Тест. Литература стран изучаемого языка
Список вопросов теста
Вопрос 1
Why are myths so popular among people?
Варианты ответов
- Myths justify a culture’s activities. Through their authoritativeness myths establish certain customs, rituals, laws, social structures in any culture.
- Myths are associated with religious beliefs.
- Myths are easy to tell. Because they are simply untrue stories.
- Myth has existed in every society.
Вопрос 2
What is Mythology ?
Варианты ответов
- is a collection of stories, telling people’s believes and history.
- A very old story or set of stories from ancient times
- A brief story intended to provide a moral lesson at the end.
- A story often intended for children.
Вопрос 3
How many plays, sonnets and poems did Shakespeare’s works include?
Варианты ответов
- 39 plays, 154 sonnets and 2 long poems
- 37 plays, 155 sonnets and 1 long short poem
- 36 plays, 152 sonnets
- 39 plays, 150 sonnets
Вопрос 4
The main characteristics of English Literature Timeline ?
Варианты ответов
- Old Literature, Middle Ages, Modernism
- Renaissance, Romanticism, Age of Sensibility
- Neo-Classical Age, Restoration Age
- Victorian Age, Edwardian Age
Вопрос 5
What is known about the life of Geoffrey Chaucer?
Варианты ответов
- He was a writer of the world. That is to say he wrote about the things he saw and described people he met.
- He was one of the most significant rulers. He translated many works from Latin, especially in the areas of religion, history and philosophy.
- He produced literature mixing Oriental, pagan, and Christian thought with images from nature and the animal world.
- He was one of the religious writers of the time.
Вопрос 6
What’s the plot of «Canterbury Tales»?
Варианты ответов
- a Pilgrimage to Canterbury
- Italian influence
- ancient Greece
- a French poetry
Вопрос 7
____is the most famous work in Old English.
Варианты ответов
- Beowulf
- Hamlet
- Canterbury Tales
- Happy Prince
Вопрос 8
Beowulf is an epic poem of over _____verses?
Варианты ответов
Вопрос 9
What’s the etymology of the word “romance”? Why were romances so popular? What are they about?
Варианты ответов
- They were mostly spread among provincial people; the romances idealized their characters and the relationship between people. They praised chivalrous attitude towards women. Many of such stories came from old French, which was a Romantic dialect.
- They were short stories with animals for characters.
- They were the printing press in England.
- They were short narratives in verse partly lyrical and partly epic.
Вопрос 10
What’s the fable?
Варианты ответов
- short stories with animals for characters, they always conveyed a moral
- funny stories show practical attitude to life
- Scotland folk songs
- the French «ballet»
Вопрос 11
When did William Shakespeare live?
Варианты ответов
- 1564–1616
- 1554–1616
- 1574–1616
- 1544–1616
Вопрос 12
What are some of the most famous Shakespeare’s comedies?
Варианты ответов
- A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Twelfth Night, Othello
- Hamlet, Macbeth
- Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar
Вопрос 13
What are the names of Shakespeare’s most significant tragedies?
Варианты ответов
- Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear
- A Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest
- the Poet, his Friend & the Dark Lady
Вопрос 14
Find Sonnet 130. Shakespeare’s idea of a woman’s beauty .
Варианты ответов
- My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun…
- The little Love-god lying once asleep…
- Let not my love be called idolatry…
- How careful was I when I took my way…
Вопрос 15
After th at book was published, Defoe became famous & rich.
Варианты ответов
- Robinson Crusoe
- The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
- The King of Pirates
- The Fortunate Mistress
Вопрос 16
Speak on Jonathan Swift’s biography.
Варианты ответов
- Jonathan Swift was the greatest of the prose satirists of the age of the Enlightenment.
- Jonathan Swift was the greatest of the prose satirists of the age of the Renaissance
- Jonathan Swift was the greatest of the prose satirists of the age of the Modernism
- Jonathan Swift was the greatest of the prose satirists of the age of the Postmodernism
Вопрос 17
What’s the plot of “Gulliver’s Travels” ?
