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BRITISH LITERATURE

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Reorder the following:

a)

Literature

b)

contributes to

c)

the students'

d)

cultural

e)

enrichment.

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
2.

Literature also provides personal involvement opportunities, as the student becomes enthusiastic to find out what happens as events unfold via the climax; they feel closer to certain characters and share their emotional responses.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

When talking about British Literature, the pieces of writing created in Ireland, English, Wales, and Scotland make the compendium of it. Locate the countries in the map.

4.

British Literature is better understood by the historical periods it went through, and the authors who gained more importance. Match the following:

a)

The Elizabethan Era

1.

William Shakespeare

b)

The Romantic Era

2.

Jane Austen

c)

The Victorian Era

3.

Robert Louis Stevenson

d)

The Modernist Movement

4.

Virginia Woolf

e)

Current Voices

5.

J.K. Rowling

5.

Known for the beginnings of the English language and very little written material. One of the main poems of the time is Beowulf.

a)

The Modernist Movement

b)

Elizabethan Era

c)

Victorian Era

d)

Old English

6.

Known as the most famous and definitive period for poetry. Less about story

and more about emotion. Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice are examples of the time.

a)

Current voices

b)

Elizabethan Era

c)

Romantic Era

d)

The Modernist Movement

7.

Author of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, among others; from the Victorian Era and the Industrial Revolution.

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Lewis Carroll

c)

Bram Stoker

d)

Robert Louis Stevenson

8.

Complete the quote by C.S. Lewis from the Contemporary English Literature or the 20th. Century: “Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too (a)   to buy.”

9.

Complete: Beowulf is a heroic journey to (a)   .

10.

Now match the following:

a)

Hrothgar

1.

king

b)

Heorot

2.

place

c)

Grendel

3.

monster

d)

Beowulf

4.

warrior

e)

Atheling

5.

prince

11.

Draw the other half of Dr. Jekyll.

12.

Match the terms used in "Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."

a)

kinsman

1.

relative, good friend

b)

universality

2.

catholicity

c)

demeanour

3.

manner, character

d)

sinister

4.

evil

13.

Complete the quote: ‘Utterson, I swear to God, ‘ cried the doctor,’ I swear to

God I will never set eyes on him again. I bind my (a)   to you that I am done with him in this world. It is all at an end.”

14.

In Macbeth, this best describes ___________.

They play upon Macbeth’s ambition like puppeteers.

a)

Lady Macbeth

b)

The Three Witches

c)

Banquo

d)

Macduff

15.

Reorder the following:

a)

False face

b)

must hide

c)

what the

d)

false heart

e)

doth know.

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
16.

What best summarizes Macbeth's end is the quote: _________ was from his mother’s womb, ultimely ripped.

a)

Duncan

b)

Macduff

c)

Lady Macbeth

d)

Banquo

17.

As per of the meter of British poetry, the most common is ____________ just like in "If music be the food of love play on."

a)

pyrrhic, dimeter

b)

spondaic, pentameter

c)

iambic, tetrameter

d)

iambic, pentameter

18.

For William Wordsworth a poet from the Romanticism, a teacher is nothing like a poet, as there are no sensory experiences involved, nor emotion or memory.

a)

True

b)

False

19.

Rudyard Kipling, a poet from the Victorian Era wrote "If". Order the verse.

a)

If you can trust yourself

b)

when all men

c)

doubt you,

d)

But make allowance

e)

for their doubting too;

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
20.

In this excerpt from How do I love thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the rhyme scheme is:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

a)

ABABAB

b)

ABCDDA

c)

ABABCCDD

d)

ABBAABBA