ENGLISH TEST FOR LITERATURE

Time: 60 minutes
I. PART 1: Choose the best answer: A, B, C or D:
1. Who were the most ancient inhabitants on the British Isles?
(A) The Romans (B) The Celts (C) The Anglo-Saxons (D) The Normans
2. A poem with no meter or rhyme
(A) lyric (B) narrative (C) free verse (D) rhyme
3. Who gave England its name “Angle land”?
(A) The Celts (B) The Germanic tribes (C) The Romans (D) The Normans
4. Auld Lang Syne is a famous poem by whom?
(A) Sir Water Scott (B). William Butler Yeats (C) Henry Long Fellow
(D) Robert Burn
5. Who wrote The Canterbury Tales?
(A) Geoffrey Chaucer (B) Thomas Lancaster (C) Thomas More
(D) William Shakespeare
6. In which language the story The Canterbury Tales are written?
(A) French (B) Latin (C) Middle English (D) English
7. Which of the following is not a Shakespeare trategy?
(A) Othello (B) Hamlet
(C) Macbeth (D) None of the above
8. Which of the names does not fit the list?
(A) William Blake (B) William Wordsworth
(C) William Shakespeare (D) William Byrd
9. Which is not a poetry form
(A) epic (B) sonnet (C) tale (D) ballads
10. Where did T.S Eliot spend most of his childhood?
(A) Denver (B) St Louis (C) Cambridge (D) Wales

II. PART 2: Questions 11-15 are based on the following passage.

Let others better mound the running mass
 Of metals, and inform the breathing brass.
And soften into flesh a marble face;
Plead better at the bar; describe the skies,
And when the stars descend, and when they rise.
But. Rome! ‘this tine alone, with awful sway.
To rule mankind, and make the world obey.
Disposing peace and war thy own majestic way;
To tame the proud, the fettered slave to free
These are imperial arts, and worthy thee.
11. Which of the following most accurately describes the passage?
(A) The speaker argues that the fate of empires can be discovered by interpreting
celestial events.
(B) The speaker defends himself as a loyal citizen but expresses regret over the state
of the arts in Rome.
(C) The speaker compliments Greek culture for its achievements in art and science,
and singles out administration as a Roman art.
(D) The speaker deplores the widespread use of slaves in the ancient world.
12. As used in line 6, “sway” most nearly means
(A) power (B)resolve (C) wisdom (D)tact
13. Line 9 presents an example of
(A) anaphora (B)apostrophe (c) chiasmus (D)periphrasis
14. Which of the following words or phrases has been omitted as understood after “worthy”
(line 10)?
(A) of (B) before (C) beside (D) according to
15. The passage is from
(A) Chapman’s translation of Homer (B) Dryden’s translation of Virgil
(C)Sandys’ translation of Ovid (D) Longfellow’s translation of Dante