英国文学史100题
英国文学史测试题(全)汇编
英国文学史1.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”openwell-known essays by_________.Francis Bacon Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift[参考答案] Francis Bacon2.When he died, Chaucer was buried in __________ the Poet's Corner.Westminster Abbey Normandy Canterbury Southwark[参考答案] Westminster Abbey3.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for hisproduction of .Piers Plowman Sir Gawain and the Green KnightConfessio Amantis The Canterbury Tales[参考答案] The Canterbury Tales4.The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland's _________.The Legend of Good Woman The Vison of Piers the PlowmanBoewulf Fables[参考答案] The Vison of Piers the Plowman5.Which literary genra does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belong to?epic romance novel prose[参考答案] romance6.English literature at the Anglo-Norman Period was also a combination of ____ andSaxon elements.Latin Greek English French[参考答案] French7.In the 14th century, the two most important writers are_____ and ChaucerCaedmon Cynewulf Langland Shakespeare[参考答案] Langland8.Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song ofBeowulf?Hrothgat Heorot Grendel Beowulf[参考答案] Grendel9.The most important work of_____is The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,which is regardedas the best monument of the old English prose.Alfred the Great Caedmon Cynewulf Venerable Bede[参考答案] Alfred the Great10.The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of_____.monks romanticists sentimentalists pagan[参考答案] paganing line of11.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginnone of Shakespeare’ｓ.comedies tragedies histories sonnets[参考答案] sonnets12.In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which oneis not true?French literature Italian literature English literature German litereature [参考答案] German litereature13.Who is the "father of English poetry" and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEnglish?Geoffrey Chaucer Martin Luther William Langland John Gower [参考答案] Geoffrey Chaucer14.In the 15th century, there is only one important prose writer whose namen is_____.He wrote an important work called Le Morte d'Arthur.Thomas Marlory Langland Chaucer Adam Bede[参考答案] Thomas Marlory16.________'s Essays is t he first example of that genre in English literature, whichhas been highly esteemed.John Donne John Milton Francis Bacon Edmund Spenser[参考答案] Francis Bacon17.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.heroic couplet quatrain Spenserian stanza terza rima[参考答案] quatrain18.In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _______.Lilliput Brobdingnag Houyhnhnm England[参考答案] Lilliput19. is the successful religious allegory in the English language .The Pilgrim’s Progress Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners The Life and Death of Mr. Badman The Holy War[参考答案] The Pilgrim’s Progress20.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of RobinsonGrusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe George Eliot wrence[参考答案] Daniel Defoe21.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented byJohn Donne's works?Common speech Conceit Argument Refined Language [参考答案] Common speech22.The lines"Death ,but not proud,though some have clled thee/Mighty andpowerful,for thou are not so" are found in_____.William Wordsworth's writings John Keat's writingsJohn Donne's writings Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings [参考答案] John Donne's writings23.The story of Paradise Lost is taken from _________.a legend Bible an epic a folklore[参考答案] Bible24.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which,contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of thecommon people.romantic realistic prophetic idealistic[参考答案] realistic25.As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms andsatires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically,religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.Moll Flanders Gulliver’s TravelsPilgrim’s Progress The School for Scandal[参考答案] Gulliver’s Travels26.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of thevices of his age.religious romantic satirical comic[参考答案] satirical27.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___.A..attack the sun as an unruly servantB..give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie[参考答案] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty28.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of theBennet family.high opinion great admiration low opinion erroneous view[我的答案] low opinion29.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn”？A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” B.“They are both gone up to the church to pray.” C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.” D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.[我的答案] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.30."And where are they? And where art thou,/ My country? On thou voiceless shore/The heroic lay is tuneless now-/The heroic bossom beats no more!"(GeorgeGordon Byron, Don Juan) In the above stanaz, "art thou" literally means_________."art you" "are though" "art though" "are you"[我的答案] "are you"31.Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventuresor other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.Christian knightly Greek primitive[我的答案] knightly32.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothicromance.[我的答案] It predominated in the early eighteenth century.33.“ Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewedand digested;”( Of Studies). Here Bacon compares reading to.walking eating drinking acting[我的答案] eating34.Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle-class man of the18thcentury,the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Gulliver Tom Jones[我的答案] Robinson Crusoe35. _______ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became thefoundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.Ben Jonson Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope John Dryden[我的答案] Samuel Johnson36.Donne’s famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass affords a pr imeexample of .dramatic style exaggeration paradox conceit[我的答案] conceit37.Which of the following shows in a more implicit way that the poet was touched bythe song of the solitary reaper?I listened, motionless land still Will no one tell me what she sings ?I saw her singing at her work. The music in my heart I bore.[我的答案] I listened, motionless land still38.What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear,sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thingfor our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from_____________.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Emily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsJohn Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga George Eliot’s Middlemarch[我的答案] Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice39.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .poetry and drama drama and novel novel and poetry romance and poetry[我的答案] poetry and drama40.The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet “To be , or not to be’ shows his_______.hatred for his uncle love for lifeinner- strife resolution of revenge[我的答案] inner- strifebooks are to be tasted, others to besaid:“Some41.In his essay“Of Studies,”Baconswallowed, and some few to be chewed and____________.”skimmed perfected imitated digested[我的答案] digested42.Beowulf, the oldest great long poem ever written in English, is composed in a formof .epics lyrics folk songs sagas[我的答案] epics43.”_______” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.Tintern Abbey The Rime of the Ancient MarinerLyrical Ballads Prelude[我的答案] Lyrical Ballads44.____ is central to Blake’s concern in his Songs of Innocence and Songs ofExperience.Politics Religion Childhood Manhood[我的答案] Childhood45.Shakespeare wrote ___________sonnets.125 154 245 138[我的答案] 15446.“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this , and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?Lover Time Summer Poetry[我的答案] Poetry47.Keats was born in the family of a ______________.landlord apothecary stable keeper doctor[我的答案] stable keeper48.In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compares the commonfolk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the .chance love money material sources[我的答案] chance49.In ________, Shakespeare h as not only made a profound analysis of the socialcrisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth[我的答案] King Lear50."Poetry is spontaneous"was put forward by _______.Robert Burns William Blake William Wordsworth Charles Lamb[我的答案] William Wordsworth51.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT .A.the using of everyday language spoken by the common people.B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.C.the humble and rustic life as subject matter.D.elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.[我的答案] elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.52.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's idealwomen-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency."The Merchant of Venice" "As You Like It""King Lear""Twelfth Night"[我的答案] "The Merchant of Venice"53.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.Surrey Wyatt Sidney Shakespeare[我的答案] Wyatt54.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .ballad sonnet heroic couplet Spenserian stanza[我的答案] ballad55.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is________.humanism realism naturalism skepticism[我的答案] humanism56.What flourished in Elizabenthan age more than any other form of literature?novel drama essay poetry[我的答案] drama57.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvationthrough constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.Gulliver's Travels The Rape of the LockRobinson Crusoe The pilgrim's Progress[我的答案] The pilgrim's Progress58.The________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europein the 18th century.Romanticism Humanism Enlightenment Sentimentalism[我的答案] Enlightenment59.“Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.？being proud being rebelliousbeing of humble origin being mysterious[我的答案] being of humble originProgress is often regarded as a typical example60.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’sof_________.allegory romance epic in prose fable[我的答案] allegory61.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only inappearance but also in some other ways.[我的答案] horses that are endowed with reason62._____ is the first important religious poet in English literature.Cynewulf Caedmon Shakepeare Adam Bede[我的答案] Caedmon63.Which of these is not a song written by Robert Burns?A Red, Red Rose Auld Lang Syne To a Mouse Spring and Fall[我的答案] Spring and Fall64.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, is often saidn to be concerned with thesearch for _______.self-fulfilment spiritual salvation material wealth universal truth[我的答案] spiritual salvation65.The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantialexistence on a lonely island reflects .A.man’s desire to return to natureB.the author’s criticism of the colonizationC.the ideal of the rising bourgeoisieD.the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality[我的答案] the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie66.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.Areopagitica Paradise Lost Lycidas Samson Agonistes[我的答案] Paradise Lost67.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented byJohn Donne’s works?Common speech. Conceit. Argument. Refined language.[我的答案] Common speech.68.Generally , the Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17thcenturies, its essence is .science philosophy arts humanism[我的答案] humanism69.“Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is…” (Ode to the West Wind )This showsShelly’s wish to be apropagator of revolutionary ideas singer enjoying great fameman who can wander freely heroic fighter in the forest[我的答案] propagator of revolutionary ideas70._______ is a typical feature of Swifts writings.Elegant style Bitter satire Casual narration Complicated sentence structure[参考答案] Bitter satire72.Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted ordilapidated Middle Age castles .love and marriage sea adventures mystery and horror saints and martyrs[参考答案] mystery and horror73.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the lattersees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC.the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse themiddle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personalcultivation.D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancientGreek and Roman writers for its models[参考答案] the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while thelatter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences 74.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is“___________________”．A Tale of a Tub The Battle of the BooksA Modest Proposal Gulliver’s Travels[参考答案] Gulliver’s Travels75._____was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .Thomas Wyatt William Shakespeare Henry Howard John Lyly[参考答案] Thomas Wyatt76.John Milton is a great poet in the _____________________ Period.Renaissance Neoclassical Romantic Realist[参考答案] Renaissance77.The sonnet“Death Be Not Proud”is written in the strict pattern. It reveals the poetbelief that .A.Shakespearean, death is only a sleep, after which we live eternallyB.Petrarchan, death is but momentary while happiness after death is eternal.C.Elizabethan, death is not as strong as people think he isD.Portuguese, death is like a long sleep that offers final peace for the soul[我的答案] Petrarchan, death is but momentary while happiness after death iseternal.78.“Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destinyobscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”The above lines are taken fromA.Alexander Pope’s Essay on CriticismB.Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” C.John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” D.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”[我的答案] Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 79.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from?form thoughts emotion artistic devices[我的答案] emotion80. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.heroic couplet quatrain Spenserian stanza terza rima[我的答案] quatrain81._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.the anapest the trochee the iambic the dactyal[我的答案] the iambic82.Among the representatives o f the Enlightenment, who was the first to introducerationalism to England ?John Bunyan Daniel Defoe Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift[我的答案] Alexander Pope83.By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of VanityFair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.persecution improvement prosperity disillusionment[我的答案] persecution84.Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, acharacter in Pride and Prejudice ？Beautiful Intelligent Snobbish Vulgar[我的答案] Intelligentthe quoted line comes from 85.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” ________.A.Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” B.Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of GrassC.John Milton’s Paradise LostD.John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”[我的答案] Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”86.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in formof _________.Elegy ode epic sonnet[我的答案] ode87.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __ J.Keats W.Blake W.Wordsworth P.B.Shelley[我的答案] P.B.Shelley88.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.self - esteem self - reliance self - restraint hard work[我的答案] self - esteem89.The_______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europein the 18th century.Romanticism Humanism Enlightenment Sentimentalism[我的答案] Enlightenmen。
英国文学史习题全集(含答案)
A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》
B.
