Quiz on Silver Age poetry. Literature test (2nd semester) Test on the topic of the Silver Age of Russian poetry

Option 1 Start of form

1. Indicate the time boundaries of the “Silver Age” of Russian poetry.

1) beginning of the 20th century; 2) late 19th – early 20th century; 3) early-mid 20th century; 4) late 19th century

2. The name of which poetic movement is translated as “future”?

3 . What important historical events took place in Russia at the turn of the 19th - 20th centuries:
1) three revolutions 2) abolition of serfdom 3) Decembrist uprising 4) Crimean War
4. Which Russian writer of the early last century was awarded the Nobel Prize:
1) A. Blok 2) A. Kuprin 3) A. Chekhov 4) I. Bunin

5. What movement was N. Gumilev the founder of?

1) acmeism; 2) futurism; 3) new peasant poetry; 4) symbolism

6. What poetic movement of the “Silver Age” are we talking about?

“A movement in literature and art, imbued with individualism and mysticism and reflecting reality as the ideal essence of the world in conventional and abstract forms.”

7. Name the modernist movement of the late 19th - early 20th centuries., which had the following principles: “Rejection of mystical vagueness, striving for concreteness, colorfulness, objectivity of images.”

8. Which poet is a representative of futurism? 1) V. Mayakovsky; 2) A. Blok; 3) M. Tsvetaeva; 4) A. Akhmatova

9. “Workshop of Poets” is the name of the union: 1) symbolists; 2) acmeists; 3) new peasant poets; 4) futurists

10. What is a symbol? 1) a poetic image that expresses the essence of a phenomenon

    a word or phrase with an allegorical meaning; 3) artistic technique based on exaggeration

4) artistic technique based on opposition

11. Match the name of the modernist movement of the late 19th - early 20th centuries. with the principles inherent in it: “Elitism, the ability to see behind the external” a mystically visible essence. Orientation towards the reader - co-author." 1. New Peasant poetry; 2. Acmeism; 3. Futurism; 4. symbolism

12. Determine the means of artistic representation, used in A. Akhmatova’s poem: “I have a lot to do today: / I need to completely kill my memory, / I need my soul to petrify, / I need to learn to live again.”

Used in A. Blok’s poem: “Oh my Rus'! My wife! Until it hurts / The long road is clear!”

Used in the poem by A.A. Akhmatova: “Tear-stained autumn, like a widow / In black robes, clouds all hearts...”

Test on the poetry of the Silver Age. Test tasks. Option 2 Start of form

1. What is the name of the period of Russian literature preceding the “Silver Age”?

1) golden age; 2) Bronze Age; 3) Copper Age; 4) there is no correct answer

2. The name of which poetic movement is translated as “the highest degree of something, color, blooming time.”

1) acmeism; 2) futurism; 3) new peasant poetry; 4) symbolism

3. Which poetic movement was the first in the literature of the “Silver Age”?

1) acmeism; 2) futurism; 3) new peasant poetry; 4) symbolism

4. In what year was the poem "The Twelve" written? 1) 1905 2) 1907 3) 1918 4) 1920.

5. Who is the cycle “Poems about a Beautiful Lady” dedicated to? 1) N.N. Volkhova 2) L.D. Mendeleeva 3) L.A. Delmas

6. Determine what poetic movement of the “Silver Age” is referred to in the definition.

“...proclaimed the liberation of poetry from the polysemy and fluidity of images, complicated metaphors, a return to the material world, the object (or element of “nature”), the exact meaning of the word.”

7. Determine what poetic movement of the “Silver Age” is referred to in the definition.

“A movement that rejected realism and tried to create a new style that would destroy all the traditions and techniques of old art.”

