英国文学习题练习

Part Four The English Century

Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)

A B

1. ( ) Tome Jones a.Friday

2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield b.King of Brodingnag

3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe c.Sophia

4. ( ) Gulliver's Travels d.Mr. B

5. ( ) Pamela e.William Thornhill

6. ( ) The School for Scandal f.Charles Surface

The 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 Funeral

B. The Lying Lover

C. The Christian Hero

D. The Tender Husband

2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?

A. The Tatler

B. The Spectator

C. The Theatre

D. The English

3. _____ is Addison's great tragedy.

A.A Letter from Italy

B. Rosamond

C. The Campaign

D. Cato

4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?

A. Isaac Bickerstaff

B. Mr. Roger

C. Captain Sentry

D. Andrew Freeport

5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors th century. all through the 18

A. Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living

B. Thomas Browne's Religio Meidic

C. Samuel Pepys's diaries

D. Addison's Spectator essays

6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

A. Steele

B. Addison

C. Pope

D. Dryden

7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.

A. Essay on Criticism

B. The Rape of the Lock

C. Essay on Man

D. The Dunciad

8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.

A. didactic

B. satirical

C. philosophical

D. dramatic

th century. 9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18 A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Industrial Revolution

C. The Religious Reform

D. The Enlightenment

10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.

A. aristocratic

B. middle class

C. low class

D. intellectual

11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.

A. Steele

B. Milton

C. Addison

D. Pope

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th century was ____ . What stream of the 18the writers

12.The main literary

described in their works were mainly social realities.

A. romanticism

B. classicism

C. realism

D. sentimentalism

th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period

The 1813.

spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.

A. drama

B. poetry

C. essay

D. novel

14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which made him well-known as a satirist.

A. A Tale of Tub

B. Bickerstaff Almanac

C. Gulliver's Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.

A. Essays on Criticism

B. A Modest Proposal

C. Gulliver's Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.”This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

17._____'s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which

contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

18.Henry Fielding's first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of

ridiculing Pamela.

A. Tom Jones

B. Joseph Andrews

C.Jonathan Wild

D.Amelia

19.____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.

A. Roderick Random

B. Humphry Clinker

C. Peregrine Pickle

D. A Sentimental Journey

20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is derived the term “malapropism”which means a ridiculous misusage of big