Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating
England.
A. William the Conqueror
B. Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great
D. Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .
A. Langland
B. Wycliffe
C. Gower
D. Chaucer
3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.
A. novel
B. drama
C. romance
D. essay
4. 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
5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla Khan
B. Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John Bull
D. Morte d’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The
Normans spoke _____.
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. Gower
C. Wycliffe
D. Chaucer
8. 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. primitive
B. feudal
C. bourgeois
D. modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B. revolt
C. obedience
D. mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary
outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’Arthur
B. 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 London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Gawain
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
A. Flanders
B. France
C. Italy
D. Westminster Abbey
13. Chaucer’s 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 Rose
B. “A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good Women
D. 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
D. soldier
E. ambassador
F. legislator (议员)
15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s
poem “Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of Good Women
B. Troilus and Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Beowulf
Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB
Ⅱ. Questions
1.What are the features of Beowulf?
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.
Part Two The English Renaissance
Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.
1.Thomas More
2.Holinshed
3.Hakluyt
4.Richard Tottel
5.Philip Sidney
6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for Poetry
B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C.Utopia
D.Discovery of Guiana
E.Principal Navigations, V oyages and Discoveries
F.Chronicles
The 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 V
B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII
D. James I
2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of
the Reformation” and his followers.
A. William Tyndal
B. James I
C. John Wycliffe
D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3.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 VII
C. Henry VIII
D. Queen Elizabeth
4.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. Spain
B. France
C. America
D. Norway
5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.
A. Francis Drake
B. Lancelot Andrews
C. William Caxton
D. William Tyndal
6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.
A. Ben Johnson
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas More
D. Christopher Marlowe
7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
A. Lyly
B. Peele
C. Greene
D. Marlowe
8.Morality plays appeared after_____.
A. miracle plays
B. mystery plays
C. interlude
D. Classical plays
9._____ is used to say and do good things.
A. Mercy
B. Folly
C. Vice
D. Peace
10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip Sidney
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Thomas More
D. Walter Raleigh
11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.
A. Thomas North
B. Thomas Wyatt
C. George Chapman
D. John Florio
12.____ 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 Sonnets
C.Don Quixote
D.History of the World
13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to
understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
A. John Wycliffe
B. William Caxton
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Thomas More
14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.
A. prose
B. drama
C. essay
D. dialogue
15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.
A. The Shepherds
B. Everyman
C. The Play of the Weather
D. Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and
all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594
B. 1595 and 1600
C. 1601 and 1607
D. 1608 and 1612
17.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. Pericles
B. Cymbeline
C. The Winter’s Tale
D. The Tempest
18.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. 1606
B. 1607
C. 1608 1609
19.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. classicism
20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with
the _______.
A. dramatic blank verse
B. song
C. sonnet
D. couplet
21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.
A. 15000
B. 16000
C. 17000
D. 18000
22._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow
B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D. Ben Johnson
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.
1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.
2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between
____ and ___.
3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.
4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the
_____”.
5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is
known as Tyndale’s Bible.
6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 under
the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.
7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great
influence on English ___ and ____.
8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English
has been _____ and _____.
9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech as
household words.
10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of
the English prose for the last 300 years.
11.____ was the first English printer.
12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , and
his interest was turning to ____.
13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which
was the ___ book printed in English.
14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与
克雷雪达》
15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to
the career of a ____ and _____.
16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated by
himself.
17.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful
language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to
the development of the style of ___ century English ____.
18.The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language in
England.
19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____,
which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as
a whole.
20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.
21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series of
historical events, such as ________.
22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old
____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of
____and the achievements of ____.
24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which the
rhyme scheme is ____.
25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of
___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.
26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of
England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.
27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled to
work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.
28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classical
works within reach of the common multitude.
29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations and
the establishing of the foundations of ____.
30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when,
according to Thomas More, “___”.
31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the
country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.
32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the
English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.
33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.
34.Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of So ngs 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 based on ______stories.
41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.
42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.
43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.
44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact
with ______ and ______drama.
45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the
important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.
46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the
____ century.
47.The first English comedy is ______.
48.The first English tragedy is _____.
49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the
flourishing of ____.
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）of
galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.
53.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were always
taken by ____.
54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the
______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.
55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.
