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The earliest surviving work of English literature is … |
The process of Christianizing the Anglo-Saxons was largely completed in … |
Most Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Scandinavian literary monuments are written in … verse. |
One of the characteristic features of literature from the Anglo-Saxon period is … |
In «The Dream of the Rood,» the story of Christ is narrated by… |
The word «hwæt,» which begins the original texts of «The Dream of the Rood» and «Beowulf,» means … |
According to the description by Bede the Venerable, Cædmon was … |
Beowulf’s final battle was with … |
It is incorrect that the character … is mentioned in the poem «Beowulf.» |
In early medieval poetry dedicated to warriors, an important place was given to the relationship between the warrior and his … |
The king whose era was fruitful for Anglo-Saxon literature was …. |
The battle that marked the end of the Anglo-Saxon period in English literature was the Battle of … |
The formulas «uuldurfadur,» «moncynnæs uard,» «Frēa allmectig,» used in Cædmon’s Hymn, are … |
The stereotypical style characteristic of oral literary monuments is called… |
The name Beowulf means «… wolf» |
Besides the death of his men, Hrothgar grieved the impossibility of claiming from Grendel a monetary compensation, which is called «…» |
The version of the founding of Britain recounted by Geoffrey of Monmouth copies the legend of the founding of the city of … |
Grendel was a descendant of … |
Match the work with its genre: |
Arrange the literary periods in chronological order: |
Read the fragment of the work carefully:«Naked swords, as we swam along, Identify the work and name the characteristic feature of this passage. |
Strict controls on the production of sausages and other meat products were introduced in America after the publication of the novel … |
Nobel Prize laureates in literature include such writers representing the United States as … (specify 2 answers) |
The event that influenced the emergence of the «Lost Generation» in world literature was … |
A quote from Shakespeare is used in the title of the novel … |
The defining plot lines in Ernest Hemingway’s novel «A Farewell to Arms» include … (specify 2 answers) |
The destructive influence of the «American Dream» on the individual and the hero’s fate is shown in the novel … |
Jerome Salinger’s novel «The Catcher in the Rye» was published in … |
US literature has produced … Nobel Prize laureates. |
The primacy of imagery as a means of expressing a poetic idea is characteristic of the literary movement known as … |
Supporters of the «genteel tradition» in the United States considered Dreiser’s first novel, «…», immoral and amoral. |
Upton Sinclair belonged to a group of American writers and publicists that President Roosevelt called «…» |
The main trend in American literature in the 1950s-60s was … |
The last name of the poet, author of the poem «Chicago,» which |
According to Ernest Hemingway, all of American literature comes from one book, «…» |
The main character of J.D. Salinger’s novel «The Catcher in the Rye» is … |
Ernest Hemingway called his style the «principle of the …» |
Match the American writers with their places of birth: |
Match the American writers with their works: |
Arrange Ernest Hemingway’s novels in chronological order of their publication: |
The plot of Theodore Dreiser’s most famous novel, «An American Tragedy,» is based on the actual 1906 case of Chester Gillette murdering his lover, Grace Brown. The trial received widespread publicity. Dreiser used documents and facts reported in newspapers of the time. He shows what factors shape the main character’s personality and what ultimately leads him to commit a crime. The work contains elements of various genres. Dreiser himself called «An American Tragedy» «a kind of class epic, reflecting the class antagonism that encompasses the entire world today.» |
Edgar Poe’s parents were … |
The literary figure who tried to ruin Edgar Poe’s reputation after his death was … |
Edgar Poe’s literary life took place in such US cultural centers as … |
The stories «The Murders in the Rue Morgue,» «The Mystery of Marie Rogêt,» and «The Purloined Letter» are remarkable because they … |
Edgar Poe’s most famous treatise on literature is … |
Mark Twain was born in the state of … |
The pseudonym «Mark Twain» is … |
The Baltimore years of Edgar Poe are the period of the writer’s creative work … |
Mark Twain began his career as a … |
Mark Twain’s later works are characterized by … |
A river of particular importance in Mark Twain’s work is the … |
Mark Twain instructed that his autobiography be published 100 years after his death because he … |
Edgar Poe enlisted in the army under the surname … |
The work that brought Mark Twain fame is «The Celebrated Jumping …of Calaveras County” |
Mark Twain’s full birth name is Samuel Langhorne …. |
Edgar Poe wanted to name his magazine «…» |
The collection of poems by Edgar Poe, which he published at the age of 18 at his own expense, is called «…» |
Edgar Poe’s first collection of poems was published under the title «…» |
Match the works with the ideas, themes, motifs, or types characteristic of them: |
Arrange the stages of Edgar Poe’s life spent in four American literary centers in chronological order: |
Below is a cipher that William Legrand, the hero of a work by Edgar Allan Poe, deciphered during the search for his «prize.»53##+305))6*;4826)4#.)4#.);806*,48+8||60)),85;;]8*;:#*8+83(88)5*+;46(;88*96*?;8)*#(;485);5*+2:*#(;4956*2(5*=4)8||8*;4069285);)6+8)4##;1(#9;48081;8:8#1;48+85;4)485+528806*81(#9;48;(88;4(#?34;48)4#;161;:188#? What novel does it come from? |
It is not true that one of the features of the Theatre of the Absurd is … |
The group of British writers and dramatists known as the «Angry Young Men» appeared in the … |
John Barth’s Giles the Goat, David Lodge’s Academic Exchange: A Tale of Two Campuses, and Robertson Davies’s Rebel Angels can be grouped together by one characteristic: … |
The embodiment of the rational principle in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies is … |
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and the English writer of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro are united by the fact that… |
The quote «I was born in the Duchy of Cornwall, on the 11th of October, 1792; my parents were rich, but honest people» belongs to … |
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to William Golding in … |
Graham Greene wrote the novel “The Quiet American” in … |
The genre of Graham Greene’s work “Brighton Rock” is … |
