英美文学复习资料

Part One: English Literature

Chapter I An Introduction to Old and Medieval English Literature & The Renaissance Period

I. Choose the right answer:

1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A.British/ immorality

B.French/money

C.German/knowledge

D.American/political power

Answer: C (可参考课本P21)

2. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A.The Wife’s Complaint

B.Beowulf

C.The Dream of the Rood

D.The Seafarer

Answer: B (可参考课本P1)

3.It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.

A.The Canterbury Tales

B.The Legend of Good Women

C.Troilus and Criseyde

D. The Romaunt of the Rose.

Answer: A (可参考课本P4)

4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.

A. Geographical exploration

B. Religious reformation

C. Publishing and translation

D. Humanism.

Answer: D (可参考课本P8)

5. “Prince Arthur’s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love through a love vision.”The two figures come from_____.

A.Paradise Lost

B.Dr. Faustus

C.The Faerie Queene

D.Hamlet

Answer: C (可参考课本P13)

6. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.

A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.

B.Satirize human’s vanity.

C.Predict the eternity of love.

D.Eulogize the power of the beauty.

Answer: A (P37)

7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ’blank verse’ the principle vehicle of expression in drama.

A.Surrey

B.Wyatt

C.Marlowe

D.Sidney

Answer: C (P21)

8. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.

A.Hamlet

B.King Lear

C.Romeo and Juliet

D.Othello

Answer: C (P33)

9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ’real mainstream (真正的文学主流)’ was ____.

A.Victoria/poetry

B.Elizabeth/ drama

C.Mary/ novel

D.James/ drama

Answer: B (P11)

10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet