#. Who were called Briton? Anglo-Saxon tribes


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#.Who were called Briton?


- Anglo-Saxon tribes
+The people who lived in Britain
-The Romans

#.Who were bards ?


- monks
+professional singers
- Germanic tribes

#.What was the first major work of English literature?


- Bible
+ Beawulf
- Canterbury tales

#.When was Beawulf composed?


+ around 700 year
- around 600 year
- around 500 year

#.What did the scribes do?


+ They wrote down the poem
-They sang poem
-They created songs

#.When was Beawulf written down?


- 700 year
+1000 year
- 800 year

#.Which language did the people speak when Beawulf was written?


+ german
- Saxon
- Latin

#.Beawulf is ---------- lines long.


+ 3182
- 700
- 3322

#.How many parts did Beawulf divide?


+ 2
- 3
- 4

#.In which part takes places in Denmark?


- 2 nd
+ 1 st
- 3 rd

#.How many years did Beawulf rule the country?


- 60
- 40
+ 50

#. Where was described in the second part?


+ Southern Sweden
- Germany
- China

#. The manuscript of Beawulf is in-----------


- London museum
- Danish museum
+ British museum

#.When was Beawulf translated into modern English language ?


- in the 19 century
+ in the 20 th century
- in the 21 st century

#. What was the names of Danes King?


+ Hrotgar
- Beawulf
-Hygelac

#. What was the name of palace which was built by Hrotgar?


+ Hearot
- Herot
-Hrot

#. Where did Grendel live ?


- in the palace
+ in the dark fens
- in the mountain

#. Who was Grendel?


+sea-monster
-a water-witch
- a warrior

#.What did Grendel look like?


+ like a man
- like a fish
- like an animal

#. Which weapon could harm him?


- sword
- arch
+ none of them

#.How many years did the palace destroy?


+ Twelve
- Fifteen
- Fifty

#22. Who had the strength of thirty man?


+ Beawulf
-Hrothgar
- Grendel

#.How did Beowulf fight with Grendel?


+bare-handed
- with sword
- with magic weapon

#.What was happened at the end of the fight?


+Beawulf managed to tear of his arm
- Beawulf cut off his head
-Beawulf killed him with the magic sword

#.Hrothgar ……… into Beawulf’s hands.


+poured treasures
- gave his thrown
- killed sea-monster

#.When did Beawulf became king of Jutes?


- after the death of Hrothgar
- after death of Grendel
+ after the death of Hygelac

#.What was caused Beawulf’s death?


- magic sword
+ dragon’s flame
- treasure

#.Who was Wiglaf?


+ great warrior
- sea-monster
- The King

#.The culture of the early Briton changed under influence of -------------


- Romans
+ Christanity
- Beawulf

#.When did Christianity penetrate into the British Isles?


+ in the 3rd century
- in the 2nd century
- 1000 year

#.Who was the head of Roman church in that time?


+ Pope Gregory
- Monk Bede
- Pope Caedmon

#.Where was built the first church?


- Kent
+ Canterbury
- Northumbria

#.In which language were written religious books?


+Latin
- Saxon
- German

#.Where were the reading and writing practiced?


+ Monastries
- Libraries
- Schools

#.Who composed a poem “Paraphrase”?


- Cynewulf
+Caedmon
- Venerable Bede
#. Which poem retells fragments from the Bible in alliterative verse ?
+ Paraphrase
-“Elena”
- “Juliana”

#.Who signed his name in runes in the last line of his works?


- Caedmon
+ Cynewulf
- Venerable Bede
#--------------------------------are notable because they are the first Anglo-Saxon works to introduce women character.
+“ Elena” and “Juliana”
- “Elena” and “ Julia”
- “Romeo and Julietta”

#.Folk tales consists of -------------------


+ wedding songs , war songs, death songs
-Tongue twisters ,riddles, poems
- wedding songs , sonnets, poems

#.Which skill was brought from Mediterranean World?


- reading
+ writing
- listening

#. Written literature did not exist in the British Isles until---------------


+ 700 year
- 600 year
- 1000

#.Who is considered the father of English history?


- Caedmon
- Cynewulf
+ Venerable Bede

#.Who is the author of The Ecclesiastical History of The English Race?


- Alfred Great
+ Venerable Bede
-Geoffrey Chaucer

#. In which language did Bede write his books?


+ Latin
- German
- Anglo-saxon

#.Who were Northmen?


- monks
-warriors
+Danish pirates

#.Who was Alfred?


+Latin scholar
- Anglo-saxon monk
-head of Roman church

#.Who created the first prose in English literature ?


-Venerable Bede
+ Alfred the Great
- Geoffrey Chaucer

#.Who is the author of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ?


- Venerable Bede
+ Alfred the Great
- Geoffrey Chaucer

#. What did the literature of the early Middle ages and the church teach ?


- Latin books
+man an evil being and his life was sinful life
- wedding songs , war songs, death songs

#.During the following 200 years communication went in-----------------


+ three languages
- four languages
- five languages

#.When were the first universities Oxford and Cambridge founded?


+in the 13th century
- in the 10th century
- in the 12th century

#.A number of romances were based on Celtic legend especially………


- Beawulf
-King Alfred
+King Arthur

#.Who collected the romance of King Arthur ?


- Venerable Bede
+Sir Thomas Malory
- Alfred the Great

#. When was published “ Morte d’Arthur”?


+ in 1485
-in 1395
-in 1471

#.In the medieval period the term romance meant------------


+a long narrative in verse or prose telling of te adventures of hero
- religious poetry, folk-tales about wordly affairs
- epic poem

#. What does the word chivalry mean?


