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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 ____.
英国文学试题及答案
英国文学试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上被誉为“英国文学之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪部作品不是简·奥斯汀的作品？A. 《理智与情感》B. 《傲慢与偏见》C. 《曼斯菲尔德庄园》D. 《简·爱》答案：D3. 英国浪漫主义文学的代表人物包括以下哪些？A. 华兹华斯B. 雪莱C. 拜伦D. 以上都是答案：D4. 以下哪位作家不是英国文学中的“湖畔诗人”？A. 华兹华斯B. 柯勒律治C. 雪莱D. 南希答案：C5. “荒原”是哪位英国诗人的代表作？A. 艾略特B. 奥登C. 叶芝D. 狄兰·托马斯答案：A6. 下列哪部作品是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的代表作？A. 《到灯塔去》B. 《乌托邦》C. 《美丽新世界》D. 《1984》答案：A7. 英国现代主义文学的代表作家T.S.艾略特的代表作是：A. 《荒原》B. 《老人与海》C. 《了不起的盖茨比》D. 《太阳照样升起》答案：A8. 以下哪部作品是乔治·奥威尔的代表作？A. 《动物农场》B. 《杀死一只知更鸟》C. 《查泰莱夫人的情人》D. 《美丽新世界》答案：A9. 英国文学中“黑色幽默”的代表作家是：A. 弗朗西斯·培根B. 约瑟夫·海勒C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 乔治·奥威尔答案：B10. 英国文学中的“哥特式小说”起源于哪部作品？A. 《弗兰肯斯坦》B. 《呼啸山庄》C. 《简·爱》D. 《德古拉》答案：A二、填空题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上的“文艺复兴”时期，代表作家有________和________。
答案：莎士比亚；克里斯托弗·马洛2. 英国文学中的“维多利亚时代”是指________年到________年。
答案：1837；19013. 英国文学中的“湖畔诗人”包括威廉·华兹华斯、________和________。
英国文学史习题_5
英国⽂学史习题_51. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William WordsworthC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Blake2. I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.A. lyrical poemB. lyrical proseC. romance in proseD. sonnet3. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century, ______ appeared as a new literary trend in England.A. RenaissanceB. ReformationC. RomanticismD. Sentimentalism4. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 marked the beginning of a (n)_________.A. absolute monarchy B, constitutional monarchyC. military dictatorshipD. democratic system5. The poetic view of _________ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley6. In English poetry the ______ is regarded as the most common foot.A. iambB. anapestC. trocheeD. dactyl7. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of _________.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Lyrical BalladsD. A Red, Red Rose8. It is generally regarded that Keat s’ most important and mature poems are in the form of _____.A. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet9. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms EXCEPT _______.A. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild10. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from _______.A. formB. reasonC. artistic devicesD. emotion11. The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ________.A. proseB. dramaC. poetryD. Novel12. The author of Prometheus Unbound is _______.A. ByronB. ShelleyC. PopeD. Coleridge13. ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen14. Which of the following can NOT describe “Byronic hero”?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble originD. progressive15. Who is the author of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?A. ByronB. BlakeC. KeatsD. Wordsworth16. Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true?A. The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.B. The poem is written in the form of terza rima.C. The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.D. In the poem, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.17. In his poem, Ode to the West Wind, Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _____ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth. (北师⼤2004)A. conceptB. symbo lC. simileD. metonymy18. Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. John Bunyan19. William Wordsworth advocated all the following EXCEPT ________.A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech20. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake21. Generally speaking, English Romanticism refers to the period of _______.A. 1798-1832B. 1660-1789C. 1836-1901D. 1789-183222. Romanticism does not emphasize _______.A. the special qualities of each individual’s mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common23. Wordsworth thinks that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. the life of rising bourgeoisieB. aristocratic lifeC. the life of the royal familyD. common life24. For the Romanticists, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. loveB. manC. natureD. death25. ____ is the leading figure of the English Romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley26. ______ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women.A. Prometheus UnboundB. The Revolt of IslamC. Don JuanD. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage27. ______ is written in the terza rima form Shelley derived from his reading of Dante.A. Prometheus UnboundB. The Revolt of IslamC. Queen MabD. Ode to the WestWind28. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _____ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. indifferent29. William Wordsworth, _________ and______ have often been mentioned as the “Lake Poets”.A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon ByronB. John Keats, Robert SoutheyC. George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey30. As a leading Romanticist, George Gordon Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “___ hero”, a proud, mysterious rebel figure, of noble origin.A. RomanticB. OrientedC. ByronicD. Tough。
大学_英国文学史试题及答案
