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C.The Legend of Good WomenD.The Book of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.
A. engineer B. courtier C. office holder
A. Morte d’ArthurB.Robin Hood
C. The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in Londonin about 1340.
A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland B. GowerC.Wycliffe D. Chaucer
A.Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
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Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudiusth century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ . 2. In the 14A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland's ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d'Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d'ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer's earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love thth centuries not only in allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13 and14France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess 314. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio's poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices： 1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales. Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More A.Apology for Poetry2.Holinshed B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets3.Hakluyt C.Utopia4.Richard Tottel D.Discovery of Guiana5.Philip Sidney E.Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries6.Walter Raleigh F.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation”and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interestsof the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the4declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits”was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classicalplays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton's Needle16.Shakespeare's plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances”andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare's ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter's TaleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare's Sonnet，Never before Imprinted《莎士比亚十（四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.5A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the _____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndale's Bible.6.After Tydale's Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been _____ and _____.9.A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated by himself.617.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed tothe development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton's publications is also great in fixing a ____ language in England.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ asa whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance”means ________, which was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which the rhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborerswere the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations andThe 1629.the establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when, according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil's Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel's Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___7among the laboring classes.37.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40.The “miracles”were simple plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____. 46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the ____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____.th century _____ became the centre of English drama. In the 1650.51.By ____,professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women's parts were always taken by ____.54.Shakespeare's narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare's dramatic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare's drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare's _____ people represent all the complexities and implications of real life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible10.simple; dignified11.Protestantism; Catholicism William Caxton 2.12.3.Reading; literature Protestants13.FirstJohn Wycliffe; Reformation 4.14.Shakespeare 5.William Tyndal15.Authorized Version, James I; 6.Printer; publisher16.King James Bible. 100; 24th ; prose nguage; literature 7.18.fixed; confirmed 8.NationalBible coinages9.Publisher; culture 19. 8thth 37.14private ownership ; 1720.21.Religious reformation 38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean22.feudalist ideas; interests; 39.Dramapurity 40.Bible23.Humanism; human mind; 41.realhuman culture 42.Conflict; evil; allegorical24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; 43.ClownThe Faerie Queene; 44.Greek; Latinababbcbcc 45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedyth16Lancaster; York 46.25.26.The Reformation 47.Gammer Gurton's Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝27.the Enclosure Movement; 衣针》proletarians 48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》28.printing 49.Drama29.feudal; capitalism 50.London30.sheep devours men 51.156731.William VIII 52.Elizabethan theatres32.Renaissance 53.actress; boys33.Henry Howard, Earl of 54.countrysideSurrey 55.master34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, 56.adaptation (revision)Henry Howard, Earl of 57.RenaissanceSurrey 58.master-hand (能手)35.poetry 59.full-blood36.Utopia, Book One; povertyⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King's power, come tothe fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney's collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.911.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton's Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare's sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare's sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare's one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare's plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More's masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More's Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton's Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare's death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare's history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare's historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare's art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson's comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in his 10comedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson's later years he became the “literary king”of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4.F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5.F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7.F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.T 11Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare's drama?4.Remember Shakespeare's major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe's social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The rhyme scheme of Milton's L'Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people's freedom of the press, has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ's NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne's own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert's ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton's ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?11A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.2.The Pilgrim's Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim's Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.th century lies in the of the 17poetry of John 10.The main literary achievements Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticismof ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton's ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton's masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.th _______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 1815. century.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton's belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim's Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature. th century we may hear the voices of the the half the 18.In second of 17private citizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:121.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim's Progress)4.(John Bunyan's)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)13III.Say true or false.th century were 17over land parliamentary The major clashes of the early1.ownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between thetwo antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the country.th century witnessed a flourish on the whole. 6.English literature of the 177.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife's death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles thecourt of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne's Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1.F (ownership: monopolies) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)2.F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley) 11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)3.F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell) 12.F (first: second)4.F (Donne: Milton) 13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)5.F (James I: Charles I) 14.F (Satan: God)6.F (flourish: decline) 15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)7.T (William Shakespeare) 16.T8.F (William: John) 17.T9.F (drama: poetry)14IV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim's Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English CenturyⅠ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A B1. ( ) Tome Jones a.Friday2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield b.King of Brodingnag3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe c.Sophia4. ( ) Gulliver's Travels d.Mr. B5. ( ) Pamela e.William Thornhill6. ( ) The School for Scandal f.