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英国文学史习题全集（上）

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Part One Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.
A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .
A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer
3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literatu
re is ____.
A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay
4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf
C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales
5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla Khan B. Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John Bull D. Morte d’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.
A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland B. Gower C. Wycliffe D. Chaucer
8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitive B. feudal C. bourgeois D. modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’Arthur B. Robin Hood
C. The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey
13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.
A. The Romaunt of the Rose B. “A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good Women D. The Book of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.
A. engineer B. courtier C. office holder
D. soldier E. ambassador F. legislator (议员)
15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf

Key to the multiple choices： 1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB

Ⅱ. Questions
1. What are the features of Beowulf?
2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.


Part Two The English Renaissance

Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.
1. Thomas More
2. Holinshed
3. Hakluyt
4. Richard Tottel
5. Philip Sidney
6. Walter Raleigh
A. Apology for Poetry
B. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C. Utopia
D. Discovery of Guiana
E. Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries
F. Chronicles

The key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1. _____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.
A. Henry V B. Henry VII C. Henry VIII D. James I
2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.
A. William Tyndal B. James I
C. John Wycliffe D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.
A. Henry V. B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII D. Queen Elizabeth
4. Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.
A. Spain B. France C. America D. Norway
5. Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.
A. Francis Drake B. Lancelot Andrews
C. William Caxton D. William Tyndal
6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.
A. Ben Johnson B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas More D. Christopher Marlowe
7. The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
A. Lyly B. Peele C. Greene D. Marlowe
8. Morality plays appeared after_____.
A. miracle plays B. mystery plays C. interlude D. Classical plays
9. _____ is used to say and do good things.
A. Mercy B. Folly C. Vice D. Peace
10. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip Sidney B. Edmund Spenser
C. Thomas More D. Walter Raleigh
11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.
A. Thomas North B. Thomas Wyatt
C. George Chapman D. John Florio
12. ____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.
A. Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》

B. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets

C. Don Quixote
D. History of the World
13. ____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
A. John Wycliffe B. William Caxton
C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Thomas More
14. Utopia was written in the form of _____.
A. prose B. drama C. essay D. dialogue
15. One of the popular morality plays was ____.
A. The Shepherds B. Everyman
C. The Play of the Weather D. Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16. Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594 B. 1595 and 1600
C. 1601 and 1607 D. 1608 and 1612
17. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. Pericles B. Cymbeline C. The Winter’s Tale D. The Tempest
18. In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.
A. 1606 B. 1607 C. 1608 1609
19. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. classicism
20. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the _______.
A. dramatic blank verse B. song C. sonnet D. couplet
21. In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.
A. 15000 B. 16000 C. 17000 D. 18000
22. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson


Key to the multiple choices:
1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.
1. The ____ was universally used by the Catholic Churches.
2. The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between ____ and ___.
3. The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.
4. The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “the morning star of the _____”.
5. _____ translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.
6. After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in 1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the ____.
7. Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English ___ and ____.
8. With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard modern English has been _____ and _____.
9. A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words.
10. The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 300 years.
11. ____ was the first English printer.
12. William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.
13. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the ___ book printed in English.
14. The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》
15. After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a ____ and _____.
16. William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were translated by himself.
17. By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___ century English ____.
18. The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____ language in England.
19. As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to the development of English ___ as a whole.
20. The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the ______century.
21. The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a series of historical events, such as ________.
22. In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.
23. ____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.
24. ____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, in which the rhyme scheme is ____.
25. The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.
26. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in England, started by Henry VIII.
27. After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English ___.
28. The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought classical works within reach of the common multitude.
29. The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking up ____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of ____.
30. Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time when, according to Thomas More, “___”.
31. ____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.
32. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as ____.
33. ____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first English blank verse.
34. Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of 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 simple plays based on ______stories.
41. There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled The Shepherds.
42. A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with _____personages.
43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.
44. Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights came into contact with ______ and ______drama.
45. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conception of ____ and ____.
46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the ____ century.
47. The first English comedy is ______.
48. The first English tragedy is _____.
49. Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of ____.
50. In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English drama.
51. By ____, professional actors were organized into companies.
52. ____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排） of galleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.
53. In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts were always taken by ____.
54. Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.
55. Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.
56. Shakespeare’s dramatic creation 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 of real life.

Key to the blanks:
1. Latin Bible
2. Protestantism; Catholicism
3. Protestants
4. John Wycliffe; Reformation
5. William Tyndal
6. Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible.
7. Language; literature
8. fixed; confirmed
9. Bible coinages
10. simple; dignified
11. William Caxton
12. Reading; literature
13. First
14. Shakespeare
15. Printer; publisher
16. 100; 24
17. 15th ; prose
18. National
19. Publisher; culture
20. 14th; 17th
21. Religious reformation
22. feudalist ideas; interests; purity
23. Humanism; human mind; human culture
24. Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc
25. Lancaster; York
26. The Reformation
27. the Enclosure Movement; proletarians
28. printing
29. feudal; capitalism
30. sheep devours men
31. William VIII
32. Renaissance
33. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
34. 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
35. poetry
36. Utopia, Book One; poverty
37. private ownership
38. Italian/Petrarchan ; Shakespearean
39. Drama
40. Bible
41. real
42. Conflict; evil; allegorical
43. Clown
44. Greek; Latin
45. Structure; style; comedy; tragedy
46. 16th
47. Gammer Gurton’s Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》
48. Gorboduc 《高波特克》
49. Drama
50. London
51. 1567
52. Elizabethan theatres
53. actress; boys
54. countryside
55. master
56. adaptation (revision)
57. Renaissance
58. master-hand (能手)
59. full-blood


Ⅳ. Say true or false.
1. The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.
2. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
3. The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible Armada.
4. The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise.
5. Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches.
6. Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in imprisonment.
7. More the man is even more interesting than More the writer.
8. Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society.
9. Translations occupied an important place in the English Renaissance.
10. Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and Stella.
11. The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the performance.
12. The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is unknown.
13. Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔) and Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.
14. Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.
15. Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues.
16. Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical circumstances.”
17. Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time.
18. Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme. (contains more than one theme)
19. To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic.
20. Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.
21. Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage.
22. Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
23. Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital.
24. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.
25. The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of Christ.
26. Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.
27. Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre.
28. After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623.
29. From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time.
30. In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.
31. King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and despot right to his doom.
32. Coming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art.
33. Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.
34. Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.
35. English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.
36. There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and Rosalind.
37. Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”.
38. In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his time.

Key to the True/False statements:
1. T
2. T
3. T
4. F. (a political movement in a religious guise)
5. F. (the Latin Bible)
6. T
7. F (Sidney)
8. T
9. T
10. T
11. T
12. T
13. F ( Book Two)
14. T
15. T
16. T
17. T
18. F
19. T
20. T
21. F (a conversation)
22. F (poet and critic of poetry)
23. F
24. F(darma)
25. T
26. T
27. T
28. T
29. T
30. T
31. F (Macbeth)
32. F (Hamlet)
33. F (realism)
34. F(decline)
35. F (not an age of prose)
36. T
37. F (ordinary people were)
38. T

Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissance
1. Comment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.
2. Comment on the character of Hamlet.
3. What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?
4. Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.
5. Comment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.
6. Comment on The Faerie Queene.


Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution

I. Choose the right answer.
1. The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.
A. aabbccbbc B. abbacdccd C. abacdeec D. ababcdcdd
2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in England D. Areopagitica
3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John Dryden
4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.
A. Holy Sonnets B. Witchcraft by a Picture
C. The Sun Rising D. Death, Be Not Proud
5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.
A. The Altar B. To His Coy Mistress
C. To Daffodils D. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May
6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne B. George Herbert
C. Andre Marvell D. Henry Vaughan
7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?
A. Richard Crashaw B. Henry Vaughan
C. Andrew Marvell D. Robert Burton
8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.
A. The Anatomy of Melancholy B. Religio Mecici
C. Holy Dying D. Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.
A. The Compleat Angler B. Holy Living
C. To His Coy Mistress D. To Daffadils
10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?
A. John Suckling B. Richard Lovelace
C. Robert Herrick D. John Dryden
11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.
A. John Dryden B. Richard Steele
C. Joseph Addison D. Alexander Pope

Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD


II. Fill in the blanks.
1. In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies the most important place.
2. The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age.
3. ______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
4. _____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world.
5. _____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.
6. In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____.
7. In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude.
8. In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.
9. Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy dealing with the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
10. The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.
11. Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.
12. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.
13. Paradise Lost took its material from ______.
14. The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in form.
15. _______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th century.
16. Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.
17. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.
18. In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters and _____.

