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Lecture 1: English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the 18th century

Hamlet is?

a A passionate lover Câu trả lời đúng

b An over ambitious man

c An intellectual

d A man of action

In the 14th century, the most important writer is .

a Langland

b Chaucer   Câu trả lời đúng

c Gower

d Wyclif

When was Jonathan Swift born?

a 11 January 1660

b 14 April 1656

d 3 June 1663

Which of the following books was written by Jonathan Swift?

a) Gulliver’s Travels   Câu trả lời đúng

Where was Jonathan Swift born?

b) Dublin

Which school did Jonathan Swift attend?

b) Kilkenny Grammar School

Which college did Jonathan Swift attend?

d) Trinity College

What is the height of men in Lilliput?

c) Six inches

Which is the land of Yahoos?

a) Houyhnhnms

To which church did Jonathan Swift belong?

c) Church of Ireland

Of which cathedral was Jonathan Swift dean?

b) St Patrick’s Cathedral

When did Jonathan Swift die?

a) 19 October 1745

How does Queen Gertrude die?

a Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes

c Drowns in the river outside the castle

d Accidentally stabbed by Laertes

Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

a French

b Dutch   Câu trả lời đúng

c Celtic

d Latin

In what century was William Shakespeare active as a playwright?

A) 15th century

B) 16th century

C) 17th century

D) B and C   Câu trả lời đúng

The dates of Shakespeare’s life put him firmly in the middle of which musical period?

A) Medieval

C) Baroque

D) Classical

In addition to writing plays, William Shakespeare was also:

A) A poet who wrote over 150 sonnets

B) An actor who performed for royalty

C) A successful businessman

D) A and B

E) A, B and C Câu trả lời đúng

How many plays do we know that Shakespeare wrote?

A) 11

B) 26

C) 32 Câu trả lời đúng

D) 37

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, Shakespeare was the first to introduce over 3,000 words and expressions to the English

language… words that we still use today Which of these words do you think that Shakespeare did NOT coin?

A) Eyeball

B) Zany

C) Joyous   Câu trả lời đúng

D) Scuffle

E) Birthplace

What kinds of characters generally sing in Shakespeare’s plays?

A) Kings and queens

B) Servants, clowns, fools and other minor characters with low

status Câu trả lời đúng

C) Fairies

D) Noblemen

When a major character in a Shakespeare play sings, it is most likely because:

B) They are in love

C) They are entertaining friends or guests

D) They are speaking their innermost thoughts

The music performed during Shakespeare’s plays was meant to:

A) Create a mood or atmosphere

B) Establish the mental or emotional state of characters

C) Provide an interlude between acts

D) A part of a silly comedy act performed at the end of tragic plays

E) All of the above   Câu trả lời đúng

In Elizabethan England, people believed that this instrument could improve people’s emotional state by turning sadness into art:

A) Oboes

B) Trumpets

C) Viols (an earlier version of the violin) Câu trả lời đúng

How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

a 37   Câu trả lời đúng

b 38

c 36

d 39

From which of Shakespeare’s plays is this famous line: ‘Did my heart love til now?/ Forswear it, sight/ For I never saw a true beauty until this night’

a Hamlet

b

c Othello

d Romeo and Juliet   Câu trả lời đúng

e A Midsummer Night’s Dream

In 1066, _ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.

a Julius Caesar

c Alfred the Great

d Claudius

How many children did Shakespeare have?

a 8

b 12

c 3   Câu trả lời đúng

d 5

What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?

a Slings and Arrows

b Vice of Kings

d The Slaying of Lucianus

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence

Which character spoke following lines?”What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,Nor arm nor face, nor any other partBelonging to a man, O be some other name!What’s in a name?That which we call a roseBy any other word would smell as sweet,”

a Desdemona

b Juliet   Câu trả lời đúng

c Hero

d Rosalind

What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?

a Or, What you Will   Câu trả lời đúng

b Or, What you Think

c Or, What is you Will

d Or, What you Like It

Thomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _

a Latin   Câu trả lời đúng

b French

c Greek

d English

William Shakespeare born in:

a 26 April 1564   Câu trả lời đúng

b 26 April 1566

c 26 April 1567

d 26 April 1565

William Shakespeare was born in the year:

a 1564 Câu trả lời đúng

b 1578

c 1544

d 1582

Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _ are Scandinavian.

a Belief

b Idea

c God

d Characters   Câu trả lời đúng

William Shakespeare is not the author of:

a Hamlet

b White Devil Câu trả lời đúng

c Titus Andronicus

d Taming of the Shrew

“To be or not to be that is the question”, is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays?

a King Lear

b Macbeth

c Othello

d Hamlet   Câu trả lời đúng

Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

a King Richard II

b Thomas Lancaster

c Dick Whittington

Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?

a The Celts

c The Geats

d The Normans

In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?

a French

b English

c Latin

d Middle English   Câu trả lời đúng

Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?

a French   Câu trả lời đúng

b Spanish

c Norwegian

d Hungarian

was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.

a The Religious Reformation

b The Renaissance

c The Chartist Movement

Was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?

a Leartus

b Forinbras

c Horatio

d Polonius Câu trả lời đúng

How are Polonius and Laertes related?

a Brother/brother

b Father/son Câu trả lời đúng

c Uncle/nephew

d Cousin/cousin

Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?

a Act III, Scene III

b Act II, Scene I

c Act IV, Scene III

d Act III, Scene I   Câu trả lời đúng

_ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.

a Anthony and Cleopatra

b Romeo and Juliet

c Julius Caesar

d Othello   Câu trả lời đúng

Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare?

a Two Gentlemen from Verona

c Henry V

d As you like it

He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of _ in .

a 16, 1580

b 17, 1581

c 18, 1582

d 15, 1579

Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?

a Macbeth

b Hamlet

c None of the above

d Titus Andronicus

e Othello

When was Daniel Defoe born?

September 13, 1660

When did Daniel Defoe die?

a 26 April 1731   Câu trả lời đúng

b 7 December 1725

c 5 January 1740

d 12 September 1748

What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?

a Foe Câu trả lời đúng

b Good

c Neigbour

d Friend

Who get Daniel Defoe released?

a Robert Harley   Câu trả lời đúng

b Oliver Cromwell

c James Robert Oaklay

d Alexander Selkirk

Which poem written y Daniel Defoe made him popular with William III?

b Moll Flanders

c Hymn to the Pillory

d Captain Jack

In Which rebellion was Daniel Defoe involved?

b Boxer

c Cioux

d Mapla

Which of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe?

b Gulliver’s Travels

c Odyssey

d Either Or

Why was Daniel Defoe arrested in May 1703?

a Writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way of Dissenters   Câu trả lời đúng

b Not paying debts

c Piracy

d Translating Bible in English

Who or what were Eye Witness, Andrew Morton, T Tayor and

Merchant?

b Friends od Daniel Defoe

c Colleagues of Daniel Defoe

d Enemies of Daniel Defoe

 Bài 2: The 19th century English Literature

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romantic poets They are

a Johnson and Blake

c Pope and Goldsmith

d Gray and Young

In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?

a Wickham

b Bingley

c Darcy Câu trả lời đúng

d Mr Bennet

Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

a Vanity Fair   Câu trả lời đúng

b Oliver Twist

c Wuthering Heights

d Middlemarch

A Red, Red Rose is a .

a Epic

b Lyric   Câu trả lời đúng

c Satirical poem

d Ode

Vanity Fair is a novel by?

a Charles Dickens

c Jane Austen

d Thomas Hardy

Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

a Sense and Sensibility

b Sandition Câu trả lời đúng

c Mansfield Park

d Persuasion

Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?

a ‘False Impressions’

b ‘Last Impressions’

c ‘True Impressions’

d ‘First Impressions’ Câu trả lời đúng

Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

a William Shakespeare

c William Blake

d William Morris

Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?

a Stream of Consciousness technique

b Documentary method

c Direct or epic method   Câu trả lời đúng

d Autobiographical method

 Bài 3: The 20th century English Literature

Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

a Protestantism

b Buddhism

c Catholicism   Câu trả lời đúng

d Paganism

Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between Fowler, Pyle, and Phuong in The Quiet American?

a Love triangle   Câu trả lời đúng

b Colleagues

c Enemies

d Good friends

Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968?

a The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos, The emergence

of a major cohort of women dramatists, The diversifying impact of

b The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

c The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies

d The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists

e The death of the musical

Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?

a The Way of All Flesh

b Eminent Victorians

c Philistine Victorians

d Jungle Books

Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?

b William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

c Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

d Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte

Jack Worthing, the central character in The Importance of Being Earnest, is found as a baby in a handbag in the cloakroom of which railway station

a Victoria Câu trả lời đúng

b Paddington

c Waterloo

d Euston

Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?”

a P D James

b H Ryder-Haggard

c Agatha Christie

Which of the following phrases best characterizes the

late-nineteenth century aesthetic movement which widened the breach between artists and the reading public, sowing the seeds of

modernism?

a Art for art’s sake Câu trả lời đúng

b Art for God’s sake

c Art for the masses

d Art for intellect’s sake

Where was Oscar Wilde born?

a Cork

b Dublin Câu trả lời đúng

c Glasgow

d London

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What is the title of Wilde’s only novel?

a The Picture of Declan Gray

c The Picture of Deominic Gray

d The Picture of Damien Gray

 Ôn tập: Bài 1 đến Bài 3

• Bài kiểm tra trắc nghiệm 01

Vanity Fair is a novel by?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

b Charles Dickens

c Jane Austen

d Thomas Hardy

I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a .

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a Romance in prose

b Lyrical poem   Câu trả lời đúng

c Sonnet

d Lyrical prose

The main literary stream of the 18th century was .

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a Romanticism

b Neo-classicism

c Sentimentalism

d Naturalism

 Bài 4: American Literature

What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

a Personification

b Hyperboles

c Alliteration

Where did O Henry flee to avoid trial?

a Canada

b Brazil

c Honduras   Câu trả lời đúng

Which humourous weekly was started by O Henry?

a Shankar’s Weekly

b Eve’s Weekly

c The Rolling Stone Câu trả lời đúng

How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi?

a 80

b 60

c 20 Câu trả lời đúng

Where did O Henry work as a teller?

a ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta

b First American Bank, Washington

c Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

d First National Bank, Austin   Câu trả lời đúng

What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?

a Silver bracelet

b Combs

c Diamond ring

d Gold chain

Where did O Henry die?

a London

b New York   Câu trả lời đúng

c Philadelphia

d Austin

Which story by O Henry deals with sacrifices husband and wife make for buying Christmas presents for each other?

a The Gift of the Magi   Câu trả lời đúng

b The Gentle Grafter

c Let me feel your pulse

d Heart of the West

Which story by O Henry deals with kidnappers who find the

kidnapped boy a nuisance and want to return him with money?

a The Cop and the Anthem

b Christmas by Injunction

c The Duplicity of Hargraves

a Arthur Kent

b William Sidney Porter Câu trả lời đúng

c Henry Ford

d Clark Cable

When was O Henry born?

Chọn một câu trả lời:

a 3 June 1868

b 14 April 1865

c 2 January 1870

Questions on literary terms

What is a sonnet?

a A poem of six lines

b A poem of eight lines

d A poem of twelve lines

Where did O Henry work as a teller?

a Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

b First National Bank, Austin   Câu trả lời đúng

c First American Bank, Washington

d ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta