Stephen Dedalus is the main character of

a) «Ulysses» and «The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man»;

b) «Ulysses» only;

c) «Ulysses» and «Finnigans Wake»;

d) «Finnigans Wake» only.

16. In Paul Austers’s “Timbuktu” the predominant postmodernist technique is

a) metafiction;

b) intertextuality;

c) play with the reader.

17. Determine a sub-genre of drama in which G. H. Show made a substantial contribution: the basic place does not belong either to an intrigue or a fascinating plot but to intense disputes, witty verbal duels of its characters. They grasp the depth of problems; force the reader to reflect over existing laws, orders and customs. It is

a) an intellectual drama;

b) a romance drama;

c) a historical drama.

18. In Graham Green’s “The Power and the Glory” the story is set in

a) in Mexico during the 1930s;

b) in Vietnam during the French war;

c) in Spain during World War II.

19. Determine the statement that is not true: the main character of “The Great Gatsby” believes:

a) that money has absolute power and natural goodness;

b) that men are not capable of true love;

c) that one can acquire happiness through the accumulation of wealth and power;

d) that one can repeat the past.

20. The theme of W.H. Auden’s poem “Epitaph on a tyrant” is

a) ethnic;

b) social,

c) religious and moral.

21. In “The Great Gatsby” _____ is the novel's narrator:

a) Thomas Buchanan;

b) Jay Gatsby;

c) Nick Carraway.

22. “The Second Coming” by W.B. Yeats gives

a) Christian interpretation of the myth;

b) non-Christian interpretation of the myth.

23. John Fowles’s novel _______ is the story of the abduction and imprisonment of Miranda Grey by Frederick Clegg, told first from his point of view, and then from hers by means of her diary, with a return in the last few pages to Clegg's narration of her illness and death.

a) “The Magus”;

b) “ The Collector”;

c) “The French Lieutenant's Woman”.

24. Graham Green’s “The Quiet American” is

a) a social novel;

b) a psychological novel;

c) a political detective novel.

25. When Dorian Gray stabs a knife into his portrait:

a) the weapon sinks into a canvas but cannot be pulled out again;

b) the portrait is torn to pieces, and these pieces show a beautiful young man again;

c) the portrait reverts to its original beauty, while Dorian suddenly becomes aged, withered and horrible.

26. Mrs. Ramsey is the central character in Virginia Woolf’s novel

a) “Orlando”;

b) “The Waves”;

c) “To the Lighthouse”.

27. The name of the professor from G.B. Show’s play who trains a flower girl to pass for a duchess by teaching her phonetics is

a) Alfred Doolittle;

b) Henry Higgins;

c) Hugh Pickering.

28. Finish the phrase from the preface to “The Picture of Dorian Gray”: "All art is quite________”.

a) admirable;

b) useful;

c) useless;

d) beautiful.

29. _______describes a futuristic society that has an alarming effect of dehumanization. This occurs through the absence of spirituality and family, the obsession with physical pleasure, and the misuse of technology. In this world, each person is raised in a test tube rather than a mother's womb, and the government controls every stage of their development, from embryo to maturity.

a) “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley;

b) “Nineteen Eighty-Four” by G. Orwell;

c) “Animal Farm” by G. Orwell.

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