英国文学练习题
英国文学练习题1
英国文学练习题1Exercises for English literature （1）I. Fill in the blanks.（25%）1. The Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the_________poetry and the_________poetry.2. _________ is regarded as the "Father of English Song", the first known religious poet of England.3. In the second half of the 7th century, the first English poet, _________ by name, began to sing.4. The history of English literature begins in the__________ century.5._________, the first English poem, still intact as a whole piece today, is the greatest epic ever left by the ancient Germanic tribes and the most ancient ever since the demise of the Greek and Roman literatures6.It was __________ who decided that literature should be written in the vernacular or Old English.7.__________ is the first English poet ever to sign his composition8._________made the translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate Version into Middle English, the firstattempt ever to translate the Holy Scripture into English.9.The most important work of Alfred the Great is _________, which is regarded as the best monument of the OldEnglish Prose.10.__________ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages.11.The most magnificent prose work of the 15th century is Morte d' Arthur concerning with _________legend.12.Critics tend to divide Chaucer's literary career into three periods: the___________period, the__________periodand the_________period.13.Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The other two are _________ and____________14._________ was the first most significant poet in English history to write in Middle English.15.The Canterbury Tales contains the________ and 24 tales, four of which are fragments.16._________ is the author of Decameron, which has the similar way of telling stories to that of The CanterburyTales.17.The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a__________18.When Chaucer died in 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey and founded ________19.________, the first English printer, brought the technique of printing from movable type into England fromItaly.20.The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance t ransformed from Chaucer’s_____England intoShakespeare’s _______ one.21.The translation of the Homeric classics, Iliad and Odyssey, won _______ the title “a translator of the prince ofpoets”22.Thomas Wyatt, the first great Englsih sonneteer, introduced the ______ into England. He first used a couplet for the conclusion of sonnets---a practice followed by Shakespeare.23.Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, brought the _______ intoEnglish poetry in his translation of Virgils’ The Aenied, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.24.Edmund Spenser is often referred to as "the poets' _______" because of his considerable influence on later poets.25.The word “euphemism” comes from John Lyly’s _________26.As a sonnet sequence, Sidney’s sonnet cycle ______________ was probably the first of its kind ever to appear in English literary history.27.The drama had gone through a number of phases over the centuries including those of the ____, the _____, the _______, the _______ and the _______drama.28.________ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright beforeShakespeare.29.Shakespeare's 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young man, and the otheraddressed to a________30.A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line________31. The second period of English Renaissance is also called the________ period or the Age of________32. Soon after the ________was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgil's The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.33. Shakespeare's plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _______ , tragedies and___________34. Though written in the form of an________, the characters in The Pilgrim's Progress impress the readers like real persons. The places in it are English scenes, and the conversations which enliven his narratives vividly repeat the language of the writer's time.35. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the _______ , and the___________ later.36. John Donne is the founder of the school of ____________. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.37. Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic,________38. John Milton's Paradise Lost opens with the description ofa meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of _______ and___________from the Garden of Eden.39. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, _______ , and playwright.40. Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from___________ .41. The Pilgrim's Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian, who flies form City of Destruction, and finally comes to the Delectable Mountains and the_____________42. Pamela is written in the form of a __________novel.43.____________ written by Sheridan is a clever satire on the sentimental and pseudo-romantic fancies of many young women of the upper classes of the 18th century.44. The biography of Samuel Johnson entitled Life of Johnson is frequently considered the best in the English language. The author of the book is_________45. The only important English dramatist produced in the18th century is___________46. Friday is a character in the novel___________.47__________is called the Father of the English Novel.48. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, ______ was the first to introduce rationalism to England.49. The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_________50. __________is Alexander Pope's best satirical poem. Its satire is directed at Dullness in general.II. Choose the best answer.（23%）1.Beowulf is a ________ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.A. paganB. ChristianC. romanticD. lyric2.Caedmon's life story is vividly described in _______ 's Historic Ecclesiastica .A. GrendelB. BedeC. CynewulfD. Beowulf3.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called_________A. heroic coupletB. quatrainC. Spenserian stanzaD. terza rima4.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of themedieval English society and created a whole gallery of vividcharacters from all walks of life is most likely________A. William Langland's Piers the PlowmanB. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower's Confessio AmantisD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight5.In the English Renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was______A. the ReformationB. geographical explorationsC. humanismD. the Italian revival6.Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia was a long _________ written in an elaborately artful prose.A. pastoral eclogueB. pastoral lyricC. pastoral romanceD. pastoral drama7.Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works EXCEPT__________A. ArcadiaB. Astrophel and StellaC. The Shepherd's CalendarD. Apology for Poetry8.The following playwrights belong to the "university wits", EXCEPT_________A. John LylyB. Ben JonsonC. Thomas KydD. Christopher Marlowe9.Which is NOT the works of Christopher Marlowe?A. LycidasB. Tamburlaine the GreatC. The Jew of MaltaD.The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus10.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe's best works in which Dr. Faustus seeks ________ no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. moneyB. immoralityC. knowledgeD. political power11.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?A. OthellloB. MacbethC. Romeo and JulietD. Hamlet12.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's comedies?A. Heary VB. The Merchant of VeniceC. A Midsummer Night's DreamD. The Winter's Tale13.An important variety of ode in the 16th century was________ , a poem in praise of marriage, conventionally following the course of the wedding day.A. hymnB. epithalamionC. odeD. ballad14.Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare's dramas?A. lyricB. sonnetC. blank verseD. quatrain15.5. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" is foundin_________ A. Francis Bacon's "Of Studies" B. Thomas More's Utopia C. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress D. Fielding's Tom Jones16.6. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylockbecause__________A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost17.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare's____________A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories18.8. John Dryden's tragedy All for Love deals with the samestory as ___________ 's Antony and Cleopatra.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Christopher MarloweD. John Bunyan19.9. In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledgeof___________A. Love and HateB. Good and EvilC. Faith and BetrayalD. Sense and Sensibility20.10. Which of the following novels by Henry Fielding satirizes the politicalsystem of England and the then Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole?A. Joseph AndrewsB. Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of T om Jones, a FoundlingD. Amelia21.11. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_________A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment22.12. "To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe." (John Milton, Paradise Lost ) Bywhat means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man's life.C. By removing God from His throne.D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.23.13. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious__________of his time.A. persecutionB. improvementC. prosperityD. disillusionment24.14. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______________A. alliterationB. heroic coupletC. sonnetD. blank verse25.15. Lives of the Poets consists of the biographies of 52 poets and affords some of the best-known pictures of the early English poets. Its author is_____________A. Samuel RichardsonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Joseph AddisonD. Samuel Johnson26.16. Jonathan Swift's famous prose work _______ is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Moderns in the character of the Bee and the Spider.A. A Modest ProposalB. The Battle of the BooksC. The Drapier 's LettersD. A Tale of a Tub27.17. Of all the 18th century novelists, __________ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to writespecially a "comic epic in prose", and the first to give the modem novel its structure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith28.Which of the following is NOT a character in the novel The History of T om Jones, a Foundling?A. BlifilB. SophiaC. Mr. AllworthyD. Amelia29._________ is the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman--Dictionary of the English Language,which has become the foundation of all subsequent English dictionaries.A. Samuel JohnsonB. Laurence SterneC. Oliver GoldsmithD. Samuel Richardson30.In Sheridan's The School for Scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance ofhis rich uncle is__________A. Charles SurfaceB. Joseph SurfaceC. Sir Peter TeazleD. Sir Benjamin Backbite31.Modern English novel arose in the___________century.A. 16thB. 17thC. 18thD. 19th32._________was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughoutEurope in the 18th century.A. The RenaissanceB. Puritan MovementC. Romantic MovementD. The Enlightenment33.Sheridan's ___________ is the best English comedy since the days of Shakespeare.A. She Stoops to ConquerB. The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD. The Conscious Lovers34.Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver's Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms35.The rise and growth of ____________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature,which has given the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding.A. nco-classical poetryB. realistic novelC. sentimentalist novelD. Gothic novel36. _________ is Poet Laureate in English Literary history?A. John DrydenB. Edmund SpenserC. William ShakespeareD. Christopher Marlowe37. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was________A. the ReformationB. humanismC. the Italian revivalD. geographical exploration38. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth39. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A.It is the age of translation.B.It is the age of poetryC. It is the age of exploration.D. It is the age of the protestant reformation.40. _________ first made blank verse the principal instrument of English dramaA. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. MarloweIV. Definitions: (37%)1.alliteration2.assonance3.understatement4.blank verse5.heroic couplet6.iambic pentameter7.eclogue8.university wits9.renaissance hero10. Spenserian stanza。
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C.The Legend of Good WomenD.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
A. Morte d’ArthurB.Robin Hood
C. The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in Londonin about 1340.
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. GowerC.Wycliffe D. Chaucer
A.Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
英国文学练习题Part 4
Part Four18th Century LiteratureI.Define the following terms.Three unities:The unity of action (all the action of the work must occur within one continuance plot without extraneous subplot), the unity of time(all the action of the work must occur within 24 hours, or one whole day), and the unity of place( all the action of the work must occur in one place or city)Satire: A literary art of diminishing a subject by making it ridiculous and evoking towards it attitudes of amusement, contempt, scorn or indignation.(Gulliver’s Travel s is a typical example of showing satire towards the entire human race)Picaresque novel:A basically realistic and often satiric work of fiction chronicling the career of an engaging, lower-class rogue-hero, who takes to the road for a series of loose, episodic adventures, sometimes in the company of a sidekick. (Tom Jones, Don Quixote, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)Gothic novel: Also Gothic novel. Story of terror and suspense, usually et in a gloomy old castle or monastery.Graveyard school of poetry:A group of 18th century English poet who emphasized subjectivity, mystery, and melancholy. Death, mortality(immortality)and gloom were frequent subjects or elements of their meditative poems, which ere set in graveyards.( Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyards”)Neoclassicism: A style of literature, whose members looked to the great classical writers for inspiration and guidance. They believed that literature should both instruct and delight, and the proper subject of art was humanity. Neoclassicism stressed rules, reason, harmony, balance, restraint, decorum, order, serenity, realism and form, an appeal to the intellect rather than emotion.(John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson)II.Fill in the blanks1.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyards”is taken as a model ofsentimental poetry, esp. the graveyard school.2.In Jerusalem, William Blake expounded his theory of imagination, asserting that theworld of imagination is the world of eternity.3.“ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the roacks melt wi’ the sun:I will luve thee still, my dear,While the sands of life shall run”The above lines are taken from the famous poem “My Luve’s Like a Red, Red, Rose”.4.Friday is a character in the novel Robinson Crusoe.5.Henry Fielding is called the Father of the English Novels.6.The 18th century is known as the age of enlightenment or the age of reason.7.In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms.III.Choose the best answer.1.Of all the 18th century novelists, ___ was the first to set out in theory and practice, towrite specially a “comic epic in prose”, and the first to give the modern novel itsstructure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith2.___- is the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman,-- Dictionary of theEnglish Language, which has become the foundation of all subsequent English dictionary.A. Samuel JohnsonB. Laurence SterneC. Oliver GoldsmithD. Samuel Richardson3.Modern English novel arose in the ____ century.A. 16thB. 17thC. 18thD. 19th4.In William Blake’s poetry, the father (and any in whom he saw the image of the fathersuch as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of____.A. benevolenceB. admirationC. loveD. tyranny5.____ was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18thcentury.A. The RenaissanceB. Puritan MovementC. Romantic MovementD. The Enlightenment6.Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver’s Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms7.Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?A.It is written in the autobiographical form.B.It is a record of Defoe’s own experiences.C.Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.D.It is set in the middle of the 17th century.8.In the 18th century, ____ found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that of WilliamBlake and Robert Burns.A. neoclassicismB. realismC. sentimentalismD. pre-romanticism9.Many of Burn s’songs deal with friendship.____ has long become a universalparting-song of all the English speaking countries.A. A Red, Red RoseB. Auld Lang SyneC. My Heart’s in the HighlandsD. John Anderson, My Jo10.The rise and growth of _____ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th centuryEnglish literature, which has given the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding.A. neoclassical poetryB. realistic novelC. sentimental novelD. Gothic novelment on William Blake’s Songs of Innocenc e and Songs of Experience.Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. Using a language which even babies can learn by heart, Blake expresses his delight in the sun, the hills, the streams, the insects and the flowers, in the innocence of the child and of the lamb. Here everything seems to be in harmony.Songs of Experience pains a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war, and repression with a melancholy tone. The poet’s eyes are opened to the evils and vices of the world. A number of poems are pervaded with the atmosphere of intense sorrow and sadness, especially for children.A number of poems in Songs of Innocence are either rewritten or revised in Songs ofExperience, with the result that the joyful atmosphere or the harmonious ending is in each case changed into a bitter mood or a sad story. For example, the two “The Chimney Sweepers”.V.What does Robert Burns’ poetry mainly deal with?1.The themes of love and friendship.2.Scottish life, especially the rural life of the Scottish peasants.(“My Heart’s in theHighlands”)3.Attitudes towards political liberty and social equality, especially those under theinfluence of the French Revolution.( “For A’ That and A’ That”).4.Satirical verse, exposing the hypocrisy of the rich, the bigotry of the church and otherevils.VI.Why is Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe regarded as one of the forerunners of the English realistic novel?Crusoe’s stories are all real concerns of its author’s time: people in their struggle to overcome the natural or social environment. The novel has a very strong verisimilitude. To convince the reader of the truth of his story, Defoe adopts the autobiographical form and makes full use of his long trained journalistic skill by describing things in great detail and by using specific time and space.VII.Analyze Gulliver’s Travels to illustrate the use of satire in it.It is a satire on the whole English society of the early 18th century, touching upon the political, religious, legal, military, scientific, philosophical as well as literary institutions, about almost every aspect of the society. It brings to light the wickedness of the then English society, with its tyranny, its political intrigues and corruption, its aggressive wars and colonialism etc.For example, in Chapter four, Gulliver is in a country where horses are possessed of reason, and are the governing class, while Yahoos, though in the shape of men, are brute beast with such vices as stealing and lying. This part involves the ruthless moral exposure of humanity and the bitter satire of the English society.。
