24. Look at the pictures and find the appropriate names for each Scots writers given below:

1. 2. 3. 4.

a) Ian Banks

b) John Buchan

c) Kenneth Grahame

d) J. M. Barrie

25. Choose the correct letter.

After a brief legal career Buchan simultaneously began both his writing career and his political and diplomatic career, serving as a private secretary to the colonial administrator of various colonies in Southern Africa.

a) False

b) True

c) Impossible

d) Hardly ever

26. Choose the correct letter.

Whose books are become best-selling book series in history?

a) JK Rowling

b) Kenneth Grahame

c) J. M. Barrie

d) Ian Banks

27. Choose the correct letters.

Who is the author of such famous works as «The Body Snatcher», «The master of Ballantrae», «Wier of Hermiston»?

a) Ian Banks

b) Ian Rankin

c) Robert Louis Stevenson

d) Walter Scott

28. Match the dates of birth with the Scots authors:

1.Kenneth Grahame	a) 1875- 1940
2. J. M. Barrie	b) 1860-1937
3. John Buchan	c)1859-1932
4. Ian Rankin	d) 1960

29. Chose the incorrect statement.

a) Kenneth Grahame was a Scottish writer, most famous for «The Wind in the Willows» (1908), one of the classics of children's literature.

b) James Hogg is best known today for his novel «The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner».

c) Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of «The Coral Island».

d) John Buchan wrote propaganda for the British war effort in the First World War.

30. Analyse the statement and choose the correct letter.

Who does prefer to write only in English, with rare use of dialect in dialogue and only when necessary to the story?

a) Dame Muriel Spark

b) Ian Rankin

c) Kenneth Grahame

d) Robert Burns

Keys:

1. с)

2. d)

3. a)

4. b)

5. 1. c) 2. d) 3. a) 4. e) 5. b)

6. in 2004

7. 1. c) 2. d) 3. b) 4. a)

8. 1. b) 2. c) 3. a) 4. d)

9. b)

10. a)

11. c)

12. b)

13. a, d)

14. by James Boyle, the chairman of Scotland’s cultural commission

15. c)

16. d)

17. b)

18. a)

19. «Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone»

20. a)

21. b)

22. 1. c) 2. a) 3. d) 4. b)

23. b)

24. 1. c) 2. a) 3. d) 4. b)

25. b)

26. a)

27. c)

28. 1. c) 2. b) 3. a) 4. d)

29. c)

30. b)