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Variant 6
1.What is English literature?
A) English literature is a component
part of the world literature;
B) English literature is a rich literature;
C) English literature is also one of the oldest national literatures in the world
D)All answer is right.
2) Where was The Anglo-saxons built the first church?
A) in the town of Canterbury;
B) in Kent;
C)in Ireland;
D)in Scotland.
3)What had their own letters called "runes", but still?
A) Celts;
B)
Anglo-saxons;
C)Jutes;
D) Normans.
4) Which word comes the word "to write" from?
A)to scribe;
B)to read;
C)to speak;
D)to say.
5) Who decided to spread his influence over England at the end of the 6
th
century?
A)
a king of the Danes;
B) the nephew of the king of Jutes;
C) Hrothgar
D) the head of the Roman church at that time Pope Gregory .
6) Who is author of a poem “Paraphrase”?
A) Caedmon;
B)
Cynewulf;
C) William Langland;
D) Sir Thomas Mallory.
7) Whose poem does retell fragments from the Bible?
A) William Langland;
B) Sir Thomas Mallory
C) Caedmon;
D) Cynewulf.
8) Who wrote poems “ Elen ” and “ Juliana ”?
A) Caedmon;
B) Cynewulf;
C)
Sir Thomas Mallory;
D) William Langland.
9)Who was Cynewulf ?
A) a monk;
B) the host of a London.
C) a shereef;
D) was the nephew of the king of Jutes.
10)When did Cynewulf live?
A) at the end of the 8
th
century;
B) In the 15
th
century;
C) down in the 10
th
century;
D) In the 13
th
century.
11) When were founded the first universities in Oxford and Cambridge ?
A) In the 15
th
century
B) down in the 10
th
century;
C) In the 13
th
century;
D) In the 14
th
century.
12) When did Sir Thomas Mallory collect the romances of king Arthur?
A) In the 15
th
century ;
B) In the 13
th
century;
C) In the 14
th
century ;
D) down in the 10
th
century.
13) Which work is the first major work of English literature?
A) “ The Canterbury Tales”
B)the epic poem "Beowulf;
C) “ Piers Plowman ”.
D) “The wife of usher’s well”
14)Who was “Beowulf “composed ?
A) by an unknown author
B) William Langland;
C)
Sir Thomas Mallory ;
D) John Wyclif.
15) When was written The whole poem “Beowulf “?
A) In the 15
th
century;
B) In the 14
th
century ;
C) down in the 10
th
century;
D) In the 13
th
century.
16) Who was Hrothgar?
A) a king of the Danes;
B) an outlaw;
C) the host of a London.
D) a shereef.
17) Who was Grendel?
A) the host of a London.
B) a shereef;
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C) a king of the Danes;
D) looked like a man but was much bigger, no weapon could harm him.
18) Who was Beowulf ?
A) was the nephew of the king of Jutes;
B) a king of the Danes;
C) the host of a London.
D) a shereef.
19) How many soldiers had Beowulf have?
A)three hundred men;
B)the strenth
of the thirty men;
C)fifty men;
D)fourty men.
20)When did the Norman Kings make London their residence?
A) In the 14
th
century ;
B) down in the 10
th
century;
C) In the 13
th
century;
D) In the 15
th
century .
21) Which poem is called “ Piers Plowman ”.
A) “ The Visions of William Concerning Piers the Ploughman ”;
B) poem “Beowulf “;
C) “ THE WIFE OF USHER’S WELL”;
D) “Paraphrase”.
22) Which Spenser’s poem is describe nature , or picturesque allegorical scenes?
A) “Prothalamion ”;
B) “ The Faerie Queen ” ;
C) Shepherd’s Calendar ”.
D) “Paraphrase”.
23)Who are spoken of as if they were human beings in “ Piers Plowman ”?
A) Elen and Juliana ;
B) Vice and Virtue;
C)
Harry Bailly;
D) Grendel.
24)Who is remembered, because he discussed political questions with the common people
in the common tongue, and because he translated the Bible into English?
A)
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