Intrebari Istoria Literaturii engleze 2009 pana azi 5 martie

1.

5 puncte din 5) What does Nurse complain about when she comes with the
news from Romeo?
all of the above

2.
2. (5 puncte din 5) Romeo seems to dominate life by
assurance and perseverance
3.
3. (5 puncte din 5) T.S.Eliot says that Hamlet's emotion is inexpressible
because it's
in excess of the facts as they appear
4.
4. (5 puncte din 5) Who says these words: What's in a name? That which we
call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet ?
Juliet
5.
5. (5 puncte din 5) What is The undiscovered country from whose bourn no
traveller returns ?
Death
6.
6. (0 puncte din 5) Against whom is directed Richard's first plot?
The Duke of York
7.
7. (0 puncte din 5) A prime feature of Richard III is his
unrestrained cruelty
8. 8. (5 puncte din 5) Hamlet is thoughtful and human and finds the greatest
difficulty in
accepting the new situation
9.
9. (5 puncte din 5) Nurse tells Juliet that, in choosing Romeo, she has made
A simple choice
10.
10. (5 puncte din 5) Hamlet characterizes himself as
All of the above (mai erau trecute proud, ambitious, revengeful, none of this)
11.
11. Hamlet also delays action because of
some very deep and sensuous attachment to his mother
12.
12. (5 puncte din 5) Romeo and Juliet's tragedy is
the tragedy of a late understanding
13.
13. (5 puncte din 5) By the help of what does Romeo say that he has climbed
the orchard wall?
love's light wings

14.
14. (5 puncte din 5) Hamlet's experience stirs the awareness of
similar experiences in ourselves
15.
15. (5 puncte din 5) Who says these words: Graze where you will, you shall
not house with me ?
Capulet
16.
16.(5 puncte din 5) The recurrent pattern of Richard III is ...
Nemesis
17.
17. (0 puncte din 5) For Richard, misrepresentation is
something to be avoided
18.
18. (5 puncte din 5) What does Juliet want Romeo to swear his love by?
his gracious self
19.
19. (5 puncte din 5) Hamlet is a play about
not knowing for sure
20.
20. (5 puncte din 5) The chivalric code laid down courses of action in
war and love
-constiinta celui de-al doilea criminal: in the Duke of Gloucester s purse

- ceva cu ... in William Archer's opinion ... - Corect: a crisis in the life of his characters; o
criza in viata personajelor sale
- The development in Richard III - Corect: a chain of destruction. Un lant de distrugere
1. hamlet este omul din centrul conflictului dintre : R corect (eu am gresit) predestination
and free will - pag 4 sinteza predestinare si liberul arbitru
2. Caracterul lui Romeo e definit de : R corect (eu am gresit) offensive actions - pag. 14-15
sinteza
3. Dupa Elliot, mama lui hamlet nu e adequate equivalent for : R corect (eu am gresit) his
disgust - pag. 10 sinteza
4. dupa ce i-a spus julietei ca se va marita a doua zi, doica s-a dus sa : R corect faca o scara

a ladder
5.cine a spus YOUNG MEN'S LOVE THEN LIES/NOT TRULY IN THEIR HEARTS BUT IN THEIR
EYES : R corect friar lawrence
6. dragostea dintre Romeo si julieta se bazeaza pe : R pe care l-am dat eu (GRESIT) a fost
'simillar patterns". Asa ca poate gasiti voi rasp corect si, eventual, sa-l postati aici si ptr
mine :)
De ce o trimite Hamlet pe Ofelia ''to nunnery''-thou be a breeder of sinners

''la nunnery''

-pag. 10 sinteza din T.S.Elliot The artistic inevitabillity lies se afla in this complete
ADEQUACY.. cititi toata propozitia eu aici am gresit
-ceva din Principal characters in Hamlet-am raspuns Polonius-gresit

din intrebarile postate cea despre Ofelia-sunt doua intrebari precis cui ii este dedicata ea -au
fost raspunsuri si cu her lover si cu her father(Viorestea pag 14 parca)-unde nu aveti la
variante her lover raspunsul este her father
1. Hamlet experience stirs the awareness... of similar experiences in ourselves Sinteza
pag3
2. Hamlet ii spune lui Polonius: For yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if, like a crab, you
could go backward Sinteza pag 6
3.The state of calm states THE DRAMATIC CONFLICT(CORECT)
,4.Inevitabilitylies in the COMPLETE ADEQUACY justetea (CORECT),
.Pe ce ii cere Julieta lui Romeo sa jure? ON GRACIOUS HIMSELF (CORECT).
Cuvantul care este un adevarat lait motiv in piesa Richard III: nu mai8 stiu variantele dar
corect este "blood".

1. The tragedy of the children becomes the tragedy of the parents, the tragedy of a late
understanding pag 14 Sinteza (jos, ultima propozitie inainte de The utopia of love)
2. In Richard III..the word "blood" runs like a leit-motif through the play
Sinteza pag 23

MODEL GRILE (din tematic)

1. Hamlet calls the world...
a)
b)
c)
d)

a valley of sorrows
an unweeded garden
an inaccessible mountain
a polluted river

2. To whom does Hamlet say: Assume a virtue, if you have it not?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Ophelia
Claudius
Gertrude
Laertes 3

3. What is, in Hamlets opinion, that which makes cowards of us all?

a)
b)
c)
d)

fear
shame
solicitude
conscience

4. Who says these words: Being but heavy, I will bear the light. ?
a)
b)
c)
d)

Richard III
Hamlet
Romeo
Claudius

5. The dialogue between Romeo and Juliet when they first meet is in the form
of...
a)
b)
c)
d)

a sonnet
a limerick
a ballad
an acrostic

6. Who characterizes himself as subtle, false and treacherous?

a)
b)
c)
d)

Claudius
Polonius
Richard
Buckingham

7. What never leaves Richard in his plots, stratagems and in the midst of his
bloody devices?
a)
b)
c)
d)

his ambition
his courage
his humour
his pride

1. A conversation according to William Archer, has no bearing on the : theme

2. "All of Shakespeare s heroines are liberated, emancipated women." Fals
3. "Before stabbing Polonius, Hamlet wants to set up a glass so that his
mother may see herself in it
4. Being thoughtful and human, Hamlet find difficulty in accepting the new
situation
5. Claudius asks Hamlet if there is no[-offence --] in the play performed at court.
6. Comparative literature deals with the generic approach to drama. Fals

7. Critics have compared the Duchess of Malfi to Shakespeare s Hamlet because

both characters[-are the representatives of modern, democratic, revolutionary
ideas" -]
8. "Despite his negative features of personality, Polonius from Hamlet appears to be
a good father
9. "Everyman, from the repertoire of English mediaeval drama, is about[the hour
of death]"
10. Elliot says the only way of expresing emotion in the form of art is by finding
an objective correlative
11. Eliot said that the essential emotion of the play is... R:the feeling of a son
towards a guilty mother
12. The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an
objective correlative
13. For Gertrude, the Ghost is just the coinage of Hamlet s " brain
14. Gertrude rarely takes any positive action
15.Gertrude from Hamlet is Claudius accomplice in his murder of King Hamlet.
Fals
16. "Hamlet, being aware that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern spy on him, calls the
former " a sponge
17. Hamlet is a play about: not knowing for sure
18. Hamlet is aware that Laertes is faced with a situation similar to his own. Fals
19. Hamlet is dominated by an emotion which is inexplressible because: it is in
exces of the fact as they appear
20. Hamlet is not a mere pawn moved here and there. He is? R: an agent of the
divine authority
21. Hamlet calls the world an unweeded garden
22. Hamlet feeld that the must be the one to restore the natural order of things
23. Hamlet speaks about plays as a flattering glass of humanity. Fals
24. Hamlet thinks that actors... should not improvise but stick to the text of the
play
25. Hamlet talks of conscience, and one part of him is checked and balanced... R:
in the struggles of conscience
26. Harold Bloom has called the Shakespearean characters habit of analyzing their
own emotions and motives... self-overhearing
27. "In Hamlet, shortly before the beginning of the play-within-the play, in a speech
to the First Player, Hamlet[-complains about the excesses of bad acting --]"
28. "In Hamlet, Good night, sweet prince, / And flights of angels sing thee to thy
rest are words spoken by Horatio

29.. "One of Hamlet s famous speeches concludes with [Frailty], thy name is
woman ."
30. One of the dramatic genres Shakespeare never tried his hand at was the city
comedy
31. "Polonius tells Hamlet that in his youth he played, as an actor, the role of Julius
Caesar
32. Richard, with his hunchback and withered arm... R: his social deformity
33. Romeo and Juliet are simply victim of their elders and betters
34. Shakespeare never mixes tragic and comic elements in one and the same play.
Fals
35. Shakespeare never borrowed the subject of his plays from contemporaries like
Robert Greene. Fals
36. Shakespeare wrote 37 plays. Fals
37. Shakespeare s characters never fall in love at first sight. Fals
38. Shakespeare s characters are not interested in money or other economic matters.
Fals
39. Some very deep and sensuous attachment to his mother is supposed by some to
prevent him from doing anything which may conceivably hurt her.
40. "The clouds in Hamlet s speeches to Polonius take the shape of a camel, a
beaver CASTOR and a whale." Fals
41. The dialogue between Romeo and Juliet when they first meet is in the form
off. a sonnet
42. The dying Hamlet forgives the by now dead Laertes for his crime. Fals
43. The English ambassadors announce at the end of Hamlet that Rosencrantz and
[Guildenstern] are dead
44. "The English playwright who composed the famous Eulogy, To The Beloved
Author for the 1623 posthumous Folio edition of Shakespeare s plays was Ben
Jonson
45. The English playwright who immediately wrote a play in response to the vogue
of Christopher Marlowe s Doctor Faustus was Robert Greene
46. The First Clown in Hamlet took up his trade as a gravedigger on the day[-Old
Hamlet killed the Norwegian king and Hamlet was born --]
47.The first dramatic poems composed in French were written in England. Fals
48. "The first Elizabethan allusion to a play titled Hamlet occurs in 1589, long
before the premiere of Shakespeare s Hamlet, in a preface written by " Thomas
Nashe
49. The first player recites at Hamlet s request Priam s slaughter sacrificare by
Pyrrhus

50. "The five types of Shakespearean masculinity described by Bruce R. Smith are
the saucy jack, the prince merchant, the chivalric knight and the humanist man
of moderation
51. The flattering glass is a phrase that occurs in Webster s and Heywood s
tragedies as well as in Shakespeare s Richard II and Edward III
52. The fall of Richard resembles that of a man... R: slipping down the face of a
precipice
53. The holistic approach to a Shakespeare play means: the discussion of the play
as an organic entity discutia de joc ca o organica entitate
54. The last words in Hamlet are spoken by[-Fortinbras --]
55. The miracles and mysteries were played by professional actors. Fals
56. The miracle plays are about Vices and Virtues. Fals
57. The miracles were plays performed on wagons known as pageants
58. The mysteries were originally dumb-shows
59. The mirror as a symbol appears in Hamlet. three times
60. The play-within-the play in Hamlet is called The Mousetrap
61. The wounded Laertes from Hamlet admits that he is justly killed with his own
treachery
62. The[time].is out of joint in Hamlets opinion.
63. The undiscover country from whose bourn no traveler`s return is death
64. "There is some method in this[-madness --], says Polonius about Hamlet s
strange behaviour."
65. To whom dors Hamlet say: Assume a virtue, if you have not? Gertrude
66. What never leaves richard in his plots, stratagems and in the mist of his bloody
devices? his humor
67. With his mother Hamlet is gently persuasive.
68. What is, in Hamlet opinion, that which makes cowards of us all? conscience
69. "When Claudius asks Hamlet how he feels in Act Three, Scene Two, Hamlet
answers that he eats from the chameleons dish
70. "When Claudius from Hamlet realizes that the play-within-the play is about his
own foul deed, he asks for[-lights--]"
71. When he makes allusions to his own form, Richard mingles in them? R: to his
own powers and capacities
72. "While Thomas Kyd was influenced by Senecan tragedy, Shakespeare was
influenced by[-Senecan philosophy -]"
73. Who caracterizes himself as subtile, false and treacherous? Richard
74. Who says these words: Being but heavy, I will bear the light? Romeo
75. Who says : All thet shall lend of easiness / To the next abstinence Hamlet

76. Who says: With nimble sole; I have soul of lead/ So stakes me to the ground I
cannot move Romeo
77. Who says: An thou mine, I give thee to a friend? Capulet
78. Who says: for the noble mind/ rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind
Ofelia
79. Who says: What`s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name
would smell as sweet? Juliet
80. Who says: Upon his brown shame is ashamed to sit? Juliet
81. Hamlet se relationeaza la mama sa very deep and sensuous attachment
82. Hamlet about fate : The readiness is all
83. Hamlet se caracterizeaza : revengfull, proud, ambitious
84. Hamlet alterneaza between reason and emotion
85. Hamlet tells Polonius: to be a onest is to be a man pike out of ten thousand
86. Buzele lui Romeo : two blushing pilgrims
87. Care era grija tatalui Julietei: to have her matched
88. Ce ii va face tatal daca Julieta nu se marita cu Paris? R: hang , beg, starve, die
in the streets
89. Ce credea Richard ca e potrivit pentru el? R: the throne
90. Ce fel de alegere i-a spus doica ca a facut? R: simple choice
91. Cei doi, R and J au rupt an unwritten moral law
92. Comparatie intre vechiul si noul rege: a Hyperion to a satyr
93. Cui a devenit fidela Ofelia? R: her lover
94. Cu ce se mai indulceste ici-colo acea sangeroasa piesa Richard III? R: Humour
95. Cum a sarit Romeo in gradina Julietei? R: love`s light wings
96. Cum ii cere Romeo al doilea sarut? R: give me my sin again
97. Cum raspunde Hamlet cand este intrebat ce citeste? Words, Words, Words
98. De ce se plangea doica ca o doare? R: jaunce, bones, head (all of the above)
Fie, how my bones ache!. lord how my head aches!
99. Doica ii spune ca Julietei ca I s-a ridicat sangele in her cheeks obraji
100. Julieta ii zice: you kiss by the book
101. La ce face referire Richard cand vorbeste despre el? R: his own power and
capacities
102. Notiunea de chartharsis la R and J le da sentimentul de safe
103. O intrebare despre chivalric code. Raspuns: courses of action in love and
war
104. One by product of life is a chivalric code
105. Pe ce nu l-a lasat Julieta sa jure? R: the moon
106. Polonius e numit de Hamlet a fishmonger

107. Cine a zis ca-i i-a fost dat sa se tarasca intre cer si pamant? What should such
fellows as I do crawling between earth and heaven? R: Hamlet
108. Polonius observa ca nebunia lui Hamlet nu e lipsita de : method
Polonius: A happiness that often madness hits on = E un noroc de care mai
adesea are parte nebunia
109. Cum il caracterizeaza pe Richard mama sa? R: a false glass
110. Romeo pare ca domina viata cu : assurence and perseverance
111. De ce ntrzie Hamlet s-l ucid pe Claudius? R: morality??
112. Ce numeste Hamlet ''misfortunes of life''? (teama de necunoscut) R: sea of
troubles
113. In "Romeo si Julieta " ce era "holy shrine" , raspuns corect - mana Julietei
114. What does Richard say he is for besides hell ? R: Anne's bedchamber
115. Hamlet's plague for Ophelia's dowry is that R: she shall not escape calumny
115. What does richard say that was the cause of the first killings R: the beauty of
ANNE
116. Hamlet loses the power of action...R corect: in the energy of resolve
117. Ophelia thinks that beauty could have no better comerce than with...
R:honesty
118. Richard sees history lying before him as... R:a malleable mass to be given
shape
119. Polonius`s fatal blemish is love of words
120. Hamlet is really delayng action beacause it is human to do so