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The principle of his philosophy was rationalism
A.Pope
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This poet deals with the universe in which man is the chief inhabitant
J.Milton
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Nature was to him a source of spiritual insight.
W. Wordsworth
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Poet and prose writer, close friend of Byron
Shelley
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The oldest English poem by the unknown author is called:
Beowulf
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Who is Scotland’s greatest poet?
; R. Burns
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Whom can the following characteristic fit: “the apostle of art for art’s sake and the cult of beauty”?
; O. Wilde
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Which of these writers is famous for his paradoxes?
W. Shakespeare
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The novel which was designed as a skit on Richardson’s “Pamela”
Clarissa
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The longest English novel, told in 537 letters was written by:
S. Richardson
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The first Shakespeare’s comedy is
Lover’s labor’s lost
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This novel is based on considerable historical research on a real murder
Kidnapped
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They are mainly lyric, have little action, presented by amateur actors and performed at the celebration of some great occasion
poems
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In which of her novels does Charlotte Bronte recollect her early years spent in a boarding school:
Jane Eyre
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Which of the writers presents the heroes realistically, without idealizing them, refusing to straighten their noses and improve their tempers:
George Eliot
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Which of these poets does not belong to Lake poets?
Scott
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His chief works of fiction are all stories of adventures, among them “Kidnapped”, “Catriona” and others
R.L. Stevenson
18
Mary Ann Evens is the real name of
George Elliot
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Who created a series of novels socially notable for critical and for comic talent, for critical treatment of Victorian England:
Ch. Dickens
20
Charles Dickens’s unfinished detective story is:
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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In which did Joseph Addison and Richard Steele work:
periodical essay
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Choose from the following R.B. Sheridan’s work: <variant> <variant> <variant> <variant>
The School for Scandal
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Name the two authors who were inseparable during their lives and who tried to reform social behavior
Addison and Steele
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The novel by which Elizabeth Gaskell secured the friendship of Ch. Dickens
Cranford
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This novel shows the sordid lives of criminals and exposes the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century
The Adventures of Oliver Twist
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An intimate friend of Charlotte Bronte and the author of “Life of Charlotte Bronte”
Elizabeth Gaskell
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The author who was an able draughtsman, published his collection of satirical drawings
Thackeray
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The publication of this novel established Thackeray’s reputation as a novelist
Vanity Fair
29
They were called “The University wits”:
writers who started writing plays for the stage
30
Shakespeare is a master of
the secrets of the individual soul
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Which of these novels is not Ch. Bronte’s:
The Gem
32
Rebecca Sharp is the heroine of
Vanity Fair
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What was the real name of Lewis Carroll?
Charles Dodgson
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Who wrote “Robinson Crusoe”?
D. Defoe
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Which of these writers participated in the political movement for the liberation of Italy and Greece?
G.G. Byron
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Where was William Makepeace Thackeray born in?
Calcutta
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In the famous preface to his work …, Oscar Wilde wrote: “All art is quite useless” <variant> <variant> <variant> <variant>
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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E. Spenser in his “The Queen of Faerie” glorifies the reign of
Elizabeth I
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Red Cross in “The Queen of Faerie” is assigned to rescue
the inhabitants of Castle Mortal
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The Shepherd’s Calendar” contains:
pastoral poetry
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The idea of the Renaissance literature is in:
love of life for its own sake
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The theme of Ch. Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus” is:
the new thirst for intellectual power
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His first novel was “Hatter`s castle”
A.J. Cronin
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Shakespeare’s comedies are very similar in general plot. They contain…
love story
45
Shakespeare’s tragedy of revenge set in motion by appearance of a ghost is
Hamlet
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Ben Jonson said of …. “He was not for an age, but for all time”.
Shakespeare
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One of his famous characters was Father Brown
G.K. Chesterton
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Who wrote about dogs, mice, the field daisies, the life of Scottish peasants?
Burns
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He settled into a conservatism after a period of romantic revolt against the wrongs of society
Wordsworth
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Poetry to him were springs from “emotion recollected in tranquility”.
Wordsworth