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Câu hỏi 1: . Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow are Polonius and Laertes related?

• Brother/brother
• Cousin/cousin
• Father/son
• Uncle/nephew

Câu hỏi 2: ………………………………………..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

Câu hỏi 3: _____ is one of Shakespeare’s famous four tragedies.

• Othello
• Romeo and Juliet
• Anthony and Cleopatra
• Julius Caesar

Câu hỏi 4: ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century.

• The Enlightenment
• The Renaissance
• The Chartist Movement
• The Religious Reformation

Câu hỏi 5: “To be or not to be that is the question”, is famous line of which of Shakespeare’s plays?

• Hamlet
• King Lear
• Othello
• Macbeth

Câu hỏi 6: 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

Câu hỏi 7: A Red, Red Rose is a______.

• Lyric
• Satirical poem
• Epic
• Ode

Câu hỏi 8: 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

Câu hỏi 9: 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

Câu hỏi 10: 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

Câu hỏi 11: 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

Câu hỏi 12: 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

Câu hỏi 13: 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

Câu hỏi 14: 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

Câu hỏi 15: 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

Câu hỏi 16: 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

Câu hỏi 17: 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

Câu hỏi 18: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

• Buddhism
• Catholicism
• Paganism
• Protestantism

Câu hỏi 19: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Hamlet is?

• A man of action
• A passionate lover
• An intellectual
• An over ambitious man

Câu hỏi 20: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.

• Lyrical poem
• Lyrical prose
• Romance in prose
• Sonnet

Câu hỏi 21: 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

Câu hỏi 22: 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

Câu hỏi 23: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?

• English
• French
• Latin
• Middle English

Câu hỏi 24: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence In which town was Shakespeare born?

• London
• Cambridge
• Stratford
• Oxford

Câu hỏi 25: 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

Câu hỏi 26: 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’

Câu hỏi 27: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Robinson Crusoe is a _________.

• Historical novel
• Satirical novel
• Allegorical novel
• Realistic novel

Câu hỏi 28: 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

Câu hỏi 29: 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

Câu hỏi 30: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence Where was Oscar Wilde born?

• Cork
• Dublin
• Glasgow
• London

Câu hỏi 31: 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

Câu hỏi 32: 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

Câu hỏi 33: 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

Câu hỏi 34: 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

Câu hỏi 35: 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

Câu hỏi 36: 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

Câu hỏi 37: 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

Câu hỏi 38: 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

Câu hỏi 39: 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

Câu hỏi 40: 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

Câu hỏi 41: 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

Câu hỏi 42: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
What was O. Henry’s real name?

• Arthur Kent
• Clark Cable
• Henry Ford
• William Sidney Porter

Câu hỏi 43: 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

Câu hỏi 44: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Where did O. Henry die?

• Austin
• London
• New York
• Philadelphia

Câu hỏi 45: Choose the best answer to complete each sentence
Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?

• Brazil
• Canada
• Honduras
• Mexico

Câu hỏi 46: 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

Câu hỏi 47: 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

Câu hỏi 48: 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

Câu hỏi 49: 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

Câu hỏi 50: 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

Câu hỏi 51: 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

Câu hỏi 52: 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

Câu hỏi 53: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceA Red, Red Rose is a______.

• Epic
• Lyric
• Ode
• Satirical poem

Câu hỏi 54: 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

Câu hỏi 55: 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

Câu hỏi 56: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceGulliver’s attitude toward the horse can be described as______.

• Disliking
• All of the above
• Praising
• Criticizing

Câu hỏi 57: 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

Câu hỏi 58: 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

Câu hỏi 59: 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

Câu hỏi 60: 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

Câu hỏi 61: 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.

Câu hỏi 62: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many Acts are in William Shakespeare’s plays?

• Six
• Three
• Five
• Four

Câu hỏi 63: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many children did Shakespeare have?

• 12
• 3
• 5
• 8

Câu hỏi 64: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many of Shakespeare’s plays are classified as histories?

