英国文学复习题含答案

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I. Multiple Choice: from a, b, c or d, choose the best one to complete the statements below. (1×50, 50 points)

1.--------- is the first important religious poet in English literature.

a. John Donne

b. George Herbert

c. Caedmon

d. Milton

2.The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions,

---------- and Christian.

a. Pagan

b. Roman

c. French

d. Danish

3.“----------” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the

surviving epic in the English language.

a. Beowulf

b.Sir Gawain and Green Knight

c. The Canterbury Tales

d. Hamlet

4.Fielding has been regarded by some as the “----------” for his contribution

to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

a.Best Writer of English Novel

b. Father of English Novel

c. Father of English Poetry

d. Father of English Essay

5.All of the following three writers except---------- are the most famous

dramatists in the Renaissance England.

a.Marlowe

b. Shakespeare

c. Bacon

d.

Thomas Kyd

6.Byronic Hero was created by Lord Byron in one of his following works

---------.

a. Don Juan

b. Ode to the West wind

c. She Walks in Beauty

d. Daffodils

7.Which play is not Shakespeare’s tragedy? ----------

a.Othello

b. The Merchant of Venice

c.Romeo and Juliet

d. King Lear

8.The literary form of The Faerie Queen is ----------.

a. lyric poem

b. narrative poem

c. epic poem

d.

elegy

9.Which of the following cannot correctly describe the English

Enlightenment Movement ----------?

a.It flourished in France.

b. It was a furtherance of the

Renaissance.

c.Its purpose was to enlighten the whole worl

d. d. It emphasized

“reason & order.”

10.“Blindness, partiality, prejudice and absurdity” in the novel Pride and

Prejudice are most likely to be the characteristics of ----------.

a. Elizabeth

b. Darcy

c. Mrs. Bennet

d. Lydia

11.T he prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the ----------.

a. French

b. Latin

c. romance

d. science

12.T he story of “----------”is the culmination of the Arthurian metrical

romances.

a.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

b. Beowulf

c.Piers the Plowman

d. The Canterbury Tales

13.C haucer, the ‘father of English poetry’ and one of the greatest ----------

poets of England, was born in London about 1340, and was the first to be