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison's great tragedy.A.A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors th century. all through the 18A. Jeremy Taylor's Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne's Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys's diariesD. Addison's Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramaticth century. 9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 1815A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Industrial RevolutionC. The Religious ReformD. The Enlightenment10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.A. aristocraticB. middle classC. low classD. intellectual11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.A. SteeleB. MiltonC. AddisonD. Popeth century was ____ 18. What the writersthe 12.The main literary stream ofdescribed in their works were mainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalismth century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this periodThe 1813.spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.A. dramaB. poetryC. essayD. novel14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which made him well-known as a satirist.A. A Tale of TubB. Bickerstaff AlmanacC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.A. Essays on CriticismB. A Modest ProposalC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.”This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.。
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英国文学史1.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”openwell-known essays by_________.Francis Bacon Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift[参考答案] Francis Bacon2.When he died, Chaucer was buried in __________ the Poet's Corner.Westminster Abbey Normandy Canterbury Southwark[参考答案] Westminster Abbey3.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for hisproduction of .Piers Plowman Sir Gawain and the Green KnightConfessio Amantis The Canterbury Tales[参考答案] The Canterbury Tales4.The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland's _________.The Legend of Good Woman The Vison of Piers the PlowmanBoewulf Fables[参考答案] The Vison of Piers the Plowman5.Which literary genra does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belong to?epic romance novel prose[参考答案] romance6.English literature at the Anglo-Norman Period was also a combination of ____ andSaxon elements.Latin Greek English French[参考答案] French7.In the 14th century, the two most important writers are_____ and ChaucerCaedmon Cynewulf Langland Shakespeare[参考答案] Langland8.Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song ofBeowulf?Hrothgat Heorot Grendel Beowulf[参考答案] Grendel9.The most important work of_____is The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,which is regardedas the best monument of the old English prose.Alfred the Great Caedmon Cynewulf Venerable Bede[参考答案] Alfred the Great10.The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of_____.monks romanticists sentimentalists pagan[参考答案] paganing line of11.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginnone of Shakespeare’ｓ.comedies tragedies histories sonnets[参考答案] sonnets12.In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which oneis not true?French literature Italian literature English literature German litereature [参考答案] German litereature13.Who is the "father of English poetry" and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEnglish?Geoffrey Chaucer Martin Luther William Langland John Gower [参考答案] Geoffrey Chaucer14.In the 15th century, there is only one important prose writer whose namen is_____.He wrote an important work called Le Morte d'Arthur.Thomas Marlory Langland Chaucer Adam Bede[参考答案] Thomas Marlory16.________'s Essays is t he first example of that genre in English literature, whichhas been highly esteemed.John Donne John Milton Francis Bacon Edmund Spenser[参考答案] Francis Bacon17.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.heroic couplet quatrain Spenserian stanza terza rima[参考答案] quatrain18.In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _______.Lilliput Brobdingnag Houyhnhnm England[参考答案] Lilliput19. is the successful religious allegory in the English language .The Pilgrim’s Progress Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners The Life and Death of Mr. Badman The Holy War[参考答案] The Pilgrim’s Progress20.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of RobinsonGrusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe George Eliot wrence[参考答案] Daniel Defoe21.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented byJohn Donne's works?Common speech Conceit Argument Refined Language [参考答案] Common speech22.The lines"Death ,but not proud,though some have clled thee/Mighty andpowerful,for thou are not so" are found in_____.William Wordsworth's writings John Keat's writingsJohn Donne's writings Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings [参考答案] John Donne's writings23.The story of Paradise Lost is taken from _________.a legend Bible an epic a folklore[参考答案] Bible24.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which,contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of thecommon people.romantic realistic prophetic idealistic[参考答案] realistic25.As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms andsatires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically,religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.Moll Flanders Gulliver’s TravelsPilgrim’s Progress The School for Scandal[参考答案] Gulliver’s Travels26.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of thevices of his age.religious romantic satirical comic[参考答案] satirical27.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___.A..attack the sun as an unruly servantB..give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie[参考答案] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty28.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of theBennet family.high opinion great admiration low opinion erroneous view[我的答案] low opinion29.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn”？A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!” B.“They are both gone up to the church to pray.” C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.” D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.[我的答案] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.30."And where are they? And where art thou,/ My country? On thou voiceless shore/The heroic lay is tuneless now-/The heroic bossom beats no more!"(GeorgeGordon Byron, Don Juan) In the above stanaz, "art thou" literally means_________."art you" "are though" "art though" "are you"[我的答案] "are you"31.Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventuresor other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.Christian knightly Greek primitive[我的答案] knightly32.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothicromance.[我的答案] It predominated in the early eighteenth century.33.“ Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewedand digested;”( Of Studies). Here Bacon compares reading to.walking eating drinking acting[我的答案] eating34.Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle-class man of the18thcentury,the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Gulliver Tom Jones[我的答案] Robinson Crusoe35. _______ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became thefoundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.Ben Jonson Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope John Dryden[我的答案] Samuel Johnson36.Donne’s famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass affords a pr imeexample of .dramatic style exaggeration paradox conceit[我的答案] conceit37.Which of the following shows in a more implicit way that the poet was touched bythe song of the solitary reaper?I listened, motionless land still Will no one tell me what she sings ?I saw her singing at her work. The music in my heart I bore.[我的答案] I listened, motionless land still38.What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear,sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thingfor our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from_____________.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Emily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsJohn Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga George Eliot’s Middlemarch[我的答案] Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice39.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .poetry and drama drama and novel novel and poetry romance and poetry[我的答案] poetry and drama40.The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet “To be , or not to be’ shows his_______.hatred for his uncle love for lifeinner- strife resolution of revenge[我的答案] inner- strifebooks are to be tasted, others to besaid:“Some41.In his essay“Of Studies,”Baconswallowed, and some few to be chewed and____________.”skimmed perfected imitated digested[我的答案] digested42.Beowulf, the oldest great long poem ever written in English, is composed in a formof .epics lyrics folk songs sagas[我的答案] epics43.”_______” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.Tintern Abbey The Rime of the Ancient MarinerLyrical Ballads Prelude[我的答案] Lyrical Ballads44.____ is central to Blake’s concern in his Songs of Innocence and Songs ofExperience.Politics Religion Childhood Manhood[我的答案] Childhood45.Shakespeare wrote ___________sonnets.125 154 245 138[我的答案] 15446.“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this , and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?Lover Time Summer Poetry[我的答案] Poetry47.Keats was born in the family of a ______________.landlord apothecary stable keeper doctor[我的答案] stable keeper48.In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compares the commonfolk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the .chance love money material sources[我的答案] chance49.In ________, Shakespeare h as not only made a profound analysis of the socialcrisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth[我的答案] King Lear50."Poetry is spontaneous"was put forward by _______.Robert Burns William Blake William Wordsworth Charles Lamb[我的答案] William Wordsworth51.