56.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation o ften 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:
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,tin Bible
2.Protestantism; Catholicism
3.Protestants
4.John Wycliffe; Reformation
5.William Tyndal
6.Authorized Version, James I;
King James Bible.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,nguage; literature
8.fixed; confirmed
9.Bible coinages
10.simple; dignified
11.William Caxton 12.Reading; literature
13.First
14.Shakespeare
15.Printer; publisher
16.100; 24
17.15th ; prose
18.National
19.Publisher; culture
20.14th; 17th
21.Religious reformation
22.feudalist ideas; interests; purity
23.Humanism; human mind; human culture
24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;
The Faerie Queene;
ababbcbcc
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ncaster; York
26.The Reformation
27.the Enclosure Movement;
proletarians
28.printing
29.feudal; capitalism
30.sheep devours men
31.William VIII
32.Renaissance
33.Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey
34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40,
Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey
35.poetry
36.Utopia, Book One; poverty
37.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
46.16th
47.Gammer Gurton’s 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.Renaissance
58.master-hand (能手)
59.full-blood
Ⅳ. Say true or false.
1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of
the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come 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 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.
4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political
guise.
5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic
churches.
6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.
7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.
8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.
9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.
10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.
11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors
introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.
12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.
13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)
and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.
14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers
18—126, and Numbers 127—154.
15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.
16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in deta il, the truthful reproduction of
typical characters under typical circumstances.”
17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.
18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)
19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the
funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.
20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) and
wealth of (大量的) action”.
21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and
Hythloday, a voyage.
22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great
work, The Capital.
24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.
25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation
of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.
26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English
tragedy.
27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper
class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.
28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his
plays in 1623.
29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great
interest in the political questions of his time.
30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.
31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero
to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of
Shakespeare’s art.
33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.
34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a
process of prosperity.
35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of
prose.
36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.
37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character in his
comedies 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.T
2.T
3.T
4. F. (a political movement in a
religious guise)
5. F. (the Latin Bible)
6.T
7. F (Sidney)
8.T
9.T
10.T
11.T
12.T
13.F ( Book Two)
14.T
15.T
16.T
17.T
18.F
19.T
20.T
21.F (a conversation)
22.F (poet and critic of poetry)
23.F
24.F(darma)
25.T
26.T
27.T
28.T
29.T
30.T
31.F (Macbeth)
32.F (Hamlet)
33.F (realism)
34.F(decline)
35.F (not an age of prose)
36.T
37.F (ordinary people were)
38.T
Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissance
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,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.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on The Faerie Queene.
Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
I.Choose the right answer.
1.The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.
A. aabbccbbc
B. abbacdccd
C. abacdeec
D. ababcdcdd
2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in
the later democratic revolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in England
D. Areopagitica
3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the
later sacred verses.
A. John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D. John Dryden
4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.
A. Holy Sonnets
B. Witchcraft by a Picture
C. The Sun Rising
D. Death, Be Not Proud
5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.
A. The Altar
B. To His Coy Mistress
C. To Daffodils
D. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May
6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Andre Marvell
D. Henry Vaughan
7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?
A. Richard Crashaw
B. Henry Vaughan
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Robert Burton
8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.
A. The Anatomy of Melancholy
B. Religio Mecici
C. Holy Dying
D. Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysi de and the
simple and kind people.
A. The Compleat Angler
B. Holy Living
C. To His Coy Mistress
D. To Daffadils
10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?
A. John Suckling
B. Richard Lovelace
C. Robert Herrick
D. John Dryden
11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th
century.
A. John Dryden
B. Richard Steele
C. Joseph Addison
D. Alexander Pope
Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD
II.Fill in the blanks.
1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most
important place.
2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing
produced during the _____ Age.
3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of
London at the time of Restoration.
4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which
general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.
5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration
period.
6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.
7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.
8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of
Shakespeare.
9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with
the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John
Milton, 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 18th
century.
16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.
17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.
18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private
citizens 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
ownership.
2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke
out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.
3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the
Protector of the English Commonwealth.
4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,
and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.
5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the
country.
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, William Shakespeare.
8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great
poet whole name is William Milton.
9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.
10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the
greatest one.
11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as
Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.
12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His
Deceased Wife.
