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WorksheetsBritish Literature Final Exam
Total questions: 36
Worksheet time: 27mins
Who is credited with establishing the first printing press in England in 1476?
Johan Gutenberg
William Bradford
William Caxton
Benjamin Franklin
Richard Pynson
Which Poet Laureate of England wrote In Memoriam, A. H. H.?
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Thomas Hardy
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ted Hughes
D. H. Lawrence
Who wrote A Tale of Two Cities and Hard Times?
Charlotte Bronte
Charles Dickens
Anthony Trollope
Joseph Conrad
Oscar Wilde
With which period of English literature is Chaucer associated?
Old English Period
Anglo-Norman Period
Middle English Period
Renaissance Period
Neoclassic Period
Which poet was NOT part of the Romantic movement?
Alexander Pope
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon, Lord Byron
William Wordsworth
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Which play was NOT written by Shakespeare?
Macbeth
The Tempest
Volpone
Twelfth Night
The Merchant of Venice
What was the system of social and political organization that prevailed in Western Europe during much of the medieval period?
classicism
anarchy
communism
feudalism
colonialism
Which period in English Literature followed the Anglo-Saxon Period?
Anglo-Norman Period
Middle English Period
Renaissance Period
Neoclassic Period
Romantic Period
What work of poetry heralded the arrival of the Romantic Period of English Literature?
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Lyrical Ballads
The Canterbury Tales
Essay on Criticism
Paradise Lost
Who was a leading writer during the Enlightenment?
William Wordsworth
Samuel Johnson
Geoffrey Chaucer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alexander Pope
What is a tale of adventure in which knights, kings, or distressed ladies, motivated by love, religious faith, or the mere desire for adventure, are the chief figures?
miracle play
swashbuckler
medieval romance
picaresque novel
cloak and dagger
During which literary period was there pride in the growing power of England, optimism born of the new science, the dominance of Puritan ideas tenaciously held by the rising middle class, and the example of a royal court scrupulously adhering to high standards of decency and respectability combine to produce a spirit of moral earnestness linked with self-satisfaction?
Elizabethan Age
Caroline Age
Victorian Age
Restoration Age
What social-political-economic struggle characterized life in England for a hundred years or more, most intensely in the last quarter of the 18th and first quarter of the 19th century, with invention, scientific discovery, and social ideas all contributing to the furor?
feudalism
puritanism
restoration
Industrial Revolution
interregnum
Which term is commonly applied to the period of transition from the medieval to the modern world in Western Europe?
Transcendental period
Renaissance Period
Interregnum
Neoclassic Period
Middle English Period
Who was the first officially appointed Poet Laureate of England?
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Ted Hughes
John Masefield
John Dryden
William Wordsworth
Who wrote Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Rudyard Kipling
George Eliot
Joseph Conrad
Charles Dickens
Which words describes the Englightenment best?
bookprint
knowledge
nature
epic hero
In which period would you place the saying "Carpe Diem"?
(a)
In which period would you place the interest for the supernatural?
Victorian
Romantic
Middle English
Old English
The poem: I wandered lonley as a cloud, was written in the
Renaissance
Victorian era
Middle Ages
Romantic era
In which period were philosophers important?
Enlightenment
Victorian Era
Renaissance
Old English Era
During which period are strict values important?
Reaissance
Middle Ages
Enlightenment
Victorian Era
Which Era can be described as the Novel era?
Victorian
Renaissance
Old English era
Enlightenment
What are the characteristics of a sonnet?
What event signaled the end of the Anglo-Saxon period?
War of the roses
The industrial revolution
The norman invasion
The roman invasion
Which three languages have a big influence on middle and modern English?
Celtic - French - Dutch
French - Dutch - German
Latin - German - French
French - Latin - Norse
Why is there no endrhyme in Old English texts?
They didn't know about it yet
It was difficult to remember
The stress is on the first syllable
The word order was free
When and where is Beowulf set?
Scotland, 8th century
Denmark, 5th / 6th centuries
Norway, 8th century
England, 6th century
Which element is a feature of an epic poem?
It is short.
It rhymes.
It's about a hero.
Everyone dies at the end.
What is the term for metaphorical phrases wherein two - three words replace a concept?
Alliteration
Kenning
Syntax
Free Verse
Which is an example of an kenning?
Ring Giver
Edgetho's son
He would weep, wise with many winters.
Blade bathed in blood
Why do we not know who wrote Beowulf?
The story was not written down, it was sang or told orally
They could not find the author
The author wanted to stay anonymous
What Tales are being told in the Canterbury Tales?
The tales of monks on their way to Becket's tomb.
Tales of 24 Pilgrims on their way to Canterbury.
Tales of a group of random people on their way to Canterbury.
Why did Geoffrey Chaucer write the Canterbury Tales?
He wanted to give us a glimpse of English society at the time.
He wanted us to know about the game they played back then.
He wanted to give us a glimpse of what he had been through.
What is a frame story? (raamvertelling)
What are the characteristics of a Renaissance man?
create art, educated, charming, swordsman, write poetry
only charming
only artist
only swordsman
