英国文学期末考试试题

Part I Multiple Choice (30 points, 30×1)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are thirty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf?
2. English Renaissance Period was an age of .
3. The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged
as the greatest. Besides him, there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and .
4 .The greatest poet of the Middle English period is__________ ,the father of English
poetry.
5. Which of the following can be said of the essence of the Renaissance?
6. In Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, which of the following is the typical characte ristic the heroes share in common?
7. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about the tendency of _______
8. “The curfew tolls the knell of parting day/ The lowing herd wind slowly o’er the lea” These lines are taken from ________.
9. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is __________.
10. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events,
which one of the following is not such an event?
11. Don Juan is written by __________.
12. Heathcliff is character of the novel ____________.
13. Which of the following works were not written by Defoe?
14. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true?
15. The 18th-century England is known as ________
16. ________ compiled The Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of
all the subsequent English dictionaries.
17. English Romanticism began in 1798 with the publication of ________and ended in 1832
with’s ________ death and the passage of the first Reform Bill.
18. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? ________.
19. Which of the following statements is true about John Keats’ poetry? ________.
20. Jane Austen’s main literary concern is about the following except ________.
21. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age are
the followings except ________.
22. Which of the following groups is not written by Charles Dickens? ________.
23. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term ________.
24. In many of Hardy’s novels, the fate of the characters is always driven by ________.
25. Murder in the Cathedral, with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular
of________ verse plays in spite of its primarily religious purpose.
26. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is ________.
27. Much of Bernard Shaw’s drama is constructed around the ________of a conventional
theatrical situation. The device is an integral part of an interpretation of life.
28. In her works, George Eliot is deeply concerned with the people and life of her time and tries to
pursue________.
29. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
________.
30. In his novels, Lawrence made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationships
and believed that ________.
31. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of
Shakespeare’s ________.
32. “And where are they? And where art thou,”
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more!”（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan）
In the above stanza, “art thou” literally means _______ .
33. Which of the following can be said of the essence of the Renaissance? ________.
34. The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of
his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
35. Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth
century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
36. _______ is a typical feature of Swift's writings.
37. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And
if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
39. The Pilgrim’s Pr ogress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for
_______ .
40. Alexander Pope strongly advocated _______, emphasizing that literary works should be
judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
41. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet
is a woman of _______ .
42. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, _______ was the first to set out, both in theory and
practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose,” and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
43. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his description of the simple
and beautiful though primitive rural life.
44. We can perhaps describ e the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all
the following terms except _______.
45. In his novels, Lawrence made a bold psychological exploration of various human relationships
and believed that ________.
46. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ________.
47. ________was composed in a dream after Coleridge took opium.
48. Britain witnessed two major romantic poets in the latter half of the 18th century. They are
________.
49. Jane Austen’s main li terary concern is about the following except ________.
50. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age are
the followings except ________.
51. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term ________.
52. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is ________.
53. In her works, George Eliot is deeply concerned with the people and life of her time and tries to
pursue________.
54. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
________.
55. In the last few decades of the 18th century, the neoclassicism was gradually replaced by
________.
Part II Match ( 10 points, 10×1)
Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them into the Table.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Henry Fielding
C. Walter Scott
D. George Gorden Byron
E. William Makepeace Thackeray
F. Thomas Hardy
G. James Joyce
H. Charles Dickens
I. T. S. Eliot
J. Oscar Wilde
Part III Terms
Directions: In this part of the test, there are five terms. Please give the definition for these terms. Scores will be given for the related contents. (20 points, 4x5)
1. Epic
2. Soliloquy
3. Romanticism
4. Realism
5. Modernism
6. Renaissance
7. Classicism
8.
Romanticism 9. Stream of consciousness 10. Heroic couplet
Part IV Appreciation
(20 points 6, 7, 7)
Directions: In this part of the test, there are three excerpts. Each of the excerpts is followed by several questions. Read the excerpts and answer the questions.
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, William Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, William Shakespeare ：Sonnet 18 William Blake：The Typer Robert Burns：A Red Red Rose
PART V COMMENT
(20 points 1×20)
Directions: Choose one of the following questions to write an ESSAY of at least 200 words. 1. Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine in Pride and Prejudice, is often regarded as the most successful character created by Jane Austen. Make a brief comment on Elizabeth’s character.
2. Make a brief comment on Pride and Prejudice.。