literature mock test

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 6

Who is Oliver Cromwell?

1. Shakespeare's publisher
2. A puritan general
3. He wrote the first real novel
4. a character in Gulliver's travels

When did newspapers become 'a thing'?

1. around 1650
2. around 1800
3. around 1750
4. after world war 1

'Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, / Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking'

1. this is an allegory
2. this is a heroic couplet
3. this is free verse
4. this is an epic poem

which people are associated with the Enlightenment?

1. Erasmus, Voltaire, Spinoza
2. Descartes, Wilde, Goethe
3. Keats, Shakespeare, Beowulf
4. Voltaire, Marx, Crusoe

Who wrote 'Robinson Crusoe'?

1. Jonathan swift
2. David Gray
3. Henry Fielding
4. Daniel Defoe

when did the first recorded attack on Britain by Scandinavian vikings take place?

1. 843
2. 793
3. 1066
4. 926

Give three characteristics of Beowulf (character traits)

If even this stranger had smiled and been good-humored to me when I addresssed him; if he had put my offer of assistance gaily and with thanks, I should have gone on my way and not felt any vocation to renew inquiries....

1. Gulliver arrives on Lilliput and is greeted roughly
2. Beowulf is snubbed by the king of the Geats
3. Elizabeth has an akward encounter with Darcy
4. Jane sees Mr Rochester in trouble

which is NOT a shakespeare play?

1. All's well that ends well
2. Measure for measure
3. The Merry wives of Verona
4. Titus Andronicus

She walks in beauty, like the night/
of cloudless chimes and starry skies/
and all that's best of dark and light/
meets in her aspect and her eyes.

1. There are 10 syllables in each line, making it a sonnet
2. the first line is a run-on line
3. The eyes are personified
4. Shakespeare wrote this

Which is NOT a characteristic of the romantic period?

1. Focus on the power and grandeur of nature
2. A fascination with the exotic
3. a great interest in nature as a peaceful place
4. anti-authoritarian impulses

what is a ballad?

1. A ballad is a form of verse, 13 lines with an ABABBCBC form, consisting of couplets of rhymed verse, each of 14 syllables.
2. A ballad is a song in French, often 14 lines with ABCDABCDABCD
3. A very long poem with free verse with cleear refrains that were sung/put to music
4. A poem of 14 lines, Rhyme sccheme ABAB CDCD with a clear break of thought in the lat two lines

What is Lilliput?

1. A city where everyone is a horse-man
2. an island where you become small
3. An Island where everything is very tiny
4. a country filled with giants

I smil'd at him, and look'd pleasantly, and beckon'd to him to come still nearer (...) then he kneeled down (...) kiss'd the ground and laid his head upon the ground (...) swearing to be my slave for ever.

1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Hamlet
3. Rochester
4. The Miller