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INTRODUCTION TO BRITISH-ENGLISH AND AMERICAN-ENGLISH

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Among the forms of literature, this can either be in a form of stanzas and paragraphs.

a)

prose

b)

poetry

c)

drama

d)

essay

2.

How did the stories during Anglo-Saxons survive?

a)

They are recorded on books.

b)

They are passed down through oral traditions.

c)

Stories or accounts can be found in the museum.

d)

No stories recorded during this period.

3.

Which of the following statements is the connotative meaning of literature?

a)

It mirrors the society.

b)

It is a written work in an excellent form.

c)

It is a collection of written and oral forms.

d)

It came from the word littera which means letters.

4.

Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the Anglo-Saxons period?

a)

This period is named after the three Vikings group from Germany.

b)

This consists of Angles, Saxons and Jutes.

c)

Anglo-Saxon Runes is believed to be the origins of some English alphabet.

d)

The most famous genre during this period is epic poem.

5.

Which of the following is the other term for Medieval Period?

a)

Dark Age

b)

Middle Age

c)

Elizabethan Age

d)

Old English Age

6.

Which of the following literary works is popular during Medieval period?

a)

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

b)

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

c)

The Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare

d)

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

7.

Which of the following events is NOT observed during Renaissance period?

a)

It's the Golden age of literary and art forms.

b)

It's under the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

c)

It's the time when the New World was discovered.

d)

None of the above

8.

Who among the following authors became popular during Gothic period?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Dante Alighieri

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

9.

Which literary period is strongly influenced by war and death?

a)

Modernism

b)

Renaissance

c)

Romantic

d)

Postmodernism

10.

Who among the following names is considered to be the image of reformation?

a)

Edgar Allan Poe

b)

Martin Luther

c)

Mark Twain

d)

William Shakespeare

11.

Which of the following periods is also referred as neoclassical?

a)

Renaissance

b)

Reformation

c)

Restoration

d)

Romantic

12.

In the American-English literary period, this is referred as the age of science and philosophies.

a)

Puritanism

b)

Revolutionary

c)

Transcendatalism

d)

Modernism

13.

In this American-English period, authors focused on realistic setting of everyday life.

a)

Revolutionary

b)

Naturalism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Modernism

14.

In this American-English period, literature was influenced by studies of media, technologies and innovations.

a)

Modernism

b)

Post-modernism

c)

Realism

d)

Naturalism

15.

In this period of American-English literature, the group of writers were against the prudery of the parents's generation.

a)

Harlem Renaissance

b)

Transcendentalism

c)

Lost Generation

d)

Beat Generation