英国文学练习题1

英国文学练习题1
Exercises for English literature （1）
I. Fill in the blanks.（25%）
1. The Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the_________poetry and the_________poetry.
2. _________ is regarded as the "Father of English Song", the first known religious poet of England.
3. In the second half of the 7th century, the first English poet, _________ by name, began to sing.
4. The history of English literature begins in the__________ century.
5._________, the first English poem, still intact as a whole piece today, is the greatest epic ever left by the ancient Germanic tribes and the most ancient ever since the demise of the Greek and Roman literatures
6.It was __________ who decided that literature should be written in the vernacular or Old English.
7.__________ is the first English poet ever to sign his composition
8._________made the translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate Version into Middle English, the first
attempt ever to translate the Holy Scripture into English.
9.The most important work of Alfred the Great is _________, which is regarded as the best monument of the Old
English Prose.
10.__________ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages.
11.The most magnificent prose work of the 15th century is Morte d' Arthur concerning with _________legend.
12.Critics tend to divide Chaucer's literary career into three periods: the___________period, the__________period
and the_________period.
13.Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
The other two are _________ and____________
14._________ was the first most significant poet in English history to write in Middle English.
15.The Canterbury Tales contains the________ and 24 tales, four of which are fragments.
16._________ is the author of Decameron, which has the similar way of telling stories to that of The Canterbury
Tales.
17.The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a__________
18.When Chaucer died in 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey and founded ________
19.________, the first English printer, brought the technique of printing from movable type into England from
Italy.
20.The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance t ransformed from Chaucer’s_____England into
Shakespeare’s _______ one.
21.The translation of the Homeric classics, Iliad and Odyssey, won _______ the title “a translator of the prince of
poets”
22.Thomas Wyatt, the first great Englsih sonneteer, introduced the ______ into England. He first used a couplet for the conclusion of sonnets---a practice followed by Shakespeare.
23.Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, brought the _______ into
English poetry in his translation of Virgils’ The Aenied, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.
24.Edmund Spenser is often referred to as "the poets' _______" because of his considerable influence on later poets.
25.The word “euphemism” comes from John Lyly’s _________
26.As a sonnet sequence, Sidney’s sonnet cycle ______________ was probably the first of its kind ever to appear in English literary history.
27.The drama had gone through a number of phases over the centuries including those of the ____, the _____, the _______, the _______ and the _______drama.
28.________ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before
Shakespeare.
29.Shakespeare's 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young man, and the other
addressed to a________
30.A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line________
31. The second period of English Renaissance is also called the________ period or the Age of________
32. Soon after the ________was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgil's The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.
33. Shakespeare's plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _______ , tragedies and___________
34. Though written in the form of an________, the characters in The Pilgrim's Progress impress the readers like real persons. The places in it are English scenes, and the conversations which enliven his narratives vividly repeat the language of the writer's time.
35. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the _______ , and the___________ later.
36. John Donne is the founder of the school of ____________. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.
37. Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic,________
38. John Milton's Paradise Lost opens with the description of
a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of _______ and___________from the Garden of Eden.
39. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, _______ , and playwright.
40. Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from___________ .
41. The Pilgrim's Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian, who flies form City of Destruction, and finally comes to the Delectable Mountains and the_____________
42. Pamela is written in the form of a __________novel.
43.____________ written by Sheridan is a clever satire on the sentimental and pseudo-romantic fancies of many young women of the upper classes of the 18th century.
44. The biography of Samuel Johnson entitled Life of Johnson is frequently considered the best in the English language. The author of the book is_________
45. The only important English dramatist produced in the
18th century is___________
46. Friday is a character in the novel___________.
47__________is called the Father of the English Novel.
48. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, ______ was the first to introduce rationalism to England.
49. The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_________
50. __________is Alexander Pope's best satirical poem. Its satire is directed at Dullness in general.
II. Choose the best answer.（23%）
1.Beowulf is a ________ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.
A. pagan
B. Christian
C. romantic
D. lyric
2.Caedmon's life story is vividly described in _______ 's Historic Ecclesiastica .
A. Grendel
B. Bede
C. Cynewulf
D. Beowulf
3.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called_________
A. heroic couplet
B. quatrain
C. Spenserian stanza
D. terza rima
4.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the
medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid
characters from all walks of life is most likely________
A. William Langland's Piers the Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower's Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5.In the English Renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was______
A. the Reformation
B. geographical explorations
C. humanism
D. the Italian revival
6.Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia was a long _________ written in an elaborately artful prose.