+ knight
- king
-sea-monster

#57-----------------is a short tale or prolonged personification with animal characters included to convey a moral truth.


+Fable
-Fabliau
- Chivalry
#-------------------- funny metrical short stories about cunning humbugs and unfaithful wives of rich merchants.
-Fable
+ Fabliaux
- Chivalry

#.Fable and Fabliux were popular in------------


+ Medieval France
-Roman
- England

#.When did the London dialect become the central dialect ?


+ in the 14th century
- in the 13th century
- in the 15th century

#. Who is the author of Piers Plowman ?


+ William Langland
- Sir Thomas Malory
-John Wyclif

#-------------- Was diplomat , soldier, and scholar.


+Geoffrey Chaucer
- William Langland
- Sir Thomas Malory

#.Chaucer’s poetry is generally divided in --------------- period.


+ Three
- Two
-Four

#.Which novel is considered to be Predecessor of the psychological novel in England?


- The house of Fame
+ Troilus and Criseyda
- The legend of good women

#.Who translated The Romance of the Rose ?


+ Geoffrey Chaucer
- Venerable Bede
- Sir Thomas Malory

#.Who was the last English writer of the middle ages and the first of Renaissance?


-Sir Thomas Malory
+ Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Wyclif

#.Who was the creator of new literary language?


+ Chaucer
- Sir Thomas Malory
- Thomas More

#.Who was described with twinkle in the eye?


+ Robin Hood
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Beowulf

#.Robin Hood ballads numbering some -------------separate ballads.


+ forty
- fifty
- sixty

#.What does the word renaissance mean?


+ rebirth
-humanity
- theology

#. The invention of printing press and improved method of manufacturing paper belonged to ……


+Rise of the Renaissance
- The Height of Renaissance
- The Decline of Renaissance

#.When were opened schools for bothh sexes of all ranks?


- Rise of the Renaissance
+The Height of Renaissance
- The Decline of Renaissance

#.When was the golden age of English drama?


+ Elizabethan period
- Stuart’s period
- Tudor monarch’s period

#.Who built England’s first play house called The Theatre ?


+ James Burbage
-Ben Jonson
-King James

#.Essay imported by …… ….. from France .


+ Francis Becon
-Wyatt
- Fransis Petrarch

#.When were new types of literature imported from European continent?


+ Rise of the Renaissance
- The Height of Renaissance
-The Decline of Renaissance

#.Who set up the first printing press in London?


+ William Caxton
- Surrey
- Wyatt

#.Who composed Paradise Lost ?


+ John Milton
- Thomas More
- Fransis Bacon

#----------------a short poem that express poet’s personal emotions and thoughts in a songlike style.


+ Lyric
- Sonnet
- Ballad

#80--------------is a 14 line poem with a certain pattern of rhyme and rhtym.


- Lyric
+ Sonnet
- Ballad

#.Elizabethan poets wrote two types of sonnets. They are -------------------


+ Italian and English
- French and German
- Italian and French

#.Who introduced sonnet from Italy into English literature ?


- Sir Thomas More
+ Sir Thomas Wyatt
- William Shakespeare

#-------------------is a group of sonnets based on a single thee or about one person.


+Sonnet sequence
- Lyric sequence
- Sequence of sonnets

#.Who wrote sonnet sequences?


+ Willia Shakespeare and Edund Spenser
- Wiliam Shakespeare and Thaomas ore
- Edmund Spenser and Thomas Wyatt

#.When did the University Wits live ?


- In the Victorian age.


- In the Augustan age.
+ In the Elizabethan age.

#.Which list of the following characters is from the epic Beowulf?


- Beowulf, Surpent, Higgins, Harry.


+ Hygelac, Beowulf, Hrothgar, Grendel.
- Howard, Beowulf, Crawley.

#.Which English writer wrote a literary work about Amir Temur


Tamburlaine the Great?

- Ben Jonson.


- Sir Thomas More.
+ Christopher Marlowe.

#.What century was the poem Beowulf written in, and who was the author?


- The XIV century; J. Chaucer.
+The X century, an unknown author.
-The XV century, an unknown author.
.
. # .How many lines does a sonnet consist of?

- eleven lines.


+ fourteen lines.
- ten lines.

#.Who was the first Elithabethan writer of tragedy?


-William Shakespeare.
+Christopher Marlowe.
-Ben Jonson.

#.The word means rebirth and refers especially to the revival of ancient of Greek learning.


-Revival
-Humanists
+Renaissance

#.Who is the author of Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ?


- Venerable Bede
+ Alfred the Great
- Geoffrey Chaucer

#. What did the literature of the early Middle ages and the church teach ?


- Latin books
+ man an evil being and his life was sinful life
- wedding songs , war songs, death songs

#.During the following 200 years communication went in -------------


+ three languages
- four languages
- five languages

#.When were the first universities Oxford and Cambridge founded?


+ in the 13th century
-in the 10th century
- in the 12th century

#.A number of romances were based on Celtic legend especially-------------


-Beowulf
- King Alfred
+King Arthur

#.Who collected the romance of King Arthur ?


- Venerable Bede
+ Sir Thomas Malory
-Alfred the Great

#. When was published Morte dArthur?


+ in 1485
- in 1395
- in 1471

#.In the medieval period the term romance meant-------------


+a long narrative in verse or prose telling of te adventures of hero
- religious poetry, folk-tales about wordly affairs
- epic poem
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