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. Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow are Polonius and Laertes related?
Brother/brother
Cousin/cousin
Father/son
Uncle/nephew

...............................................of the Renaissance was Humanism. Human life, the happiness of people and the belief in man's abilities became the main subjects in fine arts and literature.
The constant ideology
The continuing ideology
The progressive ideology
The advanced ideology

_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Anthony and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar

________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The Chartist Movement
The Religious Reformation

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

19th century American romanticism American literature began its history in the colonial Revolutionary period ...............................................................in America that frequently display the characteristics of the Elizabethan literary style in England.
With accounts of discovering and explorations
With accounts of discoveries and explorations
With accounts of discoveries and exploring
With accounts of discoveries and explorers

A Red, Red Rose is a______.
Lyric
Satirical poem
Epic
Ode

According to Engels, the renaissance was the greatest progressive revolution that ..........................., a time which called for giants and produced giants-giants in power of thought, passion and character, in universality and learning.
Mankind had so hot experienced
Mankind had so far experienced
Mankind had so excitingly experienced
Mankind had so long experienced

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?
Joyous
Eyeball
Zany
Birthplace
Scuffle

Against all odds, the bare-footed Americans, under the leadership of their talented leader, Gen. George Washington, won the Revolutionary War. At the final battle, Yorktown, the British ..........................but retained a sense of humour.
Had losing all their fighting spirit
Had lose all their fighting spirit
Had lost all their fighting spirit
Had loss all their fighting spirit

Amerigo Vespucci found that Christopher ....................................; the new continent was not India. As a result, the new continent came to be called America after the name of its undoubted discoverer, America.
Had taken a mistake
Had done a mistake
Had made a mistake
Had seen a mistake

Among the social investigators who began to walk the slums were young women from .......................................................... The diaries they left give a complete picture of how the workers lived. Here are some of the notes.
Culture families
Culturing families
Cultural families
Cultured families

Back in the late 18th century, the British Empire included the so-called 13 original colonies in North America. The British bourgeoisie's unfavourable attitude to the economic development in the colonies caused to American War of Independence to break out.
The economical development
The economizing development
The economically development
The economic development

Britain's history is considered to begin ............................................, when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
In the 8th century
In the 5th century
In the 6th century
In the 7th century

But during the last decades of the 19th century doubts began to arise as to the faultless nature of European civilization. People ........ ................. that scientific progress was increasing the wealth of the upper classes only.
Had awakening to the fact
Had awake to the fact
Had awaken to the fact
Had awakened to the fact

Chaucer also worked out a new form of versification which replaced alliteration. ..................... metrical form. It was based on rhythmic arrangement of the accents, of the length of the verse, of stanzas.
This was called
This being called
This be called
This were called

Chaucer painted a vivid picture of English society, as it was in his day: each of .....................................................was given as an individual, typical of his country and his time.
His friends
His people
His individuals
His characters

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
Buddhism
Catholicism
Paganism
Protestantism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Hamlet is?
A man of action
A passionate lover
An intellectual
An over ambitious man

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.
Lyrical poem
Lyrical prose
Romance in prose
Sonnet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?
Bingley
Darcy
Mr. Bennet
Wickham

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
Blake and Burns
Gray and Young
Johnson and Blake
Pope and Goldsmith

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?
English
French
Latin
Middle English

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which town was Shakespeare born?
London
Cambridge
Stratford
Oxford

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
Euston
Paddington
Victoria
Waterloo

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?
‘False Impressions’
‘First Impressions’
‘Last Impressions’
‘True Impressions’

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Robinson Crusoe is a _________.
Historical novel
Satirical novel
Allegorical novel
Realistic novel

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What is the title of Wilde's only novel?
The Picture of Damien Gray
The Picture of Declan Gray
The Picture of Dominic Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
First American Bank, Washington
Chase Manhattan Bank,
ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
First National Bank, Austin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where was Oscar Wilde born?
Cork
Dublin
Glasgow
London

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?
Colleagues
Enemies
Good friends
Love triangle

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?
The death of the musical
The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
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

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?
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
The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists
The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos

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?
Art for art's sake
Art for God's sake
Art for intellect's sake
Art for the masses

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?
Art for art's sake
Art for intellect's sake
Art for god's sake
Art for the masses

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh
Jungle Books
Philistine Victorians
The Way of All Flesh

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Eminent Victorian, the Way of All Flesh
Eminent Victorians
Philistine Victorians
Jungle Books

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi?
20
40
60
80

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?
Combs
Diamond ring
Gold chain
Silver bracelet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What was O. Henry’s real name?
Arthur Kent
Clark Cable
Henry Ford
William Sidney Porter

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence When was O. Henry born?
11 September 1862
14 April 1865
2 January 1870
3 June 1868

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry die?
Austin
London
New York
Philadelphia

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?
Brazil
Canada
Honduras
Mexico

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
First American Bank, Washington
First National Bank, Austin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which humourous weekly was started by O. Henry?
Eve’s Weekly
Shankar’s Weekly
The Rolling Stone
The Tablet

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?
Christmas by Injunction
The Cop and the Anthem
The Duplicity of Hargraves
The Ransom of Red Chief

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?
Heart of the West
Let me feel your pulse
The Gentle Grafter
The Gift of the Magi

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?
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
Anthony and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar
Othello
Romeo and Juliet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.
The Chartist Movement
The Enlightenment
The Religious Reformation
The Renaissance

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceA Red, Red Rose is a______.
Epic
Lyric
Ode
Satirical poem

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceComplete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of...
Denmark
Venice
Maine
England

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceFrom 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 Midsummer Night's Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s attitude toward the horse can be described as______.
Disliking
All of the above
Praising
Criticizing

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s Travels is a ________.
Sentimental novel
Novel of stream of consciousness
Novel of satire and allegory
Gothic novel

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHamlet’s famous speech ‘To be or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Act III, Scene I
Act III, Scene III
Act IV, Scene III
Act II, Scene I

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Act II, Scene I
Act III, Scene I
Act III, Scene III
Act IV, Scene III

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHe married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_ in.
15, 1579
16, 1580
17, 1581
18, 1582

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow does Queen Gertrude die?
Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
Drowns in the river outside the castle.
Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.
Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many Acts are in William Shakespeare’s plays?
Six
Three
Five
Four

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many children did Shakespeare have?
12
3
5
8

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?
18
10
14
7

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many plays did William Shakespeare write?
36
37
38
39

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
154
187
175
110

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
Alfred the Great
Claudius
Julius Caesar
William the conqueror

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.
Chaucer
Gower
Langland
Wyclif

