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6 6 . Which writer ( poet) is characterized l?y the following:
... He was the creator of a new literary language. He chose to write in the popular tongue, though aristocracy of the time read and spoke French. He was the true founder of English literature.
John Milton.
Ben Jonson.
William Shakespeare.
Geoffrey Chaucer.
George Gordon Byron.
67. Which poet (writer) is characterized by the following:
He was a real fighter; struggled against despotism with both pen and sword. Freedom was the cause that he served all his life. Hated wars, sympathized with the oppressed people. He was a romanticist. Many ofhis verses are touched with disappointment and scepticism. The philosophy of “world sorrow” becomes the leading theme ofhis works. Romantic individualism and a pessi mistic attitude to life combine in his art with his firm belief in
reason: realistic tendencies prevail in his works of the later pe riod.
Jonathan Swift.
William Wordsworth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
George Gordon Byron.
Thomas Hardy.
6 8 . In what line are the Lake poets listed ?
P. B. Shelley, Walter Scott, George Gordon Byron.
John Milton, Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spencer.
Robert Southey, George Gordon Byron, Ted Hughs.
Walter Scott, Alfred Tennison, Robert Bums.
William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey.
Who ranks next to Shakespeare among English play wrights?
George Bernard Shaw.
George Gordon Byron.
Oscar Wilde.
Sir Francis Bacon.
Joseph Conrad.
Which period in the English Literature is called the Victo rian age literature?
A. 1837 - 1901.
B. 1901 -1917.
C. 1850-1900.
D. 1815-1837.
E. 1750-1800.
When did Christianity penetrate into the British Isles?
Iri the 10th century.
Ir the third century.
Iri the 11th century.
In the 14"’ century.
In the 7th century.
When did the “University Wits” live ?
In the Victorian age.
Iri the Augustan age. c. In the Elizabethan age.
In the age of Enlightenment.
During the Edwardian period.
73..Which was the first poetic work published by Walter Scott?
The Lay of the Last Minstrel.
The Lady of the Lake.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
Hours of Idleness.
Poems Chiefly in Scottish Dialect.
Tick (he name of the famous Irish dramatist and politi cian of the 18'M9'h centuries.
John Milton.
Alexander Pope.
Daniel Defoe.
Samuel Richardson.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
What character is described in the following passage? “...Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to
read - who had the habits and the cunning of a boor; whose aim in
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life was pettifogging; who never had a taste, or emotion or en joyment, but what was sordid and foul; and yet he had rank, and honours, and power, somehow; and was a dignitary of the land, and pillar ofthe state. He was high sheriff, and rode in a golden coach. Great ministers and statesmen courted him; and in Vanity Fair he had a higher place than the most brilliant genius of spot less virtue”.
Captain William Dobbin in W.M.Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair”.
Charles Strickland in W.S.Maugham’s “The Moon and Sixpence”.
Soames Forsyte in J.Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte Saga”.
Andrew Manson in A.J. Cronin's “The Citadel”.
F. Sir Pitt Crawley in W.M.Thackeray’s “Vanity Fair”.
Who became the outstanding literary figure of the Restoration after John Milton’s death?
George Gordon Byron.
John Dryden.
Thomas Malory.
Dylan Thomas.
Oscar Wilde.
How is the period in English literature from 1700 to 1750 called?
The Victorian Age.
The Age of Romanticism.
The Augustan Age.
The Restoration period.
The Age of Johnson.
Who were the two greatest novelists of the romantic pe riod?
Sir Walter Scctt and Graham Greene.
Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde.
Ben Jonson and William Wordsworth.
Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson. Ei. Jane Austen and Sir Walter Scott.
What is satirized in Jonathan Swift’s “A Tale of a Tub”?
Parliamentary debates.
Social institutions of the day.
Family affairs.
Differing interpretations of Christianity.
Literary critics.
What did Charles Dickens describe in his novels “Oliver Twist” and “David Copperfield”?
The lives of children made miserable by cruel or thoughtless adults.
The lives of medical workers, who served for the well-being of their country.
Unhappy love.
The spread of Christianity.
F. Illusory actions and things.
What were the three chief forms of Elizabethan poetry?
The lyric, the sonnet, and narrative poetry.
The epic, the sonnet, and blues.
The limericks, the lyric and narrative poetry.
Spenserian stanzas, the lyric, and epic.
F. Narrative poetry, odes, and epic.
What event marked the end of the romantic period in English literature?
G.G.Byron’s death in 1824.
Walter Scott’s death in 1832.
The end of the Puritan Rule in 1660.
The end of World War I in 1918.
Milton’s death in 1674.
Why did Puritans order the closing of the theatres?
They considered that plays were wicked.
They could not provide the theatres with necessary equipment.
There were no talented dramatists at that time.
They were afraid of revolutionary actions.
They were mourning for James I.
Which of the following was Shakespeare’s last great comedy?
“The Winter’s Tale”.
“The Tempest”.
“All’s Well That Ends Well”.
“Measure for Measure”.
“Much Ado about Nothing”.
Who was the first Elizabethan writer of tragedy?
William Shakespeare.
Christopher Marlowe.
Ben Jonson.
William Langland.
Edmund Spenser.
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