English Literature 英国文学考试试题及答案

---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ English Literature 英国文学考试试题及答案Part OneEarly and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. 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 th 2. In the 14 century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ . A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 明朝 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.中世纪 A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay 4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.亚瑟王的顶峰 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 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 威克利夫 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. feudal1/ 37封建的；领地的；世仇的 C. bourgeois 资本家 D. modern 9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. A. loyalty B. revolt 反抗 C. obedience 顺从 D. mockery 嘲弄 10. The most famous cycle of English ballads 民歌 centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman 11. ______, 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 12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____. A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 威斯敏斯特教堂（英国名人墓地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.3---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ A. The Romaunt of the Rose 传奇故事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 ADAABⅡ. Questions 1. What are the features of Beowulf?文体。

维基网 2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part TwoThe English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works. 1. Thomas More A. Apology for Poetry 2. Holinshed B. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets 3. Hakluyt C. Utopia 4. Richard Tottel D. Discovery of Guiana 5. Philip Sidney E. Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries 6. Walter Raleigh 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 of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie. 新兴的资产阶3/ 37级 A. Henry V B. Henry VII C. Henry VIII D. James I 2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning sta r of the Reformation” and his followers. A. William TyndalB. James IC. John Wycliffe 威克利夫D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3. 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 BCDAA4---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ 4. Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout 击溃，寻找 of the fleet 舰队“Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph 胜利 of the rising young bourgeoisie 资产阶级 over the declining old feudalism.封建制度 A. Spain B. France C. America D. Norway 5. Those, both traders and pirates 海盗 like ____, established the first English colonies. A. Francis Drake 德雷克 B. Lancelot Andrews C. William Caxton D. William Tyndal6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe 马洛7. The most gifted of the “university wits”大学才子 was ____. DDCBA A. Lyly B. Peele C. Greene D. Marlowe 8. Morality plays appeared after_____. A. miracle plays B. mystery plays C. interlude 插曲 D. Classical plays 9. _____ is used to say and do good things. A. Mercy B. Folly n.，蠢笨；讽刺剧 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. A. Thomas North B. Thomas Wyatt C. George Chapman D. John Florio 12. ____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A. Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》 Miscellany5/ 37of Songs and Sonnets B. Don Quixote 11-15 BDADA C. History 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 _____. 乌托邦 A. prose B. drama C. essay D. dialogue 15. One of the popular morality plays was ____. A. The Shepherds 牧羊人 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 end in reconciliation and reunion. 和解团圆 A. 1590 and 1594 B. 1595 and 1600 C. 1601 and 1607 D. 1608 and 1612 17. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.米达兰 A. Pericles B. Cymbeline C. The Winter’s Tale D. The Tempest5---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ 18. In _____ appeared 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. 16-22 ACBADDB A. 1606 B. 1607 C. 1608 160919. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____. A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. 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 对句 21. In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words. A. 15000 B. 16000 C. 17000 D. 18000 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 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 Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 under the auspices of _____. And7/ 37so 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. 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 _____.6---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ 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 ____.9/ 3725. 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 ___. 28. The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (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---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ Sonnets contained _____ poems by ______ and _____ by _____.711/ 3735. Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history. 36. _____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___ among the laboring classes. 37. More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth. 38. Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets. 39. The highest glory of the English Rena issance was unquestionably its ____. 40. The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories. 41. There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds. 42. A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages. 43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____. 44. Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama. 45. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____. 46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the ____ century. 47. The first English comedy is ______. 48. The first English tragedy is _____. 49. Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____. 50. In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama. 51. By ____, professional---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ actors were organized into companies. 52. ____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排） of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）. 53. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were always taken by ____. 54. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life. 55. Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language. 56. Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____. 57. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______. 58. Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing. 59. Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications of real life. Key to the blanks: 1. Latin Bible 2. Protestantism 新教 ; Catholicism 天主教 3. Protestants 4. John Wycliffe; Reformation 5. William Tindal 6. Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible.87. Language; literature 8. fixed; confirmed 9. Bible coinages 10. simple; dignified 庄严的，高贵的11. William Caxton 12. Reading; literature 13. First 14. Shakespeare13/ 3715. Printer; publisher 16. 100; 24 17. 15th ; prose 18. National 19. Publisher; culture 20. 14th; 17th 21. Religious reformation 22. feudalist ideas 封建; interests; purity 23. Humanism; human mind; human culture 24. Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc 25. Lancaster 兰开斯特（美国Pennsylvania 东南部一城市，英格; York 26. The Reformation 27. the Enclosure Movement; proletarians 28. printing 29. feudal; capitalism 30. sheep devours 吞食 men 31. William VIII 32. Renaissance 文艺复兴 33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey34. 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt 怀亚特, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 35. poetry 36. Utopia, Book One; poverty 37. private ownership 38. Italian/ Petrarchan ; Shakespearean 39. Drama 40. Bible 41. real 42. Conflict; evil; allegorical 寓言的，讽喻的 43. Clown 小丑 44. Greek; Latin 45. Structure; style; comedy; tragedy 46. 16th 47. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》 48. Gorboduc 《高波特克》 49. Drama 戏剧 50. London 51. 1567 52. Elizabethan theatres 53. actress; boys 54. countryside 55. master 56. adaptation (revision) 57. Renaissance 58. master-hand (能手) 59. full-blood 战争勇敢的,坚强的”(war hardy,brave,strong);[ Ⅳ. Say true or false. 1. The old English aristocracy 贵族 having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility 高贵, totally---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ dependent on King’s power, come to the fore 涌现. T 2. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. T 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. T 4. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise. F. (a political movement in a religious guise) 5. Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches.F(the Latin Bible) 6. Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.T 7. More the man is even more interesting than More the writer. F (Sidney)915/ 378. 9. 10. 11.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.T Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance. T Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella. T The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.T 12. The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.T 13. Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯· 萨克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯· 诺顿）. F ( Book Two) 14. Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T 15. Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues. T 16. Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.” T 17. Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T 18. Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)F 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.T 20. Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”. T 22Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage. F a conversation) 21. 22. Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist. F(poet and critic of poetry) 23. Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital.F 24. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry. F (darma) 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.T 26. Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.T 27. Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T 28. After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623. T 29. From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time. T 30. In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.T 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. F（ Macbeth) 32. Coming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the17/ 37summit of Shakespeare’s art.F （hamlet） 33. Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature. F10---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ （realism） 34. Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity. F decline) 35. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.F not an age of prose) 36. There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind. T 37. Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”. ordinary people were) 38. In 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 11. T 12. T 13. F ( Book Two) 14. T 15. T 16. T 17. T 18. F 19. T 20. 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. T1119/ 37Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissance 1. Comment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff. 2. Comment on the character of Hamlet. 3. What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4. Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.5. Comment on Marlowe’s 马洛 social significance and literary achievement.6. Comment on The Faerie Queen.《仙后》Part ThreeThe Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI. 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 i n the later democratic revolutionary struggles. A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity B. Comus C. Of Reformation in England D. Areopagitica [?ri?p?d?itik?] 论出版自由 3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. 年轻的爱歌词和后来的神圣的经文 A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne 多恩 D. John Dryden 4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love. A. Holy Sonnets B. Witchcraft by a Picture 巫术 C. The Sun Rising D. Death, Be Not Proud 5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The Altar 可数名词‘祭坛；神坛B. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May 6. ____ is the---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ 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 熟悉 Angler B. Holy Living1121/ 37C. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils 10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry? 谁是骑士诗歌史上最伟大的人物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 亚历山大·蒲柏 Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII. Fill in the blanks. 1. In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place. 2. The Pilgrim’s 执著的心；清教徒、朝圣者 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. _____masterpiece, 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.---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ 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 Progress 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 private1223/ 37citizens by letters and _____. Key to the blanks: 1. (John Bunyan)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) 2. (Paradise Lost) 3. (mysticism) 4. (the Bible) 5. (Dryden) 6. (man) 7. (symbolism) 8. (diaries)13---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ 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, Milton25/ 37wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife. 13. The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroi c 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. T14---------------------------------------------------------------最新资料推荐------------------------------------------------------ IV. Questions 1. What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress? 2. Comment on the image of Satan. 3. Comment on Samson.Part Four The English CenturyⅠ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points) A B 1. ( ) Tome Jones a. Friday 2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield b. King of Brodingnag 3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe c. Sophia 4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels 格利佛(< d. Mr.B 格利佛游记>的主人公 e. William Thornhill 5. ( ) Pamela f. Charles Surface 6. ( ) The School for Scandal 丑闻 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 Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele? A. The Tatler 闲谈者 B. The Spectator C. The Theatre D. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.艾迪生 A. A Letter from Italy B. Rosamond C. The Campaign D. Cato 卡托4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?旁观者 A. Isaac Bickerstaff B. Mr. Roger C. Captain Sentry D. Andrew Freeport5. ______ 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’s27/ 37。