America literature

English Literature Test (2006 -2007)
Term IV (120 minutes)
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I- Match each phrase or clause with the best ending. (10marks)

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1- English literature
a. are the novel, the drama, the poem
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2- “ The Man of Property” by John Galsworthy
b. is an art which exploits English language
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3- Earls and Churls
c. caused by the vigorous and unplanned development of enterprises in Great Britain
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4- 1500
d. related to the truth “ All men are created equal”
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5- In the 4th voyage, Gulliver went to
e. are social classes in the Normans
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6- The American Revolution
f. the English workers’ movement
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7- The General Crises
g. happened in 1789
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8- The Enlightenment writers
h. belonged to two groups
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9- Gulliver’s travels
i. the beginning of the Renaissance
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10- Main forms of literature
j. first appeared in London
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k. the country of Yahoos



m. is the first famous novel of John Galsworthy


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II- Read these statements, then decide True (T) or False (F) (40marks).
1- Shakespeare: the author of 1 poem, 37 plays and 154 sonnets
2- The sonnet is a poem consisting of 14 lines divided into two quatrains and two tersest or in to 3 quatrains and a final couplet.
3 - The words of the Declaration of Independence were passed on 4th July 1876 by USA Congress.
4- The American Revolution was the symbol of the growth of national consciousness in America in the last decades of the 18th century.
5- “Geoffrey Chaucer looks forward to the future, while Lang land sum up the past”.
6- In the “Canterbury Tales” Geoffrey Chaucer gave literature something, it had never seen before observation of life, pictures of people who are real.
7- The first drama was based on three things: the mimetic, a belief in Gods and a fear of starvation.
8- There is one big difference between the Greek conception hero has free will but Greek hero isn’t.
9. The Boer War was the fight for colony in South Africa between British imperialists and the Dutch colonialists.
10- The Second World War proved far more catastrophic than the First World War.
11- Laerter in “Hamlet” by Shakespeare is Hamlet’s dear friend.
12- Ireland began their struggle against Great Britain for national independence in 1906
13- There are 3 main historical events in the 18th century: the dispute of power between the Tory and the Whig, the rise of the British empire, the beginning of the Industrial Revolution.
14- In “The Man of Property “by John Galsworthy, The Forsyte belong to the “great upper middle class “.
15.- “The Man of Property “by John Galsworthy involves a tripartite love affair between Soames Forsyte, Jon Forsyte and Irene Heron.
16- Defoe was not very successful in journalism and literature.
17- In an “Essay on projects” (1697) Defoe presented the great public movement such as higher education for women, protection for seamen…
18- When Defoe was 70, he published the first part of Robinson Crusoe.
19- Robinson in “Robinson Crusoe” stayed in the island 28 years 2 months 10 days.
20- The house of Robinson has no doors
21- “The Draper`s let” made Daniel Defoe famous in 1724
22- Laputa is a flying island in “Gulliver’s travel”
23- Swift language was more elaborate and literary than Defoe`s’
24- Children in Lilliput in “Gulliver’s travel” are educated by their parents carefully.
25- Alfred is an important figure in the history of English literature. He translated much Latin in to English
26- James Joyce, Thomas Steams, Eliot, Virginia Woolf and Lawrence were members of the Decadents trend.
27.- The Normans in England wrote a literature which was neither a true French literature nor English literature .
28- Renaissance is the revived interest in Greek and Roman literatures. the discovery of the world and human being and the awakening of men`s mind, the awakening of individual spirit and secularism.
29- 1066 : the beginning of the Renaissance
30. The 16th century was a period of Bible translation Carton, Wycliffe.
31. “The Canterbury tales "is about 29 persons going to Canterbury on a journey of 2 -4 days.
32.William Shakespeare`s dramatic work may be divided in to 3 classes: histories, comedies and tragedies.
33- Chartism movement failed in 1948.
34- Lake District was Wordsworth‘