1.  The Monroe Doctrine was:

• issued in 1848 and on its basis universal suffrage came into force in the USA
• issued in 1946 and known as the so-called Withholding Communism Doctrine
• issued in 1823, and it refused the efforts of European countries both to interfere with the American States and to colonise the land

2.  The racist organisation Ku-Klux-Klan originated:

• in the 18^th century during the American War of Independence
• in the 1960s during the racist disorders in the Southern States of the USA
• in the late 1860s after the end of the Civil War

3.  Which American president resigned as a result of the Watergate Scandal?

• Democrat Bill Clinton
• Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson
• Republican Richard Nixon

4.  The US president is elected:

• in direct election by those US citizens who have a right to vote
• indirectly by the people through the Electoral College
• by the members of the House of Representatives and the Senate

5.  The Articles of Confederation were:

• the first Constitution of the USA
• the Constitution of those states which in 1861 separated from the Union (North) and formed the Confederacy (South) and later fought against the North in the American Civil War
• the constitution which was in force in the Southern States (of the USA) after the end of the Civil War (the so-called Reconstruction of the South)

6.  The so-called Easter Rising was:

• an upheaval in Ireland in 1916
• a rebellion of manual labourers in Manchester at Easter in 1926
• an uprising against Britain in India in 1857

7.  The introduction of British social policy and the welfare state is connected with the:

• Labour government of Clement Attlee (1945-1950)
• Conservative government of Winston Churchill (1951-1955)
• Labour government of Tony Blair (1997-2007)

8.  Margaret Thatcher’s policy did not include:

• privatisation
• restrictions on trade union power
• broadening of social policy and the welfare state

9.  One of the systems below is enforced at the elections of the House of Commons in Great Britain:

• First-past-post system
• Proportional system
• Plurality system

10.  The Two Treatises was written by:

• J. Locke
• T. Hobbes
• J. S. Mill

11.  Which of the economists listed below is the founder of English classic political economy?

• A. Smith
• J. S. Mill
• J. Dewey

12.  The author of the US Constitution is NOT:

• J. Madison
• J. Jay
• A. Lincoln

13.  The Commonwealth is a voluntary association of:

• Great Britain and its former colonies and dominions
• Great Britain and its former colonies and dominions in Asia and Africa
• Great Britain and its former colonies and dominions in Africa

14.  As for the language specification, which group belongs to the Anglophone world?

• Australia, Pakistan, Thailand, Sierra Leone
• The Republic of South Africa, Haiti, Sierra Leone
• Jamaica, New Zealand, Botswana

15.  ‘Blank verse’ (poetry having a regular metre, but no rhyme) was NOT used by:

• William Shakespeare
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Ted Hughes

16.  Which of the following novels was written by Charles Dickens?

• Great Expectations
• The Forsythe Saga
• Tess D’Urbervilles

17.  Which of the following writers was NOT a science fiction author?

• Aldous Huxley
• H. G. Wells
• James Joyce

18.  Death of a Salesman was written by:

• Alan Sillitoe
• Arthur Miller
• John Steinbeck

19.  Henry Moore (1898-1986) was a famous British:

• composer
• film director
• sculptor and painter

20.  All the following were representatives of the Southern Literature except:

• Carson McCullers
• Margaret Atwood
• William Faulkner

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