Please note: you are obliged to read all the texts from your reading list.

This will be tested

by means of a quiz at the end of each semester (during the classes). You must pass the
quizzes to be eligible to take the exam.

SAMPLE EXAMINATION QUESTIONS

the pass mark for the entire exam: 60%

Part I (20p)
I. Fill in the blanks:
1. [one title] ………………………………. is an example of Tennyson’s fascination with the
Middle Ages.
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s poetry addressed contemporary social and political problems such
as ……………….………… or …………………………………. .
3. What, according to David Lodge, was Henry James’s attitude to the predominant mode of
English fiction in the early years of the twentieth century?

II. Define the names (period, main achievements) or terms:

Charlotte Brontë (period/main achievements)

Oxford Movement
II. Answer the questions (in a few sentences).
How did Dickens represent children in his novels?

Part II (20p)
I. Choose one passage. Identify it and comment on its meaning. Identify the speaker/narrator and the
situation, account for the use of particular words and stylistic devices, discuss the imagery and
explain the relation of the passage to the whole work (at least 200 words).
1. Are God and Nature then at strife,
         That Nature lends such evil dreams?
         So careful of the type she seems,
So careless of the single life;

That I, considering everywhere

         Her secret meaning in her deeds,
         And finding that of fifty seeds
She often brings but one to bear,

I falter where I firmly trod,

         And falling with my weight of cares
         Upon the great world's altar-stairs
That slope thro' darkness up to God,

II. Answer one of the questions in 250-300 words.

1.Discuss the mode of narration in Wuthering Heights and its influence on the reader’s
interpretation of the story.