Previous Page  18 / 24 Next Page
Basic version Information
Show Menu
Previous Page 18 / 24 Next Page
Page Background

Parte III - Simulazioni d’esame

336

B.

Coleridge’s

Daffodils

C.

Blake’s and Coleridge’s poem

I wandered lonely as a cloud

D.

Wordsworth’s Preface to the Second Edition of the

Lyrical Ballads

25) Who is considered to be the father of the Gothic fiction?

A.

Edgar Allan Poe

B.

Jonathan Swift

C.

Horace Walpole

D.

Charles Brockden Brown

26) In the Preface to

The Picture of Dorian Gray

, Oscar Wilde writes:

A.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream

B.

All art is at once surface and symbol

C.

The artist has ethical sympathies

D.

Vice and immorality are to the artist materials for an art

27) Which of the following novels by Charles Dickens was only half

completed?

A.

Our Mutual Friend

B.

Barnaby Rudge

C.

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

D.

A Christmas Carol

28) Who composed the following verse at the age of 12?

Happy the man, whose wish and care/ A few paternal acres bound, /

Content to breathe his native air, / In his own ground

.

A.

Geoffrey Chaucer

B.

William Hogarth

C.

Alexander Pope

D.

William Walsh

29) Fill in the blank in the following sentence.

If you can’t help ……… unhelpful comments, then please don’t say

anything.

A.

to make

B.

making

C.

makes

D.

make