13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.
14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to
advocate submission to the Almighty.
15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his
angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.
16.Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.
17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medi ci is a collection of opinions on a vast number of
subjects 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.T
17.T
IV. Questions
1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on the image of Satan.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on Samson.
Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)
A
1. ( ) Tome Jones
2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield
3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe
4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels
5. ( ) Pamela
6. ( ) The School for Scandal
B
a.Friday
b.King of Brodingnag
c.Sophia
d.Mr. B
e.William Thornhill
f.Charles Surface
The key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )
Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.
1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his
moralizing spirit.
A. The Funeral
B. The Lying Lover
C. The Christian Hero
D. The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A. The Tatler
B. The Spectator
C. The Theatre
D. The English
3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.
A. A Letter from Italy
B. Rosamond
C. The Campaign
D. Cato
4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?
A. Isaac Bickerstaff
B. Mr. Roger
C. Captain Sentry
D. Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors
all through the 18th century.
A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living
B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic
C. Samuel Pepys’s diaries
D. Addison’s Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.
A. Steele
B. Addison
C. Pope
D. Dryden
7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.
A. Essay on Criticism
B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Essay on Man
D. The Dunciad
8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.
A. didactic
B. satirical
C. philosophical
D. dramatic
9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.
A. The Enclosure Movement
B. The Industrial Revolution
C. The Religious Reform
D. The Enlightenment
10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____
readers.
A. aristocratic
B. middle class
C. low class
D. intellectual
11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.
A. Steele
B. Milton
C. Addison
D. Pope
12.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers
described in their works were mainly social realities.
A. romanticism
B. classicism
C. realism
D. sentimentalism
13.The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period
spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.
A. drama
B. poetry
C. essay
D. novel
14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which
made him well-known as a satirist.
A. A Tale of Tub
B. Bickerstaff Almanac
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. The Battle of the Books
15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment
of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.
A. Essays on Criticism
B. A Modest Proposal
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. The Battle of the Books
16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This
sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Daniel Defoe
17._____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which
contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Henry Fielding
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Daniel Defoe
18.Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of
Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.
A. Tom Jones
B. Joseph Andrews
C. Jonathan Wild
D. Amelia
19.____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience
as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.
A. Roderick Random
B. Humphry Clinker
C. Peregrine Pickle
D. A Sentimental Journey
20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is
derived the term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.
A. The Rivals
B. The School for Scandal
C. The Beggar’s Opera
D. The London Merchant
21.Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.
A. The Review
B. The Tatler
C. The Rambler
D. The Bee
22.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.
A. The Traveller
B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield
D. The School for Scandal
23.Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.
A. The School for Scandal
B. She Stoops to Conquer
C. The Good-natured Man
D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
24.The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the
world to darkness and to me” is written by ____.
A. William Cowper
B. George Crabbe
C. Thomas Gray
D. William Blake
25.______ is not written by William Blake.
A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
B. Songs of Experience
C. Auld Lang Syne
D. Poetical Sketches
26.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from
William Blake’s _____.
A. Songs of Experience
B. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D. Poetical Sketches
27.The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,
______, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and the Tories
B. the senate and the House of Representatives
C. The upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
28.____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young
and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
A. Pre-romanticism
B. Romanticism
C. Sentimentalism
D. Naturalism
29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the
foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
30.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?
A. Clarissa Harlowe
B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles Grandison
D. Tomes Jones
31.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer
B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal
D. The Conscious Lovers
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB
16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.
1.The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the form of ______ style.
2.Steele’s appeal was made to the ____classes.
3.The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in The Spectator is ______.
4._____ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.
5.Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the _____
novel.
6.Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The Spectator essays have
become the striking features of the English _____.
7.Essay on Criticism is a ______poem.
8.The Dunciad is ______a poem.
9.English enlighteners believed in the _____.
10.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by ____.
11.Blake attacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.
12.Bur ns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and _____.
13.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of _____,
giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satire of English high society.
14.Sameul Johnson’s ______ also marked the end of English writers’ reliance on the
patronage of noblemen for support.
15.Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel in English
literature.
16.Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humor is
better shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere else.
17.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human _____.
18.Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.
19.The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ______.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,urence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the
“knowledge of _____.”
