英国文学简史试题1

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

A.The Canterbury Tales

B.The Ballad of Robin Hood

C.The Song of Beowulf

D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght

2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.

A.The anapest

B.The trochee

C.The iamb

D.The dactyl

3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event?

A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B.England’s domestic rest

C.New discovery in geography and astrology

D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion

4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A.The Pilgrims Progress

B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman

D.The Holy War

5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.

A.science

B.philosophy

C.arts

D.humanism

6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?

A.Lover.

B.Time.

C.Summer.

D.Poetry.

7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Lost, the phrase“th y conduct”refers to _____conduct.

A.God’s

B.Satan’s

C.Adam’s

D.Eve’s

8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.

A.elegy

B.ode

C.epic

D.sonnet

9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.

edy

B.tragedy

C.sonnet

D.poem

10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____.

A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

B.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security

C.the struggle of the pirates for wealth

D.the desire of the criminals for property

11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the

development of this literary form.

A.essays

B.poems

C.works

D.plays

12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.

A.a crude region in England

B.a fictional primitive region

C.a remote rural area

D.Hardy’s home town

13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?

A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.

B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.

C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.

D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love

and realistic benefits.

14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____

A.1798-1832

B.1836-1901

C.1798-1901

D.the Neoclassical Period

15. In the following figures, who is Dicke ns’s first child hero?

A.Fagin.

B.Mr.Brownlow.

C.Olive Twist.

D.Bill Sikes

16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”

My country? On thy voiceless shore

The heroic lay is tuneless now-

The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)

In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.

A.“art you ”

B.“are though”

C.“art though”

D.“are you ”

17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?

A.William Blake.

B.John Bunyan.

C.Jane Auten.

D.John Keats.

18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?

A.Love

B.Childhood

C.Death

D.Human Experience

19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.

A.the Renaissance

B.the Old Testament

C.Greek Mythology

D.the New Testament

20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.

A.Pride and Prejudice

B.Sense and Sensibility

C.Emma

D.Plan of a Noel

21. Of th e following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?

A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.

B.Robert Southey.

C.William Wordsworth.

D.William Shakespeare.

22.Daniel Defoe describes____as a typical English middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the