Date______________ Form 10___________ Name__________________________ Test Variant I From Beowulf till Lord Byron
I.

Choose the right definitions of LITERATURE:
1. the production of literary work especially as an occupation; 2. a set of visible or tactile signs used to represent units of language in a systematic way, with the purpose of recording messages which can be retrieved by everyone who knows the language in question and the rules by virtue of which its units are encoded in the writing system. 3. writings in prose or verse; especially
:
writings having excellence of form or expression and expressing ideas of permanent.
II.

One is correct
Beowulf is not based upon events in ____________, but about Hrothgar, King of the Danes, and about a brave young man, Beowulf, from southern Sweden, who goes to help him.
1.
France
2.
Sweden
3.
England
III. Name the figure of Speech:
The earth laughs beneath my heavy feet At the blasphemy in my old jangly walk (Billy Corgan, "Thirty-three") 1. euphemism 2. simile 3. antithesis 4. personification
IV.

What is right for Chronology of the English Language:
The Oxford English Dictionary is published in 1. 1928 2. 1938 3. 1948
V.

Choose the true fact:
The Canterbury Tales are a series of stories. The tales are about a group of ___________ pilgrims who set off on a pilgrimage to a cathedral in Canterbury, England, about five miles south of London. 1. Twenty-four 2. Twenty-nine 3. Twenty-five

VI. Tick out the comedies of Shakespeare:
All's Well That Ends Well Romeo and Juliet Measure for Measure Macbeth The Merchant of Venice King Lear A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Pericles, Prince of Tyre Julius Caesar The Taming of the Shrew Othello Twelfth Night The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Two Noble Kinsmen
VII.

Choose the right one:
Defoe is notable for being one of the earliest proponents of the __________ , as he helped to popularise the form in Britain, and is among the founders of the English _______. 1. pamphlet 2. adventure stories 3. novel
VIII.Whom belongs the poem “My Heart’s in the Highlands”?
1. Percy Bysshe Shelly 2. John Keats 3. Robert Burns
IX.

Mark the main idea:
The Lake School greatly influenced the younger generation of English _______poets, including Byron, Shelley, and Keats, who were, nevertheless, resolute critics of the political views of the Lake Poets. 1. realistic 2. critic 3. romantic
X.

Choose the right version:

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
, later
George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron

Byron
, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as
Lord Byron
, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. Among Byron's best-known works are the lengthy narrative poems “Don Juan” and “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage” and the short lyric “She Walks in Beauty”. He travelled all over Europe especially in Italy where he lived for 7 years and then joined____________ fighting the Ottoman Empire, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. 1. the Russian War against Napoleon 2. the Greek War of Independence 3. the Decembrist Uprising in 1825 in St. Petersburg
Date______________ Form 10___________ Name__________________________ Test Variant II From Beowulf till Lord Byron
I.

Choose the right definitions of LITERATURE:
1. the body of written works produced in a particular language, country, or age 2. the aggregate of a usually specified type of musical compositions 3. a method of representing language in visual or tactile form. Writing systems use sets of symbols to represent the sounds of speech, and may also have symbols for such things as punctuation and numerals.
II.

One is correct
One night Beowulf waits in secret for Grendel, attacks it, and in a fierce fight pulls its _________off! 1. hands 2. arm 3. shoulder
III. Name the figure of Speech:
The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a cloud of smoke rose up to the blue western sky. 1. simile 2. metonymy 3. anaphora 4. onomatopoeia
IV.

What is right for Chronology of the English Language
Robert Cawdrey publishes the first English dictionary, Table Alphabeticall 1. 1054 2. 1604 3. 1046
V.

Choose the true fact:
The Canterbury Tales are a series of stories. The tales are about a group of some pilgrims who set off on a pilgrimage to a cathedral in Canterbury, England, about five miles south of ___________. The cathedral was a special place. 1. Salisbury 2. Stonehenge 3. London

VI.

Tick out the tragedies of Shakespeare:
Romeo and Juliet All's Well That Ends Well Julius Caesar Macbeth The Merchant of Venice The Taming of the Shrew Hamlet The Merry Wives of Windsor King Lear Othello Antony and Cleopatra Twelfth Night
VII.

Choose the right one:
In ______he published his famous Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, followed by two less engrossing sequels. 1. 1771 2. 1719 3. 1791
VIII.What historic event inspirited Robert Burns to write the poem “A Free of

Liberty”?
1. The Independent War in the Northern America 2. The French Revolution 3. The struggle of the Irish for independence
IX.

Mark the main idea:
Lake School of Poets is the group of English ______poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries who lived in northern England, in the Lake District (Westmorland and Cumberland counties). 1. realistic 2. critic 3. romantic
X.

Choose the right version:

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron
, later
George Gordon Noel, 6th Baron

Byron
, FRS (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), commonly known simply as
Lord

Byron
, was an English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential. Byron had a child, The Hon. Augusta Ada Byron ("Ada", later Countess of Lovelace), in 1815 with Annabella Byron, Lady Byron (née Anne Isabella Milbanke, or "Annabella"), later Lady Wentworth. Ada Lovelace, notable in her own right, collaborated with Charles Babbage on the analytical engine, a predecessor to modern _________. She is recognised as the world's first _________ programmer. 1. automobiles 2. television 3. computer