C.Don Quixote
D.History of the World
13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
3.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.
A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay
4.The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1.In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.
C.Utopia
D.Discovery ofGuiana
E.Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries
F.Chronicles
The key:(1—C2—F3—E4—B5—A6—D)
简明英国文学史问题及答案
简明英国文学史问题及答案Quiz (1)1.The first settlers of the British Isles were Celt, and Britain got its name from a branch of thispeople called Briton. But later they were driven to live in Scotland, Wales and Ireland.不列颠群岛的第一批定居者是凯尔特人，Britain的叫法则就是来源于他们的一个叫做Briton（不列颠人）的分支。
但后来他们被驱赶到苏格兰，威尔士和爱尔兰居住。
2.The Angles, Saxons and Jutes were Germanic tribes originally living on the Continent. Theymoved to the British Isles and became the ancestors of the English people.盎格鲁人、撒克逊人和朱特人是最初居住在大陆的日耳曼部落。
他们搬到不列颠群岛，成为英国人的祖先。
3.The most important event of the Old English Period was Norman Conquest, which tookplace in the year 1066.古英语时期最重要的事件是1006年发生的诺尔曼征服。
4.The Roman Catholic Church sent St. Augustine to England in 597 to convert the Englishpeople to Catholicism.罗马天主教会于597年将圣奥古斯丁派遣到英格兰，使英国人皈依天主教。
/doc/f77344205.htmltwo poems of this period apart from Beowulf: Widsith, and The Seafarer.请列出这段时期的除了《贝奥武夫》两首诗：Widsith(威德西斯)和The Seafarer(水手) 6.Beowulf is an epic of Alliterative lines, andit tells the events that took place on theContinent before they moved to the British Isles.贝奥武甫（Beowulf）是一首头韵体裁的史诗，它讲述了在大陆迁移到不列颠群岛之前发生的事件。
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 defeating England.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. essay4. 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 of theBible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. 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 greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in Londonin 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 in France 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’s poem“Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. 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 the interests 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. Classicalplays9._____ 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” andall 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) with the_______.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 enabled herin 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 Morethe writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection 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) andThomas Norton（托马斯·）.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 one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny,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 great work,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 creation ofthe 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 the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his playsin 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 hero todegenerate 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 a religiousguise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T 11.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 rhyme 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 into twocategories: the youthful love lyricsand the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way ofdescribing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraftby a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, BeNot Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is awell-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His CoyMistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather YeRose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure ofMetaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. GeorgeHerbertC. Andre MarvellD. HenryVaughan7. Which of the following is not aMetaphysical poet?A. 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 and kindpeople.A. The Compleat AnglerB. HolyLivingC. To His Coy MistressD. ToDaffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of theCavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. RichardLovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of theEnglish classical school of literaturein the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. AlexanderPopeKey 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 of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonisticcamps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced todeath and Cromwell became the leader 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 in English literature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also calledAge of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature ofRevolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during theRevolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age asByron towers over the ElizabethanAge, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrotehis only love poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton,Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was“to justify the ways of God to man”,i.e. to advocate submission to theAlmighty.15.It has been noticed by many criticsthat the picture of Satan surrounded by his angelswho never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Walton’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 less connected 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 EnglishCentury 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 his moralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. TheLying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. TheTender 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 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. dramatic 9. ____ 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 inEngland 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 the writersdescribed in their works were mainlysocial realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism13.The 18th century was the golden ageof the English ___. The novel of thisperiod spoke the truth about life withan uncompromising (unbending)courage.A. dramaB. poetryC. essayD. novel14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift publishedtwo works together, ____ and ___,which made him well-known as asatirist.A. A Tale of TubB.BickerstaffAlmanacC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books15.In a series of pamphlets JonathanSwift denounced the cruel and unjusttreatment of Ireland by the Englishgovernment. One of the mostfamous is ____.A. Essays on CriticismB. A ModestProposalC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books16.“Proper words in proper places,makes the true definition of a style.”This sentence is said by ____, one ofthe greatest masters of Englishprose.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 tyranny ofthe church.A. Alexander PopeB. HenryFieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. DanielDefoe18.Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ waswritten in connection with Pamela ofSamuel Richardson. But after thefirst 10 chapters, Henry Fieldingbecame so interested and absorbedin his own hovel as to forget hisoriginal plan of ridiculing Pamela.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, isderived the term “malapropism”which means a ridiculous misusageof big words.A. The RivalsB. The School forScandalC. The Beggar’s OperaD. TheLondon Merchant21.Which of the following periodicalsisedited by Samuel Johnson? _____.A. The ReviewB. The TatlerC.The Rambler D. The Bee22.Which of the following works are notwritten 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 Roman Empire24.The sentence of “The plowmanhomeward plods his weary way,/And leaves the world to darknessand to me” is written by ____.A. William CowperB. GeorgeCrabbeC. Thomas GrayD. WilliamBlake25.______ is not written by WilliamBlake.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 iscited from William Blake’s _____.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. The Marriage of Heaven and HellD. Poetical Sketches27.The 18th century witnessed that inEngland there appeared two politicalparties, ______, which were satirizedby Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’sTravels.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 representativewritersin the field of poetry, such as EdwardYoung and Thomas Gray, but itmanifested itself chiefly in the novelsof Lawrence Sterne and OliverGoldsmith.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)novels?A. Clarissa HarloweB.PamelaC. Sir Charles GrandisonD.Tomes Jones31.Which play is regarded as the bestEnglish 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 21-25CDDCC 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 Tatler andThe 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 on avariety 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 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. imagination。
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Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading anddefeating England.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. essay4. 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’Arthur1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at thattime. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the firsttranslator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the authordreamed, 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 inromances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about alegendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatpoets of England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. JohnDryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. WestminsterAbbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of theFrench Roman 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 in France 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 hadimpact on the 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 onBoccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB自考真题2002-4.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive（B）Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales（D）The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s T he A．William Langland’ s Piers PlowmanCanterbury TalesC．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight（B）Ⅱ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The CanterburyTales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter RaleighA.Apology for PoetryB.M iscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, Voyages andDiscoveriesF.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 totallynew 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 _______, “themorning star of the Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansionabroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests 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 Englishcolonies.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 andpoverty to understand 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. Everymans NeedleC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’plays written between _____ are sometimes called 16.Shakespeare’s“romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 1612ACBADDBMiranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.17.Tale D. TheA. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’sTempest，Never before Imprinted（《莎18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet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 (goodat) with the _______.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 ACBADDBtin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William TyndalⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the strugglebetween ____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morningstar of the _____”．5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament,which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.__, which was made in 1611 6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ____under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modernEnglish has been _____ and _____.9.A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speechas household words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored thestyle of the English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fondof ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English fromFrench which was the ___ book printed in English.《特洛14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida.埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devotedhimself to the career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which weretranslated by himself.17.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised theyouthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder andcontributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.publications is also great in fixing a ____ 18.The influence of Caxton’slanguage in England.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the professionof ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulateseries of historical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get ridof those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized thecapacities of ____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, inwhich the rhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ andthe House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and theKing of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed p easants, beingcompelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) broughtclassical works within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____ofrelations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a timewhen, according to Thomas More, “___”．31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeysin the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships andformation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first Everse.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ 34.Richard Tottel’spoems by ______ and _____ by _____.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of SurreypoetryUtopia, Book One; povertyprivate ownershipItalian/Petrarchan ; ShakespeareanDramaBiblereal35._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure ofthe ___ among the laboring classes.36.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of socialwealth.37.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.38.The highest glory of the English Renaissance w as unquestionably its____.39.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.40.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled TheShepherds.41.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with_____personages.42.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.Conflict; evil; allegoricalClownGreek; LatinStructure; style; comedy; tragedy16thGammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc 《高波特克》43.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights cameinto contact with ______ and ______drama.44.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrightslearned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.45.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared i n themiddle of the ____ century.46.The first English comedy is ______.47.The first English tragedy is _____.Mi racle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____. DramaLondon1567Elizabethan theatresactress; boyscountryside48.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.49.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.50.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.51.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s partswere always taken by ____.52.Shakespeare’snarrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.53.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.54.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.55.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.56.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.57.Shakespeare’s_____ people represent all the complexities and implications of real life.masteradaptation (revision)Renaissancemaster-hand (能手)full-bloodKey to the blanks:Latin BibleProtestantism; Catholicism ProtestantsJohn Wycliffe; Reformation William TyndalAuthorized Version, James I; King James Bible. Language; literature6.fixed; confirmed7.Bible coinages8.simple; dignified9.William Caxton10.Reading; literature11.First12.Shakespeare13.Printer; publisher14.100; 2415.15th ; prose16.National17.Publisher; culture18.14th; 17th 19.Religious reformation20.feudalist ideas; interests; purity21.Humanism; human mind; humanculture22.