Chapter 1
The Old and Medieval English Literature & the Renaissance Period
I. Choose the right answer.
1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. British/ immorality
B. French/money
C. German /knowledge
D. American /political power
2. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. The Wife’s Complaint
B. Beowulf
C. The Dream of the Rood
D. The Seafarer
3. It’s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. The Legend of Good Women
C. Troilus and Criseyde
D. The Romaunt of the Rose
4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.
A. Geographical exploration
B. Religious reformation
C. Publishing and translation.
D. Humanism
5. “Prince Arthur’s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love through a love
vision.” The two figures come from_____.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Dr. Faustus
C. The Faerie Queene
D. Hamlet
6. In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare_________________.
A. Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.
B. Satirize human’s vanity.
C. Predict the eternity of love.
D. Eulogize the power of the beauty.
7. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ’blank verse’ the principle vehicle of expression in drama.
A. Surrey
B. Wyatt
C. Marlowe
D. Sidney
8. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. Othello
9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th-- mid -17th century, which was under the reign of Queen ___ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the real mainstream was ____.
A. Victoria / poetry
B. Elizabeth / drama
C. Mary / novel
D. James / drama
10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic
pentameter, which is to be called later____.
A. The Spenserian stanza
B. The heroic couplet
C.The blank verse
D. The free verse
11. The Redcrosse Knight in The Faerie Queene stands for_____, and Una stands for_____.
12. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?
A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe
C .Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in his life and tolerance of man’s foibles
D. Praise of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation
13. “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of ______.
A. Metaphor
B. Simile
C. Irony D .Personification
14. _____ introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.
A. Anglos / Saxons
B. Normans / Anglo-Saxons
C. Greeks / Romans
D. Romans / Normans
15. It is ___ alone who, for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the
English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. John Donne
16. The following belong to the characteristics of “metaphysical poetry” represented by John Donne except___.
A. Conceits
B. Actual imagery and simple diction
C. Argumentative form
D. Elegant style
17. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.
A. Greek mythology
B. Roman legend
C. The Old Testament
D. The New Testament
18. In Paradise Lost, Satan says, “We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war,
/ Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”. What does the “e ternal war” mean?
A. To remove God from his throne
B. To burn the Heaven Down
C. To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman -- Adam and Eve
D. To beguile into a snake to threaten man’s life
19. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded a s Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it
has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a “philosophical exploration” of life and death.
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. Hamlet
C. King Lear
D. The Winter’s Tale
20. It was ___and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature.
A. Anglos/ Saxons
B. Normans/ Anglo-Saxons
C. Romans/ Normans
D. Greeks/ Romans
21. Paradise Lost is ___’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of
Satan against God’s authority.
A. John Donne
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Milton
D. Edmund Spenser
22. The following description fit into Milton EXCEPT_____.
A. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century
B. an outstanding political pamphleteer
C. a great stylist and master of blank verse
D. a kind of elegant and refine style.
23. _____ is not written by John Milton.
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise regained
D. Tamburlaine
24. Marlow’s greatest achievement is that he perfected the “blank verse”, and he is regarded as “the pioneer of
English drama”. Which of the following is not written by him?
A. Tamburlaine
B. The Jew of Malta
C. The Passionate to His Love
D. The Sun Rising
25. ____Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important
landmark in the development of English prose.
A. John Milton’s
B. Francis Bacon’s
C. Montaigne’s
D. Thomas Gray’s
26. _____Was known as “the poets’ poet”.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Edmund Spenser
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
27. “And we will make thee beds of roses / And a thousand fragrant posies/ A cap of flowers, and a kirtle/
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.” The above lines are probably taken from______.
A. Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
B. John Donne’s The Sun Rising
C. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18
D. Marlow’s The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
28. Which of the following s tatement best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18?
A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.
C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
D. The speaker meditates on man’s salvation.
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions.
1. “ For herein Fortune shows herself more kind
Than is her custom. It is still her use
To let the wretched man outlive his wealth,
To view with hollow eye and wrinkled brow
An age of poverty; from which lin g’ring penance
Of such misery doth she cut me off. ”
Questions:
(1) Identify the title of the works and author.
(2) Explain “from which…cut me off”.
(3) What happened to him, which caused the words?
2. “Read not to contract and confuse, not to believe an d take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.”
Questions:
(1) Identify the work and author.
(2) What idea does the passage express?
3. “Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow’st;
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in hi s shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st:
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Questions:
(1) Where does the poem come from? Who wrote it?
(2) What does “eternal lines” mean?
(3) Interpret it briefly.
4. “… All is no lost: the unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome? ……
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe”
Questions:
(1) Please identify the poem and the poet.
(2) Interpret “all is not lost”.
(3) What does the whole passage mean?
5. “If he be not apt to beat over matters, let him study the lawyer’s cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.”
Questions:
(1) What does “beat over matters” mean?
(2) What does “receipt’ refer to?
(3) From which essay do the above sentences come, what is the essay mainly about?
6. “What, is great Mephistophilis to passionate
For being deprived of the joys of heaven?
Learn thou of Faustus manly fortitude
And scorn those joys thou never shalt possess.
……
Say he will spare him Four and twenty years
Letting him live in all voluptuousness
Having thee ever to attend on me…
Questions:
(1) Identify the passage and author.
(2) “Say he surrenders up to him his soul”, who will surrender his soul? What for?
(3) Who are “thee”? What will he do?
7. “Busy old fool, unruly sun,
Why does thou thus,
Through windows and through curtains call on us? ”
Questions:
(1) Identify the work and author.
(2) What idea does the passage express?
