美国文学课后题

17世纪文学复习题

1.Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.

a.Church of England

b. Puritanism

c. Calvinism

d. Catholicism

2. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.

a.James I

b. James II

c. Charles I

d. Charles II

3. The Revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things:_______, _______,________.

a. the supremacy of Parliament

b. the beginning of modern England

c. the triumph of the principle of political liberty

d. the Restoration of monarchy

4.The following belong to the characteristics of “metaphysical poetry” represented by John Donne except ___.

A. Conceits

B. Actual imagery and simple diction

C. Argumentative form

D. Elegant style

5. Donne’s poetry is full of metaphors, ori ginal 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

6. ____ 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.

A. Greek Mythology

B. Roman legend

C. The Old Testament

D. The New Testament

10. Paradise Lost is ___’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority.

A. John Donne

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. John Milton

D. Edmund Spenser

11.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

12. The following description fit into Milton except_____.

A. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century

B. an outstanding political pamphleteer

C. a great stylist and master of blank verse

D. a kind of elegant and refine style.

13. _____is not written by John Milton.

A. Samson Agonistes

B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise regained

D. Tamburlaine

14. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our gr and Foe” What does the “Eternal war” mean?

A. To remove God from his throne

B. To burn the Heaven Down

C. To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman-----Adam and Eve

D. To beguile into a snake to threaten man’s life

15. Paradise Lost is a (n)________.