Тест: British authors and poets.

This test covers British authors and poets. Choose the best answer for each multiple-choice question.

Part 1: Multiple Choice

Which author wrote “Pride and Prejudice”? a) Jane Austen b) Charlotte Brontë c) Emily Brontë d) George Eliot

Who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”? a) J.M. Barrie b) Lewis Carroll c) Kenneth Grahame d) Beatrix Potter

Which author is known for the Sherlock Holmes stories? a) Agatha Christie b) Arthur Conan Doyle c) Bram Stoker d) H.G. Wells

“To Kill a Mockingbird” was written by: a) Harper Lee b) Mark Twain c) Ernest Hemingway d) F. Scott Fitzgerald (Note: This is an American author, included to test knowledge boundaries)

Which poet wrote “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”? a) Lord Byron b) William Wordsworth c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) John Keats

Who penned the famous line, “To be or not to be, that is the question”? a) William Shakespeare b) Christopher Marlowe c) Ben Jonson d) Edmund Spenser

Which author is associated with the Gothic novel genre? a) Charles Dickens b) Mary Shelley c) George Orwell d) Virginia Woolf

“Peter Pan” features which magical character? a) Winnie-the-Pooh b) Peter Rabbit c) Alice d) Tinker Bell

Which poet is famous for their sonnets? a) Alfred, Lord Tennyson b) William Blake c) Robert Burns d) William Shakespeare

“1984,” a dystopian novel, was written by: a) George Orwell b) Aldous Huxley c) Ray Bradbury d) George Eliot

Part 2: Matching

Match the author with their famous work:

Jane Austen a) Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë b) Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens c) Great Expectations

William Shakespeare d) Hamlet

Part 3: True or False

William Wordsworth was a Romantic poet. (True/False)

Agatha Christie is known for her detective fiction. (True/False)

The Brontë sisters all wrote novels. (True/False)

Shakespeare wrote primarily in the Victorian era. (True/False)

Answer Key:

Part 1: 1. a) 2. b) 3. b) 4. a) 5. c) 6. a) 7. b) 8. d) 9. d) 10. a)

Part 2: 1. b) 2. a) 3. c) 4. d)

Part 3: 1. True 2. True 3. True 4. False

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