A. pastoral eclogue
B. pastoral lyric
C. pastoral romance
D. pastoral drama
7.Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works EXCEPT__________
A. Arcadia
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. The Shepherd's Calendar
D. Apology for Poetry
8.The following playwrights belong to the "university wits", EXCEPT_________
A. John Lyly
B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Kyd
D. Christopher Marlowe
9.Which is NOT the works of Christopher Marlowe?
A. Lycidas
B. Tamburlaine the Great
C. The Jew of Malta
D.The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
10.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe's best works in which Dr. Faustus seeks ________ no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. money
B. immorality
C. knowledge
D. political power
11.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?
A. Othelllo
B. Macbeth
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Hamlet
12.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's comedies?
A. Heary V
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. A Midsummer Night's Dream
D. The Winter's Tale
13.An important variety of ode in the 16th century was________ , a poem in praise of marriage, conventionally following the course of the wedding day.
A. hymn
B. epithalamion
C. ode
D. ballad
14.Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare's dramas?
A. lyric
B. sonnet
C. blank verse
D. quatrain
15.5. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" is found
in_________ A. Francis Bacon's "Of Studies" B. Thomas More's Utopia C. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress D. Fielding's Tom Jones
16.6. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock
because__________
A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industry
B. his enterprise went bankrupt
C. Bassanio was able to pay his own debt
D. his ships had all been lost
17.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of
Shakespeare's____________
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
18.8. John Dryden's tragedy All for Love deals with the same
story as ___________ 's Antony and Cleopatra.
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Milton
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Bunyan
19.9. In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge
of___________
A. Love and Hate
B. Good and Evil
C. Faith and Betrayal
D. Sense and Sensibility
20.10. Which of the following novels by Henry Fielding satirizes the political
system of England and the then Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole?
A. Joseph Andrews
B. Jonathan Wild the Great
C. The History of T om Jones, a Foundling
D. Amelia
21.11. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_________
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self-fulfillment
22.12. "To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe." (John Milton, Paradise Lost ) By
what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man's life.
C. By removing God from His throne.
D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.
23.13. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious__________of his time.
A. persecution
B. improvement
C. prosperity
D. disillusionment
24.14. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______________
A. alliteration
B. heroic couplet
C. sonnet
D. blank verse
25.15. Lives of the Poets consists of the biographies of 52 poets and affords some of the best-known pictures of the early English poets. Its author is_____________
A. Samuel Richardson
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Joseph Addison
D. Samuel Johnson
26.16. Jonathan Swift's famous prose work _______ is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.
A. A Modest Proposal
B. The Battle of the Books
C. The Drapier 's Letters
D. A Tale of a Tub
27.17. Of all the 18th century novelists, __________ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to write
specially a "comic epic in prose", and the first to give the modem novel its structure and style.
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Samuel Richardson
C. Henry Fielding
D. Oliver Goldsmith
28.Which of the following is NOT a character in the novel The History of T om Jones, a Foundling?
A. Blifil
B. Sophia
C. Mr. Allworthy
D. Amelia
29._________ is the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman--Dictionary of the English Language,
which has become the foundation of all subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Laurence Sterne
C. Oliver Goldsmith
D. Samuel Richardson
30.In Sheridan's The School for Scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance of
his rich uncle is__________
A. Charles Surface
B. Joseph Surface
C. Sir Peter Teazle
D. Sir Benjamin Backbite
31.Modern English novel arose in the___________century.
A. 16th
B. 17th
C. 18th
D. 19th
32._________was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout
Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. Puritan Movement
C. Romantic Movement
D. The Enlightenment
33.Sheridan's ___________ is the best English comedy since the days of Shakespeare.
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
34.Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver's Travels?
A. Lilliput
B. Brobdingnag
C. Laputa
D. Houyhnhnms
35.The rise and growth of ____________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature,
which has given the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding.
A. nco-classical poetry
B. realistic novel
C. sentimentalist novel
D. Gothic novel
36. _________ is Poet Laureate in English Literary history?
A. John Dryden
B. Edmund Spenser
C. William Shakespeare
D. Christopher Marlowe
37. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was________
A. the Reformation
B. humanism
C. the Italian revival
D. geographical exploration
38. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Macbeth
39. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?
A.It is the age of translation.
B.It is the age of poetry
C. It is the age of exploration.
D. It is the age of the protestant reformation.
40. _________ first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama
A. Shakespeare
B. Wyatt
C. Sidney
D. Marlowe
IV. Definitions: (37%)
1.alliteration
2.assonance
3.understatement
4.blank verse
5.heroic couplet
6.iambic pentameter
7.eclogue
8.university wits
9.renaissance hero
10. Spenserian stanza。