The dictionary of the English Language
Тест сұрақтары 1. The period of British literature between the years 450-1100 is known as the A) Anglo-Saxon B) Renaissance C) Romantic D) Enlightenment E) Modern 2. One theme found in Anglo-Saxon literature is A) Adventure B) Love C) King Arthur D) Poverty E) Disillusionment 3. “With war, weapons and weeds of battle” is an example of A) alliterative verse B) personification C) end rhyme D) hyperbole E) simile 4. The author of Beowulf is A) unknown B) Shakespeare C) Chaucer D) Browning E) Joyce 5. The famed monster in Beowulf is called A) Grendel B) Arthur C) Offa D) Hrothgar E) Geat 6. Anglo-Saxon literature includes A) Beowulf B) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, C) Francis Bacon, Fielding, Henry, Samuel Johnson D) Arthurian Legend E) Sir Thomas More, Sidney, Sir Philip, Spenser, Edmund 7. Beowulf is an example of a A) heroic epic B) fable C) novel D) short story E) allegory 8. During the Anglo-Saxon period, who were most responsible for preserving much of the oral literature of the time? A) bards B) kings C) priests D) common people E) women 9. The Medieval Period in British literature is between the years A) 1100-1485 B) 450-1100 C) 0-450 D) 1660-1789 E) 1603-1660 10. Which is NOT one theme found in Medieval literature? A) discovery B) legend of King Arthur C) courtly love D) Christianity E) realism 11. Texts during the Medieval period were written in A) middle English B) Spanish C) French D) modern English E) an unknown language 12. Many heroic adventures of the Medieval period were written about A) King Arthur B) Beowulf C) Robinson Crusoe D) Julius Caesar E) Gulliver 13. The English language evolved from a combination of which two languages? A) Anglo-Saxon and Norman French B) Anglo-Saxon and Latin C) Anglo-Saxon and Spanish D) Anglo-Saxon and German E) Latin and Norman French 14. Medieval literature: A) Arthurian Legend B) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, C) Francis Bacon, Fielding, Henry, Samuel Johnson D) Beowulf E) Sir Thomas More, Sidney, Sir Philip, Spenser, Edmund 15. “The Canterbury Tales” is whose masterpiece? A) Geoffrey Chaucer B) Shakespeare C) Milton D) Johnson E) Swift 16. Literature during the Medieval period is noted for the English language A) to be read without translations B) needing translations C) to be only passed orally from one person to another D) resembling modern English E) resembling Old English 17. One of the first English books to appear in print was A) Sir Thomas Malory’s King Arthur B) Shakespeare’s Hamlet C) “Beowulf” D) Milton’s “Paradise Lost” E) Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” 18. The stories of Robin Hood are set in which time period? A) Medieval B) Anglo-Saxon C) Renaissance D) Romantic E) Modern 19. People often retold Robin Hood stories to express their discontent with A) social injustices B) the court C) Christianity D) war E) diseases 20. Arthurian legends A) group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of the round table B) a collection of stories set within a framing story of a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. The poet joins a band of pilgrims who assemble for the journey. Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of 14th-century English society. C) The poem tells of a hero, who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel, half man and half fiend, and Grendel's mother, who comes that evening to avenge Grendel's death. Fifty years later the hero, now king of his native land, fights a dragon who has devastated his people D) A history of England from the Roman occupation to 731, the year it was complete legendary hero of medieval England In most tales about him, he leads an outlaw band called the Merry Men in daring forest adventures. E) The Merry Men fight authority and rob the rich to give to the poor. 21. Robin Hood A) legendary hero of medieval Englan In most tales about him, he leads an outlaw band called the Merry Men in daring forest adventures. The Merry Men fight authority and rob the rich to give to the poor. B) a collection of stories set within a framing story of a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. The poet joins a band of pilgrims who assemble for the journey. Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of 14th-century English society. C) The poem tells of a hero, who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel, half man and half fiend, and Grendel's mother, who comes that evening to avenge Grendel's death. Fifty years later the hero, now king of his native land, fights a dragon who has devastated his people D) a history of England from the Roman occupation to 731, the year it was complete group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of his inner circle E) Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of 14th-century English society. 