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT .A.the using of everyday language spoken by the common people.B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.C.the humble and rustic life as subject matter.D.elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.[我的答案] elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.52.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's idealwomen-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency."The Merchant of Venice" "As You Like It""King Lear""Twelfth Night"[我的答案] "The Merchant of Venice"53.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.Surrey Wyatt Sidney Shakespeare[我的答案] Wyatt54.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .ballad sonnet heroic couplet Spenserian stanza[我的答案] ballad55.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is________.humanism realism naturalism skepticism[我的答案] humanism56.What flourished in Elizabenthan age more than any other form of literature?novel drama essay poetry[我的答案] drama57.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvationthrough constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.Gulliver's Travels The Rape of the LockRobinson Crusoe The pilgrim's Progress[我的答案] The pilgrim's Progress58.The________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europein the 18th century.Romanticism Humanism Enlightenment Sentimentalism[我的答案] Enlightenment59.“Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.？being proud being rebelliousbeing of humble origin being mysterious[我的答案] being of humble originProgress is often regarded as a typical example60.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’sof_________.allegory romance epic in prose fable[我的答案] allegory61.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only inappearance but also in some other ways.[我的答案] horses that are endowed with reason62._____ is the first important religious poet in English literature.Cynewulf Caedmon Shakepeare Adam Bede[我的答案] Caedmon63.Which of these is not a song written by Robert Burns?A Red, Red Rose Auld Lang Syne To a Mouse Spring and Fall[我的答案] Spring and Fall64.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, is often saidn to be concerned with thesearch for _______.self-fulfilment spiritual salvation material wealth universal truth[我的答案] spiritual salvation65.The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantialexistence on a lonely island reflects .A.man’s desire to return to natureB.the author’s criticism of the colonizationC.the ideal of the rising bourgeoisieD.the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality[我的答案] the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie66.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.Areopagitica Paradise Lost Lycidas Samson Agonistes[我的答案] Paradise Lost67.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented byJohn Donne’s works?Common speech. Conceit. Argument. Refined language.[我的答案] Common speech.68.Generally , the Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17thcenturies, its essence is .science philosophy arts humanism[我的答案] humanism69.“Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is…” (Ode to the West Wind )This showsShelly’s wish to be apropagator of revolutionary ideas singer enjoying great fameman who can wander freely heroic fighter in the forest[我的答案] propagator of revolutionary ideas70._______ is a typical feature of Swifts writings.Elegant style Bitter satire Casual narration Complicated sentence structure[参考答案] Bitter satire72.Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted ordilapidated Middle Age castles .love and marriage sea adventures mystery and horror saints and martyrs[参考答案] mystery and horror73.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the lattersees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC.the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse themiddle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personalcultivation.D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancientGreek and Roman writers for its models[参考答案] the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while thelatter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences 74.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is“___________________”．A Tale of a Tub The Battle of the BooksA Modest Proposal Gulliver’s Travels[参考答案] Gulliver’s Travels75._____was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .Thomas Wyatt William Shakespeare Henry Howard John Lyly[参考答案] Thomas Wyatt76.John Milton is a great poet in the _____________________ Period.Renaissance Neoclassical Romantic Realist[参考答案] Renaissance77.The sonnet“Death Be Not Proud”is written in the strict pattern. It reveals the poetbelief that .A.Shakespearean, death is only a sleep, after which we live eternallyB.Petrarchan, death is but momentary while happiness after death is eternal.C.Elizabethan, death is not as strong as people think he isD.Portuguese, death is like a long sleep that offers final peace for the soul[我的答案] Petrarchan, death is but momentary while happiness after death iseternal.78.“Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destinyobscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”The above lines are taken fromA.Alexander Pope’s Essay on CriticismB.Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan” C.John Donne’s “The Sun Rising” D.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”[我的答案] Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” 79.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from?form thoughts emotion artistic devices[我的答案] emotion80. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.heroic couplet quatrain Spenserian stanza terza rima[我的答案] quatrain81._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.the anapest the trochee the iambic the dactyal[我的答案] the iambic82.Among the representatives o f the Enlightenment, who was the first to introducerationalism to England ?John Bunyan Daniel Defoe Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift[我的答案] Alexander Pope83.By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of VanityFair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.persecution improvement prosperity disillusionment[我的答案] persecution84.Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, acharacter in Pride and Prejudice ？Beautiful Intelligent Snobbish Vulgar[我的答案] Intelligentthe quoted line comes from 85.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” ________.A.Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind” B.Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of GrassC.John Milton’s Paradise LostD.John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”[我的答案] Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”86.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in formof _________.Elegy ode epic sonnet[我的答案] ode87.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __ J.Keats W.Blake W.Wordsworth P.B.Shelley[我的答案] P.B.Shelley88.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.self - esteem self - reliance self - restraint hard work[我的答案] self - esteem89.The_______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europein the 18th century.Romanticism Humanism Enlightenment Sentimentalism[我的答案] Enlightenmen。
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英国文学史习题全集（含答案）Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spoem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questio ns1.What are the features of Beowulf?/doc/731216791.htmlment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, V oyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best ans wer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over thedeclining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s T aleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection of l ove sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.S hakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “R ealism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakesp eare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom./doc/731216791.htmling from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in hiscomedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.TPart Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’sL’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’sfreedom of the press, has been aweapon in the later democraticrevolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. JohnBunyan C. John Donne D.John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB.Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death,Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is awell-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To HisCoy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. GatherYe Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. GeorgeHerbertC. Andre MarvellD. HenryVaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. HenryVaughanC. Andrew MarvellD.Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB.。