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceMacbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.
Tragicomedy
Historical play
Comedy
Tragedy

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceOf which cathedral was Jonathan Swift dean?
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
St. Albert’s Cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral
St. Paul’s Cathedral

Choose the best answer to complete each sentencePamela is a___________.
Novel of naturalism
Romance
Historical novel
Novel of epistles and psychology

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died at the age of
52
63
60
48

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died on?
30th April 1616
28th April 1616
25th April 1616
23rd April 1616

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1609
About 1610
About 1608
About 1611

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travel is ______.
Lilliput
Flying island
The kingdom of horses
Brobdingnag

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?
Macbeth
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's dream
Twelfth Night

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe main literary stream of the 18th century was ______.
Naturalism
Neo-classicism
Romanticism
Sentimentalism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ______.
Mystery play
Epic
Romance
Sonnet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______.
English
French
Greek
Latin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
. Idea
Belief
Characters
God

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
Belief
Characters
Idea
God

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceTo which church did Jonathan Swift belong?)
Roman Catholic Church
Church of
Church of Scotland
Church of England

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceToward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
Thirteenth
Eleventh
Fourteenth
Twelfth

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceUtopia was first printed in:
1516
1615
1518
1517

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceVanity Fair is a novel by?
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
W. M. Thackeray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWas killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
Forinbras
Horatio
Leartus
Polonius

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
Slings and Arrows
The Murder of Gonzago
The Slaying of Lucianus
Vice of Kings

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
Or, What is you Will
Or, What you Like It
Or, What you Think
Or, What you Will

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the title of Wilde’s only novel?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Damien Gray
The Picture of Deominic Gray
The Picture of Declan Gray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
Friend
Neighbour
Foe
Good

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat was Shakespeare's first play?
The Tempest
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
Henry VI

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhen did Daniel Defoe die?
12 September 1748
5 January 1740
26 April 1731
7 December 1725

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhen was Jonathan Swift born?
30 November 1667
11 January 1660
3 June 1663
14 April 1656

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhere was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?
London
Wittenberg
Dublin
Oslo

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhere was Jonathan Swift born?
Paris
London
Dublin
Belfast

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich 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,"
Desdemona
Hero
Juliet
Rosalind

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich character spoke 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 roseBy any other word would smell as sweet,”
Juliet
Desdemona
Rosalind
Hero

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich famous Shakespeare play does the quote "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers" come from?
King Henry the Sixth, Part II
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Othello, the Moor of Venice
The Merry Wives of Windsor

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich is the last play written by William Shakespeare?
As you like it
Henry V
The Tempest
Two Gentlemen from Verona

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?
Autobiographical method
Direct or epic method
Documentary method
Stream of Consciousness technique

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Celtic
Dutch
French
Latin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe?
Gulliver’s Travels
Either Or
Odyssey
Robinson Crusoe

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following books was written by Jonathan Swift?
Gulliver’s Travels
All Quiet on the Western Front
The old man and the sea
For whom the bell tolls

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?
Gertrude
Miranda
Polonius
Claudius

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
Mansfield Park
Persuasion
Sandition
Sense and Sensibility

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
Hamlet
Macbeth
None of the above
Othello
Titus Andronicus

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
Middlemarch
Oliver Twist
Vanity Fair
Wuthering Heights

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of these was not one of Shakespeare's plays?
Shakespeare in love
The Tempest
Titus Andronicus
Cymbeline

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
The Anglo-Saxons
The Celts
The Geats
The Normans

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich play has the characters Cordelia, Goneril and Regan?
Pericles
King Lear
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Cymbeline

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich river is associated with Shakespeare's birth place?
The Thames
The Avon
The Tyburn
The Seven

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWho is the Shrew in the play ?
Bianca
Cleopatra
Matilda
Katherine

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWho was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Blake
William Morris
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWho wrote Canterbury Tales?
Dick Whittington
Geoffrey Chaucer
King Richard II
Thomas Lancaster

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhy was Daniel Defoe arrested in May 1703?
Not paying debts
Writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way of Dissenters
Translating Bible in English
Piracy

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWilliam Shakespeare born in:
26 April 1564
26 April 1565
26 April 1566
26 April 1567

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWilliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
Titus Andronicus
White Devil

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWilliam Shakespeare was born in the year:
1544
1564
1578
1582

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew
Titus Andronicus
White Devil

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWords from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?
French
Hungarian
Norwegian
Spanish

Collectivism was a nice word to draw the attention of the masses .... ............................................... . The writer appealed to their 'pride of country', boasting that Britain was the richest country in the world and that every man would be sure of a good living if he and his fellow workers fought for the good of the Empire.
Away around class struggle
Away about class struggle
Away with class struggle
Away from class struggle

Daniel Defoe is the author of:
all above
An Essay on Projects
The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
Hymn to the Pillory

During the 18th century a few voices in the Western world were raised against slavery. England abolished the institution in 1773. During the American Revolution, many Americans came .............................because it was inconsistent with heir democratic ideals.
To opposing slavery
To oppose slavery
To opposed slavery
To opposite slavery

During the first five centuries of our era and long before that Britain was inhabited by a people called Kelts, who lived in ........................
Tribes
The suburbs
Cities
Houses

England went through the so-called Industrial revolution that gave birth to a new class, ...............................................
That of the proletariat.
Here of the proletariat.
There of the proletariat.
Then of the proletariat.

English humanism was both ...... ......................... It was directed against the ignorance and oppression of feudal, against the grabbing and self-interest character of the bourgeoisie.
Anti-feudal or anti-bourgeois.
Anti-feudal as anti-bourgeois.
Anti-feudal and anti-bourgeois.
Anti-feudal so anti-bourgeois.

English humanists dreamed of social changes that ..................... .....................................................and establish the equality of people.
Would do about with the vices of society
Would do for with the vices of society
Would do away with the vices of society
Would do against with the vices of society

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’
Romeo and Juliet
Othello
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Geoffrey Chaucer showed life as it was, as great artist and humanist he gave an equally masterly description of Good and Evil. The great writer believed in man and was optimistically .......................for the future.
Full of hope
Full for hope
Full with hope
Full about hope

Geoffrey Chaucer was .................... ................ He was born in London in the family of a wine merchant. From the age of 18 he was connected with the Court of the King of England.
The most great writer of the 14th century.
The best great writer of the 14th century.
The most greatest writer of the 14th century.
The greatest writer of the 14th century.

Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
Catholicism
Buddhism
Protestantism
Paganism

Hamlet is?
A passionate lover
A man of action
An intellectual
An over ambitious man

Hamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Act III, Scene I
Act IV, Scene III
Act II, Scene I
Act III, Scene III

Here a mother would stand with her baby of'sit with it on the stairs, or companions would huddle together in cold weather. Everywhere there was drunkenness, dirt and bad language. Gambling was the chief amusement of the young men, and fights in the streets were common, ending ............................even in murder.
At times
On times
For times
Under times

How are Polonius and Laertes related?
Father/son
Brother/brother
Uncle/nephew
Cousin/cousin

How does Queen Gertrude die?
Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet’s cup.
Drowns in the river outside the castle.
Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.

How many children did Shakespeare have?
3
12
5
8

How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi?
20
60
80

How many plays did William Shakespeare write?
37
39
38
36

How many plays do we know that Shakespeare wrote?
37
26
32
11

I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.
Lyrical poem
Sonnet
Romance in prose
Lyrical prose

In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
William the conqueror
Alfred the Great
Claudius
Julius Caesar

In addition to the problems that their European contemporaries were facing, the English writers of the period had .........................................., such as; the growth of industry, the rising working class movement and the final disappearance of the class of peasantry.
To founding answers to those that arose in their own country
To find answers to those that arose in their own country
To finding answers to those that arose in their own country
To found answers to those that arose in their own country

In addition to writing plays, William Shakespeare was also:
A, B and C
A and B
An actor who performed for royalty
A successful businessman
A poet who wrote over 150 sonnets

In Elizabethan England, people believed that this instrument could improve people’s emotional state by turning sadness into art:
Viols (an earlier version of the violin)
Trumpets
Oboes

In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?
Darcy
Wickham
Bingley
Mr. Bennet

In the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.
Chaucer
Wyclif
Langland
Gower

In the first half of the 19th century, the young American Republic strengthened ........................ by expanding its territory westward and southward. Nine new states were set up on the western lands, including Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
Its newly-winning independence
Its new-won independence
Its newly-won independence
Its newly-win independence

In the seventies of the 19th century most writers on social problems believed that science and science alone would finally ............ ............... and bring civilization to all.
Sweep away all human misery
Sweep about all human misery
Sweep around all human misery
Sweep for all human misery

In the year 1066, in the Battle of Hastings, the Anglo-Saxon king's army was defeated by William, Duke of Normandy, who ....................................
Became King of England.
Becoming King of England.
Had became King of England.
Becomes King of England.

In those early days songs called epics were created in many countries. The epics tell about the most ......................... events of a people's history and the deeds of one or more heroic personages.
Remarking
Remarkable
Remarkably
Remarked

In what century was William Shakespeare active as a playwright?
B and C
16th century
17th century
15th century

In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?
Middle English
English
Latin
French

In Which rebellion was Daniel Defoe involved?
Monmouth
Boxer
Cioux
Mapla

It is commonly acknowledged that many of the libertarian and abolitionist-movements in the late 18th century and early 19th century were engendered by the romantic philosophy based on the desire ....... ..................................................and tyranny and the new emphasis on the rights and dignity of the individual.
To be free of opinion
To be free of practice
To be free of convention
To be free of question

It was contrary to the medieval ideology and especially to that of the Catholic Church. ...........................................was defeated.
The power of Church for men's mind
The power of Church about men's mind
The power of Church over men's mind
The power of Church above men's mind

It was in the last decades of the century that new trade-unions sprang up, which workers, regardless of their qualifications, could join; even unskilled factory-hands ............................................
Were accepted.
Were acceptation
Were to accept
Were accept

It was now easier for the workers to help one another during strikes. ...............................................were no longer representatives of the bourgeois liberal party: the leaders were real workers, such as Tom Mann, who later founded the British Communist Party.
The working-union officials
The selling-union officials
The trade-union officials
The commerce-union officials

It was the End of the Century that created writers who ...........................as a whole (Shaw, Galsworthy), and a. new type of writer who was preoccupied with the future of mankind
Were interested for human society
Were interested on human society
Were interested in human society
Were interested at human society

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
Victoria
Euston
Waterloo
Paddington

Like English romanticism, American romanticism was a very complicated phenomenon. It was not a definite system of particular attitudes towards man, ............... .........................................and society. Following are some of the most essential features of American romanticism. They are found in the leading poets of the time Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Walt Whitman (1819-1892).
Naturally
Naturalness
Nature
Natural

Many ............................................ writers, such as Bernard Shaw, Herbert Wells and some Marxists, belonged at various times to the Fabian Society.
Progressive-mindless
Progressive-minded
Progressive-mind
Progressive-mindful

Men of science were greatly admired. They were invited ....... ...............................................and express their opinions on all kinds of subjects. Many of these scientists believed in positivism, and spread their demagogic ideas among the people.
To speak in public halls
To say in public halls
To tell in public halls
To present in public halls

Nature is shown in American romantic literature as it appears to the pioneers: both harsh and beautiful, with huge lakes , mighty rivers, giant redwood trees in Virgin forests, boundless plains, majestic mountains, and canyons................ shooting up into the air.
With boiling springs and geysers of steam
In boiling springs and geysers of steam
Over boiling springs and geysers of steam
For boiling springs and geysers of steam

One of the most famous slogan of the age of global colonization was "The sun never sets on the British Empire". As recently as 1940, the British Empire was still great, covering much of Africa, India, Malaya, Hongkong, and............................and the Americas.
Other scattered territories in Asia
Other scattering territories in Asia
Other being scattering territories in Asia
Other scatter territories in Asia

Only a small number of dock workers had permanent work; the majority were casuals employed for one job only. The casuals would walk to the docks early in the morning and wait at the entrances to the various wharves ............................. that a foreman might need someone.
Hoped for the chance
To hope for the chance
Hoping for the chance
Hope for the chance

Philanthropy, never having been able to prevent poverty, now became a laughing stock. Disillusionment led to pessimism and found its expression in a very pessimistic literature, ............ ..................................Decadence.
The prose of the
The literature of the
The composition of the
The poetry of the

Questions on literary terms What is a sonnet?
A poem of eight lines
A poem of twelve lines
Poem of fourteen lines
A poem of six lines

Questions on literary terms What is a sonnet?
A poem of eight lines
A poem of fourteen lines
A poem of six lines
A poem of twelve lines

Questions on literary terms What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Alliteration
Hyperboles
Onomatopoeia
Personification

Questions on literary termsA comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as
Lyric
Simile
Personification
Metaphor

Questions on literary termsA description that appeals to one of the five senses
Imagery
Personification
Metaphor

Questions on literary termsA pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry
Alliteration
consonants
Rhyme scheme
Meter

Questions on literary termsA poem that generally has meter and rhyme
Narrative
Free verse
Lyric

