period from 1800 to 1850
What is Fabliau? **funny metrical short stories about cunning humbugs and the unfaithful wives of rich merchants.
What is the second name of the novel "Vanity Fair" by W.M. Thackeray ** A Novel Without a Hero
What is the main novel by Emily Bronte, which brought her success? ** Wurthering Heights
What is the original name of George Eliot? ** Mary Ann Evans
What is the main novel of Elizabeth Gakell written about Chartist's movement ** Mary Barton
What historical monument of Old British History built approximately in 2000 b.c…..to be mistery? ** Stonehenge
What is the title of the trilogy written and not finished by F. Norris? ** Epic of the Wheat
What is the title of the play where main heroes are brothers Charles and Joseph Surface ** The School for Scandal
What is the name of an ancient celtic hero who lived in Ulster ** Cuchulainn
What is a title of Edmund Spencer's huge poem dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I ** Amoretti
What is the main work written by William Langland **The Vision of Pier the Plowman
What are the names of twins from Shakespearen "Twelfth Night"a ** Viola and Sebastian
What was the first magazine Richard Steele issued in 1709 ** "The Tattler"
What is the name of the only real country Gulliver visited during his adventures? ** Japan
What are Jack London's best-known novels? ** The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf
What is most important satire in verse written by Daniel Defoe? ** The True - born Englishman
What was the name of the whaling ship in the "Moby-Dick" ** Piqued
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. In the satire the author proved that true-born Englishmen did not exist, since the English nation consisted of Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, and others ** Daniel Defoe.
What was the movement, which was directed at the abolishment of slavery at the …of America? ** Abolitionism
(WHICH)
Which work is considered to be the best Abolitionistic masterpiece in the US literature? **Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which Renaissance author of English Lit… A.Temur in his work "Tamburlane the Great" ** Christopher Marlowe
Which of the following is NOT a character in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberr Finn”? ** Tom Canty
Which novel by G.Greene deals with conflict in Vietnam? ** The Quiet American
Which century in England was known as Age of Reason, Age of Elegance, Age of Classicism? XVIII
Which work written by Benjamin Franklin is considered an allegory of American culture ** Autobiography
Which writer (poet) is characterized by the following: ... He was the creator of a new literary..** Geoffrey Chaucer
Which of the following was not a foundational principle of the Enlightenment ** Skepticism
Which novel showed the darker implications of the American dream by Arthur Miller..“Death of a salesman”
Which is Fitzgerald’s most famous novel ** The Great Gatsby
Which works of James Baldwin described racism, the role of the artist...** “Invisible man” and “Another country”
Which of the following is NOT a character in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberr Finn” ** Tom Canty
What for was Mark Twain’s writing popular? ** captured American dialects
Which of Upton Sinclair's books is about the meat-packing industry? ** The Jungle
Which of the following writers was a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance ** Langston Hughes
Which of Washington Irving's characters falls asleep for twenty years ** Rip van Winkle
Which work written by Benjamin Franklin is considered an allegory of American Culture ** “Autobiography”
Which tragedy written by W. Shakespeare is considered the hardest of his works to understand … ** Hamlet.
Which of the following poets “left the field of poetry to his rival” ** Walter Scott.
Which work created by W.M.Thackeray can be called the peak of Critical Realism in England ** “Vanity Fair”.
Which novel relates, in great detail, the life of Clyde Griffiths, a boy of weak will and … ** “An American Tragedy”
Which work belongs to James Jones ** “ From Here to Eternity”
Which work does belong to the eighth century ** “Beowulf”
Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare's comedy ** “The Silent Women”
Which of the followings are Shakespeare's tragedies ** Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth
Which novel is NOT written by E. Hemingway ** This Side of Paradise
Which novel is not written by John Updike? ** “Rabbit Run”
Which of the works are NOT w-nby Oscar Wilde ** ”An Ideal Hus” and “A Woman ofno Importance”
Which novels belong to the pen of Jane Austen ** “Emma”, “Mansfield Park”, “Persuasion”
Which English Romantic writer was cons.. a “fighter with both pen and sword” ** George G. Byron
Which of the following writers are the... “Lake School” ** William Wordsworth, Samuel T.Coleridge
Which of the Romantic poets noticed “I awoke one morning and found myself fam” ** George Byron
Which of the following Romanticists are the prose writers?
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding
Walter Scott, Jane Austen
Herbert George Wells, Virginia Woolf
Charles Dickens, George Eliot
Which line includes the works by Edgar Alan Poe? ** The Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Gold Bug
Which of the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Ch. … “What do women want?”** The Wife of Bath’s tale
Which play influenced the origin and for of “Angry Young Men” ? ** “Look Back in Anger” by John Os.
Which author does not belong to English Realism? ** Jonathan Swift
Which of these are the works of Percy B. Shelley ** “Queen Mab”, “Cenci”, “The Revolt of Islam”
Which line includes the works by Henry D.Thoreau?** Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Civil Disob..
Which novel written by Theodore Dreiser shows his concern about young generation and the failure of American Dream concept? ** “An American Tragedy”
Which book made Washington Irving the first American writer to achieve international fame? ** The Sketch Book
Which book did William Faulkner confess he wished he had written it himself, and D.H. Lawrence called it “One of the strangest and most wonderful books in the world” ** “Moby Dick”
Which work is considered to be one of the best American novel by H. Melville ** Moby Dick; or the White Whale
Which movement's motto was "art for art's sake"? ** aesthetism
Which English writer wrote a literary work about Amir Temur “Tamburlaine the Great”? ** Christopher Marlowe.
Which list of the following characters is from the epic “Beowulf’? ** Higelac, Beowulf, Hrothgar, Grendel.
Which of Upton Sinclair's books is about the meat-packing industry? ** The Jungle
Which of the following writers was a leading member of the Harlem Renaissance? ** Langston Hughes
Which American writer won the Nobel Prize in 1930? ** Sinclair Lewis
Which novel is considered to be the first true novel? ** "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"
Which of Washington Irving's characters fall asleep for twenty years? ** Rip van Winkle
Which play the following heroes are main characters of: Eliza Doolittle, Mr. Higgins? ** Pygmalion
(WHY)
Why was John Milton regarded as a dangerous enemy after the restor….?**Because he was a religious poet.
Why Mark Twain’s writing was popular? ** captured American dialects
Why is the subtitle cаlled “The modern Prometheus”? ** From the Greek mythology, in which the Titаn Prometheus creаted the mаnkind аnd stole а fire from the God Zeus
Why does Victor give birth to the monster in “Frаnkenstein”? ** he is obsessed by the ideа of ‘the secret of life’ аnd wаnts to discover it
Why did Mаry Shаlley mаke the femаle chаrаcters pаssive in “Frаnkenstein”? ** in order to cаll аttention to the obsessive аnd destructive behаvior thаt Victor аnd the monster show.
Why did the man become cruel and ruthless for his animals? ** D.Because of his wife / B. Sound of the cat
Why did the man kill his woman ? ** it was an accident
(WHEN)
When "The Glorious Revolution" took place? ** 1688
When you think of E. E. Cummings, what stylistic eccentricity comes ...**his use of only lowercase letters in poetry
When did Christianity penetrate into the British Isles? ** In the 10th century.
When did the “University Wits” live ? ** In the Elizabethan age
When was America discovered by Ch. Columbus ** In 1492
When and why did Theodore Dreiser write his book “Dreiser Looks at Russia”? ** He wrote it in 1927 after his visit to the former Soviet Union
When аnd where wаs Mаry Shаlley born? **1797 in London
When wаs “Frаnkenstein” published? ** 1818
When Edgar Allan Poe’s five tales were published? ** 1832
When Edgar Allan Poe was born? ** on January 19.1809
When we read her novels, we have the impression of entering …..Whose writing style is this? ** Virginia Woolf
When was Britain conquered by Rome? ** In the 4th century
(WHOSE)
Whose existentialistic ideas were openly shown in the novel "Under the Net" ** Iris Murdoch
Whose stories have unexpended ends? ** O.Henry’s
Whose birthday is celebrated in Scotland as a national holiday? ** Robert Burns
(WHOM)
Whom is Kipling’s poem “If” dedicated to? ** to his son
Whom did Thomas Jefferson help to establish the militant, anti-Federalist Nat gaz in 1791? ** Philip Freneau
Whom did the Scottish philosopher David Hume call America’s “first great man of letters”? ** Benjamin Franklin
Whom was founded and conducted the first English newspaper “The Review” by? ** Daniel Defoe
Whom does the monster kill in the novel “Frаnkenstein”? ** Victor’s wife, best friend аnd brother
Whom does Victor tell his whole life’s story in “Frаnkenstein”? ** Robert Wаlton
Whom does Robert Wаlton send his letters in “Frаnkenstein”? ** to his sister, Mаrgаret Sаville
Whom President Abraham Lincoln called “the little woman who wrote the book that….great war”? ** Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Whom did A. E. Poe think as the “best poet in America”and later accused him of plagiarism? ** H.W. Longfellow
Whom does Carrie regard as a male ideal in the novel “Sister Carrie”? **Robert Ames
(WHERE)
Where does the title of the play “Pygmalion” come from? ** from Greek myth
Where was “Uncle Tom’s cabin” published? ** In the magazine “The National Era”
Where the novel The Scarlet Letter is set? **Puritan America
Where the man died his wife with an axe? ** in the cellar
Where do Grendel and his equally monstrous mother live? ** At the bottom of a foul lake
(W)
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize, John Steinbeck wrote ** The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men
William Dean Howell’s best- known novel, about a self- made businessman who is ultimately ruined financially by his determination not to comp ** “The Rise of Silas Lapham”
“White Noise” is a novel written by American writer whose name is… ** Don DeLillo
______ was a freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate of equality of income. In 1925, he was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature. He accepted the honor ** George Bernard Shaw
While Anderson conveyed a considerable amount of affection for the “grotesques,” as he called the small town dwellers, ____________drew bitterly satirical portraits of small town life ** Sinclair Lewis
__________was a flowering of Afro-American social thought which was expressed through paintings, music, dance, theater and literature * Harlem Renaissance