英国文学史试题及答案英国文学史试题及答案(一).Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive(B)Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales(D)The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval Englishsociety and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.A.William Langland s Piers PlowmanB.Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury TalesC.John Gowers Confession AmantisD.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(B)Ⅱ. Questions1. What are the features of Beowulf?2. Comment 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 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 the declining 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 Shakespeare英国文学史试题及答案(二)Ⅰ. 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. 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 Langlands ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte dArthur6. 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 dArthurB. 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. Chaucers earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman 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 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 Boccaccios 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 ADAAB。
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 defeatingEn gla nd.A. William the Conq uerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudiusth2. In the 14 century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. Lan gla ndB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevaili ng form of Medieval En glish literature is __ .A. no velB. dramaC. roma neeD. essay4. The story of ___ i s the cul min ati on of the Arthuria n roma nces.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. BeowulfC. Piers the Plowma nD. The Can terbury Tales5. William Langland ' s ______ i s written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla Kha nB. Piers the Plowma nC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d ' Arthur6. After the Norma n Conq uest, three Ian guages existed in En gla nd at that time. TheNorma ns spoke ___ .A. FrenchB. En glishC. LatinD. Swedish7. _____ w as the greatest of En glish religious reformers and the first tran slator ofthe Bible.A. Lan gla ndB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowma n describes a series of won derful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ___ En gla nd.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. moder n9. The theme of ____ to ki ng and lord was repeatedly emphasized in roma nces.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedie neeD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of En glish ballads cen ters on the stories about a lege ndaryoutlaw called ____ .A. Morte d ' ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Can terbury TalesD. Piers the Plowma n11. _____ , the “ father of English poetry ” and one crfaheitgr e aiee t s ofEn gla nd, was born in Londonin about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir Gawa inC. Francis Bac onD. Joh n Dryde n12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ___ .A. Fla ndersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westmi nster Abbey13. Chaucer' earliest work of any length is his _______ , a translation of the FrenchRoma n de la Roseby Gaillaume de Lorris and Jea n de Meung, which was a love th th allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13 and 14 centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A. The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose ”C. The Lege nd of Good Wome nD. The Book of the Duchess14. I n his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupatio ns that had impact onthe wide range of his writi ngs. Which one is not his career? ___ .A. engin eerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator 议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio ' spoem “ Filostrato ” .A. The Lege nd of Good Wome n C. Sir Gawa in and the Gree n Knight Key to the multiple choices 1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB n . Questions1. What are the features oBeowulf?2. Comme nt on the social sig nifica nee and Ian guage iiThe Can terbury TalesPart Two The English Renaissance I . Match the writer and his works.1. Thomas MoreA. Apology for Poetry 2. Holi nshedB. Miscella ny of Songs and Sonn ets 3. HakluytC. Utopia4. Richard Tottel D. Discovery of Guia na5. Philip Sid ney E. Prin cipal Navigati ons. Voyages andDiscoveries 6.Walter Raleigh F. Chro nicies The key: (1— C 2— F 3—E 4— B 5— A 6—D)n . Choose the best answer.1. ___ foun ded the Tudor Dyn asty, a cen tralized mon archy of a totally new type,which met the n eeds of the rising bourgeoisie.A. He nry VB. He nry VIIC. He nry VIIID. James I2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______ , the morning star ofthe Reformation" and his followers.A. William Tyn dalB. James IC. Joh n WycliffeD. Bishop Lan celot An drews3. The progress in in dustry at home stimulated the commercial expa nsion abroad. encouraged exploratio n and travel, which were compatible with the in terests of the En glish mercha nts.A. Henry V.B. He nry 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 theB. Troilus and CriseydeD. Beowulfdecli ning old feudalism.A. Spai nB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5. Those, both traders and pirates like ____ , established the first En glish colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lan celot An drewsC. William Caxt onD. William Tyn dal6. ___ was a forerunner of classicism in En glish literature.A. Ben Joh nsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7. The most gifted of the “ university wits ” was ____ .A. LylyB. PeeleC. Gree neD. Marlowe8. Morality plays appeared after ____ .A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9. ___ is used to say and do good thi ngs.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10. ___ is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip Sid neyB. Edmu nd Spe nserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11. ___ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissanee.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George Chapma nD. Joh n Florio12. ___ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A. Lives of Greek and Roan Heroe《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 toun dersta nd that the rich were beco ming richer by robb ing the poor.A. Joh n WycliffeB. William Caxt onC. 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. Everyma nC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurtons Needle16. Shakespeare ' s plays written between _____ are sometimes calledall end in rec on ciliati on and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217. Miranda is a heroinein Shakespeare ' s _______ .A. PericlesB. Cymbeli neC. The Win ters T aleD. The Tempest18. In _____ appearedShakespear^ Sonne, Never before Imprinted （《莎士比亚十四行诗》迄今从未干刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B.1607C.1608 160919. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____ .a ”roma ncesA. roma nticismB. realismC. n aturalismD. classicism20. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______ .A. dramatic bla nk verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21. In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______ w ords.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022. ___ has been called the summit of the English Renaissanee.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis Baco nC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben Joh nsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB川.Fill in the blanks.1. The ___ was uni versally used by the Catholic Churches.2. The En glish tran slati on of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle betwee n___ and ___ .3. The Bible was no tably tran slated in to En glish by the __ .4. The first complete En glish Bible was tran slated by __ , “ the morni ng star of the5. ___ tran slated the New Testame nt and porti ons of the Old Testame nt, 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 in flue nee, the Authorized Versio n has had a greatin flue nee on En glish _ a nd ___ .8. With the widespread in flue nee of the En glish Bible, the sta ndard moder n En glishhas bee n ____ a nd _____ .9. A great number of _____ a nd phrases have passedinto daily English speech ashousehold words.10. The ___ and ____ Ianguage of the Authorized Version has colored the style ofthe En glish 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 in terest was tur ning to ___ .13. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book prin ted in En glish.14. The Recuyell served as a source for __ roilus 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.17. By rendering (翻译)French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthfulIan guage in the airs (曲调),the graces, the crafts of the elder and con tributed to the developme nt of the style of ______________ cen tury En glish___ .18. The in flue nee of Caxt on ' s publicati ons greas on fixing a ___ Ian guage inEn gla nd.19. As the first En glish prin ter, Caxt on inven ted in En gla nd the professi on of ,which in fact has had a lasti ng sig nifica nee to the developme nt of En glish asa whole.20. The Renaissanee started in the _____ century and ended in the ______ century.21. The word, “renaissanee ” means ________ , which was stimulated by a series ofhistorical eve nts, such as _______ .22. In the Renaissanee, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those oldin medieval Europe, to in troduce new ideas that expresses of the risi ng bourgeoisie, and to recover the of the early church from the corrupti on of theRoma n Catholic Church.23. ___ is the theme of the English Renaissanee, which emphasized the capacities of___ and the achieveme nts of ___ .24. ___ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, _______ , in which therhyme scheme is ____ .25. The Wars of the Roses (145—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggli ng for the Crow n continued for 30 years.26. Becauseof the eonflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King ofEn gla nd, the far-reach ing moveme nt of _ took place in En gla nd, started byHe nry VIII.27. After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessedpeasants,being compelled towork at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of moder n En glish _______________ .28. The introduction of __ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classicalworks withi n reach of the com mon multitude.th29. The 16 eentury in England was a period of the breaking up ___ of relations andthe establishi ng of the foun dati ons 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 theeountry, eonfiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of En gla nd.32. Together with the developme nt of bourgeois relati on ships and formati on of theEn glish n ati onal state this period is marked by a flourish ing of n ati onal culture known as .33. ___ , in his translation of Virgil Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34. Richard Tottel Mscellany of Songsand Sonnets contained ________ poems by_____ and _____ by _____ .35. Philip Sidney thought that _____ h ad superiority over philosophy and history.36. ____ is a picture of eon temporary En gla nd with forcible exposure of the ____among the labori ng 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 En glish Ren aissa nee was unq uesti on ably its .40. The “ miracles ” were simple plays based on ______ stories.41. There are significant touches of _____life in the play titledThe Shepherds42. A morality play prese nted the ___ of good and _____ with _____ pers on ages.43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____ .44. Through the revival of classical literature, En glish playwrights came into con tactwith _____ and ______ drama.45. From the con tact with Greek and Lat in drama, En glish playwrights lear ned all theimporta nt rules in ___ and ____ , the more exact con cepti on of ___ a nd ____ .46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the cen tury.