英国文学复习资料

英国文学期末考试复习指南

考试题型及分值安排

试卷共5部分

part I 作家作品搭配10% （该部分全部来自课本讲过的作家及其代表作品）part II 判断正误10%

part III单项选择30% （50%出自下面给出的参考题目）

part IV作品辨析40% （给出8题中考4题，另有1题出自课堂讲过的作品）part V 简答10% （从下面给出的复习资料中考1题）

Part I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.

Chapter 1 The Old and Medieval Period

1.______, 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

2. 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. The Romaunt of the Rose

D. Troilus and Criseyde

3. The Elizabethan ______, in its totality, is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.

A. poetry

B. novel

C.humanism

D. drama

4. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the ______legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A. German

B. British

C.French

D. American

5. Christopher Marlowe's greatest achievement lies in the fact that he perfected ______and made it the principal medium of English drama.

A. the heroic couplet

B. the free verse

C.the blank verse

D. the Spenserian stanza

6. ______, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare's most popular play on the stage.

A. The Merchant of Venice

B. Hamlet

C. King Lear

D. Julius Caesar

7. ______ is based on a widespread legend in northern Europe.

A. Tamburlaine

B. The Jew of Malta

C. Hamlet

D. The Winter's Tale

8. ______ Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature.

A. John Milton's

B. Francis Bacon's

C. Montaigne's

D. Thomas Gray's

9. ______is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.

A. John Milton

B. John Donne

C. John Bunyan

D. John Keats

10.______ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. The Faerie Queene

Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period

1. ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A. Genesis A

B. Exodus

C. The Pilgrim's Progress

D. The Holy War

2. ______has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

A. John Bunyan

B. Henry Fielding

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Jonathan Swift

3. Of all the 18th century novelists ______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose."

A. Henry Fielding

B. Daniel Defoe

C. John Bunyan

D. Jonathan Swift

4.______brings Henry Fielding the name of the "Prose Homer".

A. The Pilgrim's Progress

B. Tom Jones

C. Robinson Crusoe

D. Colonel Jack

5. The poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" is regarded as the most representative work of______.

A. the Metaphysical School

B. The Graveyard School

C. the Gothic School

D. the Romantic school

6. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", ______ best and most representative work, has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English poetry.

A. Alexander Pope's

B. Thomas Gray's

C. Samuel Johnson's

D. William Blake's

7. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe describes the hero of the______.

A. aristocratic class

B. enterprising landlords

C. rising bourgeoisie

D. hard-working people

Chapter 3 The Romantic Period

1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads, written by Wordsworth and______.

A. Keats

B. Coleridge

C. Southey

D. Byron