Quiz B - Older students (vyšší gymnázium)

A   In the crossword there are 22 names of famous British and American writers. Find and mark them in the crossword. There is at least one book by each of them in the Library. The following list of books will also help you - each line contains examples of titles written by one of the writers. 

- Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover

- The Last of the Mohicans, The Spy, The Pioneers

- Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette

- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles

- The Jungle Book, Kim, The Light that Failed

- Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma

- The Decline and Fall, The Loved Ones, Put Out More Flags

- Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield

- Moll Flanders, Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Colonel Jack

- The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Ernest

- White Fang, The Call of the Wild, Martin Eden

- Matilda, Taste and Other Tales

- New Yorkers, Roads of Destiny, Rolling Stones

- Coming Up for Air, Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four

- Jude the Obscure, Tess of the d’Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd

- Gulliver’s Travels, A Modest Proposal, A Tale of a Tub

- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

- Brave New World, Brave New World Revisited, Island

- The Edge, The Danger, Reflex

- The Pit and the Pendulum, Tales of Mystery and Imagination, The Black Cat

- Airport, Hotel

- Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

 

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B Answer the following questions:

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 In the middle of which square in London can you find the Statue of Eros?

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 In which square is the National Gallery situated?

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 In which battle did Admiral Nelson die?

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 When did Queen Victoria get on the throne?

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 How old is the Queen Mother?

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 What is the first line of the British Anthem?

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There are three extracts from three books from the Library here – can you recognize them and say the name of the book and its author?

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„Is Miss Eyre there? “ the master now demanded, half rising from his seat to look round. „Come forward and be seated here. “ He pulled a chair near to his own.

„I am not fond of children’s talk, “he continued. „Don’t move that chair further back. Sit down exactly where I placed it - if you please, I mean. I forget these politenesses. And I do not much care for simple-minded old ladies. I must invite mine in, though, I suppose. “

He rang the bell for Mrs Fairfax, and asked her to talk to Adele.

Mr Rochester, as he sat in his armchair, looked not quite so severe and much less low-spirited. There was a smile on his lips, and his eyes were bright, probably with wine.

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When we heard the cry of pain, our fears disappeared. This was no supernatural hound. Our bullets could hurt it, and we could kill it. We ran after it as fast as we could. I have never seen anyone to run as quickly as Holmes ran that night, and I could not keep up with him. In front of us on the path we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry, and the deep voice of the hound. I saw the creature jump at Sir Henry and throw him to the ground. Its teeth went for his throat. But the next moment Holmes had emptied his revolver into the hound’s body. It gave a last deep cry, its teeth closed on the empty air, and it fell to the ground. I put my revolver to its head, but I did not need to fire. The hound was dead.

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After dinner that evening Mr Utterson went into his office and unlocked a cupboard. He took out an envelope. It contained the will of Doctor Henry Jekyll, and was written in the doctor’s own handwriting.

„If I die, or if I disappear for more than three months,“ the will began, “I wish to leave everything I own to my dear friend Edward Hyde.“ 

This will had both worried and annoyed Mr Utterson. To a lawyer it was an unusual and dangerous kind of will. It was bad enough when Edward Hyde was only an unknown name, but now that the lawyer knew something about Hyde, the will worried him more than ever. It had seemed like madness before; now it began to seem shameful.