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 theflourish ing of ___ .th50. In the 16 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 surro unding a roofless pit （楼下剧场）53. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ a nd women ' s parts were alwaystake n by __ .54. Shakespeare ' s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vividnages of the , andaphorisms 格言、警句）on life.55. Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English Ianguage.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:1. Latin Bible2. Protestantism; Catholicism3. Protestants4. John Wycliffe; Reformation5. William Tyndal6. Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible.7. Language; literature8. fixed; con firmed9. Bible coin ages 10. simple; dignified11. William Caxt on12. Reading; literature13. First14. Shakespeare15. Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18. National19. Publisher; culture37. private ownership 38. Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean 39. Drama 40. Bible 41. real 42. Conflict; evil; allegorical 43. Clown 44. Greek; Latin 45. Structure; style; comedy; tragedy 46. 16 47. Gammer Gurtons Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝 衣针》 48. Gorboduc 《高波特克》 49. Drama 50. London 51.1567 52. Elizabethan theatres 53. actress; boys 54. countryside 55. master 56. adaptation (revision) 57. Renaissanee 58. master-hand 能手) 59. full-bloodIV . Say true or false.1. The old En glish aristocracy hav ing bee n exterm in ated (wiped out) in the course of the Warof the Roses, a new no bility, totally depe ndent on Ki ng 's power, come to the 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 1588to in flict a defeat on the Spanish In vi ncible Armada.4. The Protesta nt Reformati on was in esse ncea religious moveme nt in a political guise.5. Before the Reformatio n, the En glish Bible was uni versally used by the Catholic churches.6. Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in impris onment.7. More the man is eve n more in teresti ng tha n Morehe writer.8. Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal com munist society.9. Tran slati ons occupied an importa nt place in the En glish Ren aissa nee.10. Philip Sidney ' s collection of love sonnAk s triophel and Stella.11. The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors in troducedsecular and eve n comical eleme nts into the performa nee.12. The writer of Gammer Gurton sNeedleis unknown.13. Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville （托马斯 萨克维尔） and ThomasNorton （托马斯 诺顿）.小c 八th 」_th 20. 14 ; 1721. Religious reformation22. feudalist ideas; interests; purity23. Humanism; human mind;huma n culture24. Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Quee neababbcbcc25. Lan caster; York26. The Reformation27. the Enclosure Movement;proletaria ns28. printing29. feudal; capitalism30. sheep devours men31. William VIII32. Renaissanee33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey34. 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40,Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey35. poetry36. Utopia, Book One; poverty14. Shakespeare 'onnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1 —, Numbers 18—126, andNumbers 12—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 un der typical circumsta nces. ”17. Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18. Shakespeare ' s one play contains one thenOco ntains more than one theme）19. To reproduce the real life, Shakespeareoften combines the majestic with the funny, the poeticwith the prosaic散文体的）and tragic with the comic.20. Engels called Shakespeare ' s plays the “ ShakespeO活泼nvl ft acityandwealth of （大量的）action ” .21. Utopia is More ' masterpiece,written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, avoyage.22. Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23. Carl Marx commented highly on More' Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital.24. The highest glory of the En glish Ren aissa nee was unq uesti on ably 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'Needleis the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.27. Both the gen tleme n and the com mon people went to the theatres. But the upper class wasthe dominant force in Elizabetha n theatre.28. After Shakespeares death, Herminge and Con dell collected and published his plays in 1623.29. From Shakespeares history plays, it can be seen that Shakespearetook a great in terest in thepolitical questio ns of his time.30. In Shakespeareshistorical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31. King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.32. Coming from an old Danish lege nd, Othello is con sidered the summit of Shakespeares art.33. Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34. Gen erally speak ing, after Shakespeare,the En glish drama was un derg oing a process ofprosperity.35. English Renaissanee Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.36. There are two main characters inAs 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'later years he became the “literarydng” 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. TV . Questions on the English Renaissance1. Comment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.2. Comment on the character of Hamlet.3. What are the features of Shakespea'drama?4. RememberShakespeare m ajor plays in each literary career.5. Comment on Marlowe'ssocial significanee and literary achievement.6. Comment on The Faerie QueenePart 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 revoluti onary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ ' s NaBv ityomusC. Of Reformati on in En gla ndD. Areopagitica3. ____ p oems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. Joh n Milt onB. Joh n Bu nya nC. Joh n DonneD. Joh n Dryde n4. ____ expressed Donne ' s own way of describing love.A. Holy So nn etsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun Risi ngD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert ' s ________ is a-kvelwn shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ i s the lead ing figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. Joh n DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaugha n7. Which of the follow ing is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry Vaugha nC. An drew MarvellD. Robert Burto n8. ____ i s a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The An atomy of Mela ncholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy Dyi ngD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walt on ' s ______ i s a delightful descripti on of the En glish coundysi nd thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat An glerB. Holy Livi ngC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. Joh n Suckli ngB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. Joh n Dryde n11. ___ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcen tury.A. Joh n Dryde nB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph Addis onD. Alexa nder 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, ___________ o ccupies the mostimporta nt place.2. The Pilgrim 'isogress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced duri ng the ____ Age.3. ____ gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restorati on.4. ____ masterpiece,The Pilgrim 'Psogress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgen eral con cepts such as sins, despair, an dfaith are represe ntedas people or as aspects of the n atural world.5. ____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.“Age of6. In En glish literature, the Restorati on period is traditi on ally called7. In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8. In his “A Essay of Dramatic Poesy” __ __ s howed 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 JohnMilt on, in the prose writi ng of Joh n Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of .11. Paradise Lost is one of Milt on ' s _______ .12. Sata n is the hero in Milt on ' s masterpiece __________ .13. Paradise Lost took its material from _____ .14. The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, gen erally speak ing, by in content andfan tasticality in form.15. ______ was the forerunner of the En glish classical school of literature in the 18cen tury.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 17 century we may hear the voices of the privatecitize ns 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 land own ership.2. After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader ofthis revolt is Wat Tyler.3. With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Com mon wealth.4. The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and En gla nd wasthe n conv ulsed (shook, quivered) with the con flict betwee n the two an tag oni stic camps, the Royalists and the Purita ns.5. In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the coun try.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 English literature, WilliamShakespeare.8. The Revoluti on Period is also called Age of Milt on because it produced a great poet whole n ameis William Milt on.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. Joh n Milt on towers over his age as Byro n towers over the Elizabetha n Age, and as Chaucertowers over the Medieval Period.12.0 n his first wife ' death, Milt on wrote his on ly love poem, a sonn et, on His Deceased Wife.13. The greatest epic produced by Milt on, Paradise Lose, is writte n in heroic couplets.14. The poem of Sams on Agon istes was “ to justify the ways of God to man ”，i.e. toadvocate submissi on to the Almighty.15. It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his an gels who n everthink of express ing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute mon arch.16. Izaak Waton ' s The Compleat Angler becomes a “ Piscatorial classic ” .17. Thomas Browne' s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more orless conn ected with religio n.IV. Questions1. What are the writing features ofThe Pilgrim s Progress?2. Comment on the image of Satan.3. Comme nt on Sams on.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Do nne: Milt on)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: seco nd)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)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 Scan dal f. Charles SurfaceThe key: (1 —c, 2—e, 3—a, 4 —b, 5—d, 6—f )n . Choose the right answer.1. In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, ______ , in which he first displayed hismoraliz ing spirit.A. The Fun eralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Ten der Husba nd2. Which is the most popular n ewspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The En glish3. ___ is Addis onb great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. Rosam ondC. The Campaig nD. Cato4. Which of the followi ng is not the hero in The Spectato?