英国文学史习题3

I. Choose the best answer for each blank.

1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Robert Burns

C. William Blake

D. Geoffrey Chaucer

2. A Red, Red Rose is a(n)______.

A. lyric

B. satirical poem

C. epic

D. ode

3. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre-romanticism were______.

A. Alexander Pope

B. William Blake

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

4. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.

A. Church of England

B. Puritanism

C. Calvinism

D. Catholicism

5. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.

A. James I

B. James II

C. Charles I

D. Charles II

6. Which of the following is not correct about the Revolution of 1688?

A. the supremacy of Parliament

B. the beginning of modern England

C. the triumph of the principle of political liberty

D. the Restoration of monarchy

7. In the last twenty years of the 18th century, England produced two great romantic poets. They are _____.

A. Johnson and Blake

B. Gray and Young

C. Pope and Goldsmith

D. Blake and Burns

8. The object of ______ novels was to present a faithful picture of life, with sound teaching woven into their texture.

A. John Bunyan’s

B. Alexander Pope’s

C. Jonathan Swift’s

D. Henry Fielding’s

9. ______ brings Henry Fielding the name of the “prose Homer.”

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Tom Jones

C. Robinson Crusoe

D. Colonel Jack

10. ________ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century..

A. Alexander Pope

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Samuel Johnson

D. George Bernard Shaw

11. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is regarded as the most representative work of _________.

A. the Metaphysical School

B. the Graveyard School

C. the Gothic School

D. the Romantic School

12. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, __________ best and most representative work has been ranked among the best of the 18th century English poetry.

A. Alexander Pope’s

B. Thomas Gray’s

C. Robert Burns’

D. William Blake’s

13. In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _______.

A. aristocratic class

B. enterprising landlords

C. rising bourgeoisie

D. hard-working people

14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce _____ to England.

A. rationalism

B. criticism

C. romanticism

D. realism

15. Along with the fast economic development in the 18th century in England, the British _______ also grew very rapidly.

A. bourgeois

B. proletarians

C. aristocratic class

D. royal family

16. An Essay on Man is a didactic poem written in _______.

A. heroic couplets

B. English sonnet

C. blank verse

D. Italian sonnet

17. _______ by Pope is a comprehensive study of the theories of literary criticism, exerting great influence upon his contemporary writers in advocating the classical rules and popularizing the neoclassicist tradition in England.

A. An Essay on Man

B. The Dunciad

C. The Essays

D. An Essay on Criticism

18. During the reign of reason the enlightenment meant education of people to free them from all the unreasonable fetters which include______.

A. theology

B. conventional ideology

C. feudal government

D. all the above

19. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English bourgeoisie in the ______century.

A. 17th

B. 18th

C. 19th

D. 20th

20. The 18th century England is known as the _______ in the history.

A. Romanticism

B. Enlightenment

C. Classicism

D. Renaissance

21. Fielding has been termed 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 English novel