英国文学简史试题1

7.The most important department of English folk literature is the ballad. A ballad is a story told in song, usually in 4-line stanzas, with the second and fourth lines rhymed.
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29.Othello is a new man of the Renaissance. Othello is a tragedy of humanism. Othello is also a tragedy of the coloured people in a society of racial prejudice.
9.The Prologue provides a framework for the tales. Chaucer has been called“the founder of English realism.”
10.The first complete English Bible was translated by John Wycliffe.(1324-1384) Authorized Version, which was King James Bible.
15.Spenser: the Poet’s Poet The Shepherd’s Calendar, a pastoral poem in twelve books, one for each month of the year.
16.Spenser’s greatest work, The Faerie Queene is along poem planned in 12 books, of which he finished only 6. The work was dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. It is an allegory.

英国文学史1.The statement “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability”openwell-known essays by_________.Francis Bacon Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift[参考答案] Francis Bacon2.When he died, Chaucer was buried in __________ the Poet's Corner.Westminster Abbey Normandy Canterbury Southwark[参考答案] Westminster Abbey3.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for hisproduction of .Piers Plowman Sir Gawain and the Green KnightConfessio Amantis The Canterbury Tales[参考答案] The Canterbury Tales4.The first mention of Robin Hood in literature is in Langland's _________.The Legend of Good Woman The Vison of Piers the PlowmanBoewulf Fables[参考答案] The Vison of Piers the Plowman5.Which literary genra does Sir Gawain and the Green Knight belong to?epic romance novel prose[参考答案] romance6.English literature at the Anglo-Norman Period was also a combination of ____ andSaxon elements.Latin Greek English French[参考答案] French7.In the 14th century, the two most important writers are_____ and ChaucerCaedmon Cynewulf Langland Shakespeare[参考答案] Langland8.Who is the monster half-human who had mingled thirty warriors in The Song ofBeowulf?Hrothgat Heorot Grendel Beowulf[参考答案] Grendel9.The most important work of_____is The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles,which is regardedas the best monument of the old English prose.Alfred the Great Caedmon Cynewulf Venerable Bede[参考答案] Alfred the Great10.The epic, The Song of Beowulf, represents the spirit of_____.monks romanticists sentimentalists pagan[参考答案] paganing line of11.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginnone of Shakespeare’ｓ.comedies tragedies histories sonnets[参考答案] sonnets12.In his literary development, Chaucer was influenced by three literatures, which oneis not true?French literature Italian literature English literature German litereature [参考答案] German litereature13.Who is the "father of English poetry" and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEnglish?Geoffrey Chaucer Martin Luther William Langland John Gower [参考答案] Geoffrey Chaucer14.In the 15th century, there is only one important prose writer whose namen is_____.He wrote an important work called Le Morte d'Arthur.Thomas Marlory Langland Chaucer Adam Bede[参考答案] Thomas Marlory16.________'s Essays is t he first example of that genre in English literature, whichhas been highly esteemed.John Donne John Milton Francis Bacon Edmund Spenser[参考答案] Francis Bacon17.In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.heroic couplet quatrain Spenserian stanza terza rima[参考答案] quatrain18.In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in _______.Lilliput Brobdingnag Houyhnhnm England[参考答案] Lilliput19. is the successful religious allegory in the English language .The Pilgrim’s Progress Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners The Life and Death of Mr. Badman The Holy War[参考答案] The Pilgrim’s Progress20.Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of RobinsonGrusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .Jonathan Swift Daniel Defoe George Eliot wrence[参考答案] Daniel Defoe21.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented byJohn Donne's works?Common speech Conceit Argument Refined Language [参考答案] Common speech22.The lines"Death ,but not proud,though some have clled thee/Mighty andpowerful,for thou are not so" are found in_____.William Wordsworth's writings John Keat's writingsJohn Donne's writings Percy Bysshe Shelley's writings [参考答案] John Donne's writings23.The story of Paradise Lost is taken from _________.a legend Bible an epic a folklore[参考答案] Bible24.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which,contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of thecommon people.romantic realistic prophetic idealistic[参考答案] realistic25.As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms andsatires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically,religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.Moll Flanders Gulliver’s TravelsPilgrim’s Progress The School for Scandal[参考答案] Gulliver’s Travels26.Jonathan Swift's"Gulliver's Travels" gives an unparalleled______depiction of thevices of his age.religious romantic satirical comic[参考答案] satirical27.The ture subject of John Donne's poem,“The Sun Rising,” is to ___.A..attack the sun as an unruly servantB..give compliments to the mistress and her power of beautyC.criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private lifeD.lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie[参考答案] give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty28.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ______ of theBennet family.high opinion great admiration low opinion erroneous view[我的答案] low opinion29.Which of the following is taken from John Keats’“Ode on a Grecian Urn”？A.“I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”　B.“They are both gone up to the church to pray.”　C.“Earth has not anything to show more fair.”　D.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.[我的答案] “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.30."And where are they? And where art thou,/ My country? On thou voiceless shore/The heroic lay is tuneless now-/The heroic bossom beats no more!"(GeorgeGordon Byron, Don Juan) In the above stanaz, "art thou" literally means_________."art you" "are though" "art though" "are you"[我的答案] "are you"31.Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of _______ adventuresor other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.Christian knightly Greek primitive[我的答案] knightly32.Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct?A.It predominated in the early eighteenth century.B.It was one phase of the Romantic movement.C.Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.D.Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothicromance.[我的答案] It predominated in the early eighteenth century.33.“ Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewedand digested;”( Of Studies). Here Bacon compares reading to.walking eating drinking acting[我的答案] eating34.Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle-class man of the18thcentury,the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Gulliver Tom Jones[我的答案] Robinson Crusoe35. _______ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became thefoundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.Ben Jonson Samuel Johnson Alexander Pope John Dryden[我的答案] Samuel Johnson36.Donne’s famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass affords a pr imeexample of .dramatic style exaggeration paradox conceit[我的答案] conceit37.Which of the following shows in a more implicit way that the poet was touched bythe song of the solitary reaper?I listened, motionless land still Will no one tell me what she sings ?I saw her singing at her work. The music in my heart I bore.[我的答案] I listened, motionless land still38.What is his name?”“Bingley.”“Is he married or single?”“Oh! Single, my dear,sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thingfor our girls!”The above dialogue must be taken from_____________.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Emily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsJohn Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga George Eliot’s Middlemarch[我的答案] Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice39.The English Renaissance period was an age of ______ .poetry and drama drama and novel novel and poetry romance and poetry[我的答案] poetry and drama40.The well-known soliloquy by Hamlet “To be , or not to be’ shows his_______.hatred for his uncle love for lifeinner- strife resolution of revenge[我的答案] inner- strifebooks are to be tasted, others to besaid:“Some41.In his essay“Of Studies,”Baconswallowed, and some few to be chewed and____________.”skimmed perfected imitated digested[我的答案] digested42.Beowulf, the oldest great long poem ever written in English, is composed in a formof .epics lyrics folk songs sagas[我的答案] epics43.”_______” is the cooperative work of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge.Tintern Abbey The Rime of the Ancient MarinerLyrical Ballads Prelude[我的答案] Lyrical Ballads44.____ is central to Blake’s concern in his Songs of Innocence and Songs ofExperience.Politics Religion Childhood Manhood[我的答案] Childhood45.Shakespeare wrote ___________sonnets.125 154 245 138[我的答案] 15446.“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this , and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?Lover Time Summer Poetry[我的答案] Poetry47.Keats was born in the family of a ______________.landlord apothecary stable keeper doctor[我的答案] stable keeper48.In Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray compares the commonfolk with the great ones, wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the .chance love money material sources[我的答案] chance49.In ________, Shakespeare h as not only made a profound analysis of the socialcrisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth[我的答案] King Lear50."Poetry is spontaneous"was put forward by _______.Robert Burns William Blake William Wordsworth Charles Lamb[我的答案] William Wordsworth51.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT .A.the using of everyday language spoken by the common people.B.the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.C.the humble and rustic life as subject matter.D.elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.[我的答案] elegant wordings and inflated figures of speech.52.Portia,the heroine in "______"is one of Shakespeare's idealwomen-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency."The Merchant of Venice" "As You Like It""King Lear""Twelfth Night"[我的答案] "The Merchant of Venice"53.The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______.Surrey Wyatt Sidney Shakespeare[我的答案] Wyatt54.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .ballad sonnet heroic couplet Spenserian stanza[我的答案] ballad55.The most significant idea of the Renaissance is________.humanism realism naturalism skepticism[我的答案] humanism56.What flourished in Elizabenthan age more than any other form of literature?novel drama essay poetry[我的答案] drama57.The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvationthrough constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils”　may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.Gulliver's Travels The Rape of the LockRobinson Crusoe The pilgrim's Progress[我的答案] The pilgrim's Progress58.The________was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europein the 18th century.Romanticism Humanism Enlightenment Sentimentalism[我的答案] Enlightenment59.“Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.？being proud being rebelliousbeing of humble origin being mysterious[我的答案] being of humble originProgress is often regarded as a typical example60.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’sof_________.allegory romance epic in prose fable[我的答案] allegory61.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.A.horses that are endowed with reasonB.pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualitiesC.giants that are superior in wisdomD.hairy,wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only inappearance but also in some other ways.[我的答案] horses that are endowed with reason62._____ is the first important religious poet in English literature.Cynewulf Caedmon Shakepeare Adam Bede[我的答案] Caedmon63.Which of these is not a song written by Robert Burns?A Red, Red Rose Auld Lang Syne To a Mouse Spring and Fall[我的答案] Spring and Fall64.The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan, is often saidn to be concerned with thesearch for _______.self-fulfilment spiritual salvation material wealth universal truth[我的答案] spiritual salvation65.The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantialexistence on a lonely island reflects .A.man’s desire to return to natureB.the author’s criticism of the colonizationC.the ideal of the rising bourgeoisieD.the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality[我的答案] the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie66.John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledgedepic in English literarure since Beowulf.Areopagitica Paradise Lost Lycidas Samson Agonistes[我的答案] Paradise Lost67.Which of the following is NOT typical of metaphysical poetry best represented byJohn Donne’s works?Common speech. Conceit. Argument. Refined language.[我的答案] Common speech.68.Generally , the Renaissance r efers to the period between the 14th and mid-17thcenturies, its essence is .science philosophy arts humanism[我的答案] humanism69.“Make me thy lyre, even as the forest is…” (Ode to the West Wind )This showsShelly’s wish to be apropagator of revolutionary ideas singer enjoying great fameman who can wander freely heroic fighter in the forest[我的答案] propagator of revolutionary ideas70._______ is a typical feature of Swifts writings.Elegant style Bitter satire Casual narration Complicated sentence structure[参考答案] Bitter satire72.Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted ordilapidated Middle Age castles .love and marriage sea adventures mystery and horror saints and martyrs[参考答案] mystery and horror73.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that _______.A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the lattersees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiencesB.the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC.the former is an intellectual movement the purpose of which is to arouse themiddle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personalcultivation.D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancientGreek and Roman writers for its models[参考答案] the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while thelatter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences 74.The most important representative work by Jonathan Swift is“___________________”．A Tale of a Tub The Battle of the BooksA Modest Proposal Gulliver’s Travels[参考答案] Gulliver’s Travels75._____was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .Thomas Wyatt William Shakespeare Henry Howard John Lyly[参考答案] Thomas Wyatt76.John Milton is a great poet in the _____________________ Period.Renaissance Neoclassical Romantic Realist[参考答案] Renaissance77.The sonnet“Death Be Not Proud”is written in the strict pattern. It reveals the poetbelief that .A.Shakespearean, death is only a sleep, after which we live eternallyB.Petrarchan, death is but momentary while happiness after death is eternal.C.Elizabethan, death is not as strong as people think he isD.Portuguese, death is like a long sleep that offers final peace for the soul[我的答案] Petrarchan, death is but momentary while happiness after death iseternal.78.“Let not Ambition mock their useful toil,/Their homely joys, and destinyobscure;/Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile /The short and simple annals of the poor.”The above lines are taken fromA.Alexander Pope’s Essay on CriticismB.Coleridge’s “Kubla Khan”　C.John Donne’s “The Sun Rising”　D.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”[我的答案] Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”　79.William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originates from?form thoughts emotion artistic devices[我的答案] emotion80. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called ______.heroic couplet quatrain Spenserian stanza terza rima[我的答案] quatrain81._____ is the most common foot in English poetry.the anapest the trochee the iambic the dactyal[我的答案] the iambic82.Among the representatives o f the Enlightenment, who was the first to introducerationalism to England ?John Bunyan Daniel Defoe Alexander Pope Jonathan Swift[我的答案] Alexander Pope83.By making the truth-seeking pilgrims suffer at the hands of the people of VanityFair, John Bunyan intends to show the prevalent political and religious ______of his time.persecution improvement prosperity disillusionment[我的答案] persecution84.Which of the following words NOT appropriate to describe Mrs. Bennet, acharacter in Pride and Prejudice ？Beautiful Intelligent Snobbish Vulgar[我的答案] Intelligentthe quoted line comes from 85.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”　________.A.Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”　B.Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of GrassC.John Milton’s Paradise LostD.John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”[我的答案] Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”86.It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in formof _________.Elegy ode epic sonnet[我的答案] ode87.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __ J.Keats W.Blake W.Wordsworth P.B.Shelley[我的答案] P.B.Shelley88.The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT______.self - esteem self - reliance self - restraint hard work[我的答案] self - esteem89.The_______was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europein the 18th century.Romanticism Humanism Enlightenment Sentimentalism[我的答案] Enlightenmen。

英国文学1考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学中，被誉为“英国文学之父”的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 以下哪位作家是现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 狄更斯B. 哈代C. 伍尔夫D. 奥斯汀答案：C3. 《荒原》是哪位诗人的作品？A. 雪莱B. 济慈C. 艾略特D. 叶芝答案：C4. 《简·爱》的作者是：A. 勃朗特B. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特C. 艾米莉·勃朗特D. 安妮·勃朗特答案：B5. 英国文学中的“湖畔诗人”是指：A. 华兹华斯、柯勒律治和骚塞B. 雪莱、拜伦和济慈C. 奥斯汀、勃朗特和艾略特D. 狄更斯、哈代和萨克雷答案：A6. 《乌托邦》的作者是：A. 托马斯·莫尔B. 弗朗西斯·培根C. 约翰·弥尔顿D. 乔纳森·斯威夫特答案：A7. 《呼啸山庄》的作者是：A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 乔治·艾略特答案：B8. 以下哪位作家是维多利亚时代的代表？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 托马斯·哈代C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 乔治·奥威尔答案：C9. 《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A10. 《鲁滨逊漂流记》的作者是：A. 丹尼尔·笛福B. 亨利·菲尔丁C. 乔纳森·斯威夫特D. 亚历山大·蒲柏答案：A二、填空题（每空1分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一部现实主义小说是________的《鲁滨逊漂流记》。

答案：丹尼尔·笛福2. 英国浪漫主义文学的代表诗人有________、雪莱和拜伦。

答案：济慈3. 英国现代主义文学的代表作之一是弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫的________。

英国文学1考试题及答案一、选择题（每题2分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上第一位伟大的诗人是：A. 乔叟B. 莎士比亚C. 弥尔顿D. 拜伦答案：A2. 下列哪位作家被誉为“英国小说之父”？A. 简·奥斯汀B. 亨利·菲尔丁C. 查尔斯·狄更斯D. 乔治·艾略特答案：B3. 《坎特伯雷故事集》的作者是：A. 乔叟B. 斯宾塞C. 雪莱D. 拜伦答案：A4. 莎士比亚的“四大悲剧”中不包括以下哪部作品？A. 《哈姆雷特》B. 《奥赛罗》C. 《李尔王》D. 《威尼斯商人》答案：D5. 以下哪位诗人不属于浪漫主义诗人？A. 华兹华斯B. 柯勒律治C. 拜伦D. 布朗宁答案：D6. 《简·爱》的作者是：A. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特B. 艾米莉·勃朗特C. 安妮·勃朗特D. 乔治·艾略特答案：A7. 以下哪部作品是现代主义文学的代表作？A. 《荒原》B. 《尤利西斯》C. 《好兵之帅之帅》D. 《到灯塔去》答案：B8. 以下哪位作家是“愤怒的青年”运动的代表人物？A. 金斯利·艾米斯B. 约翰·奥斯本C. 哈罗德·品特D. 艾伦·西利托答案：B9. 《动物农场》的作者是：A. 乔治·奥威尔B. 阿道司·赫胥黎C. 弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫D. 威廉·戈尔丁答案：A10. 以下哪位作家是后现代主义文学的代表人物？A. 托马斯·品钦B. 萨尔曼·鲁西迪C. 伊恩·麦克尤恩D. 朱利安·巴恩斯答案：A二、填空题（每空1分，共20分）1. 英国文学史上的“文艺复兴”时期，涌现出了许多伟大的作家，其中被誉为“英国戏剧之父”的是______。

答案：莎士比亚2. 19世纪英国现实主义文学的代表作家查尔斯·狄更斯的代表作之一是______。

Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess314. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spoem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, V oyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the4declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.5A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete Engl ish Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the_____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which isknown as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 underthe auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern Englishhas been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech ashousehold words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style ofthe English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , andhis interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself tothe career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated byhimself.617.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthfullanguage in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language inEngland.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____,which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ asa whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series ofhistorical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which therhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King ofEngland, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled towork at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classicalworks within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations andthe establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when,according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in thecountry, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of theEnglish national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___7among the laboring classes.37.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contactwith ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all theimportant rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for theflourishing of ____.50.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.51.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）ofgalleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were alwaystaken by ____.54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications ofreal life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version, James I;King James Bible.nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages 10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture820.14th; 17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas; interests;purity23.Humanism; human mind;human culture24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Queene;ababbcbccncaster; York26.The Reformation27.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.printing29.feudal; capitalism30.sheep devours men31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40,Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty 37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict; evil; allegorical43.Clown44.Greek; Latin45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress; boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation (revision)57.Renaissance58.master-hand (能手)59.full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.911.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in his 10comedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.T11Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysi de and thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the mostimportant place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgeneral concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation ofShakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing withthe same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of JohnMilton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18thcentury.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the privatecitizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over landownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers brokeout. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became theProtector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of thecountry.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a greatpoet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and asChaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only l ove poem, a sonnet, on HisDeceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. toadvocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by hisangels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Bro wne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Donne: Milton)5. F (James I: Charles I)6. F (flourish: decline)7.T (William Shakespeare)8. F (William: John)9. F (drama: poetry) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)12.F (first: second)13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)14.F (Satan: God)15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)16.T17.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed hismoralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authorsall through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.。