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1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC The Canterbury TalesD Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.A The Canterbury TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.A Paradise LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd’s CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”B “To be or not to be: that is the question”C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comediesA Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant of VeniceD C A C D C C A D B▪ 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Ben Jonson▪ c. Christopher Marlowe▪ d. Francis Bacon▪ 2. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________.▪ a. poetry and drama▪ b. drama and novel▪ c. novel and poetry▪ d. romance and poetry▪ 3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Robert Burns▪ c. John Milton d. William Blake▪ 4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play▪ a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream▪ b. The Merry Wives of Windsor▪ c. H enry IV d. King Lear▪ 5. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th century▪ c. 18th century d. 19th century▪ 6. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in thedevelopment of English_______, and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.▪ a. poetry b. epics c. fiction d. prose ▪7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ____ which first established his reputation.▪ a.Gulliver’s Travels▪ b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe▪ c.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ d. Oliver Twist▪8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by_________▪ a. William Wordsworth▪ b. George Byron▪ c. Robert Burns▪ d. William Blake▪9. Mary Shelley’s nove l Frankenstein belongs to the type of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles where horrifying, supernatural events take place.▪ a. Gothic b. Realism▪ c. Romanticism d. Classicism▪10. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation”and his followers.▪ A. William Langland B. James I▪ C. John Wycliffe▪ D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews▪ D A C C B D B C A C▪▪ 1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ______ and Christian.▪ a. Pagan b. Roman▪ c. French d. Danish▪ 2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by________▪ a. Robert Burns b. William Blake▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Charles Lamb▪ 3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature▪ a. Don Juan b. Ulysses▪ c. Jane Eyre▪ d. Sons and Lovers▪ 4. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.▪ a. Francis Bacon▪ b. Edmund Spenser▪ c. Thomas More d. Sidney▪ 5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature▪ a. novel b.drama▪ c. essay d. poetry▪ 6. The publication of _______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.▪ a. Don Juan▪ b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner▪ c. The Lyrical Ballads▪ d. Ode to the West Wind▪7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism ▪ a. John Keats▪ b. Percy Shelley▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Alfred Tennyson▪8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book▪ a. Edgar Allan Poe▪ b. James Joyce▪ c. Mary Shelley▪ d. Walter Scott▪9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called _______came to Europe and then to England.▪ a. Romanticism b. Classicism▪ c. Realism d. Restoration▪10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats▪ a. Ode to the West Wind▪ b. Ode to Autumn▪ c. Ode on a Grecian Urn▪ d. Ode to a Nightingale▪A C A A B C D C A A▪▪ 1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________▪ a. Romanticism▪ b. Critical Realism▪ c. Aestheticism▪ d. the Renaissance▪ 2. ________is the first important religious poet in English literature.▪ a. John Donne b. George Herbert▪ c. Caedmon d. Milton▪3. _________was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.▪a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare▪c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Gray▪4. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.▪a. George Byron b. John Keats▪c. Percy Shelley d. Samuel Coleridge ▪ 5. The most gifted of the “University Wits” was ____.▪ A. John Lily B. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe▪ 6. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.▪ A. Phillip Sidney▪ B. Edmund Spenser▪ C. Thomas More▪ D. Christopher Marlowe▪7. Morality plays appeared after_____.▪A. miracle plays▪B. mystery plays▪C. interlude▪D. Classical plays▪8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance▪ a. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.▪9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ________.▪A. the Reformation▪B. Humanism▪C. the Italian revival▪D. Geographical exploration▪10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet▪ A. Cousins B. Uncle and nephew▪ C. Father-in-law D. Father and son ▪▪ D C A D D C A D B B▪ 1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings▪ A. Great wit. B. Bitter satire.▪ C. Rich mythic allusions.▪ D. Complicated sentence structures.▪ 2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.▪ A. John Donne B. George Herbert▪ C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan▪ 3. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.▪ A. Romanticism B. Humanism▪ C. Enlightenment D. Sentimentalism▪ 4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century▪ A. Oliver Goldsmith▪ B. Richard Sheridan▪ C. Laurence Sterne▪ D. Henry Fielding▪ 5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”▪ A.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ B. The Faerie Queene▪ C. Gulliver’s Travels▪ D. The School for Scandal▪ 6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.▪ A. John Milton B. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden▪7. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a _____ tone.▪ A. delightful B. solemn▪ C. sentimental D. satirical▪8. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _____ century.▪ A. 17th B. 19th C. 18th D. 20th▪9. _____ 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▪10. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.▪ A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism▪ C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism▪B A C B C C D C B C▪。
英国文学史习题_5
英国文学史习题_51. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William WordsworthC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Blake2. I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.A. lyrical poemB. lyrical proseC. romance in proseD. sonnet3. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century, ______ appeared as a new literary trend in England.A. RenaissanceB. ReformationC. RomanticismD. Sentimentalism4. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 marked the beginning ofa (n)_________.A. absolute monarchy B, constitutional monarchyC. military dictatorshipD. democratic system5. The poetic view of _________ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley6. In English poetry the ______ is regarded as the most common foot.A. iambB. anapestC. trocheeD. dactyl7. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of _________.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Lyrical BalladsD. A Red, Red Rose8. It is generally regarded that Keat s’ most important and mature poems are in the form of _____.A. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet9. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms EXCEPT _______.A. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild10. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from _______.A. formB. reasonC. artistic devicesD. emotion11. The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ________.A. proseB. dramaC. poetryD. Novel12. The author of Prometheus Unbound is _______.A. ByronB. ShelleyC. PopeD. Coleridge13. ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen14. Which of the following can NOT describe “Byronic hero”?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble originD. progressive15. Who is the author of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?A. ByronB. BlakeC. KeatsD. Wordsworth16. Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true?A. The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.B. The poem is written in the form of terza rima.C. The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.D. In the poem, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.17. In his poem, Ode to the West Wind, Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _____ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth. (北师大2004)A. conceptB. symbo lC. simileD. metonymy18. Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. John Bunyan19. William Wordsworth advocated all the following EXCEPT ________.A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech20. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake21. Generally speaking, English Romanticism refers to the period of _______.A. 1798-1832B. 1660-1789C. 1836-1901D. 1789-183222. Romanticism does not emphasize _______.A. the special qualities of each individual’s mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common23. Wordsworth thinks that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. the life of rising bourgeoisieB. aristocratic lifeC. the life of the royal familyD. common life24. For the Romanticists, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. loveB. manC. natureD. death25. ____ is the leading figure of the English Romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley26. ______ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend ofa great lover and seducer of women.A. Prometheus UnboundB. The Revolt of IslamC. Don JuanD. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage27. ______ is written in the terza rima form Shelley derived from his reading of Dante.A. Prometheus UnboundB. The Revolt of IslamC. Queen MabD. Ode to the WestWind28. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _____ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. indifferent29. William Wordsworth, _________ and______ have often been mentioned as the “Lake Poets”.A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon ByronB. John Keats, Robert SoutheyC. George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey30. As a leading Romanticist, George Gordon Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “___ hero”, a proud, mysterious rebel figure, of noble origin.A. RomanticB. OrientedC. ByronicD. Tough。
英国文学习题4
Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe 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 hismoralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authorsall through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Industrial RevolutionC. The Religious ReformD. The Enlightenment10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____readers.A. aristocraticB. middle classC. low classD. intellectual11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.A. SteeleB. MiltonC. AddisonD. Pope12.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writersdescribed in their works were mainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism13.The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this periodspoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.A. dramaB. poetryC. essayD. novel14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, whichmade him well-known as a satirist.A. A Tale of TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Battle of the Books15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatmentof Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.A. Essays on CriticismB. A Modest ProposalC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Battle of the Books16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” Thissentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel Defoe17._____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, whichcontained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.A. Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Daniel Defoe18.Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela ofSamuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.A. Tom JonesB. Joseph AndrewsC. Jonathan WildD. Amelia19.____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experienceas a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.A. Roderick RandomB. Humphry ClinkerC. Peregrine PickleD. A Sentimental Journey20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, isderived the term “malapropism” whic h means a ridiculous misusage of big words.A. The RivalsB. The School for ScandalC. The Beggar’s OperaD. The London Merchant21.Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.A. The ReviewB. The TatlerC. The RamblerD. The Bee22.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.A. The TravellerB. The Deserted VillageC. The Vicar of WakefieldD. The School for Scandal23.Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.A. The School for ScandalB. She Stoops to ConquerC. The Good-natured ManD. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire24.The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves theworld to darkness and to me” is writte n by ____.A. William CowperB. George CrabbeC. Thomas GrayD. William Blake25.______ is not written by William Blake.A. The Marriage of Heaven and HellB. Songs of ExperienceC. Auld Lang SyneD. Poetical Sketches26.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited fromWilliam Blake’s _____.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. The Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches27.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 ToriesB. the senate and the House of RepresentativesC. The upper House and lower HouseD. the House of Lords and the House of Commons28.____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Youngand Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.A. Pre-romanticismB. RomanticismC. SentimentalismD. Naturalism29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became thefoundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden30.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?A. Clarissa HarloweB. PamelaC. Sir Charles GrandisonD. Tomes Jones31.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?A. She Stoops to ConquerB. The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD. The Conscious LoversKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDCⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the form of ______ style.2.Steele’s appeal was made to the ____classes.3.The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in The Spectator is ______.4._____ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.5.Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the _____novel.6.Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The Spectator essays havebecome the striking features of the English _____.7.Essay on Criticism is a ______poem.8.The Dunciad is ______a poem.9.English enlighteners believed in the _____.10.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by ____.11.Blake attacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.12.Bur ns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and _____.13.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of _____,giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire of English high society.14.Sameul Johnson’s ______ also marked the end of English writers’ reliance on thepatronage of noblemen for support.15.Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel in Englishliterature.16.Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humor isbetter shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere else.17.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human _____.18.Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.19.The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ______.urence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the“knowledge of _____.”Key to the blanks:1.conversational2.middle3.social reform4.Character sketch5.epistolary6.familiar essay7.didactic8.satirical9.power of reason10.human intelligence 11.persecution12.lightheartedness13.manner14.A Dictionary of English Language15.epistolary16.picaresquebor18.morality19.symbolism20.HeartⅣ. Say true or false.1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay foreach issue.2.Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatlerand The Spectator.3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time whichtreated in a serious manner.4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet.6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such asJonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in thenovels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: thesentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.10.In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fineexpression.11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, inwhich the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel ofRoderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.13.The two most important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface andcomments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast tosentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect ona variety of subjects.16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface andCharles Surface.17.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by RobertBurns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.18.Racial discrimination is expressed in Blake’s “The Little Black”.19.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,Macpherson and Chatterton.Key to the True/False statements:1. F (one time a day)2.T3. F (light and pleasant manner)4.T5.F(Pope’s )6. F (The Tatler)7. F (prose)8. F (nobles; common people)9. F (18th )10.T11.F ( The Battle of the Books) 12.T13.T14.F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)15.F ( Scottish)16.T17.T18.T19.F (Burns’s)20.F ( Percy, Macpherson andChatterton; Burns and Blake)Ⅴ. Questionsment on the English classicists in the 18th century.ment on The Spectator.。
