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Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In 1066, ____， with his Norman army, succeeded in
invading and defeating England 。

A. William the Conqueror
B. Julius Caesar C 。

Alfred the Great D. Claudius
2。

In the 14th century ， the most important writer (poet)
is ____ .
A. Langland
B. Wycliffe C 。

Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is
____。

A. novel B 。

drama C. romance D. essay 4。

The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian
romances 。

A 。

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf
C 。

Piers the Plowman
D 。

The
Canterbury Tales
5。

William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a
dream vision 。

A 。

Kubla Khan
B 。

Piers the Plowman
C 。

The Dream of John Bull D. Morte d'Arthur
1—5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB
6. After the Norman Conquest ， three languages existed
in England at that time 。

The Normans spoke _____.
A 。

French
B 。

English C. Latin D.
Swedish
7。

______ was the greatest of English religious reformers
and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland B 。

Gower C. Wycliffe D 。

Chaucer
8。

Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful
dreams the author dreamed ， through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitive
B. feudal
C. bourgeois
D.
modern
9。

The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly
emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B. revolt
C. obedience D 。

mockery
10。

The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on
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the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____. A. Morte d’Arthur B. Robin Hood C 。

The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman 11。

______, the “father of English poetr y" and one of the
greatest narrative poets of England ， was born in London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B 。

Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon
D 。

John Dryden
12。

Chaucer died on October 25th ， 1400, and was buried
in ____.
A 。

Flanders
B 。

France
C 。

Italy
D 。

Westminster Abbey
13。

Chaucer's earliest work of any length is his _____, a
translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe. A 。

The Romaunt of the Rose B 。

“A Red, Red
Rose”
C 。

The Legend of Good Women
D 。

The Book
of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of
occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings 。

Which one is not his career ？ ____。

A. engineer
B. courtier
C. office holder
D. soldier E 。

ambassador F 。

legislator (议员) 15。

Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____
based on Boccaccio ’s poem “Filostrato".
A 。

The Legend of Good Women
B 。

Troilus
and Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D 。

Beowulf
Key to the multiple choices ： 1—5 ADCAB 6—10 ACBAB 11—15 ADAAB
自考真题 2002—4。

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.Greek D.primitive
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（B ）
● 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 （D)
● 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 Plowman
B ．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C ．John Gower’s Confession Amantis
D ．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight （B ）
Ⅱ. Questions
1. What are the features of Beowulf?
2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales 。

Part Two The English Renaissance
Ⅰ。

Match the writer and his works 。

1. Thomas More 2. Holinshed 3. Hakluyt 4. Richard Tottel 5. Philip Sidney 6. Walter Raleigh A. A pology for Poetry
B. M iscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C. U topia
D. D iscovery of Guiana
E. Principal Navigations ， Voyages and Discoveries
F. Chronicles The key ： （1—C 2—F 3-E 4—B 5-A 6-D)
Ⅱ。

Choose the best answer 。

1. _____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy
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of a totally new type ， which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.
A. Henry V B 。

Henry VII C. Henry VIII D. James I
2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______， “the morni ng star of the Reformation" and his followers 。

A. William Tyndal
B. James I
C 。

John Wycliffe D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews 3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad 。

____ encouraged exploration and travel ， which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants. A. Henry V. B. Henry VII
C 。

Henry VIII
D 。

Queen Elizabeth
4. Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism 。

A 。

Spain B 。

France C. America D 。

Norway
5. Those ， both traders and pirates like ____， established the first English colonies 。

A 。

Francis Drake
B 。

Lancelot Andrews C. William Caxton D. William Tyndal
6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature 。

A 。

Ben Johnson
B 。

William Shakespeare
C 。

Thomas More D. Christopher Marlowe
7. The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____。

A 。

Lyly
B 。

Peele C. Greene D. Marlowe
8. Morality plays appeared after_____。

A. miracle plays B 。

mystery plays C. interlude D 。

Classical plays
9. _____ is used to say and do good things 。

A 。

Mercy B. Folly C 。

Vice D 。

Peace
10. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought 。

A 。

Phillip Sidney B. Edmund Spenser C. Thomas More D 。

Walter Raleigh
11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance 。

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A. Thomas North
B. Thomas Wyatt C 。

George Chapman D 。

John Florio
12. ____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar. A. L ives of Greek and Roan Heroes 《希腊罗马名人传》 B. M iscellany of Songs and Sonnets C. D on Quixote D. H istory of the World
13. ____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
A 。