22. The Canterbury Tales A) A collection of stories set within a framing story of a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas a Becket. The poet joins a band of pilgrims who assemble for the journey. Ranging in status from a Knight to a humble Plowman, they are a microcosm of 14th-century English society. B) The poem tells of a hero, who rids the Danes of the monster Grendel, half man and half fiend, and Grendel's mother, who comes that evening to avenge Grendel's death. Fifty years later the hero, now king of his native land, fights a dragon that has devastated his people C) A history of England from the Roman occupation to 731, the year it was complete The central theme is that of the church as a force welding spiritual, doctrinal, and cultural unity out of violence and barbarism. D) Group of tales in several languages that concern the legendary King of the Britons, his realm, and the knights of his inner circle E) Legendary hero of medieval England In most tales about him, he leads an outlaw band called the Merry Men in daring forest adventures. The Merry Men fight authority and rob the rich to give to the poor. 23. The Renaissance spans which years? A) 1485-1603 B) 1100-1485 C) 450-1100 D) 1660-1789 E) 1603-1660 24. Which is NOT a theme found in literature during the Renaissance? A) idealism B) courtly love C) royal succession D) English history E) commerce 25. During the Renaissance, which queen brought England to its most glorious age? A) Queen Elizabeth I B) Queen Isabella C) Queen Mary D) Queen Catherine E) Queen Elizabeth II 26. It interweaves several plots involving two pairs of noble lovers, a group of bumbling and unconsciously comic townspeople, and members of the fairy realm, notably Puck, King Oberon, and Queen Titani A) Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare B) The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare C) Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare D) King Lear by W. Shakespeare E) The Tempest by W. Shakespeare 27. In this play, the Renaissance motifs of masculine friendship and romantic love are portrayed in opposition to the bitter inhumanity of a usurer named Shylock, whose own misfortunes are presented so as to arouse understanding and sympathy. A) The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare C) Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare D) King Lear by W. Shakespeare E) The Tempest by W. Shakespeare 28. It is famous for its poetic treatment of the ecstasy of youthful love, dramatizes the fate of two lovers victimized by the feuds and misunderstandings of their elders and by their own hasty temperaments. A) Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare C) The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare D) King Lear by W. Shakespeare E) The Tempest by W. Shakespeare 29. In this play a duke, deprived of his dukedom and banished to an island, confounds his usurping brother by employing magical powers and furthering a love match between his daughter and the usurper’s son. A) The Tempest by W. Shakespeare B) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare C) The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare D) Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare E) King Lear by W. Shakespeare 30. Fill in the necessary word The word means “rebirth.” The idea of rebirth originated in the belief that Europeans had rediscovered the superiority of Greek and Roman culture after many centuries of what they considered intellectual and cultural declin A) Renaissance B) Realism C) Enlightenment D) Sentimentalism E) Romanticism 31. A Shakespearean sonnet consists of how many lines? A) 14 B) 8 C) 16 D) 10 E) 18 32. William Shakespeare was born in which city? A) Stratford-Upon-Avon B) London C) Canterbury D) Paris E) Bath 33. The Elizabethan period was the golden age of English A) drama B) poetry C) ballads D) novels E) short stories 34. The name of Shakespeare’s famous theatre A) Globe B) House C) Hall D) Palace E) Court 35. Renaissance A) Sir Thomas More, Sidney, Sir Philip, Spenser, Edmund B) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, C) Francis Bacon, Fielding, Henry, Samuel Johnson D) Beowulf E) Arthurian Legend 36. Queen Elizabeth’s successor was A) King James of Scotland B) King Henry VII C) King Henry VIII D) King Phillip E) King Edward 37. A Shakespearean sonnet has which rhyme scheme? A) abab cdcd efef gg B) aabb ccdd eeff gg C) abab abab aabb cc D) abcd abcd abcd ee E) abcd efgh ijkl mm 38. The Seventeenth Century was also known as A) Milton B) Shakespeare C) Pope D) Wordsworth E) Johnson 39. The Renaissance period ended with the death of A) Queen Elizabeth I B) King James C) King Henry VIII D) Queen Mary E) Shakespeare 40. Literature during the 17th Century was limited due to A) a revolution in 1641 B) a plague C) a drought D) lack of paper E) disinterest 41. The only full English epic is called A) Paradise Lost B) Beowulf C) Canterbury Tales D) Tintern Abbey E) Kubla Khan 42. The main characters in “Paradise Lost” are A) Adam, Eve, Satan B) Romeo & Juliet C) Brutus & Caesar D) Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters E) Beowulf and King Hrothgar 43. The LONG eighteenth century in British literature spans the years A) 1660-1789 B) 1700-1789 C) 1750-1800 D) 1701-1750 E) 1700-1900 44. Which is NOT a key theme during the 18th century? A) spiritual love of nature B) rise of the novel C) wit in the urban world D) satire E) punishing the dull 45. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” A) Alexander Pope B) Johnathan Swift C) John Milton D) William Wordsworth E) William Shakespeare 46. Restoration A) This period extends from 1660, the year Charles II was restored to the throne, until about 1789. B) This period extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman-French conquest of Englan C) Extending from 1066 to 1485, this period is noted for the extensive influence of French literature on native English forms and themes. D) A golden age of English literature commenced in 1485 and lasted until 1660. E) Extending from about 1789 until 1837, the romantic age stressed emotion over reason. 47. A Modest Proposal A) Jonathan Swift B) Alexander Pope C) Edmund Spenser D) Sir Francis Bacon E) John Milton 48. An Essay on Criticism A) Alexander Pope B) Edmund Spenser C) Sir Francis Bacon D) Jonathan Swift E) John Milton 49. The author put together in verse both ancient and modern opinions. He saw no contradiction between the modern writer’s task of addressing a contemporary audience and certain rules derived from the practice of the ancients be followe A) An Essay on Criticism B) Novum Organum C) A Modest Proposal D) Paradise Lost E) The Faerie Queene 50. It is a powerful political satire about the economic and social conditions of the poor in Ireland under British rule that Irish children born to poor families could be put to good use as meat and leather to be sold to the wealthy. A) A Modest Proposal B) Novum Organum C) An Essay on Criticism D) Paradise Lost E) The Faerie Queene 51. In its 12 cantos he tells the story of the fall of Adam in a context of cosmic drama and profound speculations. The poet's announced aim was to “justify the ways of God to men.” A) Paradise Lost B) Novum Organum C) An Essay on Criticism D) A Modest Proposal E) The Faerie Queene 52. You can recognize an 18th century work by A) witty dialogue B) Middle English C) Old English D) worshipful attitude toward nature E) Arthurian legend 53. Swift’s most famous satire, a novel about a ship captain who travels to different countries inhabited by interesting beings. A) Gulliver’s Travels B) Pride and Prejudice C) Rape of the Lock D) Way of the World E) The Country Wife 54. The Romantic Period spans the years A) 1789-1832 B) 1485-1603 C)1832-1901 D)1603-1660 E)1901-present 55. Romanticism A) Delight in unspoiled scenery and in the (presumably) innocent life of rural dwellers is perhaps first recognizable as a literary theme in ***. B) The *** humanists proposed to educate the whole person and placed emphasis not only on intellectual achievement, but also on physical and moral development. C) emerged as a literary movement in Europe in the 1850s. In reaction to romanticism, it emphasized the everyday and through detailed description re-created specific locations, incidents, and social classes. D) Government, *** theorists argued, was voluntarily established by free individuals through a willful act of contract. is concerned solely with beauty and not with any moral or social purpos E) it emphasized the everyday and through detailed description re-created specific locations, incidents, and social classes. 56. The Romantic age A) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, B) Francis Bacon, Fielding, Henry, Samuel Johnson C) Beowulf D) Arthurian Legend E) Sir Thomas More, Sidney, Sir Philip, Spenser, Edmund 57. Allegorical epic that depicts the activities of a hero and Gloriana, who is the ideal form of womanhood and the embodiment of Queen Elizabeth. A) The Faerie Queene B) Novum Organum C) An Essay on Criticism D) A Modest Proposal E) Paradise Lost
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Samuel Johnson
A) The dictionary of the English Language
B) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
C) A Red, Red Rose
D) The Spectator
E) A Journal of the Plague Year
The dictionary of the English Language
A) This remarkable work contains about 40,000 entries elucidated by vivid, idiosyncratic, still-quoted definitions and by an extraordinary range of illustrative examples.
B) Mixing politics, serious essays, and sly satire, the 18th-century periodicals were enormously popular and influential. They provide an entertaining and historically invaluable picture of 18th-century London life, both high and low.
C) Robert Burn’s songs, both original compositions and adaptations of traditional Scottish ballads and folk songs.
D) The best-known English elegy by the English poet Thomas Gray, which treats not just a single death but the human condition as well.
E) Defoe tells the story of one young woman who falls ill with vomiting and "a violent pain in the hea" Elsewhere in his book, Defoe describes a city undergoing a nightmare of suffering: "The pain of the swelling was in particular very violent, and to some intolerabl"
60. He is the first major historical novelist. In his portraits of Scotland, England, and the Continent from medieval times to the 18th century, he showed a keen sense of political and traditional forces and of their influence on the individual.
A) Walter Scott
B) Jane Austen
C) William Blake
D) The Lake Poets
E) Byron
61. In 1809, 19th-century English romantic poet ostracized by English society left England for Albania, where he began work on the poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimag
A) Lord Byron
B) Jane Austen
C) William Blake
D) The Lake Poets
E) Walter Scott
62. Poems “Eve of St. Agnes,” “Ode to a Nightengale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
A) John Keats
B) William Wordsworth
C) Lord Byron
D) Percy Shelley
E) William Blake
63. Poems “Kubla Khan” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
A) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B) John Keats
C) William Wordsworth
D) Lord Byron
E) Percy Shelley
64. Frankenstein
A) Mary Shelley
B) Percy Shelley
C) Jane Austen
D) John Keats
E) Lord Byron
65. Pride and Prejudice focuses on the Bennet family and the search of the Bennet daughters for suitable husbands. The author illuminates the topic of husband hunting and marriage in an acquisitive society and shows most of its aspects and consequences.
A) Jane Austen
B) William Blake
C) The Lake Poets
D) Walter Scott
E) Lord Byron
66. The term loosely applied to three English poets, Robert Southey, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Wordsworth. The works of these poets had little relationship to one another, although each exemplified romantic principles in poetry.
A) The Lake Poets
B) Jane Austen
C) William Blake
D) Walter Scott
E) Byron
67. Which of the following is NOT a major theme during the Romantic Period?
A) satire
B) spiritual love of nature
C) idealism
D) restlessness
E) Byronic hero
68. The Victorian Period spans the years
A) 1832-1901
B) 1660-1789
C) 1789-1832
D) 1100-1485
E) 1485-1603
69. Who was NOT a major novelist during the Victorian Period?
A) James Joyce
B) Charles Dickens
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Emily Bronte
E) Willian Thackery
70. Who was NOT a major poet during the Victorian Period?
A) Alexander Pope
B) Lord Tennyson
C) Robert Browning
D) Elizabeth Barrett Browning
E) Matthew Arnold
71. Charles Dickens
A) Oliver Twist, 1838; David Copperfield, 1849-1850; Great Expectations, 1861
B) Vanity Fair (1847-1848)
C) Wuthering Heights
D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
E) Jane Eyre
72. William Thackeray
A) Vanity Fair (1847-1848)
B) Oliver Twist, 1838; David Copperfield, 1849-1850; Great Expectations, 1861
C) Wuthering Heights
D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
E) Jane Eyre
73. Emily Bronte
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Vanity Fair (1847-1848)
C) Oliver Twist, 1838; David Copperfield, 1849-1850; Great Expectations, 1861
D) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
E) Jane Eyre
74. Charlotte Bronte
A) Jane Eyre
B) Vanity Fair (1847-1848)
C) Oliver Twist, 1838; David Copperfield, 1849-1850; Great Expectations, 1861
D) Wuthering Heights
E) Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1891)
75. Oliver Twist, 1838; David Copperfield, 1849-1850; Great Expectations, 1861
A) Charles Dickens
B) Thomas Hardy
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Emily Bronte
E) William Thackeray
76. He started school at the age of nine, but his education was interrupted when his father was imprisoned for debt in 1824. The boy was then forced to support himself by working in a shoe-polish factory. He later described this experience, only slightly altered, in his novel.
A) Charles Dickens
B) William Thackeray
C) Emily Bronte
D) Charlotte Bronte
E) Thomas Hardy
77. The story of Heathcliff and Catherine’s passionate and at times destructive love for one another has a dark, brooding atmosphere that disturbed its Victorian audienc
A) Emily Bronte
B) Charles Dickens
C) William Thackeray
D) Charlotte Bronte
E) Thomas Hardy
78. The Pre-Raphaelites
A) combined art, music, craft, and poetry
B) also known as the Lake Poets
C) focused on devotional poetry
D) famous writers in the medieval period
E) politicians during the revolution
79. Victorian England was concerned heavily about
A) Industrialization
B) Exploration
C) World War I
D) Puritan Revolution
E) Commercialism
80. What is one thing the writers of the Enlightenment Period did NOT insist upon?
A) free credit
B) education for all
C) self-government
D) liberty
E) help for the common people
81. “In Memoriam *H.H,” “Charge of the Light Brigade,” “The Lotus Eaters”
A) Tennyson
B) Keats
C) Lord Byron
D) Wordsworth
E) Milton
82. Writers of the 18th century started a public movement for
A) enlightening the people
B) scaring the people
C) moving the people
D) taxing the people
E) harassing the people
83. A novel about a journey into deep Africa; a voyage into strangeness and evil.
A) Heart of Darkness
B) Mrs. Dalloway
C) Ulysses
D)David Copperfield
E) Gulliver’s Travels
84. Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan’s Wake
A) James Joyce
B) Joseph Conrad
C) Virginia Woolf
D) Oscar Wilde
E) G. Shaw
85. “Easter 1916,” “The Second Coming,” “Among School Children”
A) W. Yeats
B) Tennyson
C) Wordsworth
D) T.S. Eliot
E) Browning
86. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Pruforck,” “The Waste Land,” “Gerontian”
A) T.S. Eliot
B) W. Yeats
C) Arnold
D) Tennyson
E) Browing
87. Modernism spans the years
A) 1901-1948
B) 1832-1901
C) 1948-present
D) 1789-1832
E) 1660-1789
88. Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Jacob’s Room
A) Virginia Woolf
B) James Joyce
C) Oscar Wilde
D) G. Shaw
E) Charles Dickens
89. Modernism was struck by world weariness and hopelessness caused by which war?
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) U.S. Civil War
D) French Revolution
E) Vietnam War
90. Two modernist novelists were introduced the stream of consciousness narrative
A) Joyce and Woolf
B) Shaw and Wilde
C) Conrad and Eliot
D) Dickens and Thackeray
E) Bronte and Swift
91. Modernist writer concerned about the status of women
A) Virginia Woolf
B) James Joyce
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Emily Bronte
E) Jane Austen
92. Modernist writer concerned about the Irish
A) James Joyce
B) Virginia Woolf
C) Joseph Conrad
D) Oscar Wilde
E) Charles Dickens
93. He wrote socially conscious plays / dramas during the Victorian period
A) G. Shaw
B) Samuel Beckett
C) Oscar Wilde
D) James Joyce
E) Charles Dickens
94. Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Major Barbara, Man & Superman, Widower’s House
A) G. Shaw
B) Oscar Wilde
C) Samuel Beckett
D) James Joyce
E) Virginia Woolf
95. Emma, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice
A) Jane Austen
B) Emily Bronte
C) Charlotte Bronte
D) Mary Shelley
E) Virginia Woolf
96. The Industrial Revolution caused all the following to occur in England except
A) decline in literature
B) town became cities
C) villagers seeking work in cities
D) growing number of factories
E) terrible working conditions for men, women, and children
97. A Victorian novel about a vivacious young woman who falls in love with a romantic servant but married a conservative guy instead; she ends up regretting her choice
A) Wuthering Heights
B) Jane Eyre
C) Great Expectations
D) Heart of Darkness
E) Pride and Prejudice
98. “FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length
Of five long winters! and again I hear
These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs
With a soft inland murmur.”
A) Wordsworth
B) Yeats
C) Tennyson
D) Keats
E) Lord Byron
99. “It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of thre
`By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?”
A) Coleridge
B) Wordsworth
C) Yeats
D) Tennyson
E) Keats
100. “How do I love thee Let me count the ways”
A) Browning
B) R. Browning
C) Wordsworth
D) Coleridge
E) Keats
101. “That's my last Duchess painted on the wall,Looking as if she were aliv”
A) R. Browning
B) Wordsworth
C) Keats
D) Eliot
E) Browning
102. “That piece a wonder, now
The sea is calm tonight. The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast, the lightGleams and is gone”
A) Arnold
B) R. Browning
C) Eliot
D) Coleridge
E) Keats
103. “Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of DeathRode the six hundre”
A) Tennyson
B) Arnold
C) Eliot
D) Keats
E) Wordsworth
104. “Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus expressA flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme”
A) Keats
B) Arnold
C) Tennyson
D) Wordsworth
E) Eliot
105. “O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing”A) Shelley
B) Keats
C) Tennyson
D) Wordsworth
E) Eliot
106. “Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world”
A) Yeats
B) Shelley
C) Eliot
D) Wordsworth
E) Arnold
107.“April is the cruelest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing
Memory and desire, stirring
Dull roots with spring rain.”
A) Eliot
B) Yeats
C) Arnold
D) R. Browning
E) Tennyson
108. “Parting is such sweet sorrow”
A) Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
B) Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
C) Shakespeare’s King Lear
D) Shakespeare’s Hamlet
E) Shakespeare’s Macbeth
109. "To be, or not to be,--that is the question:--whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?"A) Shakespeare’s Hamlet
B) Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
C) Shakespeare’s King Lear
D) Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet
E) Shakespeare’s Macbeth
110. "We live, as we dream--alon . . ." – ConradA) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
B) Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
C) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
D) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
E) Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
111. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wif”
A) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
C) Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
D) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
E) Thackeray’s Vanity Fair
112."I am alone and miserable; man will not associate with me; but one as deformed and horrible as myself would not deny herself to m My companion must be of the same species and have the same defects. This being you must creat"A) Shelley’s Frankenstein
B) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D) Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
E) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
113. "My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of tim" A) Dicken’s David CopperfieldB) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D) Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
E) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
114. “It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. “A) Bronte’s Jane EyreB) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
C) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
D) Milton’s “Paradise Lost”
E) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
115. “Satan, now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprise which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions—fear, envy, and despair”A) Milton’s “Paradise Lost”B) Shelley’s Frankenstein
C) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
D) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
E) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels116. “Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of a man at twice its natural siz”
A) Woolf’s “Room of One’s Own”
B) Shelley’s Frankenstein
C) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
D) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
E) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels117. “A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes.”A) Thackeray’s Vanity FairB) Shelley’s Frankenstein
C) Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
D) Conrad’s Heart of Darkness
E) Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels118. Fill in the necessary word
in art and literature, an attempt to describe human behavior and surroundings or to represent figures and objects exactly as they act or appear in lif
A) Realism
B) Enlightenment
C) Sentimentalism
D) Romanticism
E) Renaissance
119. Fill in the necessary word
The main tenet of is that writers must not select facts in accord with preconceived aesthetic or ethical ideals but must set down their observations impartially and objectively.
A) Realism
B) Enlightenment
C) Sentimentalism
D) Romanticism
E) Renaissance
120. Fill in the necessary word humanists believed it was possible to improve human society through classical education.
A) Renaissance
B) Realism
C) Enlightenment
D) Sentimentalism
E) Romanticism
121. Fill in the necessary word
is concerned solely with beauty and not with any moral or social purpos
A) Aesthetism
B) Romanticism
C) Renaissance
D) Realism
E) Enlightenment
122. Restoration
A) This period extends from 1660, the year Charles II was restored to the throne, until about 1789.
B) This period extends from about 450 to 1066, the year of the Norman-French conquest of Englan
C) Extending from 1066 to 1485, this period is noted for the extensive influence of French literature on native English forms and themes.
D) A golden age of English literature commenced in 1485 and lasted until 1660.
E) Extending from about 1789 until 1837, the romantic age stressed emotion over reason.
123. The Romantic age
A) William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
B) Francis Bacon, Fielding, Henry, Samuel Johnson
C) Beowulf
D) Arthurian Legend
E) Sir Thomas More, Sidney, Sir Philip, Spenser, Edmund
Jonathan Swift
A) A Modest Proposal
B) Paradise Lost
C) Novum Organum
D) The Faerie Queene
E) An Essay on Criticism
John Milton
A) Paradise Lost
B) Novum Organum
C) The Faerie Queene
D) An Essay on Criticism
E) A Modest Proposal
126. In its 12 cantos he tells the story of the fall of Adam in a context of cosmic drama and profound speculations. The poet's announced aim was to “justify the ways of God to men.”
A) Paradise Lost
B) Novum Organum
C) An Essay on Criticism
D) A Modest Proposal
E) The Faerie Queene
127. English poet, painter, and engraver, who created a unique form of illustrated verse; his poetry, inspired by mystical vision, is among the most original, lyric, and prophetic in the languag
A) William Blake
B) Jane Austen
C) The Lake Poets
D) Walter Scott
E) Byron
128. In 1809, 19th-century English romantic poet ostracized by English society left England for Albania, where he began work on the poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimag
A) Byron
B) Jane Austen
C) William Blake
D) The Lake Poets
E) Walter Scott
129. English writer and Nobel laureate, who wrote novels, poems, and short stories, mostly set in India and Burma (now known as Myanmar) during the time of British rul
A) Rudyard Kipling
B) Robert Louis Stevenson
C) Herbert Wells
D) John Galsworthy
E) Bernard Shaw
130. Irish-born writer, in addition to being a prolific playwright (he wrote 50 stage plays), he was also the most trenchant pamphleteer and the most readable music critic and best theater critic of his generation. He was also one of literature’s great letter writers.
A) G. Bernard Shaw
B) Rudyard Kipling
C) Robert Louis Stevenson
D) Herbert Wells
E) John Galsworthy
131. The novel written by James Joyce is focused on the events of a single day and related them to one another in thematic patterns based on Greek mythology.
A) Ulysses (1922)
B) Jackson’s Dilemma (1996)
C) The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1961)
D) Lucky Jim (1954)
E) The Quiet American (1955)
132. It interweaves several plots involving two pairs of noble lovers, a group of bumbling and unconsciously comic townspeople, and members of the fairy realm, notably Puck, King Oberon, and Queen Titani
A) A Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare
B) The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare
C) Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare
D) King Lear by W. Shakespeare
E) The Tempest by W. Shakespeare
133. In this play a duke, deprived of his dukedom and banished to an island, confounds his usurping brother by employing magical powers and furthering a love match between his daughter and the usurper’s son.
A) The Tempest by W. Shakespeare
B) Midsummer Night’s Dream by W. Shakespeare
C) The Merchant of Venice by W. Shakespeare
D) Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare
E) King Lear by W. Shakespeare
134. Nineteenth-century Irish-born writer and intellectual led an eccentric life that fueled his witty satires and epigrams on Victorian society. A member of the aesthetic movement in literature, he advocated the idea of art for art’s sak
A) Oscar Wilde
B) Malory, Sir Thomas (?-1471?)
C) Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593)
D) Geoffrey Chaucer
E) Somerset Maugham
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