英国文学练习题及答案
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC The Canterbury TalesD Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.A The Canterbury TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.A Paradise LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd’s CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”B “To be or not to be: that is the question”C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?A Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant of VeniceD C A C D C C A D B▪ 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Ben Jonson▪ c. Christopher Marlowe▪ d. Francis Bacon▪ 2. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________.▪ a. poetry and drama▪ b. drama and novel▪ c. novel and poetry▪ d. romance and poetry▪ 3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Robert Burns▪ c. John Milton d. William Blake▪ 4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?▪ a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream▪ b. The Merry Wives of Windsor▪ c. H enry IV d. King Lear▪ 5. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th century▪ c. 18th century d. 19th century▪ 6. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in thedevelopment of English_______, and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.▪ a. poetry b. epics c. fiction d. prose ▪7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ____ which first established his reputation.▪ a.Gulliver’s Travels▪ b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe▪ c.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ d. Oliver Twist▪8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by_________▪ a. William Wordsworth▪ b. George Byron▪ c. Robert Burns▪ d. William Blake▪9. Mary Shelley’s no vel Frankenstein belongs to the type of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles where horrifying, supernatural events take place.▪ a. Gothic b. Realism▪ c. Romanticism d. Classicism▪10. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation”and his followers.▪ A. William Langland B. James I▪ C. John Wycliffe▪ D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews▪ D A C C B D B C A C▪▪ 1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ______ and Christian.▪ a. Pagan b. Roman▪ c. French d. Danish▪ 2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by________▪ a. Robert Burns b. William Blake▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Charles Lamb▪ 3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature?▪ a. Don Juan b. Ulysses▪ c. Jane Eyre▪ d. Sons and Lovers▪ 4. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.▪ a. Francis Bacon▪ b. Edmund Spenser▪ c. Thomas More d. Sidney▪ 5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?▪ a. novel b.drama▪ c. essay d. poetry▪ 6. The publication of _______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.▪ a. Don Juan▪ b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner▪ c. The Lyrical Ballads▪ d. Ode to the West Wind▪7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism? ▪ a. John Keats▪ b. Percy Shelley▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Alfred Tennyson▪8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?▪ a. Edgar Allan Poe▪ b. James Joyce▪ c. Mary Shelley▪ d. Walter Scott▪9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called _______came to Europe and then to England.▪ a. Romanticism b. Classicism▪ c. Realism d. Restoration▪10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats?▪ a. Ode to the West Wind▪ b. Ode to Autumn▪ c. Ode on a Grecian Urn▪ d. Ode to a Nightingale▪A C A A B C D C A A▪▪ 1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________▪ a. Romanticism▪ b. Critical Realism▪ c. Aestheticism▪ d. the Renaissance▪ 2. ________is the first important religious poet in English literature.▪ a. John Donne b. George Herbert▪ c. Caedmon d. Milton▪3. _________was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.▪a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare▪c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Gray▪4. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.▪a. George Byron b. John Keats▪c. Percy Shelley d. Samuel Coleridge ▪ 5. The most gifted of the “University Wits” was ____.▪ A. John Lily B. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe▪ 6. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.▪ A. Phillip Sidney▪ B. Edmund Spenser▪ C. Thomas More▪ D. Christopher Marlowe▪7. Morality plays appeared after_____.▪A. miracle plays▪B. mystery plays▪C. interlude▪D. Classical plays▪8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance?▪ a. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.▪9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ________.▪A. the Reformation▪B. Humanism▪C. the Italian revival▪D. Geographical exploration▪10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?▪ A. Cousins B. Uncle and nephew▪ C. Father-in-law D. Father and son ▪▪ D C A D D C A D B B▪ 1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings?▪ A. Great wit. B. Bitter satire.▪ C. Rich mythic allusions.▪ D. Complicated sentence structures.▪ 2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.▪ A. John Donne B. George Herbert▪ C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan▪ 3. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.▪ A. Romanticism B. Humanism▪ C. Enlightenment D. Sentimentalism▪ 4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?▪ A. Oliver Goldsmith▪ B. Richard Sheridan▪ C. Laurence Sterne▪ D. Henry Fielding▪ 5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?▪ A.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ B. The Faerie Queene▪ C. Gulliver’s Travels▪ D. The School for Scandal▪ 6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.▪ A. John Milton B. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden▪7. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a _____ tone.▪ A. delightful B. solemn▪ C. sentimental D. satirical▪8. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _____ century.▪ A. 17th B. 19th C. 18th D. 20th▪9. _____ 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▪10. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.▪ A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism▪ C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism▪B A C B C C D C B C▪（资料素材和资料部分来自网络，供参考。
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1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC The Canterbury TalesD Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.A The Canterbury TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.A Paradise LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd’s CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”B “To be or not to be: that is the question”C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?A Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant of VeniceD C A C D C C A D B1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatistsin the Renaissance England except______.▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Ben Jonson▪ c. Christopher Marlowe▪ d. Francis Bacon▪ 2. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________.▪ a. poetry and drama▪ b. drama and novel▪ c. novel and poetry▪ d. romance and poetry▪ 3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Robert Burns▪ c. John Milton d. William Blake▪ 4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?▪ a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream▪ b. The Merry Wives of Windsor▪ c. H enry IV d. King Lear▪ 5. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th century▪ c. 18th century d. 19th century▪ 6. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in thedevelopment of English_______, and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.▪ a. poetry b. epics c. fiction d. prose ▪7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ____ which first established his reputation.▪ a.Gulliver’s Travels▪ b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe▪ c.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ d. Oliver Twist▪8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by_________▪ a. William Wordsworth▪ b. George Byron▪ c. Robert Burns▪ d. William Blake▪9. Mary Shelley’s no vel Frankenstein belongs to the type of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles where horrifying, supernatural events take place.▪ a. Gothic b. Realism▪ c. Romanticism d. Classicism▪10. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation”and his followers.▪ A. William Langland B. James I▪ C. John Wycliffe▪ D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews▪ D A C C B D B C A C▪▪ 1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ______ and Christian.▪ a. Pagan b. Roman▪ c. French d. Danish▪ 2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by________▪ a. Robert Burns b. William Blake▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Charles Lamb▪ 3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature?▪ a. Don Juan b. Ulysses▪ c. Jane Eyre▪ d. Sons and Lovers▪ 4. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.▪ a. Francis Bacon▪ b. Edmund Spenser▪ c. Thomas More d. Sidney▪ 5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?▪ a. novel b.drama▪ c. essay d. poetry▪ 6. The publication of _______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.▪ a. Don Juan▪ b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner▪ c. The Lyrical Ballads▪ d. Ode to the West Wind▪7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism? ▪ a. John Keats▪ b. Percy Shelley▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Alfred Tennyson▪8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?▪ a. Edgar Allan Poe▪ b. James Joyce▪ c. Mary Shelley▪ d. Walter Scott▪9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called _______came to Europe and then to England.▪ a. Romanticism b. Classicism▪ c. Realism d. Restoration▪10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats?▪ a. Ode to the West Wind▪ b. Ode to Autumn▪ c. Ode on a Grecian Urn▪ d. Ode to a Nightingale▪A C A A B C D C A A▪▪ 1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________▪ a. Romanticism▪ b. Critical Realism▪ c. Aestheticism▪ d. the Renaissance▪ 2. ________is the first important religious poet in English literature.▪ a. John Donne b. George Herbert▪ c. Caedmon d. Milton▪3. _________was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.▪a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare▪c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Gray▪4. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.▪a. George Byron b. John Keats▪c. Percy Shelley d. Samuel Coleridge ▪ 5. The most gifted of the “University Wits” was ____.▪ A. John Lily B. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe▪ 6. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.▪ A. Phillip Sidney▪ B. Edmund Spenser▪ C. Thomas More▪ D. Christopher Marlowe▪7. Morality plays appeared after_____.▪A. miracle plays▪B. mystery plays▪C. interlude▪D. Classical plays▪8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance?▪ a. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.▪9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ________.▪A. the Reformation▪B. Humanism▪C. the Italian revival▪D. Geographical exploration▪10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?▪ A. Cousins B. Uncle and nephew▪ C. Father-in-law D. Father and son ▪▪ D C A D D C A D B B▪ 1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings?▪ A. Great wit. B. Bitter satire.▪ C. Rich mythic allusions.▪ D. Complicated sentence structures.▪ 2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.▪ A. John Donne B. George Herbert▪ C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan▪ 3. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.▪ A. Romanticism B. Humanism▪ C. Enlightenment D. Sentimentalism▪ 4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?▪ A. Oliver Goldsmith▪ B. Richard Sheridan▪ C. Laurence Sterne▪ D. Henry Fielding▪ 5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?▪ A.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ B. The Faerie Queene▪ C. Gulliver’s Travels▪ D. The School for Scandal▪ 6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.▪ A. John Milton B. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden▪7. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a _____ tone.▪ A. delightful B. solemn▪ C. sentimental D. satirical▪8. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _____ century.▪ A. 17th B. 19th C. 18th D. 20th...... ▪9. _____ 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▪10. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.▪ A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism▪ C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism▪B A C B C C D C B C▪。
英国文学练习题及答案
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxonsis ____.A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the GreenKnightC The TalesD Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend writteninalliterative verse.A The TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroicfigure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after itspublication.A LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has b een regarded as one of the great poems in the Eng lish language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd’s CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”B “To be or not to be: that is the question”C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of , was born in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shak espeare’s romantic love comedies?A Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant ofD C A C D C C A D B▪ 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Ben Jonson▪ c. Christopher Marlowe▪ d. Francis Bacon▪ 2. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________.▪ a. poetry and drama▪ b. drama and novel▪ c. novel and poetry▪ d. romance and poetry▪ 3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Robert Burns▪ c. John Miltond. William Blake▪ 4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?▪ a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream▪ b. The Merry Wives of Windsor▪ c. Henry IVd. King Lear▪ 5. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th century▪ c. 18th centuryd. 19th century▪ 6. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in thedevelopment of English_______, and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.▪ a. poetryb. epics c. fiction d. prose▪7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ____ which first established his reputation.▪ a. Gulliver’s Travels▪ b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe▪ c. The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ d. Oliver Twist▪8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by_________▪ a. William Wordsworth▪ b. George Byron▪ c. Robert Burns▪ d. William Blake▪9. Mary Shelley’s novel Frankenstein belongs to the type of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles wherehorrifying, supernatural events take place.▪ a. Gothicb. Realism▪ c. Romanticismd. Classicism▪10. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.▪ A. William LanglandB. James I▪ C. John Wycliffe▪ D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews▪ D A C C BD B C A C▪▪ 1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ______ and Christian.▪ a. Paganb. Roman▪ c. Frenchd. Danish▪ 2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by________▪ a. Robert Burnsb. William Blake▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Charles Lamb▪ 3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature?▪ a. Don Juanb. Ulysses▪ c. Jane Eyre▪ d. Sons and Lovers▪ 4. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.▪ a. Francis Bacon▪ b. Edmund Spenser▪ c. Thomas Mored. Sidney▪ 5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?▪ a. novelb.drama▪ c. essayd. poetry▪ 6. The publication of _______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.▪ a. Don Juan▪ b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner▪ c. The Lyrical Ballads▪ d. Ode to the West Wind▪7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism?▪ a. John Keats▪ b. Percy Shelley▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Alfred Tennyson▪8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?▪ a. Edgar Allan Poe▪ b. James Joyce▪ c. Mary Shelley▪ d. Walter Scott▪9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called _______came to Europe and then to England.▪ a. Romanticismb. Classicism▪ c. Realismd. Restoration▪10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats?▪ a. Ode to the West Wind▪ b. Ode to Autumn▪ c. Ode on a Grecian Urn▪ d. Ode to a Nightingale▪ A C A A BC D C A A▪▪ 1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________▪ a. Romanticism▪ b. Critical Realism▪ c. Aestheticism▪ d. the Renaissance▪ 2. ________is the first important religious poet in English literature.▪ a. John Donne b. George Herbert▪ c. Caedmon d. Milton▪ 3. _________was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.▪ a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare▪ c. Philip Sidneyd. Thomas Gray▪ 4. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.▪ a. George Byronb. John Keats▪ c. Percy Shelleyd. Samuel Coleridge▪ 5. The m ost gifted of the “University Wits” was ____.▪ A. John LilyB. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe▪ 6. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.▪ A. Phillip Sidney▪ B. Edmund Spenser▪ C. Thomas More▪ D. Christopher Marlowe▪7. Morality plays appeared after_____.▪ A. miracle plays▪ B. mystery plays▪ C. interlude▪ D. Classical plays▪8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance?▪ a. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.▪9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ________.▪ A. the Reformation▪ B. Humanism▪ C. the Italian revival▪ D. Geographical exploration▪10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?▪ A. Cousins B. Uncle and nephew▪ C. Father-in-law D. Father and son▪▪ D C A D DC A D B B▪ 1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings?▪ A. Great wit.B. Bitter satire.▪ C. Rich mythic allusions.▪ D. Complicated sentence structures.▪ 2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.▪ A. John DonneB. George Herbert▪ C. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan▪ 3. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.▪ A. Romanticism B. Humanism▪ C. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism▪ 4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?▪ A. Oliver Goldsmith▪ B. Richard Sheridan▪ C. Laurence Sterne▪ D. Henry Fielding▪ 5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?▪ A. The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ B. The Faerie Queene▪ C. Gulliver’s Travels▪ D. The School for Scandal▪ 6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.▪ A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden▪7. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a _____ tone.▪ A. delightfulB. solemn▪ C. sentimental D. satirical▪8. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the Englishbourgeoisie in the _____ century.▪ A. 17th B. 19thC. 18thD. 20th▪9. _____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.▪ A. Ben JohnsonB. Samuel Johnson▪ C. Alexander PopeD. John Dryden▪10. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.▪ A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism▪ C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism▪ B A C B C C D C B C。
(完整版)英国文学史习题3
I. Choose the best answer for each blank。
1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry。
A。
Jonathan Swift B. Robert BurnsC. William Blake D。
Geoffrey Chaucer2。
A Red， Red Rose is a（n）______。
A. lyric B。
satirical poemC. epicD. ode3. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre—romanticism were______。
A。
Alexander Pope B. William BlakeC. Jonathan Swift D。
Daniel Defoe4. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.A。
Church of England B. PuritanismC。
Calvinism D. Catholicism5。
In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.A. James IB. James IIC. Charles ID. Charles II6。
Which of the following is not correct about the Revolution of 1688?A。
the supremacy of Parliament B。
the beginning of modern EnglandC. the triumph of the principle of political liberty D。
英国文学习题
Chapter OneFill in the following blanks.1.Angles, Saxons and _________ usually known as Anglo-Saxons are the firstEnglishmen. Language spoken by them is called the Old English, which is the foundation of English language and literature.2.The literature of Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ________and Christian.3.Among the early Anglo-Saxon poets we may mention _______, who wrote apoetic “Paraphrase” of the Bible, and Cynewulf.4.“__________”is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldestsurviving epic in the English language.5.In the year 1066, the Normans defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the battle of_______.Choose the best answer for each blank.1.In Anglo-Saxon period, “Beowulf” represented the ______ poetry.a. paganb. religiousc. romanticd. sentimental2. In 1066, _______ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.a. William the Conquerorb. Julius Caesarc. Alfred the Greatd. Claudius3. The story of “______” is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.a.Sir Cawain and the Green Knightb.The story of Beowulfc.Piers the plowmand.The Canterbury Tales4. William Langland’s “___________” is written in the form of dream vision.a. Kubla Khanb. Piers the Plowmanc. The Dream of John Bulld. Morte d’ArthurDefine the following items.1. Old English period2. AlliterationChapter TwoFill in the following blanks.1.The Canterbury Tales contains the _________ and 24 tales, some of which leftunfinished.2.The _____________ provides a framework for the tales in The Canterbury Tales,and it comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.3.The pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales are on their way to the shrine of St. Thomasa Becket at a place named __________.4.Chaucer’s work__________ gives us a picture of the condition of English life ofhis day, such as its work and play, its deeds and dreams, its fun and sympathy. Choose the best answer for each blank.1.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensiverealistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.a.William Langland’s Piers the Plowmanb.Geoffery Chaucer’s The Canterbury Talesc.John Gower’s Confessio Amantisd.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2._______, the father of English poetry and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London about 1340.a. Geoffery Chaucerb. Sir Gawainc. Francis Bacond. John Dryden3. Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, and was buried in ________.a. Flandersb. Francec. Italyd. Westminster Abbey4. ________ was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abbey.a. Chaucerb. Keatsc. Southeyd. Tennyson5. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his ________ , a translation of French “Roman de la Rose”.a. Romance of the Roseb. A Red, Red Rosec. Piers the Plowmand. Troilus and Criseyde6. _______creative work vividly reflected the changes which had taken root in English culture of the second half of the 14th century.a. Chaucer’sb. Byron’sc. Shelley’sd. Eliot’s7. Generally speaking, Chaucer’s works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life. Which period is wrong?a. the period of French influence (1359-1372)b. the period of Italian influence (1372-1386)c. the period of English influence (1386-1400)d. the period of American influence (1371-1382)Chapter Three & Four1.The 16thcentury in England was a period of the breaking up of feudalrelations and the establishing of the foundations of ___________.2.Thomas More wrote his famous prose work “_______”.3.In Elizabethan Period, ________ wrote more than fifty excellent essays,which made him one of the best essayists in English literature.4._______ is often referred to as “the poet’s poet”.5.Spenser is generally regarded as the greatest nondramatic poet of theElizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly based on his masterpiece “__________”.6.In the Elizabethan Period, ________ is the greatest playwright of England.7.In the Elizabethan Period, ________ wrote many excellent essays, such as“Of Studies”.8.________ wrote his masterpiece “Faerie Queene”.9.“Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear” and “_________”are generally regarded asShakespeare’s four great tragedies.10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is one of __________’s best knownsonnets.11.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist _______ wrotehis 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. Thomas Moreb. Thomas Marlowec. Francis Bacond. William Shakespeare12. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________ .a. Maryb. Elizabethc. Williamd. Victoria13. English Renaissance Period was an age of _______.a. proseb. poetry and dramac. essays and journalsd. ballads and songs14. English Renaissance is not an age of prose, but Thomas More wrote his famous prose work _______.a. Utopiab. Robinson Crusoec. Gulliver’s Travelsd. of Studies15. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s _______.a. songsb. playsc. comediesd. sonnets16. The second period of English Renaissance is also called the _______ period or the Age of ________.17. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _______, tragedies and _______.18. ______ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.19. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young man, and the other addressed to ________.20. The writings of Francis Bacon mainly fall into three categories: ______ , purely literary and professional.21. In the English Renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and the achievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was ________.a. the Reformationb. geographical explorationsc. humanismd. the Italian revival22. Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?a. Othellob. Macbethc. Romeo and Julietd. Hamlet23. Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare’s comedies?a. Henry Vb. The Merchant of Venicec. A Midsummer Night’s Dreamd. The Winter’s Tale24. Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas/a. lyricb. sonnetc. blank versed. quatrain25. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the Epigrams found in ______.a. Francis Bacon’s “of Studies”b. Thomas More’s “Utopia”c. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progressd. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones。
英国文学选读练习题含答案
Exercise for English Literature 2Choose the best answer for each blank.1.________, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born inLondon about 1340.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC.Francis BaconD. John Dryden2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.A.FlandersB. FranceC.ItalyD. Westminster Abbey3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouragedexploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants.A.Henry VB. Henry VIIC.Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada”Invincible was also thetriumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A.SpainB. FranceC.AmericaD. Norway5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave aprofou nd and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society.A.Thomas MoreB. Thomas MarloweC.Francis BaconD. William Shakespear6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.A.MaryB. ElizabethC.WilliamD. Victoria7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.A.prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC.essays and journalsD. ballads and songs8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________.A.The Advancement of LearningB. The New InstrumentC.EssaysD. The New AtlanticsE.Venus and Adonis9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.A.songsB. playsediesD. sonnets10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whoseimages and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.A.PortiaB. RoselandC.ViolaD. Beatrice11.Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.A.HamletB. OthelloC.MacbethD. King LearE.Timon of Athens12.Which play is not a comedy ________A.A Midsummer Night’s DreamB. The Merchant of VeniceC.Twelfth NightD. Romeo and JulietE.As You Like It13.“Denmark is a prison”. In which play does the hero summarise his observation of his world into such a bittersentence ________A.Charles IB. OthelloC.Henry VIIID. Hamlet14.The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of theEnglish language.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC.William ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson15.In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence: “What a piece ofwok is a man How nobel in reason How finite in faculty” ________A.Romeo and JulietB. HamletC.OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice16.In 1649, ________ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth.A.James IB. James IIC.Charles ID. Charles II17.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A.the supremacy of ParliamentB.the beginning of modern EnglandC.the triumph of the principal libertyD.the triumph of the principle of political libertyE.the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.John MiltonD. Richard Lovelace19.Which work was NOT written by John Milton ________A.Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC.Samson AgonistesD. Volpone20.Paradise Lost is ________.A.John Milton’s masterpieceB.a great epic in 12 booksC.written in blank verseD.about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority21.John Milton is ________.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verse22.From the Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, . ________.A.the creationB.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsC.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenD.the creation of the death and of adam and EveE.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodF.Satan’s temptation of EveG.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is often regarded as the real hero ofthe poem.A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve24.Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry ________A.John DonneB. George HerbertC.Andrew MarvellD. Henry Vaugham25.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A.The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentC.The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement26.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ________. What the writers described in their works weremainly social realities.A.naturalismB. romanticismC.classicismD. realismE.sentimentalism27.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ________. The novel of this period spoke the truthabout life with an uncompromising courage.A.dramaB. poetryC.essayD. novel28.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which made him well-known as a satirist.A.A Tale of a TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC.Gulliver’s TravelsD. A Modest Proposal29.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ________, oneof the greatest masters of English prose.A.Alexander PopeB. Henry FieldingC.Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift30.As a journalist, ________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by a skillful use ofcircumstantial detail. This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift.A.Joseph AddisonB. Daniel DefoeC.Samuel RicharsonD. Tobias Smollett31.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake ________A.Poetical SketchesB. Songs of InnocenceC.Songs of ExperienceD. Auld Lang SyneE.The Marriage of Heaven and HellF. ProphecisG.Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were ________.A.William WordsworthB. William BlakeC.Robert BurnsD. Jonathan Swift33.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by ________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge34.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________.A.Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth35.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe ShelleyE.John Keats36.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are ________.A.George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyB.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.Walter Scott and Jane AustenD.Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group ________A.George Gordon ByronB. William WordsworthC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. John KeatsE.John Milton38.Which poets belong to the Lakers ________A.William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC.John KeatsD. Robert SoutheyE.Walter Scott39.Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY ________A.To the CuckooB. The Lyrical BalladsC.Lucy PoemsD. The Solitary ReaperE.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century, .,with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.A.The Lyrical BalladsB. The PreludeC.Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. Don Juan41.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in theirpoetical creations, ________ based his own poetical pr inciple on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”A.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. George Gordon ByronC.Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Wordsworth42.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.A.William WordworthB. Samuel JohnsonC.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordworth and Coleridge43.Which of the following statements is are NOT true about George Gordon Byron ________A.Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes hismother called him “you lame brat.”B.Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughoutthe world.C.The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’s genius and his role in the development ofEnglish literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.D.Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’s poems have been translated into Chinese andwell received by the poets and young readers. Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.44.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.A.Biographia literariaB. The PreludeC.Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads45.________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems onnature, on love, and on politics.A.William WordsworthB. John KeatsC.George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley46.Which of the following statements is are NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley ________A.Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece, a long epic poem.B.At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate opposition to the brutal faggingsystem, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.C.George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew.”D.Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.47.________’s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration after a better life than the sordid realityunder capitalism. His leading principle is: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”A.Percy Bysshe ShelleyB. George Gordon ByronC.William WordsworthD. John Keats48.Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats. ________A.Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC.To AutumnD. Ode on MelancholyE.Ode on a Grecian Urn49.Choose the works written by Jane Austen. ________A.Pride and PrejudiceB. Sense and SensibilityC.Northanger Abbey C. EmmaE.Mansfield ParkF. Persuasion50.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared. And it flourished in theforties and in the early fifties.A.romanticismB. naturalismC.realismD. critical realism51.