Варианты ответов
- It tells of the adventures of a ship’s surgeon
- It tells of the adventures of a writer
- It tells of the adventures of people
- It tells of the adventures of animals
Вопрос 18
George Gordon Byron went to aristocratic school ____.
Варианты ответов
- Harrow
- Newstead Abbey
- In Rome
- In Turkey
Вопрос 19
Byron became popular because of his poem _______.
Варианты ответов
- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
- Don Juan
- Cain
- The age of Bronze
Вопрос 20
The second voyage Gulliver to Brobdingnag ______ .
Варианты ответов
- the country of giants
- a flying island
- where intellectual creatures were horses
- six inches tall people
Вопрос 21
Crusoe, however, spent ___ years on a desert island (Daniel Defoe “Robinson Crusoe”)
Варианты ответов
Вопрос 22
Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest _____
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Тест. Литература стран изучаемого языка
Список вопросов теста
Вопрос 1
The father of historical novels.
Варианты ответов
- Sir Walter Scott
- Jack London
- E. Hemingway
- Lewis Caroll
Вопрос 2
Walter Scott is______ writer.
Варианты ответов
- english
- american
- french
- scottish
Вопрос 3
W. Scott is the writer of the _____ th century.
Варианты ответов
Вопрос 4
The story of ‘Ivanhoe’ is divided into . parts, each of them centering on a particular adventure.
Варианты ответов
Вопрос 5
Варианты ответов
- historical novel
- historical poem
- history
- tragedy
Вопрос 6
Rob Roy was __________
Варианты ответов
- national hero
- fisherman
- king
- familiar person
Вопрос 7
Frank Osbaldistone narrates the story.
Варианты ответов
- Rob Roy
- Ivanhoe
- The happy prince
- Marten Eden
Вопрос 8
Lewis Carroll, was an English writer of ______
Варианты ответов
- children’s fiction
- historical novels
- comedies
- tragedies
Вопрос 9
Варианты ответов
- Lewis Caroll
- Jack London
- W. Scott
- E. Hemingway
Вопрос 10
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson , better known by his pen name ______
Варианты ответов
- Lewis Caroll
- Jack London
- Sir Walter Scott
- E, Hemingway
Вопрос 11
a 19th century American author and journalist, ___________
Варианты ответов
- Jack London
- E. Hemingway
- Lewis Caroll
- W. Scott
Вопрос 12
London found fame and some fortune at the age of ____ with his novel The Call of the Wild (1903), which told the story of a dog that finds its place in the world as a sled dog in the Yukon.
Варианты ответов
Вопрос 13
London’s the most enduring autobiographical novel .
Варианты ответов
- Martin Eden
- White Fang
- Sea Wolf
- Ivanhoe
Вопрос 14
Jack London is ___ author
Варианты ответов
- american
- english
- scottish
- canadian
Вопрос 15
Who is “One- Eye” from the story of White Fang?
Варианты ответов
- White Fang’ father
- White Fang’s mother
- a bulldog
- a sheepdog
Вопрос 16
White Fang’s mother _____
Варианты ответов
- Kiche
- Lip-lip
- Cherokee
- The Lynx
Вопрос 17
John Griffith Chaney, better known by his pseudonym ____________ , was born on January 12, 1876.
Варианты ответов
- J. London
- Ch. Dickens
- O. Wilde
- W. Scott
Вопрос 18
Варианты ответов
- Ernest Hemingway
- Jack London
- Sir Walter Scott
- Lewis Caroll
Вопрос 19
He published seven novels, six short-story collections, and two nonfiction works.
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Тесты к спецкурсу «Литература англоязычных стран»
Спецкурс «Литература англоязычных стран»
TEST1. I.There were five invasions of England. Match the time and the invaders.
about the 4 th century BC a) the Danes
the 1 st century AD b) Anglo-Saxon tribes
the middle of the 5 th century c) the Celts
the end of the 8 th century d) the Normans
the 11 th century e) the Romans
II. Divide the words into two groups: those of Celtic (1) and Latin (2) origin.
III. The beautiful Saxon poem «Beowolf» tells us of the times long before the Anglo-Saxons came to Britain.Choose the events, which took plaсe in the poem.
a monster killed and ate people
a king fell in love with a princess
a fight with Grendel
a magician helped Hrothgar
a young knight of Jutes saved the country
IV . Beowolf was from
V . Hrothgar was
VI. During the period of the Norman conquest there were different kinds of literature, which were written in different languages. Match each type of literature with the language it was written in.
1.historical chronicles a) Norman — French
2. ballads and songs b) Anglo — Saxon
3. poetry c) Latin
VII. Choose the events, which took place in the 14 th century in Britain.
The Danes invaded the country
Christianity was penetrated
Three epidemics of the plague
The first University was founded
Hundred Yeas War
VIII. Who translated the Bible from Latin into English?
IX. Who is the author of the following sayings: «Better three hours too soon than a minute too late».”Have more than you show, speak less than you know”.
X. Choose the words which we can use speaking about Geoffrey Chaucer.
an educated man
XI. What was Chaucer’s attitude towards:
1. religion and churchmen a) escaped his satire
2. the court and the knights b) he attacked with real humor
3. the townsfolk c) he liked the sense of
4. the peasants d) he spoke with admiration
XII. What Chaucer’s stories are the following characters from?
Arveragus a) “The Pardoner’s Tale”
The Traitor Death b) “Three Promises”
XIII. Which of the following are from the ballads about Robin Hood (1) and which are from the legends about King Arthur (2)?
The Noble Knights
XIV. How is Elizabethan time (1558 – 1603) called?
flourishment of art
XV. What of the following is connected with the life of Thomas More?
XVI. William Shakespeare wrote both tragedies and comedies. Which of the following plays are tragedies (1) and which are comedies (2)?
“Much Ado about Nothing”
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
“ The Twelfth Night”
“All’s Well That Ends Well”
XVII. From what Shakespeare’s play are these characters
XVIII. These events take place in one of Shakespeare’s plays. Which one?
the father divides his kingdom between his two daughters
the king is left without power and kingdom
the third daughter tries to help her father
the king goes mad
XIX. W.Shakespeare wrote …………… sonnets.
XX. Shakespeare devoted his sonnets to:
The Age of Enlightenment was a period during:
the second half of the 16 th century and the first half of the 17 th century
the second half of the 17 th century and all the 18 th century
all the 17 th century
The writers of the Age of Enlightenment wanted:
to improve the world by teaching people
to improve people
to improve the political situation in the world
The central problem of the writers of the Enlightenment was:
the study of man and the origin of his good and evil qualities
the study of the political situation in the world
the study of the influence of the church on the political situation
English writers of the Age of Enlightenment formed two groups. Match the groups (1, 2) with the names of the writers (a – f):
a group of writers who hoped to better the world simply by teaching
a group of writers who openly protested against the vicious social order
Who is the author of the following novels:” Oliver Twist”, “Domby and Son”, “Pickwick Papers”, “David Copperfield”:
George Gordon Byron
Who of sisters Bronte wrote the novel “Jane Eyre”?
Match the names of the following writers with the titles of their books.
George Gordon Byron a) “The Devoted Friend”
Charles Dickens b) “Silver Blaze”
Oscar Wilde c) “Childe Haroild’s Pilgrimage”
Arthur Conan Doyle d)”Pickwick Papers”
In what novel of Oscar Wilde the portrait reflects all the changes in the hero’s appearance, but the hero himself remains untouched by the course of time?
“The Devoted Friend”
“The Picture of Dorian Gray”
“The Selfish Giant”
Who of the following writers was a doctor by profession?
Arthur Conan Doyle
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