Appendix ilova: 1 English as an International Language

English literature

1. Questions 1 - 3 are based on the following poem:

Why from this her and him

Did you and i climb

(Crazily kissing) till

Into themselves we fell-

How all have time and space

Bowed to immortal us

If in one little bed

She and he lie (undead)

The author of this poem is _______________.

A. Theodore Roethke

B. William Carlos Williams

c. e.e. Cummings

D. Alan Dugan

2. The versification of the poem would best be classified as:

A. sprung rhythm

B. blank verse

C. iambic pentameter

D. free verse

3. The tone is best described as:

A. devotional

B. ironic

C. whimsical

D. laudatory

4. Indicate which of the following best characterizes the esthetic philosophy of "Art for art’s sake":

A. John Keats

B. Alexander Pope

C. T.S. Elliot

D. Oscar Wilde

5. These lines open which of the following.

My father’s name being Pirrip and my Christian name, Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing more explicit than Pip. Therefore, I called myself Pip and came to be called Pip.

a. Bleak House

b. Great Expectations

c. Hard Times

d. Dombey and Son

6. The opening of the work indicates what about the speaker?

a. That he is of limited intelligence.

b. That he is not sure of his lineage.

c. That he is self-centered.

d. That he has a senstive and frightened nature.

7. Questions 12-14 are based on the following poem by Bret Harte

Above the pines the moon was slowly drifting,

The river sang below;

The dim Sierras, far beyond, uplifting

Their minarets of snow.

8. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales is an unfinished work in which each of the pilgrims were intended to tell more than one tale each. How many tales did Chaucer envision for each pilgrim?

a. 1

b. 2

c. 3

d.4

9. Which play by William Shakespeare is the longest in his repertoire?

a. Hamlet

b. Romeo & Juliet

c. Othello

d. Check my answer

10. The author of many works including L’Allegro, Lycidas and Paradise Lost, who is considered to have been the last great poet of the English Renaissance?

A. John Donne

b. John Milton

C. Richard Lovelace

d. Check my answer

Handout I.

Put words into the column correctly, which are given below:

Editorial, flat, underground, subway, apartment, lorry,mail, pavement, faculty, post, teaching staff, tin-opener, can-opener, government, truck, sidewalk, leader, subway, administration.