III. Questions and answers.
1. How do you know about Renaissance? Give a summery about English literature in the period?
2.Please give a brief analysis of Hamlet’s “To be or not to be” soliloquy (独白).
3. What common features do the characters share in Marlow’s works? (No more than 150 words)
4. What are the main themes of Shakespeare’s plays?
5. Please comment on the character of Satan in Paradise Lost.
6. What are the characteristics of the Humanism?
Chapter 2
The Neoclassical Period
I. Choose the right answer.
1. ____brings Henry Fielding the name of the “Prose Homer”.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Tom Jones
C. Robison Crusoe
D. Colonel Jack
2. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______, Dryden had successfully used in his plays.
A. the heroic couplet
B. the free verse
C. the blank verse
D. the Spenserian stanza
3. Of all the 18th century novelists ___was the first to set out, both in theory and prac tice, to write specially a “comic epic in prose.”
A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Jonathan Swift
D. John Bunyan
4. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. Genesis A
B. The Holy War
C. The Pilgrims progress
D. Exodus
5. In which of the following works can you find the proper names “Lilliput”, “Brobdingnag”, “Houyhnhnm” and “Yahoo”?
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. The Faerie Queene
C. Gulliver’s travels
D. The School of Scandal
6. “As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit: For works may have more wit than does’em good, As bodies perish through excess of blood.”
In the above lines, Pope tries to say that_______.
A. wit will make better poetry
B. plainness is more important than wit in poetry
C. too much wit will destroy good poetry
D. plainness will make wit dull
7. The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is written in the form of a mock______, which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.
A. epic
B. elegy
C. sonnet
D. ode
8. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson’s language style?
A. His sentences are long and well structured.
B. His sentences are interwoven with parallel words.
C. He tends to use informal and colloquial words.
D .His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.
9. “The boast of heraldry, the pom p of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour.”
In the above quoted passage, Thomas Gray intends to say that great family, power, beauty and wealth ________.
A. will never make people lead to the same destination----paths of glory.
B. will inevitably make people realize their glorious dreams
C. are the very best things to lead people to their glories
D. will never prevent people from reaching their final destination---grave.
10. ____has been regarded by some as “Father of the English novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
A .John Bunyan B. Henry Fielding C. Daniel Defoe D. Johnathan Swift
11. ____was very much concerned with the theme of the vanity of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing.
A. Samuel Johnson
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D. Thomas Gray
12. ____was the only important dramatist of the 18th century, in his plays, morality is the constant theme.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Samuel Johnson
D. George Bernard Shaw
13. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ____ to England.
A. Rationalism
B. Criticism
C. Romanticism
D. Realism
14. The Rivals and ____are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those
of Bernard Shaw.
A. The School for Scandal
B. The Duenna
C. Widower’s Houses
D. The Doctor’s Dilemma
15. ____is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of the aristocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.
A. The Rivals
B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Toms Jones
D. The School for Scandal
16. The poem Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray is regarded as the most representative work of
_____.
A. The Metaphysical School
B. The Graveyard School
C. The Gothic School
D. The Romantic School Answer: B
17. _______, written in heroic couplet by Pope, is considered manifesto of English Neoclassicism.
A. An Essay of Dramatic Poetry
B. An Essay on Criticism
C. The Advancing of learning
D. An Essay on Freedom
18. ______is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A. Elegant style
B. Causal narration
C. Bitter satire
D. Complicated sentence structure
19. In the following writings by Henry Fielding, which brings him the name of the “Prose Homer”?
A. The Coffee -- House Politician
B. The Tragedy of Tragedies
C. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling
D. The History of Amelia
20. “Hold! See whether it is or not before you go to the door -- I have a particular message for you if it should be my
brother.” The two sentences are found in ________.
A. The School for Scandal
B. The Rivals
C. The Critic
D. The Scheming Lieutenant
21. In terms of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, which is wrong?
A. The author employs metaphor in this poem.
B. The author excessively expresses his personal melancholy.
C. Here he reveals his sympathy for the poor and the unknown.
D. He mocks the great ones who despise the poor and bring havoc on them.
22. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver’s Travels are________.
A. horses that are endowed with reason
B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities
C. giants that are superior in wisdom
D. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some
other ways
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions.
1. “Words are like leaves;
and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.
False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colors spreads on every place;
The face of Nature we no more survey,
All g lares alike, without distinction gay.”
Questions:
(1) Identify the author and the passage.
(2) Name the devices used in the passage with examples.
(3) Explain “Words...found”.
(4) What is the mainly implied idea of the passage?
2. “Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys, and destiny obscure;
Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annals of the poor.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.”
Questions:
(1) Identify the author and the works.
(2) What does “the inevitable hour”?
(3) Explain the first stanza.
(4) What does the whole passage imply?
III. Questions and answers.
1. Please analyze the Neoclassical period and the characters of the literature.
2. Please cite examples from Gulliver’s Travels to explain briefly how did Swift criticize and allude to the government and the society.
3. People always say that “As a member of the middle class, Defoe spoke for and to the members of his class” .How do you understand this sentence? Please explain it with the character of him.
Chapter 3
The Romantic Period
I. Choose the right answer.
1. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.
A. positive
B. negative
C. neutral
D. indifferent
2. It is _____who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit.
A. Jean Jacques Rousseau
B. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
C. Edmund Burke
D. Thomas Paine
3. The two major novelists of the English Romantic period are _____and Walter Scott.
A. Washington Irving
B. Jane Austen
C. Herman Melville
D. Charles Dickens
4. _____defines the poet as “man speaking to men,” and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. John Keats
5. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A. love B .man C. nature D. death
6. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.
A. prose
B. poetry
C. fiction
D. play
7. The tone of literature in Song of Experience by William Blake is _______.
A. doleful
B. lively C .plain D. utter
8. _____is regarded as a “worship of nature”.
A. John Keats
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Jane Austen
9. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?
A.I Wandered Lonely as a Clou d
B. Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
C. The Solitary Reaper
D. The Chimney Sweeper
10. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.
A. love
B. human life
C. freedom
D. social activities
11. Don Juan is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ______of the early 19th century.
A. comedy
B. tragedy
C. comic epic D .novel
12. In his lyrics such as Ode to Liberty, Ode to Naples, Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love for_____ and his
hatred toward tyranny.
A. the middle class B .the poor C. freedom D. the proletariat
13. “Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and Preserver; hear, O hear!” The two lines are found
in_____.
A. Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B. Ode to the West Wind by Shelly
C. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
D. Ulysses by Joyce
14. In Shelly’s To a Skylark, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which
suggests to the poet________.
A. both celestial rapture and human limitation
B. both image creation and profound meaning
C. both music and words
D. both inspiration and skills of writing
15. The author of Ode on a Grecian Urn is __________.
A. Wordsworth
B. Austen
C. Byron
D. Keats
16. Jane Austen’s first novel is __________.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma
D. Plan of a Novel
17. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is NOT true?
A. Pride and Prejudice i s 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.
18. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of
_______.
A. simple character and poor understanding
B. simple character and quick wit
C. intricate character and quick wit
D. intricate character and poor understanding
19. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________.
A.1660----1798
B.1798----1832
C.1483-----1546
D.1836-----1901
20. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?
A. Shelly’s Prometheus Unbound
B. Keats’ Lamia
C. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
D. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
21. The lines “It was a miracle of rare device, / A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice” are found in__________.
A. Samuel Ta ylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan
B. William Wordsworth’s Lines Written in Early Spring
C. John Keats’s Ode to Autumn
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly’s Ode to the West Wind
22. 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.”
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions.
1. A little black thing among the snow,
Crying “weep! ’weep!” In notes of woe!
“Where are thy father & mother? Say? ”
“They are both gone up to the church to prey.”
Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and poet.
(2) Explain “notes of woe”.
(3) What does the sentence “They ate both gone up to the church to prey” mean?
2.“The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them all,
But all, except their s un, is set.”
Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and its author.
(2) What does “But all, except their sun, is set” mean--?
(3) What does the passage imply?
3. “With plough and spade and hoe and loom
Trace your grave and build your tomb
And weave your winding-sheet -- till fair
England be your Sepulcher”
Questions:
(1) Explain “sepulcher”.
(2) What was the deep implication of the poem?
4. “Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:”
Questions:
(1) What is the name of the poem and who is the poet?
(2) Explain the sentence.
(3) What is the theme of the poem?
5. “Place me on Sunium’s marbles steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May her our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan like, let me sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine --
Dash down you cup of Samian wine!”
Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and its author.
(2) Explain “swan like, let me sing and die”.
(3) Interpret the passage and spot its implication.
6. “For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dance with the daffodils.”
Questions:
(1) What is the “bliss of the solitude”?
(2) Interpret the passage.
(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express?
7. “Then naked & white, all their bags left behind,
They rise upon clouds, and sport in the wind,
And the angle told Tom, if he’d be a good bye,
He’d have God for his father, and never want joy.”
Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and its poet.
(2) What does the poem implies?
8. “As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need.
Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed
One too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud.”
Questions:
(1) Explain “I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed”.
(2) Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that?
(3) The poet was called the “the heart of all hearts”, he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please
write out his classic words.
9. “O Attic shape! Fair attitude! With brede
…………
As doth eternity: cold pastoral!”
Questions:
(1) How do you understand “cold pastoral”?
(2) What device is used in the poem?
(3) Explain the implication of the poem. At the end of the poem, the poet gave a famous saying, and it is also the
theme of the poem, what is that?
10. “Where fore feed and C lothe and save,
From the cradle to the grave,
Those ungrateful drones who would
Drain your sweat-- nay, drink your blood?”
Questions:
(1) Who wrote the poem? What’s its name?
(2) Explain “drones”.
(3) Interpret the passage.
11. “Wild spirit, which art movi ng everywhere;
Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!”
Questions:
(1) What does the “wild spirit” refer to?
(2) Why called it “Destroyer and Preserver” at the same time?
(3) Identify the poet and the poem.
III. Questions and answers.
1. Please list the subjects and the faculties of the Romanticism.
2. William Wordsworth was the first representative author of Rom. How do you know his idea and style?
3. What thoughts and event influenced the period of Romanticism?
4. Byron’s greatest contribution is his creation of the “Byronic hero”. What kind of the hero he is? Give comment on him.
5. What is the difference between Romanticism and Neoclassicism? (Neoclassicism=Augustans=enlightener)
6. Analyze the characters of John Keats’s poetry.
7. Jane Austen was the only important female author in the 18-19th century, how do you know about her?
Chapter 4
The Victorian Period
I. Choose the right answer.
1. Chronologically the Victorian refers to__________.
A.1798 ---- 1832
B.1836 ---- 1901
C. the Romantic Period
D. the Neoclassical Period
2.____works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.
A. Thomas Hardy’s
B. Charles Dickens’s
C. Charlotte Bronte’s
D. George Eliot’s
3. _____ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th century London.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Great Expectations
C. David Copper Field
D. Hard Times
4. ____ is an elaborate and powerful expression of Alfred Tennyson’s philosophical and religious thoughts.
A. Idylls of the King
B. Ulysses
C. Poems, Chieoqy Lyrical
D. In Memoriam
5. The most di stinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’s works lies in his ______.
A. social criticism
B. optimism
C. character-portrayal
D. social setting
6._____is based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.
A. In Memoriam
B. Ulysses
C. Idylls of the King
D. The Princess
7. _____is Robert Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue.
A. My Last Duches
B. Meeting at Night
C. Parting at Morning
D. Pippa Passes
8. _____initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.
A. Charles Dickens
B. George Eliot
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Thomas Hardy
9. _____works are known as “novels of characters and environment”.
A. Charles Dickens’s
B. George Eliot’s
C. Jane Austen’s
D. Geroge Eliot’s
10. ____believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and
outside.
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas hardy
C. Bernard Shaw
D.T.S. Eliot
11. The author of the work Dombey and Son is _________.
A. Charles Dickens
B. Henry James
C. Robert Lee Frost
D. Ezra Pound
12. The most important characteristic in Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is _______.
A. mastering of language
B. excellent choice of words
C. use of the dramatic monologue
D. excellent metaphor
13. “Self-conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are most likely the names of the character in______.
A. Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess
B. Christopher Marlowe’s Dr.Faustus
C. Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s lost
D. Sheridan’s The School for Scandal
14. Robert Browning’s style is _______.
A. identical with that of the other Victorian
B. similar to that of Tennyson
C. perfectly artistic
D. rough and disproportionate in appearance
15. According to D.H. Lawrence, _____was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.
A. George Eliot
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D.T.S. Eliot
16. Middlemarch is considered to be George Eliot’s greatest novel, owing to all the following reasons
EXCEPT_______.
A. it vividly English country life
B. it probed into perpetual philosophical thoughts
C. it provides a panoramic view of life
D. it reveals women’s true feelings
17. “Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his”, the
sentence is found in_____.
A. Middlemarch by George Eliot
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
C. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
D. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
18. Which of the following best describes the protagonist (Henchard) of Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of the
Casterbridge?
A. He is a man of self-esteem
B. He is a man of self-contempt
C. He is a man of self-confidence
D. He is a man of self-sufficiency
19. Which of the following description of Thomas Hardy is wrong?
A. Most of his novels are set in Wessex.
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most representatives of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist
writer.
C. Among Hardy’s major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.
D. From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of his novels.
20. Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women,
particularly________.
A. governesses
B. clerks
C. baby-sitters
D. managers
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions.
1. “You teach me now how cruel you’ve ---cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort---you deserve this…”
Questions:
(1) Who is the speaker? What does it refer to “you despise me, you break your own heart”?
(2) What was the meaning of the story from the social point of view?
(3) What is the main device of the story in description?
2. “In pursuance of this determina tion, little Oliver, to his excessive astonishment, was released from bondage, and ordered to put himself into a clean shirt. He had hardly achieved this very unusual gymnastic performance when Mr. Bumble brought him, with his own hands, a basin of gruel and the holiday allowance of two ounces and a quarter of bread. A very tremendous sight, Oliver begins to cry very piteously. Thinking, not unnaturally, that the board must have decided to kill him for some useful purpose, or they never would have begun to fatten him up in this way.”
Questions:
(1)Identify the title and the writer.
(2)Why Oliver was released from the bondage?
(3)Why had he been punished?
(4)Interpret “A very tremendous sight”.
3. “Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea.”
Questions:
(1) Explain the implications of the “sunset, evening star, sea”.
(2) Name the title of the poem and interpret it.
(3) Can you say some comment on the poem?
4. “My favor at her breast,
The dropping of the daylight in the west,
The bough of cherries some officious fool
Broke in the orchard of her, the white mule
She rode with round the terrace -- all and each
Would draw from her alike the approving speech,
Or blush, at least. She thanked men -- good! but thanked
Somehow -- I know not how -- as if she ranked
My gift of a nine-hundred-years-old name
With anybody’s gift. ”
Questions:
(1) Name the author and the title of the works.
(2) What does “a nine-hundred-years-old name” mean, and to whom the word was spoken?
(3) Interpret the passage and analyze the character of the speaker. What is the literary form?
5. “I will drink
Life to the lees:
all times I have enjoy’d
Greatly, have suffer’d greatly, both with those
That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when
Thro’ scudding drifts the rainy Hyades
Vext the dim sea: ……
……but honour’d of them all”
Questions:
(1) Identify the name of the poem.
(2) Explain “drink life to the lees”.
(3) What is the theme of the poem?
(4) In what form is the poem written?
6. “Come, Tess, Tell me in confidence.” …
“The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven’t they? … and drive all such horrid fancies away!”
Question: Interpret the passage.
7. “Break, break, break,
On thy cold grey stones, O Sea!
And I would that my tongue could utter
The thought that arise in me.”
Questions:
(1) Name the poet and the poem.
(2) Name the main tone of the whole poem, the device and the rhyme.
(3) Interpret the passage.
III. Questions and answers.
1. Ideologically, what influenced Victorian literature? What characters does it have?
2. Jane Eyre is the greatest governess image in the literature history; can you analyze the character of her?
3. Analyze the background of the Victorian Period.
4. Analyze the character created by George Eliot with an example and his style.
5. Analyze the style of Charles Dickens.
6. How do you know the naturalistic idea of Hardy?
Chapter 5
The Modern Period
I. Choose the right answer.
1. The three trilogies of _____ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.
A. D. H. Lawrence’s
B. John Galsworthy’s
C. James Joyce’s
D. Thomas Hardy’s
2. ____ is the most outstanding stream-consciousness novelist.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. James Joyce
D. Oscar Wilder
3. In his famous poem_____, Yeats explores the problems of death, love, old age and art.
A. Leda and the Swan
B. No Second Troy
C. September 191
D. Sailing to Byzantium
4. ____is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.