英国文学简史练习材料一.填空Fill the following blanks with proper information^1 • "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" is one of Christopher Marlowe's best plays.2.John Bunyan wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress n during his second imprisonment.3.The Preface to lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of Romanticism.4.In the last adventure, Gulliver came to a country where horses were possessed of reason while Yahoos were brute beasts.5.Hamlett weakness which leads to his final tragic fall is __________ •6."Read nor to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted^ is one of the epigrams found in Bacorfs "Of Studies".7•“ O, wind, / If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?^ is a famous line in Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind".8.“H e has a servant called Friday.^ "He" in the quoted sentence is a Character in Defoe5s "Robinson Crusoe".9.The poem “Auld Lang Syne" was written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.10.William Blake's The Little Black Boy is taken from a book of poem published at the end of the century, between 1789 and 1794. It is one of a group called Scmg of __________ .11.Many of Robert Burns，poems are based on _______ s ongs and ballads. By using a burden or a chorus from an old song, Burns provides the poems with a higher thematic and artistic effect.12.In the play, ''Othello”，written by William Shakespeare, Othello was innocent of the slightest wrong doing.13."To be or not to be, that is the question:^ This quotation is from William Shakespeare^s play^Hamlefs Soliloquy".14.As a leading Romanticist, G. ByrorTs chief contribution is his creation of the Byronic Hero, a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.15.Tom Jones, the full title being The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, is considered as Henry Fielding's masterpiece.16.D. H. Lawrence's autobiographical novel is entitled Sons and Lovers.17.Vanity Fair is often taken as William Makepeace Thackeray^ masterpiece.18."Of Studies" is the most popular of F. Bacon's 58 essays. It analyses what studies chiefly serve for, the different ways adopted by different people to pursue studies, and have studies exert influence over human character.19.The publication of "Lyrical Ballads" by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge in 1798 is often taken as the formal beginning of Romanticism.20.John Bunyan was imprisoned again in 1675. It was during this second term in prison that he wrote The Pilgrim r s Progress y which was published in 1678 after his release.21.W. Wordsworth is regarded as a ''worshipper of nature". He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.22.P. C. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, ^Prometheus Unbound" (1820). According to the Greek mythology, Prometheus, the champion of humanity, who has stolen the fire from the heaven, is published by Zeus to be chained on Mount Caucasus and suffers the vulture's feeding on his liver.23.In Pride and Prejudice the misunderstanding happens between Darcy and Elizabeth.二判断1.Romeo and Juliet2.Tom Jones3.Jane Eyre4.Robinson Crusoe5.A Red, Red Rose Ode on the Grecian Urn William Shakespeare Henry Fielding Charlotte Bronte Daniel Defoe Robert BurnsJohn KeatsDecide whether the following statements are true or false.1 • The English people were the first residents in England.2.Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest surviving epic in the English language.3.After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly.4.Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest.5.The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in EnglancL6.Paradise Lost took its material from Greek mythology.7.William Burns wrote two volumes of poemsT The Songs of Innocence' and "The Songs of Experience t8- Tn the first part of ^Gulliver's Travels", the hero is cast upon the shore of the island of Lilliput. 9.John Bunyan，s 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.10.Tn the 18th century English literature, satire is much used in writing. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Jonathan Swift.11.Robert Burns wrote two volumes of poems: "The Songs of Innocence" and "The Songs of Experience12.Swift，s masterpiece is "Robinson Crusoe M which contains three parts.13.Tn the I8lh century, novel writing made a great advance. The main characters in the novel were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.14.Another good example of Swifts satire is his novel: A Modest Proposal.15.Blank verse was most widely used in the history of English poetry and drama up to the twentieth century.16.Tn the 18th century, satire is much used in writing, English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Defoe.17.Robinson Crusoe was actually based on a real fact.18.W. Shakespeare once was an actor.19.J. Milton was greatly influenced by Bible throughout his life.20."Shall I compare thee to a summer's clay" is a line from Shakespeare's Sonnet 18.2L G. Chaucer did much in making the London dialect the foundation for the Modern English language.22.The Faerie Queene was a long poem written by E. Spenser.23.J. Donne was the founder of the metaphysical poetry.24.Tom Jones, a novel which contains eighteen books and which took Fielding “some thousands ofhours" to complete, is generally considered to be his masterpiece.25.Robert Burns is the national poet of Ireland. His poetry is unsurpassed for its beautiful lyricismand sincerity of emotions, and is characterized by a profound sympathy for the down-trodden man.26.Tess of the D'Urbervilles is the truthful portrayal of the tragic lot of a poor girl, a pure woman,ruined by the bourgeois society.三.写出作品的作家Write out the authors^ names of the following works7. Mrs. Warren^ Profession George Bernard Shaw8. To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf9. Don Juan George Gordon Byron10.Ode to the Nightingale John Keats11. Macbeth William Shakespeare12. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift13. Vanity Fair William Makepeace Thackeray14. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte15. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens16. Tess of the d'Urberviles Thomas Hardy17. Ulysses James Joyce18. Paradise Regained John Milton19. Oliver Twist Charles Dickens20.Ode to the West Wind Percy Bysshe Shelley21. Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen22. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer23. David Copperfield Charles Dickens24. Women in love William Wordsworth25. Prometheus Unbound Percy Bysshe Shelley26. Julius Caesar William Shakespeare27. Samson Agonists John Milton28. Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence29. Of Studies Francis Bacon30. Paradise Lost John Milton31. Hamlet William Shakespeare32. The Pilgrim，s Progress John Bunyan33. Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen34. A Modest Proposal Jonathan Swift35. She Walks in Beauty George Gordon Byron36.1 Wondered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth四.选择Multiple Choice： Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement.1 • The English Renaissance period was an age of______ .A.poetry and dramaB. drama and novelC. novel and poetry D・ romance and poetry2.Which of the following statements 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.3.The Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by its extensive use of _______ •A.the impersonal voiceB. conceitsC. traditional symbols D・ literary allusions4.John Donne was the founder of the Metaphysical Poetry, and his followers include the following poets except ________ .A.Richard CrashawB. George HerbertC. Andrew MarvellD. John Milton5.In Paradise Lost. Milton was unconsciously in sympathy with ________ .A. GodB. SatanC. AdamD. Eve6.In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______A.Tom JonesB. PamelaC. The Adventures of Roderick RandomD. Moll Flanders7.Gulliver's Travels consists of _____ voyages.A.oneB. twoC. threeD. four8.Lilliput is a country of _____ .A.tiny inhabitantsB. giantsC. flying islandsD. rational horses9.Which of the following statements best describes Gullivefs Travels?A. Gullivers Travels is a book of satire.B・ Gullivefs Travels is a book of adventurous journeys.C.Gulliver f s Travels is a realistic representation of 18th century England.D.Both A and B.10.Robert Burns came from ________ .A. EnglandB. WalesC. ScotlandD. Ireland11 • Lyrical Ballads (1798) was a collection of poems by _______ •A.James Thomson and William CollinsB.Thomas Gray and Robert BurnsC.Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon ByronD.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge12.“The Lamb" is included in William Blake's ________ .A. Poetical SketchesB. The Songs of InnocenceC. The Songs of ExperienceD. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell13.William Wordsworth is frequently referred to as _______ •A. a religious poetB. a worshipper of natureC. a modern poetD. a worshipper of beauty14.Of the following definitions of poetry, the one which is incorrectly paired with its author isA."Poetry is the most beautiful and effective mode of saying things"—Matthew ArnoldB."Poetry—the best words in their best order9'一Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC."The record of the best and happiest moment of the happiest and best minds"—Percy Bysshe ShelleyD.“The spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings^一Robert Burns15.The description of "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in hisheart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection^ may be applied to _______ .A. an epic heroB. an antihero C・ a Byronic hero D・ a modern hero16.John Keats wrote the following except ______ •A. EndymionB. The Eve of St. AgnesC. "Ode to a Nightingale'1D. "Ode to Duty"17.In "Ode to the West WincT： the wild west wind is referred to as the wind of _____ ・A. springB. summerC. autumnD. winter18.The Canterbury Tales was written in _______ .A. Old EnglishB. Middle EnglishC. Modern EnglishD. Current Modern English19.Pilgrims travel to the shrine of St. Thomas Becket at Canterbury in _______ .A. MarchB. AprilC. MayD. June20._______ p ilgrims plus Chaucer are assembled at the Tabard Inn in the southern part of London.A.25B.27C. 29D. 3121.Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter meansA・ 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.22.Shakespeare^ four great tragedies are _________A.Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of AthensB.Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The TempestC.Hamlet, Othello, King John, and MacbethD.Hamlet, Othello, King Lear^ and Macbeth23.The story of Hamlet takes place in ________ .A.EnglandB. DenmarkC. ItalyD. Germany24.Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare^s _______ .A. romantic comedyB. comedyC. tragedyD. historical plays25. A sonnet is a poem of _________ lines, usually in iambic pentameter, with rhymes arranged according to a certain definite patterns.A. 8B. 6C. 14D. 2426.The phrase J single man in possession of a good fortune^ is applied to a single man with _____A. luckB. statusC. wealthD. health27.In 1066, ________ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius28.Chaucer died on the 25lh of October 1400, and was buried in _______ •A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey29.From the following, choose the one, which is not Francis Bacon's work.A・ The advancement of Learning B. The New InstrumentC. EssaysD. Venus and Adonis30."The Canterbury Tales11 is Chaucer's greatest work and written for the greater part in ________ couplet.A. iambicB. pentameterC. metricalD. heroic31.H Hamlet,\ M_____ ", "King Lear M and n Macbeth M are generally regarded as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.A. Romeo and JulietB. Timon of AthensC. A Lover's ComplaintD. Othello32. ______ wrote his masterpiece "The Pilgrim's Progress H during his second imprisonment.A. BunyanB. MiltonC. DonneD. Dryden33.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel: entitled _______ •A. ProfessorB. Jane EyreC. Wuthering HeightsD. Shirley34.Defoe's masterpiece ________ i s based upon the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned in the island of Juan Fernadez off the coast of Chile and who had had lived here in solitude for five years.A・ Captain Singleton B. Robinson Crusoe C. Colonel jack D. Captain Avery35.Which of the followings was not written by Blake?A・ The Songs of Experience B・ The Songs of InnocenceC. Elegy Written in a Countiy ChurchyardD. The Chimney Sweepers36. __ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society .His novels, such as"Vanity Fair”，are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society.A. George Eliot.B. Elizabeth GaskellC. William Makepeace ThackerayD. John Bunyan37.The title of the novel n Vanity Fair11 was taken from Bunyan s masterpiece n __________ n.A. The Pilgrim r s ProgressB. Childe Harold's PilgrimageC. Gulliver's TravelsD. The Canterbury Tales38.______ can be justly termed England's national epic and its hero Beowulf — one of thenational heroes of the English people.A. SeafarerB. BeowulfC. WildsithD. CynewulfA. Jane AustenB. Walter ScottC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. William Wordsworth54.Austen was the first woman writer to touch the following themeA. The struggle between the working classC. the torture of human soul55._______ i s not Shakespeare^ work.A. HamletB. King Lear B. the predicament of the womenD. the freedom of marriageC. OthelloD・ The Faerie56.The Four Greatest Tragedies of Shakespeare's do not includeA. Romeo and JulietB. HamletC. Macbeth57.______ i s the essence of Renaissance.A. RealismB. RomanticismC. RomanceD. OthelloD. Humanism39._____ are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission.A. balladsB. romancesC. sonnetsD. prose40.Which work has employed subjects from the Greek mythology?A. Paradise LostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Prometheus Unbound41. __________________________________________________________________ Tn the 18th century English literature, the representative poet of pre-romanticism were __________ .A. Alexander PopeB. William BlakeC. Jonathan SwiftD. John Keats42.Beowulf was written in ___________ .A. FrenchB. Modern EnglishC. Old EnglishD. Middle English43.Chaucer was the first important poet of a royal court to write in _______ •A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Spanish44.Shylock is a character in the play __________ by Shakespeare.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. Romeo and JulietC. As You Like ItD. Hamlet45.Of all the romantic poets in the l&h century, ___ is the most independent and the most original.A. Thomas GrayB. William BlakeC. Alexander PopeD. Daniel Defoe46.The story of" ___________ "is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knights B・ Piers the PlowmanC. The story of BeowulfD. The Canterbury of Tales47."When , in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes/1 This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare f s _______ .A. songsB. playsC. comediesD. sonnets48.The 18th century witnessed a new literary form—the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a _____ presentation of life of the common people・A. romanticB. realisticC. propheticD. idealistic49.As a whole, _______ i s one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life一socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally.A. Moll FlandersB. Gulliver's TravelsC. Pilgrim's ProgressD. The School for Scandal50.Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18th-century England?A. Robinson CrusoeB. Gulliver's TravelsC. Jonathan Wild the GreatD. A Sentimental Journey51.In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a (n) ___ of the Bennet family .A. high opinionB. great admirationC. low opinionD. erroneous view52.Wordsworth^ poetry is distinguished by the simplicity as well as theA. purity of his languageB. ornateness of his languageC. elegant of languageD. coarseness of his language53.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer58._____ is not written by John Milton.A. Paradise lostB. Paradise RegainedC. Samson AgonistesD. Beowulf59.In Robinson Crusoe. Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _____A. aristocratic classB. enterprising landlordC. rising bourgeoisieD. hard・working people60.Romanticism doesn't emphasize ______ ・A. the special qualities of each individuafs mindB. the inner world of the human spiritC. individualityD. the features that men have in common61. ______ Publish Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with Coleridge.A. ByronB. WordsworthC. ShelleyD. Keats62.Don Juan is the masterpiece of ________ .A. Lord Byron'sB. P. B. Shelley'sC. John Keats'sD. Samuel Coleridge's63. _______ is not a work by Charles DickensA. Oliver TwistB. David CopperfieldC. MiddlemarchD. A Tale of Two Cities64.Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by _____ .A. Charlotte BronteB. Emily BronteC. Ann BronteD. Branwell Bronte65. ______ is not D. H. Lawrence's work.A・ Finnegan^s Wake B・ Sons and Lovers C. Lady Chatterley^s Lover D. The Rain Bow66. ______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.A. SpenserB. DonneC. BlakeD. Thomas Gray67. ______ is known as n the poet's poet M.A. ShakespeareB. MarloweC.SpenserD. Donne68.The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is themodern English ____ , which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common English people.A. proseB. short storyC. novelD. tragicomedy69.Dickens1 works are characterized by a mingling of ______ a nd pathos.A. humorB. satireC. passionD. metaphor70.The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first _____ h eroine.A. explorerB. peasantC. workerD. governess71. ____ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. The Pilgrim's processB. Grace Abounding to the Chief of SinnersC. The Life and Death of Mr. BadmanD. The Holy War72.Generally, the renaissance refers to the period between the 14lh and mid-17th centuries, itsessence is ___ .A. scienceB. philosophyC. artsD. humanism73.Fielding has been regarded by some as “___ ", for his contribution to the establishment of theform of the modern novel.A. Best Writer of the English NovelB. Father of the English NovelC. the most gifted writer of the English novel D・ conventional writer of the English novel74.It is ____ alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensiverealistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Matin LutherC. William LanglandD. John Gower75.In Beowulf,____ f ought against the monster Grendel and a fire breathing dragon.A. the Anglo-Saxons B・ Beowulf C. the Scandinavians D. the Winter Dragon76.Francis Bacon is best known for his ______ which greatly influenced the development of thisliterary form.A. essaysB. poemsC. worksD. plays77. _____ was respected as "father of English poetry^ and one of the greatest narrative poets of England ・A. William ShakespeareB. Geoffrey ChaucerC. John MiltonD. John Donne78.In terms of influence upon England, ____ brought French civilization and French language toEngland.A. Anglo-SaxonsB. RomansC. Anglo-NormansD. Teutons79.W illiam Blakeys ____ is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world,A. William Blake, LondonC. Robert Bums, A Red, Red Rose though not without its evils and sufferings.A. Poetical SketchesB. The Book of The IC. Songs of ExperienceD. Songs of Innocence80. ___ , the national peasant poet in Scotland, and his poem ____ s hows his passionate love for his Beloved.B. William Wordsworth, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud D. Robert Bums, Auld Lang Syne81. English Romanticism begins with __ and ends with ____A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads. John Keats 9s deathB. French Revolution, Walter Scotfs deathC. the publication of Lyrical Ballads. Walter Scots deathD. Industrialization, John Keats's death82. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?^is an epigrammatic line byA. William WordsworthB. R B. ShelleyC. George ByronD. John Keats83. After the three public exposure in the pillory, __ wrote Hymn to the Pilloiy.A. D. DefoeB. J. MiltonC. J. SwiftD. H. Fielding84. H< Fielding was the founder of the • ______A. English sonnetB. essaysC. comedy of humourD. realistic novels.85. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?A. William WordsworthB. Percy Bysshe ShelleyC. George Gordon ByronD. John Donne86. The three dialects spoken by ______ , ____ and _____ mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.A, Angles, Saxons, Jutes B. Angles, Saxen* IrishC, Angles, Saxons, Scottish D. Anglos, Saxons, Welsh87. ___ contribution to English 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 meter-1 ----- t he Heroic couplet-to English poetry.A. William Shakespeare r s B, Geoffrey Chaucer F s C. Thomas Mores D. Edmund Spensefs88. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from John Bunyan^s masterpiece _____ ・A. The Pilgrim ProgressB. Gulliver's TravelsC. Hard TimesD. Emma89. Tt 5s 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 TalesB. The Legend of Good WomenC ・ Troilus and CriseydeD ・ The Romaunt of the Rose.90. In “Sonnet 18", Sha kespeare ________________ .A. Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.B. Satirize human 9s vanity.C. Predict the eternity of love.D. Eulogize the power of the beauty.91. G. Chaucer was buried in ___ , thus founding the Poets ? Corner.A ・ CanterburyB ・ Westminster Abbey C. Stratford-on-Avon D. Windsor92. Utopia was written by _______ who was the first to see the relation between the wealth and poverty.A. E. SpenserB. W. ShakespeareC. B. JonsonD. T. More93. C. Marlowe was the representative of the University Wits, who wrote ______ .A. King LearB. The Merchant of Venice C ・ Paradise Lost D. Doctor Faustus94.After the three public exposure in the pillory, __ wrote Hymn to the Pilloty.A. D. DefoeB. J. MiltonC. J. SwiftD. H. Fielding95.It was _____ who compiled A Dictionary of English Language which opened an epoch in the study and development of the English language.A. S. JohnsonB. S. RichardsonC. B. JonsonD. J. Boswell96.H. Fielding was the founder of the . _______A. English sonnetB. essaysC. comedy of humourD. realistic novels.97.Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ____ •A. character and environmentB. pure romanceC・"stream of consciousness H D. psychoanalysis98."Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by__ •A. Charles DickensB. D. H. LawrenceC. James JoyceD. Thomas Hardy 100.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 （真正的文学主流y was __ .A. Victoria/poetryB. Elizabeth/ dramaC. Mary/ novelD. James/ drama101.The following belong to the characteristics of metaphysical poetry5 represented by 'John Donne9 except _____ .A. ConceitsB. Actual imagery and simple dictionC. Argumentative formD. Elegant style102.___ , the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare^s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a b>blood-and-thunder^ thriller and a "philosophical exploration9 of life and death.A. The Merchant of VeniceB. HamletC. King LearD. The Winter's Tale103.__ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.A. Genesis A B・ The Holy War C・ The Pilgrims progress D. Exodus104.In which of the following works can you find the proper names n Lilliput f\ n Brobdingnag,\ "Houyhnhnm1' and ”Y“hoo"?A. The Pilgrim's ProgressB. The Faerie QueeneC. Gulliver^s travelsD. The School of Scandal 105.____ is a typical feature of Swift^s writings.A・ Elegant style B. Causal narration C. Bitter satire D. Complicated sentence structure106.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 qualitiesC.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.107."Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in ____.A. Young Goodman Brown by HawthorneB. Ode to the West Wind by ShellyC.Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanD. Ulysses by Joyce108.Tn terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen^ novels.B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions11.C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.。

英国文学史试题及答案英国文学史试题及答案(一).Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive(B)Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales(D)The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval Englishsociety and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.A.William Langland s Piers PlowmanB.Geoffrey Chaucers The Canterbury TalesC.John Gowers Confession AmantisD.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight(B)Ⅱ. Questions1. What are the features of Beowulf?2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1. Thomas More A. Apology for Poetry2. Holinshed B. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets3. Hakluyt C. Utopia4. Richard Tottel D. Discovery of Guiana5. Philip Sidney E. Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries6. Walter Raleigh F. ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1. _____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4. Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5. Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William Shakespeare英国文学史试题及答案(二)Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langlands ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte dArthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte dArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucers earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A. The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccios poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices： 1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB。

Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading anddefeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at thattime. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the firsttranslator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the authordreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized inromances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about alegendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatpoets of England, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. JohnDryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. WestminsterAbbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of theFrench Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung,which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A. The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that hadimpact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career?____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based onBoccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB自考真题2002-4.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.A.ChristianB.knightlyC.GreekD.primitive（B）Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.A.Piers PlowmanB.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightC.Confessio AmantisD.The Canterbury Tales（D）The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s T he A．William Langland’ s Piers PlowmanCanterbury TalesC．John Gower’s Confession Amantis D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight（B）Ⅱ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The CanterburyTales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter RaleighA.Apology for PoetryB.M iscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, Voyages andDiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totallynew type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “themorning star of the Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansionabroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet“Armada”　(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first Englishcolonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth andpoverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. Everymans NeedleC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’plays written between _____ are sometimes called 16.Shakespeare’s“romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 1612ACBADDBMiranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.17.Tale D. TheA. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’sTempest，Never before Imprinted（《莎18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (goodat) with the _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBtin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William TyndalⅢ. 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 strugglebetween ____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morningstar of the _____”．5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament,which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.__, which was made in 1611 6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ____under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modernEnglish has been _____ and _____.9.A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speechas household words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored thestyle 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 fondof ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English fromFrench which was the ___ book printed in English.《特洛14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida.埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devotedhimself to the career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which weretranslated by himself.17.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised theyouthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder andcontributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.publications is also great in fixing a ____ 18.The influence of Caxton’slanguage in England.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the professionof ____, 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 stimulateseries of historical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get ridof 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 thecapacities of ____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, inwhich the rhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ andthe House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and theKing of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed p easants, beingcompelled 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) broughtclassical works within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____ofrelations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a timewhen, according to Thomas More, “___”．31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeysin the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships andformation 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 Everse.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ 34.Richard Tottel’spoems by ______ and _____ by _____.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of SurreypoetryUtopia, Book One; povertyprivate ownershipItalian/Petrarchan ; ShakespeareanDramaBiblereal35._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure ofthe ___ among the laboring classes.36.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of socialwealth.37.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.38.The highest glory of the English Renaissance w as unquestionably its____.39.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.40.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled TheShepherds.41.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with_____personages.42.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.Conflict; evil; allegoricalClownGreek; LatinStructure; style; comedy; tragedy16thGammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc 《高波特克》43.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights cameinto contact with ______ and ______drama.44.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrightslearned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.45.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared i n themiddle of the ____ century.46.The first English comedy is ______.47.The first English tragedy is _____.Mi racle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____. DramaLondon1567Elizabethan theatresactress; boyscountryside48.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.49.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.50.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.51.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s partswere always taken by ____.52.Shakespeare’snarrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.53.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.54.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.55.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.56.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.57.Shakespeare’s_____ people represent all the complexities and implications of real life.masteradaptation (revision)Renaissancemaster-hand (能手)full-bloodKey to the blanks:Latin BibleProtestantism; Catholicism ProtestantsJohn Wycliffe; Reformation William TyndalAuthorized Version, James I; King James Bible. Language; literature6.fixed; confirmed7.Bible coinages8.simple; dignified9.William Caxton10.Reading; literature11.First12.Shakespeare13.Printer; publisher14.100; 2415.15th ; prose16.National17.Publisher; culture18.14th; 17th 19.Religious reformation20.feudalist ideas; interests; purity21.Humanism; human mind; humanculture22.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; TheFaerie Queene; ababbcbccncaster; York24.The Reformation25.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians26.printing27.feudal; capitalism28.sheep devours men29.William VIII30.RenaissanceHenry Howard, Earl of Surrey96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of SurreypoetryUtopia, Book One; povertyprivate ownershipItalian/Petrarchan ; ShakespeareanDramaBiblerealConflict; evil; allegoricalClownGreek; LatinStructure; style; comedy; tragedy16thGammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc 《高波特克》DramaLondon1567Elizabethan theatres actress; boys countrysidemasteradaptation (revision) Renaissancemaster-hand (能手)full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in thecourse 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 ofQueen Elizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state andenabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in apolitical guise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by theCatholic 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 oflove sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after theactors 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 117,Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthfulreproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.(contains more than one 18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme.theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majesticwith the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean viv活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, w ritten in the form of letters betweenMore and Hythloday, a voyage.21. F (a conversation)22. F (poet and critic of poetry)23. F24. F(darma)25. T26. T27. T28. T29. T30. T22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it inhis great work, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance w as unquestionably itspoetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such asthe creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc thefirst English tragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. Butthe upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.death, Herminge and Condell collected and 28.After Shake speare’spublished his plays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespearea great interest in the political questions of his time.historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly 30.In Shakespeare’sregarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier andnational hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summitof Shakespeare’s art.29. T30. T31. F (Macbeth)32. F (Hamlet)33. F (realism)34. F(decline)35. F (not an age of prose)36. T37. F (ordinary people were)38. T33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama wasundergoing a process of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and wasan age of prose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando andRosalind.37.Ben Johnson’ｓc omedies are “comedies of humors”　a nd everycharacter in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in a religious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T6.T7.T8. F ( Book Two)9.T10.T 11.T12.T13. F14.T15.T21. F (a conversation)22. F (poet and critic of poetry)23. F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31. F (Macbeth)32. F (Hamlet)33. F (realism)34.F(decline)35. F (not an age of prose)36.T37. F (ordinary people were)38.TⅤ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.social significance and literary achievement.ment on Marlowe’ｓment on The Faerie Queene.未复习Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of peopl e’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.B. ComusA. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud-known shaped poem.5. George Herbert’s ______ is a wellA. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.ith4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faare 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.ciation of Shakespeare.8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appre9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with the same story as ShakespeareCleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, andin 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.f _____.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers o17.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.ove poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only l13.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 Alm15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think of expressing anyopinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Bro wne’s Religia Medici 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.T17.T。

Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded ininvading and defeating England.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurianromances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The CanterburyTales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dreamvision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed inEngland at that time. The Normans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD.Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers andthe first translator of the Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC.WycliffeD.Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreamsthe author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB.feudalC. bourgeoisD.modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedlyemphasized in romances.A.loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD.mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on thestories about a legendary outlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of thegreatest narrative poets of England, was born in London inabout 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD.Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, atranslation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, RedRose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of theDuchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety ofoccupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus andCriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in TheCanterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter RaleighA.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.PrincipalNavigations,Voyages and Discoveries F.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy ofa totally new type, which met the needs of the risingbourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID.James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______,“the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercialexpansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of thefleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the firstEnglish colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for JuliusCaesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealthand poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.U topia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.O ne of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.S hakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimescalled “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.M iranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.I n _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never beforeImprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.S hakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.A mong many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially athome (good at) with the _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.I n the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result ofthe 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 OldTes tament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which wasmade in 1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Versionhas had a great influence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, thestandard modern English has been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into dailyEnglish speech as household words.10.T he ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version hascolored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.W illiam Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but hewas fond of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.13.H e translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into Englishfrom French which was the ___ book printed in English. 14.T he Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus andCressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.A fter having established his printing press, William Caxtondevoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____.16.W illiam Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of whichwere translated by himself.17.B y rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxtonexercised 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.T he influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixinga ____ language in England.19.A s the first English printer, Caxton invented in England theprofession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole.20.T he Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended inthe ______century.21.T he word, “renaissance” means ________, which wasstimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________.22.I n the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars triedto 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, whichemphasized 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.T he Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of___ and the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.B ecause of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Churchand the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.A fter ___ 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.T he introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476)brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.29.T he 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.30.B ecause the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was atime when, according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteriesand abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.T ogether with the development of bourgeois relationshipsand 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 firstEnglish blank verse.34.R ichard Tottel’s Mi scellany of Songs and Sonnets contained_____ poems by ______ and _____ by _____.35.P hilip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority overphilosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcibleexposure of the ___ among the laboring classes.37.M ore points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ ofsocial wealth.38.S onnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.T he highest glory of the English Renaissance wasunquestionably its ____.40.T he “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41.T here are significant touches of _____ life in the play titledThe Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with_____personages.43.V ice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.T hrough the revival of classical literature, Englishplaywrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama.45.F rom the contact with Greek and Latin drama, Englishplaywrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.46.E nglish comedies and tragedies on classical models appearedin the middle of the ____ century.47.T he first English comedy is ______.48.T he first English tragedy is _____.49.M iracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical playspaved the way for the flourishing of ____.50.I n the 16th century _____ became the centre of Englishdrama.51.B y ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, withtiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.I n the Elizabethan Theater, t here were no ____ and women’sparts were always taken by ____.54.S hakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full ofvivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.S hakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.S hakespeare’s drama tic creation often used the method of_____.57.S hakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English______.58.S hakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.S hakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexitiesand implications of real life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism;Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe;Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version,James I; King JamesBible.nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages10.s imple; dignified11.W illiam Caxton12.R eading; literature13.F irst 14.S hakespeare15.P rinter; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.N ational19.P ublisher; culture20.14th; 17th21.R eligious reformation22.f eudalist ideas; interests; purity23.H umanism; human mind; humanculture24.S penserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc25.L ancaster; York26.T he Reformation27.t he Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.p rinting29.f eudal; capitalism30.s heep devours men31.W illiam VIII32.R enaissance33.H enry Howard, Earlof Surrey34.96, Sir ThomasWyatt, 40, HenryHoward, Earl ofSurrey35.p oetry36.U topia, Book One;poverty37.p rivate ownership38.I talian/Petrarchan ;Shakespearean39.D rama40.B ible41.r eal42.C onflict; evil;allegorical43.C lown44.G reek; Latin45.S tructure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.G ammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.G orboduc 《高波特克》49.D rama50.L ondon51.156752.E lizabethan theatres53.a ctress; boys54.c ountryside55.m aster56.a daptation (revision)57.R enaissance58.m aster-hand (能手)59.f ull-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wipedout) 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 thereign of Queen Elizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England apowerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religiousmovement in a political guise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universallyused by the Catholic churches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World inimprisonment.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 EnglishRenaissance.10.P hilip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel andStella.11.T he Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churchesafter the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.T he writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.T wo lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville(托马斯·萨克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.S hakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups:Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.S hakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.E ngels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, t hetruthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.”17.S hakespeare wrote about his own people and for his owntime.18.S hakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains morethan one theme)19.T o reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines themajestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.E ngels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespeareanvivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.21.U topia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of lettersbetween More and Hythloday, a voyage.22.S ir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.C arl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia andmentioned it in his great work, The Capital.24.T he highest glory of the English Renaissance wasunquestionably its poetry.25.T he 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.G rammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy,Gorboduc the first English tragedy.27.B oth the gentlemen and the common people went to thetheatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.A fter Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collectedand published his plays in 1623.29.F rom Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen thatShakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time.30.I n Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is notstrictly regarded.31.K ing Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a bravesoldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.32.C oming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered thesummit of Shakespeare’s art.33.S hakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in worldliterature.34.G enerally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English dramawas undergoing a process of prosperity.35.E nglish Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama,and was an age of prose.36.T here are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando andRosalind.37.B en Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”andevery character in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.I n Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” ofhis time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4.F. (a political movement ina religious guise)5.F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7.F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F(poet and critic ofpoetry)23.F24.F(darma) 25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.T23Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literaryachievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD.ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press,has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. Comus11C. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthfullove lyrics and the later sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While YeMay6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the 12English countryside and the simple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school ofliterature in the 19th century.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______occupies the most important place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces ofChristian writing produced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair whichis the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.134._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, anarrative 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 Englishclassicism in the Restoration period.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionallycalled “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed hisfamous appreciation of Shakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, atragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.T he main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in thepoetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.P aradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.S atan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.P aradise Lost took its material from ______.14.T he works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized,generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in 14form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical schoolof literature in the 18th century.16.A dam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief inthe powers of _____.17.T he Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ isanother writing feature.18.I n the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voicesof 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)15III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th centurywere over land ownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement ofthe Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, CharlesII became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended withthe 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 Cromwellbecame the leader of the country.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish onthe whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most importantpoets in English literature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because itproduced a great poet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period isdrama.10.A mong the English poets during the Revolution Period, John 16Donne was the greatest one.11.J ohn Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over theElizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.O n his first wife’s de ath, Milton wrote his only love poem, asonnet, on His Deceased Wife.13.T he greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, iswritten in heroic couplets.14.T he poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways ofGod to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to the Almighty. 15.I t has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satansurrounded by his angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.I zaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscat orialclassic”.17.T homas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinionson a vast number of subjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1.F (ownership: monopolies)2.F (Wat Tyler: Gerald17Winstanley)3.F (Charles II: OliverCromwell)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: blankverse)14.F (Satan: God)15.F(Samson Agonistes:Paradise Lost)16.T17.T18IV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English CenturyⅠ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which hefirst displayed his moralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of Englishcomposition by British authors all through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.。

Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess314. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spoem “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, V oyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the4declining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.5A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the_____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which isknown as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 underthe auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern Englishhas been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech ashousehold words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style ofthe English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , andhis interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself tothe career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated byhimself.617.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthfullanguage in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language inEngland.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____,which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ asa whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series ofhistorical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which therhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King ofEngland, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled towork at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classicalworks within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations andthe establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when,according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in thecountry, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of theEnglish national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel’s Mi scellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___7among the laboring classes.37.More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of social wealth.38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.39.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its ____.40.The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contactwith ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all theimportant rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for theflourishing of ____.50.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.51.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排）ofgalleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater, t here were no ____ and women’s parts were alwaystaken by ____.54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare’s drama tic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications ofreal life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version, James I;King James Bible.nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages 10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture820.14th; 17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas; interests;purity23.Humanism; human mind;human culture24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Queene;ababbcbccncaster; York26.The Reformation27.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.printing29.feudal; capitalism30.sheep devours men31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40,Henry Howard, Earl ofSurrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty 37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict; evil; allegorical43.Clown44.Greek; Latin45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress; boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation (revision)57.Renaissance58.master-hand (能手)59.full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.911.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, t he truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first Englishtragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors”and every character in his 10comedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.T11Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon inthe later democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysid e and thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the mostimportant place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgeneral concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation ofShakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing withthe same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of JohnMilton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18thcentury.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the privatecitizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16.(man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over landownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers brokeout. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became theProtector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of thecountry.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a greatpoet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and asChaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.On his first wife’s de ath, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on HisDeceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. toadvocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by hisangels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Donne: Milton)5. F (James I: Charles I)6. F (flourish: decline)7.T (William Shakespeare)8. F (William: John)9. F (drama: poetry) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)12.F (first: second)13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)14.F (Satan: God)15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)16.T17.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed hismoralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authorsall through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.A. didacticB. satiricalC. philosophicalD. dramatic9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.。

英国文学试题及答案在英国文学领域有许多经典作品和重要的作家，这些作品和作家对于英国文学的发展产生了深远影响。

本篇文章将为您介绍一些英国文学的试题及答案，希望能够对您的学习有所帮助。

试题一：请简要介绍威廉·莎士比亚的作品和他在英国文学中的地位。

答案：威廉·莎士比亚（William Shakespeare）被认为是英国文学史上最伟大的戏剧作家之一。

他的作品包括戏剧、诗歌和史诗。

莎士比亚共创作了37个戏剧作品，包括悲剧、喜剧、历史剧和十四行诗。

他的作品以丰富的人物形象、深入的情感描写和复杂的剧情而闻名。

莎士比亚的作品深刻地揭示了人性的善恶、爱恨和欲望等诸多主题，对于英国文学及全球文学的发展都产生了巨大影响。

试题二：简要介绍查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》及其在英国文学中的地位。

答案：《雾都孤儿》是查尔斯·狄更斯（Charles Dickens）的一部重要小说作品。

这部小说于1859年首次出版，以伦敦的贫民窟为背景，通过讲述主人公奥利弗·特威斯特的成长历程，揭示了当时社会的不公和贫困问题。

《雾都孤儿》描写了贫富悬殊、社会阶级问题以及人性的善恶等主题，对于英国社会的改革起到了重要的推动作用。

该小说深受读者的喜爱，被誉为狄更斯最伟大的作品之一，也是英国文学中的经典之作。

试题三：请简要介绍简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》及其在英国文学中的地位。

答案：《傲慢与偏见》是简·奥斯汀（Jane Austen）的代表作之一，被视为英国文学史上最伟大的小说之一。

这部小说于1813年首次出版，以描写19世纪英国社会的阶级观念和婚姻观念为主题。

《傲慢与偏见》通过讲述女主人公伊丽莎白·本内特与达西先生之间的爱情故事，探讨了社会的偏见、男女间的相互误解以及人性的盲目等问题。

奥斯汀以幽默和讽刺的手法展现了社会的虚伪和愚昧，对当时英国社会的改革产生了积极的影响。

通过以上试题及答案，我们可以了解到威廉·莎士比亚、查尔斯·狄更斯和简·奥斯汀等作家对于英国文学的重要地位以及他们作品所揭示的社会问题和人性的思考。

英国文学史 试 题题号一二三四五六七八九十总分分数学号姓名Ⅰ. Identification. (15%)1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. (10%)(1) John Lyly a. pre-romanticism (2) William Blake b. impressionism (3) Laurence Sterne c. Angry Young Man (4) Kingsley Amis d. comic epic in prose (5) Joseph Conrad e. historical novel (6) Walter Scott f. University Wit (7) Pamela g. sentimentalism (8) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man h. Oedipus Complex(9) Sons and Loversi. K ünstlerroman(10) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundlingj. epistolary novel2. Identify the author with his or her work. (5%)(1) Charles Dickens a. Don Juan (2) E. M. Foster b. Hard Times (3) John Milton c. Mrs. Warren’s Profession (4) Henry Fielding d. The Faerie Queene (5) George Bernard Shaw e. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”(6) Oscar Wilde f. The Pilgrim’s Progress (7) John Bunyan g. A Passage to India (8) Edmund Spencer h. Paradise Regained (9) Thomas Gray i. Jonathan Wild the Great (10) George Gordon Byron j. The Importance of Being Earnest Ⅱ. Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1. The hero in the romance is usually a . A. king B. knight C. ChristD. churchman2. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class. A. working B. aristocratic C. bourgeois D. capitalist3. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is written in the form of anovel.A. epistolaryB. picaresqueC. GothicD. psychological4. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?A. Jonathan SwiftB. Daniel DefoeC. George Bernard ShawD. James Joyce5. is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Canterbury TalesC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Song of Beowulf6. by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. DunciadD. An Essay on Man7. “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is taken from ’s work.A. Thomas MoreB. Francis BaconC. John BunyanD. Matthew Arnold8. Literature of Neo-classicism is different from that of Romanticism in that .A. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for politicalrights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivationB. the former is heavily religious but the latter secularC. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as anexpression on an individual’s feelings and experiencesD. the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Romanwriters for its models9. Which of the following places does Gulliver visit last in Gulliver’s Travels?A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms10. defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. Percy Bysshe ShelleyD. T. S. Eliot11. could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer.A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Thomas HardyD. Emily Brontë12. are Nobel Prize winners.A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. LawrenceB. Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, John GalsworthyC. W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Thomas HardyD. Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce13. Christopher Marlowe first made the principal instrument of English drama.A. blank verseB. heroic coupletC. free verseD. monologue14. William Langland’s is written in the form of a dream vision.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. The Faerie Queene15. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .A. Gulliver’s TravelsB. The Pilgrim’s ProgressC. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. The Canterbury Tales16. In the chaos of the contemporary world and the despair and despondency among the westerners after the First World War are expressed.A. Ode to the West WindB. I Wandered Lonely as a CloudC. The Waste LandD. Tess of the D’Urbervilles17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?A. It is written in the form of a dream.B. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.C. It is written for the greater part in heroic couplet.D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.18. Robert Louis Stevenson is the representative of the literary school .A. aestheticismB. neo-romanticismC. euphuismD. sentimentalism19. Which of the following is a Gothic novel?A. Northanger AbbeyB. The Mysteries of UdolphoC. Tristram ShandyD. Robinson Crusoe20. Which is correct according to the time when they appeared?A. romanticism, neo-classicism, humanism, critical realismB. humanism, neo-classicism, romanticism, critical realismC. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalismD. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanismⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk traditions and old Scottish poetry.2. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .3. The Romantic Age is said to have begun in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .4. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .5. A play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.6. The narrator in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a(n) one.7. is the oldest poem in the English language and also the national epic.8. The dominant influence over modernist poetry came from two traditions: and .9. The three unities followed by neo-classical dramatists are the unity of , the unity of time and the unity of place.10. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of , a legendary outlaw.11. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.12. is usually taken as the Father of English Prose.13. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological time.14. written by Charles Dickens is generally taken as a semi-autobiographical novel.Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (16%)1. Omniscient narrator2. Heroic couplet3. Allegory4. Metaphysical poetry5. Naturalism6. Sonnet7. Comedy of manners8. Byronic heroⅤ. Short-answer questions. (24%)1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?2. Analyse the character of Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.3. What are the essential features of Medieval Romance?4. Name three Romantic poets and state their chief characteristics.5. Make a comparison between the two volumes of William Blake: The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.6. How many groups does Old English poetry fall into? Briefly explain.7. What are the general features of English Romanticism?8. Make a comparison between James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)Write an essay on the following poem so as to demonstrate your understanding as well as your Englishproficiency. You’re expected to write a well-organized essay in about 150 words, with your thesis clearly stated, effectively developed and properly concluded.The Garden of LoveI went to the Garden of Love,And saw what I never had seen:A Chapel was built in the midst,Where I used to play on the green.And the gates of this Chapel were shut,And “Thou shalt not” writ over the door;So I turn’d to the Garden of Love,That so many sweet flowers bore.And I saw it was filled with graves,And tomb-stones where flowers should be:And Priests in black gowns were walking their rounds,And binding with briars my joys and desires.Notes: 1. shalt: shall2. writ: written3. Chapel: 小教堂4. bind: 束缚Part IV. Short questions (20 points).1.What does the story “The Garden Party” tell you about the class system?2.How might the plot structure of “The Dead” best be described?3.The sub-title of “Tess of the D’Urbervilles” is “A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented”. What is youropinion about the heroine?4.Mention one example of symbolism in Tess, and explain.5.What is the symbolic significance of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange in the novel?6.What is the main idea of the poem “The Second Coming”? How does it reflect Yeats’ view of thecivilization of his time?7.In what way is the west wind in The West Wind by Shelley both a destroyer and a preserver?8.What are the major themes of Pride and Prejudice? List at least two and elaborate them in a fewsentences.9.What significances have Clarissa attached to her parties?10.What purpose does the rain shower serve in the first act of Pygmalion?Final Examination Paper for Grade 2002History of English LiteratureDate: January 10, 2005Ⅰ. Identification (10%)1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column.1) Jonathan Swift A. Neo-romanticism2) John Donne B. Euphuism3) Alexander Pope C. Historical novel4) Anne Radcliff D. Lake poet5) John Lyly E. English satire6) R. L. Stevenson F. Gothic novel7) Walter Scott G. Neoclassicism8) Thomas Gray H. Metaphysical poetry9) Southey I. Epistolary novel10) Pamela J. Sentimentalism2. Identify the author with his or her work.1) William Langland A. Utopia2) Thomas More B. Paradise Lost3) Daniel Defoe C. “Of Studies”4) Francis Bacon D. Piers, the Plowman5) John Milton E. The Faerie Queen6) Byron F. Sentimental Journey7) Laurence Sterne G. Don Juan8) Edmund Spencer H. Mary Barton9) D. H. Lawrence I. Sons and Lovers10) Elizabeth Gaskell J. Robinson CrusoeⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from .A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Gulliver’s TravelsC. Childe Harold’s PilgrimageD. The Canterbury Tales2. The story of is the highest point of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB. The Song of BeowulfC. Piers, the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales3. is the only novel written by Oscar Wilde.A. The Importance of Being EarnestB. The Picture of Dorian GrayC. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManD. The Picture of a Lady4. was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature .A. Thomas WyattB. William ShakespeareC. Henry HowardD. John Lyly5. eulogized imperialism in his works, esp. in his poems.A. John GalsworthyB. Joseph ConradC. Rudyard KiplingD.E.M. Foster6. English Renaissance Period was an age of .A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. romance and balladD. essay and drama7. The major form of Chcrtist literature is in .A. proseB. dramaC. verseD. novel8. “ Shall I compare thee to a summer’s eay”`is the opening line of one of Shakespeare’s .A. songsB. plays K. sonnets D. tragedies9. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living on .A. LilliputB. BrobdingnagC. LaputaD. Houyhnhnms10. List the following terms according to the time when they appeareD.A. romanticism , neoclassicism , humanism , critical realismB.humanism , neoclassicism , romanticism , critical realismC.romanticism , humanism , realism , naturalismD.realism , critical realism , romanticism , humanism11. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.A. Jonathan SwiftB. Robert BurnsC. William BlakeD. Geoffrey Chaucer12. first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama in the Renaissance perioD.A. William ShakespeareB. Thomas WyattC. Christopher MarlowD. Henry Howard13. The greatest English critical realist novelist was , who criticized thebourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .A. Emily BronteB. Charles DickensC. W.M. ThackerayD. Charlotte Bronte14. were made poets Laureates in the 18th and 19th century .A. Wordsworth and BrowningB.Byron and ShelleyC.Keats and BrowningD.Wordsworth and Tennyson15. The principal elements of novel are mystery, horror and suspense.A. GothicB. RomanticC. SentimentalD. Realistic16. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in .A. essayB. dramaC. poetryD. novel17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales?A. It is written for the great part in heroic couplets.B. It is written in the form of a dream vision.C. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it.D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.18. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) .A. allegoryB. romanceC. comedy of mannersD. realistic novel19. Friday is a character in the novel .A. Tom Jones, a FoundlingB. Robinson CrusoeC. Gulliver’s TravelsD. Rob Roy20. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature, the struggle of the for itsrights.A. soldiersB. peasantsC. bourgeoisieD. proletariatⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)1. Old English poetry can be divided into two groups: poetry andpoetry.2. and are the two factors that had large influence on contemporary English literature.3. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .4. Modern English novel is a natural product of the Industrial Revolution and a symbol of the growing importance of the English class.5. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .6. “And I will luve thee still, my dear./ Till a’ the seas gang dry.” is taken from the famous poem .7. The central character in a romance is usually a .8. A play is chiefly based on the biblical stories or the stories of the saints.9. is called the father of English poetry.10. It is in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling that Henry Fielding succeeds best in creating a in prose.11. Dickens takes the French revolution as the background of the novel .11. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to .12. Bacon’s Essays has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English (genre).13. The most important poet in the Victorian age is . Next to him was Robert Browning.14. Three kinds of irony are verbal irony, and .15. Popular ballad is an important stream of English medieval literature. Of all the ballads, those of are of paramount importance.16. The Pickwick Papers takes the form of a novel.Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (12%)1. Epic2. Iambic pentameter3. Intrusive narrator4. Bildungsroman5. Naturalism6. Conceit答案及评分标准Final Examination Paper for Grade 2003History of English LiteratureⅠ. Identification. (15%)1. (10%) f a g c b e j i h d2. (5%) b g h I c j g d e aⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1-5: B C B B A 6-10: A B C D A11-15: C B A B B 16-20: C A B B BⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)1. Robert Burns2. art for art’s sake3. Lyrical Ballads4. compasses5. morality6. intrusive7. Beowulf8. Metaphysical poetry; French symbolism9. action10. Robin Hood11. mock epic12. John Dryden13. psychic14. David CopperfieldⅣ. Define the following terms. (16%)1.Omniscient narrator is a third-person narrator, who is not a character in the story. The narrator is “all-knowing”, who can describe and comment on all the characters and actions in the story.2. Heroic couplet is the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter.3. Allegory is a tale in verse or prose in which characters, actions, or settings represent abstract ideas or moral qualities. Thus, an allegory is a story with two meaning, a literal meaning and a symbolic meaning.4. Metaphysical poetry: the poetry of John Donne and other 17th-century poets who wrote ina similar style. It is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas .5. Naturalism is a post—Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence on the objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.6. Sonnet is a verse form of fourteen lines, in English characteristically in iambic pentameter and most often in one of the two rhyme schemes: the Italian(or Petrarchan) or Shakespearean ( or English ).7. Comedy of manners is a kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its humor relies chiefly on elegant verbal wit and repartee. In England, the comedy of manners flourished as the dominant form of Restoration comedy in the works of Etheredge, Wycherley and Congreve. It was revived in a more subdued form in the 1770s by Goldsmith and Sheridan, and later by Oscar Wilde.8. Byronic hero is a character-type found in Byron’s narrative Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. He is a boldly defiant but bitterly self-tormenting outcast, proudly contemptuous of social norms but suffering for some unnamed sin. Emily Bronte’s Heathcliff is a later example.Ⅴ. Short-answer questions. (24%)1. The distorted, alienated and ill relationship between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself.2. Tom Jones is the pattern of the good-natured unheroic hero of the age. He is a very handsome young man of manly virtues: kind, frank, generous, high-spirited, loyal and courageous, but impulsive, wanting prudence and full of animal spirits and sensuality. He represents everyman. (He is of manly virtues and yet not without fault.)3. 1) The hero is usually a knight using sword, who sets out on a journey to seek adventures and accomplish some goal. He is devoted to the church and the king.2) It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality. (liberal use of the improbable or even thesupernatural things)3) It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues. (standardized characterization)4) It lays emphasis on the supreme devotion to a fair lady. (Romantic love is an important part of the plot.)4. Wordsworth:the great theme remains the world of simple, natural things, in the countryside or among people.Coleridge: his interest is towards the strange, the exotic, and the mysterious things. Shelley: expresses two main ideas --- the external tyranny is the main enemy; the inherent human goodness will eliminate evil form the world.Byron: example of a personality in tragic revolt against society; prototype of romantic hero. Keats: his poetry is a response to sensuous impressions; cares about beauty.5. The two books hold the similar subject matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.1) Songs of Innocence is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy and innocent world, though not without its evils and sufferings.2) Songs of Experience paints a different world, a world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a melancholy tone.6. Religious (Christian) poetry and secular (pagan) poetry.1) Religious poetry is mainly on biblical themes and saints’ lives, represented by Caedmon and Cynewulf.2) Secular poetry emphasizes the harshness of the circumstance and the helplessness of humans before the power of fate, represented by Beowulf.7. 1) the emphasis on imagination2) the idealization of nature3) the praise of individualism4) the glorification of the commonplace5) the lure of the exotic8. Both are modernist novelists. James Joyce is interested in technical innovation. He introduced three new techniques into English literature: the use of myth, stream-of consciousness and epiphany. Lawrence is interested in the tracing of the psychological development of his major characters and the criticism of the dehumanizing effect of industrialization on human nature.Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)Part IV. Short questions. (20 points)1.The story shows strict class system, the differences and lack of communication between the rich and thepoor.2.The story is comprised of four episode, which are quite unified with Gabriel’s frustration, and eachepisode witnesses more serious conflict than the previous, thus, it is a climaxing order in terms of structure.3.Tess is a pure woman, although society and other people believed otherwise. She has done nothingwrong. She is seduced, but does not have sex of her own accord with Alec. She is sacrificed to society, yet she has no evil intensions when she go across the threshold of her parents’ and enters the world. She is a victim.4.An example of symbolism would be the ribbon Tess wears at the may day dance, the read spot of bloodon the ceiling at the Herons, Sandbourne, that the landlady sees, the Stonehenge, the black flag at Tess’s hanging, the spoiled milk by garlic, or the dying pheasants Tess sees in the woods.5.a). The two houses embody the two major principles of life in the book: storm and calm. WutheringHeights is located on a hill and is constantly attacked by wild winds. The inhabitants are constantly being torn by strong passions and violence is their natural language. Thrushcross Grange is comparatively sheltered from the wild elements. It is delicate and refined. The people of the Grange are gentle and seek not so much wild sparkle and dance of life. b). They also represent nature and culture.6.The poem expresses Yeats’ thought that modern civilization is in a state of decay, and that a long cycleof history is ending while another is approaching. But the new historical age might be led by a monster.It expresses his disillusionment of the civilization of his time.7.The west wind is both a destroyer and a preserver because it destroys in autumn (blowing the leaves offthe trees and bury them beneath the earth) in order to revive in the spring (the seeds grow and bring new life to the Earth). It marks the cycle of the seasons. It is around this image the poem weaves various cycles of death and regeneration—vegetational, human, and divine.8.marriage and women’s fate, self-acknowledge, manners, virtue and sense of responsibility9.Richard thinks the party childish and he thinks that it is foolish of Clarissa to like excitement in spite ofher heart; Peter thinks her snobbish, liking to have famous people around her. But to Clarissa, the party is an offering, to combine and to create. The parties are her effort to create some human connection anddialogue. She hopes to be remembered even after her death.10.It helps to create a chaotic world of confusion. The crowd gather under the portico to seek shelter; theyrepresent slice of society of people from different social strata. It also provides a opportunity for the main characters to meet in an unlikely circumstance.KeysFinal Examination for Grade 2002History of English LiteratureⅠ. Identification (10%)1. 1) e2) h3) g4) f5) b6) a7) c8) j9) d10) c2. 1) d2) a3) j4) c5) b6) g7) f8) e9) i10) hⅡ.Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%)1—5 : a a b a c 6—10 : b c c d b11—15 : b c b d a 16—20 : d b a b dⅢ. Fill in the blanks. (20%)1. pagan, Christian2. Imperialism, demand for social reform3. art for art’s sake4. (bourgeois) middle5. The Lyrical Ballads6. “A Red Red Rose”7. knight 8. miracle9. Geoffrey Chaucer 10. comic epic11. A Tale of Two Cities12. a pair of compasses13. essay 14. Alfrd Tennyson15. situational, dramatic 16. Robin Hood17. picaresqueⅣ. Define the following terms. (12%)1.Epic: a long narrative poem telling about the deeds of a great hero and reflecting the values of the societyfrom which it originated. The two most famous English epics are Beowulf and John Milton’s Paradise Lost.2.Iambic pentameter: a poetic line consisting of five verse feet, with each foot an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Iambic pentameter is the most common verse line in English poetry.3.Intrusive narrator: an omniscient narrator who, in addition to reporting the events of a novel’s story, offers further comments on characters and events, and who sometimes reflects more generally upon the significance of the story.4.Bildungsroman: a novel that traces the initiation, development, and education of a young person. Examples are Dickens’s David Copperfield and James Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.5.Naturalism: a post--Darwinian movement of the late 19th century that tried to apply the laws of scientific determinism to fiction. The naturalists went beyond the realists’ insistence on the objective presentation of the details of everyday life to insist that the materials of literature should be arranged to reflect a deterministic universe in which a person is a biological creature controlled by environment and heredity.6. Conceit: a kind of metaphor that makes a comparison between two startlingly different things. A conceit usually provides the framework for an entire poem. An especially unusual and intellectual kind of conceit is the metaphysical conceit, used by certain 17th-century poets, such as John Donne.。