8. “Throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and other classics from the ship of modernity” is a call:

1) acmeists; 2) imagists; 3) futurists; 4) symbolists

9. Which of the listed Russian poets did not belong to the Silver Age of Russian poetry?

10. The lyrical hero is

4) the image of the hero most sympathetic to the narrator

11. Identify the literary movement of the Silver Age by its characteristic features:“a literary and artistic movement that set the goal of art as a subconscious-intuitive contemplation of secret meanings, characterized by musicality, sublimity of theme, polysemy of images, and a mystical mood.”

12.Define a means of artistic expression, used in A. Blok’s poem “The Twelve”: “Black evening. / White snow. / Wind, wind! / A man can’t stand on his feet.”

13. Determine the means of artistic representation, used in A. Akhmatova’s poem: “Created from your rib, / How can I not love you?”

14. Determine the means of artistic representation, used in A. Blok’s poem: “And Nepryadva disappeared with fog, / Like a princess with a veil.”

Option 1

    2……………….3,4

    Symbolism

  1. Personification-

  2. Metaphor-

    Appeal

    Comparison

Option 2

    4…………………….4,5

  1. Futurism

    Symbolism

    Hyperbola-

    Opposition

    A rhetorical question

  2. Comparison

State Autonomous Professional Educational Institution of the Republic of Crimea "Crimean Multidisciplinary College"

prepared

teacher of Russian language and literature

Kobylkin Andrey Olegovich

Simferopol

Test on the topic:

"Silver Age" of Russian poetry

1. What period of development of Russian literature is usually called the “Silver Age”?

a) 1917 – 1921; b) 1890 – 1917; c) 1900 – 1910; d) 1860 – 1905.

2. Determine the literary movement of the “Silver Age” by its characteristic features: “an avant-garde movement in European and Russian art of the early 20th century, which denied the artistic and moral heritage, preached the destruction of the forms and conventions of art for the sake of merging it with the accelerated life process”:

a) futurism; b) acmeism; c) symbolism; d) imagism.

3. Indicate the correspondence (number - letter) with which direction the work of each of the following poets corresponds:

1. Anna Akhmatova;

a) symbolism.

2. Vladimir Mayakovsky;

b) Acmeism.

3. Sergey Yesenin;

c) futurism.

4. Alexander Blok;

d) imagism.

4.Which of the following manifestos refers to the work of the Symbolists?

a) “A slap in the face to public taste”;

b) “The Keys of Mary”;

c) “Declaration of an Abstruse Language”;

d) “Keys of Secrets.”

5. Determine the literary movement of the “Silver Age” by its characteristic features: “a literary and artistic movement that set the goal of art as the subconscious-intuitive contemplation of secret meanings, characterized by musicality, sublimity of theme, polysemy of images, mystical mood”: a) futurism; b) acmeism; c) symbolism.

6. The manifesto of which literary movement of modernism was “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”: a) symbolism; b) acmeism; c) futurism;

a) the theme of love; b) the theme of loneliness; c) the theme of revolution; d) the theme of the homeland.

8. Which work does not belong to Anna Akhmatova?

a) "Requiem";

b) “Poem without a hero”;

c) “Poem of the Mountain”;

d) “Song of the Last Meeting.”

9. Determine the means of artistic representation used in Anna Akhmatova’s poem: “Tear-stained autumn, like a widow / In black clothes, fogs all hearts...”:

10. Define the means of artistic expression used in Sergei Yesenin’s poem: “We are all, we are all perishable in this world, / Copper quietly pours from the maple leaves...”:

a) comparison; b) metaphor; c) personification; d) antithesis.

11. Identify the means of artistic expression used in Alexander Blok’s poem “The Twelve”: “Black Evening. / White snow. / Wind, wind! / A man can’t stand on his feet”:

a) comparison; b) metaphor; c) personification; d) antithesis.

12. Name the artistic device used in Sergei Yesenin’s poem: “The flood licked the silt with smoke, / The month dropped the yellow reins...”.

a) comparison; b) metaphor; c) personification; d) antithesis.

13. Determine the means of artistic representation used in the poem by Alexander Blok: “And Nepryadva was removed with fog, / Like a princess with a veil.”

a) comparison; b) metaphor; c) personification; d) antithesis.

a) Marina Tsvetaeva;

b) Zinaida Gippius;

c) Anna Akhmatova;

d) Andrey Bely.

15. Which poet is called “the last poet of the village”?

a) Sergei Yesenin;

b) Vyacheslav Ivanov;

c) Konstantin Balmont.

16. Which poet does not belong to the “Silver Age” of Russian poetry?

a) Nikolay Gumilyov; b) Igor Severyanin; c) Fyodor Tyutchev; d) Alexander Pushkin.

a) “Anna Snegina”; b) “Poem without a hero”; c) “Twelve”; d) "Dead Souls".

18. Which of the following poets was awarded the Nobel Prize, but subsequently refused it:

a) Alexander Blok;

b) Vladimir Mayakovsky;

c) Sergei Yesenin;

d) Boris Pasternak.

19. What is the name of Boris Pasternak’s poem:

a) “Evening bells”;

b) “Tonight”;

c) “Winter Evening”;

d) “Winter Night”.

20. Which of the works is not written by Vladimir Mayakovsky:

a) “Cloud in pants”;

b) “That’s how I became a dog”;

c) “Doctor Zhivago”;

d) “Spine flute.”

Lesson format:

study meeting. The class is divided into 4 teams in accordance with the literary movements that existed in the first quarter of the twentieth century - symbolists, acmeists, futurists and those whose work was individual, outside of these directions. Each team receives four tasks for preliminary preparation. The remaining three tasks are not specified in advance. The study meeting lasts two academic hours.

Objectives of the meeting:

  • deepen students' knowledge about the Silver Age of Russian poetry, the creative individuals of this literary era;
  • be able to explain the artistic originality of the works of representatives of symbolism, acmeism, futurism and those whose work was outside these directions;
  • know literary terminology, literary theory (symbol, symbolism, Acmeism, futurism, Renaissance);
  • improve monologue response skills;
  • development of students' creative abilities;
  • developing the ability to work in a team.
  • Equipment:

    reproductions of portraits of poets of the Silver Age, exhibition of books by poets of the Silver Age

    Progress of the training meeting.

  • Submit direction
  • (symbolism, acmeism, futurism, outside groups): give a definition, explain the origin of the term, the name of the literary movement, list its representatives; history of the development of this literary direction -.
  • up to 5 points
  • Knowledge of biography : give a brief biographical note (name the most significant facts), without naming the poet; to find out from the facts of the biography of a poet a representative of another literary movement - 3 points for a short biographical story + 2 points
  • for the correct name. Reading competition : a representative of each literary movement recites by heart any poem (to choose from) by a symbolist poet, an acmeist poet, a futurist poet, and outside the group (respectively). .
  • It is advisable to complete this task with elements of dramatization - up to 5 points : a representative of each literary movement recites by heart any poem (to choose from) by a symbolist poet, an acmeist poet, a futurist poet, and outside the group (respectively). (Poetry is...: talk about what poetry is, what the purpose of the poet and poetry is from the point of view of symbolists, acmeists, futurists and those outside the groups -
  • +3 points additionally for an emblem - a symbol of your direction). Creating a Clip .
  • : based on the text of the poem by M.I. Tsvetaeva “I like...” create a video sequence and explain to the jury and viewers your idea and the method of its implementation - up to 6 points .
  • Write a poem
    1. : create a poetic text based on the proposed rhymes, read it expressively - up to 7 points).
    2. Quiz for fans: questions on knowledge of the works of poets of the Silver Age, the history of this period of literature, literary terminology. Describe in sequence the emergence of modernist trends in poetry at the turn of the century ().
    3. symbolism, acmeism, futurism The concept of “Silver Age” arose by analogy with the concept of “Golden Age”. Choose synonymous expressions for the first of these concepts ().
    4. Renaissance; heyday of Russian spirituality Which of the Silver Age poets was “chosen king”? ().
    5. I. Severyanin Name the fourth extra surname: Gumilyov, Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Gorodetsky ().
    6. Akhmatova - pseudonym Which literary artist was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1933? ().
    7. I. Bunin What was the name of the association, the organization of acmeist poets? ().
    8. “Workshop of Poets”
    9. Which of the Silver Age poets traveled to Africa? (

      N. Gumilev

      (What do Akhmatov’s lines mean:).

