Beowulf grendel Water Witch Hrothgar Задание #2

Christopher Marlowe’s three greatest tragedies are:


“Tamburlaine the Great”, “Doctor Faustus”, “The Jew of Malta”.

“Paradise Lost”, “Samson Agonistes”, “Doctor Faustus.”

“Manfred”, “Macbeth”, “The Jew of Malta”.
“The Rape of the Lock”, “An Essay on Man”, “Tamburlaine the Great.”
In what form did Satan return at night in order to persuade Eve to eat the forbidden fruit? (“ParadiseLost”) Serpent.
Swallow .
Cat.
Fox


Who was the first great writer of historical novels in English literature?
Sir Walter Scott.

Henry Fielding.
Richard Aldington.
Sir Walter Scott.
Test 3
Задание #1
Вопрос:
WhatisEnlightenment?


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) is a period of intellectual ferment in the thirteen American colonies in the period 1714-1818, which led to the American Revolution, and the creation of the American Republic

2) is the practice of deliberately preventing the facts or the full details of some matter from becoming known

3) is an annual publication that includes information such as weather forecasts, farmers' planting dates, tide tables, and tabular information often arranged according to the calendar

4) is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850.

Задание #2
Вопрос:
What does American Literature begin with?


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Orally transmitted myths
2) Legends

3) Tales and lyrics

4) All of them are correct

Задание #3
Вопрос:
Whom did the Scottish philosopher David Hume call America’s “first great man of letters”?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Benjamin Franklin
2) Noah Webster

3) Philip Freneau

4) Thomas Jefferson

Задание #4
Вопрос:
Who has earned the nickname “The Father of the American Novel”?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Washington Irving

2) Edgar Allan Poe

3) Ralph Waldo Emerson

4) Charles Brockden Brown

Задание #5
Вопрос:
Who created detective fiction in American Literature?
Выберите один из 5 вариантов ответа:
1) Herman Melville

2) Harriet Beecher Stowe

3) Raymond Chandler

4) EdgarAllanPoe

5)


Задание #6
Вопрос:
Who is the author of “The British Prison Ship”?


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Mary Shelley

2) Philip Freneau

3) Percy Shelly

4) Charles Dickens

Задание #7
Вопрос:
What was the name of the magazine which was published quarterly by Transcendentalists?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) The dial

2) The new era

3) Atlantic Monthly

4) The Blithedale Romance

Задание #8
Вопрос:
Whom did Thomas Jefferson help to establish the militant, anti-Federalist National Gazette in 1791?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Mary Shelley

2) Philip Freneau

3) Nathaniel Hawthorne

4) Washington Irving

Задание #9
Вопрос:
What is transcendentalism?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) was a reaction against 18th-century rationalism and a manifestation of the general humanitarian trend of 19th-century thought

2) was based on a fundamental belief in the unity of the world and God

3) the soul of each individual was thought to be identical with the world - a microcosm of the world itself

4) all answers are correct

Задание #10
Вопрос:
Who is the author of the following works “An apology for the Young Man”, “Old Mistresses Apologue” , “The way to wealth”?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) William Faulkner
2) Benjamin Franklin
3) Nathaniel Hawthorne
4) James Madison


Задание #11
Вопрос:
Which work written by Benjamin Franklin is considered an allegory of American culture?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) The Speech of Miss Polly Baker
2) Poor Richard’s Almanac
3) Essays to Do Good
4) Autobiography
Задание #12
Вопрос:
In what line are the Romanticists of America listed?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) George Washington Harris, Ralph Waldo Emerson
2) Edward Taylor, Cooper Fenimore, Thomas Jefferson

3) Alan Poe, Cooper Fenimore, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving

4) Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain

Задание #13
Вопрос:
Who was the leader of the movement known as Transcendentalism?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Ralph Waldo Emerson
2) George Washington Harris
3) James Russell Lowell

4) Margaret Fuller

Задание #14
Вопрос:
Which of the following is NOT a character in Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberr Finn”?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) The Grangerfords

2) Pap

3) Tom Canty

4) Widow Douglas

Задание #15
Вопрос:
Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlett Letter” depicts a belief in individual choice and consequence. This ideal is a characteristic of …
Выберитеодиниз 4 вариантовответа:
1) Naturalism

2) Realism

3) Transcendentalism

4) Puritanism

Задание #16
Вопрос:
Why Mark Twain’s writing was popular?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) captured American dialects

2) defined American poetry

3) raised sin and guilt to an art form

4) using visual imagery, unique style, and vivid metaphors

Задание #17
Вопрос:
The most famous novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne is …


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) The Deerslayer

2) The Scarlet Letter

3) Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

4) Sister Carrie

Задание #18
Вопрос:
The novelist who satirized small-town life, the scientist's search for truth, and evangelism is….
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Saul Bellow

2) Nathanael West

3) Sinclair Lewis

4) JohnDosPassos

Задание #19
Вопрос:
One of the major themes of The Great Gatsby is….


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) the acceptance of death as a part of nature

2) the prejudices and injustices of Americans toward American Indians

3) the corruption of American innocence through the pursuit of wealth

4) the loss of faith and the triumph of science

Задание #20
Вопрос:
The book that made Ralph Ellison famous is the story of….
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) a drummer and drug addict in the slums of Chicago

2) life in the Chicago stockyards

3) a boy who is sent to reform school

4) a black man's search for identity in the 1930s

Задание #21
Вопрос:
Ezra Pound was known for….
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) his poetry, criticism, and political views

2) his pro-Communist essays

3) his deeply religious poems and short stories

4) his novels of social conscience
Задание #22
Вопрос:
What are Jack London's best-known novels?


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Babylon Revisited and Tender Is the Night

2) The Call of the Wild and The Sea Wolf

3) Seize the Day and Herzog

4) The Naked and the Dead and Armies of the Night

Задание #23
Вопрос:
When you think of E. E. Cummings, what stylistic eccentricity comes to mind?


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) his use of only lowercase letters in poetry

2) his use of onomatopoeia in poetry

3) his use of dissonance in poetry

4) his use of obscenity in poetry


Задание #24
Вопрос:
Who is the author of the novels Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Alice James

2) Edith Wharton

3)
Alice Walker

4) Carson McCullers

Задание #25
Вопрос:
Eugene O'Neill is the author of….
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) American Buffalo, The Woods, and Glengarry Glen Ross

2) Waiting for Lefty, Awake and Sing! and Golden Boy

3) The Emperor Jones, A Long Day's Journey Into Night, and The Iceman Cometh

4) True West, Fool for Love, and Buried Child

Задание #26
Вопрос:
A nineteenth-century writer known for his Romantic poetry and macabre stories is….


Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Edgar Allan Poe

2) Washington Irving

3) James Fenimore Cooper

4) Bret Harte

Задание #27
Вопрос:
Who was Emily Dickinson?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1)
a twentieth-century writer who explored the black Midwestern experience
2) a twentieth-century poet who experimented with unusual stanza forms

3) a nineteenth-century novelist who explored women's sexual and emotional dependence

4) a nineteenth-century poet who used the imagery of nature to explore human consciousness

Задание #28
Вопрос:
Winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize, John Steinbeck wrote…
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Gravity's Rainbow

2) A Death in the Family and Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

3) The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men

4) Ragtime and Loon Lake

Задание #29
Вопрос:
Who wrote the lines: "The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep"?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Anne Sexton

2) Robert Frost

3) Robert Lowell

4) A. R. Ammons

Задание #30
Вопрос:
Whatistranscendentalism?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) a movement led by Tristan Tzara that tried to negate all traditional values In the arts
2) a movement led by Jean-Paul Sartre that stated that existence precedes essence

3) a movement led by Alfred Jarry that stressed the lack of reason in human existence

4) a movement led by Ralph Waldo Emerson that stressed the divinity of man

Задание #31
Вопрос:
Who was the creator of the characters Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer?
Выберите один из 4 вариантов ответа:
1) Hart Crane