英国文学史及选读1_2册复习

《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点
1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题）
2. Romance （名词解释）
3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story
4. Ballad（名词解释，歌谣，民谣）
5. Character of Robin Hood
6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet)
7. Heroic couplet (名词解释,英雄偶句诗)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia
10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene”
13. Francis Bacon “essays”esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读）
14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。

他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。

（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读）
15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。

对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。

16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress
17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images.
18. Enlightenment（名词解释）
19. Neoclassicism（名词解释）
20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler”
21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。

22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions
23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his w orkmanship (features) and limitations
24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。

25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature.
26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。

另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe 是forerunner of English realistic novel。

27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison”
28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。

他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel.
29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传
30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal”
31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted Village” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy),“She stoops to Conquer” (comedy), “The Citizen of the World” (collection of essays)
32. Sentimentalism（名词解释）
33. Thomas Gray——“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”（英国诗歌里非常著名的一首，曾经被誉为“有史以来英国诗歌里最好的一首”）(a representative of sentimentalism and graveyard school of poets墓园派诗人)
* Graveyard School / Poets”: A term applied to eighteenth-century poets who wrote meditative poems, usually set in a graveyard, on the theme of human mortality, in moods which range from elegiac pensiveness to profound gloom. The vogue
re sulted in one of the most widely known English poems, Thomas Gray’s “Elegy written in a country churchyard”. The writing of graveyard poems spread from England to Continental literature in the second part of the century and also influenced some American poets.
34. In the latter half of the 18th century, Pre-Romanticism; representative: William Blake and Robert Burns.
35. Thomas Percy——“Reliques of Ancient English poetry”许多中古的民谣都是在这个时期重新收集和整理起来的，这个集子是那个时代比较有名的一个民谣集。

36. William Blake比较重要，需要对主要作品有所了解，特别是Songs of Innocence 和Songs of Experience, 这两本集子的contrast一定要注意，另外Blake的写作特点也要注意，比如语言的简单明了，神秘主义氛围等。

