英国文学史及选读试卷

英国文学史及选读试卷

Part One

I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your choice on the answer sheet.

1. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the

beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s____. ( )

A. comedies

B. tragedies

C. histories

D. sonnets

2. _____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. ( )

A. The Pilgrim’s process

B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners

C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

D. The Holy War

3. Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was one of

the first to introduce rationalism to England? ( )

A. John Bunyan

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Alexander Pope

D.

Jonathan Swift

4. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, who was the first to set out,

both in theory and practice, to write a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style? ( )

A. Thomas Gray

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Henry Fielding

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. Which of the following is not true about Renaissance? ( )

A. Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.

B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the

14th and 15th

centuries persisted well into the era of humanism and Reformation.

C. It was Chaucer, who initiated the Reformation.

D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main stream

of the English Renaissance.

7. “ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. ”

What does “this ” refer to? ( )

A. lover

B. time

C. summer

D. poetry

8. Fielding has been regarded by some as “____”, for his

contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. ( )

A. Best Writer of the English Novel

B. Father of the English Novel

C. the most gifted writer of the English novel

D. conventional writer of the English novel

9. It is ____alone who, for the first time in English literature,

presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life. ( )

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Matin Luther

C. William Langland

D. John Gower

10. 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

the religious reformation and the economic expansion

11. ____ was the first person who introduced printing into England?

( )

A. William Caxton

B. Virgil

C. Homer

D. Plutarch

12. Which of the following statements is not the reason for that

Edmund Spenser is famous for “the poet’s poet”? ( )

A. Spenser’s idealism

B. his struggle for criteria