英国文学期末测试题

英国文学期末测试题

I. Authors and their works (one point for each)

A. Try to give one of the works by the following writers

1. Thomas More _________________________

2. Daniel Defoe _________________________

3. John Milton _________________________

4. Henry Fielding _________________________

5. Percy Bysshe Shelley _________________________

6. Charlotte Bronte _________________________

7. G. Bernard Shaw _________________________

8. Virginia Woolf _________________________

B. Please point out the author of the following works

9. The Canterbury Tales _________________________

10. Macbeth _________________________

11. The Pilgrim’s Progress _________________________

12. Gulliver’s Travels _________________________

13. IWandered Lonely as a Cloud _________________________

14. Hard Times _________________________

15. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists ___________________ ______

II. Multiple Choice（one point for each）

A. The Geste of Robin Hood

B. Beowulf

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D. Mort d’Arthur

2. ________ is the main literary trend in the first period of the English Enlightenment.

A. Realism

B. Romanticism

C. Neo-classicism

D. Sentimentalism

3. Robert Burns wrote his poems chiefly in the ________ dialect.

A. Irish

B. London

C. Dublin

D. Scottish

4. The rise and growth of the ________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature.

A. romantic poetry

B. realistic novel

C. neo-classical poetry

D. sentimental novel

5. Most of Shakespeare’s best plays were written in the ________ period of his dramatic career.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

6. John Milton is a great poet in the period of English ________.

A. feudalism

B. Renaissance

C. Bourgeois Revolution

D. Enlightenment

7. ________ is regarded as“Father of English Prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language.

A. Bede

B. Alfred

C. Francis Bacon

D. Samuel Johnson

8. The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet“To be or not to be…”shows his ________.

A. hatred for his uncle

B. love for life

C. resolution of revenge

D. inner strife

9. The impact of ________ upon Bernard Shaw was important and far reaching, which could find evident expression in many of his literary efforts.

A. socialism

B. capitalism