|
№ 1
Where did William Makepeace Thackeray study law?
|
Middle Temple
| № 2
Which college did William Makepeace Thackeray attend?
|
Trinity College
| №3
Who is the main character in “Vanity Fair” by W.M.Thackeray?
|
Becky Sharp
| № 4
When did William Makepeace Thackeray write “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq”?
|
1852
| № 5
Which magazine did William Makepeace Thackeray found and edit?
|
The Cornhill Magazine
| № 6
Which novel of William Makepeace Thackeray is about crime?
|
“Catherine”
| № 7
When and where did William Makepeace Thackeray die?
|
24 December 1863, London
| № 8
Which was Thomas Hardy’s first novel?
|
“The poor man and the lady”
| № 9
№ 10
What happens to Tess at the end of the novel “Tess of the d’Urbervilles”?
|
She is hanged
| № 11
Which country is depicted in the novels of Thomas Hardy?
|
Wessex
| № 12
Which novel of Thomas Hardy first gained notice?
|
Far from the madding crowd
| № 13
№ 14
Whom did Swift mean to ridicule when describing the country of Lilliput and the Lilliputian?
|
The scientists and philosophers
| № 15
What problem did not Fielding deal with in his plays?
|
the censorship of the stage
| № 16
What is depicted in Fielding’s book “The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling”?
|
the life in England
| № 17
What literary genre was Sheridan’s last work “Pizarro” written in?
|
the genre of political tragedy
| № 18
What put an end to the work of Henry Fielding as a playwright?
|
The censorship of the stage
| № 19
Who conferred the Order of Merit on Thomas Hardy?
|
George V
| № 20
Which poem of Thomas Hardy deals with Napoleonic Wars?
|
The Dynasts
| № 21
№ 22
Find out the statement about Coleridge.
|
he was the most talented of Lakists
| № 23
With who does Tom meet many adventures on the way in the book “The history of Tom Jones, a Foundling”?
|
with the schoolmaster Patridge
| № 24
What is the drama “The School for Scandal” of Briensley Sheridan concerning?
|
people loving malicious gossip and doing it with glittering wit
| № 25
What is the first innovation introduced by Shakespeare in his tragedies?
|
All the tragic characters are shown in their development: hero`s soul having undergone great changes
|
№ 26
In which tragedy does Shakespeare blame the adults for their blind self-interest?
|
“Romeo and Juliet”
| № 27
What themes are not Shakespeare`s tragedies devoted to?
|
Greed and poverty
| № 28
In which of Shakespearean tragedies can we see the hero named “Claudius”?
|
“Hamlet”
| № 29
What conclusion does Shakespeare come to in his tragedies?
|
Monarchy is evil
| № 30
Which of Shakespearean tragedies are anti-monarchic?
|
“Hamlet”, “Macbeth”, “King Lear”
| № 31
In which tragedy the conflict between the two moralities is shown?
|
“Othello”
| № 32
Which of Shakespearean tragedies is the hardest to understand?
|
“Hamlet”
| № 33
Whose principles declared romanticism in English literature?
|
W.Wordsworth’s, Coleridge’s
| № 34
№ 35
Who wrote a poem on the fall of Bastille?
|
S.T.Coleridge
| № 36
What is the leading theme of Byron’s poetry?
|
world sorrow
| № 37
Which work is Byron’s satirical masterpiece?
|
“The age of bronze”
|
№ 38
What is the most famous play of William Langland?
|
Piers Plowman
|
№ 39
What did Chaucer’s father do?
|
wine merchant
|
№ 40
What language was the word “ballet” taken from?
|
from French “ballet”
|
№ 41
What was the language of the Rome Empire?
|
Latin
|
№ 42
Who wrote the “Morted’Arthur”?
|
Thomas Malory
|
№ 43
Who translated the poem “The Romance of the Rose” from French?
|
Chaucer
|
№ 44
What is the first great poem of Percy Byssche Shelley?
|
“Queen Mab”
|
№ 45
How many parts is the best-known novel “Forsyte Saga” consists of? What are they?
|
3, “the Man of Property”, “In Chancery”, “Tolet”
|
№ 46
Who of the English writers opened a Dublin practice specializing school in ear and eye diseases for the free treatment of the city’s poor?
|
Oscar Wilde
|
№ 47
When did Oscar Wilde die?
|
November 30, 1900
|
№ 48
When did O.Wilde publish his first collection of poetry?
|
1881
|
№ 49
Who set up the first printing press in Westminster?
|
William Caxton
|
№ 50
Where and when was born H. G. Wells?
|
1866, in Bromley on September 21
|
№ 51
Name the works of G. Wells.
|
“The Time Machine”, “The Island of Doctor Moro”, “The Invisible Man”
|
№ 52
Which tragedy can exemplify the traditional Classical model of a good man brought to misfortune by a tragic mistake?
|
“Othello”
| № 53
Which tragedy took place at indefinite time before Shakespeare`s days?
|
“Romeo and Juliet”
| № 54
What was the title of first book of Hermann Melville?
|
“Typee”
|
№ 55
Which of the following statements best describes Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography?
|
It provides the model for the classic American rags-to-riches story
|
№ 56
Some of the movements that took place in the modernist time period include:
|
The Harlem Renaissance, The Lost Generation, and Confessional Poetry.
|
№ 57
What is the first novel of Somerset Maugham?
|
“Of Human Bondage”
|
№ 58
Which novel of Somerset Maugham is autobiography?
|
“Of Human Bondage”
|
№ 59
Where did Maugham study?
|
The University of Heidelberg
|
№ 60
When was John Wycliffe born?
|
1320
|
№ 61
The best novel by Charles Dickens:
|
“David Copperfield”
|
№ 62
№ 63
What was Jerome K. Jerome’s first job?
|
clerk
|
№ 64
Which illness did Jerome K. Jerome suffer from?
|
Paralytic stroke and cerebral hemorrhage
|
№ 65
What is “Fabliau”?
|
Funny story
|
№ 66
Who was the first English humanist in the English Renaissance?
|
Thomas More
|
№ 67
What are the characteristic features of the English authors?
|
They have always been deeply interested in political and social environment of their time.
|
№ 68
What symbolized the triumph of a man over the powers of darkness and evil in “Beowulf”?
|
Beowulf’s victory over the monsters
|
№ 69
How was Beowulf described in the poem?
|
Beowulf was the strongest and the bravest of all the warriors
|
№ 70
Who had won many battles and gained great wealth and built a large and beautiful palace (Heorot) in the epic poem “Beowulf”?
|
the king of Danes named Hrothgar
|
№ 71
Why was the epic poem “Beowulf” translated into modern English language?
|
It is impossible for a non-specialist to read it in the original
|
№ 72
Where is the manuscript of “Beowulf” kept nowadays?
|
In the British Museum, in London
|
№ 73
What is considered the foundation stone of the English literature?
|
the epic poem “Beowulf”.
|
Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
