英国文学复习题

• Byron’s Byronic hero appears first in ________.
A. Don Juan
B. Oriented Tales
C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D. Manfred
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner tells an adventurous story of ________.
D. Piers the Plowman
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5. In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced
by three literatures.Which one is not true?
A.The Wife’s Complaint
B.Beowulf
C.The Dream of the Rood
D.The Seafarer
B
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Complete the uage in the Anglo-Saxon period was influenced by the Northern ______________.
_______ culture, the new discoveries in geography and astrology, the religious reformation and the economic expansion.
3. A. Chinese/ Indian
4. B. Hebrew / Egyptian
The Faerie Queen
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• Francis Bacon was _____C___ contemporary.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer’s B. Thomas More’s C. William Shakespeare’s D. John Milton’s
C. works
D plays
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• From the following,choose the one which is not
Francis Bacon’s work.
D
A. The Advancement of Learning
4.Old English came into being by the ____ century.
A. 4th
B. 5th
C. 6th
D. 7th
D
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5. The Anglo-Saxon period ended in
____.
A. 1017 B. 1042
pEodemt”u. nd Spenser 3. Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic
poet of the Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece _______________.
Society in his masterpiece ______.
A.The Canterbury Tales B.The Legend of Good Women
A
C.Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Romaunt of the Rose.
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C. heroic couplet
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3. The humanist ideas of the Renaissance were based on
such a conception that______ is the measure of all things.
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• Francis Bacon is best known for his
which
greatly inAfluenced the development of this literary
form.
A. essays
B. poems
4. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _______based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of Good Women
B. Troilus and Criseyde
B
C. Romance of the Rose
2. The Anglo-Saxon poetry belongs to
secular poMetyryth, othloagt yis ______________________ but with Christian coloring.
non-religious poems
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A
D. William
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3.The Roman occupation in Britain lasted for about _____ years. A. 200 B. 300
C. 400 D. 500
C
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A. man
A
B. king
C. lover
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1. Generally, the ___R_e_n_a__is_s_a_n_c_erefers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.
2. It was Martin Luther, a German Protestant, who initiated the ____________R_e_.formation
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3. The Elizabethan ________, in its totality, is the real mainstream
3. When he died, Chaucer was buried in the ________ Poet’s Corner.
A. Westminster Abbey
A
B. Normandy
C. Canterbury
D. Southward
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of the English Renaissance literature.
4. The Reformation in Engldanradmwaas in its full swing when
____________ declared himself through the approval of the
A. a sailor B. a knight C. a king D. a poet
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1. The early inhabitants in the island
we now call England were ___.
A. Celts B. Britons
C
5. C. Roman / Greek
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2. William Caxton was the first person who introduced
_________ into England.
A. writing
B
B. printing
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1. CWhhoooisethtehe“fraitghhetr aonf Eswngelirs.h poetry” and one of the greatest
narrative poets of England?
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. 1016 D. 1066
D
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6. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded
today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
C. W. Shakespeare
B
D. Alfred the Great
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2. It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature,
presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English
C. Britain D. English
B
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2. In 55 B. C., Roman troops led by
_____ invaded Britain.
A. Julius Caesar
B. Claudius
C. King Alfred the Great
A. French literature
B. Italian literature
D
C. English literature
D. German literature
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1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series 2. of historical events, such as the rediscovery of ancient _______ and
• Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ______.
A. Antony and Cleopatra
B. Measure for Measure
C. Too True to Be Good
D. Prometheus Unbound
Parliament as the Supreme Head of the Church of England in
1534.
Henry VIII
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1. Thomas More’s ____U__to_p_i_a__is his famous prose work. 2. ___________________ is often referred to as “the poets’
3. _A_l_l_it_e_r_a_t_i_o_n_ is the most important
feature in Beowulf. 4. Another writing feature in Beowulf is the
frequent use of_m__e_t_a_p_h_o__r__ and _u_n_d__e_r_s_ta_t_e_m__e_n__t__for ironical humor.