John Wycliffe B. William Caxton C 。

Geoffrey Chaucer D. Thomas More 14. Utopia was written in the form of _____。

A. prose B 。

drama C. essay D 。

dialogue
15. One of the popular morality plays was ____。

A. The Shepherds
B. Everyman
C 。

The Play of the Weather
D 。

Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16. Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all e nd in reconciliation and reunion 。

A 。

1590 and 1594
B 。

1595 and 1600 C. 1601 and 1607 D. 1608 and 1612
Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______. ACBADDB
17.
A 。

Pericles
B 。

Cymbeline
C 。

The Winter’s Tale D. The Tempest
18. In _____ ap peared Shakespeare’s Sonnet ，Never before Imprinted （《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”)which contains 154 sonnets。

A 。

1606
B 。

1607
C 。

1608 1609 19. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A 。

romanticism
B 。

realism
C 。

naturalism
D 。

classicism
20. Among many poetic forms ， Shakespeare was especially at home （good at ） with the _______.
A 。

dramatic blank verse
B 。

song C. sonnet D. couplet
21. In the plays ， Shakespeare used about ______words 。

A 。

15000 B. 16000 C. 17000 D. 18000
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22. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Francis Bacon
C. W 。

Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
Key to the multiple choices ：
1-5 BCDAA 6—10 DDCBA 11—15 BDADA 16—22 ACBADDB
1. Latin Bible
2. Protestantism ； Catholicism
3. Protestants
4. John Wycliffe; Reformation
5.
William Tyndal
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks 。

1. The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.
2. The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between ____ and ___。

3. The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.
4. The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the _____”.
5. _____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.
6. After Tydale’s Bi ble, then appeared the ______， which was made in 1611 under the auspices of _____。

And so was sometimes called the ____.
7. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English ___ and ____. 8. With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been _____ and _____.
9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words 。

10. The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.
11. ____ was the first English printer.
12. William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ ， and his interest was turning to ____。

13. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the ___ book printed in English 。

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14. The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida 。

《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》
15. After having established his printing press ， William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____。

16. William Caxton published about ____ books ， ___ of which were translated by himself 。

17. By rendering （翻译) French books into English, Caxton
exercised the youthful language in the airs （曲调)， the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____。

18. The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language in England 。

19. As the first English printer ， Caxton invented in England the profession of ____， which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole 。

20. The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.
21. The word, “renaissance" means ________, which was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________.
22. In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old ____in medieval Europe ， to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie ， and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church 。

23. ____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of ____and the achievements of ____。

24. ____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______， in which the rhyme scheme is ____。

25. The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.
26. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England ， the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.
27. After ___ in England ， the helpless ， dispossessed peasants ， being compelled to work at a low wage ， became hired laborers for the merchants 。

These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.
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（1476) brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.
29. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____。

30. Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk ， it was a time when, according to Thomas More ， “___”。

31. ____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country ， confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.
32. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.
33. ____， in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse 。

34. Richard Tottel's Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by ______ and _____ by _____.
Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history 。

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 96， Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard ， Earl of Surrey poetry
Utopia ， Book One; poverty private ownership
Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean Drama Bible real
35. _____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___ among the laboring classes 。

36. More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.
37. Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.
38. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.
39. The “miracles" were simple plays based on ______stories 。

40. There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds 。

41. A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____
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with _____personages 。

42. Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____。

Conflict; evil; allegorical Clown
Greek; Latin
Structure ； style; comedy ； tragedy 16th
Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》 Gorboduc 《高波特克》
43. Through the revival of classical literature, English
playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama.
44. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____， the more exact conception of ____ and ____.
45. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the ____ century 。

46. The first English comedy is ______. 47. The first English tragedy is _____。

Miracle plays, morality plays ， interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____. Drama London 1567
Elizabethan theatres actress; boys countryside
48. In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama 。

49. By ____, professional actors were organized into companies 。

50. ____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form ，
with tiers （一排排） of galleries surrounding a roofless pit(楼下剧场）.
51. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were always taken by ____。

52. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis， is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms （格言、警句） on life.
53. Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language 。