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Capta in SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. were looked upon as the model of En glish compositi on by British authors all through the 18century.A. Jeremy Taylors Holy Livi ngB. Thomas Brow ne's Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepyss diariesD. Addis on's Spectator essays6. The most importa nt classicist in the En lighte nment Moveme nt is __ .A. SteeleB. Addis onC. PopeD. Dryde n7. The masterpiece of Alexa nder Pope is ___ .A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dun ciad8. Essay on Manis a ____ poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ___ was an in tellectual moveme nt in the first half of the 1$ cen tury.A. The En closure Moveme ntB. The In dustrial Revolutio nC. The Religious ReformD. The En lighte nment10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ________readers.A. aristocraticB. middle classC. low classD. i ntellectual11. ___ i s a great classicist but his satire is not always just.A. SteeleB. Milt onC. Addis onD. Pope。
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英国文学史习题全集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 Abbey313. 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.4____ 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 the declining 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 1612517.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 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 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.614.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.17.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 culture7known 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 ___among 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 b ased 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 Elizabetha n 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.Shakesp eare’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 JamesBible.nguage; literature88.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture20.14th; 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.Renaissance 33.Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty37.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.96.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·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 a 10process 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.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 describ ing 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 Englis h countryside 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 fir st wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love 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 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)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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英国⽂学史及作品选读习题集（5）5 English Literature in the Romantic PeriodⅠ. Essay questions.1. In Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen explored three kinds of motivations of marriage 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.2. What are the general features of English Romanticism3. Tell the story of Pride and Prejudice and make a comment on it.4. Make a comment on Wordsworth concerning his contribution to poetry.5. Irony abounds in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Please illustrate it with reference to some examples.6. Make a general comment on Walter Scott.’Ⅱ. Define the following terms.1. Romanticism2. Ode3. Byronic hero4. Ottava rima5. Terza rima6. Irony7. Lyric8. Motif9. Theme10. Symbol11. Imagery12. Foil13. Synaesthesia14. Character15. Flat character16. Round character17. Negative capacityⅢ Fill in the blanks.1. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when ______and ______published _______ and ended in 1832 when ______died.2. In the Preface of the 2nd and 3rd editions of __________, Wordsworth laid down the principles of poetry composition.3. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists, _________ and ______.4. _____, ________, and_________ are referred to as the “Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District in the northwestern part of England.5. In 1805, Wordsworth completed his long autobiographical poem entitled__________.6. Scott’s historical novels depicted Scotland, England, and the Continent covering a period ranging from _______ up to, and including, _______.7. _______ mourned for _______’s premature death in an elegy “Adonais”, w riting “He is made one with Nature.”8. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” is a long poem created by contains four cantos in the_______ stanza, namely a 9-line stanza rhymed ababbcbcc, in which the first eight lines are in iambic pentameter while the ninth in iambic hexameter,9. _______ is Byron’s masterpiece, written in the prime of his creativepower. He called it an “epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society.”10. The great novelist in the Romantic period_______ marked the transition from Romanticism to the period of Realism which followed it.11. The plot of Shelley’s lyrical drama Prometheus Unbound is borrowed from _______, a play of the Greek tragedian Aeschylus.12. In “To Autumn”, Keats writes,” Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, / Clise bosom-friend of the maturing sun; / Conspiring with him how to load and bless / With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; / …” The figure of speech used in the lines is _______.13. “Ode to a Nightingale” expresses the contrast be tween _______ and _______.14. The unifying principle in Don Juan is the basic ironic theme of _______, ., what things seem to be and what they actually are.15. Byron employed _______ from Italian mock-heroic poetry. His first experiment was made in Beppo. It was perfected in Don Juan in which the convention flows with ease and naturalness.was memorized and honored as “the heart of all hearts” after his death. 