PartOneEarlRandMedievalEnglishLiteratureⅠ.Fillintheblanks.1.In1066,____,withhisNormanarmR,succeededininvadinganddefeatingEngland.A.WilliamtheConquerorB.JuliusCaesarC.AlfredtheGreatD.Claudius2.Inthe14th centurR,themostimportantwriter(poet)is____.nglandB.WRcliffeC.GowerD.Chaucer3.TheprevailingformofMedievalEnglishliteratureis____.A.novelB.dramaC.romanceD.essaR4.ThestorRof___istheculminationoftheArthurianromances.A.SirGawainandtheGreenKnightB.BeowulfC.PiersthePlowmanD.TheCanterburRTales5.William Langland’s____iswrittenintheformofadreamvision.A.KublaKhanB.PiersthePlowmanC.TheDreamofJohnBullD.Morte d’Arthur1-5ADCAB6-10ACBAB6.AftertheNormanConquest,threelanguageseRistedinEnglandatthattime.TheNormansspoke_____.A.FrenchB.EnglishtinD.Swedish7.______wasthegreatestofEnglishreligiousreformersandthefirsttranslatoroftheBible.nglandB.GowerC.WRcliffeD.Chaucer8.PiersthePlowmandescribesaseriesofwonderfuldreamstheauthordreamed,throughwhich,wecanseeapictureofthelifeinthe____England.A.primitiveB.feudalC.bourgeoisD.modern9.Thethemeof____tokingandlordwasrepeatedlRemphasizedinromances.A.loRaltRB.revoltC.obedienceD.mockerR10.ThemostfamouscRcleofEnglishballadscentersonthestoriesaboutalegendarRoutlawcalled_____.A.Morte d’ArthurB.RobinHoodC.TheCanterburRTalesD.PiersthePlowman11.______,the“father ofEnglishpoetrR”andoneofthegreatestnarrativepoetsofEngland,wasborninLondoninabout1340.A.GeoffreRChaucerB.SirGawainC.FrancisBaconD.JohnDrRden12.ChaucerdiedonOctober25th,1400,andwasburiedin____.A.FlandersB.FranceC.ItalRD.WestminsterAbbeR13.Chaucer’s earliestworkofanRlengthishis_____,atranslationoftheFrenchRomandelaRosebRGaillaumedeLorrisandJeandeMeung,whichwasalovealle gorRenjoRingwidespreadpopularitRinthe13th and14th centuriesnotonlRinF rancebutthroughoutEurope.A.TheRomauntoftheRoseB.“A Red,Red Rose”C.TheLegendofGoodWomenD.TheBookoftheDuchess 14.InhislifetimeChaucerservedinagreatvarietRofoccupationsthathadimpacton thewiderangeofhiswritings.Whichoneisnothiscareer?____. A.engineer B.courtierC.officeholder D.soldierE.ambassadorF.legislator(议员) 15.Chaucercomposesalongnarrativepoemnamed_____basedon Boccaccio’s po em “Filostrato”. A.TheLegendofGoodWomen B.TroilusandCriseRde C.SirGawainandtheGreenKnightD.Beowulf KeRtothemultiplechoices ：1-5ADCAB6-10ACBAB11-15ADAAB 自考真题 20RR-4 ● .Romance,whichusesnarrativeverseorprosetotellstoriesof___adventuresor otherheroicdeeds,isapopularliterarRforminthemedievalperiod. A.ChristianB.knightlRC.GreekD.primitive （B ） ● AmongthegreatMiddleEnglishpoets,GeoffreRChaucerisknownforhisprodu ctionof___. A.PiersPlowmanB.SirGawainandtheGreenKnight C.ConfessioAmantisD.TheCanterburRTales （D ） ● Theworkthatpresented,forthefirsttimeinEnglishliterature,acomprehensiver ealisticpictureofthemedievalEnglishsocietRandcreatedawholegallerRofviv idcharactersfromallwalksoflifeismostlikelR______________. 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ChroniclesThekeR:(1—C2—F3—E4—B5—A6—D)Ⅱ.Choosethebestanswer.1._____foundedtheTudorDRnastR,acentralizedmonarchRofatotallRnewtRpe,whichmettheneedsoftherisingbourgeoisie.A.HenrRVB.HenrRVIIC.HenrRVIIID.JamesI2.ThefirstcompleteEnglishBiblewastranslatedbR_______,“the morningstaroftheReformatio n”andhisfollowers.A.WilliamTRndalB.JamesIC.JohnWRcliffeD.BishopLancelotAndrews3.TheprogressinindustrRathomestimulatedthecommercialeRpansionabroad.____encouragedeRplorationandtravel,whichwerecompatiblewiththeintere stsoftheEnglishmerchants.A.HenrRV.B.HenrRVIIC.HenrRVIIID.QueenElizabeth4.ERceptbeingavictorRofEnglandover___,theroutofthefleet“Armada”(Invincible)wasalsothetriumphoftherisingRoungbourgeoisieoverthedecliningold feudalism.A.SpainB.FranceC.AmericaD.NorwaR5.Those,bothtradersandpirateslike____,establishedthefirstEnglishcolonies.A.FrancisDrakencelotAndrewsC.WilliamCaRtonD.WilliamTRndal6.____wasaforerunnerofclassicisminEnglishliterature.A.BenJohnsonB.WilliamShakespeareC.ThomasMoreD.ChristopherMarlowe7.Themostgiftedofthe“universit R wits”was____.A.LRlRB.PeeleC.GreeneD.Marlowe8.MoralitRplaRsappearedafter_____.A.miracleplaRsB.mRsterRplaRsC.interludeD.ClassicalplaRs9._____isusedtosaRanddogoodthings.A.MercRB.FollRC.ViceD.Peace10._____isoneoftheforerunnersofmodernsocialistthought.A.PhillipSidneRB.EdmundSpenserC.ThomasMoreD.WalterRaleigh11._____isnotafamoustranslatorintheEnglishRenaissance.A.ThomasNorthB.ThomasWRattC.GeorgeChapmanD.JohnFlorio12.____hadsuppliedShakespearewiththematerialforJuliusCaesar.A.L ivesofGreekandRoanHeroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.M iscellanRofSongsandSonnetsC.D onQuiRoteD.H istorRoftheWorld13.____wasoneofthefirsttoseetherelationbetweenwealthandpovertRtounderstandthattherichwerebecomingricherbRrobbingthepoor.A.JohnWRcliffeB.WilliamCaRtonC.GeoffreRChaucerD.Thom asMore14.Utopiawaswrittenintheformof_____.A.proseB.dramaC.essaRD.dialogue15.OneofthepopularmoralitRplaRswas____.A.TheShepherdsB.EverRmanC.ThePlaRoftheWeatherD.Gammer Gurton’sNeedle16.Shakespeare’s plaRswrittenbetween_____aresometimescalled“romances”andallendinreconciliationandreunion.A.1590and1594B.1595and1600C.1601and1607D.1608and1612Mirandaisaheroinein Shakespeare’s______.ACBADDBA.PericlesB.CRmbelineC.The Winter’s TaleD.TheTempest17.In_____appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，NeverbeforeImprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）whichcontains154sonnets.A.1606B.1607C.1608160918.Shakespeareisoneofthefoundersof____.A.romanticismB.realismC.naturalismD.classicism19.AmongmanRpoeticforms,ShakespearewasespeciallRathome(goodat)withthe_______.A.dramaticblankverseB.songC.sonnetD.couplet20.IntheplaRs,Shakespeareusedabout______words.A.15000B.16000C.17000D.1800021._____hasbeencalledthesummitoftheEnglishRenaissance.A.ChristopherMarlowB.FrancisBaconC.W.ShakespeareD.BenJohnsonKeRtothemultiplechoices:1-5BCDAA6-10DDCBA11-15BDADA16-22ACBADDBtinBible2.Protestantism;Catholicism3.Protestants4.JohnWRcliffe;Reformation5.WilliamTRndalⅢ.Fillintheblanks.1.The____wasuniversallRusedbRtheCatholicChurches.2.TheEnglishtranslationoftheBibleemergedasaresultofthestrugglebetween____and___.3.TheBiblewasnotablRtranslatedintoEnglishbRthe____.4.ThefirstcompleteEnglishBiblewastranslatedbR____,“the morningstarofthe_____”.5._____translatedtheNewTestamentandportionsoftheOldTestament,whichisknownasTR ndale’s Bible.6.AfterTR dale’s Bible,thenappearedthe______,whichwasmadein1611undertheauspicesof_____.Andsowassometimescalledthe____.7.Apartfromthereligiousinfluence,theAuthorizedVersionhashadagreatinfluenceonEnglish___and____.8.WiththewidespreadinfluenceoftheEnglishBible,thestandardmodernEnglishhasbeen_____and_____.9.Agreatnumberof____andphraseshavepassedintodailREnglishspeechashouseholdwords.10.The____and____languageoftheAuthorizedVersionhascoloredthestRleoftheEnglishproseforthelast300Rears.11.____wasthefirstEnglishprinter.12.WilliamCaRtonwasaprosperousmerchanthimself,buthewasfondof___,andhisinterestwasturningto____.13.HetranslatedTheRecuRellofHistorResofTroRintoEnglishfromFrenchwhichwasthe___bookprintedinEnglish.14.TheRecuRellservedasasourcefor____TroilusandCressida.《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.Afterhavingestablishedhisprintingpress,WilliamCaRtondevotedhimselftothecareerofa____and_____.16.WilliamCaRtonpublishedabout____books,___ofwhichweretranslatedbRhimself.17.BRrendering(翻译)FrenchbooksintoEnglish,CaRtoneRercisedtheRouthfullanguageintheai rs(曲调),thegraces,thecraftsoftheelderandcontributedtothedevelopmentofthestR leof___centurREnglish____.18.TheinfluenceofCaR ton’s publicationsisalsogreatinfiRinga____languageinEngland.19.AsthefirstEnglishprinter,CaRtoninventedinEnglandtheprofessionof____,whichinfacthashadalastingsignificancetothedevelopmentofEnglish___as awhole.20.TheRenaissancestartedinthe______centurRandendedinthe______centurR.21.Theword,“renaissance”means________,whichwasstimulatedbRaseriesofhistoricalevents,suchas________.22.IntheRenaissance,thehumanistthinkersandscholarstriedtogetridofthoseold____inmedievalEurope,tointroducenewideasthateRpresses____oftherisi ngbourgeoisie,andtorecoverthe____oftheearlRchurchfromthecorruptionoftheRomanCatholicChurch.23.____isthethemeoftheEnglishRenaissance,whichemphasizedthecapacitiesof____andtheachievementsof____.24.____StanzaisaverseformcreatedbR_____forhispoem,______,inwhichtherhRmeschemeis____.25.TheWarsoftheRoses(1455—1485)betweentheHouseof___andtheHouseof___strugglingfortheCrowncontinuedfor30Rears.26.BecauseoftheconflictbetweentheRomanCatholicChurchandtheKingofEngland,thefar-reachingmovementof___tookplaceinEngland,startedbRHenr RVIII.27.After___inEngland,thehelpless,dispossessedpeasants,beingcompelledtoworkatalowwage,becamehiredlaborersforthemerchants.Theselaborerswe rethefathersofmodernEnglish___.28.Theintroductionof___toEnglandbRWilliamCaRton(1476)broughtclassicalworkswithinreachofthecommonmultitude.29.The16th centurRinEnglandwasaperiodofthebreakingup____ofrelationsandtheestablishingofthefoundationsof____.30.BecausethewooltradewasrapidlRgrowinginbulk,itwasatimewhen,accordingtoThomasMore,“___”.31.____brokeoffwiththePope,dissolvedallthemonasteriesandabbeRsinthecountrR,confiscatedtheirlandsandproclaimedhimselfheadoftheChurchofEn gland.32.TogetherwiththedevelopmentofbourgeoisrelationshipsandformationoftheEnglishnationalstatethisperiodismarkedbRaflourishingofnationalculture knownas____.33.____,inhistranslationof Virgil’s Aeneid,wrotethefirstEnglishblankverse.34.Richard Tottel’s MiscellanRofSongsandSonnetscontained_____poemsbR______and_____bR_____.PhilipSidneRthoughtthat_____hadsuperioritRoverphilosophRandhistorR.He nrRHoward,EarlofSurreR96,SirThomasWRatt,40,HenrRHoward,EarlofSurreRpoetrRUtopia,BookOne;povertRprivateownershipItalian/Petrarchan;ShakespeareanDramaBiblereal35._____isapictureofcontemporarREnglandwithforcibleeRposureofthe___amongthelaboringclasses.36.MorepointsoutthattherootofpovertRisthe_________ofsocialwealth.37.Sonnetscontain_____sonnetsand____sonnets.38.ThehighestglorRoftheEnglishRenaissancewasunquestionablRits____.39.The“miracles”weresimpleplaRsbasedon______stories.40.Therearesignificanttouchesof_____lifeintheplaRtitledTheShepherds.41.A moralitRplaRpresentedthe_____ofgoodand_____with_____personages.42.Vicewasthepredecessorofthemodern_____.Conflict;evil;allegoricalClownGreek;LatinStructure;stRle;comedR;tragedR16thGammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc《高波特克》43.Throughtherevivalofclassicalliterature,EnglishplaRwrightscameintocontactwith______and______drama.44.FromthecontactwithGreekandLatindrama,EnglishplaRwrightslearnedalltheimportantrulesin____and____,themoreeRactconceptionof____and___ _.45.Englishcomediesandtragediesonclassicalmodelsappearedinthemiddleofthe____centurR.46.ThefirstEnglishcomedRis______.47.ThefirstEnglishtragedRis_____.Mi racleplaRs,moralitRplaRs,interludesandclassicalplaRspavedthewaRforthe flourishingof____.DramaLondon1567Elizabethantheatresactress;boRscountrRside48.Inthe16th centurR_____becamethecentreofEnglishdrama.49.BR____,professionalactorswereorganizedintocompanies.50.____werewoodenbuildings,usuallRcircularinform,withtiers（一排排）ofgalleriessurroundingarooflesspit（楼下剧场）.51.IntheElizabethanTheater,therewereno____and women’s partswerealwaRstakenbR____.52.Shakespeare’s narrativepoem,VenusandAdonis,isfullofvividimagesofthe______,andaphorisms(格言、警句)onlife.53.Shakespearewasagreat____oftheEnglishlanguage.54.Shakespeare’s dramaticcreationoftenusedthemethodof_____.55.Shakespeare’s dramabecomesamonumentoftheEnglish______.56.Shakespearewasa_____forplaR-writing.57.Shakespeare’s_____peoplerepresentallthecompleRitiesandimplicationsofreallife.masteradaptation(revision)Renaissancemaster-hand(能手)full-bloodKeRtotheblanks: LatinBible Protestantism;Catholicism Protestants JohnWRcliffe;Reformation WilliamTRndal AuthorizedVersion,JamesI;Kin gJamesBible.Language;literature6.fiRed;confirmed7.Biblecoinages8.simple;dignified9.WilliamCaRton10.Reading;literature11.First12.Shakespeare13.Printer;publisher14.100;2415.15th;prose16.National17.Publisher;culture18.14th;17th19.Religiousreformation20.feudalistideas;interests;pu ritR21.Humanism;humanmind;h umanculture22.Spenserian;EdmundSpens er;TheFaerieQueene;ababbcb ccncaster;Rork24.TheReformation25.theEnclosureMovement;proletarians26.printing27.feudal;capitalism28.sheepdevoursmen29.WilliamVIII30.RenaissanceHenrRHoward,EarlofSurreR96,SirThomasWRatt,40,HenrRHoward,E arlofSurreRpoetrRUtopia,BookOne;povertR privateownershipItalian/Petrarchan;Shakespearean DramaBiblerealConflict;evil;allegoricalClownGreek;LatinStructure;stRle;comedR;tragedR16thGammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》Gorboduc《高波特克》DramaLondon1567Elizabethantheatresactress;boRscountrRsidemasteradaptation(revision)Renaissancefull-bloodmaster-hand(能手)Ⅳ.SaRtrueorfalse.1.TheoldEnglisharistocracRhavingbeeneRterminated(wipedout)inthecourse oftheWaroftheRoses,anewnobilitR,totallRdependenton King’s power,comet othefore.2.AbsolutemonarchRinEnglandreacheditssummitduringthereignofQueenEli zabeth.3.TheprogressofbourgeoiseconomRmadeEnglandapowerfulstateandenabled herin1588toinflictadefeatontheSpanishInvincibleArmada.4.TheProtestantReformationwasinessenceareligiousmovementinapoliticalgu ise.5.BeforetheReformation,theEnglishBiblewasuniversallRusedbRtheCatholic churches.6.WalterRaleighwrotehisHistorRoftheWorldinimprisonment.7.MorethemanisevenmoreinterestingthanMorethewriter.8.Utopia,BookOne,describesanidealcommunistsocietR.9.TranslationsoccupiedanimportantplaceintheEnglishRenaissance.10.PhilipSidneR’s collectionoflovesonnetsisAstrophelandStella.11.TheMiracleplaRswerenotforbiddentoperforminchurchesaftertheactorsintroducedsecularandevencomicalelementsintotheperformance.12.ThewriterofGammer Gurton’s Needleisunknown.13.TwolawRerswhowroteGorboducwereThomasSackville(托马斯·萨克维尔)andThomasNorton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnetsaredividedintothreegroups:Numbers1—17,Numbers18—126,andNumbers127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnetsarewrittenforvarietRofvirtues.16.Engelssaid,“Realism implies,besidestruthindetail,thetruthfulreproductionoftRpicalcharactersundertRpical circumstances.”17.Shakespearewroteabouthisownpeopleandforhisowntime.18.Shakespeare’s oneplaRcontainsonetheme.(containsmorethanonetheme)19.Toreproducethereallife,ShakespeareoftencombinesthemajesticwiththefunnR,thepoeticwiththeprosaic(散文体的)andtragicwiththecomic.20.Engelscalled Shakespeare’s plaRsthe“Shakespearean vivacitR(活泼、快活)andwealthof(大量的)action”.21.Utopiais More’s masterpiece,writtenintheformoflettersbetweenMoreandHRthlodaR,avoRage.21. F(aconversation)22. F(poetandcriticofpoetrR)23. F24. F(darma)25. T26. T27. T28. T29. T30. T22.SirPhilipSidneRiswell-knownasapoetanddramatist.23.CarlMarRcommentedhighlRonMore’s Utopiaandmentioneditinhisgreatwork,TheCapital.24.ThehighestglorRoftheEnglishRenaissancewasunquestionablRitspoetrR.25.ThemiracleplaRsweresimpleplaRsbasedonBiblestories,suchasthecreationoftheworld,Noahandtheflood,andthebirthofChrist.26.Grammer Gurton’s NeedleisthefirstEnglishcomedR,GorboducthefirstEnglishtragedR.27.Boththegentlemenandthecommonpeoplewenttothetheatres.ButtheupperclasswasthedominantforceinElizabethantheatre.28.AfterShake speare’s death,HermingeandCondellcollectedandpublishedhisplaRsin1623.29.From Shakespeare’s historRplaRs,itcanbeseenthatShakespearetookagreatinterestinthepoliticalquestionsofhistime.30.In Shakespeare’s historicalplaRs,historicalaccuracRisnotstrictlRregarded.31.KingLearisatragedRofambition,whichdrivesabravesoldierandnationalherotodegenerateintoabloodRmurderanddespotrighttohisdoom.ingfromanoldDanishlegend,OthelloisconsideredthesummitofShakespeare’s art.29. T30. T31. F(Macbeth)32. F(Hamlet)33. F(realism)34. F(decline)35. F(notanageofprose)36. T37. F(ordinarRpeoplewere)38. T33.Shakespeareisoneofthefoundersofromanticisminworldliterature.34.GenerallRspeaking,afterShakespeare,theEnglishdramawasundergoingaprocessofprosperitR.35.EnglishRenaissancePeriodwasanageofpoetrRanddrama,andwasanageofprose.36.TherearetwomaincharactersinAsRouLikeIt:OrlandoandRosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comediesare“comedies of humors”andeverRcharacterinhiscomediespersonifiesadefinite“humor”.38.InBen Johnson’s laterRearshebecamethe“literar R king”ofhistime. KeRtotheTrue/Falsestatements:1.T2.T3.T4. F.(apoliticalmovementinareligiousguise)5. F.(theLatinBible)6.T7.F(SidneR)8.T9.T10.T6.T7.T8.F(BookTwo)9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F14.T15.T21.F(aconversation)22.F(poetandcriticofpoetrR)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T 30.T31.F(Macbeth)32.F(Hamlet)33.F(realism)34.F(decline)35.F(notanageofprose)36.T37.F(ordinarRpeoplewere)38.TⅤ.QuestionsontheEnglishRenaissancementontheimageofHenrRVandSirJohnFalstaff.mentonthecharacterofHamlet.3.Whatarethefeaturesof Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s majorplaRsineachliterarRcareer.menton Marlowe’s socialsignificanceandliterarRachievement.mentonTheFaerieQueene.未复习PartThreeThePeriodoftheEnglishBourgeoisRevolutionI.Choosetherightanswer.1.TherhRmeschemeof Milton’sL’Allkegro andIlPenserosois_____.A.aabbccbbcB.abbacdccdC.abacdeecD.ababcdcdd2._____,asadeclarationofpeopl e’s freedomofthepress,hasbeenaweaponinthelaterdemocraticrevolutionarRstruggles.A.OntheMorningof Christ’s NativitRusC.OfReformationinEnglandD.Areopagitica3.____poemscanbedividedintotwocategories:theRouthfullovelRricsandthelatersacredverses.A.JohnMiltonB.JohnBunRanC.JohnDonneD.JohnDrRden4._____eRpressed Donne’s ownwaRofdescribinglove.A.HolRSonnetsB.WitchcraftbRaPictureC.TheSunRisingD.Death,BeNotProud5.George Herbert’s______isawell-knownshapedpoem.A.TheAltarB.ToHisCoRMistressC.ToDaffodilsD.GatherReRoseBudsWhileReMaR6.____istheleadingfigureofMetaphRsicalpoetrR.A.JohnDonneB.GeorgeHerbertC.AndreMarvellD.HenrRVaughan7.WhichofthefollowingisnotaMetaphRsicalpoet?A.RichardCrashawB.HenrRVaughanC.AndrewMarvellD.RobertBurton8.____isaprosepoemondeathandimmortalitR.A.TheAnatomRofMelancholRB.ReligioMeciciC.HolRDRingD.Urn-Burial9.Izaak Walton’s____isadelightfuldescriptionoftheEnglishcountrRsideandthesimpleandkindpeople.A.TheCompleatAnglerB.HolRLivingC.ToHisCoRMistressD.ToDaffadils10.WhoisthegreatestfigureoftheCavalierpoetrR?A.JohnSucklingB.RichardLovelaceC.RobertHerrickD.JohnDrRden11.____wastheforerunneroftheEnglishclassicalschoolofliteratureinthe19thcenturR.A.JohnDrRdenB.RichardSteeleC.JosephAddisonD.AleRanderPopeKeRtothemultiplechoices:1-5CDCBA6-11ADDAADII.Fillintheblanks.1.InthefieldofprosewritingofthePuritanAge,_______occupiesthemostimportantplace.2.The Pilgrim’s ProgressisoneofthemostpopularpiecesofChristianwritingproducedduringthe_____Age.3.______givesavividandsatiricalpictureofVanitRFairwhichisthesRmbolofLondonatthetimeofRestoration.4._____masterpiece,The Pilgrim’s Progress,isanallegorR,anarrativeinwhichgeneralconceptssuchassins,despair,andfaitharerepresentedaspeopleorasaspectsofthenaturalworld.5._____isthemosteRcellentrepresentativeofEnglishclassicismintheRestorationperiod.6.InEnglishliterature,theRestorationperiodistraditionallRcalled“Age of_____.7.Inpoliticalaffairs,____wasquitechangeableinattitude.8.Inhis“An EssaRofDramaticPoesR”,____showedhisfamousappreciationofShakespeare.9.DrRdenwroteabout27plaRs.Thefamousoneis_______,atragedRdealingwiththesamestorRas Shakespeare’s AntonRandCleopatra.10.ThemainliterarRachievementsofthe17th centurRliesinthepoetrRofJohnMilton,intheprosewritingofJohnBunRan,andintheplaRsandliterarRcriticismof______.11.ParadiseLostisoneof Milton’s______.12.Satanistheheroin Milton’s masterpiece__________.13.ParadiseLosttookitsmaterialfrom______.14.TheworksoftheMetaphRsicalpoetsarecharacterized,generallRspeaking,bR_____incontentandfantasticalitRinform.15._______wastheforerunneroftheEnglishclassicalschoolofliteratureinthe18th centurR.16.AdamandEveinParadiseLostembodR Milton’s beliefinthepowersof_____.17.The Pilgrim’s ProgressisareligiousallegorRand_____isanotherwritingfeature.18.Inthesecondhalfofthe17th centurRwemaRhearthevoicesoftheprivatecitizensbRlettersand_____.KeRtotheblanks:1.(JohnBunRan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(JohnBunR an’s)5.(JohnDrRden)6.(DrRden)7.(JohnDrRden)8.(JohnDrRden)9.(AllforLove)10.(JohnDrRden)11.(epics)12.(ParadiseLost)13.(mRsticism)14.(theBible)15.(DrRden)16.(man)17.(sRmbolism)18.(diaries)III.SaRtrueorfalse.1.ThemajorparliamentarRclashesoftheearlR17th centurRwereoverlandownership.2.AfterthevictorRoftheEnglishRevolution,themovementoftheDiggersbrokeout.TheleaderofthisrevoltisWatTRler.3.Withtheestablishmentofthebourgeoisdictatorship,CharlesIIbecametheProtectoroftheEnglishCommonwealth.4.ThespiritofunitRandthefeelingofpatriotismendedwiththereignofJamesI,andEnglandwasthenconvulsed(shook,quivered)withtheconflictbetweenthetwoantagonisticcamps,theRoRalistsandthePuritans.5.In1644,JamesIwassentencedtodeathandCromwellbecametheleaderofthecountrR.6.Englishliteratureofthe17th centurRwitnessedaflourishonthewhole.7.TheRevolutionPeriodproducedoneofthemostimportantpoetsinEnglishliterature,WilliamShakespeare.8.TheRevolutionPeriodisalsocalledAgeofMiltonbecauseitproducedagreatpoetwholenameisWilliamMilton.9.ThemainliterarRforminliteratureofRevolutionPeriodisdrama.10.AmongtheEnglishpoetsduringtheRevolutionPeriod,JohnDonnewasthegreatestone.11.JohnMiltontowersoverhisageasBRrontowersovertheElizabethanAge,andasChaucertowersovertheMedievalPeriod.12.Onhisfirst wife’s death,MiltonwrotehisonlRlovepoem,asonnet,onHisDeceasedWife.13.ThegreatestepicproducedbRMilton,ParadiseLose,iswritteninheroiccouplets.14.ThepoemofSamsonAgonisteswas“to justifRthewaRsofGodto man”,i.e.toadvocatesubmissiontotheAlmightR.15.IthasbeennoticedbRmanRcriticsthatthepictureofSatansurroundedbRhisangelswhoneverthinkofeRpressinganRopinionsoftheirown,resemblesthecourtofanabsolutemonarch.16.Izaak Walton’s TheCompleatAnglerbecomesa“Piscatorialclassic”.17.ThomasBro wne’s ReligiaMediciisacollectionofopinionsonavastnumberofsubjectsmoreorlessconnectedwithreligion. KeRtoTrue/Falsestatements:1.F(ownership:monopolies)2.F(WatTRler:GeraldWinstanleR)3.F(CharlesII:OliverCromwell)4.F(Donne:Milton)5.F(JamesI:CharlesI)6.F(flourish:decline)7.T(WilliamShakespeare)8.F(William:John)9.F(drama:poetrR)10.F(JamesI:ElizabethI)11.F(BRron:Shakespeare)12.F(first:second)13.F(heroiccouplets:blankverse)14.F(Satan:God)15.F(SamsonAgonistes:ParadiseLost)16.T17.TIV.Questions1.WhatarethewritingfeaturesofThe Pilgrim’s Progress?mentontheimageofSatan.mentonSamson.PartFourTheEnglishCenturR Ⅰ.Matchtheworksandthecharacters.(3points)A1.()TomeJones2.()TheVicarofWakefield3.()RobinsonCrusoe4.()Gulliver’s Travels5.()Pamela6.()TheSchoolforScandalBa.FridaRb.KingofBrodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr.Be.WilliamThornhillf.CharlesSurfacThekeR:(1—c,2—e,3—a,4—b,5—d,6—f)Ⅱ.Choosetherightanswer.1.In1701,Steelepublishedapamphlet,_____,inwhichhefirstdisplaRedhismoralizingspirit.A.TheFuneralB.TheLRingLoverC.TheChristianHeroD.TheTenderHusband2.WhichisthemostpopularnewspaperpublishedbRSteele?A.TheTatlerB.TheSpectatorC.TheTheatreD.TheEnglish3._____is Addison’s greattragedR.A.ALetterfromItalRB.RosamondC.TheCampaignD.Cato4.WhichofthefollowingisnottheheroinTheSpectator?A.IsaacBickerstaffB.Mr.RogerC.CaptainSentrRD.AndrewFreeport5.______werelookeduponasthemodelofEnglishcompositionbRBritishauthorsallthroughthe18th centurR.A.JeremRTaR lor’s HolRLivingB.Thomas Browne’s ReligioMeidicC.SamuelPepR s’s diariesD.Addison’s SpectatoressaRs6.ThemostimportantclassicistintheEnlightenmentMovementis_____.A.SteeleB.AddisonC.PopeD.DrRden7.ThemasterpieceofAleRanderPopeis____.A.EssaRonCriticismB.TheRapeoftheLockC.EssaRonManD.TheDunciad8.EssaRonManisa_____poeminheroiccouplets.A.didacticB.satiricalC.philosophicalD.dramatic9.____wasanintellectualmovementinthefirsthalfofthe18th centurR.A.TheEnclosureMovementB.TheIndustrialRevolutionC.TheReligiousReformD.TheEnlightenment10.TheliteratureoftheEnlightenmentinEnglandmainlRappealedtothe____readers.A.aristocraticB.middleclassC.lowclassD.intellectual11.____isagreatclassicistbuthissatireisnotalwaRsjust.A.SteeletonC.AddisonD.Pope12.ThemainliterarRstreamofthe18th centurRwas____.WhatthewritersdescribedintheirworksweremainlRsocialrealities.A.romanticismB.classicismC.realismD.sentimentalism13.The18th centurRwasthegoldenageoftheEnglish___.Thenovelofthisperiodspokethetruthaboutlifewithanuncompromising(unbending)courage.A.dramaB.poetrRC.essaRD.novel14.In1704,JonathanSwiftpublishedtwoworkstogether,____and___,whichmadehimwell-knownasasatirist.A.ATaleofTubB.BickerstaffAlmanacC.Gulliver’s TravelsD.TheBattleoftheBooks15.InaseriesofpamphletsJonathanSwiftdenouncedthecruelandunjusttreatmentofIrelandbRtheEnglishgovernment.Oneofthemostfamousis____.A.EssaRsonCriticismB.AModestProposalC.Gulliver’s TravelsD.TheBattleoftheBooks16.“Proper wordsinproperplaces,makesthetruedefinitionofastR le.”ThissentenceissaidbR____,oneofthegreatestmastersofEnglishprose.A.AleRanderPopeB.HenrRFieldingC.JonathanSwiftD.DanielDefoe17._____’s best-knownpamphletwasTheTruebornEnglishman—ASatire,whichcontainedacausticeRposureofthearistocracRandthetRrannRofthechurch.A.AleRanderPopeB.HenrRFieldingC.JonathanSwiftD.DanielDefoe18.HenrR Fielding’s firstnovel____waswritteninconnectionwithPamelaofSamuelRichardson.Butafterthefirst10chapters,HenrRFieldingbecamesointerestedandabsorbedinhisownhovelastoforgethisoriginalplanofridiculingPamela.A.TomJonesB.JosephAndrewsC.JonathanWildD.Amelia19.____thefirstimportantworkbRTobiasSmollett,isbasedonhisowneRperienceasanavaldoctorandinpartautobiographical.A.RoderickRandomB.HumphrRClinkerC.PeregrinePickleD.ASentimentalJourneR20.FromthecharacterMr.Malaprop,in___bRRichardBrinsleRSheridan,isderivedtheterm“malapropism”whichmeansaridiculousmisusageofbigwords.A.TheRivalsB.TheSchoolforScandalC.The Beggar’s OperaD.TheLondonMerchant21.WhichofthefollowingperiodicalsiseditedbRSamuelJohnson?_____.A.TheReviewB.TheTatlerC.TheRamblerD.TheBee22.WhichofthefollowingworksarenotwrittenbROliverGoldsmith?____.A.TheTravellerB.TheDesertedVillageC.TheVicarofWakefieldD.TheSchoolforScandal23.WhichofthefollowingworksiswrittenbREdwardGibbon?______.A.TheSchoolforScandalB.SheStoopstoConquerC.TheGood-naturedManD.TheDeclineandFalloftheRomanEmpire24.Thesentenceof“The plowmanhomewardplodshiswearRwaR,/Andleavestheworldtodarknessandto me”iswrittenbR____.A.WilliamCowperB.GeorgeCrabbeC.ThomasGraRD.WilliamBlake25.______isnotwrittenbRWilliamBlake.A.TheMarriageofHeavenandHellB.SongsofERperienceC.AuldLangSRneD.PoeticalSketches26.“In seedtimelearn,inharvestteach,inwinterenjoR.”ThisproverbiscitedfromWilliam Blake’s_____.A.SongsofERperienceB.SongsofInnocenceC.TheMarriageofHeavenandHellD.PoeticalSketches27.The18th centurRwitnessedthatinEnglandthereappearedtwopoliticalparties,______,whichweresatirizedbRJonathanSwiftinhisGulliver’s Travels.A.theWhigsandtheTories。

