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British Literature test
1. Where is “Beowulf” set?
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2. Who is considered to be the
8. What is the name of the play in
which a king asks his three
daughters which of them loves
Father of English literature?
him the best?
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3. What king had a big influence on
9. What acting company did
literature in the 9th century? He
Shakespeare join in 1594?
inspired the Anglo-Saxon
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Chronicle.
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4. Where do the Pilgrims in the
Canterbury Tales meet? Where do
10.Complete the quotation from
Hamlet: “Something is rotten . . .”
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11.Which romantic poet wrote Childe
they head and why?
Harold’s Pilgrimage?
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5. What is the name of the earliest
12.What is the name of the preromantic Scottish poet who wrote
known poet to whom an angel
the poem “To a Mouse”?
appeared and told him to praise a
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God’s praise?
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6. Where was Shakespeare born?
Where did he move in 1592?
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7. What is the name of the play in
13.What is the name of the Lake
poet that wrote Lyrical Ballads?
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14.What is the name of the writer
who was married to romantic
poet Percy Bysshe S. and who
which a son of the late king of
wrote a gothic novel? What is the
Denmark learns the truth about
title of the novel?
his father’s death from his
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father’s ghost?
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15.Who wrote Rob Roy? Where is it
21.What is the name of the novel
set?
which was adapted as the
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musical My Fair Lady? Who is it
16.Which writer from the realistic
period worked in a shoe factory
as a child because his father had
by?
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22.Who wrote the absurd drama
ended up in a debtors’ prison?
Waiting for Godot? How many
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characters appear in it?
17.Which writer is known for the
novel Wuthering Heights?
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23.What is the name of the novel in
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which a group of boys are left
18.Which realistic author showed
alone on an island and fail to
the life of the higher classes of
create a harmonious society?
society? He wrote for example
Who wrote it?
Vanity Fair or The Book of Snobs.
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19.Complete the novels by Thomas
24.What is the name of the author
Hardy:
who wrote Ulysses and The
The Mayor of __________________.
Dubliners?
Tess of the ____________________.
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20.Which writer was inspired by a
25.Who wrote the poem The Waste
small map to write a story full of
Land and the drama Murder in
adventures, pirates and dangers
the Cathedral about the murder
at sea? What is the novel called?
of Thomas Becket?
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