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Variant 7
1.
Which writer became the subject of partisan
biographies after his/her death?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
Geoffrey Chaucer
c)
John Milton
d)
Agatha Christy
2.
Which famous English writer’s name was
French and seemed to have meant originally
“shoemaker”?
a)
Geoffrey Chaucer
b)
Graham Greene
c)
Iris
Murdoch
d)
Percy Snow
3.
A London playwright Robert Greene said
about him: “ … an upstart crow, beautified with
our feathers, that with his tiger’s
heart wrapped
in a player’s hide, supposes he is as well able to
bombast out a blank verse as the best of you. “
Who is this writer?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
John Wycliffe
c)
Mark Twain
d)
John Milton
4.
Which of the Milton’s works reflects his
personal despair at the failure of the revolution
and affirms an ultimate optimism in human
potential?
a)
Areopagitica
b)
As you like it
c)
Paradise Lost
d)
Good Old Cause
5.
How was called a newspaper which Daniel
Defoe continued for eleven years?
a)
Augustan Age
b)
Sunday March
c)
The review
d)
Hope for the best
6.
Who is the main character of “Voyage
Round the World” by Defoe?
a)
Alexander Selkirk
b)
William Cowper
c)
Robinson Crusoe
d)
Samuel Butler
7.
When did Jonathan Swift write “Gulliver’s
travels”?
a)
1667
b)
1745
c)
1717
d)
1726
8.
In which part of
the novel Gulliver went to
the island where giant people live?
a)
І
b)
ІІ
c)
ІІІ
d)
ІV
9.
Which famous opera composer’s biography
was written by Somerset Maugham?
a)
Giacomo Meyerbeer
b)
Arthur Morrison
c)
George Gissing
d)
Beethoven
10.
Which of Maugham’s novels
represent his medical experience?
a)
Lisa of Lambeth
b)
Ambulance drivers
c)
The king’s school
d)
Gulliver’s travels
11.
This writer was enslaved by Britain
and we can see his pessimistic view on life
from his works. Who is he?
a)
James Joyce
b)
Richard Aldington
c)
Graham Greene
d)
William Shakespeare
12.
Find a new generation of realist
writers who appeared
on the literary scene in
thirties.
a)
Richard Aldington, J.B. Priestley,
A.J.Cronin
b)
Agatha Christy, Greene Lessing, Lord
Byron
c)
William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer
d)
Pedro Romero, Ernest Hemingway
13.
What was Ralph Fox’s main work
which was published in 1937?
a)
Paradise Lost
b)
The novel and the people
c)
Areopagitica
d)
King Lear
14.
What was James Joyce’s major novel
which presents a day in ordinary life, as a
miniature picture of the whole of human
history?
Robinson Crusoe
a)
Liza of Lambeth
b)
Robinson Crusoe
c)
Macbeth
d)
Ulysses
15.
Find the trio group of poets who
were known as Oxford Poets.
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a)
John Wan, Kingsley Amis, Agatha Christy
b)
John Braine, Greene Lessing, Iris Murdoch
c)
Christopher Caudwell, Alan Sill toe, John
Osborne
d)
Auden, Spenser, Day Lewis
16.
Which playwright said about his
plays “I want to make people feel, to give them
a lesson of feeling, they can think afterwards.”?
a)
Graham Greene
b)
Jane Austin
c)
John Osborne
d)
Ralph Fox
17.
Find the writers who appeared on
literary scene during the 1970’s
and early
1980’s.
a)
D.M. Thomas, Agatha Christie, Iris
Murdoch
b)
Auden, Spenser, Day Lewis
c)
William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer
d)
James Joyce, Graham Greene
18.
In which famous novel John Fowles
combined adventure and mystery?
a)
The prime of Miss Jean Brodie
b)
The Only Problem
c)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
d)
Illusion
19.
Who deals with real life burning
problems in his/her novels and penetrates into
weak spots in the capitalistic world?
a)
Christopher Caudwell
b)
Graham Greene
c)
Geoffrey Chaucer
d)
Agatha Christie
20.
Which writer shows the loneliness
and sufferings of the human
being in the hostile
world by novels such as “The Black Prince”
and “The Time of Angels”?
a)
William Shakespeare
b)
Iris Murdoch
c)
Richard Aldington
d)
Ernest Hemingway
21.
Who describes his/her childhood as
“… something associated with violence,
cruelty, evil across the way.”?
a)
Graham Greene
b)
Agatha Christie
c)
Jack London
d)
Lord Byron
22.
What was Iris Murdoch’s first novel?
a)
The Black Prince
b)
Under the Net
c)
Hamlet
d)
As You Like It
23.
What was the main idea of novels
such as “The Heart of the Matter”, “The
Comedians”, “A Burn-Out Case” by Graham
Greene?
a)
Reject the dogmas of Catholicism
b)
Detective
c)
Ordinary people’s life
d)
Mysterious events
24.
Which writer known as “the world’s
most mysterious woman” because of her
works?
a)
Iris Murdoch
b)
Joanne Rowling
c)
Stephanie Mayer
d)
Agatha Christie
25.
What was the first major novel by
Ernest Hemingway?
a)
Lost Generation
b)
Under the Net
c)
The Old Man and the Sea
d)
The Sun Also Rises
26.
Find American novelist and short
story writer, whose left-wing philosophy is
seen in the class struggle novel “The Iron Hill”.
a)
Lord Byron
b)
William Stafford
c)
Mark Twain
d)
John Wycliffe
27.
What was Agatha Christie’s first
novel?
a)
The Unicorn
b)
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
c)
The Sea Eagle
d)
The Heart of the Matter
28.
Which of Jack London’s novels is
about a struggling young writer?
a)
Martin Eden
b)
Macbeth
c)
The Iron Heel
d)
John Barleycorn
29.
Who is the only writer to have been
awarded both a Nobel
Prize for Literature and
an Oscar, for his contributions to literature and
for his work on the film
Pygmalion
?
a)
Bernard Shaw
b)
Percy Snow
c)
Thomas Hardy
d)
Lord Byron
30.
Who is the best known as the author
of a sequence of novels entitled
Strangers and
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depicting intellectuals in academic
and government settings in the modern area?
a)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
b)
Graham Greene
c)
Percy Snow
d)
Thomas Hardy
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