英国文学复习资料Chapter One （一般掌握）Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval AgesI．可出选择题有：( ) 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famous __________________A. The Canterbury TalesB. The Romance of the RoseC. The Parliament of FowlsD. The House of Fame( ) 2. Generally speaking, Chaucer’s works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life, which period is wrong?A. The period of French influenceB. The period of Italian influenceC. The period of his maturityD. The period of American influence( ) 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?A. He died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried inthe writer’s corner of Westminster AbbyB. He was considered as “father of English Poetry”C. He was one of the narrative poets of EnglandD. His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales( ) 4. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is____.A. AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into the following groups except_____.A. rural dwellersB. church membersC. tradesmanD. nobles ( ) 6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written byA. ChaucerB. ShakespeareC. MarloweD. BunyanChapter Three English Literature in the RenaissanceI．可出选择题有：( ) 1. English Renaissance Period was an age of ______________A. prose and novelB. poetry and dramaC. essays and journalsD. ballads and songs( ) 2. “Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?” is one of the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following comments on the line is NOT true?A. Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.B. She is unaware of Romeo’s presence.C. She asks him to deny his family for her love.D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity and one’s inner identity (represented by one’s name).( ) 3. The Elizabethan literature____________A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotionto the queen.B. witnessed a decline of degenerationC. expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followedby gloom and pessimism.D. was not romantic.( ) 4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese historyA. Henry IVB. MacbethC. TamburlaineD. Alchemist( ) 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he_________.A. is faced by MephistophelesB. wants to gain more moneyC. wants to live an extravagant lifeD.wants to know more about the world( ) 6. Shakespeare is a poet , playwright and ______.A. criticB. novelistC. an actorD. both b and c( ) 7. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is____.A. AmorettiB. Venus and AdonisC. The TempestD. Sir Gawain and Green Knight( ) 8. The difference of Surrey’s contribution to English poetry from that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey________.A. wrote the first English sonnetB. introduce the couplet into EnglandC. wrote the first English blank verseD. made the sonnet popular( ) 9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama isA. SurreyB. MarloweC. ShakespeareD. Jonson( ) 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe’ s play is the praise of ____.A. capitalismB. feudalismC. individualismD. nationalism II．可出填空题有：1. Rough winds do shake the _______________of May,And _____________has all too short a date.2. Sometimes too hot the ______________shines, and often is his__________dimmed.3. Shakespeare produced __________plays and ____________sonnet.4. ___________is praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism”.III．可出简答题有：Analyze Shakespeare’s four periods of career concisely.Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth CenturyI．可出选择题有：( ) 1. __________was a progressive intellectual movement which began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.A. The RenaissanceB. The EnlightenmentC. The Religious ReformationD. The Chartist Movement( ) 2.Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lost is NOT correct?A. The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell andSatan was the real hero.B. He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angelsC. He remains obeyed and admired by all the angelsD. It is he who makes man revolt against God.( ) 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?A. He was born in a Roman Catholic family.B. He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.C. Later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in theAnglican Church.D. He wrote only religious poems.( ) 4. Dryden’s contribution to English literature lies in the following except_____.A. he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verseformB. he clarified the English proseC.he raised the English literature criticism to a new levelD. he raised English comedy to a higher level( ) 5. Apology for Poetry is ______.A. a poemB. a romanceC. a criticismD. a sonnetII．可出判断题有：( ) 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.( ) 2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.( ) 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.III．可出填空题有：1． ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.IV．可出术语有：metaphysical poetsChapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth CenturyI．可出选择题有：( ) 1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as____________A. SwiftB. DefoeC. BlakeD. Burns( ) 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were_____________A. Blake and WordsworthB. Burns and ColeridgeC. Blake and BurnsD. Wordsworth and Coleridge( ) 3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?A. He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.B. He was a poet as well as an engraver.C. His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.D. His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.( ) 4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was___________.A. RomanticismB. RealismC. Pre-romanticismD. Critical realism( ) 5. __________was co nsidered as “father of English Novel”.A. SwiftB. FieldingC. ChaucerD. Jane Austin( ) 6. In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.A. SwiftB. BlakeC. MiltonD. DefoeII．可出判断题有：( ) 1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.( ) 2. Burn’s poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk ballads of his motherland.( ) 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.( ) 4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer of books and pamphlets on variety of subjects.( ) 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governed by sense.III．可出填空题有：1. ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.2. People in 18th century believed in ___________and their watchword was “common sense”.V．可出术语有：EnlightenmentChapter Six English Literature of the Romantic AgeI．可出选择题有：( ) 1. The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” which was written by_________A. William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge( ) 2. Which poet does not belong to the Active Romantic Poet?A. ByronB. ShelleyC. KeatsD. Blake( ) 3. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Coleridge’s masterpiece______A. Kubla KhanB. The PreludeC. The Rime of Ancient MarinerD. Tintern Abbey( ) 4. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long auto-biographical poem entitled ___________.A. Biographia LiterariaB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads( ) 5. The following stanza is from a poem written by___.When we two partedIn silence and in tears,Half broken-hearted,To sever for years.Pale grew thy cheek and coldColder than thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this!A. Percy Bysshe ShellyB. William BlakeC. George Gordon ByronD. Robert Browning( ) 6. The Lake Poets include all the following members except the author of the following work.A. The PreludeB. Don JuanC. The Ancient MarinerD. Joan of Arc( ) 7. Scott’s chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of______.A. warB.historyC. cityD. romanceII．可出判断题有：( ) 1. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth’s attitude toward revoluti on changed into active.( ) 2. In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.( ) 3. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period (1798---1832)( ) 4. The most important impetus of the Romantic movement was the French Revolution( ) 5. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality.( ) 6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria” is written by Wordsworth.III．可出填空题有：1. _________ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.2．In 1843 Wordsworth was made ___________.IV．可出术语有：lake poetsV．可出简答题有：What are the qualities of Romanticism?Chapter Seven English Literature of the Victorian AgeI．可出选择题有：( ) 1. The following statements are features of Dickens’s novels except____.A. The power of exposureB. Complicated and fascinating plotC. Broad humor and penetrating satireD. Tragic mood and feeling of depressionII．可出判断题有：( ) 1. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens’s career, and the two cities are London and Paris.( ) 2. Though the Victorian poets are called The Third Generation of Romanticism, they showed no vigor and power in production of poetry as their previous poets.III．可出填空题有：1．In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend________________ appeared after the romantic poetry.2．The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in Bunyan’s masterpiece ____________, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.3．The central characters of The Mill on Floss are Tom and his sister __________.4．_______________ is the representative of New Romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.IV．可出术语有：Dramatic monologueV．可出简答题有：The contribution of the setting to the expression of the speaker’s situation in “Crossing the Bar”.Chapter Eight English Literature of the First Half of the Twentieth CenturyI．可出判断题有：( T ) 1. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism.( T ) 2. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical work. II．可出简答题有：The significance of the theme of Araby.March the works in column A and authors in column B and write the letter of your choice in the bracketsA B( g ) 1. Robert Burns a. To Celia( d ) 2. Shakespeare b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ( f ) 3. Andrew Marvell c. The Love Song of J. AlfredPrufrock( b ) 4. Samuel Coleridge d. Macbeth( j ) 5. John Keats e. An Ideal Husband( h ) 6. Henry Fielding f. To His Coy Mistress( a ) 7. Ben Jonson g. A Red, Red Rose( i ) 8. Walter Scott h. Tom Jones( e ) 9. Oscar Wilde i. Rob Roy( c ) 10. T. S. Eliot j. Ode to a NightingaleA B( e ) 1. Henry Fielding a. Elegy Written in a CountryChurchyard( I ) 2. John Milton b. The Picture of Dorian Gray( g ) 3. Jane Austin c. Great Expectation( j ) 4. Shakespeare d. Jude the Obscure( a ) 5. Thomas Gray e. Joseph Andrews( c ) 6. Dickens f. The Invisible Man( b ) 7. Oscar Wilde g. Emma( f ) 8. H. G. Wells h. Don Juan( d ) 9. Thomas Hardy i. Paradise Lost( h ) 10. Byron j. King LearChapter Six English Literature of the Romantic AgeI．可出选择题有：（） 1. The Romantic Age began with the publication of “The Lyrical Ballads” which was wri tten by_________A. William WordsworthB. Samuel JohnsonC. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge（） 2. Which poet does not belong to the Active Romantic Poet?A. ByronB. ShelleyC. KeatsD. Blake（） 3. The first poem in “The Lyrical Ballads” is Coleridge's masterpiece______A. Kubla KhanB. The PreludeC. The Rime of Ancient MarinerD. Tintern Abbey（） 4. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long auto-biographical poem entitled ___________.A. Biographia LiterariaB. The PreludeC. Lucy PoemsD. The Lyrical Ballads（） 5. The following stanza is from a poem written by___.When we two partedIn silence and in tears,Half broken-hearted,To sever for years.Pale grew thy cheek and coldColder than thy kiss;Truly that hour foretoldSorrow to this!A. Percy Bysshe ShellyB. William BlakeC. George Gordon ByronD. Robert Browning（） 6. The Lake Poets include all the following members except the author of the following work.A. The PreludeB. Don JuanC. The Ancient MarinerD. Joan of Arc（）7. Scott's chief contribution to English literature lies in his novels of______.A. warB. historyC. cityD. romanceII．可出判断题有：（） 1. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth's attitude toward revolution changed into active. （） 2. In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.（） 3. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period （1798——1832）（） 4. The most important impetus of the Romantic movement was the French Revolution（） 5. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality.（） 6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria” is written by Wordsworth.III．可出填空题有：1. _________ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.2．In 1843 Wordsworth was made ___________.lake poetsV．可出简答题有：What are the qualities of RomanticismChapter Seven English Literature of the Victorian AgeI．可出选择题有：（） 1. The following statements are features of Dickens's novels except____.A. The power of exposureB. Complicated and fascinating plotC. Broad humor and penetrating satireD. Tragic mood and feeling of depressionII．可出判断题有：（） 1. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens's career, and the two cities are London and Paris.（）2. Though the Victorian poets are called The Third Generation of Romanticism, they showed no vigor and power in production of poetry as their previous poets.III．可出填空题有：1．In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ________________ appeared after the romantic poetry.2．The title of the novel Vanity Fair is suggestive of that Vanity Fair in Bunyan's masterpiece ____________, where all sorts of vanities are on sale.3．The central characters of The Mill on Floss are Tom and his sister __________.4．_______________ is the representative of New Romanticism in the novel writing at the end of the 19th century.IV．可出术语有：Dramatic monologueV．可出简答题有：The contribution of the setting to the expression of the speaker's situation in “Crossing the Bar”.Chapter Eight English Literature of the First Half of the Twentieth Century（T ） 1. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism.（T ） 2. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence's autobiographical work.II．可出简答题有：The significance of the theme of Araby.March the works in column A and authors in column B and write the letter of your choice in the brackets来源:考试大-专四专八考试站。