    10. “Husband in the grave, son in prison, Pray for me”?).
    11. in 1921 N. Gumilev was shot in 1934. - arrest of son, Lev Gumilyov, and husband, Punin F. Sologuba).
    12. Who owns this comparison: “Poems grow like stars and like roses”? ( M. Tsvetaeva).
    13. Music, according to representatives of this literary movement, was the primary art ( Symbolists).
    14. What great poet did I. Severyanin write about:
    15. He is this wonderful moment,

      Captured for centuries!

      He is the embodiment of inspiration

      And the dust is powerless before him... ( about A.S. Pushkin).

    16. Continue the famous words of A. Akhmatova: “I taught women to speak...” ( Oh, how to silence them).
    17. Name the futurist manifestos ( “A Slap in the Face of Public Taste”, “Tank of Judges”, “Dead Moon”, etc.).
    18. Which of the poets (guess the last name from the text) wrote the following lines:
    19. My biographer will be very happy

      He will be surprised for two hours,

      Like a donkey facing a manger

      Fresh oats poured in,

      Now the monograph is ready,

      A tome of venerable venerable thickness:

      “"About unhappy love...

      In the fourth year of the World War.”

      Hello, proud grimy man,

      So that a heavyweight becomes a stone

      He chose without being deceived by the diamond.

      Hello, cobblestone thunder!

      He yawned, saluted - and again

      The shaft rows - with its wing

      Archangel Dray.

    20. Representatives of which literary movements do the poems belong to:
    21. a) How I love the Flemish panel,

      Where are the vegetables, and fish, and wine,

      And rich game on a flat platter -

      It has an amber-yellow gloss.

      And the fight painted with an ancient brush -

      I love. Soldier with a shining pipe

      Powder clubs, dead piles,

      And rearing horses from everywhere!

      (Acmeism)

      b) How often do I want to express my love,

      But I can't say anything

      I only rejoice, suffer and remain silent:

      It’s as if I’m ashamed – I don’t dare speak.

      But close to me is your living soul

      As everything is mysterious, so everything is extraordinary, -

      What is too terrible a divine secret

      It seems to me that love is too much to talk about.

      (Symbolism)

      c) There are no people.

      You see

      the cry of a thousand days of torment?

      The soul does not want to go dumb,

      and tell whom?

      I'll throw myself on the ground

      stone bark

      I bleed my face, washing the asphalt with tears.

      With lips yearning for caresses, a thousand kisses

      I'll cover the smart face of the tram.

      (Futurism)

      d) I am the free wind, I blow forever,

      I wave the waves, I caress the willows,

      In the branches I sigh, sighing dumbly,

      I cherish the grass, I cherish the fields.

      In spring bright, like the messenger of May,

      I kiss the lily of the valley, in love with a dream,

      And the silent azure listens to the wind, -

      I'm winding, drifting, airy, sleepy.

      (Symbolism)

    22. Name the poet who introduced M. Tsvetaeva and S. Efron ( M. Voloshin).
    23. This poet attended lectures at the Sorbonne, at the University of Heidelberg, and studied at St. Petersburg ( O. Mandelstam).

    MBOU "Pogromskaya Secondary School named after

    HELL. Bondarenko" Volokonovsky district, Belgorod region

    Literature test for grade 11

    "Silver Age of Russian Poetry"


    Prepared

    teacher of Russian language and literature

    Morozova Alla Stanislavovna

    2013

    Explanatory note

    This test allows you to determine the level of knowledge of 11th grade students on the topic “Silver Age of Russian Poetry.” The work contains questions about the main literary movements of the Silver Age.

    Each question has four possible answers.

    The presented test can be used in the final literature lesson on this topic.

    Criteria for evaluation:

    “5” - 19 – 20 points

    “4” - 16 – 18 points

    “3” - 11 – 15 points

    “2” - 0 – 10 points



    1. Indicate the time boundaries of the Silver Age of Russian poetry 1. Beginning of the 20th century2. Late 19th - early 20th century 3. Beginning - middle XX century4. Late 19th century
    2. Which philosopher was the first to propose the name “Silver Age”? 1. V. Solovyov 2. N. Otsup 3. N. Berdyaev 4. I. Annensky

    3. What was the name of the artistic and aesthetic system that developed at the beginning XX century and embodied in a system of independent artistic movements and trends?

    1. decadence 2. modernism 3. symbolism 4. futurism
    4. The name of which poetic movement is translated as “future”?
    5. Which poetic movement was the first in the literature of the Silver Age? 1. symbolism 2. acmeism 3. futurism 4. imagism
    6. What movement was N. Gumilev the founder of? 1. symbolism 2. imagism 3. futurism 4. acmeism
    7. Who substantiated the theoretical foundations of symbolism? 1. V. Solovyov 2. F. Sologub 3. V. Bryusov 4. D. Merezhkovsky

    8. The name of which poetic movement is translated from Greek as “the highest degree of something”?

    1. acmeism 2. imagism 3. futurism 4. symbolism
    9. Which poet is not a representative of Acmeism?
    10. Which poet is a representative of imagism? 1. S. Yesenin 2. Z. Gippius 3. A. Bely 4. V. Mayakovsky
    11. Which poet is a representative of futurism? 1. A. Blok 2. V. Mayakovsky 3. M. Tsvetaeva 4. A. Akhmatova
    12. “Workshop of Poets” is the name of the union: 1. Symbolists 2. Imagists 3. Futurists 4. Acmeists

    13. “Throw Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy and other classics from the ship of modernity” is a call:

    1. Acmeists 2. Imagists 3. Futurists 4. Symbolists

    14. What, according to the Acmeists, should have acquired its original meaning?

    1. poem 2. image 3. word 4. time
    15. What did K. Balmont consider to be the basis of lyrics? 1. magic of words 2. personality 3. rhyme 4. image

    16. Which poet dared to directly accuse I.V. Stalin of the genocide of his own people?

    1. N. Gumilev 2. A. Akhmatova 3. V. Bryusov 4. O. Mandelstam

    17. What part of speech did I. Severyanin form from nouns by adding the prefix “o”?

    1. adverb 2. interjection 3. verb 4. adjective
    18. What was laid as the cornerstone in the poetry of Acmeism? 1. mystery 2. word 3. fleetingness 4. realistic view of things

    19. Who preached the fusion of art with the accelerated life process of the twentieth century through the destruction of forms and conventions?

    1. Symbolists 2. Imagists 3. Futurists 4. Acmeists
    20. What was the name of the first Futurist manifesto? 1. “Tank of judges” 2. “A slap in the face to public taste”3. “Hell of the City”4. "From street to street"

    Answers 1. 2 2. 3 3. 2 4. 3 5. 1 6. 4 7. 4 8. 1 9. 3 10. 1 11. 2 12. 4 13. 3 14. 3 15. 1 16. 4 17 . 3 18. 4 19. 3 20. 2

    CONTROL AND MEASUREMENT MATERIAL

    Developer: first category teacher

    GBPOU MO "Lukhovitsky Aviation College"

    Kamagina I.V.

