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WorksheetsBritish Literature
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 11mins
1) In what century was William Shakespeare active as a playwright?
A) 15th century
B) 16th century
C) 17th century
D) B and C
2) From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘ Did my heart love til now?/ Forswears it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night
A) Hamlet
B) Othello
C) Romeo and Juliet
D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
3) In the early 1950s, Shakespeare went to ... and he set up his own theater, the Globe.
(a)
...is the story of an orphan thrown out of the poor house because he ask for more foods
(a)
When was Charles Dickens born?
1812
1827
1854
1863
When did all three Brontë sisters publish their novels?
(a)
What other name did Charlotte Brontë use to publish poetry with her sisters?
Ellis Bell
Currer Bell
Voltaire
Acton Bell
What are the names of the last two novels and also the work that is considered the most "notorious" with many different controversies in Thomas Hardy's writing career?
Tess of the D'Urbervilles & A Pair of Blue Eyes.
The Trumpet-Major & Jude the Obscure
Far from the Madding Crowd & The Hand of Ethelberta
Tess of the D'Urbervilles & Jude the Obscure
Where did Jane Austen spend her short life?
London
Bath
Hampshire
Wessex
What is the only role the upper-middle class woman finds in Jane Austen's novels?
Money
Rich Husband
Social Position
Freedom.
What are the common topics of post-colonial literature?
Life under colonization
National identity
Power dynamic and race
All of them are correct
Where did Zephaniah grew up?
Portsmouth
Birmingham
Warwickshire
Shottery
When was Zephaniah nominated for Oxford Professor of Poetry?
1960
1989
1967
1992
What is Angela Carter’s best known novel that got made into a movie?
(a)
Where did writers first start to change the way English is written by using rhythm and local accent in their works?
Manchester
Nottingham
Liverpool
Birmingham
Who is the author of " Great Expectations "?
(a)
Many nineteeth –century women writers used male pen names or …..
(a)
