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E.L at the end of the 19th&the beginning of the 20th century

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When was written "Saint Joan"?

(a)  

2.

Ironically scornful language, which comes from the Greek language.

(a)  

3.

Find works which belong to his literary work of 1st period?

a)

"Plays Unpleasant", "Too Good to Be True"

b)

"Plays Pleasant", "John Bull's Other Island"

c)

"The Apple Cart", "Heartbreak House"

d)

"On the Rocks", "Major Barbara"

4.

Shaw expressed his main economic ideas in his essay, the name of his work and when was it published?

(a)  

5.

Who is well-dressed and in high spirits. Whose new coat has a fur lining 'presenting all the hues of the tiger'.

(a)  

6.

Find works which belong to the literary work of the second period!

a)

"Major Barbara", " On the Rocks"

b)

"Saint Joan", "Man and Superman"

c)

"Too Good to Be True", " Heartbreak House"

d)

" Pygmalion", "Three Plays for Puritans"

7.

What kind of family was Bernard Show born?

a)

Very rich family

b)

Lower middle-class

c)

Famous Irish surgeon

d)

Impoverished middle-class

8.

A British movement, whose purpose is to advance the principles of social democracy via gradualist and reformist, rather than revolutionary means.

(a)  

9.

In defining what, Shaw borrows a little from Marxist ideology, namely the alienation of the worker process, but he elaborates it as alienation not only from the production process, but from society as well.

a)

Capitalism

b)

Sarcasm

c)

Communistic ideas

d)

Socialism

10.

George Bernard Show is an outstanding English playwright, one of the greatest ____ of the 20th century.

a)

Realistic writers

b)

Poets

c)

Satirists

d)

Novelists

11.

Who is a self-made man, having managed by his own efforts to rise to a higher social level.

a)

Lickcheese

b)

Trench

c)

Sartorius

d)

Harry

12.

What was given like a stamp on a person's reputation?

a)

Cockney

b)

Creed

c)

Burden

d)

Handiwork

13.

Whose father's job is a dustman in Show's comedy?

(a)  

14.

Whose sentence is this? - Well, people who live in glass houses have no right to throw stones.

(a)  

15.

Who is the young doctor who just graduated from the medical school in Show's play

a)

Cokane

b)

Sartorius

c)

Lickcheese

d)

Trench