30 CÂU HỎI
Hamlet’s famous speech “To be, or not to be; that is the question” occurs in?
A. Act III, Scene I
B. Act III, Scene III
C. Act IV, Scene III
D. Act II, Scene I
William Shakespeare is not the author of:
A. Hamlet
B. Taming of the Shrew
C. White Devil
D. Titus Andronicus
Which character spoke the following lines?
“What’s Montague? It is nor hand nor foot,
Nor arm nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O be some other name!
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other word would smell as sweet.”
A. Desdemona
B. Hero
C. Rosalind
D. Juliet
What is the name of the play that Hamlet stages for Claudius?
A. Slings and Arrows
B. The Slaying of Lucianus
C. Vice of Kings
D. The Murder of Gonzago
“To be or not to be that is the question” is a famous line from which of Shakespeare’s plays?
A. King Lear
B. Hamlet
C. Macbeth
D. Othello
Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare?
A. Henry V
B. As You Like It
C. The Tempest
D. Two Gentlemen from Verona
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
A. Dick Whittington
B. Thomas Lancaster
C. King Richard II
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
A. 1582
B. 1564
C. 1544
D. 1578
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
A. The Celts
B. The Anglo-Saxons
C. The Normans
D. The Geats
Who was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
A. Fortinbras
B. Horatio
C. Laertes
D. Polonius
How are Polonius and Laertes related?
A. Brother/brother
B. Father/son
C. Cousin/cousin
D. Uncle/nephew
William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway at the age of ____ in ____?
A. 18, 1582
B. 15, 1579
C. 17, 1581
D. 16, 1580
____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
A. Julius Caesar
B. Antony and Cleopatra
C. Othello
D. Romeo and Juliet
How many children did Shakespeare have?
A. 8
B. 5
C. 12
D. 3
When did Daniel Defoe die?
A. 5 January 1740
B. 7 December 1725
C. 26 April 1731
D. 12 September 1748
Words from which language began to enter the English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
A. Norwegian
B. Spanish
C. Hungarian
D. French
Though Beowulf was introduced by the Angles, the events and ____ are Scandinavian.
A. God
B. Characters
C. Belief
D. Idea
Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
A. Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh
B. Eminent Victorians
C. Jungle Books
D. Philistine Victorians
E. The Way of All Flesh
Vanity Fair is a novel by?
A. W. M. Thackeray
B. Charles Dickens
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Jane Austen
Who got Daniel Defoe released?
A. Oliver Cromwell
B. Robert Harley
C. James Robert Oaklay
D. Alexander Selkirk
Which of the following novels has the subtitle “A Novel Without a Hero”?
A. Vanity Fair
B. Oliver Twist
C. Middlemarch
D. Wuthering Heights
Which of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe?
A. Odyssey
B. Robinson Crusoe
C. Either Or
D. Gulliver’s Travels
What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
A. Neighbour
B. Foe
C. Friend
D. Good
Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?
A. Direct or epic method
B. Stream of Consciousness technique
C. Autobiographical method
D. Documentary method
A Red, Red Rose is a:
A. Lyric
B. Satirical poem
C. Ode
D. Epic
Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
A. Paganism
B. Buddhism
C. Protestantism
D. Catholicism
In which rebellion was Daniel Defoe involved?
A. Sioux
B. Mapla
C. Boxer
D. Monmouth
Where was Oscar Wilde born?
A. Cork
B. Glasgow
C. Dublin
D. London
Which poem written by Daniel Defoe made him popular with William III?
A. The True Born Englishman
B. Moll Flanders
C. Captain Jack
D. Hymn to the Pillory
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 playwrights from the former colonies
B. The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
C. The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
D. The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies