英美文学

英美文学串讲1

Part One：English Literature

Chapter I An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature & The Renaissance Period

I. Choose the right answer：

1. 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/ immorality

B.French/money

C.German/knowledge

D.American/political power Answer：C （可参考课本P21）

2. _____，is a typical example of Old English poetry，is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A.The Wife's Complaint

B.Beowulf

C.The Dream of the Rood

D.The Seafarer

Answer：B （可参考课本P1）

3.It's Chaucer alone who，for the first time in English literature，presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.

A.The Canterbury Tales

B.The Legend of Good Women

C.Troilus and Criseyde

D. The Romaunt of the Rose.

Answer：A （可参考课本P4）

4. The Essence of Renaissance，the most significant intellectual movement，was_____.

A. Geographical exploration

B. Religious reformation

C. Publishing and translation

D. Humanism.

Answer：D （可参考课本P8）

5. "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 Lost

B.Dr. Faustus

C.The Faerie Queene

D.Hamlet

Answer：C （可参考课本P13）

6. In "Sonnet 18"，Shakespeare_________________.

A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.

B.Satirize human's vanity.

C.Predict the eternity of love.

D.Eulogize the power of the beauty.

Answer：A （P37）

7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his "mighty lines" and make 'blank verse' the principle vehicle of expression in drama.

A.Surrey

B.Wyatt

C.Marlowe

D.Sidney

Answer：C （P21）

8. Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are the following works except____.

A.Hamlet

B.King Lear

C.Romeo and Juliet

D.Othello

Answer：C （P33）

9. 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 （真正的文学主流）' was ____.

A.Victoria/poetry

B.Elizabeth/ drama

C.Mary/ novel

D.James/ drama

Answer：B （P11）

10. In The Legend of Good Women，Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter，which is to be called later____.

A.The Spenserian stanza

B.The heroic couplet

C.The blank verse

D.The free verse

Answer：B （P5）

11. The Redcrosse Knight in "The Faerie Queene" stands for_____，and Una stands for_____.

A.bravery/ chastity

B.holiness/ truth

C.error/ delivery

D.true gentleman/ lady.