Which of th¢.writers is the author of the baUad lt1ather Ale?

I

a) R. Kipling

b) 0. Wilde

c) R. L. Stevenson d) J. Conrad

18. Which one of the 4 novels was not written by R. L. Stevenson?

a) Calriona b) Treasure Island c) Lord Jim d) The Black Arrow

19. Match the literary characters with their authors

I) Tess Derby field a) R. Kipling

2) Mowgli b) 0. Wilde

3) Basil Hallward c) E. L. Voynich

4) Arthur Burton d) T Hardy

20. Which one of the 4 literary trends does not belong to the 19th century a) sentimentalism b) aestheticism c) realism d) romanticism

TEST ON THE LITER.AR.Y WOR.K OF JOHN GALSWOR.THY, HER.BER.T WELLS AND BER.NAR.D SHAW

I. Match the names of the writers with their two works.

a) Widower's Houses

I) John Galsworthy

2) Herbert Wc!ls

3) Bernard Shaw

2. The Forsyte Saga is

b) The Man of Properly

c) The Shupe of the Things to Come

d) The Island of Dr Moreau

c) The Silver Spoon

f) Pygmalion

a) a novel, b) a play, c) a trilogy, tl) a collection of stories.

3. Which one of the four novels by J. Galsworthy docs not belong to his trilogy The forsyte Saga?

a) In Chancery, b) The Man of Property. c) Swan Song, d) To Let.

4. Whid1 was the name of the main character of The Man of Proper-

ty?

a) Old Jolyon, b) Fleur, c) Soames Forsyle, d) Young Jolyon.

5. Soames Forsyte's hobby was

a) travelling, b) collecting pictures. c) playing the piano, d) drawing.

6. The Forsytes

a) were an aristocratic family, b) belonged to the upper middle class,

·c:) were highly qualified workers, d) were a family of English farmers.

7. Irene was the name of

a) Fleur's mother, b) Soamcs's sister, c) Young Jolyon's daughter, d) Soames's wile.

8. Young Jolyon was

a) a painter, b) a merchant, c) a lawyer, d) an officer

9. Choose four words that might suit to characterise the Forsytc family

a) poverty, b) sense of properly, c) snobbism, d) practicality, e) kind-

ness, f) self sacrifice, g) arrogance, h) charily

10. At the University H. G. Wells sl.udicd

a) physics, b) law, c) medicine, d) biology.

II. In which of the four novels did Wells condemn dangerous experi­

ments on men and animals'

a) First Men in the Muon. b) The War of the Worlds, c) The Island uf Dr Moreau, d) The Time Machine.

12. In which of the four works did he predict the coming of fascism

a) The Time Machine, b) The Invisible Man, c) The Shape of the

Things to Come, d) Russia in the Shadows.

13. The Martians came to the Earth hecause a) they wanted to study the Universe

b) they could no longer slay on their planet c) they wanted lo 111ake an experiment

d) they were going to l<1ke some people of the Earth back to Mars

with them

14. "Morlocks" and "EIIoi" are the names oi human beings in

Wells's novel

a) The War in the Air, b) The Time Machine, c) The Invisible Man,

d) The Island of Dr. Moreau.

15. In which of the four plays did B. Shaw show the dirty source of the bourgeoisie's wealth?

a) John Ball's Other Island, b) Major Barbara, c) Pygmalion,

d) Widower's Houses.

16. Match the titles of the plays with the names of the characters. a) Eliza Doolittle

I) Widouer' Houses h) Mr. Trench

c) Mr Sartorius d) Mr. Lickcheese

2) Pygmalion c) Prof. Higgins

f) Colonel Pickering

17. Shaw called his first three plays

a) Plays Pleasant, b) Plays Unpleasant, c) Well-made Plays, d) En·

tertainment Plays.

lB. Prof. Higgins wanted to prove that in order to be taken lor a noble person in English society it was enough

a) to be beautiful, b) to have a lot of money, c) to have good connec­

tions, d) to have good manners and pronunciation.

19. In the play Pygmalion Bernard Shaw a) criticized England's colonial policy b) spoke against wars

c) exposed the hypocrisy of the rich

d) showed the deep feelings and sincerity oi the common people

20. Shaw was a very witty person. His plays arc full of paradoxical thoughts. Complete, if you can, the following aphorism of his:

"He, who can, does, he who can't,

TEST ON THE 20TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE

l. Which one of the 4 literary trends do James Joyce and Virginia

Woolf represent?

a) aestheticism b) nco-romanticism c) modernism d) realism

2. Match the writers with their works.

I) James Joyce a) Ulysses

2) Virginia Woolf b) Mrs. Dalloway

3) D. H. Lawrence c) Sons and Louers

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3. Add the Iitle and the narnc of its English author to the list of anti·

military novels about the "lost generation''

a) Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway

b) All Quiet On the Western!-'ron/ by E. M. Rcmarquc

c))

4. Which one of the 4 novels is out of place in the following group' a) The Colonel's Daughter, b) Natter's Castle, c) Tile Slurs Look

Down, d) The Citadel.

