B 1. The Canterbury Tales was written in ________.
A. Old English
B. Middle English
C. Modern English
D. Current Modern English
B 2. Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in ________.
A. March
B. April
C. May
D. June
C 3. ________ pilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London.
A. 25
B. 27
C. 29
D. 31
C 4. Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means____________.
A. the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
B. the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
C. the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.
D. the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.
B 5.The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely___. A. Willia m Langland’s Piers the Plowman B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower’s Confessio Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D 6．Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are _________
A. Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of Athens
B. Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest
C. Hamlet, Othello, King John, and Macbeth
D. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
C7. Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s ________.
A. romantic comedy
B. comedy
C. tragedy
D. historical plays
C 8. A sonnet is a poem of ________ lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.
A. 8
B. 6
C. 14
D. 24
A9. Which of the following plays does NOT belong to Shakespeare’s great comedies?
A. Henry V
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. A Midsummer Night’s Dre am
D. The Winter’s Tale
C10. Which of the following poetic forms is the principle form of Shakespeare’s drama?
A. lyric
B. sonnet
C. blank verse
D. quatrain
C11. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ___. A. comedies B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
B12. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ，Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of _____ and the eternal__________ brought forth by poetry to the one he loves .
A. death/ life
B. time / beauty
C. death/ love
D. hate / love
C13. Which of the following statements best illustrate 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
C14. _____is considered to be the summit of Shakespeare’s art.
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. The Comedy of Errors
C. Hamlet
D. The Tempest
B 15. The story of Hamlet takes place in ________.
A. England
B. Denmark
C. Italy
D. Germany
C 16.The representatives of the enlightenment in English literature were the following writers but _____.
A.Joseph Addison
B. Richard Steele
C.William Blake
D.Alexander pope
A 17. Joseph Addison，Richard Steele and Alexander pope belonged to the school of _____.
A .classicism B. romanticism
C .realism D. modernism
B 18. The ___ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe in the 18th century .
A. Renaissance
B. Enlightenment
C. Religious Reformation
D. Chartist Movement
D 19. In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______.
A. Tom Jones
B. Pamela
C. The Adventures of Roderick Random
D. Moll Flanders
C 20. Which of the following is not taken into consideration when Robinson Crusoe looks for a place to set up his tent: ______.
A. health and fresh water
B. shelter from the heat of the sun
C. a lot of trees
D. a view to the sea
C 21. Robinson Crusoe set foot upon the island in ______ of 1659.
A. spring
B. summer
C. autumn
D. winter
B 22. Which of the following is NOT true about Robinson Crusoe?
A. It is written in the autobiographical form.
B. It is a record of Defoe’s own experiences.
C. Robinson spends 28 years of isolated life on the island.
D. It is set in the middle of the 17th century
C 23.The representatives of the enlightenment in English literature were the following writers but _____.
A .Joseph Addison
B .Richard Steele
C .William Blake
D .Alexander pope
B 24. “The Lamb” is included in William Blake’s ________.
A. Poetical Sketche
B. The Songs of Innocence
C. The Songs of Experience
D. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
C 25.Robert Burns came from ________.
A. England
B. Wales
C. Scotland
D. Ireland
B 26. Authors and poems are correctly paired in all of the following except ________.
A. William Wordsworth—“The Solitary Reaper”
B. William Blake—“A Red, Red Rose”
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
D. Robert Burns—“The Tree of Liberty”
D 27. “Auld Lang Syne” means ________.
A. old son
B. old acquaintance
C. long friendship
D. long ago
D 28. The Lake Poets include the following except ________.
A. Robert Southey
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. William Blake
B 29. William Wordswoth is frequently referred to as ________.
A. a religious poet
B. a worshipper of nature
C. a modern poet
D. a worshipper of beauty
D 30. Lyrical Ballads (1798. was a collection of poems by ________.
A. James Thomson and William Collins
B. Thomas Gray and Robert Burns
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Byron
D. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D 31. Byron wrote the following except ________.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Manfred
C. Don Juan
D. The Revolt of Islam
C32. The description of “a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection” may be applied to ________.
A. an epic hero
B. an antihero
C. a Byronic hero
D. a modern hero
C 33. In “Ode to the West Wind”, the wild west wind is referred to as the wind of ________.
A. spring
B. summer
C. autumn
D. winter
D 34. John Keats wrote the following except ______.
A. Endymion
B. The Eve of Saint Agness
C. "Ode to a Nightingale"
D. "Ode to Duty"
B 35. Jane Austen’s first novel was ________.
A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma
D. Mansfield Park
D 36. The following characters are correctly paired according to the works in which they appear except ________.
A. Elizabeth—Pride and Prejudice
B. Mr. Knightley—Emma
C. Catherine—Northanger Abbey
D. Elinor—Mansfield Park
D 37. One of the importan t themes of Jane Austen’s novels is ________.
A. war
B. urban life
C. education
D. marriage
C 38. The phrase “a single man in possession of a good fortune” is applied to a single man wi th ________.
A. luck
B. status
C. wealth
D. health
D 39. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
A. romanticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
A 40. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .
A. novel
B. drama
C. poetry
D. sonnet
B 41. The following are frequently referred to as the Victorian realist novelists except ______.
A. Charles Dicken
B. Jane Austen
C. George Eliot
D. Anthony Trollope
C 42. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.
A. Jane Austen
B. Thackeray
C. Dickens
D. Charlotte
D 43 .Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.
A. wide spread of critical realism
B. his spirit of democracy and humanism
C. his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear language
D. including A, B and C
D 44. Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?
A. The Virginians
B. The Books of Snobs
C. The Newcomes
D. Vanity Fair
C45. The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers
D. Oliver Twist
A46. ______ made Dickens famous overnight.
A. Sketches by Boz B .The Pickwick Papers
C. Oliver Twist
D. The Old Curiosity Shop
B 47. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?
A. Oliver Twist
B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectations
D. A Tale of Two Cities
C 48. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectation
D. Dombey and Son
B49._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.
A. The Curiosity Shop
B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectations
C 50. In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.
A. The Old Curiosity Shop
B. The Pickwick Paper
C. Our Mutual Friend
D. Little Dorrit
D 51. Dickens’ third literary period sho ws intensifying ______.
A. optimism
B. excitement
C. irritation
D. pessimism
C 52. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ______.
A. London and Berlin
B. London and New York
C. London and Paris
D. London and Tokyo
C 53. Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.
A. Paris
B. New York
C. London
D. Portsmoth
A 54. Magwitch works hard in ______ to make Pip a gentleman.
A. Australia
B. Canada
C. Britain
D. The United States