37. Robert Burns伟大的苏格兰民族诗人, A Red Red Rose, Scots Wha Hae, Auld Lang Syne等名诗，写作特点: Scottish dialect; a poet of peasant and Scottish people; plain language; influence from Scottish folk songs and ballads; musical quality of his poems.
Exercise One
I. Select from the 4 choices the one that best answers the questions or completes the statements.
1. Beowulf is a national epic of _______.
a. Germany
b. England
c. Scandinavia
d. France
2. Beowulf fought against all of the following figures except _____.
a. Green knight
b. Fire dragon
c. Grendel
d. Grendel’s mother
3. Beowulf is characterized by one of the following striking features _______.
a. use of simile
b. alliteration
c. satire
d. irony
4. Beowulf was written down in the ______.
a. 8th century
b. 9th century
c. 10th century
d. 11th century
5. Sir Gawain and Green knight was created by ______.
a. Chaucer
b. Langland
c. Bede
d. None of the above
6. Piers the Plowman is similar to the work in form written by _____.
a. Chaucer
b. Shakespeare
c. Marlory
d. Bunyan
7. Besides the Ballads, one of the following works remained a form of popular literature in the medieval England _____.
a. Troilus and Criseyde
b. Piers the Plowman
c. Sir Gawain and Green Knight
d. Le Morte D’ Arthur
8. The pilgrims went to Canterbury in order to ______.
a. visit the city
b. worship Thomas a Becket
c. do business
d. worship Jesus Christ
9. According to the original plan, Chaucer expected to finish ______.
a. 120 stories
b. 100 stories
c. 140 stories
d. 130 stories
10. The one who proposed the story telling in the Canterbury Tales is _____.
a. the poet
b. the knight
c. the boss
d. the monk
11. Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he describes the classes of English feudal society except ______.
a. businessman and teachers
b. nobles and yeoman
c. plowman and royal members
d. kings and serfs
12. One of the following events played a greater part in Chaucer’s writing _____.
a. his marriage with a girl of the noble family
b. his visit to Italy
c. his duty as controller of customs
d. his participation in the Hundred Years’ War
13. The language used by Chaucer is called ______.
a. old English
b. middle English
c. modern English
d. contemporary English
14. Robin Hood is similar to King Arthur in that _____.
a. both of them are Welsh men
b. both of them are legendary figures
c. both of them are historical figures
d. both of them are half historical and half legendary
15. The success of the Canterbury Tales lies in the use of the following except _______.
a. use of couplet
b. portrayal of characters
c. use of alliteration
d. construction of plot
16. Chaucer’s contribution to English literature lies in the fact that he introduced the rhymed stanzas from France and that he ____.
a. made London dialect foundation of modern English
b. wrote the first English blank verse
c. wrote the English sonnet
d. made London dialect foundation of medieval English
17. Test of courage, faith, and loyalty is the theme of a ______.
a. romance
b. play
c. novel
d. ballad
18. Le Morte d’ Arthur describes the war, the tournament, illicit love and the quest for _____.
a. Christ
b. the Sangreal
c. Bible
d. King Arthur
II. Fill in the blanks
After •he •went •blind, •Milton •wrote •and •finished ••his ••three ••great ••works:•epic masterpieces _________and ________and one biblical tragedy ___________.
The old English can be divided into two groups: the ________poetry and the ________poetry.
3. _________is regarded as the “Father of English Song”, the first known religious poet of England.
4. _________the most prevailing literary form in the Middle Ages.
5. The most magnificent pr ose work of the 15th century is Morte d’ Arthur concerning with _________legend.
6. Critics tend to divide Chaucer’s literary into three periods: the _________ period, the _________period and the _________period.
7. The Canterbury Tales contains the _________and 24 tales, two of which left unfinished.
8. Chaucer employed the _________couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury Tales
9. When Chaucer died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in _________.
10. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, _________, tragedies and ____-_____.
11. Edmund Spenser is often referred to as “the poets” _________because of his considerable influence on later poets.
12. Edmund Spenser’s best known poem The Shepherd’s Calendar consists of 12_________poems or eclogues, one for each month of the year.
13. _________is considered the first English dramatist and the most important Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare.
14. Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets fall into two series: one series are addressed to W.H, a young man, and the other addressed to _________.
15. A Shakespearean sonnet is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding two-line _________.
III. Match the writers with their works.
1. Shakespeare a. Paradise Lost
2. Chaucer b. Piers the Plowman
3. Malory c. Alchemist
4. Langland d. The Taming of the Shrew
5. Marlowe e. Dr. Faustus
6. Jonson f. Le Morte d’ Arthur
7. Sidney g. The Pilgrim’s Progress
8. Spenser h. The Canterbury Tales
9. Bunyan i. The Faerie Queene
10. Milton j. Astrophel and Stella
VI. Terms.
1. Humanism
2. Metaphysical Poets
3. Cavalier Poets
4. Romance
5. University Wits
V. Literary exercise:
Passage 1
To die, to sleep
No more and by a sleep to say we end
The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devotedly to be wished. To die, to sleep
To sleep-perchance to dream: ay there’s the rub, For in that sleep of death what dream may come? When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us a pause. There’s the respect That makes calamity of so long life.