Key to the blanks:
1.conversational
2.middle
3.social reform
4.Character sketch
5.epistolary
6.familiar essay
7.didactic
8.satirical
9.power of reason
10.human intelligence 11.persecution
12.lightheartedness
13.manner
14.A Dictionary of English Language
15.epistolary
16.picaresque
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18.morality
19.symbolism
20.Heart
Ⅳ. Say true or false.
1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay for
each issue.
2.Addison’s ch ief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler
and The Spectator.
3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which
treated in a serious manner.
4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.
5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet.
6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.
7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as
Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.
8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the
novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.
9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the
sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.
10.In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fine
expression.
11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in
which the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.
12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of
Roderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.
13.The two most important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface and
comments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.
14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to
sentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.
15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on
a variety of subjects.
16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and
Charles Surface.
17.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert
Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.
18.Racial discrimination is expressed in B lake’s “The Little Black”.
19.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.
20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy,
Macpherson and Chatterton.
Key to the True/False statements:
1. F (one time a day)
2.T
3. F (light and pleasant manner)
4.T
5.F(Pope’s )
6. F (The Tatler)
7. F (prose)
8. F (nobles; common people)
9. F (18th )
10.T
11.F ( The Battle of the Books)
12.T
13.T
14.F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)
15.F ( Scottish)
16.T
17.T
18.T
19.F (Burns’s)
20.F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)
Ⅴ. Questions
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on the English classicists in the 18th century.
https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on The Spectator.
Part Five Romanticism in England
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism
B. Renaissance
C. Enlightenment
D. feudalism
2.The main literary stream is ____.
A. poetry
B. novels
C. prose
D. periodicals
3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.
A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
B. “Tintern Abbey”
C. “Revolution”
D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost at Midnight
B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
C. Christabel
D. Biographia Literaria
5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.
A. Chil de Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Hours of Idleness
C. Lara
D. Don Juan
6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.
A. Wordsworth’s
B. Byron’s
C. Shelley’s
D. Keats’
7.____ lived the longest life.
A. Wordsworth
B. Byron
C. Shelley
D. Keats
8.Keats’ first poem is ____.
A. O Solitude
B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
C. Poems
D. Endymion
9.Keats’ best ode is ____.
A. “On a Grecian Urn”
B. “To Autumn”
C. “To Psyche”
D. “To a Nightingale”
10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.
.. ;.. 一．中古英语时期 Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly a dventures or other heroic deeds. Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth r eigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance i s the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance E ngland are Christopher Marlowe and W illiam Shakespeare. The greatest of the pioneers of English drama was Christopher Marlowe. Francis Bacon was the best known essayist of this period. “Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. Thomas More ——Utopia Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene C. Beowulf D. Hamlet 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare “All t he world 's a stage, a nd all the men and women merely p layers.”——William Shakespeare William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
1. ____________________________________ The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is . A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. __ w as the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. __ w as famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about __ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More's work ______ became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. __ was Edmund Spencer 's masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd 's Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. __ is from Shakespeare 's sonnet No.18. A “Lemt e not to the marriage of true minds ” B “Tobe or not to be: that is the question ” C “ ShallI compare thee to a summer's day” D “ Nolonger mourn for me when I am dead” 8. ___ , the “father of English poetry ”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9. The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare 's romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except __________ .