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; TheFaerie Queene; ababbcbccncaster; York24.The Reformation25.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians26.printing27.feudal; capitalism28.sheep devours men29.William VIII30.RenaissanceHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of SurreypoetryUtopia, Book One; povertyprivate ownershipItalian/Petrarchan ; ShakespeareanDramaBiblerealConflict; evil; allegoricalClownGreek; LatinStructure; style; comedy; tragedy16thGammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc 《高波特克》DramaLondon1567Elizabethan theatres actress; boys countrysidemasteradaptation (revision) Renaissancemaster-hand (能手)full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in thecourse of the 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 ofQueen Elizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state andenabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in apolitical guise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by theCatholic churches.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 collection oflove sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after theactors introduced 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 117,Numbers 18—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 truthfulreproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.(contains more than one 18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme.theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majesticwith the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean viv活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, w ritten in the form of letters betweenMore and Hythloday, a voyage.21. F (a conversation)22. F (poet and critic of poetry)23. F24. F(darma)25. T26. T27. T28. T29. T30. T22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it inhis great work, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance w as unquestionably itspoetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such asthe creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc thefirst English tragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. Butthe upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.death, Herminge and Condell collected and 28.After Shake speare’spublished his plays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespearea great interest in the political questions of his time.historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly 30.In Shakespeare’sregarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier andnational hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summitof Shakespeare’s art.29. 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. T33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama wasundergoing a process of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and wasan age of prose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando andRosalind.37.Ben Johnson’ｓc omedies are “comedies of humors” a nd everycharacter in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in a religious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T6.T7.T8. F ( Book Two)9.T10.T 11.T12.T13. F14.T15.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.TⅤ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.social significance and literary achievement.ment on Marlowe’ｓment on The Faerie Queene.未复习Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of peopl e’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.B. ComusA. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud-known shaped poem.5. George Herbert’s ______ is a wellA. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.ith4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faare represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.ciation of Shakespeare.8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appre9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with the same story as ShakespeareCleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, andin the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.f _____.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers o17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land ownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook,quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the country.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.ove poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only l13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to the Alm15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think of expressing anyopinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Bro wne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or less connected 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.T。
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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. essay4. 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. Chaucer8. 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 greatest 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 in France 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. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. 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, V oyages 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 the interests 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 thedeclining 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” andall 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 collection of l ove 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·）.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, “R ealism 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 one 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 the upperclass 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 into twocategories: the youthful love lyricsand the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. JohnBunyan C. John Donne D.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 poet?A. Richard CrashawB. HenryVaughanC. Andrew MarvellD.Robert Burton8. ____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.Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. ToDaffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of theCavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB.Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD.John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of theEnglish classical school ofliterature in 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 of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced todeath and Cromwell became the leader 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”,i.e. 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 isa collection of opinions on a vastnumber 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 a pamphlet,_____, in which he first displayedhis moralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. TheLying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. TheTender 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 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 the writersdescribed in their works weremainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism13.The 18th century was the golden ageof the English ___. The novel of thisperiod spoke the truth about lifewith 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. Gullive r’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books15.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 a style.”This sentence is said by ____, oneof the greatest masters of Englishprose.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 tyranny ofthe church.A. Alexander PopeB. HenryFieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. DanielDefoe18.Henry Fie lding’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.The London Merchant21.Which of the following periodicalsis edited 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 Roman Empire24.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 teach,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 representative writersin the field of poetry, such asEdward 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)novels?A. Clarissa HarloweB.PamelaC. Sir Charles GrandisonD.Tomes Jones31.Which play is regarded as the bestEnglish 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 CDDCC26-31 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: 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 tw o 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 di scrimination 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.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English RomanticAge from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimism。
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英国文学史试题Ⅰ. Identification. (15%)1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. (10%)(1) John Lyly a. pre-romanticism(2) William Blake b. impressionism(3) Laurence Sterne c. Angry Young Man(4) Kingsley Amis d. comic epic in prose(5) Joseph Conrad e. historical novel(6) Walter Scott f. University Wit(7) Pamela g. sentimentalism(8) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man h. Oedipus Complex(9) Sons and Lovers i. Künstlerroman(10) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling j. epistolary novel2. Identify the author with his or her work. (5%)(1) Charles Dickens a. Don Juan(2) E. M. Foster b. Hard Times(3) John Milton c. Mrs. Warren’s Profession(4) Henry Fielding d. The Faerie Queene(5) George Bernard Shaw e. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”(6) Oscar Wilde f. The Pilgrim’s Progress(7) John Bunyan g. A Passage to India(8) Edmund Spencer h. Paradise Regained(9) Thomas Gray i. Jonathan Wild the Great(10) George Gordon Byron j. The Importance of Being EarnestⅡ. Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1. The hero in the romance is usually a .A. kingB. knightC. ChristD. churchman2. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class.A. workingB. aristocraticC. bourgeoisD. capitalist3. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is written in the form of a novel.A. epistolaryB. picaresqueC. GothicD. psychological4. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George Bernard ShawD. James Joyce5. is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Canterbury TalesC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Song of Beowulf6. by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. DunciadD. An Essay on Man7. “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is taken from ’s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John BunyanD. Matthew Arnold8. Literature of Neo-classicism is different from that of Romanticism in that .A. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for politicalrights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as anexpression on an individual’s feelings and experiencesD. the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Romanwriters for its models9. Which of the following places does Gulliver visit last in Gulliver’s Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms10. defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. T. S. Eliot11. could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer.A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Thomas HardyD. Emily Brontë12. are Nobel Prize winners.A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. LawrenceB. Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, John GalsworthyC. W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Thomas HardyD. Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce13. Christopher Marlowe first made the principal instrument of English drama.A. blank verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. monologue14. William Langland’s is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. The Faerie Queene15. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Pilgrim’s ProgressC. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. The Canterbury Tales16. In the chaos of the contemporary world and the despair and despondency among the westerners after the First World War are expressed.A. Ode to the West WindB. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudC. The Waste LandD. Tess of the D’Urbervilles17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?A. It is written in the form of a dream.B. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.C. It is written for the greater part in heroic couplet.D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.18. Robert Louis Stevenson is the representative of the literary school .A. aestheticismB. neo-romanticismC. euphuismD. sentimentalism19. Which of the following is a Gothic novel?A. Northanger AbbeyB. The Mysteries of UdolphoC. Tristram ShandyD. Robinson Crusoe20. Which is correct according to the time when they appeared?A. romanticism, neo-classicism, humanism, critical realismB. humanism, neo-classicism, romanticism, critical realismC. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalismD. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanismⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk traditions and old Scottish poetry.2. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .3. The Romantic Age is said to have begun in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .4. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .5. A play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.6. The narrator in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a(n) one.7. is the oldest poem in the English language and also the national epic.8. The dominant influence over modernist poetry came from two traditions: and .9. The three unities followed by neo-classical dramatists are the unity of , the unity of time and the unity of place.10. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of , a legendary outlaw.11. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.12. is usually taken as the Father of English Prose.13. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological time.14. written by Charles Dickens is generally taken as a semi-autobiographical novel.Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (16%)1. Omniscient narrator2. Heroic couplet3. Allegory4. Metaphysical poetry5. Naturalism6. Sonnet7. Comedy of manners8. Byronic heroⅤ. Short-answer questions. (24%)1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?2. Analyse the character of Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.3. What are the essential features of Medieval Romance?4. Name three Romantic poets and state their chief characteristics.5. Make a comparison between the two volumes of William Blake: The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.6. How many groups does Old English poetry fall into? Briefly explain.7. What are the general features of English Romanticism?8. Make a comparison between James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)Write an essay on the following poem so as to demonstrate your understanding as well as your Englishproficiency. You’re expected to write a well-organized essay in about 150 words, with your thesis clearly stated, effectively developed and properly concluded.The Garden of LoveI went to the Garden of Love,And saw what I never had seen:A Chapel was built in the midst,Where I used to play on the green.And the gates of this Chapel were shut,And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door;So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,That so many sweet flowers bore.And I saw it was filled with graves,And tomb-stones where flowers should be:And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,And binding with briars my joys and desires.Notes: 1. shalt: shall2. writ: written3. Chapel: 小教堂4. bind: 束缚Part IV. Short questions (20 points).1.What does the story “The Garden Party” tell you about the class system?2.How might the plot structure of “The Dead” best be described?3.The sub-title of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is “A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”. What is youropinion about the heroine?4.Mention one example of symbolism in Tess, and explain.5.What is the symbolic significance of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange in the novel?6.What is the main idea of the poem “The Second Coming”? How does it reflect Yeats’view of thecivilization of his time?7.In what way is the west wind in The West Wind by Shelley both a destroyer and a preserver?8.What are the major themes of Pride and Prejudice? List at least two and elaborate them in a fewsentences.9.What significances have Clarissa attached to her parties?10.What purpose does the rain shower serve in the first act of Pygmalion?Final Examination Paper for Grade 2002History of English LiteratureDate: January 10, 2005Ⅰ. Identification (10%)1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column.1) Jonathan Swift A. Neo-romanticism2) John Donne B. Euphuism3) Alexander Pope C. Historical novel4) Anne Radcliff D. Lake poet5) John Lyly E. English satire6) R. L. Stevenson F. Gothic novel7) Walter Scott G. Neoclassicism8) Thomas Gray H. Metaphysical poetry9) Southey I. Epistolary novel10) Pamela J. Sentimentalism2. Identify the author with his or her work.1) William Langland A. Utopia2) Thomas More B. Paradise Lost3) Daniel Defoe C. “Of Studies”4) Francis Bacon D. Piers, the Plowman5) John Milton E. The Faerie Queen6) Byron F. Sentimental Journey7) Laurence Sterne G. Don Juan8) Edmund Spencer H. Mary Barton9) D. H. Lawrence I. Sons and Lovers10) Elizabeth Gaskell J. Robinson CrusoeⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. The Canterbury Tales2. The story of is the highest point of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Song of BeowulfC. Piers, the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales3. is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.A. The Importance of Being EarnestB. The Picture of Dorian GrayC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. The Picture of a Lady4. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Henry HowardD. John Lyly5. eulogized imperialism in his works, esp. in his poems.A. John GalsworthyB. Joseph ConradC. Rudyard KiplingD.E.M. Foster6. English Renaissance Period was an age of .A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. romance and balladD. essay and drama7. The major form of Chcrtist literature is in .A. proseB. dramaC. verseD. novel8. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s eay”`is the opening line of one of Shakespeare’s .A. songsB. plays K. sonnets D. tragedies9. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living on .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms10. List the following terms according to the time when they appeareD.A. romanticism , neoclassicism , humanism , critical realismB.humanism , neoclassicism , romanticism , critical realismC.romanticism , humanism , realism , naturalismD.r ealism , critical realism , romanticism , humanism11. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Robert BurnsC. William BlakeD. Geoffrey Chaucer12. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance perioD.A. William ShakespeareB. Thomas WyattC. Christopher MarlowD. Henry Howard13. The greatest English critical realist novelist was , who criticized thebourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .A. Emily BronteB. Charles DickensC. W.M. ThackerayD. Charlotte Bronte14. were made poets Laureates in the 18th and 19th century .A. Wordsworth and BrowningB.Byron and ShelleyC.Keats and BrowningD.W ordsworth and Tennyson15. The principal elements of novel are mystery, horror and suspense.A. GothicB. RomanticC. SentimentalD. Realistic16. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in .A. essayB. dramaC. poetryD. novel17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?A. It is written for the great part in heroic couplets.B. It is written in the form of a dream vision.C. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.18. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) .A. allegoryB. romanceC. comedy of mannersD. realistic novel19. Friday is a character in the novel .A. Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. Robinson CrusoeC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. Rob Roy20. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature, the struggle of the for itsrights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariatⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)1. Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: poetry andpoetry.2. and are the two factors that had large influence on contemporary English literature.3. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .4. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance of the English class.5. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .6. “And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a’ the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem .7. The central character in a romance is usually a .8. A play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.9. is called the father of English poetry.10. It is in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling that Henry Fielding succeeds best in creating a in prose.11. Dickens takes the French revolution as the background of the novel .11. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .12. Bacon’s Essays has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English (genre).13. The most important poet in the Victorian age is . Next to him was Robert Browning.14. Three kinds of irony are verbal irony, and .15. Popular ballad is an important stream of English medieval literature. Of all the ballads, those of are of paramount importance.16. The Pickwick Papers takes the form of a novel.Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (12%)1. Epic2. Iambic pentameter3. Intrusive narrator4. Bildungsroman5. Naturalism6. Conceit答案及评分标准Final Examination Paper for Grade 2003History of English LiteratureⅠ. Identification. (15%)1. (10%) f a g c b e j i h d2. (5%) b g h I c j g d e aⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1-5: B C B B A 6-10: A B C D A11-15: C B A B B 16-20: C A B B BⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)1. Robert Burns2. art for art’s sake3. Lyrical Ballads4. compasses5. morality6. intrusive7. Beowulf8. Metaphysical poetry; French symbolism9. action 10. Robin Hood 11. mock epic12. John Dryden 13. psychic 14. David CopperfieldⅣ. Define the following terms. (16%)1.Omniscient narrator is a third-person narrator, who is not a character in the story. The narrator is “all-knowing”, who can describe and comment on all the characters and actions in the story.2. Heroic couplet is the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter.3. Allegory is a tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Thus, an allegory is a story with two meaning, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.4. Metaphysical poetry: the poetry of John Donne and other 17th-century poets who wrote ina similar style. It is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas .5. Naturalism is a post—Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence onthe objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.6. Sonnet is a verse form of fourteen lines, in English characteristically in iambic pentameter and most often in one of the two rhyme schemes: the Italian(or Petrarchan) or Shakespearean ( or English ).7. Comedy of manners is a kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its humor relies chiefly on elegant verbal wit and repartee. In England, the comedy of manners flourished as the dominant form of Restoration comedy in the works of Etheredge, Wycherley and Congreve. It was revived in a more subdued form in the 1770s by Goldsmith and Sheridan, and later by Oscar Wilde.8. Byronic hero is a character-type found in Byron’s narrative Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is a later example.Ⅴ. Short-answer questions. (24%)1. The distorted, alienated and ill relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.2. Tom Jones is the pattern of the good-natured unheroic hero of the age. He is a very handsome young man of manly virtues: kind, frank, generous, high-spirited, loyal and courageous, but impulsive, wanting prudence and full of animal spirits and sensuality. He represents everyman. (He is of manly virtues and yet not without fault.)3. 1) The hero is usually a knight using sword, who sets out on a journey to seek adventures and accomplish some goal. He is devoted to the church and the king.2) It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality. (liberal use of the improbable or even the supernatural things)3) It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues. (standardizedcharacterization)4) It lays emphasis on the supreme devotion to a fair lady. (Romantic love is an important part of the plot.)4. Wordsworth:the great theme remains the world of simple, natural things, in the countryside or among people.Coleridge: his interest is towards the strange, the exotic, and the mysterious things. Shelley: expresses two main ideas --- the external tyranny is the main enemy; the inherent human goodness will eliminate evil form the world.Byron: example of a personality in tragic revolt against society; prototype of romantic hero. Keats: his poetry is a response to sensuous impressions; cares about beauty.5. The two books hold the similar subject matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.1) Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings.2) Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.6. Religious (Christian) poetry and secular (pagan) poetry.1) Religious poetry is mainly on biblical themes and saints’ lives, represented by Caedmon and Cynewulf.2) Secular poetry emphasizes the harshness of the circumstance and the helplessness of humans before the power of fate, represented by Beowulf.7. 1) the emphasis on imagination2) the idealization of nature3) the praise of individualism4) the glorification of the commonplace5) the lure of the exotic8. Both are modernist novelists. James Joyce is interested in technical innovation. He introduced three new techniques into English literature: the use of myth, stream-ofconsciousness and epiphany. Lawrence is interested in the tracing of the psychological development of his major characters and the criticism of the dehumanizing effect of industrialization on human nature.Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)Part IV. Short questions. (20 points)1.The story shows strict class system, the differences and lack of communication between the rich and thepoor.2.The story is comprised of four episode, which are quite unified with Gabriel’s frustration, and eachepisode witnesses more serious conflict than the previous, thus, it is a climaxing order in terms of structure.3.Tess is a pure woman, although society and other people believed otherwise. She has done nothingwrong. She is seduced, but does not have sex of her own accord with Alec. She is sacrificed to society, yet she has no evil intensions when she go across the threshold of her parents’ and enters the world. She is a victim.4.An example of symbolism would be the ribbon Tess wears at the may day dance, the read spot of bloodon the ceiling at the Herons, Sandbourne, that the landlady sees, the Stonehenge, the black flag at Tess’s hanging, the spoiled milk by garlic, or the dying pheasants Tess sees in the woods.5.a). The two houses embody the two major principles of life in the book: storm and calm. WutheringHeights is located on a hill and is constantly attacked by wild winds. The inhabitants are constantly being torn by strong passions and violence is their natural language. Thrushcross Grange is comparatively sheltered from the wild elements. It is delicate and refined. The people of the Grange are gentle and seek not so much wild sparkle and dance of life. b). They also represent nature and culture.6.The poem expresses Yeats’ thought that modern civilization is in a state of decay, and that a long cycleof history is ending while another is approaching. But the new historical age might be led by a monster.It expresses his disillusionment of the civilization of his time.7.The west wind is both a destroyer and a preserver because it destroys in autumn (blowing the leaves offthe trees and bury them beneath the earth) in order to revive in the spring (the seeds grow and bring new life to the Earth). It marks the cycle of the seasons. It is around this image the poem weaves various cycles of death and regeneration—vegetational, human, and divine.8.marriage and women’s fate, self-acknowledge, manners, virtue and sense of responsibility9.Richard thinks the party childish and he thinks that it is foolish of Clarissa to like excitement in spite ofher heart; Peter thinks her snobbish, liking to have famous people around her. But to Clarissa, the party is an offering, to combine and to create. The parties are her effort to create some human connection and dialogue. She hopes to be remembered even after her death.10.It helps to create a chaotic world of confusion. The crowd gather under the portico to seek shelter; theyrepresent slice of society of people from different social strata. It also provides a opportunity for themain characters to meet in an unlikely circumstance.KeysFinal Examination for Grade 2002History of English LiteratureⅠ. Identification (10%)1. 1) e2) h3) g4) f5) b6) a7) c8) j9) d10) c2. 1) d2) a3) j4) c5) b6) g7) f8) e9) i10) hⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1—5 : a a b a c 6—10 : b c c d b11—15 : b c b d a 16—20 : d b a b dⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)1. pagan, Christian2. Imperialism, demand for social reform3. art for art’s sake4. (bourgeois) middle5. The Lyrical Ballads6. “A Red Red Rose”7. knight 8. miracle9. Geoffrey Chaucer 10. comic epic11. A Tale of Two Cities12. a pair of compasses13. essay 14. Alfrd Tennyson15. situational, dramatic 16. Robin Hood17. picaresqueⅣ. Define the following terms. (12%)1.Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the society from which it originated. The two most famous English epics are Beowulf and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.2.Iambic pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in English poetry.3.Intrusive narrator: an omniscient narrator who, in addition to reporting the events of a novel’s story, offers further comments on characters and events, and who sometimes reflects more generally upon the significance of the story.4.Bildungsroman: a novel that traces the initiation, development, and education of a young person. Examples are Dickens’s David Copperfield and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.5.Naturalism: a post--Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence on the objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.6. Conceit: a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things. A conceit usually provides the framework for an entire poem. An especially unusual and intellectual kind of conceit is the metaphysical conceit, used by certain 17th-century poets, such as John Donne.。
