Beowulf grendel Water Witch Hrothgar Задание #2

Tests on English and American literature
Done by: Ruzmatova D.R

1. 
   An Irish playwright, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature is …
   

1. 
   George Bernard Shaw
   
2. 
   William Shakespeare
   
3. 
   Rudyard Kipling
   
4. 
   Herbert Wells
   

2. 
   ____________ 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 but refused the money.
   

a) George Bernard Shaw
b) William Shakespeare
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Herbert Wells

3. 
   The Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen had a great influence on ________'s thinking.
   

a) George Bernard Shaw
b) William Shakespeare
c) Rudyard Kipling
d) Herbert Wells

4. 
   George Bernard Shaw’s _________, ideological attacks on the evils of capitalism and explorations of moral and social problems, were followed with more entertaining but as principled productions.
   

1. 
   unpleasant plays
   
2. 
   pleasant plays
   
3. 
   advantageous plays
   
4. 
   disadvantageous play
   

5. 
   PICKERING: Have you no morals, man?
   DOOLITTLE: Can't afford them, Governor.
   

Which play are these lines taken from?

1. 
   Pygmalion
   
2. 
   School for Scandal
   
3. 
   Henry VIII
   
4. 
   Tamburlaine
   

6. 
   “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? a) Pygmalion
b) School for Scandal
c) Henry VIII
d) Tamburlaine

7. 
   It is the story of Professor Henry Higgins, a professor of phonetics, who wagers that he can turn a Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, into the toast of London society merely by teaching her how to speak with an upper-class accent. This information is about G.B. Shaw’s play____________.
   

a) Pygmalion
b) School for Scandal
c) Henry VIII
d) Tamburlaine

8. 
   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) A setting in space or an invented/alternate word. 2) Characters may be human, alien, or some of each. 3) Technology or scientific principles beyond current advancements or that go against current laws of nature. 4) Discovery or application of new scientific advances (time travel, space travel, etc). 5) New and different political and social systems.

1. 
   1,2,3,4,5
   
2. 
   1,3,4
   
3. 
   2,4,5
   
4. 
   1,2,3,4
   

9. 
   Who is the founder of science fiction genre in English literature?
   

1. 
   Herbert Wells
   
2. 
   Kurt Vonnegut
   
3. 
   George Orwell
   
4. 
   Ray Bradbury
   

10. 
    "The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain"."In Hertford, Hereford, and Hampshire, hurricanes hardly ever happen" These are the famous lines taken from the play _________ by Bernard Shaw.
    

a) Pygmalion
b) School for Scandal
c) Henry VIII
d) Tamburlaine

11. 
    Find out Oscar Wilde’s works
    

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