Литература стран изучаемого языка
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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
- 3,000
- 4,000
- 5,000
- 2,000
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 that 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
- 26
- 25
- 24
- 23
Вопрос 22
Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest _____
Варианты ответов
- satirists
- historians
- novelists
- poets
Вопрос 23
An epic is
Варианты ответов
- a long poem describing the feats of a legendary hero
- a horizontal line of printed words
- a variant of myth
- a history
Вопрос 24
William Shakespeare didnt write .
Варианты ответов
- novels
- tragedies
- comedies
- poems
Вопрос 25
Who helped the Happy Prince to do his commands? (Oscar Wilde “The Happy Prince”)
Варианты ответов
- A swallow
- The Seamstresses
- A playwright
- The town authorities
Вопрос 26
Where was Oscar Wilde born?
Варианты ответов
- Dublin, Ireland
- Paris, France
- Belfast, Ireland
- Edinburgh, Scotland
Вопрос 27
Satire is
Варианты ответов
- is a literary work in which human voice is attacked through irony
- a joke
- a composition
- a poem
Вопрос 28
Which of these poems is a heroic poem ?
Варианты ответов
- Beowulf
- The Happy Prince
- Robinson Crusoe
- Gulliver’s Travels