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________. The critical realists, most ofwho were novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.A.novelB. dramaC.poetryD. essay52.The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised the bourgeois civilisation andshowed the misery of the common people.A.William Makepeace ThackerayB. Charles DickensC.Charlotte BronteD. Emily Bronte53.Which of the following writers belong to critical realists ________A.Charles DickensB. Charlotte BronteC. Emily BronteD. Thomas Hardy54.________ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”. He signed them “Boz”, which was hisnickname for his young brother. His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.A.Elizabeth GaskellB. William M. ThackerayC.Charles DickensD. Jane Austen55.________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist56.The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”.A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist57.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world. The main poets of the agewere ________.A.Alfred TennysonB. Robert BrowningC.Mrs. BrowningD. Robert BurnsE.William Blake58.The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers wereable to appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.A.EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC.ChartistD. Romanticist59.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality ________A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC.Great ExpectationD. Dombey and Son60.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.A.A Tale of Two CitiesB. Great ExpectationC.Hard TimesD. David Copperfield61.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of thehero is largely based on the author’s early life.A.Tom JonesB. David CopperfieldC.Oliver TwistD. Great Expectation62.The Bronte sisters are ________. They were all talented writers and all of them died young.A.Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC.Anne BronteD. Jane AustenE.Catherine63.Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.A.ProfessorB. Jane EyreC.ShirleyD. VilletteE.Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.A.Wuthering HeightsB. Jane EyreC.EmmaD. Agnes Grey65.Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre. ________A.Jane EyreB. Mr. RochesterC.Mary BartonD. Silas Marner66.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights ________A.HeathcliffB. CatherineC.HindleyD. CathyE.Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A.pours a great deal of her own experienceB.criticises the bourgeois system of educationC.shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD.shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________ century.A.17thB. 18thC.19thD. 20th69.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.A.ShirleyB. VilletteC.The Tenant of the Wildfell HallD. Agnes Grey70.Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of education.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C.This book is Charlottel Bronte’s best literary production.D.In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among the bourgeoisie andsympathised with the sufferings of the poor people. Her realism was coloured by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.71.Most of Robert Browning’s important works, including ________, are written in the form of dramaticmonologue.A.Dramatic LyricsB. Dramatic RomancesC. Men and WomenD. dramatics Personae72.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19th century.A.critical realismB. pre-romanticismC.neo-classicismD. new romanticism73.Which statement is true ________A.Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B.Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C.Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D.Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.74.According to Thomas Hardy’s own classification, his novels divided themselves into three groups. They are________.A.Novels of character and environmentB.Romances and FantasiesC.Novels of IngenuityD.Working class literature75.Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest counties ofEngland for their setting. They include: ________.A.Under the Greenwood TreeB. The Return of the NativeC.The Mayor of CasterbridgeD. Tess of the D’UrbervillesE.Jude the Obscure76.The following statements are about Thomas Hardy’s novels, which are true ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.77.Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century. In his comedies, he criticises the upperclass of the English bourgeois society. His best comedies are ________.dy Windermere’s FanB.A Woman of No ImportanceC.An Ideal HusbandD.The Importance of Being EarnestE.The Picture of Dorian Gray78.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.A.aestheticismB. decadenceC.critical realismD. pre-romanticism79.Alfred Tennyson’s poetic output was vast and varied. His main poems are ________.A.The PrincessB. MaudC.In MemoriamD. Idylls of the KingE.Crossing the Bar80.Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson ________A.Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC.The EagleD. Sweet and LowE.Tears, Idle Tears81.Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam ________A.In MemoriamB. LycidasC.AdodaisD. Elegy written in a Country Churchyard82.My Last Duchess is ________.A.a dramatic monologueB. a short lyricC.a novelD. an essay83.________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.A.Lord JimB. NostromoC.YouthD. The Old Wives’ Tale84.Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the 20th centuryA.John GalsworthyB. Henry JamesC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. James Joyce85.George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works, served also as theauthor’s own program of dramatic creation.A.Widower’s HousesB. Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionC.Major BarbaraD. The Quintessence of Ibsenism86.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelists of the “stream ofconsciousness” school.A.David Herbert LawrenceB. Robert TressellC.James JoyceD. Virginia Woolf87.________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.”A.. LawrenceB. . EliotC.James JoyceD. . Yeats88.________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.A.The WindowB. Time PassesC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves89.Which of the following novels belongs to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel writingA.UlyssesB. Finnegans WakeC.To the LighthouseD. The Waves90.________ was written by James Joyce.A.The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB.Portrait of a LadyC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.To the Lighthouse91.. Lawrence’s representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical example and livelymanifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence’s long-range study of the psychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.A.Sons and LoversB. The RainbowC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. Women in Love92.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and LoversA.Mrs. MorelB. PaulC. MiriamD. Clara93.Which of the following writers were from IrelandA.George Bernard ShawB. Jonathan SwiftC.James Joyce Oscar WildeE.. Yeats94.Which of the following plays was/were NOT written by George Bernard ShawA.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionB. Widower’s HousesC.Major BarbaraD. PygmalionE.The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-calledhigh-civilised EnglishA.Major BarbaraB. PygmalionC.Mrs. Warren’s ProfessionD. Man and Superman96.In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.A.William Butler YeatsB. Samuel ButlerC.Thomas Stearns EliotD. David Herbert Lawrence97.William Butler Yeats was _______.A.an Irish poetB. a dramatistC. a criticD. a senator in the Irish Free State in 192198.Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.A.classicist in literatureB. royalist in politicsC.Anglo-Catholic in religionD. all of the above99.Which of the following statement is NOT trueA.Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B.Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C.Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E.Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressedA.Ode to the West WindB. The Solitary ReapermiaD. The Waste LandKeys:1-5: A, D, D, A, A 6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 26-30: D, D, AD, D, B31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A41-45: D, C, B, B, D 46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE81-85: A. A. AB, B, D 86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D。
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案在英国文学领域有许多经典作品和重要的作家，这些作品和作家对于英国文学的发展产生了深远影响。
本篇文章将为您介绍一些英国文学的试题及答案，希望能够对您的学习有所帮助。
试题一：请简要介绍威廉·莎士比亚的作品和他在英国文学中的地位。
答案：威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）被认为是英国文学史上最伟大的戏剧作家之一。
他的作品包括戏剧、诗歌和史诗。
莎士比亚共创作了37个戏剧作品，包括悲剧、喜剧、历史剧和十四行诗。
他的作品以丰富的人物形象、深入的情感描写和复杂的剧情而闻名。
莎士比亚的作品深刻地揭示了人性的善恶、爱恨和欲望等诸多主题，对于英国文学及全球文学的发展都产生了巨大影响。
试题二：简要介绍查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》及其在英国文学中的地位。
答案：《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）的一部重要小说作品。
这部小说于1859年首次出版，以伦敦的贫民窟为背景，通过讲述主人公奥利弗·特威斯特的成长历程，揭示了当时社会的不公和贫困问题。
《雾都孤儿》描写了贫富悬殊、社会阶级问题以及人性的善恶等主题，对于英国社会的改革起到了重要的推动作用。
该小说深受读者的喜爱，被誉为狄更斯最伟大的作品之一，也是英国文学中的经典之作。
试题三：请简要介绍简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》及其在英国文学中的地位。
答案：《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen）的代表作之一，被视为英国文学史上最伟大的小说之一。
这部小说于1813年首次出版，以描写19世纪英国社会的阶级观念和婚姻观念为主题。
《傲慢与偏见》通过讲述女主人公伊丽莎白·本内特与达西先生之间的爱情故事，探讨了社会的偏见、男女间的相互误解以及人性的盲目等问题。
奥斯汀以幽默和讽刺的手法展现了社会的虚伪和愚昧，对当时英国社会的改革产生了积极的影响。
通过以上试题及答案，我们可以了解到威廉·莎士比亚、查尔斯·狄更斯和简·奥斯汀等作家对于英国文学的重要地位以及他们作品所揭示的社会问题和人性的思考。
英国文学史习题全集(含答案)
Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay]4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. 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. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the grea test narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.&A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman 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 inFrance but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spoem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. Beowulf,Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulfment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English Renaissance?Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, Voyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe 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.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with theinterests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances”and all end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.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.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collect ion of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than o ne theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But theupper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in hiscomedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.TPart Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’sL’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’sfreedom of the press, has been aweapon in the later democraticrevolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’sNativity B. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided intotwo categories: the youthful lovelyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own wayof describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB.Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death,Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is awell-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To HisCoy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. GatherYe Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure ofMetaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. GeorgeHerbertC. Andre MarvellD. HenryVaughan7. Which of the following is not aMetaphysical poetA. Richard CrashawB. HenryVaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. RobertBurton8. ____is a prose poem on death andimmortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightfuldescription of the Englishcountryside and the simple andkind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. HolyLivingC. To His Coy MistressD. ToDaffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of theCavalier poetryA. John SucklingB.Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. JohnDryden11. ____was the forerunner of theEnglish classical school of literaturein the 19th century.A. John DrydenB.Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD.Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADSay true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes ofthe early 17th century were over land ownership.2.After the victory of the EnglishRevolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of thebourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling ofpatriotism ended with the reign ofJames I, and England was thenconvulsed (shook, quivered) withthe conflict between the twoantagonistic camps, the Royalistsand the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced todeath and Cromwell became theleader of the country.6.English literature of the 17th centurywitnessed a flourish on the whole. 7.The Revolution Period produced oneof the most important poets inEnglish literature, WilliamShakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also calledAge of Milton because it produced agreat poet whole name is WilliamMilton.9.The main literary form in literatureof Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during theRevolution Period, John Donne wasthe greatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age asByron towers over the ElizabethanAge, and as Chaucer towers over theMedieval Period.12.On his first wife’s death, Miltonwrote his only love poem, a sonnet,on His Deceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced byMilton, Paradise Lose, is written inheroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was“to justify the ways of God to man”, .to advocate submission to theAlmighty.15.It has been noticed by many criticsthat the picture of Satan surroundedby his angels who never think ofexpressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolutemonarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Anglerbecomes a “Piscatorial classic”. 17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is acollection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or lessconnected 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.T17.TPart Four The English CenturyⅠ. Match the works and the characters.(3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published apamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. TheLying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. TheTender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by SteeleA. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato 4. Which of the following is not the hero in The SpectatorA. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as themodel of English composition byBritish authors all through the 18thcentury.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Industrial RevolutionC. The Religious ReformD. The Enlightenment10. The literature of the Enlightenmentin England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.A. aristocraticB. middle classC. low classD. intellectual11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.A. SteeleB. MiltonC. AddisonD. Pope12.The main literary stream of the 18thcentury was ____ . What thewriters described in their workswere mainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism13.The 18th century was the goldenage of the English ___. The novel ofthis period spoke the truth aboutlife with an uncompromising(unbending) courage.A. dramaB. poetryC.essay D. novel14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift publishedtwo works together, ____ and ___,which made him well-known as asatirist.A. A Tale of TubB.Bickerstaff AlmanacC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books 15.In a series of pamphlets JonathanSwift denounced the cruel andunjust treatment of Ireland by theEnglish government. One of themost famous is ____.A.Essays on CriticismB. AModest ProposalC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books16.“Proper words in proper places,makes the true definition of astyle.” This sentence is said by ____,one of the greatest masters ofEnglish prose.A. Alexander PopeB. HenryFieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. DanielDefoe17._____’s best-known pamphlet wasThe Trueborn Englishman—A Satire,which contained a caustic exposureof the aristocracy and the tyrannyof the church.A. Alexander PopeB. HenryFieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. DanielDefoe18.Henry Fielding’s first novel ____was written in connection withPamela of Samuel Richardson. Butafter the first 10 chapters, HenryFielding became so interested andabsorbed in his own hovel as toforget his original plan of ridiculingPamela.A. Tom JonesB. JosephAndrews C.Jonathan Wild D.Amelia19.____ the first important work byTobias Smollett, is based on his ownexperience as a naval doctor and inpart autobiographical.A. Roderick RandomB.Humphry ClinkerC. Peregrine PickleD. ASentimental Journey20.From the character Mr. Malaprop,in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan,is derived the term “malapropism”which means a ridiculous misusageof big words.A. The RivalsB.The School for ScandalC. The Beggar’s OperaD. TheLondon Merchant21.Which of the following periodicals isedited by Samuel Johnson _____.A.The ReviewB.The TatlerC. The RamblerD. The Bee22.Which of the following works arenot written by Oliver Goldsmith____.A. The TravellerB.The Deserted VillageC. The Vicar of WakefieldD.The School for Scandal23.Which of the following works iswritten by Edward Gibbon______.A. The School for ScandalB.She Stoops to ConquerC. The Good-natured ManD.The Decline and Fall of the RomanEmpire24.The sentence of “The plowmanhomeward plods his weary way,/And leaves the world to darknessand to me” is written by ____.A. William CowperB.George CrabbeC. Thomas GrayD.William Blake25.______ is not written by WilliamBlake.A. The Marriage of Heaven andHell B. Songs of ExperienceC. Auld Lang SyneD. Poetical Sketches26.“In seed time learn, in harvest te ach,in winter enjoy.” This proverb iscited from William Blake’s _____.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. The Marriage of Heaven andHell D. Poetical Sketches27.The 18th century witnessed that inEngland there appeared twopolitical parties, ______, whichwere satirized by Jonathan Swift inhis Gulliver’s Travels.A. the Whigs and the ToriesB. the senate and the House ofRepresentativesC. The upper House and lowerHouseD. the House of Lords and theHouse of Commons28.