英国文学期末复习题目

I. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would bet complete the statement.

1. The long poem ______ in Anglo-Saxon period was termed England’s national epic.

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. Paradise Lost

C. The Song of Beowulf

D. The Fairy Queen

2. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ______.

A. Romanticism

B. Renaissance

C. medieval period

D. Anglo-Saxon period

3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of____.

A. Piers Plowman

B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C. Confessio Amantis

D. The Canterbury Tales

4. _______ is regarded as the father of English poetry.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. John Milton

D. W. Wordsworth

5. It is _____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Martin Luther

C. William Shakespeare

D. John Gower

6. One of Chaucer’s main contributions to English poetry is ______.

A. he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France to English poetry

B. he created striking brilliant panorama of his time and his country

C. he wrote in blank verse

D. he was the first to write sonnet

7. During the Renaissance, _______ was the first one to introduce the sonnet into English poetry.

A. Chaucer

B. John Donne

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Earl of Surrey

8. During the Renaissance, _______ wrote the first English blank verse.

A. Chaucer

B. Edmund Spencer

C. Thomas Wyatt

D. Earl of Surrey

9. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement？

A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture

B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology

C. The Glorious revolution

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion

10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events. Which one of the following is NOT such an event?

A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B. England’s domestic rest

C. New discovery in geography and astrology.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

11. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.

A. 14th...mid-17th

B. 14th...mid-18th

C. 16th...mid-18th

D. 16th...mid-17th

12. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______.

A. science

B. philosophy

C. arts

D. humanism

13. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.

A. Edmund Spenser

B. John Donne

C. William Blake

D. Thomas Gray

14. _______ is known as “the poet’s poet”.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Edmund Spenser

D. John Donne

15. Romance，which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of____ adventures or other heroic deeds，is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A. Christian

B. knightly

C. pilgrims

D. primitive

16. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the English humanism.

A. Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe

B. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe