英国文学史及作品选读

英国文学史及作品选读

（模拟试题二）

Ⅰ. Multiple Choice（1′×20=20分）

1．______can be justly termed England’s national epic.

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C. The Song of Beowulf

D. The Romance of the Rose

2. Among of the following dramas, which is one of Shakespeare’s four tragedies?

A.Macbeth

B.As You Like it

C. Twelfth Night

D. The Merchant of Venice

3. _______ is called as “ father of English novels”

A. William Shakespeare

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Daniel Defoe

D.John Donne

4. It was ____who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

A. Thomas Wyatt

B. William Shakespeare

C. Edmund Spenser

D. Christopher Marlowe

5. Absoulute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of ____, especially

Britain’s sea power was established.

A.James I

B. Henry VIII

C. Queen Elizabeth

D. Charles I

6. Hamlet, the most popular of Shakespeare's plays for readers and theater audiences, tells about the story of Hamlet, Prince of _______, and son of the dead king, who seeks revenge for his father’s death.

A. England

B. Norway

C. Scotland

D. Denmark

7. Which comment on John Donne is wrong?

A. He is the leading figure of metaphysical poetry.

B. His poetry is characterized by mysticism and peculiar conceit.

C. John Donne’s poetry is characterized regularity among irregularity

D. He never shows positive attitude towards love.

8. Robinson Crosue can be termed as____.

A. a self-dependent person

B. a person with colonial mind

C. an adventuous person

D. all of the above

9. Robert Burns is the representative of _____.

A. Sentimentalism

B. Pre-Romanticism

C. Romanticism

D. English Renaissance

10. William Blake’s ____ paint a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a

melancholy tone.

A.Poetical Sketches

B. The Book of Thel

C. Songs of Experience

D. Songs of Innocence

11. The notorious “Peterloo Massacre” happened in _____.

A. English Romantic period

B. English Renaissance

C. period of Restoration

D. Neo-classical period

12. Lyrical Ballads are made by ____.

A. Wordsworth and Shelley

B. Wordsworth and Southey

C. Wordsworth and Coleridge

D. Shelley and Byron

13. According to____, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which originates in emotion and recollected in tranquillity.