Test: British Literature

Which of these literary works is the oldest? ________

1. Canterbury Tales
2. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
3. Paradise Lost
4. Romeo and Juliet

Which play does not belong here? ________

1. Hamlet
2. Macbeth
3. Much Ado About Nothing
4. Othello

Which writer does not belong to the same period as the others? ________

1. George Gordon Byron
2. John Milton
3. Percy Bysshe Shelley
4. William Wordsworth

William Golding is famous for his novel ________.

1. Lord of the Flies
2. Lucky Jim
3. Pygmalion
4. Vanity Fair

Beowulf was ________.

1. a hero
2. a historical play
3. a monster
4. a writer

Which of these novels is very autobiographical? ________

1. David Copperfield
2. Little Dorrit
3. Oliver Twist
4. Pickwick Papers

Which of these writers was a woman? ________

1. George Eliot
2. Oscar Wilde
3. Thomas Hardy
4. William Makepeace Thackeray

What nationality was Robert Burns? ________

1. English
2. Irish
3. Scottish
4. Welsh

The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde was a ________.

1. novel
2. play
3. poem
4. short story

Mary Shelley wrote ________.

1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
2. Dracula
3. Frankenstein
4. Interview with the Vampire