In William Golding’s novel “Lord of the Flies”, the «Lord of the Flies» was … |
The earliest example of the university novel genre is Kingsley Amis’s novel «…» |
The English variant of postmodernism has a number of characteristic features, the most significant of which are its ideological nature and … |
The surname of one of the founders of the Theatre of the Absurd, the author of the play “Waiting for Godot”, is … |
William Golding called his novels … |
The main genre of postmodernist literature in England in the second half of the 20th century becomes the … |
The types of social novel in English literature of the second half of the 20th century, addressing current themes, are the women’s novel, the university novel, the Hampstead novel, and the … novel. |
The Theatre of the Absurd was inspired by the philosophy of … |
Graham Greene’s most famous work is his anti-colonialist and anti-war novel «…» |
Match the works with the characters: |
Establish the chronological order of publication: |
In James Joyce’s novel «Ulysses,» the Homeric Telemachus corresponds to the character of … |
The origins of the Bloomsbury Group, which united London intellectuals, are associated with … |
Modernists called for a decisive break with such phenomena in literature as … (choose 2 answers) |
Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound founded … |
The forms of modernist manifestos include … (choose 2 answers) |
James Joyce’s literary career began with the writing of … |
James Joyce’s novel «Ulysses» concludes with … |
The intention behind depicting Judith Shakespeare in Virginia Woolf’s essay «A Room of One’s Own» was to … |
The famous musical by the English composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, «Cats,» was based on a collection by T.S. Eliot titled … |
The movement in art whose name translates from French as «new,» «contemporary,» is … |
The term «…» was introduced into literary criticism by May Sinclair in her article «The Novels of Dorothy Richardson,» published in the journal «The Egoist» in 1918. |
T.S. Eliot’s poem «The Waste Land» consists of … parts. |
Modernism in England replaced such a literary movement as … |
The art of Modernism is closely connected with the psychoanalysis of Freud and … |
As a method of artistic representation, James Joyce used the «stream of consciousness» in the novel «…» |
Virginia Woolf’s satirical novel, which begins in the Elizabethan era and ends in the 20th century, is called «…» |
In James Joyce’s «A Portrait of the Artist» and «Ulysses,» the same character appears — … |
The movement in Anglo-American poetry of the early 20th century that preferred precision of images and clear, sharp language is … |
Match the authors with their works: |
Establish the chronological order of the publication of James Joyce’s works: |
Read the fragment of the poem presented below:«April is the cruellest month, breeding To which author does T.S. Eliot allude in the opening lines of his most famous poem, «The Waste Land»? |
Robert Stevenson dedicated his collection «A Child’s Garden of Verses» to his … |
«Vice and virtue are products like sugar and vitriol,» declared …, whose aesthetic concepts influenced the formation of Naturalism in England. |
Representatives of Neo-Romanticism include … (indicate 2 answers) |
The phrase «The soul can be cured by means of the senses, and the senses can be cured only by the soul» belongs to …, a character in one of Oscar Wilde’s works. |
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the novel «Treasure Island» in the tradition of … |
The first play that brought Bernard Shaw fame as a playwright was … |
It is incorrect that a representative of Neo-Romanticism is … |
«For fourteen years I have not had a day’s real health; I have wakened sick and gone to bed weary, and I have done my work unflinchingly,» wrote about his life … |
The Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Bernard Shaw in … |
John Galsworthy’s «The Forsyte Saga» consists of … novels. |
«Treasure Island» was first published as a serialized novel in the children’s magazine «Young Folks» in … |
Representatives of English Naturalism include … (indicate 2 answers) |
The main trends in English literature at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries were: critical realism, naturalism, neo-romanticism, aestheticism, and … |
The genre of the novel that formed in the mid-19th century on the wave of Romanticism and Neo-Romanticism with their characteristic desire to escape from bourgeois everyday life into a world of exoticism and heroism is the … novel. |
The combination of formal and substantive features of a work is its … |
A stylistic device involving an allusion to well-known facts, historical events, or literary works is … |
The most famous work of John Galsworthy is the series of novels «…» |
An Old Norse prose narrative about historical or mystical events is a … |
Establish the sequence of publication for the works in John Galsworthy’s «The Forsyte Saga» cycle: |
Match the literary movements with their representatives: |
In his article «The Quintessence of Ibsenism,» Bernard Shaw wrote: «To this day, critics are blind to the new technique of creating popular plays, while a whole generation of recognized playwrights demonstrates it under their noses day after day. The main new technical device became the discussion. Previously, in the so-called ‘well-made plays,’ you were offered: exposition in the first act, conflict in the second, and its resolution in the third. Now you have exposition, conflict, and discussion, and it is the discussion that serves as the test of the playwright.» |
The novel «The Personal History of David Copperfield» belongs to the … period of Charles Dickens’s work. |
The first work that William Thackeray published under his own name is … |
It is incorrect that William Thackeray published under the pseudonym … |
In Charles Dickens’s novel «Bleak House,» the object of satire is the … |
The image of «Vanity Fair» used by William Thackeray was borrowed from … |
William Thackeray criticized Charles Dickens for … |
The main characters of William Thackeray’s novel «Vanity Fair» are … |
The novels «Dombey and Son» by Charles Dickens and «Vanity Fair» by William Thackeray were published … |
The novel … was born from captions for drawings by Robert Seymour. |
George Eliot’s two-volume work «Scenes of Clerical Life» was published in … |
Charles Dickens signed his early works with the pseudonym … |
The empirical philosophical theory which asserts that all genuine knowledge is either true by definition or positive, meaning a posteriori facts derived by reason and logic from sensory experience, is … |
The action of Charles Dickens’s novel «Hard Times» takes place in the town of … |
William Thackeray’s novel «Vanity Fair» has the subtitle «…» |
One of William Thackeray’s novels is titled «The Tales of Pendennis, His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His …» |
The writer Mary Ann Evans published her works under the pseudonym … |
The leading literary movement in Victorian England was … |
The most popular literary genre in Victorian England was the … |
Match the authors with their works: |
Arrange William Thackeray’s works in the chronological order of their creation: |
Read the fragment from Charles Dickens’s novel «Hard Times»: |
The Scottish poet Robert Burns was born in … |
Robert Burns’s father was a … |
The Royal Society of London was founded in … |
Samuel Richardson’s novel «Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded» is written in the form of … |
By profession, the English writer Lawrence Stern was a … |
The «Lake School» included … |
The manifesto of the «Lake School» is considered to be the programmatic essay opening the collection … |
It is incorrect that George Byron criticized the «Lake School» for its … |
Lawrence Stern was born in … |
The works of the writer … are considered by some researchers to be postmodern due to their extravagance. |
«This strange and gifted poet has thoroughly absorbed my Faust and draws from it nourishment for his hypochondria,» wrote Goethe after reading Byron’s work «…» |
George Byron created a new literary form – the … |
The surname of the author of the collection «Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect» is … |
The movement that was a reaction to the years of Puritan dictatorship and scorned all moral principles is … |
The major transformation of the social and political system of France in the 18th century, which caused a surge of interest in national culture and history, is … |
The literary movement of the late 18th – first half of the 19th century, which rejected the classicist dramatic concept of the three unities (action, place, time), is … |
Match the periods of Restoration literature with their main trends: |
Match the writers with their works: |
Match the writers with their works: |
Arrange George Byron’s works in the chronological order of their creation: |
Read the fragment of the poem:O Prince, O chief of many throned pow’rs! O thou! whatever title suit thee, — Hear me, Auld Hangie, for a wee, Great is thy pow’r, an’ great thy fame; Whyles, ranging like a roarin lion, Who is the author of the poem? What characteristic features can be used to identify the author? |
The boundaries of the Enlightenment era are marked by two events: … |
Due to the Puritan dictatorship, the people of England lost access to… for several years. |
John Milton’s first major work in English is … |
John Milton’s most popular work is … |
The main character of John Milton’s poem «Paradise Lost» is … |
Robinson Crusoe spent … on the island. |
In his communication with Friday, Robinson Crusoe reveals himself as a(n) … |
The idiom «tale of a tub» means … |
A specific feature of «Gulliver’s Travels» is its … |
V. G. Belinsky called the work … the «apotheosis of rebellion against authority.» |
After the execution of Charles I, a republic was proclaimed in England, with power concentrated in the hands of the political figure … |
The concept of the … man, described by John Locke, represents an ideal of a man who follows laws with the help of his reason. |
John Milton’s pamphlet in defense of freedom of the press and freedom of opinion, directed against the decision of Parliament to establish censorship in England, is titled «…» |
The images of Adam and Eve in John Milton’s poem correspond to the aesthetics of the … era. |
For 11 years, Daniel Defoe secretly served as a political spy and confidential agent for Lord … |
A series of anonymous public letters by Jonathan Swift, in which he criticized English policy in Ireland, is called «…» |
The slaves of the Houyhnhnms, depicted by Swift as obscene caricatures of people, are called «…» |
Match the writers with their works: |
Establish the chronological sequence of events: |
Arrange Daniel Defoe’s works in the chronological order of their creation: |
The birthplace of the European Renaissance is considered to be … |
The philosophy of the Renaissance is … |
In the sonnets typical of the Italian Renaissance, Petrarch has … |
The creator of the Shakespearean sonnet form is … |
The tragedy by William Shakespeare, whose plot first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth, is … |
Thomas More’s «Utopia» was heavily influenced by the philosophical work … |
Thomas More’s «Utopia» was written in… |
Translated from Ancient Greek, «utopia» means … (specify 2 answer options) |
The narrative in Thomas More’s «Utopia» is told in the form of … |
Thomas More’s «Utopia» is a … |
In one of his works, Thomas More portrays King … as a bloodthirsty, hypocritical monster. |
Shakespeare’s late romantic dramas include … (specify 2 answer options) |
The surname of the English poet who introduced the English audience to sonnets is … |
A complete, self-contained stanza of four lines is called a … |
The term first applied by F. S. Boas in 1896 to Shakespeare’s plays «Hamlet», «All’s Well That Ends Well», «Troilus and Cressida», and «Measure for Measure» is the «…» plays. |
The eighteen plays by Shakespeare published during the author’s lifetime in a collection of questionable quality are referred to by the term «…» |
The traveller-interlocutor in Thomas More’s «Utopia» is … |
Specially designed carts used for street theatre performances in the Middle Ages are called «…» |
Match the works of William Shakespeare with their genres: |
Establish the chronological sequence of William Shakespeare’s creative periods: |
Read the poem«As a decrepit father takes delight Identify the rhyming scheme of the given poem |
William the Conqueror conducted the first census in Britain, the results of which were recorded in… |
John Wycliffe was… |
The fantastic elements in a ballad are primarily intended to emphasize… |
William Langland was the son of a… |
The most famous work of William Langland is… |
William Langland received his education at a… |
A characteristic feature of allegorical dream-vision poems is… |
The sources for Thomas Mallory’s works were… |
Thomas Mallory wrote his novels about King Arthur… |
The word «ballad» comes from the Italian verb «ballare,» which means… |
The main idea of William Langland’s poem «The Vision of Piers Plowman» is that truth can only be comprehended through… |
Geoffrey Chaucer’s «The Canterbury Tales» are united by a common frame narrative, similar to… |
The surname of the leader of the largest peasant revolt in medieval England in 1381 was… |
Itinerant poets, often from clerical backgrounds, who condemned and mocked the moral standards of the Catholic clergy, were called «…» |
Ballads are of three types: epic, lyric-dramatic, and… |
The surname of the medieval English poet, the «father of English poetry,» whose work was greatly influenced by representatives of the Italian Renaissance (Dante, Petrarch), is… |
In Geoffrey Chaucer’s «The Canterbury Tales,» there are … stories. |
For his meticulous attention to the smallest details of each character’s portrait, Gorky called Chaucer the founder of… |
Match the ballad to its type: |
Arrange Geoffrey Chaucer’s works in the chronological order of their creation: |
Relationships between relatives were very important in Anglo-Saxon society.<br/>According to tradition, how should a person respond to the murder of a member of their clan? |
The illustration below shows the Gosford Cross in the cemetery of St Mary’s Church in Gosford (County Cumbria). The cross is carved with images of Loki, Heimdall, Vidar with the serpent Fenrir, as well as the serpent Jormungandr and Thor.<br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image001.gif»></IMG><br/><i>What does this cross have in common with the Rutvel cross?</i> |
Study the picture: <br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image002.jpg»></IMG><br/><i>What moment is depicted in the picture?</i> |
Read the excerpt:<br/><i>The King knew he said sooth, for Conscience him told<br/>That Wrong was a wicked luft and much sorrow wrought.<br/>Wrong was afeared then, and Wisdom he sought<br/>To make peace with his pence, and proffered him many,<br/>And said, “Had I love of my lord the King, little would I reck <br/>Though Peace and his powers plained them ever!<br/><br/>Who is the author of this work? What is it called? What genre does it belong to? What characteristic features can be observed here?</i> |
Read the poem: <br/><i>The heart and service to you proffer’d<br/>With right good will full honestly, <br/>Refuse it not, since it is offer’d, <br/>But take it to you gentlely. <br/><br/>And though it be a small present, <br/>Yet good, consider graciously <br/>The thought, the mind, and the intent <br/>Of him, that loves you faithfully. <br/><br/>It were a thing of small effect <br/>To work my woe thus cruelly, <br/>For my good will to be abject: <br/>Therefore, accept it lovingly. <br/><br/>Pain or travel, to run or ride, <br/>I undertake it pleasantly; <br/>Bid ye me go, and straight I glide <br/>At your commandement humbly. <br/><br/>Pain or pleasure, now may you plant <br/>Even which it please you steadfastly; <br/>Do which you list, I shall not want <br/>To be your servant secretly. <br/><br/>And since so much I do desire <br/>To be your own assuredly, <br/>For all my service and my hire <br/>Reward your servant liberally.<br/><br/><br/>Is this poem a sonnet? What is its rhyme scheme?</i> |
Read the excerpt: <br/><i>‘The increase of pasture,’ said I, ‘by which your sheep, which are naturally mild, and easily kept in order, may be said now to devour men and unpeople, not only villages, but towns; for wherever it is found that the sheep of any soil yield a softer and richer wool than ordinary, there the nobility and gentry, and even those holy men, the abbots not contented with the old rents which their farms yielded, nor thinking it enough that they, living at their ease, do no good to the public, resolve to do it hurt instead of good.’ <br/><br/>Which work is this excerpt from, and what is it about?</i> |
An excerpt from the graphic novel based on this work is presented below: <br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image003.gif»></IMG><br/><i>Which work is this?</i> |
Read the excerpt: <br/><i>As to my boat, it was a very good one; and that he saw, and told me he would buy it of me for his ship’s use; and asked me what I would have for it? I told him he had been so generous to me in everything that I could not offer to make any price of the boat, but left it entirely to him: upon which he told me he would give me a note of hand to pay me eighty pieces of eight for it at Brazil; and when it came there, if any one offered to give more, he would make it up. He offered me also sixty pieces of eight more for my boy, which I was loth to take; not that I was unwilling to let the captain have him, but I was very loth to sell the poor boy’s liberty, who had assisted me so faithfully in procuring my own. However, when I let him know my reason, he owned it to be just, and offered me this medium, that he would give the boy an obligation to set him free in ten years, if he turned Christian: upon this, and (…) saying he was willing to go to him, I let the captain have him.<br/><br/>Which work is the above excerpt from? What exactly does it reveal?</i> |
Read the excerpt from the poem “ Don Juan” by Byron <br/><br/><i>In Seville was he born, a pleasant city,<br/>Famous for oranges and women—he<br/>Who has not seen it will be much to pity,<br/>So says the proverb—and I quite agree;<br/>Of all the Spanish towns is none more pretty,<br/>Cadiz perhaps—but that you soon may see;<br/>Don Juan’s parents lived beside the river,<br/>A noble stream, and call’d the Guadalquivir. <br/><br/>What is the rhyme scheme of this passage?</i> |
Study the picture:<br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image004.jpg»></IMG><br/><i>Which work is depicted in the illustration?</i> |
Read the following excerpt from a translation of a well-known English work, made in 1902: <br/><br/>Далѣе, я видѣлъ во снѣ, что, выйдя изъ пустыни, они вдругъ увидѣли передъ собою городъ, по имени-Житейская суета. Передь — городомъ раскинулась большая ярмарка, но прозванію — Базаръ Житейской суеты. Она открыта круглый годъ.<br/>Названiе это произошло отъ того, что все тамъ продающееся и находящееся въ оборотѣ житейская суета.<br/>Есть пословица одного мудреца: все-суета. Этотъ базаръ не нѣчто новое, но существуетъ долгое время. Я разскажу вамъ сей часъ, какъ онъ произошель.<br/><br/><i>What is this work? How does it relate to the material we have studied?</i> |
Look at the portrait: <br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image005.jpg»></IMG><br/><i>Who is depicted in it?</i> |
Read the preface to the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, written by Oscar Wilde in 1891:<br/>»An artist is someone who creates beautiful things.<br/>To reveal art and conceal the artist is the aim of art.<br/>A critic is someone who, in a new manner or using new material, expresses their impression of these beautiful things.<br/>Criticism, whether good or bad, is always autobiographical.<br/>So those who see depravity in beauty are themselves depraved and, moreover, not beautiful. This is a great flaw.<br/>Cultured people are able to find beautiful ideas in beautiful things. There is still hope for them.<br/>And only for the chosen few do beautiful things mean beauty exclusively.<br/>There are no moral or immoral books. There are books that are well written and books that are poorly written. That’s all.<br/>The nineteenth century’s aversion to realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his face in the mirror.<br/>The nineteenth century’s aversion to romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his face in the mirror.<br/>Someone’s moral life may sometimes become the subject of an artist’s work; however, the morality of art lies in the perfect application of imperfect means.<br/>No artist wants to prove anything, because even reliable truths can be proven.<br/>No artist has ethical biases. Ethical biases in an artist are an unforgivable affectation of style.<br/>There are no sickly artists. An artist can depict anything.<br/>Thought and language are the tools of an artist’s craft.<br/>Vice and virtue are the materials of an artist’s art.<br/>In terms of form, music is the prototype of all art. In terms of feeling, the prototype is the acting of an actor.<br/>All art is both surface and symbol.<br/>Those who penetrate deeper than the surface are themselves responsible for this.<br/>Those who decipher the symbol are themselves responsible for doing so.<br/>For it is the viewer, not life, that truly reflects art.<br/>Disagreement about a work of art indicates that it is new, complex and vital.<br/>If critics disagree among themselves, the artist is in agreement with himself.<br/>We can forgive a person who creates something useful if he himself does not admire it. The only excuse for someone who creates something useless is that everyone admires it immensely.<br/>All art is completely useless”.<br/><i>What, in your opinion, is the essence of the preface? Can we consider it a dialogue between the author and the reader or a collection of aphorisms? What meaning did the author put into this text? Which of its statements seem paradoxical to you? Which of the following opinions on this subject seems more correct to you?</i> |
The photograph below shows a scene from a film based on a play by Bernard Shaw.<br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image006.jpg»></IMG><br/><i>What play is this?</i> |
Read the excerpt from the work:<br/>“He jumped down from the platform and looked importantly at his audience, gathering the folds of his spacious robe at his feet. His fat, shadowed face and heavy oval chin resembled a medieval prelate, a patron of the arts. A satisfied smile appeared on his lips.<br/>- Laughter and nothing else,’ he said cheerfully. ‘Your name is ridiculous, like that of an ancient Greek.<br/>Pointing his finger with friendly mockery, he walked away to the parapet, laughing. Stephen Dedal, having climbed to the top of the stairs, wearily followed him, but, not reaching him, sat down on the edge of the landing and began to watch as he placed a mirror on the parapet, dipped a brush in the foam, and lathered his neck and cheeks”.<br/><br/><i>From which work is this episode taken? Which character is portrayed in it?</i> |
Read the excerpt:<br/><br/><i>Would it have been worth while,<br/>To have bitten off the matter with a smile,<br/>To have squeezed the universe into a ball<br/>To roll toward some overwhelming question.<br/><br/>To which author does Thomas Eliot refer his readers in these lines from ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’?</i> |
Read the excerpt: <br/>“When we turned back, the sun was setting; the ancient geographer’s vision had vanished; the Black River was no longer black, and the Red River was simply golden.<br/>We went down again, away from the gnarled, gap-ridden forest, towards the river; we levelled off above the abandoned rice fields and rushed like a stone from a slingshot towards a small sampan on the yellow channel. The cannon fired a single tracer round, and the sampan shattered into pieces in a fountain of sparks; we didn’t even look to see our victims floundering for their lives, but gained altitude and headed home.<br/>I thought again, as I had when I saw the dead child in Fat Diem: ‘I hate war.’ There was something utterly repulsive about our sudden and such random choice of prey — we were just flying by and fired a single volley at random; there was no one to return our fire, and so we left, having made our small contribution to the number of dead on earth. […] I asked:<br/>‘That sampan tonight, did it bother anyone?’<br/>‘Who knows?’ replied Truen. ‘On this stretch of water, we are ordered to shoot anything that catches our eye.”<br/><i><br/>Which work is this excerpt from? Who is the author of the novel? From whose perspective is the story told? What events does it describe?</i> |
The pictures below show scenes from the film, produced in 2010 based on the novel of the same name by a British author, by filmmakers from the United Kingdom and France.<br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image007.gif»></IMG><br/><i>What is the name of the novel that served as the basis for the screenplay? Who is its author, and what is it about?</i> |
This word is repeated 11 times and ends most of the quatrains in Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem. <br/><i>What is the word? What is the poem called? In which city and year was it first published?</i> |
Read the excerpt: <br/><i>He was the same old Launcelot, and when he glanced in as he was passing the door and found out that his pet was sick, that was enough for him; bulls and bears might fight it out their own way for all him, he would come right in here and stand by little Hello-Central for all he was worth. And that was what he did. <br/><br/>Name the work and its author.</i> |
