专八英美文学习题 18世纪文学习题

ⅠMultiple choices:1.________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the18th century.a.The Renaissanceb.The Enlightenmentc.The Religious Reformationd.The Chartist Movement2.Most of the English writers in the18th century were Enlighteners.They fell into two groups,one is_______,and the other is_________.a. a.the moderate group,the radical groupb. b.the lake poets,the younger generationc. c.the Metaphysical poets,the cavalier poetsd. d.the lake poets;the sentimentalists3.The18th century was an age of prose.A group of excellent prose writers,such as____,were produced.a.Addisonb.Steelec.Smalletd.Fielding4.In the18th century,satire was much used in writing,and English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists,such as______.a.Popeb.Swiftc.Defoed.Blake5.The main literary stream of the18th century was______.a.naturalismb.romanticismc.neo-classicismd.sentimentalism6.In the18th century English literature,the representative writers of neo-classicism is_____.a.Popeb.Swiftc.Defoeton7.In the18th century English literature,the representative poets of pre-romanticism were________.a.Alexander Popeb.William Blakec.Robert Burnsd.Jonathan Swift8.In the18th century English literature,the representative writers of realism were _______.a.Richardsonb.Fieldingc.Smollettd.Goldsmith9.The18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ________,which were satirized by Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.e. a.the Wigs and the Toriesf. b.the Senate and the House of Representativesg. c.the Upper House and Lower Househ. d.the House of Lords and the House of Commons10.________found its representative writers in the field of poetry,such as Young and Gray,but it manifested itself in the novels of Sterne and Goldsmith.a.Pre-romanticismb.Romanticismc.Sentimentalismd.Naturalism11.During the reign of reason the Enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters,which include_______.a.theologyb.theocracyc.conventional ideologyd.all of the above12.In the early18th century English writers of the neo-classic school were_______.a.Popeb.Additionc.Steeled.Goldsmith13.“___________”,written in heroic couplet by Pope,was a manifesto of English neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.a.An Essay of Dramatic Poesyb.An Essay on Criticismc.The Advance of Learningd.An Essay on Criticism14.Which are Pope’s works?a.An Essay on Criticismb.An Essay on Manc.The Rape of the Lockd.The Rape of Lucrece15._______was Pope’s poem which satirized the idle and artificial life of the aristocracy.a.The Rape of the Lockb.The Rape of Lucrecec.The School for Scandald.Every Man in His Humor16.In the middle decades of the18th century,_____became the leader of the neo-classic school in English poetry and prose.a.Popeb.Samuel Johnsonc.Robert Burnsd.William Blake17.Which two periodicals were Steele and Addison’s chief contribution to English literature.a.“The Tatler”and“The Spectator”b.“The Rambler”and“TheSpectator”c.“The Tatler”and“The Review”d.“The Spectator”and“TheReview”18._______compiled“The Dictionary of the English language”which became the foundation of all the subsequent English Dictionaries.a.Ben Jonsonb.Samuel Johnsonc.Alexander Poped.John Dryden19.Choose Samuel Johnson’s works from the following.a.Lives of the Poetsb.The Dictionary of the EnglishLanguagec.Every Man in His Humord.An Essay on Criticism20.Choose the representative poets of pre-romanticism in the18th century and the forerunners of romanticism.a.Thomas Grayb.Edward Youngc.William Blaked.Robert Burns21.Sentimentalism in the18th century English literature found its fine expression in poetry and novels.Which poems or novels belong to sentimentalism?a.Night Thoughtsb.Elegy Written in a CountryChurchyardc.A sentimental Journeyd.A Tale of Tub22.In the last twenty years of the18th century,England produced two great romantic poets.They are_____.a.Johnson and Blakeb.Gray and Youngc.Pope and Goldsmithd.Blake and Burns23.The two great realistic novelists of the18th century are______.a.Defoeb.Swiftc.Fieldingd.Smollett24.Henry Fielding was a versatile man.He was_______.a.a novelistb.a dramatistc.an essayistd.a political pamphleteer25.Choose the long novels written by Henry fielding.a.J oseph Andrewsb.The Life of Mr.Jonathan Wild the Greatc.The History of Tom Jones,a Foundlingd.Pamela26.________is a satirical novel,in which the author Fielding exposes the English aristocratic society and mocks at its political system.a.A Modest Proposalb.Gulliver’s Travelsc.Volponed.Jonathan Wild the Great27.Three of the following novels are Smollett’s picaresque novels.Choose them out.a.The Adventure of Roderick Randomb.The Adventure of Peregrine Picklec.The Expedition of Humphery Clinker D.Gulliver’s Travels28.In the field of prose fiction of the18th century,sentimentalism had its fine expression.Choose sentimental novelists from the following.a.Jonathan Swiftb.Daniel Defoec.Samuel Richardsond.Oliver Goldsmith29.Which of the following novels are epistolary novels?a.Clarissa Harloweb.Pamelac.Sir Charles Grandisond.Tom Jones a Foundling30.Sterne’s fame rests chiefly on two works,choose the two from the following.A Sentimental Journey b.Tristram Shandyc.The vicar of Wakefieldd.Joseph Andrews31.Oliver Goldsmith was a versatile writer.Today he is chiefly remembered for his four main works.Which are they?a.The Vicar of Wakefieldb.The Deserted Villagec.She Stoops to Conquerd.The Citizen Of The Worlde.Clarissa32.Among the following which are Sheridan’s comedies?a.The Rivalsb.The School of Scandalc.She Stoops to Conquerd.Volpone33.Who was the greatest dramatist in the18th century?a.Goldsmithb.Sheridanc.Sterned.FieldingⅡLiterary Terms1.Enlightenment2.Gothic novel3.Iambic Pentameter4.Sentimentalism5.Neo-classicism答案：ⅠMultiple choice:1.b2.a3.a,b4.a,b5.c6.a,b7.b,c8.a,b,9.a10.c11.a,c12.a,b,c13.b14.a,b,c15.a16.b17.a18.b.19.a,b20.c,d21.a,b,c22.d23.a,c24.a,b,d25.a,b,c26.d27.a,b.c28.d29.a,b30.a,b31.a,b,c,d32.a,b,c33.bⅡLiterary terms:1.Enlightenment is a progressive intellectual movement,which swept over Englandand other lands in Western Europe in the18th century.Enlightenment freed and reformed the thinking of man.Enlighteners strove to clear away the feudal remnants and replace them by bourgeois ideologue.2.Gothic novel was a new type of fiction prominent in the late18th century,it was astyle of fiction characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings,fantastic mysterious or violent incidents,and grotesque,savage or ghostlike characters. Walpole’s Castle of Otranto,Shelley Mary’Frankenstein,and Ann Radcliff’sMysteries of Udolpho,to name a few of them.3.A poetic line consisting of five verse feet,which each foot an iamb__that is,an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.Iambic pentameter is the mostcommon verse line in English poetry.4.Sentimentalism originated in the18th century,and was a direct reaction against the cold, hard commercialism and rationalism that had dominated people’s life since the last decades of the17th century.Besides,it seemed to have appeared hand in hand with the rise of realistic English novel.Sentimentalism often relates to sentimentality and sensibility in some literary works such as Richardson’s Pamela;Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield;Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy.In Poetry,we have Thomas Gray’s“An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”,Goldsmith’s“The Deserted Village”,and Cowper’s“Task”,not mention the various odes of sensibility which flourished in the later half of the century.5.A revival in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of classical standards oforder,balance and harmony in literature.John Dryden was the first person whostarted the movement at the end of the17th century,while Alexander Pope broughtit to its culmination.。