1.

Do the quiz:
1. "The Great Gatsby" is the perfect portrayal of the
a) “Roaring Twenties” b) “Roaring Thirties” c) “Roaring Forties”
2. Who wrote the crime novel "Ten Little Niggers"?
a) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle b) Agatha Christie c) Emile Zola
3. How many lines does a sonnet have?
a) 12 b) 14 c) they vary
4. Who wrote 'Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly to be wise'?
a) Kipling b) Marx c) Shakespeare
5. In which century were Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" written?
a) the fourteenth b) the fifteenth c) the seventeenth
6. What nationality was Robert Louis Stevenson, the author of "Treasure Island"?
a) Irish b) English c) Scottish
7. "Jane Eyre" was written by which Bronte sister?
a) Anne b) Charlotte c) Emily
8. What is the book "Lord of the Flies" about?
a) a road trip around the USA b) a swarm of killer flies c) schoolboys on a desert
island
9. In the book "The Lord of the Rings", who or what is Bilbo?
a) dwarf b) wizard c) hobbit
10. Christopher Marlowe was
a) W. Shakespeare’s contemporary b) T. Dreiser’s contemporary c) J.Joyce’s
contemporary

2.Complete the statements:

1. Romanticism is a literary movement which appeared as a reaction to the
Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of
Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature—all components of
modernity.
2. Modernism in English literature was caused by a conscious desire to overturn
traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time.
3. The philosophy of the Renaissance was a movement away
from Christianity and medieval Scholasticism and towards Humanism, with an
increasing focus on the temporal and personal over merely seeing this world as a
gateway to the Christian afterlife.
4. The main representatives of modernism are Lewis, Lawrence, and Eliot.
5. The main representatives of post-modernism are Jean Baudrillard, Gilles
Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault.

3.Answer the questions:

1. What novel depicts the perfect dictatorship? How is it connected with
democracy? How are genetics and cloning exposed in the novel?
2. What literary trends focus on the inner world of the main characters, their
ideas and impressions rather than objective presentation of reality? What
writing techniques and tools are used in these trends? Name the authors and
works.
4. How did Golding’s experience teaching unruly young boys serve as
inspiration for his literary work? Golding’s experience teaching unruly young
boys would later serve as inspiration for his novel Lord of the Flies.
5. Why does “Beowulf” have a great social and historical significance?
It is a part of the broader tradition of heroic poetry. Many incidents, such as
Beowulf’s tearing off the monster’s arm and his descent into the mere, are
familiar motifs from folklore. The ethical values are manifestly the Germanic
code of loyalty to chief and tribe and vengeance to enemies. Yet the poem is so
infused with a Christian spirit that it lacks the grim fatality of many of the
Eddaic lays or the sagas of Icelandic literature. Beowulf himself seems more
altruistic than other Germanic heroes or the ancient Greek heroes of the Iliad. It
is significant that his three battles are not against men, which would entail the
retaliation of the blood feud, but against evil monsters, enemies of the whole
community and of civilization itself. Many critics have seen the poem as a
Christian allegory, with Beowulf the champion of goodness and light against
the forces of evil and darkness. His sacrificial death is not seen as tragic but as
the fitting end of a good (some would say “too good”) hero’s life.
6. Representatives of what literary trend believed that "Vice is due to
ignorance"? What did they fight for? The problem of vital importance to the
writers of the 18th century was the study of man and the origin of his good and
evil qualities. According to them, human nature was virtuous but man diverged
from virtue under the influence of a vicious society. "Vice is due to ignorance",
they said. It's but natural that the writers of the 18th century started a public
movement for enlightenment of people. The writers of the age of Enlightenment
insisted upon a systematic education for all.
7. How does Jane Austen depict an average middle-class English family at the
end of the 18th, at the beginning of the 19th century? What hardships did
women face in her time and how did she reveal them in her novels? Austen
used fiction to describe social reality within her own time and class (the gentry
and professional classes of southern England in the early 19th century). By so
doing, she was able to introduce something closer to real morality in describing
the range of human relationships that we all are likely to encounter in ordinary
life. Her subjects are the behaviour of parents to their children, the dangers and
pleasures of falling in love, of making friends, of getting on with neighbours,
and above all of discriminating between those who mean us well and those who
may not. Jane Austen’s social realism includes her understanding that women’s
lives in the early 19th century are limited in opportunity, even among the gentry
and upper middle classes. She understands that marriage is women’s best route
to financial security and social respect.