英国文学史选读试卷(A卷)

苏州科技学院期末考试试题（卷）

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I. In this section, there are 15 items. Write in the blanks the letter representing the correct answer from the four options given. 1%*15=15%

1. John Bunyan’s style was modeled after that of ____________.

a. Chaucer

b. English Bible

c. Church service

d. French poetry

2. ___________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

a. The Pilgrim’s Progress

b.The Holy War

c. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman

d. The Vanity Fair

3. Daniel Defoe had a gift for organizing _______ in such a vivid way that his stories could be

both credible and fascinating.

a. minute details

b. beautiful words

c. imaginations

d. exciting event

4. Jonathan Swift’s satire is usually masked by _______, so it becomes even more bitter.

a. a smile

b. an outward gravity

c. kindness

d. praise

5. Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English _____________.”

a. poetry

b. novel

c. drama

d. fiction

6. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must

be in want of a wife” is the first sentence in the novel _______________.

a. Gulliver’s Travels

b.Wuthering Heights

c.Jane Eyre

d. Pride and Prejudice

7. William Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and

poems about _________________.

a. love

b. human life

c. freedom

d. social activities

8. Don Juan is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ________ of the early 19th century.

a. comedy

b. tragedy

c. comic epic

d. novel

9. The name of the heroine in the play The Merchant of Venice is ______________.

a. Emily

b. Catherine

c. Portia

d. Helen

10. John Donne is the leading figure of the English _________________.

a. romantic poets

b. realistic poets

c. metaphysical poets

d. impressionist poets

11. Paradise Lost is regarded as the greatest and the only generally acknowledged _________ in

English literature since Beowulf.

a. epic

b. elegy

c. eulogy

d. lyric

12. In Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe glorifies _______________.

a. adventures on the sea

b. human labor

c. English sailors

d. universal love

13. Thomas Gray’s poems as a whole are mostly devoted to a sentimental ____________.

a. meditation on life

b. exposure of the evils

c. comments on the society

d. revelation of the darkness

14. William Blake writes his poems in _____________ language.

a. rich and colorful

b. plain and direct

c. formal and serious

d. elegant and graceful

15. “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of

Shakespeare’s_______________.

a. songs

b. plays

c. comedies

d. sonnets

II. Define the following terms. 5%*3=15%

1. sonnet

2. Byronic hero

3. heroic couplet

III. For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret the italicized parts. If no part is italicized in a quotation, you are required to interpret the whole

quotation. There are altogether 6 items in this part. You are required to choose any 5 of them to answer. If you have done all the 6 items, only the first 5 will be

assessed. 6%*5=30%

1. …What though the field be lost?

All is not lost: the unconquerable will,

And study of revenge, immortal hate,

And courage never to submit or yield:

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