Read the excerpt:<br/>«Actually, I’m very uneducated, but I read a lot. My favorite writer is D.B., my brother, and in second place is Ring Lardner. For my birthday, my brother gave me a book by Ring Lardner—this was even before I entered Pencey. The book had plays in it—terribly funny ones—and then a story about a traffic cop who falls in love with a very pretty girl who’s always breaking traffic rules. But the cop is married and, of course, can’t marry the girl. And then the girl gets killed because she’s always breaking the rules. It’s a terrific story. Generally, I like books best when there’s something funny in them. Of course, I read all kinds of classical books like ‘The Return of the Native,’ and all kinds of war books and detective stories, but somehow they don’t really grab me. What grabs me are books that, when you finish reading them, you wish the author were a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. But that doesn’t happen much. I’d certainly like to call this Isak Dinesen, and of course Ring Lardner, but D.B. said he’s dead. Now, for instance, take a book like ‘Of Human Bondage’ by Somerset Maugham—that’s not it at all. I read it last summer. It’s an okay book and all, but I wouldn’t want to call Somerset Maugham up. I don’t know why. He just isn’t the kind of guy you’d want to call. I’d rather call old Thomas Hardy. I like his Eustacia Vye.”<br/><br/><i><br/><br/>What is the name of the novel? Compare the original title of the work with the Russian-language version. Are there any significant differences? Are there allusions in either of the titles? If so, are they used effectively?</i> |
In many works by Ernest Hemingway, as well as those of his contemporaries representing the «Lost Generation» two plot lines intersect: the theme of war and the theme of love. Below is an illustration from one of his works. The artist also focused on these themes. <br/><IMG src=»/user_files/21/tests/00000000-0000-0001-0013-000000039019/image008.jpg»></IMG><br/><i>What novel does it illustrate?</i> |
The language of chivalric poetry in England was… |
The… dialect of English is used in many literary works from the time of King Alfred. |
… was the first, who set down the legend of King Lear and his daughters in the written form.<br/> |
The Ruthwell Cross contains a fragment of the poem … |
In “The Dream of the Rood” the author tries to show the spiritual continuity of the Germanic world at the symbolic level through the archetypal image of … |
It is not true that Geoffrey of Monmouth mentions the king … in the history of the kings of the Great Britain |
The leader of the Normans, who invaded Britain with his army and seized power, was called … |
Widsith was the … |
Beowulf was firstly written in the dialect, which characterized the kingdom of … |
The version of Beowulf that has come down to us is written in a typical …dialect. |
The 12th-century Anglo-Norman poet who wrote the earliest surviving version of the chivalric romance of Tristan and Iseult is … |
The only surviving manuscript of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf is contained in the Codex … |
A medieval literary genre in which the central narrative is centered on a seer, on the one hand, and a transcendental world that reveals the plot of the narrative to him in dreams or hallucinations, is … |
Bede the Venerable spent his life without leaving the kingdom of … |
Bede the Venerable became famous for his works as “… of English history” |
…was named the only character in Beowulf whose existence is documented |
Match the eras in literary history with the time periods: |
Match the language and the sphere of its use: |
Indicate the order in which Beowulf defeated his enemies: |
Arrange the works in chronological order, starting from the earliest: |
Lollards were called .… |
The phrase «When Adam plowed, and Eve spun, who was the nobleman then?» belongs to… |
The English literary language began to develop thanks to … … |
Ballads are a variety of… |
The allegoric nature of poems-visions lies in … |
The phrase «I have lived in land, my name is Long Will» … |
Geoffrey Chaucer worked as … |
Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales were written during the … period. |
There should have been … stories in the Canterbury Tales |
The Peasants’ Revolt of Wat Tyler took place in… |
The last and most famous book in Thomas Mallory’s Arthurian cycle is called “…” |
Geoffrey Chaucer began writing his «…» in 1387 and worked on them until his death, never finishing them. |
Characters such as the Church, Truth, Love, Conscience and Reason are present in the poem «…» |
The stories of Cleopatra, Phisba, Medea, Phyllis, Hippipyle, Ariadne, Lucretia, Philomena, Hypermnestra, and Dido are included in Geoffrey Chaucer’s collection titled “ “ |
Sir Thomas Mallory was a knight who fought in the Crusades of .… |
Mallory’s novels became famous thanks to the English publisher, the first printer… |
Match the periods of Geoffrey Chaucer’s work with the years: |
Establish a correspondence between the characters of the «Canterbury Tales» and their characteristics: |
Arrange the fragments of the Canterbury Tales according to Chaucer’s sequence: |
Arrange the King Arthur novels in the Caxton sequence: |
The drama about miracles performed by saints is called … |
It is not true that … belonged to the group «university minds» |
According to the «Act of Excellence» the head of the church in England was recognized … |
Francis Bacon’s “The Wisdom of the Ancients” is… |
William Shakespeare was born in… |
William Shakespeare’s «Late Romantic Dramas» refer to … |
The «problematic plays» of William Shakespeare are … |
The main idea of his sonnet Shakespeare concluded… |
Shakespeare sonnet rhyming scheme is… |
Comic interludes; originally improvisations performed by actors in medieval religious dramas are called… |
One of the genres of European medieval theatre, based on religious plots is… |
Reports on the voyages of a sailor … inspired Thomas More to create an alternative reality called «Utopia» |
The first work in the genre of scientific utopia is called «…» |
The plot of the tragedy of William Shakespeare «…» is found for the first time in Geoffrey of Monmouth works |
A type of the Middle Ages’ chauvinistic dramatic representation, in which the actors are not people but abstract concepts, is… |
Playwright and poet … prophetically praised Shakespeare with the words: «He did not belong to the era — he is for all times» |
Establish a correspondence between the writers and the characters of their works: |
Match the author with the fact from his biography: |
Place writers in chronological order of their lives and activities: |
Place the works in chronological order of their creation: |
One of the most important ideas of the Enlightenment era is … |
The concept of the «natural man» implies that … |
John Milton was educated at … |
From childhood, John Milton dreamed of becoming a… |
The heroes of Daniel Defoe’s novels are characterized by … |
Jonathan Swift makes the reader doubt everything described in «Gulliver’s Travels» by quoting… |