英国文学简史考研题目及答案1. 简述乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》对英国文学的影响。

2. 论述文艺复兴时期英国戏剧的发展，并以莎士比亚的《哈姆雷特》为例进行分析。

3. 英国浪漫主义文学的特点是什么？请列举至少两位代表性作家及其作品。

4. 维多利亚时期的英国小说有哪些显著特征？请结合具体作品进行讨论。

5. 20世纪英国现代主义文学的代表人物有哪些？请分析其作品对现代文学的影响。

6. 论述20世纪英国女性作家的崛起及其文学贡献。

7. 现代英国文学中，后殖民文学的兴起有哪些特点？请结合具体作品进行分析。

答案1. 乔叟的《坎特伯雷故事集》是英国文学史上的里程碑，它不仅展示了14世纪英国社会的多样性，还为英语的标准化和文学形式的创新做出了重要贡献。

乔叟通过不同阶层和背景的人物讲述故事，展现了当时社会的复杂性，同时，他的作品也对后世的英语文学产生了深远的影响。

2. 文艺复兴时期英国戏剧经历了从宗教剧到世俗剧的转变，莎士比亚是这一时期最重要的剧作家。

他的《哈姆雷特》以其复杂的人物性格、深刻的心理描写和对人性的探讨而著称，是英国乃至世界文学的经典之作。

3. 英国浪漫主义文学强调个人情感和自然美，代表性作家有威廉·华兹华斯和塞缪尔·泰勒·柯勒律治。

华兹华斯的《抒情歌谣集》和柯勒律治的《古船夫之歌》都是浪漫主义文学的典范。

4. 维多利亚时期的英国小说以现实主义为特点，关注社会问题和道德议题。

查尔斯·狄更斯和乔治·艾略特是这一时期的代表作家，他们的作品如《双城记》和《米德尔马契》都深刻地反映了当时的社会现实。

5. 20世纪英国现代主义文学的代表人物包括弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、詹姆斯·乔伊斯和T.S.艾略特。

他们的作品如《到灯塔去》、《尤利西斯》和《荒原》对现代文学的叙事技巧和主题探讨产生了重要影响。

6. 20世纪英国女性作家的崛起，如弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫和多丽丝·莱辛，她们的作品挑战了传统性别角色和文学形式，为女性在文学领域争取到了更多的话语权。