17. Many critics regard Shelley as one of the greatest of all English poets. They point especially to his_______.18. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English _______against the neoclassical _______, which prevailed from the days of pope to those of Johnson.19. _______ are generally regarded as Keats’s most important and mature works.20. “Ode on a Grecian Urn” shows the contrast between _______and21. Among the Romantic figures, _______has a fundamental conviction of the health of the social system, of its ability to reform itself, and of the assurance of social well-being and the likelihood of a reasonable personal happiness.22. Scott is considered “the father of _______” which open(s) up to fiction the rich and lively realm of history.23. Two prevailing themes of Pride and Prejudice are _______ and _______.24. _______ was composed in a dream after the poet Coleridge took the opium.25. All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable” and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in_______,26. _______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.27. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “An Evening Walk”, “My Heart Leaps up” and “Tintern Abbey” are all masterpieces on _______.28. The main idea running through the dramatic poem Prometheus Unboundis that of _______.29. _______, with a triumphant praise of the imagination, highly exalts the role of poetry, thinking that poetry alone could free man and offer the mind a wider view of its powers. He holds that poetry “is a more direct representation of the actions and passions of our internal being”.30. The Romantic period is an age of poetry. The major Romantic poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron,Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature, which was later regarded as _______.31. _______ and _______ gave great impetus to the rise of the Romantic32. _______ is a great critic of the romantic period on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry. He is also a maser of the familiar essays.33. With _______, the essay is no longer chiefly a mode of intellectual inquiry and moral address. Rather, the essay becomes a medium for a delightful literary treatment of life’s small pleasures and reassurances.Ⅳ. Choose the best answer1. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______.A. Kohn KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley2. 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 experience3. 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 unconscious4. _______is one of the first generation of English Romantic poets.A. KeatsB. ShelleyD. Wordsworth5. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind” is taken from _______.A. The Solitary ReaperB. Ode to the West WindC. To AutumnD. Song to the Man of England6. _______is NOT among the representative essayists in the romantic times.A. Charles LambB. William HazlittC. Thomas De QuinceyD. Walter Scott7. In_______, _______set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; WordsworthB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; ColeridgeC. “A Defence of Poetry”; ShelleyD. “Lectures on the English Poets”; Hazlitt8. _______is NOT a lyric written by Wordsworth.A. My Heart Leaps UpB. Intimations of ImmortalityC. Love’s PhilosophyD. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud9. All the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.A. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageB. Don Juan。
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Unit fiveRevolution and Restoration1.The 17th century was one of the most tempestous period in Englishhistory,______ came to the throne after the death of Elizabeth I in 24th, Nov.1603 who believed in _______________.2.After _______ succeeded to the throne in 27th March,1625, he strengthened thetyrannical absolute monarch and quarrelled with the parliament of England.3.In the year 1649, _______ was headed, the monarchy was abolished and republicCommonwealth of England was declared.4.In the year 1660, the monarchy was restored when _ Charles I's son CharlesII_____ became the king of England.5.English civil war is a series of armed conflicts and political machations betweenParliamentarians and Royalists.6.Glorious Revolution in 1688 overthrew the King of England _James II_______.7.In the Revolution Period _John Milton ____ towers over his age as WilliamShakespeare towers over the Elizabethan Age and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.8.During the civil war and the commonwealth, there were two leaders inEngland,Cromwell, the man of action, and _John Milton_____, the man of thought.ton wrote a mumber of pamphlets defending the English people. Choose themfrom the following. AA.Defence of the English peopleB. Second Defence of the English PeopleC. L'AllegroD. Il penseroso10._A___ 's great proses are his sermons, which reveal his spiritual devotion toGod as a passionate preacher.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. John KeatsD. Francis Bacon11._______ is not one of the metaphysical schoolA. HerbertB. VaughanC. GrashawD. Milton12.John Donne is the leading figure of _D____A. Lake poetsB. Graveyard SchoolC. Satanic PoetD. Metaphysical School13._B___ holds that the nature of love is the union of soul and body.A. John BunyanB. John DonneC. Samuel JohnsonD. Daniel Defoe1. Make a comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lost?Satan is one of the nine fallen angels that stand at the right side of god,the famous "Dark Angel".Thefallen angels are called Samele,but they are still angels.They control the power of dark,for example,Satan brings disasters,misery and sickness to people.But if you don't give up hope,you will gain from the suffering,so Satan is the special gift from god.However,some people say that Satan is the most famous angel-Lucifer,when he is fallen,he is called Satan.He has tow(or four) heads and six wings,absolutely he is not handsome at all,and his wings becaome dark ones after he is fallen.That's all I know about Satan,maybe he is not the one in the “Paradise Lost”.2. What are the features of Milton's Poetry?。