Questions on literary termsA poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters
Narrative
Descriptive
Free verse
Lyric

Questions on literary termsA poem with no meter or rhyme
Prose
Lyric
Narrative
Free verse

Questions on literary termsApplying human qualities to non-human things
Personification
Materialistic
Onomatopoeia
Alliteration

Questions on literary termsConcentrate on these elements when writing a good poem.
Theme, purpose, form, and mood.
Rhyme and reason
Purpose and audience
Characters, main idea, and theme

Questions on literary termsThe comparison of unlike things using the words like or as
Epic
Metaphor
Simile
Personification

Questions on literary termsThe repetition of beginning consonant sounds
Alliteration
Vowel
Onomatopoeia
Rhyme

Questions on literary termsThe repetition of similar ending sounds
Onomatopoiea
Rhyme
Alliteration
mimmic

Questions on literary termsThe theme is ...?
An address
The point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
An character
A plot

Questions on literary termsUsing words or letters to imitate sounds
Alliteration
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Motonomy

Questions on literary termsWhat is the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile is more descriptive
A simile must use animals in the comparison.
A simile uses as or like to make a comparison and a metaphor doesn't.
No difference. Simply two different ways in referring to the same thing.

Questions on literary termsWhat is the word for a "play on words"?
Pun
Haiku
Metaphor
Simile

Questions on literary termsWhich figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?
Metonymy
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Onomatopeia

Questions on literary termsWhich is an exaggeration?
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Prose
Haiku

Questions on literary termsWhich is an example of a proverb?
You can't have your cake and eat it, too
You're driving me crazy.
The snow was white as cotton.
Get a "stake" in our business.

Questions on literary termsWhich is not a poetry form?
Ballad
Sonnet
Tale
Epic

Questions on literary termsWhich of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?
Grammar
Assonance
Onomatopaea
Rhyme

Questions on literary termsWhich represents an example of alliteration?
Language Arts
Peter Piper Picked Peppers
I like music
A beautiful scenery with music

Quite naturally, the reactionary feudal class was discontented, because the revolution had ........ ...................... it weaker.
Make
To make
Making
Made

Robert Burns’ poetry has features from the Enlightenment to Romanticism. And his love of nature, his singing of liberty, .............................. have much in common with such revolutionary romanticists as George Byron and Percy Shelley. .
His rebellion spirit
His rebelling spirit
His rebellious spirit
His rebell spirit

Romanticism literature was a reaction of....................................to the French Bourgeois Revolution and to the Enlightenment connected with it.
Different types of society
Different fields of society
Different strata of society
Different kinds of society

Soon after their arrival as colonialists, the white men began either to plunder or to enslave the Indians, turning them into their worst victims. The way the Indians were annihilated by the white men ......................................................in the history of mankind.
Constitutes one of the darkest pages
To constitutes one of the darkest pages
Constituting one of the darkest pages
Constitute one of the darkest pages

Swift’s realism was different from Defoe’s in
All above
Swift gave very realistic descriptions
Swift’s criticism was hidden away in a whole lot of allegorical pictures
Swift used his laughter - to mock at bourgeois reality

The ................. of feudalism and the development of capitalist relation were followed by a great rise in the cultural life of Europe.
Downs
Illness
Decrease
Decay

The activities of these Socialists are interesting, however, from a 'historical point of view. They investigated different systems of labour and made a thorough examination of the housing conditions in .........................., particularly in the East End of London with its factories and docks, which was the poorest part of the city.
Worked-class districts
Worker-class districts
Work-class districts
Working-class districts

The American Revolution was remarkable in many ways: the colonies defeated their mother-country; unseasoned militiamen overwhelmed a well-trained, well armed professional army; and the Americans, having turned the world upside down, declared that ......................................................
"All men are created equal".
"All men are done equal".
"All men are born equal".
"All men are made equal".

The Angles, Saxons and Jutes brought the subject over from the Continent when they invaded Britain, and it was made into a poem somewhere ................... the 7th century.
Between
With
About
Below

The Canterbury Tales is collection of stories in verse told by people of different social standing. Chaucer had planned 120 stories but wrote only 24, .........................
Because death breaking off his work.
Because of death broke off his work.
Because death broke off his work.
Because death broken off his work.

The crisis of bourgeois culture was reflected in literature ..............................................................., the one progressive, the other regressive. The representatives of the first trend continued the realistic traditions of their predecessors - 'the brilliant school of novelists in England'.
With the appearance of two trends
Over the appearance of two trends
By the appearance of two trends
For the appearance of two trends

The dates of Shakespeare’s life put him firmly in the middle of which period?
Renaissance
Baroque
Classical
Medieval

The discovery of the American Continents was made during the Renaissance times, and the first European colony in America was established in 1492 by Christopher Columbus ......................................
Who mistook the new continent for India
Who mistook the new continent about India
Who mistook the new continent of India
Who mistook the new continent in India

The Enlightenment epoch in English literature may be divided into three periods
Three periods
Two periods
Five periods
Four periods

The epic The Song of Beowulf, tells of some events from a people's history, sings the heroic deeds of a man, his courage and his desire of justice, ........................................and self-sacrifice for the sake of his country.
To show love for his people
To love his people
To express love and courage of his people.
His love for his people

The Fabians thought that the future depended on a ..............................., which they hoped would lead the country to state capitalism. They refused to recognize the ,class struggle as necessary for social progress.
Careless scientific organization of society
Cared scientific organization of society
Careful scientific organization of society
Caring scientific organization of society

The first masterpiece of English literature, the epic poem The Song of Beowulf describes the historical past of the land from which the Angles, Saxons and Jutes ................................
Came
Coming
Had come
Come

The growing class-consciousness of the workers threw the upper class into a panic of fear. In 1883 a group of independent socialists organized the Fabian Society. These Socialists came from the middle class, but they wanted...............................of the common people.
To improving the economic situation
To improved the economic situation
To improve the economic situation
To improvement the economic situation

The house of the King Hrothgar has a large hall with flat stones in the centre. All the men slept in this hall. There was a great feast when the hall ........................................
Was built.
Were built.
Being built.
Was build.