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100 Selected Questions on English Literature1.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream3. The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays byA. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift4.In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic5.Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by（）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw6.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”th e first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”sug gests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation8. “What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousanda year. What a fine thing for our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from（）.A. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceB. Em ily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsC. John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte SagaD. George Eliot’s Middlemarch9.The short story“Araby”is one of the stories in James Joyce’s collection（）.A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManB. UlyssesC. Finnegans WakeD. Dubliners10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except （）.A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the humble and rustic life as subject matterD. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech11. Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:“Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines? （）A. Simile.B. Metonymy.C. Pun.D. Synecdoche.12. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by （）.A. J. KeatsB. W. BlakeC. W. WordsworthD. P. B. Shelley13. The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byA. William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. John KeatsD. Lord Gordon Byron14.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress is often regarded as a typical example of （）.A. allegoryB. romanceC. epic in proseD. fable15.Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary works should be judged by（）rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.A. classicalB. romanticC. sentimentalD. allegorical16.In his essay“Of Studies,”Bacon said:“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and（）.”A. skimmedB. perfectedC. imitatedD. digested17.“For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings,mornin gs, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.”The above lines are taken from（）.A. Wordsworth’s “The Solitary Reaper”B. Eliot’s“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”C. Coleridge’s“Kubla Khan”D. Yeats’s“The Lake Isle of Innisfree”18.(The)（）was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.A. RomanticismB. HumanismC. EnlightenmentD. Sentimentalism19.A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of （）, who never pays any attention to human feelings.A. moralityB. justiceC. propertyD. humor20.The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the （）.A. bitter satireB. larger-than-life caricatureC. Latinized dictionD. dramatic monologue21. G eorge Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the（）.A. slum landlordismB. political corruption in EnglandC. economic oppression of womenD. religious corruption in England22. The story starting with th e marriage of Paul’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must beA. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’UrbervillesB. D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and LoversC. George Eliot’s MiddlemarchD. Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre23. She smiled, no doubt, when’ver I passed her…/ …. This grew, I gave commands, Then all simles stopped together.’The above quoted lines imply that she________.A. obeyed his order and sopped smiling at everybody, including the dukeB. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the dukeC. refused to obey and the order and never smiled againD. was murdered at the order of the duke24. The true subject of John Donne’s poem, “The sun Rising,” is to _________.A. attack the sun as an unruly servantB. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC. criticicize the sun’s intrusion into the lover’s private lifeD. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie25. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s sonnet 18?A. The speaker meditates on man’s moralityB. The speaker satirizes human vanityC. The speaker eulogizes the power of artistic creationD. The speaker tells one of his dream visions.26. Among the great writers of the modern period, ____might be the greatest in radical experimentation of technical innovations in novel writing.A. Joseph ConradB. D.H, LawrenceC. E.M, ForsterD. James Joyce27. “For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room ...”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?A. More time to play.B. More food to eat.C. More book to read.D. More money to spend.28. Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?A. Real estate.B. Prostitution.C. House-keeping.D. Farming.29. The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and g ives all her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .A. Lady Chatterley’s LoverB. Women in loveC. Sons and LoversD. The Plumed Serpent30. “Drive my dead thought over the universeLike withe red leaves to quicken a new birth.”(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?A. Synecdoche.B. Metaphor.C. Simile.D. Onomatopoeia.31. Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George EliotD. D.H. Lawrence32.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley33. Christopher Marlow’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” is a (n) .A. pastoral lyricB. elegyC. eulogyD. epic34. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance humanism?A. Cultivation of the art of this world and this life.B. Tolerance of human foibles.C. Search for the genuine flavor of ancient culture.D. Glorification of religious faith.35.. “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .A. Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie QueeneB. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and JulietC. Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”D. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”36. Which of the following best describes t he nature of Thomas Hardy’s later works?A. Sentimentalism.B. Tragic sense.C. Surrealism.D. Comic sense.37.In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput,” “Brobdingnag,” “Houyhnhnm,” and “Yahoo”?A. James Joyce’s Ulsses.B. Charles Dickens’s Bleak House.C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.D. D. H. Lawrence’s Women in love.38. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .A. normal contemporary speech patternsB. humble and rustic life as subject matterC. elegant wording and inflated figures of speechD. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience39. In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” .A. refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once livedB. vividly describes a building of poor qualityC．is the gift given to a beautiful girl called AbyssinianD. symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious40. The Glorious Revolution in ________ meant three things: the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern England, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.A. 1640B. 1688C. 1660D. 164941. After ________’s death, monarch was again restored (1660). It was called the period of Restoration.A. CromwellB. CharlesC. MiltonD. James42. The essays and stories of Addison and Steels devoted not only to social problems, but also to private life and ________.A. businessB. public clubsC. gossipsD. adventures43. The Puritans believed in _________ of life.A. extravaganceB. simplicityC. humblenessD. Arrogance44. Fielding’s work unfolds a spread _________ of life in a ll sections of English society.A. pictureB. imageC. panoramaD. painting45. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal Whigs, and the conservative_________ .A. RepublicansB. DemocratsC. LaborersD. Tories46. Pope was a man of extraordinary wit, extensive ________, and his contemporaries considered him as the highest authority in matters of literary art.A. sightB. adventureC. learningD. thinking47. The philosophy of the enlighteners, though ________ and materialistic in its essence, did not exclude senses, or sentiments, as a means of perception and learning.A. RomanticB. rationalC. realisticD. metaphysical48. The mysterious element plays an enormous role in the Gothic novel; it is soreplete with bloodcurdling scenes and unnatural feelings that it is just called “a novel of ________”.A. happyB. loveC. SentimentalistD. Horror49. Along with the depiction of morals and manners and social mode of life the writers of the Enlightenment began to display an interest in the ________ life of an individual.A. exteriorB. urbanC. poorD. innermost50 Lyrical Ballads is composed by William Wordsworth in collaboration with _________ .A. ColeridgeB. SoutheyC. BlakeD. Byron51. After the Industrial revolution, __________ became the “workshop of the world”.A. BritainB. FranceC. GermanyD. Northern Europe52. The quotation “I wandered lonely as a cloud, / That floats on high o’er vales and hills, / When all at once I saw a crowd , / a host , of golden daffodils ;” is composed by __________.A. ShakespeareB. WordsworthC. SpenserD. Keats53. “If Winter comes , can __________ be far behind ?”.A. AutumnB. West windC. SummerD. Spring54. “Beauty is _________ , truth beauty ”.A. realityB. loveC. truthD. ability55. Romanticism as a literary movement came into being in England in the later half of the _________ century.A. 10B. 16C. 18D. 1956. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer __________ died .A. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. William WordsworthD. De Quincy57. Which poet belongs to the Lakers ? ___________A. ColeridgeB. KeatsC. ByronD. Shelley58. Choose the one from the four immortal odes which is not written by Keats . __________A. Ode to the West WindB. Ode to a NightingaleC. Ode to AutumnD. Ode on a Grecian Urn59. Which work is based on ancient Greek mythology ? __________A. Paradise LostB. Jane EyreC. IvanhoeD. Prometheus Unbound60. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______.A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideasB. getting control of the parliament and governmentC. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisieD. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.A. SurreyB. WyattC. SidneyD. Shakespeare61. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.A. The TempestB. The Winter's TaleC. CymbelineD. The Rape of Lucrece62. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.A. AreopagiticaB. Paradise LostC. LycidasD. Samson Agonistes63. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______.A. self - esteemB. self - relianceC. self - restraintD. hard work64. “Graveyard School”writers are the following senti mentalists EXCEPT ______.A. James ThomsonB. William CollinsC. William CowperD. Thomas Jackson65. The best model of satire in English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.A. A Modest ProposalB. A Tale of a TubC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Battle of the Books66. As a representative of the Enlightenment,¬¬¬______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England.A. John BunyanB. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift67. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,______ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Daniel DefoeB. Henry FieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. Samuel Richardson68. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.69. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.A.being proudB. being of humble originC.being rebelliousD. being mysterious70. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters.A. the verse novelB. the blank verseC. the heroic coupletD. the dramatic poetry71. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the nineteenth- century London.A. The Pickwick PaperB. Oliver TwistC. David CopperfieldD. Nicholas Nickleby72. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards ______, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.A. self - relianceB. self - realizationC. self - esteemD. self - consciousness73. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is ______.A. the common senseB. the hard truthC. the comprehensive knowledgeD. the dead truth74. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ______ writer.A. realisticB. naturalisticC. romanticD. stylistic75. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______.A. expressionismB. surrealismC. stream of consciousnessD. black humor76. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______.A. Galsworthy's Forsyte novelsB. Hardy' s Wessex novelsC. Greene's Catholic novelsD. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness novels77. In the mid - 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “______” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.A. The Beat GenerationB. The Lost GenerationC. The Angry Young MenD. Black Mountain Poets78. The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______.A.PilgrimageB. UlyssesC.Mrs.DallowayD. A Passage to Inida79. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th centurywas ______.A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady GregoryC. J.M.SyngeD. John Galworthy80. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Cocktail PartyC. The Family ReunionD. The Waste Land81._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”A. ColeridgeB. WordsworthC. T.S.EliotD. Robert Browning82.Marlowe’s play Dr.Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. the ScandinavianB. the GermanC. the ancient EnglishD. the French83.Who defined a good style as “proper words in proper places?”A. Jonathan SwiftB. Charles DickensC. Edmund SpencerD. George Bernard Shaw84._______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?A. innocence and experienceB. the poorC. societyD. childhood85. As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 1818-century England.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Jane AustenC. Thomas HardyD. Henry Fielding86. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in thehistory of English Literature.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon ByronC. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning87. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?A. MacbethB. Henry IVC. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear88. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has beenregarded as “Father of the English Novel”.A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. James Joyce89. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.A. late 19th -centuryB. 17th -centuryC. 20th -centuryD. late 18th –century90.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is（）.A. humanismB. realismC. naturalismD. skepticism91.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（）.A. Hamlet and King LearB. Antony and Cleopatra and MacbethC. Julius Caesar and OthelloD. The Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night’s Dream92.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by（）.A. Francis BaconB. Samuel JohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. Jonathan Swift93. In Hardy’s Wessex novels, t here is an apparent（）touch in his description of the simple though primitive rural life.A. nostalgicB. humorousC. romanticD. ironic94. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal by （）.A. Christopher MarloweB. Ben JonsonC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. George Bernard Shaw95.Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a“（）in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.A. tragic epicB. comic epicC. romanceD. lyric epic96. In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat. The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically setB. the poet’s fear of the predatorC. the analogy of the hammer and the anvilD. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation97. Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent in _______.A. PuritanismB. TranscendentalismC. his childhoodD. his unhappy marriage98. As _______ saw it, poetry could play a vital part in the process of creating a new nation.A. EmersonB. HawthorneC. WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson99. 1．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical eventsEXCEPT_________.A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek cultureB．the vast expansion of British colonies in North AmericaC．the new discoveries in geography and astrologyD．the religious reformation and the economic expansion100. All of the following works are known as Hardy’s “novels of character and environment”EXCETP_______.A．The Return of the Native B．Tess of the D’UrbervillesC．Jude the Obscure D．Far from the Madding CrowdTrue or false1. Donne is mostly famous for his popular use of conceit.( )2. Paradise Lost tells how Adam rebelled against God and how Satan and Eve were driven out of Eden.( )3. Bunyan’s most important work is The Pilgrim’s Progress, written in the old-fashioned, medieval form of allegory and dream.( )4. The story of Robinson Crusoe is real enough to have come straight from a sailor’s logbook.( )5. Gulliver’s Adventures begins with Lilliputians, who are so small that Gulliver is a pigmy among them.( )6. The Spectator and The Tatler by Steele and Addison are the first important recognitions by literature of the special interests of women readers.( )7. Fielding’s first novel, Joseph Andrews, war inspired by the success of Defoe’s novel Pamela.( )8. The author of the famous Elegy is the most scholarly and well-balanced of all the early romantic poets.( )9. Of all the romantic poets of the 18th century, Blake is the most independent and the most original.( )10. The Tiger as an excellent short poem is not composed by Blake .( )。
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Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess314. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spoem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, V oyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the4declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.5A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete Engl ish Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the_____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which isknown as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 underthe auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern Englishhas been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech ashousehold words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style ofthe English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , andhis interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself tothe career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated byhimself.617.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthfullanguage in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language inEngland.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____,which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ asa whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series ofhistorical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which therhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King ofEngland, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled towork at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classicalworks within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations andthe establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when,according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in thecountry, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of theEnglish national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___7among the laboring classes.37.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contactwith ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all theimportant rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for theflourishing of ____.50.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.51.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）ofgalleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were alwaystaken by ____.54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications ofreal life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version, James I;King James Bible.nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages 10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture820.14th; 17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas; interests;purity23.Humanism; human mind;human culture24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Queene;ababbcbccncaster; York26.The Reformation27.