Robinson Crusoe spent … years on the island. |
The race of intelligent horses among whom Gulliver found himself is called «…» |
The English writer whose novels laid the foundation for the modern European realistic novel is … |
Daniel Defoe wrote his first novel at the age of … |
The city where Jonathan Swift was born is … |
Jonathan Swift’s early literary pamphlet is called «…» |
John Milton’s epic poem «…» written in blank verse describes the story of the first man, Adam. |
Jonathan Swift was the editor of the magazine for the … party. |
Match the works with the ideas: |
Match the events in English history with the dates: |
Arrange the works in the chronological order of their creation: |
Arrange the lands in the sequence Gulliver visited them: |
Arrange John Milton’s pamphlets in the chronological order of their creation: |
Arrange Daniel Defoe’s novels in the chronological order of their publication: |
Sentimentalism as a literary movement belongs to the era of … |
A characteristic feature of Sentimentalism is … |
The life of George Gordon Byron ended in … |
The literary language of Sentimentalism was distinguished by … |
Fundamental to Romanticism is the vision of a discrepancy between the ideal, which the Enlightenment aspired to, and… |
The romantic hero is revealed in a struggle against … |
Romanticism is characterized by … |
It is incorrect that Edmund Burke identified such a category of the sublime as … |
The most popular genres in the works of the Lake Poets can be considered … (specify 2 answer options) |
Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Southey united in the … School. |
The beginning of English Romanticism is considered to be the appearance in 1798 of the collection «…» by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. |
The city where George Gordon Byron was born is … |
The love for free-thinking was instilled in Byron by his friend – … |
“….. and Scotch Reviewers” is a poetic satire written by Byron in response to criticism of his collection «Hours of Idleness.» |
Sentimentalism gets its name from Lawrence Stern’s work «… Through France and Italy” |
Romanticism is a reaction to the crisis of the ideas of the … era. |
Match the periods of Byron’s work with the works: |
Match the literary movements with some of their characteristic features: |
Establish the chronological sequence of the stages of Byron’s work: |
Arrange the periods in literary history in chronological order: |
The originality of the narrative concept of “Vanity Fair” lies in the fact that … |
Critics divide Thackeray’s work into specific stages; there are … |
It is incorrect that … is a character in one of Charles Dickens’s works |
The following stages are distinguished in Charles Dickens’s work: … |
«Evidently, the fair authoresses have never spoken to tradesmen except from a carriage window; they represent the working class exclusively as ‘dependents’; they consider five hundred pounds a year to be miserable pittance,» writes George Eliot in her work… |
One of the 53 chapters of the novel … tells of Mr. Fang, a police magistrate, and his method of dispensing justice. |
William Thackeray’s “The History of Henry Esmond” is written in the genre of … |
George Eliot’s best novel is considered to be … |
One of the factors that influenced the emergence of realism was the … revolution, which began in 1750. |
The English government abolished any social benefits for the needy after the «…» was passed in 1834. |
Critical realism in English literature replaced such a literary movement as … |
A genre especially popular with the middle class in the 19th century was the … |
The most prominent representatives of critical realism in England were Charles Dickens and … |
The author of the story «The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend Amos Barton» is … |
The popular crime novels of the 1820s-40s, which William Thackeray criticized, were the … novels. |
The surname of the English publicist of the second quarter of the 19th century to whom Charles Dickens dedicated “Hard Times” is … |
Match the characters with the works in which they appear: |
Match the writers with their statements: |
Establish the chronological sequence of events in the life of Mary Ann Evans: |
Arrange the works of Charles Dickens in the chronological order of their writing: |
The theatrical and dramatic activities of … are closely associated with the London Independent Theatre. |
The development of the genre of the youth adventure novel began with the work by… |
In Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel «Treasure Island,» the cabin boy on the Hispaniola was named … |
It is incorrect that in English literature of the late 19th — early 20th centuries, there existed such a movement as … |
John Galsworthy received the Nobel Prize in Literature in … |
Bernard Shaw’s first satirical plays on topical issues were published under the general title «…» |
It is incorrect that … is a representative of English naturalism. |
John Sinjohn is the pseudonym of … |
Naturalist writers were strongly influenced by the evolutionary theory of … |
The original trilogy «The Forsyte Saga» included the novels «The Man of Property,» «In Chancery,» and «…» |
The pirate in «Treasure Island,» whose prototype was William Henley, a friend of Robert Louis Stevenson, is … |
English naturalism developed under the strong influence of French writers: the Goncourt brothers and Émile … |
The country where the doctrine of «art for art’s sake» originated is … |
Sympathy for colonialism and the glorification of service to the British Empire are characteristic features of «the literature of …» |
«Vice & virtue are to the artist materials for an art» is one of the postulates preceding the narrative in the novel «…» |
Despite the presence of some features of naturalism in his early plays, critics classify Bernard Shaw as a representative of … |
Match the quotes with the works in which they appear: |
Match the events with the years in which they occurred: |
Establish the sequence of publication for the novels in the «The Forsyte Saga» cycle: |
Establish the sequence of the first publication of Bernard Shaw’s plays: |
The action of James Joyce’s novel «Ulysses» takes place over the course of … |
The founder of bourgeois feminist literary criticism is considered to be … |
In his most famous novel, James Joyce immortalized the date … |
Virginia Woolf’s satirical novel, which begins in the Elizabethan era and ends in the 20th century, is called … |
The «stream of consciousness» method is used as a technique of artistic depiction in the work of … (specify 2 answers) |
