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Romanian language and literature

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  1. Which poet is regarded as Romania's national poet and wrote the long poem Luceafărul (1883)?
  2. Which Romanian writer is the author of the fairy tale Harap-Alb and the memoir Amintiri din copilarie?
  3. Which playwright wrote the comedy O scrisoare pierdută (1884), about an election campaign in a small town?
  4. Which novel by Liviu Rebreanu, published in 1920, shows a peasant's hunger for land in Transylvania?
  5. What is a metaphor?
  6. Which grammatical feature of Romanian differs from most other Romance languages?
  7. Which language family does Romanian belong to?
  8. Which Romanian ballad tells of a shepherd who learns that others plan to kill him and accepts his fate?
  9. What is the name of the group and journal founded in Iași in 1863 that led Romanian literature and criticism in the nineteenth century?
  10. Which novel by Ioan Slavici shows the moral destruction of an innkeeper who seeks wealth?
  11. Who wrote Baltagul (1930), in which Vitoria Lipan searches for her missing husband?
  12. Which literary current did George Bacovia represent in the collection Plumb (1916)?
  13. In Tudor Arghezi's poem Testament, what does the poet say he leaves to his son?
  14. Which poem opens with the line "Eu nu strivesc corola de minuni a lumii"?
  15. Which feature distinguishes Camil Petrescu's novel Ultima noapte de dragoste, întâia noapte de război (1930)?
  16. Which is the first Romanian historical novella, published in 1840?
  17. How many genders does Romanian have for nouns, and which is the unusual one?
  18. Which cultural movement of 1848 shaped Romanian literature around Alecsandri, Balcescu and Negruzzi?
  19. Which of the following is an example of personification?
  20. Which novel by Marin Preda describes a peasant family in the Danube plain and the father Ilie Moromete?
  21. Which genre does Mihail Sadoveanu's Hanu Ancuței belong to?
  22. What is a vocative in Romanian grammar?
  23. Which feature is typical of Caragiale's comedies?
  24. In Eminescu's Luceafărul, why does the star refuse in the end to become mortal for Cătălina's love?
  25. In Rebreanu's Ion, what does the fate of the hero most clearly suggest about the obsession with land?
  26. A candidate must argue that Slavici's Moara cu noroc is a psychological novella. Which is the best argument?
  27. Which is the correct plural of the Romanian neuter noun scaun (chair)?
  28. Which novel by George Călinescu, published in 1938, portrays Bucharest families around the orphan Otilia?
  29. Which poet is known for the hermetic collection Joc secund (1930), in which mathematics and poetry meet?
  30. Which play by Marin Sorescu (1968) places its hero inside the belly of a fish?
  31. How does Marin Preda's Moromeții show the changes in rural society before the war?
  32. Which statement about Arghezi's poetics in Testament is correct?
  33. Which reason best explains why Eminescu is called a Romantic poet?
  34. In the text type called argumentative, which sequence is the usual one for an essay?
  35. Which of these best describes the word order and function in the sentence "Elevul a citit cartea"?
  36. How do Blaga's poems of light differ from those of Eminescu?

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