The houses looked ready to fall, many of them out of the perpendicular. Entire families were crowded into one room. Most of the doors stood open all day ........................ ..................all night, and the passages and stairs sheltered many who were altogether homeless.
As well as
As equal as
As long as
As good as

The idea that the British race was superior to ................................ was flattering, especially to the bourgeoisie. It meant that they were supermen. The imperialists came to power in 1895. Four Fars later the Boer War broke out.
All of others
All the others
All other
All others

The ideals of liberty, equality and pursuit of happiness for all ...................................................but only as a privilege for the few. Poets and writers being repulsed by the dishonest practice of businessmen, turned to the "common men", romanticized them or sought beauty and happiness in the primitive life of American Indians.
Were realized
Were done
Were taken
Were made

The Industrial revolution began with the invention of a weaving-machine which could .............................................. the work of 17 people.
Play
Hold
Take
Do

The institution of slavery throughout the world ............... ...............................................that the enslaved person was a member of an inferior race or tribe. But the background of slavery lies elsewhere, in the greed of the slave-dealers and slave-users.
Was often accompanied to the argument
Was often accompanied by the argument
Was often accompanied about the argument
Was often accompanied with the argument

The literature of the Church was scholastic, moralizing, and it supported the feudal system. The books written in Latin by monks, .................................................that they should he poor and obey their masters.
Teaches the common people
To teach the common people
Taught the common people
Teaching the common people

The main features of Critical Realism in England were:
All above
These writers used the novel as a means to protest against the evils in contemporary social and economic life and to picture the world in a realistic way
The critical realists introduced new characters into literature
Critical Realism should depict typical characters in typical circumstances

The main features of Romanticism in English literature are:
all above
exotic theme came into being
great attention was dedicated to nature and its elements
attention was paid to the spiritual life of man.

The main features of Shakespeare’s comedies are:
all above
Love of young men and women
Misunderstanding to create comic situation
Exotic setting

The main literary stream of the 18th century was ______.
Romanticism
Neo-classicism
Sentimentalism
Naturalism

The music performed during Shakespeare’s plays was meant to:
All of the above
Create a mood or atmosphere
Establish the mental or emotional state of characters
Provide an interlude between acts
A part of a silly comedy act performed at the end of tragic plays

The newly acquired lands in the West were an immense wilderness often referred to as the frontier lands or the free west, attracting more and more people to migrate to it. Many planters from the South ............
Also going westward.
Also went westward.
Also go westward.
Also gone westward.

The next day everybody came to the biggest room in Hrothgar's castle ....................................the monster's death.
To see
To think
To celebrate
To hate

The Normans brought the romance to England. The romance told of love and adventure and ......................... in feudal society.
To be expressing the ideals of knighthood
To be expressed the ideals of knighthood
Expressing the ideals of knighthood
Expressed the ideals of knighthood

The Normans came from the north-west of France. They brought with them the culture of their country and the French language.........................was French, the churchmen used Latin and the common people spoke Anglo-Saxon.
To be spoken language of the nobility
Speaking language of the nobility
To speak language of the nobility
The language of the nobility

The people were disappointed ..................... the outcome of the Revolution. The common people did not obtain the liberty, fraternity and equality which they had hoped for; the, bourgeoisie found that the reality was not what the Enlighteners had promised it to be.
For
About
With
Before

The period of Romanticism ...................... approximately 30 years, beginning from the last decade of the 18th century and continuing up to the 1830s.
Covers
Presents
Plays
Argues

The period of Romanticism in England had its peculiarities. During the second half of the 18th century economic and social changes took place in the country.
Taking place
Taken place
Takes place
Took place

The progressive minds of Europe expressed this general discontent, because the influence of the French Bourgeois Revolution was felt ....................................................... The new trend in literature (Romanticism) reflected it.
for the world
all in the world
All over the world.
on the world

The Revolution brought new problems for the problems for the progressive-minded writers, who were faced with the necessity of ........................................as their attitude to the feudal state.
Found an answer to such questions
Finding an answer to such questions
Founding an answer to such questions
Find an answer to such questions

The romanticists paid a good deal of attention to the spiritual life of man. This ................................... . ........................................................ .................The so-called exotic theme came into being and great attention was dedicated to nature and its elements. The description became very rich in form and many-sided in contents.
Was reflected in an abundance of lyrical verse.
Was reflection in an abundance of lyrical verse.
Was to reflect in an abundance of lyrical verse.
Was reflecting in an abundance of lyrical verse.

The second half of the 19th century in England gave rise to a rapid growth of social contradictions. To improve the situation for themselves the ruling classes increased the oppression of the toiling masses ..............................and widened their policy of imperialist expansion in the colonies.
On home
At home
For home
Above home

The Song of Beowulf is written by
Unknown writer
Moore
Shakespeare
Chaucer

The Song of Beowulf, tells of some events from a people's history, sings
all above
the heroic deeds of a man, his courage
his desire of justice, his love for his people
self-sacrifice for the sake of his country

The story of Beowulf tells of the time when kings Hrothgar ................................. the Danes. Hrothgar built a great house for himself and his man.
Ruled
Directed
Managed
Controlled

The United States Government applied in the New world the Monroe Doctrine (raised by James Monroe, the fifth US president (1817-1825), The ideas of the Monroe Doctrine may be roughly summarized as .............................. is slogan meant that foreign intervention into the internal affairs of the former colonies would be from then on not permitted.
"America for the Americans"
"America to the Americans"
"America about the Americans"
"America of the Americans"

The workers who had permanent work stood on a higher social level. On Sundays they would crowd into the parks and listen to various speakers. Here an atheist would stand on a soap-box and explain that ......................................... ..... he must be a monster to permit such misery as unemployment'.
If there is a God
If there can be a God
If there was a God
If there be a God

The works of humanists proclaimed equality of people ..............................................., race and religion. Humanism did away with the dark scholastic teaching of the Middle Ages.
Regardless for their social origin
Regardless under their social origin
Regardless of their social origin
Regardless with their social origin

There was ............................... .and many of them became homeless beggars. Lust for rich was typical of the new class of the bourgeoisie.
No tasks for the peasants
No duties for the peasants
No jobs for the peasants
No work for the peasants

There was a revival of interest in the ancient culture of Greece and Rome ("Renaissance" is French for "rebirth"). The study of the works of ancient philosophers, writers, and artists helped the people ............................................, to know the world and man's nature.
To widen their outlook
To lengthen their outlook
To produce their outlook
To attract their outlook

They began to see that some human beings were born to riches for which they had not worked, while the majority was born .............................................. no escape.
For poverty from which there was
To poverty from which there was
Of poverty from which there was
Through poverty from which there was

Thomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______.
Latin
French
Greek
English

Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
Characters
Belief
Idea
God

Vanity Fair is a novel by?
W. M. Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen

Was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
Polonius
Leartus
Horatio
Forinbras

We are told that the native Americans met .......................................... and they were eager to trade' with the "palefaces" as they called the white men. But this friendship did not last long.
The first Europeans with hospital
The first Europeans with hospitalization
The first Europeans with hospitality
The first Europeans with hospitalizing