A. Ulysses
B. The Waste Land
C. The Confidential Clerk
D. Dubliners
5. The Rainbow and _____ are generally regarded as D.H. Lawrence’s masterpieces.
A. Women in Love
B. Son s and Lovers
C. Lady Chatterley’s Love r
D. The Plumed Serpent
6. In ____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B. Dubliners
C. Ulysses
D. Finnegans Wake
7. Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the great tradition _______.
A. Modernism
B. Romanticism
C. Realism
D. Naturalism
8. Galsworthy was a _____writer, having inherited the fine traditions of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray.
A. naturalistic
B. romantic
C. realistic
D. conventional
9. In The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy, a typical Forsyte has a remarkable characteristic-- a strong sense of______.
A. money
B. property
C. success
D. privilege
10. In The Lake Isle of Innisfree, William Bulter Yeats expresses his ____________.
A. hope to go abroad
B. desire to escape into a “fairyland”
C. love for common life
D. hatred for war
11. In which of the following poems by Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and Trojan War?
A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. Down by the Sally Garden
C. The Lake Isle of Innisfree
D. Leda and the Swan
12. Of the following poems by T.S. Eliot, which is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th Century English
Poetry?
A. Poems 1909 -- 1925
B. The Hollow Men
C. Prufrock and Other Observations
D. The Waste Land
13. “The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the windowpanes,/ The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the
windowpanes/ Linked its tongue into the corners of the evening,/ Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains.”
The stanza is taken from_________.
A. T.S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. Emily Dickinson’s Because I could not stop for Death
C. Alfred Tennyson’s Break, Break, Break
D. William Wordsworth’s I wandered Lonely as a Cloud
14. Which of the following best describes the speaker of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?
A. He is a man of an action.
B. He is a man of apathy.
C. He is a man of inactivity.
D. All the above are wrong.
15. Of the following works by D.H. Lawrence, _______established his position as novelist.
A. The White Peacock
B. The Trespasser
C. Women in Love
D. Sons and Lovers
16. Which of the following is considered to be a better-structured novel?
A. Women in Love
B. Son s and Lovers
C. The Rainbow
D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
17. The Lawrence trilogy refers to the following three plays EXCEPT ______.
A. A Collier’s Friday Night
B. The Daughter -in-Law
C. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed
D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover
18. W hich of the following writings is not the novel of D.H. Lawrence’s?
A. Sons and Lovers
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man
C. The White Peacock.
D. The Rainbow
19. Of the following writings by James Joyce, which is a prime example of modernism in literature?
A. Ulysses
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Yong Man
C. Dubliners
D. Finnegans Wake
20. Which of the following is not true according to James Joyce?
A. Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature.
B. Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
C. Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history.
D. His novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a naturalistic account of the hero’s bitter experiences and
his final artistic and spiritual liberation.
II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions.
1. Analyze the poem of T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
I. “In the room the women come and go
Talking of Michelangelo”
Question: Why does the sentence repeat in the poem for several times?
II. “And indeed there will be time
For the yellow smoke that slides along the street, ...
There will be time, there will be time ....”
Question: What deep implication can you get from the passage?
III. “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons;
I know the voices dying with a dying fall
Beneath the music from the father room.
So how should I presume?”
Questions: (1) What did the speaker presume? (2) Interpret the excerpt.
IV. “I should have been a pair of ragged claws
Scuttling across the floor of silent seas.”
Question: Interpret it.
V. “But as if a magic lantern threw the nerves in patterns on a screen: Would it ha ve been worthwhile.”
Question: Interpret it.
2. “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade”
Questions:
(1) Identify the poem and poet. (2) Interpret the poem.
3. “North Richmond Street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers’ school set the boys free ..., gazed at one another with brown imperturbab le faces.”
Questions:
(1) Comment the main tone of the story with the concrete images of the passage.
(2) Analyze the theme of the story.
(3) Explain the devices of symbols with the examples of the article.
4. “You are not, my son. Battle-battle -and suff er. It’s about all you do, as far as I can see.”
“But why not, my dear? I tell you it’s the best ---“
“It isn’t. And one ought to be happy, one ought.”
By this time Mrs. Morel was trembling violently ...
“Eh, my dear -say rather you want me to live.”
Questions:
(1) Name the works and its writer.
(2) Who are the two speakers? How do you know her?
III. Questions and answers.
1. What are the characters of Modernism?
2. D. H. Lawrence is regarded as revolutionary, how do you know his works?
3. What philosophical ideas influenced Modernism?
4. Common sense about The Waste Land.
5. Analyze the background of the Modernism.
6. Say something about Freudian and Jungian psycho-analysis.
7. Why Modernism is different from Realism?
8. List the representative authors o f the “Stream of Consciousness” and explain the theory.
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 Tales B.The Ballad of Robin Hood C.The Song of Beowulf D.Sir Gawain and the Green Kinght 2._____is the most common foot in English poetry. A.The anapest B.The trochee C.The iamb D.The dactyl 3.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 rest C.New discovery in geography and astrology D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion 4._____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A.The Pilgrims Progress B.Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman D.The Holy War 5.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _____. A.science B.philosophy C.arts D.humanism 6.“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’s B.Satan’s C.Adam’s D.Eve’s
《英国文学史及选读》第一册复习要点 1. Beowulf: national epic of the English people; Denmark story; alliteration, metaphors and understatements （此处可能会有填空，选择等小题） 2. Romance （名词解释） 3. “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”: a famous roman about King Arthur’s story 4. Ballad（名词解释） 5. Character of Robin Hood 6. Geoffrey Chaucer: founder of English poetry; The Canterbury Tales (main contents; 124 stories planned, only 24 finished; written in Middle English; significance; form: heroic couplet) 7. Heroic couplet (名词解释)8. Renaissance（名词解释）9.Thomas More——Utopia 10. Sonnet（名词解释）11. Blank verse（名词解释）12. Edmund Spenser “The Faerie Queene” 13. Francis Bacon “essays” esp. “Of Studies”（推荐阅读，学习写正式语体的英文文章的好参照，本文用词正式优雅，多排比句和长句，语言造诣非常高，里面很多话都可以引用做格言警句，非常值得一读） 14. William Shakespeare四大悲剧比较重要，此外就是罗密欧与朱立叶了，这些剧的主题，背景，情节，人物形象都要熟悉，当然他最重要的是Hamlet这是肯定的。他的sonnet也很重要，最重要属sonnet18。（其戏剧中著名对白和几首有名的十四行诗可能会出选读） 15. John Milton 三大史诗非常重要，特别是Paradise Lost和Samson Agonistes。对于Paradise Lost需要知道它是blank verse写成的，故事情节来自Old Testament，另外要知道此书theme和Satan的形象。 16. John Bunyan——The Pilgrim’s Progress 17. Founder of the Metaphysical school——John Donne; features of the school: philosophical poems, complex rhythms and strange images. 18. Enlightenment（名词解释） 19. Neoclassicism（名词解释） 20. Richard Steele——“The Tatler” 21. Joseph Addison——“The Spectator”这个比上面那个要重要，注意这个报纸和我们今天的报纸不一样，它虚构了一系列的人物，以这些人物的口气来写报纸上刊登的散文，这一部分要仔细读。 22. Steel’s and Addison’s styles and their contributions 23. Alexander Pope: “Essay on Criticism”, “Essay on Man”, “The Rape of Lock”, “The Dunciad”; his workmanship (features) and limitations 24. Jonathan Swift: “Gulliver’s Travels”此书非常重要，要知道具体内容，就是Gulliver游历过的四个地方的英文名称，和每个部分具体的讽刺对象; （我们主要讲了三个地方）“A Modest Proposal”比较重要，要注意作者用的irony 也就是反讽手法。 25. The rise and growth of the realistic novel is the most prominent achievement of 18th century English literature. 26. Daniel Defoe: “Robinson Crusoe”, “Moll Flanders”, 当然是Robinson Crusoe比较重要，剧情要清楚，Robinson Crusoe的形象和故事中蕴涵的早期黑奴的原形，以及殖民主义的萌芽。另外注意Defoe的style和feature，另外Defoe是forerunner of English realistic novel。 27. Samuel Richardson——“Pamela” (first epistolary novel), “Clarissa Harlowe”, “Sir Charles Grandison” 28. Henry Fielding: “Joseph Andrews”, “Jonathan Wild”, “Tom Jones”第一个和第三个比较重要，需要仔细看。他是一个比较重要的作家，另外Fielding也被称为father of the English novel. 29. Laurence Sterne——“Tristram Shandy”项狄传 30. Richard Sheridan——“The School for Scandal” 31. Oliver Goldsmith——“The Traveller”(poem), “The Deserted V illage” (poem) (both two poems were written by heroic couplet), “The Vicar of Wakefield” (novel), “The Good-Natured Man” (comedy), “She stoops to Conquer” (comedy),
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①Beowulf: The national heroic epic of the English people. It has over 3,000 lines. It describes the battles between the two monsters and Beowulf, who won the battle finally and dead for the fatal wound. The poem ends with the funeral of the hero. The most striking feature in its poetical form is the use if alliteration. Other features of it are the use of metaphors(暗喻) and of understatements(含蓄). ②Alliteration: In alliterative verse, certain accented(重音) words in a line begin with the same consonant sound(辅音). There are generally 4accents in a line, 3 of which show alliteration, as can be seen from the above quotation. ③Romance: The most prevailing(流行的) kind of literature in feudal England was the Romance. It was a long composition, sometimes in verse(诗篇), sometimes in prose(散文), describing the life and adventures of a noble hero, usually a knight, as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournament(竞赛), or fighting for his lord in battle and the swearing of oaths. ④Epic: An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significantly to a culture or nation. The first epics are known as primacy, or original epics. ⑤Ballad: The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad which is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas(诗节), with the second and fourth lines rhymed. The subjects of ballads are various in kind, as the struggle of young lovers against their feudal-minded families, the conflict between love and wealth, the cruelty of jealousy, the criticism of the civil war, and the matters and class struggle. The paramount(卓越的) important ballad is Robin Hood(《绿林好汉》). ⑥Geoffrey Chaucer杰弗里.乔叟: He was an English author, poet, philosopher and diplomat. He is the founder of English poetry. He obtained a good knowledge of Latin, French and Italian. His best remembered narrative is the Canterbury Tales(《坎特伯雷故事集》), which the Prologue(序言) supplies a miniature(缩影) of the English society of Chaucer’s time. That is why Chaucer has been called “the founder of English realism”. Chaucer affirms men and women’s right to pursue their happiness on earth and opposes(反对) the dogma of asceticism(禁欲主义) preached(鼓吹) by the church. As a forerunner of humanism, he praises man’s energy, intellect, quick wit and love of life. Chaucer’s contribution to English poetry lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic(抑扬格) meter(the “heroic couplet”) to English poetry, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse. ⑦【William Langland威廉.朗兰: Piers the Plowman《农夫皮尔斯》】
History and Anthology of English Literature I Multiple Choices 1.The story of _________ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances. A.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales 2.Chaucer died on October 25th, 140(), and was buried in __________ ? A.Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 3?Utopia was written in the form of _________ ? A. prose B. drama C? essay D. dialogue 4.________ i s the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry. A. John Donne B. George Herbert C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan 5.________ i s not written by William Blake. A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell B. Songs of Experience C. Auld Lang Syne D. Poetical Sketches 6."Some book are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested： This sentence is taken from __________ . A. Swifts A Modest Proposal B. Dickens\ Oliver l\vist C. Fielding 9s Tom Jones D. Bacon's Of Studies 7.Which poet is not the "Lake Poet"? A. William Wordsworth B. S. T. Coleridge C. Southey D. Keats 8.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _________ ? A. Science B. Arts C. Philosophy D. Humanism 9.Romance, which uses verse or prose to describe the adventures and life of the knights, is the popular literary form in _________ . A? Romanticism B. Renaissance C. medieval period D? Anglo-Saxon period 10.Gothic novels are mostly stories of _________ , which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles? A.love and marriage B. sea adventures C. mystery and horror D. saints and martyrs II? The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gull iver's Travels arc _______ ?A? horses that are endowed with reason B.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities C.giants that are superior in wisdom D.hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways 12. John Milton's masterpiece 一Paradise Lost was written in the poetic style of ___________ ? A. rhymed stanzas B. blank verse C. alliteration D? sonnets 13? Which of the following has / have associations with John Donners poetry? A. reason and sentiment B. conceits and wits C. the euphuism D. writing in the rhymed couplet 14.Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is
名词解释 ENGLISH LITERATURE--DEFINITION OF TERMS 1 were passed down from generation to generation. 3) Robin Hood is a famous ballad singing the goods of Robin Hood. Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a 19th century English ballad. 2Critical Realism of the 19th century flourished in the forties and in the beginning of fifties.2)The realists first and foremost set themselves the task of criticizing capitalist society from a democratic viewpoint and delineated the crying contradictions of bourgeois reality. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils.3) Charles Dickens is the most important critical realist. 3With the advent of the 18th century, in England, as in other European countries, there sprang into life a public movement known as the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment on the whole, was an expression of struggle of the then progressive class of bourgeois against feudalism. The social inequality, stagnation, prejudices and other survivals of feudalism. They attempted to place all branches of science at the service of mankind by connecting them with the actual deeds and requirements of the people. 启蒙主义：启蒙主义是在18世纪在英国发生的。总体上，启蒙主义是当时的资产阶级对封建主义，社会的不平等、死寂、偏见和其他的封建残余的一种反对。通过将科学的各个分支与人民的日常生活和需要联系起来，启蒙主义者们努力将他们变成为人民大众服务的工具 4-of-Consciousness” or “interior monologue”, is one of the modern literary techniques. It is the style of writing that attempts to imitate the natural flow of a character’s thoughts, feelings, reflections, memories, and mental images as the character experiences them. It was first used in 1922 by the Irish novelist James Joyce. Those novels broke through the bounds of time and space, and depicted vividly and skillfully the unconscious activity of the mind fast changing and flowing incessantly, particularly the hesitant, misted, distracted and illusory psychology people had when they faced reality. The modern American writer William Faulkner successfully advanced this technique. In his stories, action and plots were less important than the reactions and inner musings of the narrators. Time sequences were often dislocated. The reader feels himself to be a participant in the stories, rather than an observer. A high degree of emotion can be achieved by this technique.
文档来源为 :从网络收集整理.word 版本可编辑 .欢迎下载支持. 台州学院外国语学院学年第学期 级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II 》期末试卷（11）( 闭卷 ) 题号分值得分姓名班级学号 考试时间 :120 分钟I II III IV V VI VII总分10101015201025100 I. Multiple choice . Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10) 1.The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____. A. strong-willed heroes B. mysticism C. moderation D. exotic pictures 2. “O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, ”is from____. A. Ozymandias B. Ode to the West Wind C. She Walks in Beauty D. The Isles of Greece 3.____is one of the Satanic“school ” poets. A. John Keats B. Percy Bysshe Shelley C. Leigh Hunt D. S. T. Coleridge 4.Dickens ’ first true novel is ____. A. David Copperfield B. Bleak House C. Oliver Twist D. Hard Times 5.The following novels are all written by Jane Austen Except. A. Pride and Prejudice B. Emma C. Mansfield Park D. Far from the Madding Crowd https://www.doczj.com/doc/2710887764.html,wrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________. A. Sons and Lovers B. For Whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea 7.____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19th century. A. Jane Austen’ s B. Walter Scott’Cs. Henry Fielding’ s D. Charles Lamb’ s 8.The title of Thackeray ’novels ____was borrowed from The Pilgrim s ’Progress by John Bunyan . A. The Roundabout Paper B. The Newcomers C. Vanity Fair D. The Four Georges 9.,which was written by Charlotte Bronte, is a poetic, imaginative story of the love of a young governess for her married employer . A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane Eyre C. The Professor D. Agnes Grey 10.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism. A. Richard Sheridan B. Oliver Goldsmith C. Oscar Wilde D. Bernard Shaw II. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10) ____1. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the prose of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. ____2.The Lakers include Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth . ____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight.
Test Paper One Ⅰ. Identification. 1. Identify each on the left column with its related information on the right column. (1) Ernest Jones A. euphuism (2) Oscar Wilde B. Lake poet (3) John Lyly C. Chartist poetry (4) Robert Louis Stevenson D. tragedy (5) Robert Southey E. sentimentalism (6) George Eliot F. critical realism (7) Laurence Sterne G. art for art’s sake (8) Pamela H. Kunstlerroman (9) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I. epistolary novel (10) Macbeth J. neo-romanticism 2. Identify the author with his or her work. (1) Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India (2) E. M. Foster B. Paradise Regained (3) Virginia Woolf C. The Garden Party (4) John Milton D. Of Studies (5) Shelley E. Jonathan Wild the Great (6) Francis Bacon F. Jude the Obscure (7) Katherine Mansfield G. The Waste Land (8) Henry Fielding H. Hard Times (9) T. S. Eliot I. To the Lighthouse (10) Thomas Hardy J. Prometheus Unbound Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks. 1. was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers. The Man of Property is one of his works. 2. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by . 3. Of Human Bondage is a naturalistic novel by , dealing with the story of a deformed orphan trying vainly to be an artist. 4. , T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads. 5. Henry James’ most famous short story is , a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses governess. 6. The pessimistic view of life that p redominates most of Hardy’s later works earns him a reputation as a writer. 7. is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature. 8. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of , a legendary outlaw. 9. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is ________.
《英国文学史及选读》课程教学大纲 一．课程基本情况： 1．编号：01015065, 01015096 (翻译方向)； 02015055,02015106 (教育方向) 2．层次与学制：本科, 四年制 3．总学时：68 4．学期与周学时：第五，六学期；周学时: 2 5．学分：2 6．执笔人：夏丹 二、课程性质与任务： 本课程为英语（翻译，教育方向）专业必修课。 该门课程在英语专业人才培养中旨在使学生从英国历史、语言、文化发展的角度，掌握英国文学各个时期的主要文学、文化思潮，文学流派，主要作家及其代表作，同时帮助学生对英国文学的发展有深刻的了解和认识，并通过介绍一些最基本的文化理论和批评方法，对部分在思想上艺术上有代表性，有影响的作家及作品进行分析、导读，增强学生对英国文学的形成和发展的理解，提高他们对文学作品的鉴赏能力和文学修养。 三、课程的基本要求 1．课程的要求：学完本课程，学生应该掌握如下能力： ①对于英国文学史有整体性的把握； ②掌握分析和鉴赏文学作品的能力； ③独立完成千字左右的文学作品评析的英文论文； ④掌握文学概念和相关文学流派的专业知识。 2．质量标准：在第五学期完成英国文学史中从中古时期到启蒙时期的文学流派及相关作家，完成两篇以上的英文作品分析论文；第六学期完成从浪漫主义时期到现代主义文学相关内容的学习，并整体把握整个英国文学史的脉络，完成三篇以上的英文作品分析论文。同时检验学生是否了解、认识英国文学各个时期的主要文化、文学流派、主要作家及其代表作品，了解英国文学的发展历史，并能够用最基本的文化理论和批评方法，理解、分析文学作品，提高文学鉴赏力、语言表达能力，提高文学修养。 四、课程内容与学时分配 第五学期： 第一章序言 (2 学时) 使学生对英国文学史和主要流派具有提纲挈领的认识。 第二章中古世纪时期（2学时） 使学生掌握英国文学的起源及其形式和主要代表作品 第三章杰弗里?乔叟 (2学时)
英国文学史及选读试题 Ⅰ. Multiple Choice（1′×20=20分） 1.______ was respected as “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England. A.William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. John Milton D.John Donne 2.In terms of influence upon England, ____ brought French civilization and French language to England. A. Anglo-Saxons B. Romans C. Anglo-Normans D. Teutons 3. According to Thomas More, “it was a time when sheep devoured men”. It refers to____. A. Industrialization B. Religious Reformation C. Commercial Expansion D. Enclosure Movement 4. It was ____who introduced sonnet into English literature. A. Thomas Wyatt B. William Shakespeare C. Edmund Spenser D. Philip Sidney 5. Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies? A. Hamlet B. King Lear C. The Merchant of Venice D. Othello 6. In 1649 ____ was beheaded. England became a commonwealth under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell. A.James I B. Henry VIII C. Elizabeth I D. Charles I 7. Which comment on John Donne is wrong? A. He is the leading figure of metaphysical poetry. B. His poetry is characterized by mysticism and peculiar conceit. C. John Donne usually employs traditional and regular poetic form. D. His attitudes toward love are both positive and negative. 8. Friday in The Adventuous of Robinson Crosue can be termed as EXCEPT____. A. a kind-hearted person B. a person with colonial mind C. a smart person D. a friendly person 9. Thomas Gray is the representative of _____. A. Sentimentalism B. Pre-Romanticism C. Romanticism D. English Renaissance 10. William Blake’s ____is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings. A.Poetical Sketches B. The Book of Thel C. Songs of Experience D. Songs of Innocence 11. ____, the national peasant poet in Scotland, and his poem____ shows his passionate love for his Beloved. A.William Blake, Lodon B. William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud C. Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose D. Robert Burns, Auld Lang Syne 12. English Romanticism begins with____ and ends with____. A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads, John Keats’s death B. French Revolution, Walter Scott’s death C. the publication of Lyrical Ballads, Walter Scott’s death D. Industrialization, John Keats’s death 13. ____ are named as Lake Poets and Escapist Romanticists. A. Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats B. Wordsworth, Byron and Shelley C. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Shelley D. Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey 14. Which of the following statement is NOT correct? A. Romantic literature is decidely an age of poetry. B. Dramma was fully developed during the Romantic period. C. The general feature is a dissatisfaction with the bourgeoise society. D. Romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.Personified nature plays an important role in the pages of their works. 15. ____ was the founder of the novel which deals with unimportant middle class people and of which there are many fine examples in latter English fiction.