Mixed
What is the name of a water monster which attacked King Hrothgar in "Beowulf"?
Grendel
What was his father's job?
a butcher
Who is the leading pre-romantic poet?
William Blake
What was his father's job?
a clerk
What was her father's job?
a clergyman
When Geoffrey Chaucer died and where was buried?
He died in 1400 and was buried in Westminster Abby
At what age Daniel Defoe started writing pamphlets?
about 23
Whose birthday is celebrated in Scotland as a national holiday?
Robert Burns
Why did Charles have to begin to work at a factory?
Because his father lost his job and was imprisoned for debt.
What were the jobs that available for women at that time?
governesses or schoolteachers
Who is Robin Hood's second-in-command and best fighter?
Little John
In which satire Defoe proved that true-born Englishmen did not exist, since the English nation consisted of Anglo-Saxons, Danes, Normans, and others?
“The True-born Englishman”
Th author of the following novels: “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell” (1790), “The Gates of Paradise”(1793), and “Jerusalem” (1804)
William Blake
In 1832 Dickens became a parliamentary reporter. Dickens’s first efforts at writing were .........
little stories about the ordinary Londoners he saw
Two novels that Anne Bronte (1820-1849) wrote.
“Agnes Grey”
“The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
Who is the writer of the famous work “Utopia”?
Sir Thomas More
When he died he was working on the book called ........
“The Complete English Gentleman”
Who were the first generation of the English Romantic poets?
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whom did he get married at the age of 24?
Catherine Hogarth
Charlotte Bronte wrote three other novels. The most popular of the three novels was .....
“Villette”
What are the names of William Shakespeare's children?
Susanna and twins Judith and Hamnet
BONUS
500
He was born in London, on January 22, 1788, in an impoverished aristocratic family. His mother was a Scottish Lady of honorable birth and respectable fortune. His father, an army officer, died when the boy was only 3 years old. Whom are we talking about?
George Gordon Byron
His literary works are divided into four periods. In which period did he write his novel “David Copperfield”?
3
What is the setting of the novel "Jane Eyre"?
early 19th century, England