What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?
Combs
Gold chain
Diamond ring
Silver bracelet

What is a sonnet?
A poem of fourteen lines
A poem of twelve lines
A poem of six lines
A poem of eight lines

What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?
Onomatopoeia
Personification
Alliteration
Hyperboles

What is the name of the play that Hamlet stages for Claudius?
The Murder of Gonzago
Vice of Kings
Slings and Arrows
The Slaying of Lucianus

What is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
Or, What you Will
Or, What you Like It
Or, What is you Will
Or, What you Think

What kinds of characters generally sing in Shakespeare’s plays?
Servants, clowns, fools and other minor characters with low status
Kings and queens
Fairies
Noblemen

What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
Foe
Friend
Good
Neighbour

What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
Foe
Friend
Good
Neigbour

What was O. Henry’s real name?
William Sidney Porter
Clark Cable
Arthur Kent
Henry Ford

When a major character in a Shakespeare play sings, it is most likely because:
They are suffering from mental illness
They are in love
They are entertaining friends or guests
They are speaking their innermost thoughts

When did Daniel Defoe die?
12 September 1748
26 April 1731
5 January 1740
7 December 1725

When was Jonathan Swift born?
11 January 1660
14 April 1656
3 June 1663
30 November 1667

When was O. Henry born?
11 September 1862
January 1870
14 April 1865
3 June 1868

Where did O. Henry die?
New York
Philadelphia
Austin
London

Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?
Honduras
Brazil
Canada

Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
First National Bank, Austin
First American Bank, Washington
ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

Where was Jonathan Swift born?
Dublin
New Deli
London
Manchester

Where was Oscar Wilde born?
Dublin
Glasgow
Cork
London

Which humourous weekly was started by O. Henry?
The Rolling Stone
Eve’s Weekly
Shankar’s Weekly

Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare?
The Tempest
As you like it
Two Gentlemen from Verona
Henry V

Which method of narration has been employed by Dickens in his novel “Great Expectations”?
Direct or epic method
Documentary method
Autobiographical method
Stream of Consciousness technique

Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between Fowler, Pyle, and Phuong in The Quiet American?
Love triangle
Enemies
Colleagues
Good friends

Which of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe?
Robinson Crusoe
Gulliver’s Travels
Either Or
Odyssey

Which of the following books was written by Jonathan Swift?
Gulliver’s Travels
Vanity Fair
Daffodils
First Impression

Which of the following has been a significant development in British theater since the abolition of censorship in 1968?
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
The diversifying impact of playwrights from the former colonies
The rise of workshops and the collaborative ethos
The emergence of a major cohort of women dramatists

Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?
Sandition
Sense and Sensibility
Persuasion
Mansfield Park

Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?
None of the above
Hamlet
Macbeth
Othello
Titus Andronicus

Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?
Dutch
Latin
French
Celtic

Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?
Vanity Fair
Middlemarch
Wuthering Heights
Oliver Twist

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?
Art for art’s sake
Art for intellect’s sake
Art for the masses
Art for God’s sake

Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley

Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?
The Anglo-Saxons
The Normans
The Celts
The Geats

Which poem written y Daniel Defoe made him popular with William III?
The True Born Englishman
Captain Jack
Hymn to the Pillory
Moll Flanders

Which school did Jonathan Swift attend?
Trinity College
Stradford Grammar School
Kilkenny Grammar School
Kilmanock School

Which story by O. Henry deals with kidnappers who find the kidnapped boy a nuisance and want to return him with money?
The Ransom of Red Chief
The Cop and the Anthem
Christmas by Injunction
The Duplicity of Hargraves

Which story by O. Henry deals with sacrifices husband and wife make for buying Christmas presents for each other?
The Gift of the Magi
Heart of the West
The Gentle Grafter
Let me feel your pulse

Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh
Eminent Victorians
The Way of All Flesh
Jungle Books
Philistine Victorians

Who get Daniel Defoe released?
Robert Harley
Oliver Cromwell
James Robert Oaklay
Alexander Selkirk

Who or what were Eye Witness, Andrew Morton, T. Tayor and Merchant?
Pen names of Daniel Defoe
Friends od Daniel Defoe
Colleagues of Daniel Defoe
Enemies of Daniel Defoe

Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?
William Wordsworth
William Blake
William Morris
William Shakespeare

Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?”
Arthur Conan Doyle
P D James
Agatha Christie
H Ryder-Haggard

Who wrote Canterbury Tales?
Geoffrey Chaucer
Dick Whittington
King Richard II
Thomas Lancaster

Why was Daniel Defoe arrested in May 1703?
Not paying debts
Piracy
Translating Bible in English
Writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way of Dissenters

William Shakespeare born in:
26 April 1564
26 April 1566
26 April 1567
26 April 1565

William Shakespeare is not the author of:
White Devil
Titus Andronicus
Hamlet
Taming of the Shrew

William Shakespeare married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_ in.
18, 1582
16, 1580
15, 1579
17, 1581

William Shakespeare was born in the year:
1564
1578
1582
1544

Wool production became the leading manufacture in England. Landowners ......................................................................, turning these lands into pastures or “enclosures” for sheep.
Drove thousands of peasants off their lands
Made thousands of peasants off their lands
Stopped thousands of peasants off their lands
Force thousands of peasants off their lands

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

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...............................................of the Renaissance was Humanism. Human life, the happiness of people and the belief in man's abilities became the main subjects in fine arts and literature. The constant ideology The continuing ideology The progressive ideology The advanced ideology

_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies. check_box Othello Romeo and Juliet Anthony and Cleopatra Julius Caesar

________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century. check_box The Enlightenment The Renaissance The Chartist Movement The Religious Reformation

“To be or not to be that is the question”, is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays? check_box Hamlet King Lear Othello Macbeth

A Red, Red Rose is a______. check_box Lyric Satirical poem Epic Ode

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? check_box Joyous Eyeball Zany Birthplace Scuffle

Amerigo Vespucci found that Christopher ....................................; the new continent was not India. As a result, the new continent came to be called America after the name of its undoubted discoverer, America. Had taken a mistake Had done a mistake Had made a mistake Had seen a mistake

Britain's history is considered to begin ............................................, when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes. In the 8th century In the 5th century In the 6th century In the 7th century

Chaucer also worked out a new form of versification which replaced alliteration. ..................... metrical form. It was based on rhythmic arrangement of the accents, of the length of the verse, of stanzas. This was called This being called This be called This were called

Chaucer painted a vivid picture of English society, as it was in his day: each of .....................................................was given as an individual, typical of his country and his time. His friends His people His individuals His characters