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55. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.
56. Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.
57. Shakespeare’s _____ peopl e represent all the complexities and implications of real life. master
adaptation (revision) Renaissance
master —hand (能手) full —blood
Key to the blanks ： Latin Bible Protestantism ； Catholicism Protestants John Wycliffe ； Reformation William Tyndal Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible. Language ； literature 6. fixed; confirmed 7. Bible coinages 8. simple; dignified 9. William Caxton
10. Reading; literature 11. First
12. Shakespeare
13. Printer; publisher 14. 100； 24
15. 15th ； prose 16. National
17. Publisher; culture 18. 14th ； 17th 19. Religious reformation 20. feudalist ideas; interests ； purity
21. Humanism; human mind ； human culture
22. Spenserian ； Edmund
Spenser ； The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc
23. Lancaster ； York 24. The Reformation
25. the Enclosure Movement; proletarians 26. printing
27. feudal; capitalism 28. sheep devours men 29. William VIII 30. Renaissance
Henry Howard ， Earl of Surrey 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40， Henry Howard ， Earl of Surrey poetry
Utopia ， Book One ； poverty private ownership Italian/Petrarchan ； Shakespearean Drama Bible real
Conflict ； evil ； allegorical Clown
Greek; Latin
Structure; style; comedy ； tragedy 16th
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Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》 Gorboduc 《高波特克》 Drama London 1567 Elizabethan theatres actress ； boys countryside master adaptation (revision) Renaissance master —hand (能手) full-blood Ⅳ. Say true or false. 1. The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility ， totally dependent on King's power, come to the fore 。

2. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. 3. The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada. 4. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise. 5. Before the Reformation ， the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches. 6. Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment. 7. More the man is even more interesting than More the writer 。

8. Utopia ， Book One, describes an ideal communist society 。

9. Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance 。

10. Philip Sidney's collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella 。

11. The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.
12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown。

13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville （托马斯·萨克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）。

14.Shakespeare's sonnets are divided into three groups：Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18-126, and Numbers 127—154。

15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.
16.Engels said，“Realism implies，besides truth in detail，the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.”
17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.
18.Shakespeare's one play contains one theme。

（contains more than one theme)
19.To reproduce the real life，Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic（散文体的) and tragic with the comic.
20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”。

21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece，written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage。

21。

F（a conversation）
22。

F（poet and critic of poetry）
23。

F
24。

F(darma）
25. T
26. T
27。

T
28. T
29. T
30. T
22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital。

24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.
25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories，such as the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.
26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.
27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre。

28.After Shakespeare’s death，Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623.
29.From Shakespeare’s histo ry plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time。

30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays，historical accuracy is not strictly regarded。

31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition，which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom。

ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art.
29. T
30。

T
31. F （Macbeth)
32。

F（Hamlet）
33. F (realism)
34. F（decline）
35. F （not an age of prose)
36. T
37。

F（ordinary people were）
38. T
33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature。

34.Generally speaking，after Shakespeare，the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.
35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and
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36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind。

37.Ben Johnson's comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”。

38.I n Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time。

Key to the True/False statements:
1.T
2.T
3.T
4. F. （a political movement in a religious guise）
5.F。

（the Latin Bible)
6.T
7. F (Sidney)
8.T
9.T
10.T
6.T
7.T
8. F （Book Two)
9.T
10.T
11.T
12.T
13.F
14.T
15.T
21.F (a conversation）
22.F （poet and critic of poetry）
23.F
24.F(darma)
25.T
26.T
27.T
28.T
29.T
30.T
31.F (Macbeth）
32.F (Hamlet)
33.F （realism)
34.F(decline）
35.F （not an age of prose）36.T
37.F （ordinary people were）
38.T
Ⅴ。

Questions on the English Renaissance
ment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.
ment on the character of Hamlet.
3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?
4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.
ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement。

ment on The Faerie Queene。

未复习Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
I.Choose the right answer。

1.The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____。

A. aabbccbbc
B. abbacdccd
C. abacdeec D。

ababcdcdd
2。

_____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press,has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles。

A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
B. Comus
C。

Of Reformation in England D。

Areopagitica
3。

____ poems can be divided into two categories：the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
A。

John Milton B。

John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John Dryden
4. _____ expressed Donne's own way of describing love。

A。

Holy Sonnets B. Witchcraft by a Picture
C. The Sun Rising
D. Death，Be Not Proud
5。

George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem。

A。

The Altar B。

To His Coy Mistress
C. To Daffodils D。

Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May
6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne B。

George Herbert
C。

Andre Marvell D。

Henry Vaughan
7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet？
A。

Richard Crashaw B. Henry Vaughan
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Robert Burton
8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality。

