Which of the trends in English literature is inspired by Japanese poetry (with its tiny form, such as «haiku»)?
c) Imagism.
Stephen Dedalus is the main character of
a) «Ulysses» and «The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man»;
In Paul Austers’s “Timbuktu” the predominant postmodernist technique is
c) play with the reader.
17. Determine a sub-genre of drama in which G. H. Show made a substantial contribution: the basic place does not belong either to an intrigue or a fascinating plot but to intense disputes, witty verbal duels of its characters. They grasp the depth of problems; force the reader to reflect over existing laws, orders and customs. It is
a) an intellectual drama;
In Graham Green’s “The Power and the Glory” the story is set in
a) in Mexico during the 1930s;
19. Determine the statement that is not true: the main character of “The Great Gatsby” believes:
b) that men are not capable of true love;
The theme of W.H. Auden’s poem “Epitaph on a tyrant” is
c) religious and moral.
21. In “The Great Gatsby” _____ is the novel's narrator:
c) Nick Carraway.
The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats gives
ab) non-Christian interpretation of the myth.
John Fowles’s novel _______ is the story of the abduction and imprisonment of Miranda Grey by Frederick Clegg, told first from his point of view, and then from hers by means of her diary, with a return in the last few pages to Clegg's narration of her illness and death.
b) “The Collector”;
Graham Green’s “The Quiet American” is
c) a political detective novel.
25. When Dorian Gray stabs a knife into his portrait:
c) the portrait reverts to its original beauty, while Dorian suddenly becomes aged, withered and horrible.
Mrs. Ramsey is the central character in Virginia Woolf’s novel
c) “To the Lighthouse”.
The name of the professor from G.B. Show’s play who trains a flower girl to pass for a duchess by teaching her phonetics is
b) Henry Higgins;
28. Finish the phrase from the preface to “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: "All art is quite________”.
c) useless;
Describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a mother's womb, and the government controls every stage of their development, from embryo to maturity.
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a) “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley;
Pastiche, intertextuality, metafiction, temporal distortion, paranoia, etc. are specific features of
b) postmodernism;
The story of Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls” is set during
b) The Spanish Civil War;
David Herbert Lawrence’ novel “Sons and Lovers” reveals the idea that
b) the mother holds her sons with her love and control, the bond between mother and sons cripples their other relationships;
In “The Rainbow” D.H. Lawrence focuses his attention on psychological problems and familial relationships of
b) The Brangwens;
Is Iris Murdoch’s experimental novel which centers on the life and erotic obsession of a writer, Breadly Pearson. The text suggests multiple interpretations, when subordinate characters contradict the narrator.
a) “The Black Prince”;
35. Indicate which statement is not true: T. S. Eliot’s “The Journey of the Magi” is
b) a joyful account of the wonders of the journey;
The philosophical movement that had an impact on Iris Murdoch’s works is
b) Existentialism;
Is an art movement supporting the ideas that a life had to be lived intensely, with an ideal of beauty; beauty was considered the basic factor of art; the Arts should provide refined sensuous pleasure, rather than convey moral or sentimental messages.
c) Aestheticism;
John Galsworthy’s “The Forsyte Saga” is a series of novels in which the first book is
c) “The Man of Property”.
39. Determine the literary trend that is characterized by the following: the unconscious life of the mind is as important as the conscious; our perceptions of life are uncertain and provisional; the intense, but isolated image is something that must be in the centre of the author’s attention; supposedly primitive myths can help to grasp and order the complexity of the twentieth century experience, etc.
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b) modernism;
40. ______ is a dystopian novel describing a fictitious world of constant war and a society held captive by the ever-watchful gaze of a shadowy totalitarian dictator known as "Big Brother.
b) “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by G. Orwell;
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