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Graham Greene’s novels are marked by? Buddhism Catholicism Paganism Protestantism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Hamlet is? A man of action A passionate lover An intellectual An over ambitious man

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________. Lyrical poem Lyrical prose Romance in prose Sonnet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like? Bingley Darcy Mr. Bennet Wickham

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 Blake and Burns Gray and Young Johnson and Blake Pope and Goldsmith

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written? English French Latin Middle English

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which town was Shakespeare born? London Cambridge Stratford Oxford

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 Euston Paddington Victoria Waterloo

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled? ‘False Impressions’ ‘First Impressions’ ‘Last Impressions’ ‘True Impressions’

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Robinson Crusoe is a _________. Historical novel Satirical novel Allegorical novel Realistic novel

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What is the title of Wilde's only novel? The Picture of Damien Gray The Picture of Declan Gray The Picture of Dominic Gray The Picture of Dorian Gray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry work as a teller? First American Bank, Washington Chase Manhattan Bank, ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta First National Bank, Austin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where was Oscar Wilde born? Cork Dublin Glasgow London

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? Colleagues Enemies Good friends Love triangle

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which of the following writers wrote historical novels? Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century? Eminent Victorians Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh Jungle Books Philistine Victorians The Way of All Flesh

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century? Eminent Victorian, the Way of All Flesh Eminent Victorians Philistine Victorians Jungle Books

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?" Agatha Christie Arthur Conan Doyle H Ryder-Haggard P D James

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi? 20 40 60 80

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi? Combs Diamond ring Gold chain Silver bracelet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What was O. Henry’s real name? Arthur Kent Clark Cable Henry Ford William Sidney Porter

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence When was O. Henry born? 11 September 1862 14 April 1865 2 January 1870 3 June 1868

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry die? Austin London New York Philadelphia

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial? Brazil Canada Honduras Mexico

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry work as a teller? ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta Chase Manhattan Bank, New York First American Bank, Washington First National Bank, Austin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which humourous weekly was started by O. Henry? Eve’s Weekly Shankar’s Weekly The Rolling Stone The Tablet

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? Christmas by Injunction The Cop and the Anthem The Duplicity of Hargraves The Ransom of Red Chief

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? Heart of the West Let me feel your pulse The Gentle Grafter The Gift of the Magi

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? Hamlet King Lear Macbeth Othello

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies. Anthony and Cleopatra Julius Caesar Othello Romeo and Juliet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century. The Chartist Movement The Enlightenment The Religious Reformation The Renaissance

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceA Red, Red Rose is a______. Epic Lyric Ode Satirical poem

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceComplete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of... Denmark Venice Maine England

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceFrom 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 Midsummer Night's Dream Hamlet Othello Romeo and Juliet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s attitude toward the horse can be described as______. Disliking All of the above Praising Criticizing

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s Travels is a ________. Sentimental novel Novel of stream of consciousness Novel of satire and allegory Gothic novel

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHamlet’s famous speech ‘To be or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in? Act III, Scene I Act III, Scene III Act IV, Scene III Act II, Scene I

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in? Act II, Scene I Act III, Scene I Act III, Scene III Act IV, Scene III

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHe married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______. 15, 1579 16, 1580 17, 1581 18, 1582

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow does Queen Gertrude die? Accidentally stabbed by Laertes. Drowns in the river outside the castle. Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup. Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many Acts are in William Shakespeare’s plays? Six Three Five Four

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many children did Shakespeare have? 12 3 5 8

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories? 18 10 14 7

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many plays did William Shakespeare write? 36 37 38 39

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many sonnets did William Shakespeare write? 154 187 175 110

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England. Alfred the Great Claudius Julius Caesar William the conqueror

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn the 14th century, the most important writer is ______. Chaucer Gower Langland Wyclif

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceMacbeth by Shakespeare is a ______. Tragicomedy Historical play Comedy Tragedy

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceOf which cathedral was Jonathan Swift dean? St. Patrick’s Cathedral St. Albert’s Cathedral Sacred Heart Cathedral St. Paul’s Cathedral

Choose the best answer to complete each sentencePamela is a___________. Novel of naturalism Romance Historical novel Novel of epistles and psychology

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died at the age of 52 63 60 48

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died on? 30th April 1616 28th April 1616 25th April 1616 23rd April 1616

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare made Stratford his regular home in: About 1609 About 1610 About 1608 About 1611

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travel is ______. Lilliput Flying island The kingdom of horses Brobdingnag

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe line "To be or not to be" comes from which play? Macbeth Hamlet A Midsummer Night's dream Twelfth Night

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe main literary stream of the 18th century was ______. Naturalism Neo-classicism Romanticism Sentimentalism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ______. Mystery play Epic Romance Sonnet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______. English French Greek Latin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian. . Idea Belief Characters God

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian. Belief Characters Idea God

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceTo which church did Jonathan Swift belong?) Roman Catholic Church Church of Church of Scotland Church of England

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceToward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law? Thirteenth Eleventh Fourteenth Twelfth

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceUtopia was first printed in: check_box 1516 1615 1518 1517

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceVanity Fair is a novel by? Charles Dickens Jane Austen Thomas Hardy W. M. Thackeray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWas killed by Hamlet unintentionally? Forinbras Horatio Leartus Polonius

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius? Slings and Arrows The Murder of Gonzago The Slaying of Lucianus Vice of Kings

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night? Or, What is you Will Or, What you Like It Or, What you Think Or, What you Will

. Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow are Polonius and Laertes related?
Brother/brother
Cousin/cousin
Father/son
Uncle/nephew

...............................................of the Renaissance was Humanism. Human life, the happiness of people and the belief in man's abilities became the main subjects in fine arts and literature.
The constant ideology
The continuing ideology
The progressive ideology
The advanced ideology

_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Anthony and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar

________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.
The Enlightenment
The Renaissance
The Chartist Movement
The Religious Reformation

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

A Red, Red Rose is a______.
Lyric
Satirical poem
Epic
Ode

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?
Joyous
Eyeball
Zany
Birthplace
Scuffle

Amerigo Vespucci found that Christopher ....................................; the new continent was not India. As a result, the new continent came to be called America after the name of its undoubted discoverer, America.
Had taken a mistake
Had done a mistake
Had made a mistake
Had seen a mistake

Britain's history is considered to begin ............................................, when it was invaded from the Continent by the fighting tribes of Angles, Saxons and Jutes.
In the 8th century
In the 5th century
In the 6th century
In the 7th century