____ found its representativewriters in the field of poetry, suchas Edward Young and Thomas Gray,but it manifested itself chiefly in thenovels of Lawrence Sterne andOliver Goldsmith.A. Pre-romanticismB.Romanticism C. SentimentalismD. Naturalism29._____ compiled the A Dictionary ofthe English Language whichbecame the foundation of all thesubsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. SamuelJohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. JohnDryden30.Which of the following novels is notepistolary (written in letter form)novelsA. Clarissa HarloweB.PamelaC. Sir Charles GrandisonD.Tomes Jones31.Which play is regarded as the bestEnglish comedy since ShakespeareA. She Stoops to ConquerB.The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD.The Conscious LoversKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDCⅣ. Say true or false.1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay foreach issue.2.Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatlerand The Spectator.3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time whichtreated in a serious manner.4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet.6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such asJonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in thenovels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups:the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.10.In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fineexpression.11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, inwhich the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel ofRoderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.13.The two mo st important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the prefaceand comments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast tosentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect ona variety of subjects.16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface andCharles Surface.17.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by RobertBurns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.18.Racial discri mination is expressed in Blake’s “The Little Black”.19.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,Macpherson and Chatterton.Key to the True/False statements:1. F (one time a day)2.T3. F (light and pleasant manner)4.T5.F(Pope’s )6. F (The Tatler)7. F (prose)8. F (nobles; common people)9. F (18th )10.T11.F ( The Battle of the Books)12.T13.T14.F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)15.F ( Scottish)16.T17.T18.T19.F (Burns’s)20.F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)Part Five Romanticism in EnglandⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.A. realismB. RenaissanceC. EnlightenmentD. feudalism2.The main literary stream is ____.A. poetryB. novelsC. proseD. periodicals3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats’7.____ lived the longest life.A. WordsworthB. ByronC. ShelleyD. Keats8.Keats’ first poem is ____.A. O SolitudeB. On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerC. PoemsD. Endymion9.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English Poets11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement inEngland.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”12.The Prelude has also been called _____.A. The Last BrazilB. The First ImpressionC. Growth of a Poet’s MindD. The Spirit of the Age13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.A. “The Solitary Reaper”B. “The Daffodils”C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D. “O Solitude”14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia Literaria15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.A. models of classicismB. familiar essayC. rules of neo-romanticismD. ways of modernism16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William Hazlitt17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scottmb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.A. romanticismB. conversationsC. inspirationsD. archaismsmb is a romanticist of ______.A. the cityB. the countrysideC. natureD. imagination21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.A. EndymionB. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.。
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Part Two The Renaissance LiteratureI. Choose the best answer for each statement.1. ________is not Shakespeare’s work.A. HamletB. King LearC. The TempestD. The Faerie2. The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare’s do not include_______.A. Romeo and JulietB. HamletC. MacbethD. Othello3. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of Shakespeare’s ________.A. SongsB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. comedies4. Francis Bacon is regarded as _______.A. “Father of English Essays”B. “Father of Essays”C. “Father of English Literature”D. “Father of English Novels”5. The English Renaissance began in the ________.A. 15th centuryB. 16th centuryC. 14th century C. 17th century6. The Renaissance, in essence, is a historical period in which the European ______ thinkers and scholars made attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the purity of the early church form the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.A. Greek and RomanB. humanistC. religiousD. realistic7. Generally, the ______ refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From Italy the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.A. Medieval PeriodB. RenaissanceC. Old English PeriodD. Romantic Period8. ______ is the essence of the Renaissance. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and _______ are the best representatives of the English humanists.A. Humanity, William ShakespeareB. Humanism, Francis BaconC. Romanticism, Geoffrey ChaucerD. Humanism, William Shakespeare9. The Elizabethan ______ is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and ______.A. novel, Geoffrey ChaucerB. poetry, Francis BaconC. drama, Ben JonsonD. drama, Geoffrey Chaucer10. Wyatt, in the Renaissance period, introduced the Petrarchan ______ into England, while Surrey brought in ______ verse.A. drama, freeB. sonnet, blankC. terzarima, blankD. couplet, free11. In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and ______ were the most outstanding forms and they were carried on especially by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.A. fictionB. dramatic fictionC. poetic dramaD. novel12. By emphasizing the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life,______ voiced their beliefs that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.A. humanistsB. ProtestantsC. CatholicsD. playwrights13. ______ was the first important English essayist. He was also the founder of modern science in England.A.Edmund SpenserB. Christopher MarloweC. Francis BaconD. Ben Jonson14. 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 DonneB. Christopher MarloweC. John MiltonD. Edmund Spenser15. The following description fit into Milton except_____.A. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB. an outstanding political pamphleteerC. a great stylist and master of blank verseD. a kind of elegant and refine style.16. _____ is not written by John Milton.A. Samson AgonistesB. Paradise LostC. Paradise regainedD. Tamburlaine17. Marlow’s greatest achievement is that he perfected the “blank verse”, and he is regarded as “the pioneer of English drama”, which of the following is not written by him? ______A. TamburlaineB. “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”C. The Jew of MaltaD. “The Sun Rising”18. ____ Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.A. John Milton’sB. Francis Bacon’sC. Montaigne’sD. Thomas Gray’s19. _____was known as “the poets’ poet”.A. William ShakespeareB. Edmund SpenserC. John DonneD. John Milton20. “And we will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/ Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.” The above lines are probably taken from______.A. Spen ser’s The Faerie QueeneB. John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”C. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18D. Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”21. Which of the following statement best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18? _______A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.22. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. British/ immoralityB. French/moneyC. German/knowledgeD. American/political power23. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.A. ScienceB. Religious reformationC. PhilosophyD. Humanism24. “Prince Arthur’s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love through a love vision.” The two figures come from_____.A. Paradise LostB. Dr. FaustusC. The Faerie QueeneD. Hamlet25. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make “blank verse” the principle vehicle of expression in drama.A. SurreyB. WyattC. MarloweD. Sidney26. The Renaissance refers to between 14th— mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen____ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was _____.A. Victoria/poetryB. Elizabeth/ dramaC. Mary/ novelD. James/ drama27. The Redcrosse Knight in The Faerie Queene stands for_____, and Una stands for_____.A. bravery/ chastityB. holiness/ truthC. error/ deliveryD. true gentleman/ lady.28. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.C. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man’s foibles.D. Praise of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.29. “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of ______.A. MetaphorB. SimileC. IronyD. Personification30. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from_____.A. Greek MythologyB. Roman legendC. The Old TestamentD. The New Testament31. “To wage by force or guile eternal war,Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost）By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?_____A. To remove God from his throneB. To burn the Heaven DownC. To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman—Adam and EveD. To turn into a snake to threaten man’s life32. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a“philosophical exploration” of life and death.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. HamletC. King LearD. The Winter’s Tale33. Christoph er Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) _____.A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogyD. epic34. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are from _____.A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC. Christop her Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”35. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for ______ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. immortalityB. politicalC. moneyD. knowledge36. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event? ______A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B. The Glorious revolution.C. New discovery in geography and astrology.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.37. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ______.A. comediesB. tragediesC. historiesD. sonnets38. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.” (Shakespeare, Sonnet 18) What does “this” refer to? _____A. LoverB. TimeC. SummerD. Poetry39. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe’s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very face that______.A. man is confined to timeB. he tried to join Africa to SpainC. he became a man without soul after he sold itD. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was the very course of the Trojan War40. Here are two lines from a ling poem: “Upon a great adventure he was bond, That greatest Gloriana to him gave.” The poem must be_____.A. BeowulfB. John Milton’s Samson AgonistesC. Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a County Churchyard”D. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene41. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wifeWhich is as dear to me as life itself;But life itself, my wife, and all the world,Are not with me e steem’d above thy life;I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,Here to the devil, to deliver you.Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,If she were by to hear you make the offer.”The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare’s come dy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ______A. dramatic ironyB. personificationC. allegoryD. symbolism42. “Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen.” In the above quotation taken from The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a(n) _____.A. oxymoronB. PunC. SimileD. synecdoche43. “O prince, O chief of many throned powers,That led th’ embattled seraphim to warUnder thy conduct, and in dreadful deedsFearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual King.”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase “the conduct” refers to conduct.A. Satan’sB. God’sC. Adam’sD. Eve’sII. Fill in the blanks.1. According t o Edmund Spenser’s own explanation, his The Faerie Queene is a “_______ poem”, but it is also a(n )_______.2. In The Faerie Queene, the hero of heroes, who possesses all of the 12 ______, is ______, who is to play a role in each of the 12 major adventures, which has its own individual hero.3. It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that make him known as “ __________.”4. As the most gifted of the “_________”, Christopher Marlowe composed ______ plays within his short lifetime.5. It was Christopher Marlowe who made __________ the principal medium of English drama.6. The short poem “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe, derives from the ______ tradition in which the shepherd enjoys an ideal ______ life, cherishing a pastoral and pure affection for his love.7. Marlowe created some typical Renaissance hero in his players. Tamburlaine and Faustus seek _______ and ________ respectively.8. With his ______ plays, ______ sonnets and 2 long poems, William Shakespeare has established his giant position in world literature.9. William Shakespeare’s _______ tragedy Romeo and Juliet eulogizes the faithfulness of ______ and the spirit of pursuing happiness.10. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and _______ are generally regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies.11. _______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of the final romances written by William Shakespeare.12. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of______ and the eternal ______ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves.13. ______ is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood- and- thunder” thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death.14.The sentence “To be or not to be--- that is the question” is derived from Shakespeare’s ______. This is the soliloquy of ______.15. Shakespeare’s _______ plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity.16. Francis Bacon, a representative of the Renaissance in England, is a well-known ______, scientist and ______. He lays the foundation for modern ______ with his insistence on scientific way of thinking and fresh observation rather than authority as a basis for obtaining ______. His ______ is the first example of the genre in English literature, recognized as an important landmark in the development of ______ prose. 17. John Milton’s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, the early ______ works, the middle prose pamphlets and the last great ______.18. Paradise Lost is a long ______ divided into 12 books. The original story is taken from the “Genesis ” of the ______.19. In Samson Agoniste, a fitting close to the life work of the poet himself, Milton, again borrows his story from the “______”.20. The theme of Paradise Lost is “the Fall of ______”.21. Milton’s epic poems were very much influenced by the ______ and the Greek classics, which are also the major sources of the whole English literature.22.•After •he •went •blind,•Milton •wrote •and •finished ••his ••three ••great ••works:•epic masterpieces_________and ________and one biblical tragedy ___________.23.Shakespeare’s first original play written in about 1590 was _________.24.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of _______’s best known sonnets.25.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of ______.26.Bacon’s works may be divided into three classes, the ______, the _______, the_______ works.27.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of theEnglish national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as the _______.28.Edmund Spenser was the author of the greatest epic poem of _______.III. Find out the author and his works.(1) The author and their works1. ( ) Thomas More a. Gorge Green2. ( ) Edmund Spenser b. Eupheus3. ( ) John Lyly c. The Fairy Queen4. ( ) Marlowe d. Utopia5. ( ) Robert Greene e. The Jew of Malta(2) The characters in the play1. ( ) Desdemona a. The Merchant of Venice2. ( ) Cordelia b. As you like it3. ( ) Juliet c. Hamlet4. ( ) Ophelia d. King Lear5. ( ) Portia e. Othello6. ( ) Rosalind f. Romeo and JulietIV. For each of the quotations below give the name of the author and the title of the work which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.1. “So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, //So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”2.“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and wr iting an exact man”.3. “For thy sweet love rememb’red such wealth brings,// That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”4. “Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgm ent, and disposition of business.”5. All is not lost: the unconquerable will,And the study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield,And what is else not to be overcome?6.When, in disgrace with Fortune and men’s eyes,I all alone beweep my outcast state,And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,And look upon myself and curse my fate…..V. Explain the following terms.1. Renaissance2. blank verse3. Humanism4. Spenserian Stanza5. iambic pentametre6. sonnet7. tragedyVI. Read each quoted part and answer the questions.1. “For herein Fortune shows herself more kindThan is her custom. It is still her useTo let the wretched man outlive his wealth,To view with hollow eye and wrinkled browAn age of poverty; from which ling’ring penanceOf such misery doth she cut me off”Questions:1) Identify the title of the works and author.2) Explain “from which…cut me off”.3) What happened to him, which caused the words?2. “Read not to contract and confuse, not to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider”Questions:1) Identify the work and author.2) What idea does the passage express?3. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.Questions:1) Where does the poem come from? Who wrote it?2) What does “eternal lines” mean?3) Interpret it briefly.4. “… All is no lost: the unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield:And what is else not to be overcome?……Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”Questions:1) Please identify the poem and the poet.2) In terpret “all is not lost”.3) What does the whole passage mean?5. “If he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”Questions:1) What does “beat over matters” mean?2) Wh at does “receipt” refer to?3) From which essay does the above sentences come, what is the essay mainly about? 6. “What, is great Mephistophilis to passionateFor being deprived of the joys of heaven?Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitudeAnd scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.……Say he will spare him Four and twenty yearsLetting him live in all voluptuousnessHaving thee ever to attend on me…”Questions:1) Identify the passage and author;2) “Say he surrenders up to him his soul”, who will sur render his soul? What for?3) Who are thee? What will he do?7. “Busy old fool, unruly sun,Why does thou thus,Through windows and through curtains call on us?”Questions:1) Identify the work and author.2) What idea does the passage express?8. “And the native hue of resolution/Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.”(Shakespeare, Hamlet)Questions:1) What does the "native hue of resolution" mean?2) What does the "pale cast of thought" stand for?3) What idea do the two lines express?9. The following passage is taken from The Merchant of Venice. Read it carefully and find the dramatic it contains. Use it as an example to illustrate what dramatic irony is. “Bassanio: Antonio, I am married to a wife Which is as dear to me as life itself; But life itself, my wife, and all world, Are not with me esteem’d above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all Here to this devil, to deliver you. Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that, If she were by to hear you make the offe r.”10. The following is a passage taken from a dramatic work:Had I as many souls as there be starsI’d give them all for Mephistophilis!By him I’ll be great emperor of the world,And make a bridge thorough the moving airTo pass the ocean with a band of men;I’ll join the hills that bind the Afric shoreAnd make that country continent to Spain,And both contributory to my crown;The emperor shall not live but by my leave,Nor any potentate of Germany.Now that I have obtained what I desireI’ll live in speculation of this artTill Mephistophilis return again.Questions:1) Name the playwright and the title of the work from which the passage is taken.2) Name the speaker of the passage quoted above.3) Use the above passage as a guide and write down in one or two sentences the theme of the play.VI. Answer the following questions.1. Give a summary about the English literature during the Renaissance period.2. Make a comment on humanism.3. Give a brief introduction to Thomas More’s Utopia.4. Why is The Faerie Queene regarded as an allegorical poem?5. What are the main qualities of Spenser’s poetry?6. Which play is Christopher Marlowe’s masterpiece? What is the story of the play?7. What common features do the characters share in Marlow’s works?8. Mak e a comment on Shakespeare’s artistic achievement.9. What are the main themes of Shakespeare’s plays?10. What are the similarities among Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?11. When were Shakespeare’s main tragedies written? What did he write about in his tragedies?12. What is the main idea of Hamlet?13. Please give a brief analysis of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy.14. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, when he says, “To sleep, perchance to dream: ----ay, there’s the rub.” What is he primarily thinking a bout? Why does he think there is the rub?15. Make a comment on Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18.16. Make a brief comment on John Milton’s literary achievements.17. Briefly analyse the significance and the theme of Paradise Lost.18. Please comment on the character of Satan in Paradise Lost.。
英国文学十八世纪练习题
英国文学十八世纪练习题一、作家作品类1. 简·奥斯汀的代表作品有哪些？2. 亨利·菲尔丁的哪部作品被誉为英国小说的奠基之作？3. 丹尼尔·笛福的哪部小说塑造了鲁滨逊这一经典形象？4. 萨缪尔·约翰逊的《英语字典》对英语发展产生了哪些影响？5. 乔纳森·斯威夫特的《格列佛游记》分为哪几个部分？二、文学流派与主题类1. 十八世纪英国文学的主要流派有哪些？2. 描述一下启蒙运动对英国文学的影响。
3. 英国感伤主义文学的代表人物及其作品。
4. 分析十八世纪英国小说中的道德主题。
5. 十八世纪英国文学中的女性形象有哪些特点？三、人物形象分析类1. 分析《傲慢与偏见》中伊丽莎白·班纳特的形象。
2. 描述《汤姆·琼斯》中汤姆·琼斯的人物性格。
3. 简述《鲁滨逊漂流记》中鲁滨逊的性格特点。
4. 分析《格列佛游记》中小人国国王的形象。
5. 比较《理智与情感》中埃莉诺和玛丽安的性格差异。
四、作品情节分析类1. 概述《傲慢与偏见》的主要情节。
2. 分析《汤姆·琼斯》中汤姆与索菲娅的爱情线索。
3. 简述《鲁滨逊漂流记》中鲁滨逊在荒岛上的生活经历。
4. 描述《格列佛游记》中小人国的社会风貌。
5. 分析《理智与情感》中达什伍德家的家庭关系。
五、作品风格与技巧类1. 分析简·奥斯汀的小说语言风格。
2. 举例说明亨利·菲尔丁在《汤姆·琼斯》中的讽刺手法。
3. 简述丹尼尔·笛福在《鲁滨逊漂流记》中的叙事技巧。
4. 分析乔纳森·斯威夫特在《格列佛游记》中的讽刺艺术。
5. 比较《傲慢与偏见》与《理智与情感》的叙事结构。
六、文学史知识类1. 十八世纪英国文学的发展经历了哪几个阶段？2. 简述英国启蒙运动的主要观点。
3. 英国浪漫主义文学是如何在十八世纪末期兴起的？4. 分析十八世纪英国文学对后世的影响。
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英国文学习题I名词解释(请用5-10个句子解释下列名词). epicRomanceSentimentalismByronic HeroClassicismsonnetThe EnlightenmentThe Aesthetic MovementByronic HeroRomanticismclassicismhumanismII请从生平、主要作品、历史地位三个方面介绍下列作家1. Charles Dickens2. William Shakespear3. John Milton4. William Wordsworth5. Jane Austen6. George Bernard Shaw7. Alexander Pope8. John Donne9 Daniel Defoe10 William Butler Yeats11. James JoyceIII 填空1. The most popular literary form in the Anglo-Norman period was romance, inwhich the central character was Knight _.2. In 1066, The Norman Conquest marked the beginning of Feudalism in England.3. A ballad _ is written in 4-line stanzas with the second and fourth lines rhymes.4. English Renaissance period was an age of _ poetry _ and drama.5. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela_ was regarded the first English psychological(analysis) novel6. In Paradise Lost, Satan tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree.7.Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastic metaphors and extravaganthyperboles.8. Walter Scott’s chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of _ history _9. The main literary stream of the 18th century was _ realism _.10. Joyce is the founder and one of the most prominent writers of stream of consciousness _ school of novel writing.11. The Talter and The Spectator published by Joseph Addison and Richard Steelein the early 18th century, was a moralistic journal.12. Robert Burns is famous for his poetry written in Scottish dialect.13. The watchwords of the French Revolution are Liberty, equality and Fraternity.14. Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in1832 when Scott died.16. Walter Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism torealism which followed it.17. The subtitle of Vanity Fair—“A Novel without a Hero” emphasizes the factthat the writer’s intention was not to portray individuals but the the society as a whole.18. Piers the Plowman is written in the form of a dream vision19. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities written by Charles Dickens are Londonand Paris20. “Dubliners”is a collection of short stories written by James Joyce in thewriting style of stream of consciousness21. The long poem Beowulf in Anglo-Saxon pe riod was termed England’s nationalepic.22. “Conceit” is a term applied in particular to the metaphysical school.23. The appearance and development of sentimentalism marked the midway in thetransition from classicism to its opposite, romanticism.24. The two great dramatists in the 18th century were Oliver Goldsmith andRichard Brinsley Sheridan whose most famous play was The School for Scandal.25. William Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.26. The impetus of the Romantic Movement includes the French Revolution andthe Industrial Revolution.27. William Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the simplicity as well as thepurity of his language.28. Jane Austen was the first woman writer to touch the theme of the predicamentof women29. Both Hardy’ s poems and novels are transition from realism to modernism30. Perhaps the greatest odes of the 19th century were Keats's Five Great Odes of1819 which included Ode to a Nightingale Ode on Melancholy, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to Psyche and T o Autumn IV．请从诗歌的形式（格律，押韵，句式等）和内容及意义上分析诗歌1. William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud2. John Donne Tiger3.Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind4. Robert Burns A Red Red RoseV 选择1. _______ is the greatest song writer in the world. He is the national poet of ScotlandA. Robert Burns C. Jonathan SwiftB. William Blake D. Oliver Goldsmith2. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is______.A. science C. artsB. philosophy D. humanism2. Which of the following works is not written by John Galsworthy?A. The Forsyte Saga C. The End of the ChapterB. A Modern Comedy D. The Time Machine3. Rudyard Kipling is best known for his ________.A. T he Jungle Books C. The White Man’s BurdenB. The Old Wive’s Tale D. Anna of the Five Towns3. __________ is regarded as “the father of English Criticism”.A. John Bunyan C. John MiltonB. John Dryden D. John Newman4. Thomas Gray turned out to be a poet of transition from the neoclassic to the________ periodA. Romantic C. RealisticB. Humanism D. classicism5. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman cultureB. The new discoveries in geography and astrologyC. The Glorious revolutionD. The religious reformation and the economic expansion6. As a matter of fact, Victorian literature was many-sided and complex and _______ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.. A. poetry C. romanceB. novel D. ballad7. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim’s Progress C. Paradise LostB. The Canterbury Tales D. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded8. John Milton’s masterpiece—Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of_____.A. rhymed stanzas C. alliterationB. blank verse D. sonnets9. The Waste Land was a landmark in English poetry, ending the Romantic period and signifying the emergence of ________.A. ModernismB. ClassicismC. RealismD. Sentimentalism10. ____ has been regarded as one of the founding figures of the genre---sciencefictionA. John Keats C. William WordsworthB. William Blake D. H. G. Wells10. Heavily influenced by _______. D. H. Lawrence placed emphasis on thedepiction of the inner world and the irrational and called for the emancipation of the idA. John Keats C. FreudianismB. William Blake D. P. B. Shelley11. John Donna is considered a master of the metaphysical _________.A. image C. romanceB. conceit D. enlightenment12. The years between 1832 and the early 1850s saw an important series of events known as the ________.A. the Chartist Movement C. the ProtestantismB. the Enlightenment D. the Colonism13. Gothic novels are mostly stories of_______, which take place in some hauntedor dilapidated Middle Age castles.A. love and marriage C. mystery and horrorB. sea adventures D. saints and martyrs15. Among the following plays _______ is not written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. Faustus C. TamburlaineB. The Jew of Malta D. The School for Scandal16. _____ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim’s Progress C. Paradise LostB. The Canterbury Tales D. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded17. Dickens is a comprehensive novelist. His _______ is the most distinguishingfeature of his creationA. character-portrayal C. nature-descriptionB. plot-planning D. society-description18. ___________’s major comp laint was about their over-emphasis on thedescription of externalities in their representation of life rather than on the internal world of manA. John Keats C. Virginia WoolfB. William Blake D. P. B. Shelley19. In about 700 B.C, the earliest settlers,_________, a tribe of Celts, came to the island.A. Scots C. BritonsB. Jutes D. Anglo-Saxons20. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______”, for his contributionto the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. Best writer of the English novelB. The father of English novelC. The most gifted writer of the English novelD. conventional writer of English novel22. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about alegendary outlaw called ________A. Rob Roy C. Oliver CromwellB. Jonathan Wild D. Robin Hood23. Ulysses describes the experience of a few people during the day of _______, June 16, 1904 and the few hours early the next morning.A. MondayB. TuesdayC. FridayD. Thursday24. “If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind.” is an epigrammatic line by ____.A. John Keats C. William WordsworthB. William Blake D. P. B. Shelley25. Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in ___ _.A. Romanticism C. medieval periodB. Renaissance D. Anglo-Saxon period28. The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain asubstantial existence on a lonely island reflects _______.A. man’s desire to return toB. the author’s criticism of the colon izationC. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisieD. the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality。
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Exercises for English literature （1）I. Fill in the blanks.（25%）1. The Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: the_________poetry and the_________poetry.2. _________ is regarded as the "Father of English Song", the first known religious poet of England.3. In the second half of the 7th century, the first English poet, _________ by name, began to sing.4. The history of English literature begins in the__________ century.5._________, the first English poem, still intact as a whole piece today, is the greatest epic ever left by the ancient Germanic tribes and the most ancient ever since the demise of the Greek and Roman literatures6.It was __________ who decided that literature should be written in the vernacular or Old English.7.__________ is the first English poet ever to sign his composition8._________made the translation of the Bible from the Latin Vulgate Version into Middle English, the firstattempt ever to translate the Holy Scripture into English.9.The most important work of Alfred the Great is _________, which is regarded as the best monument of the OldEnglish Prose.10.__________ is the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages.11.The most magnificent prose work of the 15th century is Morte d' Arthur concerning with _________legend.12.Critics tend to divide Chaucer's literary career into three periods: the___________period, the__________periodand the_________period.13.Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.The other two are _________ and____________14._________ was the first most significant poet in English history to write in Middle English.15.The Canterbury Tales contains the________ and 24 tales, four of which are fragments.16._________ is the author of Decameron, which has the similar way of telling stories to that of The CanterburyTales.17.The framework in The Canterbury Tales is a__________18.When Chaucer died in 1400, he was the first to be buried in Westminster Abbey and founded ________19.________, the first English printer, brought the technique of printing from movable type into England fromItaly.20.The Elizabethan age was one in which Renaissance transformed from Chaucer’s_____England intoShakespeare’s _______ one.21.The translation of the Homeric classics, Iliad and Odyssey, won _______ the title “a translator of the prince ofpoets”22.Thomas Wyatt, the first great Englsih sonneteer, introduced the ______ into England. He first used a couplet forthe conclusion of sonnets---a practice followed by Shakespeare.23.Henry Howard, Earl of Surry, brought the _______ into English poetry in his translation of Virgils’ The Aenied,and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.24.Edmund Spenser is often referred to as "the poets' _______" because of his considerable influence on laterpoets.25.The word “euphemism” comes from John Lyly’s _________26.As a sonnet sequence, Sidney’s sonnet cycle ______________ was probably the first of its kind ever to appearin English literary history.27.The drama had gone through a number of phases over the centuries including those of the ____, the _____, the_______, the _______ and the _______drama.28.________ is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright beforeShakespeare.29.Shakespeare's 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W. H, a young man, and the otheraddressed to a________30.A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line________31. The second period of English Renaissance is also called the________ period or the Age of________32. Soon after the ________was introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translation of Virgil's The Aeneid, and it became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama.33. Shakespeare's plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _______ , tragedies and___________34. Though written in the form of an________, the characters in The Pilgrim's Progress impress the readers like real persons. The places in it are English scenes, and the conversations which enliven his narratives vividly repeat the language of the writer's time.35. The poems of John Donne belong to two categories: the _______ , and the___________ later.36. John Donne is the founder of the school of ____________. His works are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form.37. Because of the success of Paradise Lost, John Milton produced in 1671 another epic,________38. John Milton's Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of _______ and___________from the Garden of Eden.39. The most distinguished literary figure of the Restoration Period was John Dryden, poet, _______ , and playwright.40. Paradise Lost is a long epic. The stories are taken from___________ .41. The Pilgrim's Progress tells of the spiritual pilgrimage of Christian, who flies form City of Destruction, and finally comes to the Delectable Mountains and the_____________42. Pamela is written in the form of a __________novel.43.