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.printing29.feudal; capitalism30.sheep devours men31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40,Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty 37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict; evil; allegorical43.Clown44.Greek; Latin45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress; boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation (revision)57.Renaissance58.master-hand (能手)59.full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.911.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in his 10comedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.T11Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysi de and thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the mostimportant place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgeneral concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation ofShakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing withthe same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of JohnMilton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18thcentury.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the privatecitizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over landownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers brokeout. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became theProtector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of thecountry.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a greatpoet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and asChaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only l ove poem, a sonnet, on HisDeceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. toadvocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by hisangels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Bro wne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Donne: Milton)5. F (James I: Charles I)6. F (flourish: decline)7.T (William Shakespeare)8. F (William: John)9. F (drama: poetry) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)12.F (first: second)13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)14.F (Satan: God)15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)16.T17.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed hismoralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authorsall through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.。
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考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班I.Multiple choice (30 points, 1 point for each) select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.A.The Canterbury TalesB.The Ballad of Robin HoodC.The Song of BeowulfD.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght2._____is the most common foot in English poetry.A.The anapestB.The trocheeC.The iambD.The dactyl3.The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event?A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.B.England’s domestic restC.New discovery in geography and astrologyD.The religious reformation and the economic expansion4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A.The Pilgrims ProgressB.Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC.The Life and Death of Mr.BadmanD.The Holy War5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____.A.scienceB.philosophyC.artsD.humanism6.“So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,/So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?A.Lover.B.Time.C.Summer.D.Poetry.7.“O prince, O chief of my throned powers, /That led th’ embattled seraphim to war/Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds/Fearless, endangered Heaven’s perpetual king”In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton’s Paradise Los t, the phrase“thy conduct”refers to _____conduct.A.God’sB.Satan’sC.Adam’sD.Eve’s8. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of ______.A.elegyB.odeC.epicD.sonnet9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”The sentence is the beginning of Shakespeare’s_______.edyB.tragedyC.sonnetD.poem10. Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on _____.A.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existenceB.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for securityC.the struggle of the pirates for wealthD.the desire of the criminals for property11. Francis Bacon is best known for his_____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.A.essaysB.poemsC.worksD.plays12. Most of Thomas Hardy’s novels are set in Wessex____.A.a crude region in EnglandB.a fictional primitive regionC.a remote rural areaD.Hardy’s hometown13. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.14. Chronologically the Victorian Period refers to _____A.1798-1832B.1836-1901C.1798-1901D.the Neoclassical Period15. In the following figures, who is Dickens’s first child hero?A.Fagin.B.Mr.Brownlow.C.Olive Twist.D.Bill Sikes16. “And where are they? And where art thou,”My country? On thy voiceless shoreThe heroic lay is tuneless now-The heroic bosom beats no more! (George Gordon Byron, Don Juan)In the above stanza,“art thou”literally means_____.A.“art you ”B.“are though”C.“art though”D.“are you ”17. Of the following writers, which is not the representative of the Romantic period?A.William Blake.B.John Bunyan.C.Jane Auten.D.John Keats.18. In Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, what is the utmost concern of Blake?A.LoveB.ChildhoodC.DeathD.Human Experience19. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.A.the RenaissanceB.the Old TestamentC.Greek MythologyD.the New Testament20. Jane Austen’s first novel is _____.A.Pride and PrejudiceB.Sense and SensibilityC.EmmaD.Plan of a Noel21. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets’”?A.Saumel Taylor Coleridge.B.Robert Southey.C.William Wordsworth.D.William Shakespeare.22.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.A.Robinson CrusoeB.Moll FlandersC.GulliverD.Tom Jones23. The lines“Death, be not proud, though some have calld thee/Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;”are found in ______.A.William Wordsworth’s writingsB.John Keats’ writ ingsC.John Donne’s writingsD.Percy Bysshe Shelley’s writings24.The Pilgrim’s progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for_____.A.self-fulfillmentB.spiritual salvationC.material wealthD.universal truth25.With so many poems such as “The Sparrow’s Nest,”“To a Skylark,”“To the Cuckoo”and “To a Butterfly”,William Wordsworth is regarded as a “______”.A.poet of genius.B.royal poet.C.worshipper of nature.D.conservative poet.26.In the first part of Gulliver’s Travels, Gulliver told this experience in ____.A.LilliputB.BrobdingnagC.HouyhnhnmD.England27.Which of the following can not describe“Byronic hero”?A.Proud.B.Mysterious.C.Noble origin.D.Progressiv e.28.The poetic form which Browning attached to maturity and perfection is ____.e of ironic languagee of lyrics29.The term “metaphysical poetry”is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.A.John MiltonB.John DonneC.John KeatsD.John Bunyan30. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.B.She Dwelt Among the Untrodden WaysC.The Solitary Reaper.D.The Chimney Sweeper.II. Find the relevant match from colunm B for each item in Colomn A (10 points in all. 1 point for each)A B1.Geoffrey Chaucer E A. A Red, Red Rose2.Francis Bacon C B. Ode to a Nightingale3.Jonathan Swift F C. Of Truth4.William Blake G D.Northanger Abbey5.Robert Burns A E.The Canterbury Tales6.John Keats B F.A Modest Proposal7.Jane Austen D G.The Tiger8.Charles Dickens I H. Ulysses9.Tennyson H I.David Copperfield10.Robert Browning J J.My Last DuchessIII. Fill in the following blanks (10 points in all, 1 point for each)1. In the year__1066__,at the battle of Hastings, the Normans headed by william, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-saxons.2. Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by the Romans, the ANGLO-SAXONS____,and the Normans.3.Remeo and Juliet____is regared as shakespeare’s successful romantic tragedy.4. No sooner were the people in control of the government than they divided into hostile parties: the liberal whigs and the conservative__Tories___.5. The Glorious Revolution in 1688___meant three things the supremacy of parliament, the beginning of modern English, and the final triumph of the principle of political liberty.latter half of the 18th___century.7. With the publication of william Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballad____in collaboration with S.T Coleridge, Romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literatare.8. Woman as _novelists ___ appeared in the Romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time ,an important place in English literature.9. The most important poet of the victoria Age was__ Tennyson __, Next to him, were Robert Browning and his wife.10. The ____movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th cenfury.1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9. Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all ,10points for each) Give brief answers to each of following questions in English.(1)A selection from a poemWherefore feed and clothe and saveForm the cradle to the graveThose ungrateful drones who wouldDrain your sweat_nay, drink your blood?Whrefore, Bees of England, forgeMany a weepon, chain, and scourgeThat these stingless drones may spoilThe forced produce of your tail?Questions (10’)1. These lines are taken from a poem entitled_A Song: Men of England)written by __ Shelley _2. The rhyme scheme in the selection of the poem is _aabb ccdd___.(1’)3.What idea does the quotation express?(7’)1. 1’) (1’)This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a workSome 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 books 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 bookd are like common distilled waters.Question(10’)1. This passage is taken from a well-known work entiled___,(2’) written by ____.