5. Where docs the action of each of the following novels by Graham

Greene take place'

t )The Quiet American

2) The Comcdia11s

3) Tile Human Factor

4) Doctor Fischer

a) in Geneva b) Haiti

c) in Vietnam

d) South Africa

6.,\\r Fowler The Quiet American helped the Vietnamese parli·

sans to do away with Pyle because

a) Pyle was working for the French colonialists b) Pyle interfered with fowLer's journalist work c) Pyle was Fowler's rival

d) Pyle was paving the way for the US intervention in Vietnam

7. Wrilc down the titles of at least three of Charles Percy Snow's novels

a)' u)' c)

8. Match the names of characters with the lilies of the novels.

I) Fowler a) The Citadel

2) George Winlcrbourne b) The Quiet American

3) Andrew Manson c) Strangers and Brothers

1) Lewis Eliot d) Death of a I/ era

9. The hero of Cronin's novel The Citadel was

a) an officer. b) an architect, c) a doctor, d) a journalist.

10. The writers John Osborne, Kingsley Amis, John Braine arc known as reprcscntativca of the following literary trends:

a) modernists, b) the Angry Young Men, c) the Lost Generation,

d) the working class novelists.

II. Match the writers with their works.

t) Alan Sillitoc a) Lord of the flies

2) John Osborne b) Look Back in Anger

3) William Golding c) The Black Prince

4) Iris Murdoch d) Key to the Door

12. The action of William Golding's novel "Lord of the Flies" takes place

a) in a hunters' club, b) on an uninhabited island, c) at an Engli

school, d) at _a research institute.

13. Which of the 4 characters of the novel Lord of the Flies was head of the hunters

a) Ralph, b) Jack, c) Simon, d) Piggy.

14. Write 3 more titles 0f Iris Murdoch's novels a) The Black Prince, b) c)? d)

15. The novel The French Leulenarzl's Woman was written by

a) Iris Murdoch, b) J0hn Fowles, c) Muriel Spark, d) Graham

Greene.

16. Which one of!he 4 statements is right frederick Clegg,!he main characler of!he novel The Cl91/eclor by Fowles,

a) collecled piclurcs; b) was a well-known arli c) kidnapped a girl;

d) commilled suicide.

17. Malch each tille of the novels wilh lhree characlers a) Frederick;

I) The Collector b) Ernestina;

c) Sarah Woodruff;

d) Miranda;

2) The French Lieutenant's Woman e) Charles Smithson;

f) Ferdinand.

18. Which one of the 4 titles is out of place in!he following list?

a) The Magus, b) The Black Prince, c) Daniel Martin, d) The

Collector.

19. What is common to the following 4 writers?

a) Jonathan Swift (18th c.); b) William Thackeray (19th c.); c) Evelyn

Waugh (20lh c.); d) Muriel Spark (20!h c.).

20. Write the names of at least 3 English science fiction writers a)? b)? c)?

KEYS

Keys to the Test on the 5-16th Centuries Literature

I. d 8. c 15. d

2. 9. d 16. b

3. a 10. 17. d

4. II. a 18. a

5. a 12. c 19. b

6. c 13. d 20. a

7. b 14. d

Keys to the Test on the English Enlightenment Literature

I. b 7. a 14. b

2. d B. c 15. 1) d, 2) c, 3) a, 4) b

3. I) c, 2) a, 3) b, 4) d 9. b 16. 1) b, 2) c, 3) d, 4) a

4. b 10. b 17. a

5. d 12. b 18.

6. b 13. d

I. c

Kevs to the Test on the 19th century Literature

B.u 15.1)c,2)a,3)b.4)d

2. I) c, 2) a,. 3) d, 4) b

3. b (because il is by W Scoll while the other.3 nre by G. Byrol'l)

4. b

5. l)a,2)b,3)c

6. b

7. b

9. b

10. a

II. d

12. a

13. d

14. a

16. b (because it play while the other 3 arc fairy tales)

17. c

18. c

19. I) d, 2) a. 3) b, 4) c

20. a

Keys to the Test on the Literary Work

of J. Galsworthy, H. G. Welts and B. Shaw

I. I) b, e,2)c,d,3)a,f 8.a

15. d

2. c

3.

4. c

5. b

6. b

7. d

9. b,

10. d

11. c

12. c

13. b

14. b

g 16. I) b, d, 2) a, e, I

17. b

18. d

19. d

20. who can't, leaches"

Keys to the Test on the 20th Century Literature

I.e 1l.l)d,2)b,3) 4)c

2.l)a,2)b,3)c 12.b

3. Deu/h of u //era by R. AI· 13. b

dinglon

4. a (because it is a novel by R. Aldington while the other 3 are by A. Cronin)

5. l) c, 2) b, 3) d, 4) a

6. d

8. l) b, 2) d. 3) a, 4) c

9. c

10. b

15. b

16. c

17.l)a,d,f2)b, c

18. b (because it is a novel by I. Murdoch while!he other 3 are by J. Fowles)

19. They arc all satirical writers

CHARACTER PUZZL S

She was an orphan, beautiful. clever and cunning She lied and bullied and cringed bdore \he rich and she married a man she did not love. In a word, this woman slopped a\ nothing to make her way into high society

2. He was English journalist who came \o an Asian slate as

a reporter He did not want to be involved in politics but \i!e made him change his attitude to the people and events in the country He had to take sides.

3. He was a small weak boy,!he son of a rich merchant who was very

cold and arrogant. As he warllcd to make a good heir and business com·

panion of his son as early as possible, his [ather sent him to school away

from the people who loved and cared for him. This aggravated the boy's health and he soon died deeply mourned by his sister

4. l-Ie was a student and came from an aristocratic family He fell in love with the daughter of a rich owner and was about to marry her When by chance he came to know that his beloved's father had made his big fortune by dishonest means, he broke the engagement. Yet, on learning thai his own income came from the same source her father's did, he changed his mind.

5. He was a professor in linguistics. Once he made a bel with his

friend to prove that it was enough to have good manners and to speak correct English to be taken ior a member of high society.

6. Together with a group of other boys he found himself on an unin­

habited island. He was elected leader of the group. His leadership, howev­ er, was challenged by another teenager who managed to allrac\ most of the children to his side. Two of his loyal friends were killed by their ene­ mies. His own life was in danger too.

7. He was a prince. One day he learnt thai his father had been mur­

dered by his uncle. He was lo avenge the crime yet he delayed action because he realised that evil lay no\ in the king alone, and his allempl lo defeat it might lead to his own death.

B. She was an art student, beautiful and intelligent. One day she was kidnapped by a young man who took her into his country house and locked her in the cellar All her allempls either to free herself from the impri­ sonment or to understand her jailer's motives and find some way to his heart failed. Finally her health broke under the strain and she died.

9. He was a ship's surgeon. One day the ship was caught in a storm. Afler the shipwreck the man managed to reach the shore where he immediately fell asleep. On his awakening he found himself on an island inhabited by tiny men only six inches high. His stay in the land of these small people was followed by still stranger adventures in other countries.

10. He was an artist. Once he met a handsome young man whose

beauty impressed him so much that he painted his portrait. The portrait acquired an unusual quality: it changed with time reflecting the young man's spoilt and evil nature while he himself remained young and beautiful. His attempt to reason with lhe young man cost him his liie.

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CONTENTS Note for Teachers 0. Sudlenkuua Literature of the Middle Ages L. Cortes Anglo-Saxon Period

Tlze Sung of Beowulf Anglo-Norman Period Pre-Renaissance

Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbartt Tales

Popular Baflads.

'II. Literature of the Renaissance 0. Sudlenkova

William Shakespeare..

Twelfth Night; or, What You Will

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Sonnets.

III. Literature of the Enlightenment 0. Sudlenkova

Daniel Defoe

The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson

Crusoe

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Robert Burns...

IV Literature of the Early 19th Century L. Cartes

Romanticism

George Gordon Byron

Chi/de Harold's Pilgrimage

The Corsair

Political Poetry Walter Scott Ivanhoe

V Literature from the 1830s to the 1860s L. Cortes

Critical Realism

Charles Dickens

Dombey and Son

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Book of Snobs

Vanity Fair A Novel Without a Hero

VI. Literature of the Last Decades of the 19th Century L. Cortes

Decadendce

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Neoromanticism

'--Socialist Literature

VII. Literature of the Early 20th Century L. Cortes

John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga

Herbert G, Wells

The War of the Worlds

George Bernard Shaw

.Widower's Houses

Pygmalion

VIII. Literature between the Two World Wars N. Nikiforoua

Literature of the 1920s

Katherine Mansfield

The Garden Party

II

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Literature of the 1930s

Richard Aldington

Death of a Hero

Archibald Cronin

The Citadel

IX. Literature from the 1940s to the 1990s N. Nikiforoua

James Aldridge.

Signed With Their Honour

, Graham Greene

The Quiet American

Charles Percy Snow

Time of Hope

"The Angry Young Men"

John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

The Working Class Novel

Alan Sillitoe

Key to the Door

Sid Chaplin

Stan Barstow

The Philosophical Novel 0. Sudlenkoua

William Golding

Lord of the Flies

Iris Murdoch N. Nikiforoua

The Black Prince.

John Fowles 0. Sudlenkoua

The Collector

The Sa lirica I Novel 0. Sudlenkova

Muriel Spark

The Public I mage. Science Fiction 0. Sudlenlwua

X. SUPPLEMENT 0. Sudlenkoua

Thematic Vocabulary

Lis! of Literary Terms

List of Proper and Geographical Names List of Titles Mentioned in the Text-book Tests

Character Puzzles

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