Key to the blanks:　
1. (John Bunyan)
2. (Puritan)
3. (The Pilgrim’s Progress)
4. (John Bunyan’s)
5. (John Dryden)
6. (Dryden)
7. (John Dryden)
8. (John Dryden)
9. (All for Love)
10. (John Dryden)
11. (epics)
12. (Paradise Lost)
13. (mysticism)
14. (the Bible)
15. (Dryden)
16. (man)
17. (symbolism)
18. (diaries)
III. Say true or false.
1. The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land ownership.
2. After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.
3. With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the Protector of the English Commonwealth.
4. The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.
5. In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the country.
6. English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.
7. The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.
8. The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.
9. The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.
10. Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.
11. John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.
12. On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His Deceased Wife.
13. The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.
14. The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to the Almighty.
15. It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.
16. Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.
17. Thomas Browne’s Religia 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. T
17. T

IV. Questions
1. What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
2. Comment on the image of Satan.
3. Comment on Samson.
Part Four The English Century


Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)
A
1. ( ) Tome Jones
2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield
3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe
4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels
5. ( ) Pamela
6. ( ) The School for Scandal
B
a. Friday
b. King of Brodingnag
c. Sophia
d. Mr. B
e. William Thornhill
f. Charles Surface

The key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )

Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.
1. In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.
A. The Funeral B. The Lying Lover
C. The Christian Hero D. The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A. The Tatler B. The Spectator C. The Theatre D. The English
3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.
A. A Letter from Italy B. Rosamond C. The Campaign D. Cato
4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?
A. Isaac Bickerstaff B. Mr. Roger
C. Captain Sentry D. Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.
A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic
C. Samuel Pepys’s diaries D. Addison’s Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.
A. Steele B. Addison C. Pope D. Dryden
7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.
A. Essay on Criticism B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Essay on Man D. The Dunciad
8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.
A. didactic B. satirical C. philosophical D. dramatic
9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.
A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Industrial Revolution
C. The Religious Reform D. The Enlightenment
10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.
A. aristocratic B. middle class C. low class D. intellectual
11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.
A. Steele B. Milton C. Addison D. Pope
12. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.
A. romanticism B. classicism C. realism D. sentimentalism
13. The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.
A. drama B. poetry C. essay D. novel
14. In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which made him well-known as a satirist.
A. A Tale of Tub B. Bickerstaff Almanac
C. Gulliver’s Travels D. The Battle of the Books
15. In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.
A. Essays on Criticism B. A Modest Proposal
C. Gulliver’s Travels D. The Battle of the Books
16. “Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.
A. Alexander Pope B. Henry Fielding
C. Jonathan Swift D. Daniel Defoe
17. _____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.
A. Alexander Pope B. Henry Fielding
C. Jonathan Swift D. Daniel Defoe
18. Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing Pamela.
A. Tom Jones B. Joseph Andrews C. Jonathan Wild D. Amelia
19. ____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.
A. Roderick Random B. Humphry Clinker
C. Peregrine Pickle D. A Sentimental Journey
20. From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is derived the term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.
A. The Rivals B. The School for Scandal
C. The Beggar’s Opera D. The London Merchant
21. Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.
A. The Review B. The Tatler C. The Rambler D. The Bee
22. Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.
A. The Traveller B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield D. The School for Scandal
23. Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.
A. The School for Scandal B. She Stoops to Conquer
C. The Good-natured Man D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
24. The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the world to darkness and to me” is written by ____.
A. William Cowper B. George Crabbe
C. Thomas Gray D. William Blake
25. ______ is not written by William Blake.
A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell B. Songs of Experience
C. Auld Lang Syne D. Poetical Sketches
26. “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from William Blake’s _____.
A. Songs of Experience B. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. Poetical Sketches
27. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, ______, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and the Tories
B. the senate and the House of Representatives
C. The upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
28. ____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism
29. _____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden
30. Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?
A. Clarissa Harlowe B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles Grandison D. Tomes Jones
31. Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to Conquer B. The Rivals
C. The School for Scandal D. The Conscious Lovers

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16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC











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