英国文学史基础知识考查(A)

英国文学史基础知识考查（A）

I. Fill in the following blanks. (10 points)

1). In the year 1066, ____________defeated the Anglo-Saxons at the Battle of Hastings.

2). In his greatest work, ____________, Chaucer created a strikingly brilliant and

picturesque panorama of his time and his country.

3). The term ___________ originally indicated a revival of Greek and Roman arts and

sciences after the dark ages of medieval obscurantism.

4). ___________ is the author of the great epic poem The Fairy Queen.

5). Karl Marx regarded Aeschylus and _____________ as “the two greatest dramatic

geniuses the world has ever known.”

6). ____________ is John Milton‟s greatest epic.

7). _____________wrote his masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress during his

imprisonment.

8). The first representatives of the English Enlightenment were Joseph Addison and

___________ .

9). A Voyage to Lilliput is the first chapter from _______________, Jonathan Swift‟s

only great novel.

10). The writer of The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is____________, the greatest

novelist of the eighteenth century, and one of the greatest that England ever

produced.

II. From A, B, C, and D, choose one to make each statement correct. (15 points)

1). Francis Bacon‟s most important work is_____________.

A. Paradise Regained

B. The Pilgrim’s Progress

C. Essays

D. Anatomy of Melancholy

2). William Shakespeare wrote ________________sonnets in his lifetime.

A. 164

B. 154

C. 168

D. 158

3). __________________ is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare‟s art.

A. The Tragedy of Macbeth

B. The Tempest

C. Twelfth Night

D. Hamlet

4). The Deserted Village is _____________‟s poem.

A. Thomas Gray

B. Oliver Goldsmith

C. John Donne

D. Richard Sheridan

5). _________‟s famous comedy The School for Scandal,written in 1777, is

considered his masterpiece.

A. John Milton

B. William Blake

C. Richard Sheridan

D. Thomas Gray

6). Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, a poem full of melancholy, written

by___________, is a germ in English literature.

A. Oliver Goldsmith

B. Thomas Gray

C. Richard Steele

D. Joseph Addison

7). The Songs of Innocence is a collection of poem by__________.

A. Oliver Goldsmith

B. William Blake

C. Henry Fielding

D. Richard Sheridan

8). Of all the romantic poets of the eighteenth century, ___________ is the most

independent and the most original.

A. Richard Sheridan

B. William Blake

C. John Milton

D. Robert Burns

9). The greatest of Scottish poets, _________ (1759-1796), was born in a peasant‟s

clay-built cottage, a mile and a half south of Ayr.

A. Robert Burns

B. Alfred Tennyson

C. William Blake

D. Thomas Gray

10).“All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” is _________‟s

words.

A. George Byron

B. William Wordsworth

C. Samuel Coleridge

D. John Keats

11). Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is a travelogue written by _________.

A. Percy Shelley

B. John Keats

C. William Blake

D. George Byron

12). A Song: “Men of England”is _________‟s political lyric.

A. George Byron

B. John Keats

C. Percy Shelley

D. John Donne

13). In the poem, __________, Keats remarked “ Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”

A. To Autumn

B. Bright Star

C. On First looking into Chapman’s Homer

D. Ode on a Grecian Urn

14). Rob Roy is a famous historical novel written by ________________________.

A. Walter Scott

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Jonathan Swift

D. George Eliot

15). Jane Eyre is the masterpiece of _________________.

A. Emily Bronte

B. Anne Bronte

C. Charlotte Bronte

D. Jane Austen

III. Put a letter T to the statement that is right, and F to the wrong one: (20 points)

1). She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways is William Wordsworth‟s poem.

2). Ode to the West Wind is Shelley‟s well-known lyric.

3). Su Manshu (苏曼殊) once translated Byron‟s The Isles of Greece into Chinese.

4). Ozymandias is Byron‟s satirical poem.

5). Ivanhoe was written by Fielding in 1877.

6). Walter Scott is the creator and a great master of the historical novel.

7). Sense and Sensibility is J ane Austen‟s novel

8). Great Expectation is a novel by Dickens.

9). Chinese translators Liang Yuchun(梁遇春) and Liu Bingshan（刘炳善）did some

translations of Lamb

10). Silas Marner is Thackeray …s novel.

11). Charles Lamb and his sister wrote Tales from Shakespeare.

12). Hard Times, Dickens‟s novel, is an earnest attack on the vulgarity and materialism

of the rising middle class industrialists.

13). The Ring and the Book was the cooperation of Browning and his wife.