遗留问题-英国文学试题

《英国文学》期中试题

（适用于本科学生闭卷考试时间120分钟）

I．Choose the best answer from the four choices.（1´×25=25´）

1. _______ can be justly termed England’s national epic and its hero Beowulf --- one of the

national heroes of the English people.

a. Seafarer

b. The Song of Beowulf

c. Wildsith

d. Cynewulf

2. The most important work of Alfred the Great is _______, which is regarded as the best

monument of the old English prose

a. The song of Beowulf

b. The ecclesiastical history of the English people

c. Apollonius of Tyre

d. The Anglo-Saxon chronicles

3. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

a. Thomas Wyatt

b. William Shakespeare

c. Phillip Sidney

d. Thomas Campion

4. Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s prose romance_______ which gave rise to the term

“euphuism”, designating an effected style of court speech.

a. Arcadia

b. Venus and Adonis.

c. Eupheus

d. Lucrece

5. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his 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. Christopher Marlowe

b. Thomas More

c. Phillip Sidney

d. Edmund Spencer

6. Renaissance Period was an age of ____.

a. prose and novel

b. poetry and drama

c. essays and journals

d. ballads and songs

7. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”This line is taken from one of

Shakespeare’s____________.

a. Sonnet 18

b. the tragedy King Lear

c. a long poem Venus and Adonis

d. the comedy As You Like It

8. From the following choose the one______ that is not written by Francis Bacon.

a. The Advancement of Learning

b. The New Instrument

c. Of Studies

d. The rape of the Lock

9. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______’s best plays.

a. Shakespeare

b. Thomas Kyd

c. Ben Jonson

d. Christopher Marlowe

10. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London

about 1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London the foundation for modern English language.

a. Shakespeare

b. Spenser

c. Philip Sidney

d. Chaucer

11.Piers the Plowman written by William Langland is in the form of ______

a. allegory and medieval dream vision

b. drama

c. satirical novel

d. sentimental novel

12. Robinson Crusoe is a _________.

a. historical novel

b. satirical novel

c. realistic novel

d. allegorical novel

13. Pamela is a___________.

a. historical novel

b. romance

b. novel of naturalism d. novel of epistles and psychology

14. Gulliver’s Travels is a ________.

a. sentimental novel

b. novel of satire and allegory

c. Gothic novel

d. novel of stream of consciousness

15. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.

a. Thomas More

b. Spenser

c. John Donne

d. Wyatt

16. In Paradise Lost the author praises the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the

______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.

a. pessimism, knowledge

b. optimism, ideal

c. rebellion, will

d. cynicism, concept

17. ________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th

century.

a. The Renaissance

b. The Enlightenment