<p>SIMULAZIONE TERZA PROVA - INGLESE APRILE 2007</p><p>NAME………………….. SURNAME……………..</p><p>1. By Gothic Novels we mean</p><p>A. works of fiction written by the barbaric Goths. B. medieval romances with knights, magicians, monsters and witches. C. macabre, fantastic novels set in haunted castles, wild landscapes and ruins. D. novels describing the English Gothic Cathedrals. </p><p>2. Which of the following women writers does not belong to the Victorian Age?</p><p>A. Emily Brontë. B. Virginia Woolf. C. Charlotte Brontë. D. George Eliot.</p><p>3. The novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde reminds us to a famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It is</p><p>A. The Fall of the House of Usher. B. The Black Cat. C. The Oval Portrait. D. The Raven.</p><p>4. Oscar Wilde’s plays</p><p>A. revived the spirit of Jacobean tragedy. B. are inspired by Elizabethan theatre. C. were mainly melodramas. D. Parodied the conventions of the Victorian theatre.</p><p>5. Illustrate how the novel Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë can be interpreted; in particular discuss how Jane and Bertha represent a double-figure. ………...... </p><p>6. List the most important symbols we find in Blake’s poetry and briefly explain their symbolic values. …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………… ……………………………………………………………………………………………………..</p>