A. The Anatomy of Melancholy B。

Religio Mecici
C。

Holy Dying D。

Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and
kind people.
A。

The Compleat Angler B。

Holy Living
C。

To His Coy Mistress D。

To Daffadils
10。

Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry？
A. John Suckling B。

Richard Lovelace
C。

Robert Herrick D. John Dryden
11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.
A。

John Dryden B. Richard Steele
C. Joseph Addison
D. Alexander Pope
Key to the multiple choices：1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD
II.Fill in the blanks。

1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age，_______ occupies the most important place.
2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during
the _____ Age。

3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time
of Restoration.
4._____masterpie ce, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts
such as sins，despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world。

5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.
6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.
7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.
8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare。

9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays。

The famous one is _______，a tragedy dealing with the same
story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra。

10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton，in the
prose writing of John Bunyan，and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.
11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______。

12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.
13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.
14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized，generally speaking，by _____in content
and fantasticality in form。

15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.
16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton's belief in the powers of _____.
17.The Pilgrim’s P rogress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.
18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters
and _____。

Key to the blanks:
1.（John Bunyan）
18.（diaries）
2.（Puritan）
3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)
4.(John Bunyan’s)
5.（John Dryden)
6.（Dryden)
7.（John Dryden)
8.（John Dryden）
9.（All for Love）
10.(John Dryden)
11.（epics)
12.（Paradise Lost)
13.（mysticism)
14.(the Bible）
15.（Dryden)
16.（man）
17.(symbolism)
III.Say true or false.
1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land ownership。

2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader
of this revolt is Wat Tyler.
3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship，Charles II became the Protector of the
English Commonwealth。

4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England
was then convulsed （shook，quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.
5.In 1644，James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the country。

6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole。

7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature，William
Shakespeare.
8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole
name is William Milton。

9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.
10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.
11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer
towers over the Medieval Period。

12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem，a sonnet，on His Deceased Wife。

13.The greatest epic produced by Milton，Paradise Lose，is written in heroic couplets.
14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”，i。

e. to advocate
submission to the Almighty.
15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who
never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch。

16.Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.
17.Thomas Browne's Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or
less connected with religion。

Key to True/False statements:
1. F （ownership: monopolies）
2. F （Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)
3. F （Charles II：Oliver Cromwell）
4. F (Donne：Milton)
5. F （James I: Charles I）
6. F （flourish：decline）
7.T (William Shakespeare)
8. F （William：John)
9. F （drama: poetry）
10.F （James I: Elizabeth I)
11.F （Byron: Shakespeare)
12.F (first: second）
13.F (heroic couplets：blank verse）
14.F （Satan：God）
15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost）
16.T
17.T
IV。

Questions
1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progre ss?
ment on the image of Satan.
ment on Samson.
Part Four The English Century
Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters。

(3 points) A
1. ( ）Tome Jones
2。

( ) The Vicar of Wakefield
3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe
4。

( ）Gullive r’s Travels
5. （）Pamela
6. ( ）The School for Scandal B
a.Friday
b.King of Brodingnag
c.Sophia
d.Mr。

B
e.William Thornhill
f.Charles Surfac
The key：(1—c, 2—e，3—a，4-b, 5—d, 6—f )
Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.
1.In 1701，Steele published a pamphlet, _____，in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.
A。

The Funeral B. The Lying Lover
C. The Christian Hero
D. The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A。

The Tatler B。

The Spectator C。

The Theatre D。

The English
3。

_____ is Addison's great tragedy。

A。

A Letter from Italy B。

Rosamond C。

The Campaign D。

Cato
4。

Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator？
A。

Isaac Bickerstaff B。

Mr. Roger
C。

Captain Sentry D。

Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the
18th century。

A。

Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic
C。

Samuel Pepys's diaries D。

Addison's Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.
A. Steele
B. Addison C。

Pope D. Dryden
7。

The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____。

A。

Essay on Criticism B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Essay on Man D。

The Dunciad
8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets。

A。

didactic B. satirical C。

philosophical D. dramatic
9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.
A。

The Enclosure Movement B. The Industrial Revolution
C。

The Religious Reform D. The Enlightenment
10。

The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers。

A。

aristocratic B. middle class C。

low class D。

intellectual
11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.
A。

Steele B。

Milton C。

Addison D. Pope
12.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ 。

What the writers described in their
works were mainly social realities.。