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
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks. 1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England. A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius 2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ . A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____. A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay 4. 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 6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____. A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish 9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances. A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery 11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____. A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey 15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”. A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB Ⅱ. Questions 1.What are the features of Beowulf? https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales. Part Two The English Renaissance Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works. 1.Thomas More 2.Holinshed 3.Hakluyt 4.Richard Tottel 5.Philip Sidney 6.Walter Raleigh 3
一．中古英语时期 ?Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and the most important specimen (范例、典范)of Anglo-Saxon literature, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language. ?The romance is a popular literary form in the medieval period（中世纪）. It uses verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds. ?Geoffrey Chaucer, one of the greatest English poets, whose masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales（《坎特伯雷故事集》）,was one of the most important influences on the development of English literature. ?Chaucer is considered as the father of English poetry and the founder of English realism. 二．文艺复兴Renaissance ?Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It marks a transition(过渡) from the medieval to the modern world. ?It started in Italy with the flowering of painting, sculpture（雕塑）and literature, and then spread to the rest of Europe. ?Humanism is the essence of Renaissance -----Man is the measure of all things. ?This was England’s Golden Age in literature. Queen Elizabeth reigned over the country in this period. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama. The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England ? ?“Of Studies” is the most popular of Bacon’s 58 essays. ?Thomas More ——Utopia ?Edmund Spenser——The Faerie Queene 相关练习 ? 1. Which is the oldest poem in the English language? ? A. Utopia B. Faerie Queene ? C. Beowulf D. Hamlet ? 2. _____ is the father of English poetry. ? A. Edmund Spenser B. William Shakespeare ? C. Francis Bacon D. Geoffrey Chaucer ? 3. ____ is not a playwright during the Renaissance period on England. ? A. William Shakespeare B. Geoffrey Chaucer ? C. Christopher Marlowe D. Ben Johnson 三．莎士比亚William Shakespeare ?“All the world 's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”——William Shakespeare ?William Shakespeare is considered the greatest playwright in the world and the finest poet who has written in the English language. Shakespeare understood people more than any other writers. He could create characters that have
___________ I. Multiple Choice: from a, b, c or d, choose the best one to complete the statements below. (1×50, 50 points) 1.---- ----- is the first important religious poet in English literature. a. John Donne b. George Herbert c. Caedmon d. Milton 2.The literature of the Anglo-Saxon period falls naturally into two divisions, ---------- and Christian. a. Pagan b. Roman c. French d. Danish 3.“----------” is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the surviving epic in the English language. a. Beowulf b.Sir Gawain and Green Knight c. The Canterbury Tales d. Hamlet 4.Fielding has been regarded by some as the “----------” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. a.Best Writer of English Novel b. Father of English Novel c. Father of English Poetry d. Father of English Essay 5.All of the following three writers except---------- are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England. a.Marlowe b. Shakespeare c. Bacon d. Thomas Kyd 6.Byronic Hero was created by Lord Byron in one of his following works ---------. a. Don Juan b. Ode to the West wind c. She Walks in Beauty d. Daffodils 7.Which play is not Shakespeare’s tragedy? ---------- a.Othello b. The Merchant of Venice c.Romeo and Juliet d. King Lear 8.The literary form of The Faerie Queen is ----------. a. lyric poem b. narrative poem c. epic poem d. elegy 9.Which of the following cannot correctly describe the English Enlightenment Movement ----------? a.It flourished in France. b. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance. c.Its purpose was to enlighten the whole worl d. d. It emphasized “reason & order.” 10.“Blindness, partiality, prejudice and absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice are most likely to be the characteristics of ----------. a. Elizabeth b. Darcy c. Mrs. Bennet d. Lydia 11.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is the
2018年自学《英国文学选读》试题及答案 1. What are Shakespeare ’s achievements? a. Shakespeare represented the trend of history in giving voice to de desires and aspirations of the people. b. Shakespeare’s humanism: more important than his historical sense of his time, Shakespeare in his plays reflects the spirit of his age. c. Shakespeare’s characterization: Shakespeare was most successful in his characterization. In his plays he described a great number of characters. d. Shakespeare’s originality: Shakespeare drew most of his materials from sources that were known to his audienc e. But his plays are original because he instilled into the old materials a new spirit that gives new life to his plays. e. Shakespeare as a great poet: Shakespeare was not only a great dramatist, but also a great poet. Apart from his sonnets and long poems, his dramas are poetry. f. Shakespeare as master of the English language. 2. What are the basic characteristics of ballads? a. The beginning is often abrupt. b. There are strong dramatic elements. c. The story is often told through dialogue and action. d. The theme is often tragic, though there are a number of comic
Instructions： This examination consists of 5 parts， and the total time for the examination is 2 hours. All the answers should be entered onto the Answer Sheet. Part I：Multiple Choices （10%） Choose the best answer to the following sentences. 1.Which of the following is NOT a feature of Beowulf？ A. Alliteration B. Anglo-Saxons’ early life in England C. Germanic language D. The national epic of Anglo-Saxon people 2.English Renaissance Period was an age of. A. prose and novel B. poetry and drama C. essays and journals D. ballads and songs 3.The main literary form of the early 17th century was poetry. John Milton was acknowledged as the greatest. Besides him， there were two groups of poets. They were the Cavalier poets and. A. the lake poets B. the university wits C. the Metaphysical poets D. the Romantic poets 4. Pamela is widely considered to be the first novel and was written by ___________. A. Thomas Hardy B. James Joyce C. Samuel Richardson D. Henry Fielding 5.The publication of， which was the joint work of William Wordsworth and Samuel T. Coleridge， marked the beginning of the Romantic Age in England. A. Don Juan B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab 6.Among the most famous realistic novelists of the Victorian age are， W. M. Thackeray， Bronte sisters， etc. A. Joseph Conrad B. Henry Fielding C. Charles Dickens D. D. H. Lawrence 7.In James Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a portrait of a young woman from Dublin deciding whether or not to leave her hometown. A. Ulysses B. Orlando C. Dubliners D. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man 8.In the 18th century England， satire was much used in writing. Literature of this age produced some excellent satirists， such as Jonathan Swift， Henry Fielding and.
