Страноведческие тесты. Great Britain. Literature

Great Britain. Literature

1.        What Germanic folk epic is the earliest work of literature in English?

2.        What king is called the “Father of English Prose”?

3.        Who is the most popular hero of the English ballads?

4.        Who is the first English humanist of the Renaissance?

5.        Who is the father of English poetry?

6.        What is the first of Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

7.        Who was the greatest satirist of the age of Enlightenment?

8.        What is the masterpiece of William Makepeace Thackeray?

9.        Who is called by the British people “Our National Bard”, “The Bard of Avon”?

10.    Who is the main hero of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book”?

11.    Who is considered the national poet of Scotland?

12.    What are the principal characters of Bernard Shaw’s play “Pygmalion”?

13.    What book did Herbert Wells choose to send to Leo Tolstoy?

14.    Who is the author of “Hamlet”?

(The answers to questions)

 Great Britain. Literature

1.        “Beowulf”.

2.        Alfred the Great.

3.        Robin Hood.

4.        Thomas More.

5.        Geoffrey Chaucer.

6.        “Romeo and Juliet”.

7.        Jonathan Swift.

8.        “Vanity Fair”.

9.        William Shakespeare.

10.    Mowgli.

11.    Robert Burns.

12.    Eliza Doolittle and Henry Higgins.

13.    “The War of the Worlds”.

14.    William Shakespeare.