(1’)2. What’s the main idea of the whole work. (7’)V. Topic Discussion (30 points in all,15 points for each). Write no less than 100 words on each of the following topics in English , in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.1. Based on Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, discuss the theme of her works, the image of woman protagonists and what and how her novels truthfully present.(15’)2. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Aasten explored three kinds of motivations of marriage that the middle-class people had in the second half of the 18th century. Try to make a brief discussion about them with specific examples from the novel. Make comments on Austen’s attitude towards these motivations.(15’)200x－200x学年度第一学期期末考试试卷答案及评分标准考试课程：英国文学史及选读考核类型：A 卷考试方式：闭卷出卷教师: XXX考试专业：英语考试班级：英语xx班I. Multiple Choice (1’×30=30’)01-05 C C B A D 06-10 D B B C A11-15 A B C B C 16-20 D B D B B21-25 D A C B C 26-30 A D A B DII. Find the relevant match from column B for each item in colamn A (1’×10=10’)1-E 2-C 3-F 4-G 5-A6-B 7-D 8-I 9-H 10-JIII. Fill in the following blanks (1’×10=10’)1. 10662. Anglo-Saxons3. Romeo and Juliet4. Tories5. 16886.18th7.Lyrical Ballads 8.novelists 9.Tennyson 10.ChartistIV. Questions and Answers (20 points in all )(1) A PoemQuestions(10’)1. A Song: Men of England(1’) Shelley(1’)2. aabb ccdd (1’)3. This poem is a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, it points out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. The poet calls the exploiters “ungrateful drones”, Who drain the sweat and drink the blood of the labouring people, He illustrates with concrete examples the relationship of economic exploitation between the ruling class and the working people.(7’)(2) A Selection from a work1. Of Studies(1’) Bacon(1’)2. It analyzes the use and abuse of studies ,the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies. And how studies exert influence over human character.V .Topic Discussion (30 points in all, 15 points for each)A. Charlotte’s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization, about some lonely and neglected young women with a fiece longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life.B. All ber heroines’ highest joy arises from some sacrifice of self or some human weakness overcome.C. The image of woman protagonists in her works are mostly the life of the middle-calss working women, particularly governesses.t0D. Her works present a vivid realistic picture of the English society by exposing the cruelty, hypocrisy and other evils of the upper calsses, and by showing the misery and suffering of the poor. Especially in Jane Eyre by her, she sharply criticises theexisting society, e.g. religious hypocrisy of charity institutions.(2) In the novel ,three kinds of attitudes towards marriage are presented for manifestation: marriage merely for material wealth and social position; marriage just for beauty, attraction and passion regardless of economic condition or personal merits; and the ideal marriage for true love with a consideration of the partner’s personal merit as well as his economic and social status. What jane Aasten tries to say is that it is wrong to marry just for money or for beauty, but it is also wrong to marny without consideration of economic conditions.。
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Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spoem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, V oyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over thedeclining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in hiscomedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.TPart Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’sL’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’sfreedom of the press, has been aweapon in the later democraticrevolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’sNativity B. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into twocategories: the youthful love lyricsand the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. JohnBunyan C. John Donne D.John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own wayof describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB.Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death,Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is awell-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To HisCoy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. GatherYe Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure ofMetaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. GeorgeHerbertC. Andre MarvellD. HenryVaughan7. Which of the following is not aMetaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. HenryVaughanC. Andrew MarvellD.Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death andimmortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightfuldescription of the Englishcountryside and the simple andkind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB.Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. ToDaffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of theCavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB.Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD.John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of theEnglish classical school ofliterature in the 19th century.A. John DrydenB.Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD.Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADSay true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes ofthe early 17th century were over land ownership.2.After the victory of the EnglishRevolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of thebourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling ofpatriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced todeath and Cromwell became the leader of the country. 6.English literature of the 17th centurywitnessed a flourish on the whole. 7.The Revolution Period produced oneof the most important poets inEnglish literature, WilliamShakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also calledAge of Milton because it produced agreat poet whole name is WilliamMilton.9.The main literary form in literatureof Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during theRevolution Period, John Donne wasthe greatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age asByron towers over the ElizabethanAge, and as Chaucer towers over theMedieval Period.12.On his first wife’s death, Miltonwrote his only love poem, a sonnet,on His Deceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced byMilton, Paradise Lose, is written inheroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was“to justify the ways of God to man”,i.e. to advocate submission to theAlmighty.15.It has been noticed by many criticsthat the picture of Satan surroundedby his angels who never think ofexpressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolutemonarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Anglerbecomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici isa collection of opinions on a vastnumber of subjects more or lessconnected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Donne: Milton)5. F (James I: Charles I)6. F (flourish: decline)7.T (William Shakespeare)8. F (William: John)9. F (drama: poetry)10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)12.F (first: second)13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)14.F (Satan: God) 15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)16.T17.TPart Four The English CenturyⅠ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet,_____, in which he first displayedhis moralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. TheLying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. TheTender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as themodel of English composition byBritish authors all through the 18thcentury.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.A. The Enclosure MovementB. The Industrial RevolutionC. The Religious ReformD. The Enlightenment10. The literature of the Enlightenmentin England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.A. aristocraticB. middle classC. low classD. intellectual11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.A. SteeleB. MiltonC. AddisonD. Pope12.The main literary stream of the 18thcentury was ____ . What the writersdescribed in their works weremainly social realities.A. romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism13.The 18th century was the golden ageof the English ___. The novel of thisperiod spoke the truth about lifewith an uncompromising(unbending) courage.A. dramaB. poetryC.essay D. novel14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift publishedtwo works together, ____ and ___,which made him well-known as asatirist.A. A Tale of TubB.Bickerstaff AlmanacC. Gullive r’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books15.In a series of pamphlets JonathanSwift denounced the cruel andunjust treatment of Ireland by theEnglish government. One of themost famous is ____.A.Essays on CriticismB. AModest ProposalC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. TheBattle of the Books16.“Proper words in proper places,makes the true definition of a style.”This sentence is said by ____, oneof the greatest masters of Englishprose.A. Alexander PopeB. HenryFieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. DanielDefoe17._____’s best-known pamphlet wasThe Trueborn Englishman—A Satire,which contained a caustic exposureof the aristocracy and the tyranny ofthe church.A. Alexander PopeB. HenryFieldingC. Jonathan SwiftD. DanielDefoe18.Henry Fie lding’s first novel ____was written in connection withPamela of Samuel Richardson. Butafter the first 10 chapters, HenryFielding became so interested andabsorbed in his own hovel as toforget his original plan of ridiculingPamela.A. Tom JonesB. JosephAndrews C.Jonathan Wild D.Amelia19.