The following events were of decisive importance for the development of English literature in the 20th century: … (specify 2 answers) |
In James Joyce’s novel «Ulysses,» the writer’s alter ego is represented by the character … |
The novel that ends with the words «and yes I said yes I will Yes» is … |
The modernist movement, whose name is derived from the English word «vortex,» is … |
The author of the article «The Novels of Dorothy Richardson,» published in the magazine «The Egoist» in 1918, is … |
The term «…» was used for the first time in literary criticism in the article «The Novels of Dorothy Richardson.» |
The city that features in James Joyce’s collection of psychologically nuanced short stories is … |
«The Dead» is the final story in James Joyce’s collection «…» |
«Medical student, oarsman, tenor, amateur actor, shouting politician, small landlord, small investor, drinker, good fellow, storyteller, somebody’s secretary, something in a distillery, tax collector, bankrupt, and at present a praiser of his own past» – this description of a character in the novel «A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man» fully corresponds to James Joyce’s description of … |
Representatives of «High Modernism» included authors such as Joyce, Eliot, Yeats, Lawrence, and … |
The hero of T.S. Eliot’s «The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock» says of himself:<br/>»No! I am not …, nor was meant to be;<br/>Am an attendant lord, one that will do<br/>To swell a progress, start a scene or two,<br/>Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool» |
Establish the chronological sequence of James Joyce’s residence in the following cities: |
Establish the chronological sequence of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s works: |
Match the female characters with the works in which they appear: |
Match the writers with facts from their lives: |
The «Angry Young Men» group included … (choose 4 options) |
George Orwell’s work «1984» is considered by critics to be in the genre of … |
It is incorrect that … is a representative of the Theatre of the Absurd in Great Britain |
In 1950, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Englishman … |
William Golding was awarded the Booker Prize for the novel … |
It is incorrect that the work … is written in the genre of the campus novel |
In 1981, Graham Greene was awarded the … Prize, which is given to a writer, thinker, or scholar whose work and activities contribute to the assertion of individual freedom in society. |
The events of Graham Greene’s novel “The Quiet American” take place … |
The novels in William Golding’s «To the Ends of the Earth: A Sea Trilogy» are “Close Quarters”(1987), “Fire Down Below” (1989), and «…» (1980). |
The playwright Samuel Beckett is an outstanding representative of the theatre of … |
Graham Greene’s work “Brighton Rock” belongs to the genre of the … novel. |
The surname of the author, whose novel “Lucky Jim” is considered the first campus novel, is … |
The novel “Lord of the Flies” was written in the year … |
The creators of the theatre of … were inspired by the philosophy of existentialism. |
The embodiment of the irrational principle in the novel “Lord of the Flies” is … |
Graham Greene’s personal impressions from his activities during the Second World War became the basis for the novel «…» |
Match the British writers with the years they were awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature: |
Match the works with the characters: |
Arrange William Golding’s works according to the chronology of their creation: |
Establish the chronology of events in accordance with the sequence of their narration in Graham Greene’s novel “The Quiet American”: |
The main literary movement in the United States in the 19th century was… |
The main character in Edgar Allan Poe’s detective stories is called… |
The novel by Mark Twain, which Ernest Hemingway called the source of “all modern American literature,” is … |
In 1853, Mark Twain embarked on a three-year journey during which he worked as … |
In 1856, Mark Twain embarked on a journey during which he worked as … |
Mark Twain’s semi-autobiographical work describing the travels of the Clemens brothers is called … |
Mark Twain’s later writings are characterized by … (select 2 answers) |
The American Revolution began in … |
The Civil War in the United States ended in … |
The dawn of American literature dates back to the … century. |
The first part of Edgar Allan Poe’s trilogy of ‘logical stories’ is the story ‘…’. |
In 1876, Mark Twain began writing the novel ‘…’, as a sequel to one of his earlier novels. |
The border beyond which the uncharted territory of the United States began is called … |
Mark Twain’s home state is … |
Mark Twain began his career as a … |
The social movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries for the abolition of slavery and the liberation of slaves is … |
Match the writers with the years of their lives: |
Match the stages of Edgar Poe’s literary career with the chronological periods: |
Put the following works by Edgar Poe in chronological order of publication: |
Put Mark Twain’s works in chronological order of publication: |
‘Dirt diggers’ are … |
During the last decades of his life, J. D. Salinger … |
In the title of the novel … Ernest Hemingway used the words of the English poet John Donne |
It is incorrect that the novel … is part of Theodore Dreiser’s ‘Trilogy of Desire’ |
The first work that brought Salinger fame was … |
Postmodernism originally emerged in … |
Theodore Dreiser’s “An American Tragedy” was written in the genre of … |
According to Yasen Zasursky, America owes the acceleration of the literary process to … |
Jerome Salinger wrote … |
The expression ‘lost generation’ was first used by the American writer … |
The corruption of American justice in Theodore Dreiser’s novel “An American Tragedy” is personified by the characters of investigator Fred Hite and prosecutor Orville … |
‘Only seven thousand soldiers died of cholera,’ according to Ernest Hemingway’s novel … |
The surname of the US president who first used the term ‘mud-slingers’ is … |
It is believed that the American poet Carl … influenced the work of Vladimir Mayakovsky. |
The surname of the first American Nobel Prize winner in literature is … |
Ernest Hemingway called his literary style ‘the principle of …’ |
Match the American writers with the places that played an important role in their biographies: |
Match the American writers with their works: |
Arrange Jerome Salinger’s works in chronological order of publication: |
Arrange Theodore Dreiser’s novels in chronological order of publication: |