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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. essay4. 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. Chaucer8. 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 greatest 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 in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess314. 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. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. 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, V oyages 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 the interests 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 the4declining 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” andall 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 ____.5A. 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 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the_____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which isknown as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 underthe auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern Englishhas been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech ashousehold words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style ofthe English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , andhis interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself tothe career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated byhimself.617.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthfullanguage in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language inEngland.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____,which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ asa whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series ofhistorical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which therhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King ofEngland, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled towork at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classicalworks within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations andthe establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when,according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in thecountry, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.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 ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel’s Mi scellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___7among the laboring classes.37.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contactwith ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all theimportant rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for theflourishing of ____.50.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.51.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）ofgalleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater, t here were no ____ and women’s parts were alwaystaken by ____.54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare’s drama tic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications ofreal life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version, James I;King James Bible.nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages 10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture820.14th; 17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas; interests;purity23.Humanism; human mind;human culture24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Queene;ababbcbccncaster; York26.The Reformation27.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.printing29.feudal; capitalism30.sheep devours men31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40,Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty 37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict; evil; allegorical43.Clown44.Greek; Latin45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress; boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation (revision)57.Renaissance58.master-hand (能手)59.full-bloodⅣ. 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 collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.911.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, t he 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 one 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 the upperclass 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 his 10comedies 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.T11Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysid e and thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the mostimportant place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgeneral concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation ofShakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing withthe same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of JohnMilton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18thcentury.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the privatecitizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over landownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers brokeout. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became theProtector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of thecountry.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a greatpoet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and asChaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife’s de ath, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on HisDeceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. toadvocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by hisangels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected 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.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.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.。
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1.how much have you known about Beowulf?（你对贝奥武甫了解多少？）1.Beowulf is an epic poem. In it, the author tell us a story about Beowulf who was a brave warriorBeowulf is an Old English heroic epic poem of unknown authorship, dating as recorded in the Nowell Codex manuscript from between the 8th and the early 11th century,set in Denmark and Sweden. Commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature, Beowulf has been the subject of much scholarly study, theory, speculation, discourse, and, at 3182 lines. Beowulf is considered an epic poem in that the main character is a hero who travels great distances to prove his strength at impossible odds against supernatural demons and beasts. The poet who composed Beowulf, while objective in telling the tale, nonetheless utilizes a certain style to maintain excitement and adventure within the story.In the poem, Beowulf, a hero of the Geats, battles three antagonists: Grendel, who has been attacking the resident warriors of a mead hall called Heorot in Denmark; Grendel's mother; and an unnamed dragon. The last battle takes place later in life, after returning to Geatland (modern southern Sweden), where Beowulf has become king. In the final battle, Beowulf is fatally wounded. After his death his retainers bury him in a tumulus in Geatland.（贝奥武甫是一本史诗。
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2英国文学史习题全集（含答案）2英国文学史习题全集（含答案）Part One Early and Medieval English Literature 1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England. A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____. A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay 4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales 5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dreamvision. A. Kubla Khan B. Piers the Plowman C. The Dream of John Bull D. Morte d’Arthur 6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____. 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. Gower C. Wycliffe D. 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. primitive B. feudal C. bourgeois D. modern 9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery 10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about alegendary outlaw called _____. A. Morte d’Arthur B. 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 London in about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____. A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman 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 in France 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 on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____. word文档可自复制编辑A. engineer B. courtier C. office holder D. soldier E. ambassador F. legislator (议员) 15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”. A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB Part Two The English Renaissance Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works. 1. Thomas More A. Apology for Poetry 2. Holinshed B. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets 3. Hakluyt C. Utopia 4. Richard Tottel D. Discovery of Guiana 5. Philip SidneyE. Principal Navigations, V oyages and Discoveries 6. WalterRaleighF. Chronicles The key: (1—C 2—F3—E4—B5—A 6—D) 1. _____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie. A. Henry V B. Henry VII C. Henry VIII D. James I 2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers. A. William Tyndal B. James I C. John Wycliffe D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews 3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants. A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID.Queen Elizabeth 4. 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. Norway 5. Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal 6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature. A. Ben Johnson B. William Shakespeare C. Thomas More D. Christopher Marlowe 7. The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe word文档可自复制编辑8. Morality plays appearedafter_____. A. miracle plays B. mystery plays C. interlude D.Classical plays 9. _____ is used to say and do good things. A. Mercy B. Folly C. Vice D. Peace 10. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought. A. Phillip Sidney B. Edmund Spenser C. Thomas More D. Walter Raleigh 11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance. A. Thomas North B. Thomas Wyatt C. George Chapman D. John Florio 12. ____ 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 Sonnets C. Don Quixote D. History of the World 13. ____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor. A. John Wycliffe B. William Caxton C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Thomas More14. Utopia was written in the form of _____. A. prose B. dramaC. essayD. dialogue 15. One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 16. Shakespeare’s plays w ritten between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion. A. 1590 and 1594 B. 1595 and 1600 C. 1601 and 1607 D. 1608 and 1612 17. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______. A. Pericles B. Cymbeline C. The Winter’s T ale D. The Tempest 18. In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprintedwhich contains 154 sonnets. A. 1606 B. 1607 C. 1608 1609 19. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____. A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D.classicism 20. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare wasespecially at home (good at) with the _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet 21. In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 18000 22. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben Johnson 1-5 BCDAA6-10 DDCBA11-15 BDADA16-22 ACBADDB word文档可自复制编辑 1. The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches. 2. The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between ____ and ___. 3. The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____. 4. The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star ofthe _____”. 5. _____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible. 6. After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____. 7. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English ___ and ____. 8. With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been _____ and _____. 9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speechas household words.10. The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years. 11. ____ was the first English printer. 12. William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he wasfond of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____. 13. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the ___ book printed in English. 14. The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15. After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____. 16. William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated by himself.17. By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____. 18. The infl uence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language in England.19. As the first English printer, Caxtoninvented in England the profession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole. 20. The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century. 21. The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________. 22. In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church. word文档可自复制编辑23. ____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, whichemphasized the capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.24. ____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which therhyme scheme is ____. 25. The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years. 26. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII. 27. After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___. 28. The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classical works within reach of the common multitude. 29. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____. 30. Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when, according to Thomas More, “___”.31. ____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England. 32. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____. 33. ____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse. 34. Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of So ngs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by ______ and _____ by _____. 35. Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history. 36. _____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___ among the laboring classes. 37. More pointsout that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38. Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40. The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41. There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds. 42. A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages. 43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44. Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama. 45. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____. 46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the ____ century. 47. The first English comedy is ______. word文档可自复制编辑48. The first English tragedy is _____. 49. Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____. 50. In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama. 51. By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52. ____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers of galleries surrounding a roofless pit.53. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were always taken by ____. 54. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life. 55. Shakespeare was a great ____ of theEnglish language. 56. Shakespeare’s dramatic creationoften used the method of _____. 57. Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______. 58. Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing. 59. Shakespeare’s _____ peopl e represent all the complexities and implications of real life. Key to the blanks: 1. Latin Bible 2. Protestantism; Catholicism 3. Protestants 4. John Wycliffe; Reformation 5. William Tyndal 6. Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible. 7. Language; literature 8. fixed; confirmed 9. Bible coinages 10. simple; dignified 11. William Caxton 12. Reading; literature 13. First 14. Shakespeare 15. Printer; publisher 16. 100;24 17. 15th ; prose 18. National 19. Publisher; culture 20. 14th; 17th 21. Religious reformation 22. feudalist ideas; interests; purity 23.Humanism; human mind; word文档可自复制编辑human culture 24. Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc 25. Lancaster; York 26. The Reformation 27. the Enclosure Movement; proletarians 28. printing 29. feudal; capitalism 30. sheep devours men 31. William VIII 32. Renaissance 33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 34. 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey 35. poetry 36. Utopia, Book One; poverty 37. private ownership 38. Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean 39. Drama 40. Bible 41. real 42. Conflict; evil; allegorical 43. Clown 44. Greek; Latin 45. Structure; style; comedy; tragedy 46. 16th 47. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48. Gorboduc 《高波特克》49. Drama 50. London 51. 1567 52. Elizabethan theatres 53. actress; boys 54.countryside 55. master 56. adaptation (revision) 57. Renaissance 58. master-hand (能手) 59. full-b word 文档可自复制编辑Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution 1. The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____. A. aabbccbbc B. abbacdccd C. abacdeec D. ababcdcdd 2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica 3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses. A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John Dryden 4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing。