____________ written by Sheridan is a clever satire on the sentimental and pseudo-romantic fancies of many young women of the upper classes of the 18th century.44. The biography of Samuel Johnson entitled Life of Johnson is frequently considered the best in the English language. The author of the book is_________45. The only important English dramatist produced in the 18th century is___________46. Friday is a character in the novel___________.47__________is called the Father of the English Novel.48. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, ______ was the first to introduce rationalism to England.49. The 18th century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of_________50. __________is Alexander Pope's best satirical poem. Its satire is directed at Dullness in general.II. Choose the best answer.（23%）1.Beowulf is a ________ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.A. paganB. ChristianC. romanticD. lyric2.Caedmon's life story is vividly described in _______ 's Historic Ecclesiastica .A. GrendelB. BedeC. CynewulfD. Beowulf3.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called_________A. heroic coupletB. quatrainC. Spenserian stanzaD. terza rima4.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of themedieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely________A. William Langland's Piers the PlowmanB. Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury TalesC. John Gower's Confessio AmantisD. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight5.In the English Renaissance period, scholars began to emphasize the capacities of the human mind and theachievements of human culture. The most significant intellectual movement was______A. the ReformationB. geographical explorationsC. humanismD. the Italian revival6.Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia was a long _________ written in an elaborately artful prose.A. pastoral eclogueB. pastoral lyricC. pastoral romanceD. pastoral drama7.Sir Philip Sidney is known for the following three works EXCEPT__________A. ArcadiaB. Astrophel and StellaC. The Shepherd's CalendarD. Apology for Poetry8.The following playwrights belong to the "university wits", EXCEPT_________A. John LylyB. Ben JonsonC. Thomas KydD. Christopher Marlowe9.Which is NOT the works of Christopher Marlowe?A. LycidasB. Tamburlaine the GreatC. The Jew of MaltaD.The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus10.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe's best works in which Dr. Faustus seeks________ no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.A. moneyB. immoralityC. knowledgeD. political power11.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?A. OthellloB. MacbethC. Romeo and JulietD. Hamlet12.Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare's comedies?A. Heary VB. The Merchant of VeniceC. A Midsummer Night's DreamD. The Winter's Tale13.An important variety of ode in the 16th century was________ , a poem in praise of marriage, conventionallyfollowing the course of the wedding day.A. hymnB. epithalamionC. odeD. ballad14.Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare's dramas?A. lyricB. sonnetC. blank verseD. quatrain15.5. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" is foundin_________ A. Francis Bacon's "Of Studies" B. Thomas More's Utopia C. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress D. Fielding's Tom Jones16.6. In Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylockbecause__________A. his money was all invested in the newly-emerging textile industryB. his enterprise went bankruptC. Bassanio was able to pay his own debtD. his ships had all been lost17.The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one ofShakespeare's____________A. comediesB. tragediesC. sonnetsD. histories18.8. John Dryden's tragedy All for Love deals with the same story as ___________ 's Antony and Cleopatra.A. William ShakespeareB. John MiltonC. Christopher MarloweD. John Bunyan19.9. In John Milton's Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledgeof___________A. Love and HateB. Good and EvilC. Faith and BetrayalD. Sense and Sensibility20.10. Which of the following novels by Henry Fielding satirizes the politicalsystem of England and the then Prime Minister Sir Robert Walpole?A. Joseph AndrewsB. Jonathan Wild the GreatC. The History of Tom Jones, a FoundlingD. Amelia21.11. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_________A. material wealthB. spiritual salvationC. universal truthD. self-fulfillment22.12. "To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe." (John Milton, Paradise Lost ) Bywhat means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man's life.C. By removing God from His throne.D. By corrupting man and woman created by God.23.13. By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of Vanity Fair, John Bunyan intendsto show the prevalent political and religious__________of his time.A. persecutionB. improvementC. prosperityD. disillusionment24.14. Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in______________A. alliterationB. heroic coupletC. sonnetD. blank verse25.15. Lives of the Poets consists of the biographies of 52 poets and affords some of the best-known pictures of theearly English poets. Its author is_____________A. Samuel RichardsonB. Jonathan SwiftC. Joseph AddisonD. Samuel Johnson26.16. Jonathan Swift's famous prose work _______ is a satirical dialogue between the Ancients and the Modernsin the character of the Bee and the Spider.A. A Modest ProposalB. The Battle of the BooksC. The Drapier 's LettersD. A Tale of a Tub27.17. Of all the 18th century novelists, __________ was the first to set out in theory and practice, to writespecially a "comic epic in prose", and the first to give the modem novel its structure and style.A. Daniel DefoeB. Samuel RichardsonC. Henry FieldingD. Oliver Goldsmith28.Which of the following is NOT a character in the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling?A. BlifilB. SophiaC. Mr. AllworthyD. Amelia29._________ is the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman--Dictionary of the English Language,which has become the foundation of all subsequent English dictionaries.A. Samuel JohnsonB. Laurence SterneC. Oliver GoldsmithD. Samuel Richardson30.In Sheridan's The School for Scandal, the man who wins the hand of his beloved as well as the inheritance ofhis rich uncle is__________A. Charles SurfaceB. Joseph SurfaceC. Sir Peter TeazleD. Sir Benjamin Backbite31.Modern English novel arose in the___________century.A. 16thB. 17thC. 18thD. 19th32._________was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughoutEurope in the 18th century.A. The RenaissanceB. Puritan MovementC. Romantic MovementD. The Enlightenment33.Sheridan's ___________ is the best English comedy since the days of Shakespeare.A. She Stoops to ConquerB. The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD. The Conscious Lovers34.Which of the following place does Gulliver visit first in Gulliver's Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms35.The rise and growth of ____________ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature,which has given the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding.A. nco-classical poetryB. realistic novelC. sentimentalist novelD. Gothic novel36. _________ is Poet Laureate in English Literary history?A. John DrydenB. Edmund SpenserC. William ShakespeareD. Christopher Marlowe37. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was________A. the ReformationB. humanismC. the Italian revivalD. geographical exploration38. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies?A. Romeo and JulietB. King LearC. HamletD. Macbeth39. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?A.It is the age of translation.B.It is the age of poetryC. It is the age of exploration.D. It is the age of the protestant reformation.40. _________ first made blank verse the principal instrument of English dramaA. ShakespeareB. WyattC. SidneyD. MarloweIV. Definitions: (37%)1.alliteration2.assonance3.understatement4.blank verse5.heroic couplet6.iambic pentameter7.eclogue8.university wits9.renaissance hero10. Spenserian stanza。
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I. Identify the author with his work.1) William Langland ( c) a. Utopia2) Edmund Spenser ( d ) b. Romeo and Juliet3)William Shakespeare ( b) c. Piers, the Plowman4) Francis Bacon ( g ) d. The Faerie Queene5) Thomas More ( a) e. Doctor Faustus6) Geoffrey Chaucer ( f ) f. The Canterbury Tales7) Christopher Marlowe ( e) g. Advancement of LearningII. Choose the best answer for each blank.1. English Renaissance Period was an age of .A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. romance and balladD. essay and drama2. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is the opening line of one ofShakespeare’s .A. songsB. playsC. sonnetsD. tragedies3. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Henry HowardD. John Lyly4. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in theRenaissance period.A. William ShakespeareB. Thomas WyattC. Christopher MarlowD. Henry Howard5. The essence of humanism is to ________A. restore a medieval reverence for the churchB. avoid the circumstances of earthly lifeC. explore the next world in which men could live after deathD. emphasize human qualities6. Although _____ was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks ofhumanism and anticipated a new era of literature to come.A. Thomas MoreB. William LanglandC. Edmund SpenserD. William Shakespeare7. Which of the following historical events does NOT directly help tostimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.B. The new discoveries in geography and astronomy.C. The Glorious Revolution.D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.8. In 1066, _________led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius9. Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, and was buried in _______.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey10. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the _________ poetry.A. paganB. religiousC. romanticD. sentimental11. A ___ is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and the fourth rhymed.A. balladB. romanceC. sonnetD. lyric12. Among the following plays which is NOT written by Christopher Marlowe?A. Dr. FaustusB. The Jew of MaltaC. TamburlaineD. New Instrument13. ______ is NOT written by Francis Bacon.A. Of StudiesB. New InstrumentC. Advancement of LearningD. Edward IIIII. Fill in the blanks.1. A ___Morality___ play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.2. A Miracle SS play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.。
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I。
Identify the author with his work.1) William Langland ( c） a. Utopia2) Edmund Spenser ( d ） b. Romeo and Juliet3）William Shakespeare （ b) c。
Piers， the Plowman4) Francis Bacon （ g ) d. The Faerie Queene5） Thomas More ( a）e。
Doctor Faustus6） Geoffrey Chaucer ( f ）f。
The Canterbury Tales7） Christopher Marlowe （ e) g. Advancement of LearningII. Choose the best answer for each blank。
1. English Renaissance Period was an age of .A。
prose and novel B。
poetry and dramaC。
romance and ballad D。
essay and drama2. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” is the opening line of one ofShakespeare’s .A。
songs B。
plays C. sonnets D。
tragedies3. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature 。
A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Henry Howard D。
John Lyly4。
first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance period.A。
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1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.A Robin HoodB Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC The Canterbury TalesD Beowulf2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse.A The Canterbury TalesB Piers the PlowmanC Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD Beowulf3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales.A Geoffrey ChaucerB John MiltonC William ShakespeareD Francis Bacon4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure.A Green NightsB GawainC Robin HoodD Hamlet5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication.A Paradise LostB A Pleasant Satire of the Three EstatesC Of StudiesD Utopia6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language.A AmorettiB The Shepherd’s CalendarC The Faerie QueeneD Four Hymns7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”B “To be or not to be: that is the question”C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Julius CaesarC Twelfth NightD King Lear10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?A Twelfth NightB The TempestC As You Like ItD The Merchant of VeniceD C A C D C C A D B▪ 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Ben Jonson▪ c. Christopher Marlowe▪ d. Francis Bacon▪ 2. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________.▪ a. poetry and drama▪ b. drama and novel▪ c. novel and poetry▪ d. romance and poetry▪ 3. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of _____▪ a. William Shakespeare▪ b. Robert Burns▪ c. John Milton d. William Blake▪ 4. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play ?▪ a. A Midsummer Night’s Dream▪ b. The Merry Wives of Windsor▪ c. H enry IV d. King Lear▪ 5. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in ______a. 16th centuryb. 17th century▪ c. 18th century d. 19th century▪ 6. Francis Bacon’s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in thedevelopment of English_______, and as the firstcollection of essays in the English language.▪ a. poetry b. epics c. fiction d. prose ▪7. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel ____ which first established his reputation.▪ a.Gulliver’s Travels▪ b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe▪ c.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ d. Oliver Twist▪8. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by_________▪ a. William Wordsworth▪ b. George Byron▪ c. Robert Burns▪ d. William Blake▪9. Mary Shelley’s no vel Frankenstein belongs to the type of ____ which is often set in gloomy castles where horrifying, supernatural events take place.▪ a. Gothic b. Realism▪ c. Romanticism d. Classicism▪10. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation”and his followers.▪ A. William Langland B. James I▪ C. John Wycliffe▪ D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews▪ D A C C B D B C A C▪▪ 1. The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ______ and Christian.▪ a. Pagan b. Roman▪ c. French d. Danish▪ 2. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by________▪ a. Robert Burns b. William Blake▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Charles Lamb▪ 3. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typical belonging to the school of Romantic literature?▪ a. Don Juan b. Ulysses▪ c. Jane Eyre▪ d. Sons and Lovers▪ 4. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.▪ a. Francis Bacon▪ b. Edmund Spenser▪ c. Thomas More d. Sidney▪ 5. What is flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?▪ a. novel b.drama▪ c. essay d. poetry▪ 6. The publication of _______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age.▪ a. Don Juan▪ b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner▪ c. The Lyrical Ballads▪ d. Ode to the West Wind▪7. Which of the following did not belong to Romanticism? ▪ a. John Keats▪ b. Percy Shelley▪ c. William Wordsworth▪ d. Alfred Tennyson▪8. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book?▪ a. Edgar Allan Poe▪ b. James Joyce▪ c. Mary Shelley▪ d. Walter Scott▪9. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called _______came to Europe and then to England.▪ a. Romanticism b. Classicism▪ c. Realism d. Restoration▪10. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats?▪ a. Ode to the West Wind▪ b. Ode to Autumn▪ c. Ode on a Grecian Urn▪ d. Ode to a Nightingale▪A C A A B C D C A A▪▪ 1. William Shakespeare is one of the giants of________▪ a. Romanticism▪ b. Critical Realism▪ c. Aestheticism▪ d. the Renaissance▪ 2. ________is the first important religious poet in English literature.▪ a. John Donne b. George Herbert▪ c. Caedmon d. Milton▪3. _________was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.▪a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare▪c. Philip Sidney d. Thomas Gray▪4. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century.▪a. George Byron b. John Keats▪c. Percy Shelley d. Samuel Coleridge ▪ 5. The most gifted of the “University Wits” was ____.▪ A. John Lily B. Thomas KydC. Thomas GreeneD. Christopher Marlowe▪ 6. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.▪ A. Phillip Sidney▪ B. Edmund Spenser▪ C. Thomas More▪ D. Christopher Marlowe▪7. Morality plays appeared after_____.▪A. miracle plays▪B. mystery plays▪C. interlude▪D. Classical plays▪8. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of characteristics of Renaissance?▪ a. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.b. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture.c. Tolerance of human weaknesses.d. Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.▪9. The most intellectual movement of the Renaissance was ________.▪A. the Reformation▪B. Humanism▪C. the Italian revival▪D. Geographical exploration▪10. What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet?▪ A. Cousins B. Uncle and nephew▪ C. Father-in-law D. Father and son ▪▪ D C A D D C A D B B▪ 1. Which of the following is a typical feature of Swift’s writings?▪ A. Great wit. B. Bitter satire.▪ C. Rich mythic allusions.▪ D. Complicated sentence structures.▪ 2. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.▪ A. John Donne B. George Herbert▪ C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan▪ 3. The ______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.▪ A. Romanticism B. Humanism▪ C. Enlightenment D. Sentimentalism▪ 4. Who was the greatest dramatist in the 18th century?▪ A. Oliver Goldsmith▪ B. Richard Sheridan▪ C. Laurence Sterne▪ D. Henry Fielding▪ 5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?▪ A.The Pilgrim’s Progress▪ B. The Faerie Queene▪ C. Gulliver’s Travels▪ D. The School for Scandal▪ 6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.▪ A. John Milton B. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden▪7. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a _____ tone.▪ A. delightful B. solemn▪ C. sentimental D. satirical▪8. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the _____ century.▪ A. 17th B. 19th C. 18th D. 20th▪9. _____ 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▪10. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.▪ A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism▪ C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism▪B A C B C C D C B C▪。