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office, and the spurns,
The patient merit of th’ unworthy takes
QUESTION:
1. These lines are taken from a famous play named________.
2. The author of the play is____________.
3. In the play these lines are uttered by ____________.
4. About the utterance what does the speech show?
Passage 2
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee..
Questions:
1. This is one of Shakespea re’s best known______.
a. sonnets b, ballads c, songs
2. It runs in iambic pentameter rhymed in_________.
3. The fourteen lines include three stanzas according to their content with the last two lines as ______which complete the sense of the whole poem.
a. prelude
b. couplet
c. epigraph
Passage 3
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some boos also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things. Questions:
1. This passage is taken from a famous essay written by______.
2. What is the title of this passage?
3. What’s the theme of the article?
Passage 4
The youngster was in clothed in scarlet red,
In scarlet fine and gay;
And he did frisk it over the plain,
And chanted a roundelay.
As Robin Hood next morning stood,
Amongst the leaves so gay;
There did he espy the same young man,
Come drooping along the way.
The scarlet he wore the day before,
It was clean cast away;
And at every step he fetched a sigh,
Alack and well-a-day!”
Questions:
1. The above stanzas are taken from _________.
2. The youngster referred in the poem is ______.
3. This poem is typical a poem of _______.
VI. Answer the questions briefly.
1. How does Chaucer connect his tales together in the Canterbury Tales?
2. What are the similarities between Milton and Samson?
3. What is the theme of each of the four great tragedies of Shakespeare?
4. What are the features of Shakespeare’s great comedies?
5. What are the main characteristics of Shakespeare’s four dramatic periods?
Ⅶ. Analyze the characters.
1. Hamlet
2. Falstaff
答案
I. 1.b 2.a 3.b 4.c 5.d 6.d 7c 8.b 9.a 10.c 11.d 12.b 13.b 14.d 15.c 16.a 17.a 18.b
II. 1. Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes 2. secular/ pagan, religious/Christian 3. Caedmon 4. Romance 5. Arthurian 6. French; Italian English 7. General Prologue 8. heroic 9. Westminister Abbey 10. comedies, romances 11. poet 12. pastoral 13. Christopher Marlowe 14. dark lady 15. couplet
III. 1.d 2.h 3.f 4.b 5.e 6. c 7.j 8.i 9.g 10.a
VI.
1. Humanism is the key-note of the Renaissance. It reflected the new outlook of the rising bourgeois class. Humanists emphasize the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life and believe that man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of this life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders by removing all the external checks by the exercise of reason. They also expressed their rebellious spirit against the tyranny of feudal rule and ecclesiastical domination.
2. The Metaphysical Poets appeared in England at about the beginning of the 17th century. They sought to shatter myths and replace them with new philosophies, new sciences, new world and new poetry. With a rebellious spirit, they favored in poetry a more colloquial language, a single-minded working of one theme. Besides, they tended to logically reason the things, esp. emotions, psychologically analyze the emotions of love and religion, love the novelty and the shocking, use the metaphysical conceits, and ignore the conventional devices. The works of these poets are characterized by mysticism in content and fantasticality in form. John Donne is the founder of the Metaphysical School.
3.Cavalier Poets prevailed in the 17th century. Most of these poets were courtiers and soldiers. They sided with the king to fight against the
revolution. The representatives of this school are Sir John Suckling, Richard Lovelace and so on.
4. The romance was a long composition, sometimes in verse, sometimes in prose, describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually the
knight, and involves a large amount of fighting as well as a number of miscellaneous adventures; it makes liberal use of the improbable, often supernatural and includes romantic love. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” is an example of a medieval romance.
5. University Wits: After 1588, the flourishing period of English drama arrived. The summit was Shakespeare’s works. Before Shakespeare, a group
of university graduates known as “University Wits”wrote excellent plays. They were John Lyly, Robert Greene, George Peele, Christopher Marlowe, and Thomas Kyd. Christopher Marlowe was the most gifted of the “University Wits”.
V.
Passage 1
1.“Hamlet”
2.Shakespeare
3.Hamlet
4.“To be or not to be” means to live or end one’s life by self-destruction.
Hamlet has already spoken of suicide as a means of escape, and he
dwells on it in a later part of this very speech, giving however a
different reason for refraining. The notion that in the words “or not to
be ” he is speculating on the possibility of “something after
death”---whether there is a future life –cannot be entertained for a
moment. The whole drift of the speech shows his belief in a future life.
Practically the whole speech has become proverbial as an outpouring of
utter worldly weariness.
Passage 2
1. A
2. ababcdcdefefgg
3. B
Passage 3
1.Francis Bacon
2. Of Studies
3. This article expresses the methods of studies and the methods of
reading books.
Passage 4
1. Robin Hood and Allin-a-Dale
2. Allin-a-Dale, a young hunter
3. ballad
VI. 此题是主观题，没有标准答案，这里只提供可供参考的关键点, 大家可以根据关键点合理的组织答案。