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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.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English RomanticAge from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimismC. love of old writersD. hatred for the imperialism25.One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.A. Kubla KhanB.Frost at NightC. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria27.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.A. ZastrozziB. The Necessity of AtheismC. Queen MabD. Prometheus Unbound28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.A. John WoodvilB.Essays of EliaC. Mr HD. Tales from Shakespeare29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.A. The Masque of AnarchyB. A Defence of PoetryC. The Necessity of AtheismD. The Triumph of Life30.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.A. Zastrozzi; EtonB. The Necessity of Atheism; ItalyC. Queen Mab; GreeceD. Prometheus Unbound; Italy31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)32.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.A. the firstB. the secondC. the thirdD. the forth33.The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.A. novelB. poemC. periodicalD. newspaperKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA31-33 CBCⅡ. Fill in the blanks.1.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.2.William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.3.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.4.Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.5.Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.6.Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.7.Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____.8.The theme of Keats’Hyperion is the ____ between the old and the new.9.Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.10.______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.11.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ inEngland.12.The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____with the poor, simplepeasants, a passionate love of nature and the _____and ____of the language.13.The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey home.14._____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the causeof the French Revolution.15.All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____ and ______.16.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century.17.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______.18.The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.19.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel TaylorColeridge published their joint work _______.20.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer_______ died.21.Women as ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period thatwomen took, for the first time, an important place in English literature.22.The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age.23.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _____.24.____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.25.Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is _______.26.______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism whichfollowed it.27.In 1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria.28.At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trendin literature.29.In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century,the _____ paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.30.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.31.Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written in the form of a_____.32._____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. His politicallyrics are among the best of their kind in the whole sphere of European romantic poetry.33.After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave up medicine forpoetry.34.____’s grave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.”35.The Eve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in ______.36.The theme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and the story isderived from Greek mythology. In this work, the poet expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of things and the coming of a new.37.Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s _____, which were translated intoEnglish by Florio and had an extensive influence upon English literature.38.The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’s masterpiece. TheRime of the Ancient Mariner.39.On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, ____ was made poet laureate.40.In 1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14 books.41.In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume calledHours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with his first important poem, a biting satire called____.42.In 1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to help thatcountry in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long, he died of fever there.43.George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is ChildeHarold’s Pilgrimage, the other is ____.44.The poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos. It is written inSpenserian stanza.45.George Gordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy. It contains sixteen cantos.46.George Gordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.47.____ is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poetic drama.48.____ is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblical story.49.George Gordon Byron’s first volume of poems is _____.50.____ was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he had written thepamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.51.After the death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife, he was compelled to leaveEngland in 1818, and spent all the rest of his life in _____.52.____ is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It was written inthe form of a fairy tale dream.53._____ , a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The story wastaken from Greek mythology.54.The Masque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics. It deals with theinfamous ____ which happened on August 16, 1819.55.Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of his fellow-poet_____.56.Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.57.Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.58.The prose-writers in the 19th century made the informal essay a pliable (flexible)vehicle for expressing the writer’s own personality, thus ringing into English literature _____.59.____ had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wastedtwo-thirds of his lifetime.60.To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little timefor his literary work.61.Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare waswritten by ____.62.William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism, in which individualtaste took the place of universal reason as the foundation of literary criticism. 63.After the defeat of Napoleon, ____ was the only old Romantic who neverwavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution.64.____ was sentenced to two years’imprisonment for denouncing the PrinceRegent, future George IV, as a rake and a liar.65.The importance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of the lightmiscellaneous ___.66.In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a regular andconfirmed opium-eater.”67.Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies anddreams. The major flow of his style is ____.68.____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of historicalnovel.Key to the blanks:1.literature; poetry2.French3.nature4.autobiographical5.self-exploration6.autobiographical7.politics; social justice8.conflict9.children10.Lyrical Ballads11.Romantic Movement 12.Sympathy; simplicity; purity13.The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’sMind14.Hazlitt15.liberty; equality; fraternityte 18th; mid-19th17.classicism18.enthusiasm; poetry19.Lyrical Ballads20.Walter Scott21.novelist22.Walter Scott23.Water Scott, Jane Austen24.Charles Lamb25.The Prelude26.Scott27.Samuel Taylor Coleridge28.romanticism29.romanticists30.simplicity31.fairy tale dream32.Shelley33.John Keats34.John Keats35.Spenserian Stanza36.Hyperion37.Essais38.Coleridge39.Wordsworth40.The Prelude41.English Bards and Scotch Reviewers42.Byron43.Don Juan44.four45.Don Juan 46.Don Juan47.Manfred48.Cain49.Hour of Idleness50.Shelley51.Italy52.Queen Mab53.Prometheus Unbound54.Peterloo Massacre55.John Keats56.John Keats57.Scott58.the familiar essay59.Charles Lamb60.literature61.Charles Lamb62.Romantic63.William Hazlitt64.Leigh Hunt65.essay66.Thomas De Quincey67.discursiveness68.Walter ScottⅢ. Say true or false.1.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century.2.Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.3.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .4.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley”because of his independentand rebellious attitude.5.The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.6.Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.7.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”.8.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements ofnature.9.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.10.Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of aPoet’s Mind.11.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’smasterpiece.12.Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of theFrench Revolution.13.Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.14.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combinedthemselves with those forces.15.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.16.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the secondgeneration.17.The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.18.The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and thecountry people of that area in their writings.19.Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.20.The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology.21.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poetin the English language.22.Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.23.Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressivemovements of his age.24.Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty.25.But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish; many of his linesare harsh, rugged and not rhythmical;26.Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.mb’s essays are intensely personal.28.Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide rangeof subject matter.29.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.30.Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.Key to True/False statements:1. F (from late 18th to the mid-19thcentury)2.T3.T4.T5.T6. F (city)7. F (“The Rime of the AncientMariner”)8.T9. F (Wordsworth)10.F (“The Daffodils”)11.F (Wordsworth)12.T13.F (familiar essay)14.T15.F ( Passive Romantic poets) 16.T17.T18.F (the first generation/ The LakePoets)19.T20.F (Greek)21.T22.T23.T24.T25.F (Byron)26.F (Keats)27.T28.F (Lamb)29.T30.F (Coleridge’s “The Rime of theAncient Mariner”)Ⅳ. Terms:1.Romanticismke PoetsⅤ. Questions:ment on Lyrical Ballads.ment on Charles Lamb.ment on those Lake Poets.4.What are the features of Romanticism.ment on The Prelude.ment on Endymion.ment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.8.Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romantic writers.Part Six English Critical RealismⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.A. Jane AustenB. ThackerayC. DickensD. Charlotte2.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.A. Sense and SensibilityB. The Book of SnobsC. The Pickwick PapersD. The Song of Lower Class3.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion4.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.A. First ImpressionB. A Book Without a HeroC. The NewcomesD. Persuasion5.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And itflourished in the forties and in the early fifties.A. romanticismB. naturalismC. realismD. critical realism6.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .A. novelB. dramaC. poetryD. sonnet7.______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.A. George EliotB. Elizabeth GaskellC. W. M. ThackerayD. John Buyan8.The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.A. EnlightenmentB. RenaissanceC. ChartistD. Romanticist9.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the_____ for its rights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariat10.The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. John MiltonC. Thomas HardyD. John Keats11.The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Pickwick PapersD. Oliver Twist12.The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. Oliver TwistC. Hard TimesD. Great Expectations13.The story of _____ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man namedTrent, and his granddaughter, Nell.A. Pickwick PapersB. The Old Curiosity ShopC. Great ExpectationsD. Hard Times14.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?A. Oliver TwistB. Hard TimesC. Great ExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities15.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream toenter the higher society regardless of the social reality?A. A Tale of Two CitiesB. David CopperfieldC. Great ExpectationsD. Dombey and Son16.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows hissympathy for the workers.A. Great ExpectationsB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. Oliver Twist17.In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.A. Dombey and SonB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Little DorritD. Bleak House18.In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.A. David CopperfieldB. Wuthering HeightsC. Bleak HouseD. A Tale of Two Cities19._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in whichthe early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.A. The Curiosity ShopB. David CopperfieldC. Oliver TwistD. Great Expectations20.In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.A. The Old Curiosity ShopB. The Pickwick PaperC. Our Mutual FriendD. Little Dorrit21.Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?A. The VirginiansB. The Books of SnobsC. The NewcomesD. Vanity Fair22.The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _____.A. The First ImpressionB. A Novel Without a HeroC. The Spirit of the AgeD. The Daffodils23.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.A. The Pilgrim’s Pr ogressB. Child Harold’s PilgrimageC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Canterbury Tales24.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.A. Jane EyreB. Agnes GreyC. Wuthering HeightsD. Emma25.Charlotte’s Villette is based on her sad days in_____.A. GermanyB. LondonC. ParisD. Brussels26.Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.A. optimismB. excitementC. irritationD. pessimism27.______is Dickens’ best of social satires.A. American NotesB. Martin ChuzzlewitC. Dombey and SonD. David Copperfield28.Tennyson’s In Memoriam is a collection of ____ short poems.A. 130B. 131C. 132D. 13329.The chief source of Tennyson’s Idylls of the King is taken from _____.A. The History of the King of BritainB. The History of PendennisC. The History of Henny EsmondD. Morte d’Arthur.30.The Chartists refer to those _____ in the early Victorian AgeA. Romantic writersB. working class writersC. realistic poetsD. bourgeois writers31.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C. 1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)32.The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial Englandcaused the ______.A. Enlightenment MovementB. Industrial RevolutionC. Chartist MovementD. Romantic Movement33._____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.A. Earnest JonesB. Emily BrontёC. Charlotte BrontёD. Charles Dickens34.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.A. wide spread of critical realismB. his spirit of democracy and humanismC.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear languageD.including A, B and C35.“The pride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.A. Dombey and SonB. Nicholas NicklebyC. The Old Curiosity ShopD. Martin Chuzzlewit36.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.A. London and New YorkB. London and ParisC. Paris and New YorkD. Brussels and Washington37.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.A. essayB. poetryC. novelD. drama38.