Chaucer also worked out a new form of versification which replaced alliteration. ..................... metrical form. It was based on rhythmic arrangement of the accents, of the length of the verse, of stanzas.
This was called
This being called
This be called
This were called

Chaucer painted a vivid picture of English society, as it was in his day: each of .....................................................was given as an individual, typical of his country and his time.
His friends
His people
His individuals
His characters

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?
Buddhism
Catholicism
Paganism
Protestantism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Hamlet is?
A man of action
A passionate lover
An intellectual
An over ambitious man

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.
Lyrical poem
Lyrical prose
Romance in prose
Sonnet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?
Bingley
Darcy
Mr. Bennet
Wickham

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
Blake and Burns
Gray and Young
Johnson and Blake
Pope and Goldsmith

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?
English
French
Latin
Middle English

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which town was Shakespeare born?
London
Cambridge
Stratford
Oxford

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
Euston
Paddington
Victoria
Waterloo

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?
‘False Impressions’
‘First Impressions’
‘Last Impressions’
‘True Impressions’

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Robinson Crusoe is a _________.
Historical novel
Satirical novel
Allegorical novel
Realistic novel

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What is the title of Wilde's only novel?
The Picture of Damien Gray
The Picture of Declan Gray
The Picture of Dominic Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
First American Bank, Washington
Chase Manhattan Bank,
ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
First National Bank, Austin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where was Oscar Wilde born?
Cork
Dublin
Glasgow
London

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?
Colleagues
Enemies
Good friends
Love triangle

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which of the following writers wrote historical novels?
Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte
Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sir Walter Scott and Maria Edgeworth
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Eminent Victorians
Eminent Victorians, The Way of All Flesh
Jungle Books
Philistine Victorians
The Way of All Flesh

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which text exemplifies the anti-Victorianism prevalent in the early twentieth century?
Eminent Victorian, the Way of All Flesh
Eminent Victorians
Philistine Victorians
Jungle Books

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Who wrote "The Hound of the Baskervilles?"
Agatha Christie
Arthur Conan Doyle
H Ryder-Haggard
P D James

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi?
20
40
60
80

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?
Combs
Diamond ring
Gold chain
Silver bracelet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence What was O. Henry’s real name?
Arthur Kent
Clark Cable
Henry Ford
William Sidney Porter

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence When was O. Henry born?
11 September 1862
14 April 1865
2 January 1870
3 June 1868

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry die?
Austin
London
New York
Philadelphia

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?
Brazil
Canada
Honduras
Mexico

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where did O. Henry work as a teller?
ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
First American Bank, Washington
First National Bank, Austin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Which humourous weekly was started by O. Henry?
Eve’s Weekly
Shankar’s Weekly
The Rolling Stone
The Tablet

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?
Christmas by Injunction
The Cop and the Anthem
The Duplicity of Hargraves
The Ransom of Red Chief

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?
Heart of the West
Let me feel your pulse
The Gentle Grafter
The Gift of the Magi

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?
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence_____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.
Anthony and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar
Othello
Romeo and Juliet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentence________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.
The Chartist Movement
The Enlightenment
The Religious Reformation
The Renaissance

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceA Red, Red Rose is a______.
Epic
Lyric
Ode
Satirical poem

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceComplete the following famous line from Hamlet: Something is rotten in the state of...
Denmark
Venice
Maine
England

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceFrom 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 Midsummer Night's Dream
Hamlet
Othello
Romeo and Juliet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s attitude toward the horse can be described as______.
Disliking
All of the above
Praising
Criticizing

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s Travels is a ________.
Sentimental novel
Novel of stream of consciousness
Novel of satire and allegory
Gothic novel

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHamlet’s famous speech ‘To be or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Act III, Scene I
Act III, Scene III
Act IV, Scene III
Act II, Scene I

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHamlet’s famous speech ‘To be,or not to be; that is the question’ occurs in?
Act II, Scene I
Act III, Scene I
Act III, Scene III
Act IV, Scene III

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHe married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_ in.
15, 1579
16, 1580
17, 1581
18, 1582

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow does Queen Gertrude die?
Accidentally stabbed by Laertes.
Drowns in the river outside the castle.
Poisoned by drinking from Hamlet's cup.
Suffers a fatal heart attack while watching Hamlet fight Laertes.

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many Acts are in William Shakespeare’s plays?
Six
Three
Five
Four

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many children did Shakespeare have?
12
3
5
8

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many of Shakespeare's plays are classified as histories?
18
10
14
7

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many plays did William Shakespeare write?
36
37
38
39

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?
154
187
175
110

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.
Alfred the Great
Claudius
Julius Caesar
William the conqueror

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.
Chaucer
Gower
Langland
Wyclif

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceMacbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.
Tragicomedy
Historical play
Comedy
Tragedy

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceOf which cathedral was Jonathan Swift dean?
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
St. Albert’s Cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral
St. Paul’s Cathedral

Choose the best answer to complete each sentencePamela is a___________.
Novel of naturalism
Romance
Historical novel
Novel of epistles and psychology

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died at the age of
52
63
60
48

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died on?
30th April 1616
28th April 1616
25th April 1616
23rd April 1616

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:
About 1609
About 1610
About 1608
About 1611

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travel is ______.
Lilliput
Flying island
The kingdom of horses
Brobdingnag

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe line "To be or not to be" comes from which play?
Macbeth
Hamlet
A Midsummer Night's dream
Twelfth Night

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe main literary stream of the 18th century was ______.
Naturalism
Neo-classicism
Romanticism
Sentimentalism

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ______.
Mystery play
Epic
Romance
Sonnet

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______.
English
French
Greek
Latin

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
. Idea
Belief
Characters
God

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
Belief
Characters
Idea
God

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceTo which church did Jonathan Swift belong?)
Roman Catholic Church
Church of
Church of Scotland
Church of England

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceToward the close of which century did English replace French as the language of conducting business in Parliament and in court of law?
Thirteenth
Eleventh
Fourteenth
Twelfth

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceUtopia was first printed in:
1516
1615
1518
1517

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceVanity Fair is a novel by?
Charles Dickens
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
W. M. Thackeray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWas killed by Hamlet unintentionally?
Forinbras
Horatio
Leartus
Polonius

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the name of the playlet Hamlet stages for Claudius?
Slings and Arrows
The Murder of Gonzago
The Slaying of Lucianus
Vice of Kings

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the sub-title of the play Twelfth Night?
Or, What is you Will
Or, What you Like It
Or, What you Think
Or, What you Will

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat is the title of Wilde’s only novel?
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Damien Gray
The Picture of Deominic Gray
The Picture of Declan Gray

Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?
Friend
Neighbour
Foe
Good