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Which statement is false?
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American literature does not reflect beliefs and traditions that come from the nation’s frontier days
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What did Walt Whitman and Washington Irving contribute?
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contributed to the formation of American literature through the very use of language.
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Who will always be remembered for having created the character of Rip Van Winkle?
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Washington Irving
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Whose pen name is Dietrich Knickerbockers?
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Washington Irving
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Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Henry James, Bret Harte are …
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the representatives of The Realistic Period
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The representatives of The Romantic Period in America are …
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Washington Irving
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Which period’s poets wrote poetry that was relatively independent of English precursors?
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The Early National Period
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With the poetry of … a new form of serious literature came alive with thought provoking language-genuine emotional language.
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Walt Whitman
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1914‐1939 is considered …
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American Modernist Period
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Whose works are “Cat’s Cradle”, “Slaughterhouse-Five”, and “Breakfast of Champions”?
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Kurt Vonnegut’s
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What is Vonnegut’s first short story?
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“Report on the Barnhouse Effect”
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In which Vonnegut’s novel have human workers been largely replaced by machines?
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“Player Piano”
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When was “The Sirens of Titan” published?
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in 1959
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In which novel did Vonnegut announce his retirement from writing fiction?
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“Timequake”
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What is the first published novel of James Ramon Jones?
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“From Here to Eternity”
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What is James Ramon Jones’ autobiographical novel?
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“They Shall Inherit The Laughter”
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What award did Charles Scribner’s sons win for “Eternity”?
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U.S National Book award for fiction
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In which magazine was Mailer’s fourth novel “An America Dream” published, as a serial?
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in Esquire
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Which play of Bernard Show dealt with the slums of London and was applauded by the socialists, while his enemies tried to cry the play down.
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‘Widower’s Houses’
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Why did Bernard Show gain tremendous popularity?
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He satirized all the faults of the British system so brilliantly
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In which essay does Bernard Show try to outline the path to Socialism through education of the powerful, setting it up as a program to the present day social democrats?
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‘Transition’
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Who are the principal characters of the play ‘Pygmalion’ by Bernard show?
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Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins
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What kind of ideas did Show present in the ‘Pygmalion’?
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the problems of social equality, male and female roles, and the relationship between people.
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Which work of Bernard Show is without ending and Why?
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‘Pygmalion’. Because Bernard Show thought, it was not best not to go on with the story.
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Which of the followings is Thomas Hardy’s work?
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«Tess of the D’Urbervilles».
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Who was an architect by profession and gave to his novels a design that was architectural, in the 19th century?
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Thomas Hardy
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What word means religious system, ritualistic and a devotion to a person or thing?
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Cult
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His father was a famous Irish surgeon. His mother was well known in Dublin as a writer. Whom are these statements about?
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Oscar Wilde
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Which writers’ motto was "art for art's sake" in literature and art?
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Oscar Wilde and John Ruskin
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Who is the author of the works: “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” (1888), “The Picture of Dorian Gray” (1891), and the come-dies “Lady Windermere’s Fan” (1892). “A Woman of No Importance” (1893), “An Ideal Husband” (1895), “The Importance of Being Earnest”?
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Oscar Wilde
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Where and when did Oscar Wilde die?
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in 1900, in Paris
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In which novel, Oscar Wilde describes the spiritual life of a young man and touches upon many important problems of contemporary life: morality, art and beauty.
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“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
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How many periods is Herbert George Wells’s creative work divided into?
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2
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Group of three related novels, plays, operas is called ….
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Trilogy
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In which work did Galsworthy criticize the stagnation of thought in the English privileged classes?
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"The Island Pharisees"
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Which of Galsworthy’s works are written after the World War I?
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"A Modern Comedy”
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What was described in "The Forest" by Galsworthy?
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Rejects the colonial policy of Great Britain
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What was the pseudonym of Washington Irving?
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Geoffrey Crayon”
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“Rip Van Winkle”
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Which of the followings is the first part of "The Forsyte Saga"?
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"The Man of Property"
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Which of the followings is the concluding part of "The Forsyte Saga"?
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"To Let”
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Which Characteristic feature of the Forsyte’s is not correct?
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Pretentiousness
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What or who is AN INTERLUDE?
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A pause between the acts of a play
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When and where was William Makepeace Thackeray born?
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18 July 1811, Calcutta
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What are the greatest merits of Thackeray’s works?
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“Vanity Fair”, “The Newcomes”
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Which of the following statements about Byron is false?
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Byron calls Greece “Mother of arts”
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Which work of Byron exposes hypocrisy?
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“Don Juan”
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What served as basis for “Childe Harold’s pilgrimage”?
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the author’s life
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What are the characteristic features of the Age of Enlightenment?
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the novel as the leading genre; representatives of the middle class as heroes; instructive literature
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Who are the main representatives of the age of Enlightenment?
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Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Tobias Smollett
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What are the leading trends of the Age of Enlightenment?
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classical poetry; realistic social novel; sentimentalism
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In what way and when did Defoe start his literary activity?
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writing pamphlets at about 23
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What suggested the idea for the novel “Robinson Crusoe” to Defoe?
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a story about Selkirk
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What is the main theme of the novel “Robinson Crusoe”?
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possibilities of an individual man
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What does the word “classicist” mean?
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the writer fascinated by ancient Greece and Rome
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What are the other names of the Age of Reason?
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the Age of Elegance, the Age of Classicism, the Augustan Age
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Who are the great essayists of the Age of Reason?
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Richard Steele and Joseph Addison
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