重庆教育学院外语系函授复习试题(C) I. Understand Literary Terms (15%)
Directions:Define and exemplify the literary terms listed below.
1. wit--
2. graveyard school--
3. lake poets--
4. ode--
5. blank verse--
II. Recognize important historical and literary background information (20%)
Directions:Choose the best answer to complete each of the following
1.The Tabard Inn is the setting for important parts of _____.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B. The Canterbury Tales
C. The Merchant of V enice
D. The School for Scandal
2.The sonnet form, originally Italian, was introduced into English verse by
_____.
A. Sir Thomas Wyatt
B. George Chapman
C. Sir Philip Sidney
D. John Lyly
3.The experience which William Shakespeare, Sir Philip Sidney, and
Edmund Spencer had in common was the following:
A. They all wrote tragedies
B. They all wrote sonnet sequences
C. They all used Cleopatra as a subject for a major work.
D. They all wrote poems on the subject of Venus and Adonis
4.Bacon‘s essays are marked by a(n) _____.
A. aphoristic brevity
B. character sketching
C. elegance and correctness
D. oratorical profoundness
5.The indomitable Puritan spirit finds its noblest expression in _____.
A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. John Bunyan
D. John Dryden
6.The distinctiveness of the metaphysical poets is their use of the so-called
_____.
A. conceits
B. imageries
C. euphuism
D. imagination
7.Which one of the following is not known as a dramatist?
A. Oliver Goldsmith
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Robert Burns
D. Henry Fielding
8.Character and novel are correctly matched in each of the following except
_____.
A. Sophia Western—Tom Jones
B. Christian—The Pilgrim’s Progress
C. Friday—Robinson Crusoe
D. Sneerwell—The Vicar of Wakefield
9.The preva iling meter in Gray‘s Elegy is _____.
A. trochaic
B. dactylic
C. anapestic
D. iambic
10.Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and
elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and night to the volumes of _____.
A. Francis Bacon
B. Jonathan Swift
C. Richard Steele
D. Joseph Addison
11.A poet who drew his inspiration from the treasure of Scotch folklore is
_____.
A. William Blake
B. Robert Burns
C. William Wordsworth
D. John Keats
12.With the publication of _____, romanticism began to bloom and found a
firm place in the history of English literature.
A. The Rights of Man
B. Lyrical Ballads
C. The Prelude
D. The Excursion
13.The first half of the nineteenth century in English literature is decidedly
an age of _____
A. drama
B. poetry
C. prose
D. novels
14.An attack on Byron‘s early poetry was launched by the editors of _____.
A. The London Gazette
B. The Liverpool Press
C. The Edinburgh Review
D. The Manchester Guardian
15.Of the following statements, the one which may not be applied to Daniel
Defoe is that _____.
A. he was a jack-at-all trades
B. he was a radical puritanist
C. he wrote an immense number of pamphlets, poems and magazine
articles
D. He knew prison life
16.Which is Shelley's masterpiece?
A. Queen Mab
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Prometheus Bound
D. The Revolt of Islam
17.The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the
bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people.
A. William Makepeace Thackeray
B. Charles Dickens
C. Charlotte Bronte
D. Emily Dickinson
18.Which lament was written by Tennyson for the death of his friend
Hallam?
A. In Memoriam
B. Lycidas
C. Adodais
D. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
19._____ was written by James Joyce.
A. The Portrait of a Lady
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young
Man
C. The Picture of Dorian Gray
D. To the Lighthouse
20.Which of the following plays was not written by Bernard Shaw?
A. Mrs.Warren's Profession
B. Widowers' Houses
C. An ideal Husband
D. Pygmalion
