Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
How many children did Shakespeare have?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 12
b. 3 ..
c. 8
d. 5

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in
the 18th century.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. The Enlightenment ..
b. The Chartist Movement
c. The Religious Reformation
d. The Renaissance

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
William Shakespeare is not the author of:
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Hamlet
b. Taming of the Shrew
c. Titus Andronicus
d. White Devil ..


When did Daniel Defoe die?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 5 January 1740
b. 26 April 1731 ..
c. 7 December 1725

d. 12 September 1748
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Thomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Greek
b. Latin ..
c. French
d. English
. Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
How are Polonius and Laertes related?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Brother/brother
b. Father/son ..
c. Cousin/cousin
d. Uncle/nephew
Why was Daniel Defoe arrested in May 1703?


Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way of Dissenters ..
b. Piracy
c. Not paying debts
d. Translating Bible in English
When was Jonathan Swift born?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 3 June 1663
b. 14 April 1656
c. 11 January 1660
d. 30 November 1667 ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence

Wlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Taming of the Shrew
b. White Devil ..
c. Titus Andronicus
d. Hamlet
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
What is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Vice of Kings
b. Slings and Arrows


c. The Slaying of Lucianus
d. The Murder of Gonzago ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth
century?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Jungle Books
b. Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh
c. The Way of All Flesh
d. Eminent Victorians
e. Philistine Victorians
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Agatha Christie
b. H Ryder-Haggard
c. Arthur Conan Doyle ..

d. P D James
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
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?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Art for the masses


b. Art for intellect's sake
c. Art for God's sake
d. Art for art's sake
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Where was Oscar Wilde born?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Glasgow
b. London
c. Dublin ..
d. Cork
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between Fowler, Pyle,
and Phuong in The Quiet American?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Love triangle
b. Enemies
c. Good friends
d. Colleagues
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
What is the title of Wilde's only novel?
Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The Picture of Declan Gray
b. The Picture of Dominic Gray


c. The Picture of Dorian Gray ..
d. The Picture of Damien Gray
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
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
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Victoria ..
b. Waterloo
c. Euston
d. Paddington

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around
nature?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. William Morris
b. William Blake
c. William Wordsworth ..
d. William Shakespeare
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Sandition ..


b. Sense and Sensibility

c. Mansfield Park
d. Persuasion
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great
Expectations”?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Documentary method
b. Stream of Consciousness technique
c. Direct or epic method ..
d. Autobiographical method
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Sonnet
b. Lyrical poem ..
c. Romance in prose
d. Lyrical prose
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
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Gray and Young
b. Blake and Burns ..


c. Pope and Goldsmith
d. Johnson and Blake
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
A Red, Red Rose is a______
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Lyric ..

b. Satirical poem
c. Epic
d. Ode
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Vanity Fair is a novel by?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Charles Dickens
b. W. M. Thackeray ..
c. Thomas Hardy
d. Jane Austen

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. ‘False Impressions’
b. ‘First Impressions’ ..


c. ‘True Impressions’
d. ‘Last Impressions’
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
How does Queen Gertrude die?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Drowns in the river outside the castle.
b. Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup. ..
c. Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.
d. Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of
the Norman Conquest in 1066?

Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Spanish
b. Norwegian
c. French ..
d. Hungarian
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Hamlet
b. Othello
c. Macbeth


d. Titus Andronicus
e. None of the above ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Horatio
b. Polonius ..
c. Leartus
d. Forinbras
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Dutch ..
b. Celtic
c. French
d. Latin
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence

The main literary stream of the 18th century was ______.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Sentimentalism
b. Neo-classicism
c. Romanticism


d. Naturalism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Brazil
b. Canada
c. Honduras
d. Mexico
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which story by O. Henry deals with kidnappers who find the kidnapped boy a
nuisance and want to return him with money?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. The Ransom of Red Chief
b. The Cop and the Anthem
c. Christmas by Injunction
d. The Duplicity of Hargraves
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Where did O. Henry die?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Philadelphia
b. New York



c. Austin
d. London
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
When was O. Henry born?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 14 April 1865
b. 2 January 1870
c. 3 June 1868
d. 11 September 1862
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Gold chain
b. Combs
c. Diamond ring
d. Silver bracelet
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
He married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 17, 1581
b. 15, 1579
c. 18, 1582 ..
d. 16, 1580


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,"
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Rosalind
b. Juliet ..
c. Hero
d. Desdemona
. Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
How are Polonius and Laertes related?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Father/son ..
b. Cousin/cousin
c. Brother/brother
d. Uncle/nephew
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
In the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Chaucer ..
b. Wyclif
c. Gower
d. Langland


Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
b. Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth ..
c. Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
d. Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence

What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Or, What you Like It
b. Or, What you Think
c. Or, What you Will ..
d. Or, What is you Will
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
William Shakespeare born in:
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 26 April 1566
b. 26 April 1565
c. 26 April 1564 ..
d. 26 April 1567
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence


Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Oliver Twist
b. Wuthering Heights
c. Middlemarch
d. Vanity Fair ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Paganism
b. Buddhism
c. Protestantism
d. Catholicism ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence

Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since
the abolition of censorship in 1968?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
b. The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
c. 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
d. The death of the musical
e. The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos


Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
b. ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
c. First National Bank, Austin
d. First American Bank, Washington
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
What was O. Henry’s real name?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Henry Ford
b. Arthur Kent
c. William Sidney Porter
d. Clark Cable

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which humourous weekly was started by O. Henry?
Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. The Rolling Stone
b. Eve’s Weekly
c. The Tablet
d. Shankar’s Weekly
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence


Which story by O. Henry deals with sacrifices husband and wife make for buying
Christmas presents for each other?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. The Gentle Grafter
b. Heart of the West
c. Let me feel your pulse
d. The Gift of the Magi
Questions on literary terms
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Alliteration
b. Personification
c. Onomatopoeia
d. Hyperboles
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around
450?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. The Anglo-Saxons ..
b. The Geats
c. The Normans
d. The Celts
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence



In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Latin
b. English
c. French
d. Middle English ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Anthony and Cleopatra
b. Romeo and Juliet
c. Othello ..
d. Julius Caesar
What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Foe ..
b. Neighbour
c. Good
d. Friend
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Bingley


b. Wickham
c. Mr. Bennet
d. Darcy ..

Questions on literary terms
What is a sonnet?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. A poem of twelve lines
b. A poem of six lines
c. A poem of eight lines
d. A poem of fourteen lines
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Alfred the Great
b. Julius Caesar
c. Claudius
d. William the conqueror ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Act III, Scene III
b. Act IV, Scene III


c. Act II, Scene I
d. Act III, Scene I ..
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Hamlet is?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. An over ambitious man
b. A man of action
c. An intellectual
d. A passionate lover ..

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
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'
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Romeo and Juliet ..
b.
c. Hamlet
d. Othello
e. A Midsummer Night's Dream
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
"To be or not to be that is the question", is famous line of which of Shakespeare's
plays?
Chọn một câu trả lời:


a. Othello
b. Hamlet ..
c. King Lear
d. Macbeth
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Geoffrey Chaucer ..
b. King Richard II
c. Dick Whittington
d. Thomas Lancaster
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are
Scandinavian.
Chọn một câu trả lời:

a. . Idea
b. Belief
c. Characters ..
d. God
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 36


b. 38
c. 37 ..
d. 39
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare?
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. Two Gentlemen from Verona
b. As you like it
c. The Tempest ..
d. Henry V
Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
William Shakespeare was born in the year:
Chọn một câu trả lời:
a. 1578
b. 1564 ..
c. 1582
d. 1544