• 18
• 10
• 14
• 7

Câu hỏi 65: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many plays did William Shakespeare write?

• 36
• 37
• 38
• 39

Câu hỏi 66: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceHow many sonnets did William Shakespeare write?

• 154
• 187
• 175
• 110

Câu hỏi 67: 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

Câu hỏi 68: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceIn the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.

• Chaucer
• Gower
• Langland
• Wyclif

Câu hỏi 69: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceMacbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.

• Tragicomedy
• Historical play
• Comedy
• Tragedy

Câu hỏi 70: 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

Câu hỏi 71: Choose the best answer to complete each sentencePamela is a___________.

• Novel of naturalism
• Romance
• Historical novel
• Novel of epistles and psychology

Câu hỏi 72: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died at the age of

• 52
• 63
• 60
• 48

Câu hỏi 73: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare died on?

• 30th April 1616
• 28th April 1616
• 25th April 1616
• 23rd April 1616

Câu hỏi 74: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceShakespeare made Stratford his regular home in:

• About 1609
• About 1610
• About 1608
• About 1611

Câu hỏi 75: 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

Câu hỏi 76: 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

Câu hỏi 77: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe main literary stream of the 18th century was ______.

• Naturalism
• Neo-classicism
• Romanticism
• Sentimentalism

Câu hỏi 78: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThe prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ______.

• Mystery play
• Epic
• Romance
• Sonnet

Câu hỏi 79: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______.

• English
• French
• Greek
• Latin

Câu hỏi 80: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.

• . Idea
• Belief
• Characters
• God

Câu hỏi 81: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceThough Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.

• Belief
• Characters
• Idea
• God

Câu hỏi 82: 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

Câu hỏi 83: 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

Câu hỏi 84: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceUtopia was first printed in:

• 1516
• 1615
• 1518
• 1517

Câu hỏi 85: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceVanity Fair is a novel by?

• Charles Dickens
• Jane Austen
• Thomas Hardy
• W. M. Thackeray

Câu hỏi 86: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWas killed by Hamlet unintentionally?

• Forinbras
• Horatio
• Leartus
• Polonius

Câu hỏi 87: 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

Câu hỏi 88: 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

Câu hỏi 89: 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

Câu hỏi 90: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?

• Friend
• Neighbour
• Foe
• Good

Câu hỏi 91: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhat was Shakespeare’s first play?

• The Tempest
• Romeo and Juliet
• King Lear
• Henry VI

Câu hỏi 92: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhen did Daniel Defoe die?

• 12 September 1748
• 5 January 1740
• 26 April 1731
• 7 December 1725

Câu hỏi 93: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhen was Jonathan Swift born?

• 30 November 1667
• 11 January 1660
• 3 June 1663
• 14 April 1656

Câu hỏi 94: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhere was Hamlet studying before he returned to Denmark?

• London
• Wittenberg
• Dublin
• Oslo

Câu hỏi 95: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhere was Jonathan Swift born?

• Paris
• London
• Dublin
• Belfast

Câu hỏi 96: 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

Câu hỏi 97: 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

Câu hỏi 98: 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

Câu hỏi 99: 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

Câu hỏi 100: 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

Câu hỏi 101: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

• Celtic
• Dutch
• French
• Latin

Câu hỏi 102: 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

Câu hỏi 103: 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

Câu hỏi 104: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich of the following characters does not appear in Hamlet?

• Gertrude
• Miranda
• Polonius
• Claudius

Câu hỏi 105: 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

Câu hỏi 106: 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

Câu hỏi 107: 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

Câu hỏi 108: 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

Câu hỏi 109: 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

Câu hỏi 110: 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

Câu hỏi 111: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWhich river is associated with Shakespeare’s birth place?

• The Thames
• The Avon
• The Tyburn
• The Seven

Câu hỏi 112: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWho is the Shrew in the play ?