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英国文学史习题_51. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line by ______.A. John KeatsB. William WordsworthC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. William Blake2. I Wandered lonely as a Cloud is a ________.A. lyrical poemB. lyrical proseC. romance in proseD. sonnet3. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century, ______ appeared as a new literary trend in England.A. RenaissanceB. ReformationC. RomanticismD. Sentimentalism4. The Glorious Revolution in 1688 marked the beginning ofa (n)_________.A. absolute monarchy B, constitutional monarchyC. military dictatorshipD. democratic system5. The poetic view of _________ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. Percy Bysshe Shelley6. In English poetry the ______ is regarded as the most common foot.A. iambB. anapestC. trocheeD. dactyl7. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of _________.A. Songs of InnocenceB. Pride and PrejudiceC. Lyrical BalladsD. A Red, Red Rose8. It is generally regarded that Keat s’ most important and mature poems are in the form of _____.A. odeB. elegyC. epicD. sonnet9. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem Ode to the West Wind with all the following terms EXCEPT _______.A. tamedB. swiftC. proudD. wild10. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from _______.A. formB. reasonC. artistic devicesD. emotion11. The literary form which is fully-developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ________.A. proseB. dramaC. poetryD. Novel12. The author of Prometheus Unbound is _______.A. ByronB. ShelleyC. PopeD. Coleridge13. ______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature”.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Jane Austen14. Which of the following can NOT describe “Byronic hero”?A. proudB. mysteriousC. noble originD. progressive15. Who is the author of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage?A. ByronB. BlakeC. KeatsD. Wordsworth16. Which of the following comments on the poem Ode to the West Wind is NOT true?A. The author of the poem is George Gordon Byron.B. The poem is written in the form of terza rima.C. The author gathers a wealth of symbolism in this poem.D. In the poem, the author expresses his eagerness to enjoy the boundless freedom from the reality.17. In his poem, Ode to the West Wind, Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _____ around which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth. (北师大2004)A. conceptB. symbo lC. simileD. metonymy18. Of the following writers, which is NOT the representative of the Romantic Period?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. John KeatsC. William WordsworthD. John Bunyan19. William Wordsworth advocated all the following EXCEPT ________.A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common peopleB. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelingsC. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matterD. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech20. Of the following poets, which is NOT regarded as “Lake Poets”?A. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeB. Robert SoutheyC. William WordsworthD. William Blake21. Generally speaking, English Romanticism refers to the period of _______.A. 1798-1832B. 1660-1789C. 1836-1901D. 1789-183222. Romanticism does not emphasize _______.A. the special qualities of each individual’s mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common23. Wordsworth thinks that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.A. the life of rising bourgeoisieB. aristocratic lifeC. the life of the royal familyD. common life24. For the Romanticists, _____ is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.A. loveB. manC. natureD. death25. ____ is the leading figure of the English Romantic poetry, the focal poetic voice of the period.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. George Gordon ByronD. Percy Bysshe Shelley26. ______ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend ofa great lover and seducer of women.A. Prometheus UnboundB. The Revolt of IslamC. Don JuanD. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage27. ______ is written in the terza rima form Shelley derived from his reading of Dante.A. Prometheus UnboundB. The Revolt of IslamC. Queen MabD. Ode to the WestWind28. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _____ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.A. positiveB. negativeC. neutralD. indifferent29. William Wordsworth, _________ and______ have often been mentioned as the “Lake Poets”.A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon ByronB. John Keats, Robert SoutheyC. George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey30. As a leading Romanticist, George Gordon Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “___ hero”, a proud, mysterious rebel figure, of noble origin.A. RomanticB. OrientedC. ByronicD. Tough。