____ the first important work byTobias Smollett, is based on his ownexperience as a naval doctor and inpart autobiographical.A. Roderick RandomB.Humphry ClinkerC. Peregrine PickleD. ASentimental Journey20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan,is derived the term “malapropism”which means a ridiculous misusageof big words.A. The RivalsB.The School for ScandalC. The Beggar’s OperaD.The London Merchant21.Which of the following periodicalsis edited by Samuel Johnson?_____.A.The ReviewB.The TatlerC. The RamblerD. The Bee22.Which of the following works arenot written by Oliver Goldsmith?____.A. The TravellerB.The Deserted VillageC. The Vicar of WakefieldD.The School for Scandal23.Which of the following works iswritten by Edward Gibbon?______.A. The School for ScandalB.She Stoops to ConquerC. The Good-natured ManD.The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire24.The sentence of “The plowmanhomeward plods his weary way,/And leaves the world to darknessand to me” is written by ____.A. William CowperB.George CrabbeC. Thomas GrayD.William Blake25.______ is not written by WilliamBlake.A. The Marriage of Heaven andHell B. Songs of ExperienceC. Auld Lang SyneD. Poetical Sketches26.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach,in winter enjoy.” This proverb iscited from William Blake’s _____.A. Songs of ExperienceB. Songs of InnocenceC. The Marriage of Heaven andHell D. Poetical Sketches27.The 18th century witnessed that inEngland there appeared twopolitical parties, ______, whichwere satirized by Jonathan Swift inhis Gulliver’s Travels.A. the Whigs and the ToriesB. the senate and the House ofRepresentativesC. The upper House and lowerHouseD. the House of Lords and theHouse of Commons28.____ found its representative writersin the field of poetry, such asEdward Young and Thomas Gray,but it manifested itself chiefly in thenovels of Lawrence Sterne andOliver Goldsmith.A. Pre-romanticismB.Romanticism C. SentimentalismD. Naturalism29._____ compiled the A Dictionary ofthe English Language whichbecame the foundation of all thesubsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben JohnsonB. SamuelJohnsonC. Alexander PopeD. JohnDryden30.Which of the following novels is notepistolary (written in letter form)novels?A. Clarissa HarloweB.PamelaC. Sir Charles GrandisonD.Tomes Jones31.Which play is regarded as the bestEnglish comedy since Shakespeare?A. She Stoops to ConquerB.The RivalsC. The School for ScandalD.The Conscious LoversKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC26-31 CACBDCⅣ. Say true or false.1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay foreach issue.2.Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatlerand The Spectator.3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time whichtreated in a serious manner.4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet.6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such asJonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in thenovels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: thesentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.10.In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fineexpression.11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, inwhich the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel ofRoderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.13.The two most important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface andcomments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast tosentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect ona variety of subjects.16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface andCharles Surface.17.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by RobertBurns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.18.Racial discrimination is expressed in Blake’s “The Little Black”.19.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,Macpherson and Chatterton.Key to the True/False statements:1. F (one time a day)2.T3. F (light and pleasant manner)4.T5.F(Pope’s )6. F (The Tatler)7. F (prose)8. F (nobles; common people)9. F (18th )10.T11.F ( The Battle of the Books)12.T13.T14.F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)15.F ( Scottish)16.T17.T18.T19.F (Burns’s)20.F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)Part Five Romanticism in EnglandⅠ. Choose the right answer.1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.A. realismB. RenaissanceC. EnlightenmentD. feudalism2.The main literary stream is ____.A. poetryB. novelsC. proseD. periodicals3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”B. “Tintern Abbey”C. “Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.A. Frost at MidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”C. ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Hours of IdlenessC. LaraD. Don Juan6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.A. Wordsworth’sB. Byron’sC. Shelley’sD. Keats’7.____ lived the longest life.A. WordsworthB. ByronC. ShelleyD. Keats8.Keats’ first poem is ____.A. O SolitudeB. On First Looking into Chapman’s HomerC. PoemsD. Endymion9.Keats’ best ode is ____.A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”C. “To Psyche”D. “To a Nightingale”10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.A. The Spirit of the AgeB. Table TalkC. The Characters of Shakespeare’s PlaysD. On the English Poets11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement inEngland.A. “Tintern Abbey”B. Lyrical BalladsC. Frost at NightD. “The Daffodils”12.The Prelude has also been called _____.A. The Last BrazilB. The First ImpressionC. Growth of a Poet’s MindD. The Spirit of the Age13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.A. “The Solitary Reaper”B. “The Daffodils”C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D. “O Solitude”14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.A. The PreludeB. EndymionC. Don JuanD. Biographia Literaria15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.A. models of classicismB. familiar essayC. rules of neo-romanticismD. ways of modernism16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.A. KeatsB. Walter ScottC. Charles LambD. William Hazlitt17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.A. pride and prejudiceB. the writer’s own personalitiesC. love and marriageD. Both A and C18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.A.Jane AustenB. Charles LambC. William HazlittD. Waler Scottmb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.A. romanticismB. conversationsC. inspirationsD. archaismsmb is a romanticist of ______.A. the cityB. the countrysideC. natureD. imagination21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.A. EndymionB. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.A. KeatsB. WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. William23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English RomanticAge from _____.A. Dun JuanB. The PreludeC. Kubla KhanD. Isabella24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.A. individual heroism and pessimismB. love of nature and optimism。
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William Wordsworth’s Principles of Poetry
All good poetry is the true voice of impulse and feelings, and arefree from
all rules and artful means. He applied this principle to individual sensations as
the foundation in the creation and appreciation of poetry.Poetry ‘takes its origin
from emotion recollected in tranquility.’
In terms of theme, poetry was to choose incidents and situations
fromcommon life, especially the humble and rustic life. In his view, the rustic
possessed ‘the elementary feelings’ of man, and lived in harmony with nature.
Instead of involving the upper-class people, Wordsworth revealed his true
compassion for the sufferings of the poor.
He believed what was natural was beautiful and durable. The greatness of
nature is the motivation for Wordsworth to write good poetry. It was mostly
because that he lived near the lake where there are beautiful sceneries.
As for language, he was to bring language near to the real language of
man. He used simple, colloquial language in poetry.Deliberatesimplicity,
refusal to decorate and the truth of expression, produced a kind of pure and
profound poetry with no other then poet has ever equaled.
His poem ‘I wander lonely as a cloud’ carries everywhere the evidence of
his love for life, for the natural world around him. It is excellent example of
Wordsworth’s theory in poetry writing. He changed the course of English
poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to
nature.
The image of Robinson Crusoe
Adventurer:
spirit of a fighter against nature,
knowledgeable(managing his life, keeping track of time, signal for help)
courage(courageous to overcome all kinds of obstacles), live in an
uninhabited island; hostile environment(no shelter, with natural disasters)
Enterprising bourgeoisie: intelligent (searching for food and taking
advantage of his possessions), practical spirit; colonizing character , dealt
with slave trade, master of primitive people-Friday, take charge of the
island
All in all, he is a new man sure of himself and has the determination to
preserve himself and improve his life. With the desire to live, he proved
individual power in the face of social and natural challenges. From an
individual laborer to a master and colonizer, Crusoe seems to have gone
through various stages of human civilization.
typical of the rising English bourgeois class, practical, diligent, a restless
curiosity to know more about the world and a desire to prove individual power
in the face of social and natural challenges.
He is a colonist, the empire builder.
Defoe depicts him as a hero struggling against nature and human fate with his
indomitable will and hands, and eulogizes creative labor, physical andmental,
an allusion to the glorification of the bourgeois creativity when it was a rising
and energetic class in the initial stage of its historical development.