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.A. RochesterB. HeathcliffC. ManetteD. Martin39.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.A. familiar thingsmon peopleC. neighborsD. evils40.The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.A. Earnest JonesB. Elizabeth GaskellC. Mr. BrowningD. Alfred Tennyson41.______ made Dickens famous overnight.A. Sketches by BozB. The Pickwick PapersC. Oliver TwistD. The Old Curiosity Shop42._____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp socialcontradictions.A. Sketches by BozB. American NotesC. Martin ChuzzlewitD. Barnaby Rudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)43.Which of the following Dickens’ works is not based on Christmas with religiouscoloring?A. Christmas Day in the MorningB. A Christmas CarolC. The Chimes（《教堂钟声》）D. The Cricket on the Heart (《灶上蟋蟀》)44._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.A. Great ExpectationsB. David CopperfieldC. Bleak HouseD. The Pickwick Papers45.Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.A. ParisB. New YorkC. LondonD. Portsmoth46.The head of the gang of thieves is _____.A. FaginB. GradgrindC. PecksmiffD. Manette47._____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.A. Nicholas NicklebyB. A Tale of Two CitiesC. Hard TimesD. The Pickwick Papers48._____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knitand logical plot of his maturer works.A. David CopperfieldB. Dombey and SonC. Little DorritD. The Chimes49.In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalistworld would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.A. firstB. secondC. thirdD. fourth50.____ is the most class-conscious book among the Christmas books.A. A Christmas CarolB. The ChimesC. The Cricket on the HearthD. The Battle of LifeKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CBABD 6-10 ACCDA 11-15 CABBC16-20 CBDBC 21-25 DAAC D 26-30 DBBDB31-35 CCDDA 36-40 BCBAD 41-45 BDABC46-50 ADBABⅡ. Fill in the blanks.1.Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful _______.2.Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of _______.3.Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of ______.4.Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of the time—the education of____ in private schools.5._____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for its criticism of both theBritish and American bourgeoisie.6.The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or “_____”.7.David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a combination of ____, senseof ____ and artistic ______.8.The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuses of theEnglish _____.9.In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great artistic power.10.Dickens used ______ as his pen name in his first book.Key to the blanks:1.optimism2.excitement and irritation3.pessimism4.children5.Martin Chuzzlewit6.purse-pride7.first; verisimilitude; familiarity;maturity8.courts9.Chartist10.BozⅢ. Say true or false.1.Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England.2.Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused the in3.In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism.4.The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but the novel fascinates the reader from beginnin episodes.5.The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (贴切的) description of the so6.Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics(论理学，道德学) and 义）.7.Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-o-fact or symbolic, as its central theme.8. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject.9.The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.”10.Pip is the major character in Dickens’ novel Our Mutual Friend.Key to True/False statements:1-5 TTFFT 6-10 TFFTFPart Seven Prose Writers and Poets of the Midand Late 19th CenturyⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.A. Lady Windermere’s FanB. A Woman of No ImportanceC. The Picture of Dorian GrayD. The Importance of Being Earnest2.____ is a description of the misery of man of letters.A. New Grub StreetB. The CurrentC. Charles Dickens: A Critical StudyD. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft3. A Dream of John Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled the peasants’ rising ofthe 14th century.A. MorrisB. GissingC. StevensonD. Wilde4.News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a dream of the futureclassless society.A. MorrisB. GissingC. StevensonD. Wilde5._____is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. William FitzgeraldC. Robert FitzgeraldD. Edward Fitzgerald6._____ is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s best-known poem.A. The Blessed DamozelB. Poems by D. G. RossettiC. The House of LifeD. Ballads and Sonnets7.____ is considered “the Sage of Chelsea”.A. Thomas CarlyleB. John RuskinC. Matthew ArnoldD. Tomas Macaulay8.____introduced German literature to England with his Life of Schiller.A. Thomas CarlyleB. John RuskinC. Matthew ArnoldD. Tomas Macaulay9.In ____, Carlyle contrasted the misery and confusion of industrial England with acertain Abbot Sampson’s admirable rule of his monastery in the 12th century.A. Past and PresentB. Heroes and Hero-WorshipC. Sartor ResartusD. The French Revolution10.Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is ___.A. History of EnglandB. Culture and AnarchyC. Heroes and Hero-WorshipD. Modern Painters11.Tennyson’s _____ expresses his optimistic attitude towards death when he is old.A. Break, Break, BreakB. Crossing the BarC. The PrincessD. Maud12.____remained a poet in his painting and a painter in his poetry.。
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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 defeating England.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. essay4. 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. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the lifein 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 thestories about a legendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d?ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, 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 French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris a ndJean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France 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 on the wide range of his writings.Which one isnot his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio?s poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB自考真题2002-4.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive（B）●Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales（D）●The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval Englishsociety and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.A．William Langland? s Piers Plowman B．G eoffrey Chaucer?s The Canterbury TalesC．John Gower?s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight（B）Ⅱ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?/doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his work s.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, V oyages 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 of the 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, whichwere compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a vic tory 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 to understand 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 contains154 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) with the _______.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 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between ____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete Engl ish Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the _____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndale?s Bible.6.After Tydale?s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 under the aus pices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated by himself.17.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton?s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language in England.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce newideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and torecover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which the rhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ tookplace in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers forthe merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it wasa time when, according to Thomas Mor e, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimedhimself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked bya flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil?s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel?s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by ______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___ among the laboring classes.37.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42. A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the moreexact conception of ____ and ____.46.English comedies and tragedies on classical modelsappeared in the middle of the ____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____.50.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.51.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women?s parts were always taken by ____.54.Shakespeare?s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare?s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare?s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare?s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications of real life.Key to the blanks:/doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html tin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible./doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture20.14th; 17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas; interests; purity23.Humanism; human mind; human culture24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene;ababbcbcc/doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ncaster; York26.The Reformation27.the Enclosure Movement; proletarians 28.printing29.feudal; capitalism30.sheep devours men31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict; evil; allegorical43.Clown44.Greek; Latin45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton?s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress; boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation (revision)57.Renaissance 58.master-hand (能手)59.full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totallydependent on King?s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the SpanishInvincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches.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 collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors introduced secular and even comical elementsinto 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, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare?s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, thetruthful reproduction of typical 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 one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) andtragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare?s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More?s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, 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 great work, 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 creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton?s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethantheatre.28.After Shakespeare?s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare?s history play s, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest 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 hero to degenerate into a bloody murder anddespot right to his doom./doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare?s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.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 his comedies 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 a religious 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.TⅤ. Questions on the English Renaissance/doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff./doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare?s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare?s major plays in each literary career./doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on Marlowe?s social significance and literary achievement./doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The rhyme scheme of Milton?s L?Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people?s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary strugg les.A. On the Morning of Christ?s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne?s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert?s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton?s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysi de and the simple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.2.The Pilgrim?s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim?s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faithare represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare?s Antony andCleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, andin the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton?s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton?s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton?s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim?s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim?s Progress)4.(John Bunyan?s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land ownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the country.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife?s death, Milton wrote his only l ove poem,a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think of expressing anyopinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Walton?s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Bro wne?s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or less connected 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.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim?s Progress?/doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on the image of Satan./doc/c589abb268dc5022aaea998fcc22bcd 126ff4224.html ment on Samson.Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe。
英国文学史及选读试题及答案