    TEST TASK ON LITERATURE. POETRY OF THE SILVER AGE

    1. What time period does the Silver Age of Russian poetry cover?

    A) 1880s - 1940s

    B) 1890s - 1920s

    B) 1900 - 1930s

    D) 1890s - 1940s

    2. Select the answer option that lists the main directions of modernism

    A) Creationism, imagism, acmeism

    B) Symbolism, acmeism, vulgarism

    B) Pluralism, Acmeism, Futurism

    D) Futurism, acmeism, symbolism

    3. Opposite the name of each poet, write the movement of Russian modernism, of which he was a representative

    A. Akhmatova __________________________________

    A. Blok _________________

    S. Yesenin _________________

    V. Mayakovsky ________________

    V. Khlebnikov _________________

    V. Bryusov _________________

    O. Mandelstam ________________

    4. Which of the Silver Age poets did not accept the 1917 revolution, but did not emigrate from the country?

    A) A. Blok

    B) V. Mayakovsky

    B) S. Yesenin

    D) A. Akhmatova

    5. From which work is this phrase:

    The bourgeois stands there like a hungry dog,

    It stands silent, like a question.

    And the old world is like a rootless dog,

    Stands behind him with his tail between his legs

    A) M. Gorky, “Song of the Falcon”

    B) A. Akhmatova, poem “In the Evening”

    B) M. Tsvetaeva, poem “Longing for the Motherland! For a long time…"

    D) A. Blok, poem “The Twelve”

    6. Match with an arrow (line) the poet’s surname and one of the features of his poetry

    A) A. Akhmatova 1) Attention to the form of the verse, the special construction of the rhythmic pattern (“ladder”)

    B)B. Mayakovsky 3) Evolution of the image of the Beautiful Lady throughout the entire creative period

    D) A. Blok 4) The use of metaphors when describing a small homeland - a Russian village

    D) S. Yesenin 5) Attention to everyday “talking” details

    7. Which of the Silver Age poets was not a representative of any of the movements of modernism?

    A) S. Yesenin

    B) D. Merezhkovsky

    B) A. Akhmatova

    D) M. Tsvetaeva

    8. Why did Russian literature begin XX centuries, it was poetry that dominated?

    A) Many cataclysmic events (wars, revolutions) contributed to emotional intensity, and this led to the dominance of poetry

    B) The dominance of poetry is the result of the legacy of the poets of the second half XIX century (F. Tyutchev, A. Fet, A. Tolstoy, etc.)

    B) There were no talented prose writers

    9. Which poet dedicated most of his lyrical works to the Russian village?

    A) N. Gumilev B) S. Yesenin

    B) A. Blok D) A. Akhmatova

    10. Here are the features of the three main directions of Russian modernism. Next to each, write the direction corresponding to it.

    A) Precision and clarity of language, attention to everyday details - ___________________

    B) Nebula, mysticism, use of symbols - ___________________

    C) The invention of a new language, rebellion, bold experiments with the form of poetry - _________________

    INSTRUCTIONS FOR TASKS

    In tasks 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, mark the correct answer by placing any symbol in front of it. ATTENTION! There can only be one correct answer.

    In task 3, opposite the poet’s name, write one of the movements of Russian modernism to which his work was related.

    In task 6, draw an arrow or line from the poet’s surname to his inherent poetic feature

    In task 10, opposite the characteristic property, write the name of the movement of Russian modernism to which this property belongs.

    RIGHT ANSWERS

    1 - B

    2 - G

    3 - A. Akhmatova - acmeism, A. Blok - symbolism, S. Yesenin - imagism, V. Mayakovsky - futurism, V. Khlebnikov - futurism, V. Bryusov - symbolism, O. Mandelstam - acmeism

    4 - G

    5 - G

    6 - A - 5, B - 2, C - 1, D - 3, D - 4

    7 - G

    8 - A

    9 - B

    10 - A - acmeism, B - symbolism, C - futurism