英国文学期末考试题目

Part Ⅰ: Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%)

Section A

column A column B

(1)Charles Dickens A. Oliver Twist

(2)D.H Lawrence B. The Forsyte Saga

(3)Jonathan Swift C. The Jew of Malta

(4)John Galsworthy D. Sons and Lovers

(5)Christopher Marlowe E. A Modest Proposal

Section B

column A column B

(1) Doctor Faustus A. Darcy

(2) The Merchant of Venice B. Joseph Surface

(3) The School for Scandal C. Portia

(4) Pride and Prejudice D. Friday

(5) Robinson Crusoe E. Mephistophilis

Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase. (10%)

1. The Canterbury Tales first time to use“”

2.It is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______”.

3. is a playwright & poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time

4. Pope is one of the first to introduce to England, for him the supreme value was order.

5. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious, its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation(拯救) through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. Its predominant metaphor –life as a journey.

6. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.

7. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Cole ridge & Robert Southey are “”.

8. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works, all of which have the same setting : ______.

9. Love and are the major themes in Jane Austin’s novels.

10. is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist in 20th century English literature

Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose

the one that would best complete the statement. (40%)

1. which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.？

A. The Pilgrim's Progress

B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

D. The Holy War

2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ___.

A. King Lear…Romeo and Juliet

B. King Lear…Macbeth

C. King John…Julius Caesar

D. King John…The Merchant of Venice

3. 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

4. Francis bacon is best known for his ____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.

A. essays

B. poems

C. works D plays

5. who is not the major figure of modernist movement?

A. Eliot

B. Joyce

C. Charles dickens

D. Pound

6. who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?

A . Oscar Wilde B. john Galsworthy C. W.B. Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw

7. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as 'lake poets'?

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Southy C .William words worth D. William Shakespeare

8. Which of the following cannot describe 'Byronic hero'?

A. proud

B. mysterious

C. noble origin

D. progressive

9. who is regarded as a 'worshipper of nature'.

A. john Keats

B. William Blake

C. William Wordsworth

D. Jane Austen

10. Thomas Gray’s“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

once and for all established his fame as the

leader of the ______ poetry.

A. Romantic

B. Pastoral

C. Neoclassical

D. Sentimental

11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is

quoted from Shelley’s ______.

A. The Cloud

B. Ode to Liberty

C. Ode to the West Wind

D. To a Skylark

12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems

can be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about ______.

A. nature…love & friendship

B. nature…human life

C. Scotland…love & friendship

D. Scotland…human life

13. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s works?

A. The Portrait of a Lady

B. Dubliners

C. Ulysses

D. Finnegans Wake

14. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution

is his creation of the “Byronic hero”, a ______.

A. proud, strong-minded rebel under pressure

B. proud, mysterious rebel of noble birth

C. proud, selfish person with evil heart

D. a proud, vindictive person without mercy

15. In his works, ______ set out a full map and a large-scale

criticism of 19th century England, particularly

London.

A. Dickens

B. Hardy

C. George Eliot

D. Walter Peter

16. The name of Robert Browning is often associated

with the term______.