• Bianca
• Cleopatra
• Matilda
• Katherine

Câu hỏi 113: 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

Câu hỏi 114: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWho wrote Canterbury Tales?

• Dick Whittington
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• King Richard II
• Thomas Lancaster

Câu hỏi 115: 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

Câu hỏi 116: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWilliam Shakespeare born in:

• 26 April 1564
• 26 April 1565
• 26 April 1566
• 26 April 1567

Câu hỏi 117: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWilliam Shakespeare is not the author of:

• Hamlet
• Taming of the Shrew
• Titus Andronicus
• White Devil

Câu hỏi 118: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWilliam Shakespeare was born in the year:

• 1544
• 1564
• 1578
• 1582

Câu hỏi 119: Choose the best answer to complete each sentenceWlliam Shakespeare is not the author of:

• Hamlet
• Taming of the Shrew
• Titus Andronicus
• White Devil

Câu hỏi 120: 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

Câu hỏi 121: 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

Câu hỏi 122: Daniel Defoe is the author of:

• all above
• An Essay on Projects
• The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
• Hymn to the Pillory

Câu hỏi 123: 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

Câu hỏi 124: 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

Câu hỏi 125: 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.

Câu hỏi 126: 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.

Câu hỏi 127: 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

Câu hỏi 128: 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

Câu hỏi 129: 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

Câu hỏi 130: 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.

Câu hỏi 131: Graham Greene’s novels are marked by?

• Catholicism
• Buddhism
• Protestantism
• Paganism

Câu hỏi 132: Hamlet is?

• A passionate lover
• A man of action
• An intellectual
• An over ambitious man

Câu hỏi 133: 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

Câu hỏi 134: 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

Câu hỏi 135: How are Polonius and Laertes related?

• Father/son
• Brother/brother
• Uncle/nephew
• Cousin/cousin

Câu hỏi 136: 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.

Câu hỏi 137: How many children did Shakespeare have?

• 3
• 12
• 5
• 8

Câu hỏi 138: How many dollars does Della get for her hair in The Gift of the Magi?

• 20
• 60
• 80

Câu hỏi 139: How many plays did William Shakespeare write?

• 37
• 39
• 38
• 36

Câu hỏi 140: How many plays do we know that Shakespeare wrote?

• 37
• 26
• 32
• 11

Câu hỏi 141: I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.

• Lyrical poem
• Sonnet
• Romance in prose
• Lyrical prose

Câu hỏi 142: In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.

• William the conqueror
• Alfred the Great
• Claudius
• Julius Caesar

Câu hỏi 143: 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

Câu hỏi 144: 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

Câu hỏi 145: 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

Câu hỏi 146: In Pride and Prejudice we initially dislike but later tend to like?

• Darcy
• Wickham
• Bingley
• Mr. Bennet

Câu hỏi 147: In the 14th century, the most important writer is ______.

• Chaucer
• Wyclif
• Langland
• Gower

Câu hỏi 148: 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

Câu hỏi 149: 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

Câu hỏi 150: 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.

Câu hỏi 151: 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

Câu hỏi 152: In what century was William Shakespeare active as a playwright?

• B and C
• 16th century
• 17th century
• 15th century

Câu hỏi 153: In which language the stories of Canterbury Tale are written?

• Middle English
• English
• Latin
• French

Câu hỏi 154: In Which rebellion was Daniel Defoe involved?

• Monmouth
• Boxer
• Cioux
• Mapla

Câu hỏi 155: 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

Câu hỏi 156: 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

Câu hỏi 157: 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

Câu hỏi 158: 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

Câu hỏi 159: 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

Câu hỏi 160: 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

Câu hỏi 161: 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

Câu hỏi 162: 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

Câu hỏi 163: 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

Câu hỏi 164: 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

Câu hỏi 165: 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

Câu hỏi 166: 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

Câu hỏi 167: 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

Câu hỏi 168: Pride and Prejudice was originally a youthful work entitled?

• ‘True Impressions’
• ‘Last Impressions’
• ‘False Impressions’
• ‘First Impressions’

Câu hỏi 169: 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

Câu hỏi 170: 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

Câu hỏi 171: Questions on literary terms
What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

• Alliteration
• Hyperboles
• Onomatopoeia
• Personification

Câu hỏi 172: Questions on literary termsA comparison of unlike things without using a word of comparison such as like or as

• Lyric
• Simile
• Personification
• Metaphor

Câu hỏi 173: Questions on literary termsA description that appeals to one of the five senses

• Imagery
• Personification
• Metaphor

Câu hỏi 174: Questions on literary termsA pattern of accented and unaccented syllables in lines of poetry

• Alliteration
• consonants
• Rhyme scheme
• Meter

Câu hỏi 175: Questions on literary termsA poem that generally has meter and rhyme

• Narrative
• Free verse
• Lyric

Câu hỏi 176: Questions on literary termsA poem that tells a story with plot, setting, and characters

• Narrative
• Descriptive
• Free verse
• Lyric

Câu hỏi 177: Questions on literary termsA poem with no meter or rhyme

• Prose
• Lyric
• Narrative
• Free verse

Câu hỏi 178: Questions on literary termsApplying human qualities to non-human things

• Personification
• Materialistic
• Onomatopoeia
• Alliteration

Câu hỏi 179: 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

Câu hỏi 180: Questions on literary termsThe comparison of unlike things using the words like or as

• Epic
• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification

Câu hỏi 181: Questions on literary termsThe repetition of beginning consonant sounds

• Alliteration
• Vowel
• Onomatopoeia
• Rhyme

Câu hỏi 182: Questions on literary termsThe repetition of similar ending sounds

• Onomatopoiea
• Rhyme
• Alliteration
• mimmic

Câu hỏi 183: Questions on literary termsThe theme is …?

• An address
• The point a writer is trying to make about a subject.
• An character
• A plot

Câu hỏi 184: Questions on literary termsUsing words or letters to imitate sounds

• Alliteration
• Onomatopoeia
• Simile
• Motonomy

Câu hỏi 185: 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.

Câu hỏi 186: Questions on literary termsWhat is the word for a “play on words”?

• Pun
• Haiku
• Metaphor
• Simile

Câu hỏi 187: Questions on literary termsWhich figure of speech is it when a statement is exaggerated in a poem?

• Metonymy
• Alliteration
• Hyperbole
• Onomatopeia

Câu hỏi 188: Questions on literary termsWhich is an exaggeration?

• Hyperbole
• Alliteration
• Prose
• Haiku

Câu hỏi 189: 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.

Câu hỏi 190: Questions on literary termsWhich is not a poetry form?

• Ballad
• Sonnet
• Tale
• Epic

Câu hỏi 191: Questions on literary termsWhich of the following is not a literary device used for aesthetic effect in poetry?

• Grammar
• Assonance
• Onomatopaea
• Rhyme

Câu hỏi 192: Questions on literary termsWhich represents an example of alliteration?

• Language Arts
• Peter Piper Picked Peppers
• I like music
• A beautiful scenery with music

Câu hỏi 193: Quite naturally, the reactionary feudal class was discontented, because the revolution had …….. …………………. it weaker.

• Make
• To make
• Making
• Made

Câu hỏi 194: 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

Câu hỏi 195: 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

Câu hỏi 196: 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

Câu hỏi 197: 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

Câu hỏi 198: 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

Câu hỏi 199: 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

Câu hỏi 200: 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”.

Câu hỏi 201: 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

Câu hỏi 202: 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.

Câu hỏi 203: 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

Câu hỏi 204: The dates of Shakespeare’s life put him firmly in the middle of which period?

• Renaissance
• Baroque
• Classical
• Medieval

Câu hỏi 205: 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

Câu hỏi 206: The Enlightenment epoch in English literature may be divided into three periods

• Three periods
• Two periods
• Five periods
• Four periods

Câu hỏi 207: 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

Câu hỏi 208: 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

Câu hỏi 209: 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

Câu hỏi 210: 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

Câu hỏi 211: 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.

Câu hỏi 212: 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

Câu hỏi 213: 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

Câu hỏi 214: 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

Câu hỏi 215: The Industrial revolution began with the invention of a weaving-machine which could ………………………………………. the work of 17 people.

• Play
• Hold
• Take
• Do

Câu hỏi 216: 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

Câu hỏi 217: 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

Câu hỏi 218: 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

Câu hỏi 219: 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.

Câu hỏi 220: The main features of Shakespeare’s comedies are:

• all above
• Love of young men and women
• Misunderstanding to create comic situation
• Exotic setting

Câu hỏi 221: The main literary stream of the 18th century was ______.

• Romanticism
• Neo-classicism
• Sentimentalism
• Naturalism

Câu hỏi 222: 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

Câu hỏi 223: 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.

Câu hỏi 224: 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

Câu hỏi 225: 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

Câu hỏi 226: 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

Câu hỏi 227: 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

Câu hỏi 228: 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

Câu hỏi 229: 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

Câu hỏi 230: 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

Câu hỏi 231: 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

Câu hỏi 232: 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.

Câu hỏi 233: 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

Câu hỏi 234: The Song of Beowulf is written by

• Unknown writer
• Moore
• Shakespeare
• Chaucer

Câu hỏi 235: 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

Câu hỏi 236: 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

Câu hỏi 237: 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”

Câu hỏi 238: 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

Câu hỏi 239: 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

Câu hỏi 240: 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

Câu hỏi 241: 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

Câu hỏi 242: 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

Câu hỏi 243: Thomas More’s masterpiece Utopia was written in _______.

• Latin
• French
• Greek
• English

Câu hỏi 244: Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.

• Characters
• Belief
• Idea
• God

Câu hỏi 245: Vanity Fair is a novel by?

• W. M. Thackeray
• Thomas Hardy
• Charles Dickens
• Jane Austen

Câu hỏi 246: Was killed by Hamlet unintentionally?

• Polonius
• Leartus
• Horatio
• Forinbras

Câu hỏi 247: 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

Câu hỏi 248: What does Jim buy for Della in The Gift of the Magi?

• Combs
• Gold chain
• Diamond ring
• Silver bracelet

Câu hỏi 249: What is a sonnet?

• A poem of fourteen lines
• A poem of twelve lines
• A poem of six lines
• A poem of eight lines

Câu hỏi 250: What is the imitation of natural sounds in word form?

• Onomatopoeia
• Personification
• Alliteration
• Hyperboles

Câu hỏi 251: 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

Câu hỏi 252: 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

Câu hỏi 253: 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

Câu hỏi 254: What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?

• Foe
• Friend
• Good
• Neighbour

Câu hỏi 255: What was Daniel Defoe’s original surname?

• Foe
• Friend
• Good
• Neigbour

Câu hỏi 256: What was O. Henry’s real name?

• William Sidney Porter
• Clark Cable
• Arthur Kent
• Henry Ford

Câu hỏi 257: 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

Câu hỏi 258: When did Daniel Defoe die?

• 12 September 1748
• 26 April 1731
• 5 January 1740
• 7 December 1725

Câu hỏi 259: When was Jonathan Swift born?

• 11 January 1660
• 14 April 1656
• 3 June 1663
• 30 November 1667

Câu hỏi 260: When was O. Henry born?

• 11 September 1862
• January 1870
• 14 April 1865
• 3 June 1868

Câu hỏi 261: Where did O. Henry die?

• New York
• Philadelphia
• Austin
• London

Câu hỏi 262: Where did O. Henry flee to avoid trial?

• Honduras
• Brazil
• Canada

Câu hỏi 263: Where did O. Henry work as a teller?

• First National Bank, Austin
• First American Bank, Washington
• ANZGrindlays Bank, Atlanta
• Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

Câu hỏi 264: Where was Jonathan Swift born?

• Dublin
• New Deli
• London
• Manchester

Câu hỏi 265: Where was Oscar Wilde born?

• Dublin
• Glasgow
• Cork
• London

Câu hỏi 266: Which humourous weekly was started by O. Henry?

• The Rolling Stone
• Eve’s Weekly
• Shankar’s Weekly

Câu hỏi 267: Which is the last play written by William Shakespeare?

• The Tempest
• As you like it
• Two Gentlemen from Verona
• Henry V

Câu hỏi 268: 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

Câu hỏi 269: Which of the following best summarizes the relationship between Fowler, Pyle, and Phuong in The Quiet American?

• Love triangle
• Enemies
• Colleagues
• Good friends

Câu hỏi 270: Which of the following books was written by Daniel Defoe?

• Robinson Crusoe
• Gulliver’s Travels
• Either Or
• Odyssey

Câu hỏi 271: Which of the following books was written by Jonathan Swift?

• Gulliver’s Travels
• Vanity Fair
• Daffodils
• First Impression

Câu hỏi 272: 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

Câu hỏi 273: Which of the following is an unfinished novel by Jane Austen?

• Sandition
• Sense and Sensibility
• Persuasion
• Mansfield Park

Câu hỏi 274: Which of the following is not a Shakespeare tragedy?

• None of the above
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Othello
• Titus Andronicus

Câu hỏi 275: Which of the following languages did not coexist in Anglo-Norman England?

• Dutch
• Latin
• French
• Celtic

Câu hỏi 276: Which of the following novels has the sub-title ‘A Novel Without a Hero’?

• Vanity Fair
• Middlemarch
• Wuthering Heights
• Oliver Twist

Câu hỏi 277: 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

Câu hỏi 278: 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

Câu hỏi 279: Which people began their invasion and conquest of southwestern Britain around 450?

• The Anglo-Saxons
• The Normans
• The Celts
• The Geats

Câu hỏi 280: Which poem written y Daniel Defoe made him popular with William III?

• The True Born Englishman
• Captain Jack
• Hymn to the Pillory
• Moll Flanders

Câu hỏi 281: Which school did Jonathan Swift attend?

• Trinity College
• Stradford Grammar School
• Kilkenny Grammar School
• Kilmanock School

Câu hỏi 282: 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

Câu hỏi 283: 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

Câu hỏi 284: 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

Câu hỏi 285: Who get Daniel Defoe released?

• Robert Harley
• Oliver Cromwell
• James Robert Oaklay
• Alexander Selkirk

Câu hỏi 286: 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

Câu hỏi 287: Who was often called as the Romantic Poet as most of his poems revolved around nature?

• William Wordsworth
• William Blake
• William Morris
• William Shakespeare

Câu hỏi 288: Who wrote “The Hound of the Baskervilles?”

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• P D James
• Agatha Christie
• H Ryder-Haggard

Câu hỏi 289: Who wrote Canterbury Tales?

• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Dick Whittington
• King Richard II
• Thomas Lancaster

Câu hỏi 290: Why was Daniel Defoe arrested in May 1703?

• Not paying debts
• Piracy
• Translating Bible in English
• Writing the pamphlet The Shortest Way of Dissenters

Câu hỏi 291: William Shakespeare born in:

• 26 April 1564
• 26 April 1566
• 26 April 1567
• 26 April 1565

Câu hỏi 292: William Shakespeare is not the author of:

• White Devil
• Titus Andronicus
• Hamlet
• Taming of the Shrew

Câu hỏi 293: William Shakespeare married to the Anne Hathaway at the age of_______ in______.

• 18, 1582
• 16, 1580
• 15, 1579
• 17, 1581

Câu hỏi 294: William Shakespeare was born in the year:

• 1564
• 1578
• 1582
• 1544

Câu hỏi 295: 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

Câu hỏi 296: Words from which language began to enter English vocabulary around the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066?

• French
• Norwegian
• Spanish
• Hungarian