How to Teach British Literature: Student Review Questions and Tests

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Contents

Review questions on Beowulf

Review questions on The Canterbury Tales

Review questions on Renaissance poetry

Review questions on Macbeth Acts I–III

Review questions on Macbeth Acts IV–V

Review questions on 1⁷th century poetry

Review questions on Restoration and 1⁸th century literature

Review questions on Romantic poetry

Review questions on Pride and Prejudice

Review questions on Victorian Poetry

Review questions on Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Review questions on Jane Eyre

Review questions on Great Expectations

Review questions on Lord of the Flies

Review questions on The Great Divorce

Review questions on modern and contemporary poetry

Macbeth Acts I-III Test

Macbeth Acts IV–V Test

1⁷th century Poetry Test

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Test

Romantic Poetry Test

Victorian Poetry Test

Modern Poetry Test

To the Teacher

The following review questions and tests are designed to be used in conjunction with How to Teach British Literature: A Practical Teaching Guide. All review questions and tests are included in the teaching guide and reproduced in this booklet with answers omitted.

Review questions

Copy and distribute a set of review questions to your class. Students break into small groups and refer to their literature books and notes as each group discusses the questions. Every student answers the questions in his or her notebook. On an assigned day, students hand in their notebooks with the completed questions for grading. At a later date, the teacher should review with the class appropriate answers to each set of review questions. The teacher may choose to use some of the questions on tests and semester exams.

Tests

Test procedure¹

A. Taking tests²

Have students