1.Chaucer's work consists of three parts: The General Prologue, 24 tales, two of which left unfinished and separate prologues to
each tale with links, comments, quarrels, etc. in between.
2.Like Samson, Milton has been betrayed by his wife. He has suffered from blindness and been scorned by his enemies, and yet
he has struggled heroically against his enemies. So the whole poem strongly suggests Milton's passionate longing that he too could bring destruction down upon the enemy at the cost of his own life.
3．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth are Shakespeare's great tragedies. They are associated with a period of gloom and sorrow in his life. During this period, England witnessed a general unrest, and social contradictions became very sharp. All of these plays express a profound dissatisfaction with life. They show the struggle and conflicts between good and evil of the tune, between justice and injustice. In these plays, the writer Shakespeare condemns the dark and evil society.
4．A Midsummer Night's Dream，The Merchant of Venice，As You Like It，Twelfth Night are Shakespeare’s great comedies.
In these plays he portrayed the young people who had just freed themselves from the feudal fetters. He sang of their youth, their love and ideal of happiness. The heroes and heroines were sons and daughters of the Renaissance. They trust not in God or King but in themselves. Shakespeare put women characters at a prominent place in his comedies. He showed great respect for the dignity, honesty, wit, courage, determination and resourcefulness of women. The young heroines in Shakespeare's comedies are independent in character and very frank. They are no longer controlled by their parents or husbands. They are of a new type. They are witty, bold, loving, laughing and faithful. They are happy and make others happy. They carry their destinies in their own hands. Shakespeare's comedies are imbued with bourgeois ideas and show progressive significance.
5．The first period is the period of his apprenticeship in play-writing. His work in this period relies not so much on character as on fine or witty speech and situation and bears the mark of youth, but of youth with astonishing versatility and wonderful talent. The comedies are chiefly concerned with the affairs of youth and full of romantic sentiment. In historical plays, the dramatist tried to handle political themes and give historical lessons.
The second period is a period of “great comedies” and mature historical plays. The dramatist made an advance in every way and the general spirit is optimism. In the historical plays of this period, different phrases of English life are shown before us. There is a great lift in characterization(人物创造)and sources the dramatist employed in this period are many and diversified. As a whole, this period is Shakespeare’s sweet and joyful time, in which he succeeds in portraying a magnificent panorama of the manifold pursuits of people in real life.
The third period is a period of “great tragedies” and “dark comedies”. In the plays of this period, the tragic note is aggravated. The sunshine and laughter of the second period has turned into clouds and storms. Even the comedies written in this period are known as “dark” because they give somber pictures of the world.
The fourth period is the period of romantic drama. With this period we turn from the storm, the gloom, and the whirlwind of the third period to “a great peacefulness of light”, and a harmony of earth and heaven.
Ⅶ. Analyze the characters. 此题主观题，大家可以任意发挥，这里只提供一些关键点。

1. Hamlet
The image of humanist, warrior, statesman, a very emotional soul, a daring, brave character who has a bad and violent temper
2. 1）Falstaff is a very complicated character. By origin he is a feudal knight. But now he has lost his estates and become an adventurer and parasite. He is fat, old, ugly, gross, and guilty of many sins.
2）He is also selfish, treacherous and cynical.
3）Falstaff comes to the battlefield without illusions.
4) Tradition has it that Queen Elizabeth was so amused by Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV that she ordered Shakespeare another play about him, and so Shakespeare wrote his comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor.
5) Falstaff is the product of a transition period when feudal ties are being dissolved and the capitalist society is not yet in birth.
《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题
I. 浪漫主义时期
I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.
1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.
A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads
B. the death of Sir Scott
C. the birth of William Wordsworth
D. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
2. The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____.
A. Novel
B. poetry
C. drama
D. prose
3. Romanticism does not emphasize_____.
A. the special qualities of each individual’s mind
B. the inner world of the human spirit
C. individuality
D. the features that men have in common
4._____ is not a Romantic poet.
A. William Blake
B. Sir Scott
C. P. B. Shelley
D. Lord Byron
5. _____ is a Romantic novelist but is impressed with neo-classic strains.
A. Walter Scott
B. Mary Shelley
C. Jane Austen
D. Ann Radcliff
6. _____ is not characteristic of William Blake’s writing.
A. plain and direct language
B. compression of meaning
C. supernatural quality
D. symbolism
7. Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.
A. Byron
B. Coleridge
C. Shelley
D. Keats
8. Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest.
A. the life of rising bourgeoisie
B. aristocratic life
C. the life of the royal family
D. common life
9. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.
A. Lord Byron’s
B. P. B. Shelley’s
C. John Keats’s
D. Samuel Coleridge’s
10. _____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.
A. Jane Eyre
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Emma
II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.
1. In essence, Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the_____as the very center of all life and all experience.
2. For the Romantics, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
3. Wordsworth is regarded as a “worshipper of _____.”
4. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about _____.
5. Coleridge’s achievement as poet can be divided into two remarkably diverse groups: _____ and the
conversational.
6. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “_____.”
7. “_____” is Shelley’s representative work.
8. _____ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature work.
9. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is a famous line in Keats’s “_____.”
10. _____is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s work.
III. Decide whether the following statements are true or false and write your answers in the brackets.
( )1. The Romantic period is also a great age of prose.
( )2. Romantics also tend to be nationalistic, defending their own literary heritage against the advocates of classical rules.
( )3. Coleridge has been rewarded as Poet Laureate.
( )4. Keats is one of the “Lake Poets.”
( )5. Jane Austen is a typical Romantic writer.
IV. Name the author of each of the following literary work.
1. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
2. Songs of Innocence
3. “Ode to a Nightingale”
4. “A Song: Men of England”
5. The Prelude
V. Define the literary terms listed below
1. Romanticism
2. Ode
VI. 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 it.
1….Be through my lips to unawakened Earth.
The trumpet of a prophecy! O, Wind,
If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
2. For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Keys:
I. 1.A 2.B 3.D 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.B 8.D 9.A 10.A
II.1.individual 2. human life 3.nature 4.human life
5.the demonic
6.Byronic hero
7. Ode to the West Wind
8. The odes 9. Ode on a Grecian Urn 10. Pride and Prejudice
III. 1.T 2.T 3.F 4.F 5.F
IV. 1.Coleridge 2. Blake 3. Keats 4. Shelley 5. Wordsworth
V. 1. Romanticism is a movement that flourished in literature, philosophy, music and art in western culture during most of the nineteenth century, beginning as a revolt against classicism. There have been many varieties of Romanticism in many different times and places. The leading features of Romantic movements are Wordsworth, Shelley, etc.
2. Ode is a complex and often lengthy lyric poem, written in a dignified formal style on some lofty or serious subject. Odes are often written for a special occasion, to honour a person or a season or to commemorate an event.
VI. 1. It is taken from Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. In this poem, Shelley eulogizes the powerful west wind and expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality. In these last lines, the poet shows his optimistic spirit for the future.
2. It is taken from Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.” The poet thinks that it is a bliss to recollect the beauty of nature in his mind while he is in solitude. He expresses his strong affecting for nature in the poem.
II.维多利亚时期
I. Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets
1. The Victorian period roughly began at the enthronement of Queen Victoria in_____.
A. 1835
B. 1836
C. 1837
D. 1838
2. The critical realists like Charles Dickens in the Victorian period wrote novels_____.
A. representing the 18th century realist novel
B. criticizing the society
C. defending the mass
E. all the above
3. _____is not a Victoria novelist.
A. Charles Dickens
B. George Eliot
C. William Makepeace Thackeray
D. D. H. Lawrence
4. _____ is not a work by Charles Dickens.
A. Oliver Twist
B. David Copperfield
C. Middlemarch
D. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by_____.
A. Charlotte Bronte
B. Emily Bronte
C. Anne Bronte
D. Branwell Bronte
6. _____ is not Thomas Hardy’s work.
A. The Mill on the Floss
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
C. Jude the Obscure
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
7. “My Last Duchess” is _____.
A. a dramatic monologue
B. a short lyric
C. a novel
D. an essay
8. Tennyson’s “Ulysses” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.
A. Homer’s Odessey
B. Joyce’s Ulysses
C. Dante
D. Greek Mythology
9. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.
A. romanticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
10. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. The Canterbury Tales。