英国文学史及选读试题及答案英国文学史及选读试题Ⅰ. Multiple Choice（1′×20=20分）1.______ was respected as “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England.A.William ShakespeareB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. John MiltonD.John Donne2.In terms of influence upon England, ____ brought French civilization and French language to England.A. Anglo-SaxonsB. RomansC. Anglo-NormansD. Teutons3. According to Thomas More, “it was a time when sheep devoured men”. It refers to____.A. IndustrializationB. Religious ReformationC. Commercial ExpansionD. Enclosure Movement4. It was ____who introduced sonnet into English literature.A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Edmund SpenserD. Philip Sidney5. Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?A. HamletB. King LearC. The Merchant of VeniceD. Othello6. In 1649 ____ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell.A.James IB. Henry VIIIC. Elizabeth ID. Charles I7. Which comment on John Donne is wrong?A. He is the leading figure of metaphysical poetry.B. His poetry is characterized by mysticism and peculiar conceit.C. John Donne usually employs traditional and regular poetic form.D. His attitudes toward love are both positive and negative.8. Friday in The Adventuous of Robinson Crosue can be termed as EXCEPT____.A. a kind-hearted personB. a person with colonial mindC. a smart personD. a friendly person9. Thomas Gray is the representative of _____.A. SentimentalismB. Pre-RomanticismC. RomanticismD. English Renaissance10. William Blake’s ____is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world,though not without its evils and sufferings.A.Poetical SketchesB. The Book of ThelC. Songs of ExperienceD. Songs of Innocence11. ____, the national peasant poet in Scotland, and his poem____ shows his passionate love for his Beloved.A.William Blake, LodonB. William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a CloudC. Robert Burns, A Red, Red RoseD. Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne12. English Romanticism begins with____ and ends with____.A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads, John Keats’s deathB. French Revolution, Walter Scott’s deathC. the publication of Lyrical Ballads, Walter Scott’s deathD. Industrialization, John Keats’s death13. ____ are named as Lake Poets and Escapist Romanticists.A. Wordsworth, Shelley and KeatsB. Wordsworth, Byron and ShelleyC. Wordsworth, Coleridge and ShelleyD. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey14. Which of the following statement is NOT correct?A. Romantic literature is decidely an age of poetry.B. Dramma was fully developed during the Romantic period.C. The general feature is a dissatisfaction with the bourgeoise society.D. Romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.Personified nature plays animportant role in the pages of their works.15. ____ was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle class people and of which there are many fine examples in latter English fiction.A.Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC. Charles DickensD. Jane Austen16. King ____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, which is known as Religious Reformation.A. Henry VIIB. Henry VIIIC. Mary ID.Elizabetha I17. ____ was honored as Poet Laureate.A. ByronB. P. B ShelleyC. John KeatsD. William Wordsworth18. John Milton’s Paradise Lost is based on the story of ____.A. Greek MythologyB. Roman MythologyC. Old TestamentD. New Testament19. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties_____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 Representatives20.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by __.A. William WordsworthB. P. B. ShelleyC. George ByronD. John KeatsⅡ. Translate the following literary terms (English into Chinese and Chinese into English) （1′×10=10分）1．iambic pentameter 2. heroic couplet 3. antagonist 4. soliloquy 5. sonnet6. 无韵体诗7. 民谣8. 伏笔, 铺垫9. 诗节10. 清教主义III. Identify the author and title of the literary work (2′×5=10分)1.So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.2.Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.3.All is not 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?4. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:I will love thee still, my dear,While the sands o’ life shall run.5. And then my heart with pleasure fills,And dances with the daffodilsIV. Define the following literary terms (Each term should include the time, the features and representative figures orsignificance) (5′×4=20分)1. English Renaissance2. English Enlightenment3. Pre-Romanticism4. Metaphysical PoetryV. Interpreting the following texts(20′×2=40分)Text 1The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea,The plowman homeward plods his weary way,And leaves the world to darkness and to me. (stanza 1)The breezy call of incense-breathing Morn,The swallow twittering from the straw-bulit shed,The cock’s shrill clarion, or the echoing horn,No more shall rouse them from their lowly bed. (stanza 5)Questions:1.Identify the author and the title of this poem (2分)2.Examine the poetic form (rhyme, foot and meter should be involved) (3分)3.Explain the underlined words (4分)4.What is the tone in stanza 1? How does the poet achieve it? (3分)5.Stanza 5 involoves rich imagery, please classify them and give examples. (6分)6.Point out the rhetorical devices in the above poem (2分)Text 2I wander through each chartered street,Near where the chartered Thames does flow,And mark in every face I meetMarks of weakness, marks of woe.In every cry of every man,In every infant's cry of fear,In every voice, in every ban,The mind-forged manacles I hear.How the chimney-sweeper's cryEvery blackening church appals;And the hapless soldier's sighRuns in blood down palace walls.Questions:1.Explain the underlined words. (5分)2.Identify the poetic form (3分)3.This poem is the mightiest brief poem, how does William Blake convey the mighty lines? (4分)4.Understand “chartered street and chartered Thames” and “Mind-forged manacles”? (4分)5.Please analyze the images of “Chimney-sweeper” and “soldier’s sigh”. (4分)英国文学史及作品选读（模拟试题一）参考答案Ⅰ. Multiple Choice1.__B__2.___C_3.__D__4.__A__5.__C___6.__D__7.__C__8.__B__9.__A__ 10.__D___11.__C__ 12.__C__ 13.__D__ 14.__B__ 15.__D__16.__B__ 17.__D__ 18.__C__ 19.__A__ 20.__B__Ⅱ. Translate the following literary terms (English into Chinese and Chineseinto English)1.抑扬格五音步2. 英雄双韵体3.反面人物4.独白5.十四行6.blank verse7.ballads8.foreshadowing9. stanza 10. PuritanismIII. Identify the author and title of the literary work1. William Shakespeare Sonnet 182. Francis Bacon Of Studies3. John Milton Paradise Lost4. Robert Burns A Red, Red Rose5.William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a CloudIV. Define the following literary terms (Each term should include the time, the features and representative figures or significance)1.English RenaissanceIt sprang first in Italy in the 14th century and gradually spread all over Europe. It made its appearance in England in the 16th and 17th centuries. It means the rebirth of Greek and Roman culture. Two features are striking of this movement. The one is a thirsting curiosity for the classical literature. Another one is the keen interest in the activities of humanity. Humanism is the key-note of Renaissance. Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare are the best representatives of the EnglishReanaissance.2. English EnlightenmentThe 18th century marked the beginning of an intellectual movement in Europe, known as the。
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100 Selected Questions on English Literature1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3. The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays byA. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by（）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”th e first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”sug gests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8. “What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousanda year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Em ily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except （）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11. Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines? （）A. Simile.B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by （）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13. The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byA. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of （）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings,mornin gs, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of （）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21. G eorge Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22. The story starting with th e marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must beA. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23. She smiled, no doubt, when’ver I passed her…/ …. This grew, I gave commands, Then all simles stopped together.’The above quoted lines imply that she________.A. obeyed his order and sopped smiling at everybody, including the dukeB. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the dukeC. refused to obey and the order and never smiled againD. was murdered at the order of the duke24. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, “The sun Rising,” is to _________.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticicize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie25. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?A. The speaker meditates on man’s moralityB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creationD. The speaker tells one of his dream visions.26. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D.H, LawrenceC. E.M, ForsterD. James Joyce27. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?A. More time to play.B. More food to eat.C. More book to read.D. More money to spend.28. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?A. Real estate.B. Prostitution.C. House-keeping.D. Farming.29. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and g ives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .A. Lady Chatterley’s LoverB. Women in loveC. Sons and LoversD. The Plumed Serpent30. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withe red leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?A. Synecdoche.B. Metaphor.C. Simile.D. Onomatopoeia.31. Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George EliotD. D.H. Lawrence32.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley33. Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogyD. epic34. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.B. Tolerance of human foibles.C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.D. Glorification of religious faith.35.. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”36. Which of the following best describes t he nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?A. Sentimentalism.B. Tragic sense.C. Surrealism.D. Comic sense.37.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.38. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .A. normal contemporary speech patternsB. humble and rustic life as subject matterC. elegant wording and inflated figures of speechD. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience39. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .A. refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedB. vividly describes a building of poor qualityC．is the gift given to a beautiful girl called AbyssinianD. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious40. The Glorious Revolution in ________ meant three things: the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern England, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.A. 1640B. 1688C. 1660D. 164941. After ________’s death, monarch was again restored (1660). It was called the period of Restoration.A. CromwellB. CharlesC. MiltonD. James42. The essays and stories of Addison and Steels devoted not only to social problems, but also to private life and ________.A. businessB. public clubsC. gossipsD. adventures43. The Puritans believed in _________ of life.A. extravaganceB. simplicityC. humblenessD. Arrogance44. Fielding’s work unfolds a spread _________ of life in a ll sections of English society.A. pictureB. imageC. panoramaD. painting45. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal Whigs, and the conservative_________ .A. RepublicansB. DemocratsC. LaborersD. Tories46. Pope was a man of extraordinary wit, extensive ________, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest authority in matters of literary art.A. sightB. adventureC. learningD. thinking47. The philosophy of the enlighteners, though ________ and materialistic in its essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.A. RomanticB. rationalC. realisticD. metaphysical48. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is soreplete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is just called “a novel of ________”.A. happyB. loveC. SentimentalistD. Horror49. Along with the depiction of morals and manners and social mode of life the writers of the Enlightenment began to display an interest in the ________ life of an individual.A. exteriorB. urbanC. poorD. innermost50 Lyrical Ballads is composed by William Wordsworth in collaboration with _________ .A. ColeridgeB. SoutheyC. BlakeD. Byron51. After the Industrial revolution, __________ became the “workshop of the world”.A. BritainB. FranceC. GermanyD. Northern Europe52. The quotation “I wandered lonely as a cloud, / That floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd , / a host , of golden daffodils ;” is composed by __________.A. ShakespeareB. WordsworthC. SpenserD. Keats53. “If Winter comes , can __________ be far behind ?”.A. AutumnB. West windC. SummerD. Spring54. “Beauty is _________ , truth beauty ”.A. realityB. loveC. truthD. ability55. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England in the later half of the _________ century.A. 10B. 16C. 18D. 1956. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer __________ died .A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. William WordsworthD. De Quincy57. Which poet belongs to the Lakers ? ___________A. ColeridgeB. KeatsC. ByronD. Shelley58. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats . __________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. Ode to AutumnD. Ode on a Grecian Urn59. Which work is based on ancient Greek mythology ? __________A. Paradise LostB. Jane EyreC. IvanhoeD. Prometheus Unbound60. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare61. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece62. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes63. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work64. “Graveyard School”writers are the following senti mentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson65. The best model of satire in English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books66. As a representative of the Enlightenment,¬¬¬______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift67. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson68. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.69. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious70. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry71. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby72. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness73. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth74. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic75. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humor76. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels77. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets78. The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida79. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy80. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land81._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning82.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French83.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw84._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood85. As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding86. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in thehistory of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning87. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear88. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce89. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th –century90.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism91.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream92.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift93. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, t here is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic94. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by （）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw95.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic96. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation97. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage98. As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson99. 1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical eventsEXCEPT_________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion100. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCETP_______.A．The Return of the Native B．Tess of the D’UrbervillesC．Jude the Obscure D．Far from the Madding CrowdTrue or false1. Donne is mostly famous for his popular use of conceit.( )2. Paradise Lost tells how Adam rebelled against God and how Satan and Eve were driven out of Eden.( )3. Bunyan’s most important work is The Pilgrim’s Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.( )4. The story of Robinson Crusoe is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s logbook.( )5. Gulliver’s Adventures begins with Lilliputians, who are so small that Gulliver is a pigmy among them.( )6. The Spectator and The Tatler by Steele and Addison are the first important recognitions by literature of the special interests of women readers.( )7. Fielding’s first novel, Joseph Andrews, war inspired by the success of Defoe’s novel Pamela.( )8. The author of the famous Elegy is the most scholarly and well-balanced of all the early romantic poets.( )9. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most independent and the most original.( )10. The Tiger as an excellent short poem is not composed by Blake .( )。