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ENGLISH UTERATURE SEMSTER TEST I I: Choose the right answer.

1.    Which of the following is not a charactenstic of the language of Anglo-Saxon poetry:

a) alliteration b) kennings c) caesura (a break or pause in a linę of verse)

|0) rhyme

2.    Which poem portrays Christ as an aggressive warrior who boldly confronts and defeats sin?

a) 'The Wanderer"    b) Beowulf

<6) The Dream of the Rood" d) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

3.    The form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales bears closest resemblance to which of the following works?

^Boccaccio's Decameron b)Roman de ła Rosa c)Beowulf d)Dante's The

Divine Comedy

4.    Which of the following works was written in the language most similar to the contemporary English?

a) Beowulf (b^The Canterbury Tales c)Sir Gawain and the Green Knight d)TheWanderer"

5.    Which of the following dramatic genres emerged out of the Catholic liturgy (Holy Mass)?

0 mystery play ^ morality play c) miracle play d) tragedy

6.    What is the name for the last part of the English sonnet?

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couplet    b) tercet c) ąuatrain d) sestet

Who was the first English sonneteer ?

Wyatt    b) Shakespeare    c) Sidney

d) Ronsard

8.    Which of the following is not true about Elizabethan theatre:

a) female parts were acted by young boys (women could not be actors)

(łj) the classical principle of the three unities was observed (time, space and action)

c)    the stage was surrounded from three sides by the audience, who took an active part in the performance

d)    the stage was almost bare (very simple scenery. no special props)

9.    The plot of Macbeth is based on:

0 Holinshed's Chronicles b) Ovid‘s Metamorphoses

c) Plutarchs Lives    d) Shakespeare invented it himself

10. By Shakespearean scholars Romeo and Julier is classified as:

{0) tragedy b) comedy c) history or chronicie play d) romance

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