LITERARY APPRECIATION

Samuel Clemens wrote under ... Mark Twain.
1. the playwright
2. the excerpt
3. the key word
4. the pen name
"Not without my daughter" is a true story ... the struggle of an American woman to flee Iran with her daughter.
1. based on
2. written to
3. written by
4. dealt with
At the end of the book, the detective ... that the criminal was a woman.
1. hinted at
2. insisted on
3. told
4. came to the conclusion
Some cartoons are so funny that one needn't read ... below to have a good laugh.
1. the conclusion
2. the caption
3. the quotation
4. the deduction
In a historical novel, it is important that the dates should be ... and the events appropriate to the time period treated.
1. affected
2. boring
3. accurate
4. emphatic
Literature written in ... style is often very difficult to understand for foreign readers.
1. superficial
2. shallow
3. colloquial
4. partial
Reading books full of unrecognizable words can quickly become ... and boring.
1. vulgar
2. objective
3. irksome
4. gifted
Even though it is ... any literary meaning, it is wonderfully entertaining.
1. empty of
2. full of
3. filled with
4. devoid of
Isn't the concept of an "... opinion" a contradiction in terms ?
1. unbias(s)ed
2. overloaded
3. well-balanced
4. meaningful
Although the level of French in "L'Etranger" is easily ... , the psychological and philosophical elements of the book are quite difficult to grasp.
1. vague
2. understandable
3. entangled
4. complicated
Science fiction is often too ... for the average reader to appreciate.
1. far-fetched
2. stilted
3. relevant
4. pedantic
The main ... in "Waiting for the Barbarians" is the Magistrate.
1. person
2. character
3. people
4. human-being
He is one of the leading ... of our time.
1. novelists
2. novels
3. cartoons
4. satires
Before becoming president, V. Havel was a ... .
1. playwright
2. author
3. play
His ... works had to be kept hidden from governmental censors.
1. plays
2. controversial
3. metaphores
"To be or not to be" is ... from "Hamlet".
1. a sentence
2. a word
3. a summary
4. a quotation
Many people have ... between these two novelists.
1. drawn a comparison
2. compared
3. assumed
4. stressed
... are making a come-back ! Today's readers realize that a piece of writing does not have to be long to be worthwile.
1. Subjects
2. Monologues
3. Short stories
4. Epilogues
He ... subjects noone likes talking about.
1. describes
2. tackles
3. depicts
4. asserts
What does this text ... ?
1. is about
2. talk about
3. speak of
4. deal with

LITERARY APPRECIATION

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