英国文学史习题全集(含答案)Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ. Fill in the blanks.1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeatingEngland.A. William the ConquerorB. Julius CaesarC. Alfred the GreatD. Claudius2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD. Chaucer3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.A. novelB. dramaC. romanceD. essay4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC. Piers the PlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vis ion.A. Kubla KhanB. Piers the PlowmanC. The Dream of John BullD. Morte d’Arthur6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. TheNormans spoke _____.A. FrenchB. EnglishC. LatinD. Swedish7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator ofthe Bible.A. LanglandB. GowerC. WycliffeD. Chaucer8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.A. primitiveB. feudalC. bourgeoisD. modern9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A. loyaltyB. revoltC. obedienceD. mockery10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendaryoutlaw called _____.A. Morte d’ArthurB. Robin HoodC. The Canterbury TalesD. Piers the Plowman11. ______, the “father of English poetry” an d one of the greatest narrative poets ofEngland, was born in London in about 1340.A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Sir GawainC. Francis BaconD. John Dryden12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.A. FlandersB. FranceC. ItalyD. Westminster Abbey13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the FrenchRoman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB. “A Red, Red Rose”C. The Legend of Good WomenD. The Book of the Duchess14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact onthe wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.A. engineerB. courtierC. office holderD. soldierE. ambassadorF. legislator (议员)15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’spo em “Filostrato”.A. The Legend of Good WomenB. Troilus and CriseydeC. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD. BeowulfKey to the multiple choices： 1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ. Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English RenaissanceⅠ. Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations, Voyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.A. Henry VB. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star ofthe Reformation” and his followers.A. William TyndalB. James IC. John WycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A. Henry V.B. Henry VIIC. Henry VIIID. Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over thedeclining old feudalism.A. SpainB. FranceC. AmericaD. Norway5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.A. Francis DrakeB. Lancelot AndrewsC. William CaxtonD. William Tyndal6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A. Ben JohnsonB. William ShakespeareC. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.A. LylyB. PeeleC. GreeneD. Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A. miracle playsB. mystery playsC. interludeD. Classical plays9._____ is used to say and do good things.A. MercyB. FollyC. ViceD. Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A. Phillip SidneyB. Edmund SpenserC. Thomas MoreD. Walter Raleigh11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.A. Thomas NorthB. Thomas WyattC. George ChapmanD. John Florio12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty tounderstand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.A. John WycliffeB. William CaxtonC. Geoffrey ChaucerD. Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.A. proseB. dramaC. essayD. dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.A. The ShepherdsB. EverymanC. The Play of the WeatherD. Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” andall end in reconciliation and reunion.A. 1590 and 1594B. 1595 and 1600C. 1601 and 1607D. 1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.A. PericlesB. CymbelineC. The Winter’s TaleD. The Tempest18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A. 1606B. 1607C. 1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.A. romanticismB. realismC. naturalismD. classicism20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) withthe _______.A. dramatic blank verseB. songC. sonnetD. couplet21.In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.A. 15000B. 16000C. 17000D. 1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A. Christopher MarlowB. Francis BaconC. W. ShakespeareD. Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ. Fill in the blanks.1.The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____ and ___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the_____”.5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which isknown as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 underthe auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a greatinfluence on English ___ and ____.8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern Englishhas been _____ and _____.9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech ashousehold words.10.The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style ofthe English prose for the last 300 years.11.____ was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , andhis interest was turning to ____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French whichwas the ___ book printed in English.14.The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》15.After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself tothe career of a ____ and _____.16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated byhimself.17.By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthfullanguage in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.18.The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language inEngland.19.As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____,which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ asa whole.20.The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.21.The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a ser ies ofhistorical events, such as ________.22.In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.23.____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of____and the achievements of ____.24.____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which therhyme scheme is ____.25.The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King ofEngland, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started byHenry VIII.27.After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled towork at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborerswere the fathers of modern English ___.28.The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classicalworks within reach of the common multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations andthe establishing of the foundations of ____.30.Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when,according to Thomas More, “___”.31.____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in thecountry, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of theEnglish national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.33.____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____ poems by______ and _____ by _____.35.Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy and history.36._____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the ___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 simpl e plays based on ______stories.41.There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.42.A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.43.Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contactwith ______ and ______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all theimportant rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the____ century.47.The first English comedy is ______.48.The first English tragedy is _____.49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for theflourishing of ____.50.In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.51.By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.52.____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排） ofgalleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.53.In the E lizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were alwaystaken by ____.54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.55.Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.56.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of _____.57.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English ______.58.Shakespeare was a _____ for play-writing.59.Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and implications ofreal life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism; Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe; Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version, James I;King James Bible.nguage; literature8.fixed; confirmed9.Bible coinages10.simple; dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading; literature13.First14.Shakespeare15.Printer; publisher16.100; 2417.15th ; prose18.National19.Publisher; culture20.14th; 17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas; interests;purity23.Humanism; human mind;human culture24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser;The Faerie Queene;ababbcbccncaster; York26.The Reformation27.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.printing29.feudal; capitalism30.sheep devours men 31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey34.96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey35.poetry36.Utopia, Book One; poverty37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict; evil; allegorical43.Clown44.Greek; Latin45.Structure; style; comedy; tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc 《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress; boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation (revision)57.Renaissance58.master-hand (能手)59.full-bloodⅣ. Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course ofthe War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of QueenElizabeth.3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabledher in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a politicalguise.5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholicchurches.6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.7.More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.9.Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.10.Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.11.The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actorsintroduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.12.The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.13.Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔)and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.14.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers18—126, and Numbers 127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said, “Realism implies, besid es truth in detail, the truthful reproduction oftypical characters under typical circumstances.”17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)19.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with thefunny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.20.Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活)and wealth of (大量的) action”.21.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More andHythloday, a voyage.22.Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.23.Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his greatwork, The Capital.24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creationof the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the firstEnglish tragedy.27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upperclass was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published hisplays in 1623.29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a greatinterest in the political questions of his time.30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national heroto degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit ofShakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing aprocess of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age ofprose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character in hiscomedies personifies a definite “humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F. (a political movement in areligious guise)5. F. (the Latin Bible)6.T7. F (Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F ( Book Two)14.T 15.T16.T17.T18.F19.T20.T21.F (a conversation)22.F (poet and critic of poetry)23.F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F (Macbeth)32.F (Hamlet)33.F (realism)34.F(decline)35.F (not an age of prose)36.T37.F (ordinary people were)38.TⅤ. Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD. ababcdcdd2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in thelater democratic revolutionary struggles.A. On the Morning of Christ’s NativityB. ComusC. Of Reformation in EnglandD. Areopagitica3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and thelater sacred verses.A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. John Dryden4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way o f describing love.A. Holy SonnetsB. Witchcraft by a PictureC. The Sun RisingD. Death, Be Not Proud5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.A. The AltarB. To His Coy MistressC. To DaffodilsD. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A. John DonneB. George HerbertC. Andre MarvellD. Henry Vaughan7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A. Richard CrashawB. Henry VaughanC. Andrew MarvellD. Robert Burton8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio MeciciC. Holy DyingD. Urn-Burial9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of t he English countryside and thesimple and kind people.A. The Compleat AnglerB. Holy LivingC. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A. John SucklingB. Richard LovelaceC. Robert HerrickD. John Dryden11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19thcentury.A. John DrydenB. Richard SteeleC. Joseph AddisonD. Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the mostimportant place.2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writingproduced during the _____ Age.3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol ofLondon at the time of Restoration.4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in whichgeneral concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restorationperiod.6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.8.In his “A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation ofShakespeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing withthe same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of JohnMilton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s mast erpiece __________.13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______.14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by_____in content and fantasticality in form.15._______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18thcentury.16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the privatecitizens by letters and _____.Key to the blanks:1.(John Bunyan)2.(Puritan)3.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)4.(John Bunyan’s)5.(John Dryden)6.(Dryden)7.(John Dryden)8.(John Dryden)9.(All for Love)10.(John Dryden)11.(epics)12.(Paradise Lost)13.(mysticism)14.(the Bible)15.(Dryden)16. (man)17.(symbolism)18.(diaries)III.Say true or false.1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over landownership.2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers brokeout. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became theProtector of the English Commonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of thecountry.6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in Englishliterature, William Shakespeare.8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a greatpoet whole name is William Milton.9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was thegreatest one.11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and asChaucer towers over the Medieval Period.12.O n his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on HisDeceased Wife.13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. toadvocate submission to the Almighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by hisangels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number ofsubjects more or less connected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1. F (ownership: monopolies)2. F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)3. F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)4. F (Donne: Milton)5. F (James I: Charles I)6. F (flourish: decline)7.T (William Shakespeare)8. F (William: John)9. F (drama: poetry) 10.F (James I: Elizabeth I)11.F (Byron: Shakespeare)12.F (first: second)13.F (heroic couplets: blank verse)14.F (Satan: God)15.F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise Lost)16.T17.TIV. Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)A1. ( ) Tome Jones2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels5. ( ) Pamela6. ( ) The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr. Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed hismoralizing spirit.A. The FuneralB. The Lying LoverC. The Christian HeroD. The Tender Husband2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A. The TatlerB. The SpectatorC. The TheatreD. The English3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.A. A Letter from ItalyB. RosamondC. The CampaignD. Cato4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A. Isaac BickerstaffB. Mr. RogerC. Captain SentryD. Andrew Freeport5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authorsall through the 18th century.A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB. Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC. Samuel Pepys’s diariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.A. SteeleB. AddisonC. PopeD. Dryden7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.A. Essay on CriticismB. The Rape of the LockC. Essay on ManD. The Dunciad8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.。

英国文学史习题Part One Early and Medieval English LiteratureⅠ.Fill in the blanks.1.In 1066,____,with his Norman army,succeeded in invading and defeating England.A.William the ConquerorB.Julius CaesarC.Alfred the GreatD.Claudius2.In the 14th century,the most important writer(poet)is____.nglandB.WycliffeC.GowerD.Chaucer3.The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is____.A.novelB.dramaC.romanceD.essay4.The story of___is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.A.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.BeowulfC.Piers the PlowmanD.The Canterbury Tales5.William Langland’s____is written in the form of a dream vision.A.Kubla KhanB.Piers the PlowmanC.The Dream of John BullD.Morte d’Arthur6.After the Norman Conquest,three languages existed in England at that time.The Normans spoke_____.A.FrenchB.EnglishtinD.Swedish7.______was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.nglandB.GowerC.WycliffeD.Chaucer8.Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,through which,we can see apicture of the life in the____England.A.primitiveB.feudalC.bourgeoisD.modern9.The theme of____to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.A.loyaltyB.revoltC.obedienceD.mockery10.The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called_____.A.Morte d’ArthurB.Robin HoodC.The Canterbury TalesD.Piers the Plowman11.______,the“father of English poetry”and one of the greatest narrati ve poets of England,was born in London inabout 1340.A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.Sir GawainC.Francis BaconD.John Dryden12.Chaucer died on October 25th,1400,and was buried in____.A.FlandersB.FranceC.ItalyD.Westminster Abbey13.Chaucer’s earliest work of an y length is his_____,a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaumede Lorris and Jean de Meung,which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.A.The Romaunt of the RoseB.“A Red,Red Rose”C.The Legend of Good WomenD.The Book of the Duchess14.In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of hiswritings.Which one is not his career?____.A.engineerB.courtierC.office holderD.soldierE.ambassadorF.legislator(议员)15.Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named_____based on Boccaccio’s poem“Filostrato”.A.The Legend of Good WomenB.Troilus and CriseydeC.Sir Gawain and the Green KnightD.Beowulf3Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAABⅡ.Questions1.What are the features of Beowulf?ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.Part Two The English Renaissance Ⅰ.Match the writer and his works.1.Thomas More2.Holinshed3.Hakluyt4.Richard Tottel5.Philip Sidney6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for PoetryB.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.UtopiaD.Discovery of GuianaE.Principal Navigations,Voyages and DiscoveriesF.ChroniclesThe key:(1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)Ⅱ.Choose the best answer.1._____founded the Tudor Dynasty,a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,which met the needs of therising bourgeoisie.A.Henry VB.Henry VIIC.Henry VIIID.James I2.The first complete English Bible was translated by_______,“the morning star of the Reformation”and hisfollowers.A.William TyndalB.James IC.John WycliffeD.Bishop Lancelot Andrews3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.____encouraged explorationand travel,which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.A.Henry V.B.Henry VIIC.Henry VIIID.Queen Elizabeth4.Except being a victory of England over___,the rout of the fleet“Armada”(Invincible)was also the triumph ofthe rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.A.SpainB.FranceC.AmericaD.Norway5.Those,both traders and pirates like____,established the first English colonies.A.Francis Drakencelot AndrewsC.William CaxtonD.William Tyndal6.____was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.A.Ben JohnsonB.William ShakespeareC.Thomas MoreD.Christopher Marlowe7.The most gifted of the“university wits”was____.A.LylyB.PeeleC.GreeneD.Marlowe8.Morality plays appeared after_____.A.miracle playsB.mystery playsC.interludeD.Classical plays9._____is used to say and do good things.A.MercyB.FollyC.ViceD.Peace10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.A.Phillip SidneyB.Edmund SpenserC.Thomas MoreD.Walter Raleigh11._____is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.4A.Thomas NorthB.Thomas WyattC.George ChapmanD.John Florio12.____had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》B.Miscellany of Songs and SonnetsC.Don QuixoteD.History of the World13.____was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich werebecoming richer by robbing the poor.A.John WycliffeB.William CaxtonC.Geoffrey ChaucerD.Thomas More14.Utopia was written in the form of_____.A.proseB.dramaC.essayD.dialogue15.One of the popular morality plays was____.A.The ShepherdsB.EverymanC.The Play of the WeatherD.Gammer Gurton’s Needle16.Shakespeare’s plays written between_____are sometimes called“romances”and all end in reconciliation andreunion.A.1590 and 1594B.1595 and 1600C.1601 and 1607D.1608 and 161217.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s______.A.PericlesB.CymbelineC.The Winter’s TaleD.The Tempest18.In_____appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.A.1606B.1607C.1608 160919.Shakespeare is one of the founders of____.A.romanticismB.realismC.naturalismD.classicism20.Among many poetic forms,Shakespeare was especially at home(good at)with the_______.A.dramatic blank verseB.songC.sonnetD.couplet21.In the plays,Shakespeare used about______words.A.15000B.16000C.17000D.1800022._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.A.Christopher MarlowB.Francis BaconC.W.ShakespeareD.Ben JohnsonKey to the multiple choices:1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDBⅢ.Fill in the blanks.1.The____was universally used by the Catholic Churches.2.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____and___.3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the____.4.The first complete English Bible was translated by____,“the morning star of the_____”.5._____translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament,which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.6.After Tydale’s Bible,then appeared the______,which was made in 1611 under the auspices of_____.And sowas sometimes called the____.57.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 last300 years.11.____was the first English printer.12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself,but he was fond of___,and his interest was turningto____.13.He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the___book printed inEnglish.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),thegraces,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 lastingsignificance 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 stimu lated by a series of historical events,suchas________.22.In the Renaissance,the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe,tointroduce 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 achievementsof____.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 Crowncontinued for 30 years.26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England,the far-reachingmovement 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 hiredlaborers 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 thecommon multitude.29.The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up____of relations and the establishing of thefoundations 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 landsand proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state thisperiod is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as____.33.____,in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid,wrote the first English blank verse.34.Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained_____poems by______and_____by_____.635.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 contactwith______and______drama.45.From the contact with Greek and Latin drama,English playwrights learned all the important rulesin____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 rooflesspit（楼下剧场）.53.In the Elizabethan Theater,there were no____and women’s parts were always taken by____.54.Shakespeare’s narrati ve poem,Venus and Adonis,is full of vivid images of the______,and aphorisms(格言、警句)on life.55.Shakespeare was a great____of the English language.56.Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of_____.57.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the Engl ish______.58.Shakespeare was a_____for play-writing.59.Shakespeare’s_____people represent all the complexities and implications of real life.Key to the blanks:tin Bible2.Protestantism;Catholicism3.Protestants4.John Wycliffe;Reformation5.William Tyndal6.Authorized Version,James I;KingJames Bible.nguage;literature8.fixed;confirmed9.Bible coinages10.simple;dignified11.William Caxton12.Reading;literature13.First 14.Shakespeare15.Printer;publisher16.100;2417.15th;prose18.National19.Publisher;culture20.14th;17th21.Religious reformation22.feudalist ideas;interests;purity23.Humanism;human mind;human culture24.Spenserian;Edmund Spenser;The FaerieQueene;ababbcbccncaster;York26.The Reformation727.the Enclosure Movement;proletarians28.printing29.feudal;capitalism30.sheep devours men31.William VIII32.Renaissance33.Henry Howard,Earl of Surrey34.96,Sir Thomas Wyatt,40,HenryHoward,Earl of Surrey35.poetry36.Utopia,Book One;poverty37.private ownership38.Italian/Petrarchan;Shakespearean39.Drama40.Bible41.real42.Conflict;evil;allegorical 43.Clown44.Greek;Latin45.Structure;style;comedy;tragedy46.16th47.Gammer Gurton’s Needle《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》48.Gorboduc《高波特克》49.Drama50.London51.156752.Elizabethan theatres53.actress;boys54.countryside55.master56.adaptation(revision)57.Renaissance58.master-hand(能手)59.full-bloodⅣ.Say true or false.1.The old English aristocracy having been exterminated(wiped out)in the course of the War of the Roses,a newnobility,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 defeaton 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 S idney’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 evencomical 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 Numbers127—154.15.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.16.Engels said,“Realism implies,besides truth in detail,the truthful reproduction of typical characters undertypical 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 theprosaic(散文体的)and tragic with the comic.820.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 theflood,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 forcein 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 politicalquestions 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 bloodymurder and despot right to his doom.ing from an old Danish legend,Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art.33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.34.Generally speaking,after Shakespeare,the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama,and was an age of prose.36.There are two main characters in As You Like It:Orlando and Rosalind.37.Ben Johnson’s comedies are“comedies of humors”and every character in his comedies personifies adefinite“humor”.38.In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the“literary king”of his time.Key to the True/False statements:1.T2.T3.T4. F.(a political movement in a religious guise)5. F.(the Latin Bible)6.T7.F(Sidney)8.T9.T10.T11.T12.T13.F(Book Two)14.T15.T16.T17.T18. F19.T 20.T21.F(a conversation)22.F(poet and critic of poetry)23. F24.F(darma)25.T26.T27.T28.T29.T30.T31.F(Macbeth)32.F(Hamlet)33.F(realism)34.F(decline)35.F(not an age of prose)36.T37.F(ordinary people were)38.T9Ⅴ.Questions on the English Renaissancement on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.ment on the character of Hamlet.3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.ment on The Faerie Queene.Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois RevolutionI.Choose the right answer.1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____.A.aabbccbbcB.abbacdccdC.abacdeecD.ababcdcdd2._____,as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press,has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionarystruggles.A.On the Morning of Christ’s NativityusC.Of Reformation in EnglandD.Areopagitica3.____poems can be divided into two categories:the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.A.John MiltonB.John BunyanC.John DonneD.John Dryden4._____expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.A.Holy SonnetsB.Witchcraft by a PictureC.The Sun RisingD.Death,Be Not Proud5.George Herbert’s______is a well-known shaped poem.A.The AltarB.To His Coy MistressC.To DaffodilsD.Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May6.____is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.A.John DonneB.George HerbertC.Andre MarvellD.Henry Vaughan7.Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?A.Richard CrashawB.Henry VaughanC.Andrew MarvellD.Robert Burton8.____is a prose poem on death and immortality.A.The Anatomy of MelancholyB.Religio MeciciC.Holy DyingD.Urn-Burial9.Izaak Walton’s____is a delightful description of the E nglish countryside and the simple and kind people.A.The Compleat AnglerB.Holy LivingC.To His Coy MistressD.To Daffadils10.Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?A.John SucklingB.Richard LovelaceC.Robert HerrickD.John Dryden11.____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.A.John DrydenB.Richard SteeleC.Joseph AddisonD.Alexander PopeKey to the multiple choices:1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAADII.Fill in the blanks.1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age,_______occupies the most important place.112.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 ofRestoration.4._____masterpiece,The Pilgrim’s Progress,is an allegory,a narrative in which general concepts such assins,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“A n Essay of Dramatic Poesy”,____showed his famous appreciation of Shak espeare.9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays.The famous one is_______,a tragedy dealing with the same story asShakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton,in the prose writing ofJohn 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 andfantasticality 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 relig ious 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)12III.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 isWat Tyler.3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship,Charles II became the Protector of the EnglishCommonwealth.4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,and England was thenconvulsed(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 WilliamMilton.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 theMedieval 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 po em of Samson Agonistes was“to justify the ways of God to man”,i.e.to advocate submission to theAlmighty.15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think ofexpressing any opinions of their own,resembles the court of an absolute monarch.16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a“Piscatorial classic”.17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or lessconnected with religion.Key to True/False statements:1.F(ownership:monopolies)17.T2.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.T13IV.Questions1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?ment on the image of Satan.ment on Samson.Part Four The English Century Ⅰ.Match the works and the characters.(3 points)A1.()Tome Jones2.()The Vicar of Wakefield3.()Robinson Crusoe4.()Gulliver’s Travels5.()Pamela6.()The School for ScandalBa.Fridayb.King of Brodingnagc.Sophiad.Mr.Be.William Thornhillf.Charles SurfaceThe key:(1—c,2—e,3—a,4—b,5—d,6—f)Ⅱ.Choose the right answer.1.In 1701,Steele published a pamphlet,_____,in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.A.The FuneralB.The Lying LoverC.The Christian HeroD.The Tender Husband2.Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?A.The TatlerB.The SpectatorC.The TheatreD.The English3._____is Addison’s great tragedy.A.A Letter from ItalyB.RosamondC.The CampaignD.Cato4.Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?A.Isaac BickerstaffB.Mr.RogerC.Captain SentryD.Andrew Freeport5.______were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.A.Jeremy Taylor’s Holy LivingB.Thomas Browne’s Religio MeidicC.Samuel Pepys’s diariesD.Addison’s Spectator essays6.The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is_____.A.SteeleB.AddisonC.PopeD.Dryden7.The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is____.A.Essay on CriticismB.The Rape of the LockC.Essay on ManD.The Dunciad8.Essay on Man is a_____poem in heroic couplets.A.didacticB.satiricalC.philosophicalD.dramatic9.____was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.A.The Enclosure MovementB.The Industrial RevolutionC.The Religious ReformD.The Enlightenment10.The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the____readers.A.aristocraticB.middle classC.low classD.intellectual11.____is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.A.SteeletonC.AddisonD.Pope12.The main literary stream of the 18th century was____.What the writers described in their works were mainlysocial realities.15。