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Exercise for English Literature (2) Choose the best answer for each blank. 1.________, the “father of English poetry”and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A.Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C.Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 2.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________. A.Flanders B. France C.Italy D. Westminster Abbey 3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ________ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants. A.Henry V B. Henry VII C.Henry VIII D. Queen Elizabeth 4.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.Spain B. France C.America D. Norway 5.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future happy society. A.Thomas More B. Thomas Marlowe C.Francis Bacon D. William Shakespear 6.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________. A.Mary B. Elizabeth C.William D. Victoria 7.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________. A.prose and novel B. poetry and drama C.essays and journals D. ballads and songs 8.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________. A.The Advancement of Learning B. The New Instrument C.Essays D. The New Atlantics E.Venus and Adonis 9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________. A.songs B. plays https://www.doczj.com/doc/cf11982972.html,edies D. sonnets 10.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whose images and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.
英国文学选读样题答案 一、选择题（本大题共15小题，每小题1分，总计15分） 1---5 ABCCC 6---10 ABBAB 11---15 BBAAC 二、填空（本大题共10小题，每小题2分，总计20分） 1．Heroic 2 comedies 3. couplet 4. metaphysical poetry 5. Eve 6. My Luve’s Like a Red, Red, Rose 7.Houyhnynms 8. Coleridge 9. Odes 10. Emily Bronte 三、诗歌分析（本大题共4个小题，每小题分值见各小题，共20分） 1．William Wordsworth; I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud 2．Iambic tetrameter; ababcc ababcc 3. The waves beside them danced; but they _ / _ / _ / - / Out-did | the spark|ling waves | in glee: _ / _ / _ _ _ / A po|et could |not but |be gay, _ / _/ _ / _ _ In such | a jo|cund com|pany: _ / _ / _ / _ / I gazed--|and gazed-|-but lit|tle thought _ / _ / _ / _ / What wealth |the show |to me |had brought: 4. 水波在边上欢舞，但水仙 比闪亮的水波舞得更乐； 有这样快活的朋友做伴， 诗人的心儿被欢愉充塞； 我看了又看，却没领悟 这景象给了我什么财富。（黄杲炘） 四、小说分析（本大题共5个小题，每小题分值见每小题，共20分） 1.Jane Eyre; Sharlotte Bronte 2.He had a mad wife who set the building on fire and climbed to the roof of the building. He tried to save her. But the staircase broke and he fell down He was wounded and became blind. 3.When Jane knew that Mr. Rochester had a wife. She was surprised and fled from Thornfield. Mr. Rochester was very sad at it.
1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____. A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf 2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in alliterative verse. A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf 3. ____was famous for The Canterbury Tales. A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon 4. Most of the ballads of the 15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic figure. A Green Nights B Gawain C Robin Hood D Hamlet 5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its publication. A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates C Of Studies D Utopia 6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the grea t poems in the English language. A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns 7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18. A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” B “To be or not to be: that is the question” C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” 8. _____, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London about 1340. A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden 9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ___ _. A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar C Twelfth Night D King Lear 10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies? A Twelfth Night B The Tempest C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice D C A C D C C A D B ? 1. All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England except______.