现代和现实主义选择题-推荐下载

I. Multiple choices
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. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland
B. Gower
C. Wycliffe
D. Chaucer
5. ______, the “father of English poetry” 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
6. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.
a. Thomas Wyatt
b. William Shakespeare
c. Phillip Sidney
d. Thomas Campion
7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _______ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Thomas Loge
c. Edmund Spenser
d. Thomas More
8. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.
a. Christopher Marlowe
b. Thomas More
c. Phillip Sidney
d. Edmund Spencer
9. Renaissance Period was an age of ____ .
a. prose and novel
b. poetry and drama
c. essays and journals
d. ballads and songs
10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeare’s____________.
a. Sonnet 18
b. the tragedy King Lear
c. a long poem Venus and Adonis
d. the comedy As You Like It
11. From the following choose the one______ that is not by Francis Bacon.
a. The Advancement of Learning
b. The New Instrument
c. Of Studies
d. The rape of the Lock
12. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous poet of that period was_______.
a. Edmund Spenser
b. Thomas Kyd
c. Earl of Surry
d. Thomas More
13. Which play is not a comedy?
a. The Jew of Malt a
b. Every One in His Humor
c. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
d. Much Ado about Nothing
14. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______ ‘s best plays.
a. Shakespeare
b. Thomas Kyd
c. Ben Jonson
d. Christopher Marlowe
15. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London
about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern English language.
a. Shakespeare
b. Spenser
c. C. Philip Sidney
d. Chaucer
16. The basic note of Chaucer’s style is_______.
a. the fusion of humor and genial satire
b. the fusion of irony with sarcasm
c. the fusion of humor with epigrams
d. the fusion of humor with irony
17. _____was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby.
a. Southy
b. Francis Bacon
c. Shakespeare
d. Chaucer
18. Macbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.
a. tragedy
b. comedy
c. tragicomedy
d. historical play
19. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:
Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune
Or to take arms against a sea of trouble,
And by opposing end them...” are the famous lines in Hamlet which expresses the Hamlet’s ______ character.
a.. resolute
b. resolute and hesitant
c. stubbon
d. indecisive and hesitant
20.Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.
a.Church of England
b. Puritanism
c.Calvinism
d. Catholicism
21. Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.
a.belief
b. characters
c. idea
d. God
23. Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and well known was ______who became the Poet Laureate in 1616.
a. John Dryden
b. Samuel Johnson
c. Ben Jonson
d. Robert Southy
24. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, _______was the greatest.
a. Milton
b. Bunyan
c. the Metaphysical poets
d. the Cavalier poets
26.The title of “Poet’s poet” is given to the writer of the following work __ _____.
a.Death Be Not Proud
b. Venus and Adonis
c.Romeo and Juliet
d. The Faerie Queen
27. The Merchant of Venice belongs to Shakespearian plays of_______.
edy
b. sequence of sonnets
c.tragedy
d. historical play
28.Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in______ after the Norman conquest.
a.French
b. Latin
c.English
d. Celt
29. “He was not of an age, but for all the time”. “He” here refers to _____.
a.Shakespeare
b. Chaucer
c. C.John Milton
d. Ben Jonson
30.The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.
a.Thomas More
b. Spenser
c.John Donne
d. Wyatt
31.The most important prose writer of Elizabethan Age was _______, who was also the founder of the English materialistic philosophy.
a.Thomas More
b. Spenser
c.John Donne
d. Francis Bacon
32.The culmination of all Renaissance translation is ________.
a.King James Bible
b. New Instrument
c.Of Study
d. The Reason of Church Government
33.Donne’s poetry is full of metaphors, original images, wit and______, except ingenuity, dexterous use of colloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes and caustic humor.
a.conceits
b. Petrarchen images
c.rhetorics
d. brevity
34.The Cavaliers mostly dealt in short songs on the flitting joys of the day, but underneath their light-heartedness lies some foreboding of _____ to enjoy the present day. This is typical of pessimism and cynicism.
a.philosophical thought
b. impending doom
c.intellectual idea
d. expecting happiness.
35.Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were the poems written by _______.
ton
b. William Shakespeare
c.Ben Jonson
d. Marlowe
36.In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the ______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.
a. pessimism, knowledge
b. optimism, ideal
c. rebellion, will
d. cynicism, concept
37.Blank verse was first used by ______ as the principle instrument of English drama.
a.the Earl of Surry
b. Christopher Marlowe
c.Samuel Johnson
d. Shakespeare
38.The theme of the sonnet Death Be Not Proud is that ________.
a. death is predestined
b. death is the most dreadful thing
c.death you are nothing to be feared
d. death is gentle towards me
39. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
40. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. classicism
41.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the
_______.
A. dramatic blank verse
B. song
C. sonnet
D. couplet
42._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip Sidney
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Thomas More
D. Walter Raleigh
43.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.
A. Ben Johnson
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas More
D. Christopher Marlowe
44.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
A. Lyly
B. Peele
C. Greene
D. Marlowe
45. ____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
46. _____is the first philosopher of industrial science.
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
48. ____has six knights representing 6 virtues: holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice and Courtesy.
a. The Faerie Queen
b. The Pilgrim’s Progress
c. Paradise Lost D. Essays
49.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
50. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A. The Tatler
B. The Spectator
C. The Theatre
D. The English
51. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.
A. A Letter from Italy
B. Rosamond
C. The Campaign
D. Cato
52. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.
A. Steele
B. Addison
C. Pope
D. Dryden
53. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.
A. Essay on Criticism
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Essay on Man
D. The Dunciad
54. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.
A. didactic
B. satirical
C. philosophical
D. dramatic
55. ____ 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
56. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.
A. aristocratic
B. middle class
C. low class
D. intellectual
57. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.
A. Steele
B. Milton
C. Addison
D. Pope
58.The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period spoke
the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.
A. drama
B. poetry
C. essay
D. novel
59.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of
Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.
A. Essays on Criticism
B. A Modest Proposal
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. The Battle of the Books
60.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said
by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Daniel Defoe
61.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is derived the
term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.
A. The Rivals
B. The School for Scandal
C. The Beggar’s Opera
D. The London Merchant
62.Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.
A. The Review
B. The Tatler
C. The Rambler
D. The Bee
63.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.
A. The Traveller
B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield
D. The School for Scandal
64.Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.
A. The School for Scandal
B. She Stoops to Conquer
C. The Good-natured Man
D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
65.______ is not written by William Blake.
A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
B. Songs of Experience
C. Auld Lang Syne
D. Poetical Sketches
66.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from William
Blake’s _____.
A. Songs of Experience
B. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D. Poetical Sketches
67.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ______,
which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and the Tories
B. the senate and the House of Representatives
C. The upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
68._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation
of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
69.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?
A. Clarissa Harlowe
B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Tomes Jones
70.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers。