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English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England      Anglo-Saxon
Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society, is said to be the national epic of the English people.      feudal
Beowulf is written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.      alliterative verse完整版可在【xuanx***】获取
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The medieva l period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over everything in the society.      the Church
The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.      the knight完整版可在【xuanx***】获取
The stories of ( ) are the most well-known ballads, songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.      Robin Hood
Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieva l England      allegory
( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.      Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories strung together and told by 30 pilgrims on their way to pilgrimage, is written in the form of ( ).      heroic couoplet

The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).      humanism
第三章测试
1 It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare..
A University Wits.
B John Wycliff.
C Christopher Marlowe.
D Ben Johnson.
2 Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
A power.
B man.
C the world.
D God.
3 Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as "not of an age, but for all time".
A Robert Greene.
B Christopher Marlowe.
C Thomas Nash.
D Ben Jonson.
4 Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.
A patriot.
B humanist.
C idealist.
D Puritan.
5 Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
A "the Poets' Poet".
B "the greatest English poet".
C "father of English poetry".
D "the saint of English poetry".
6 ( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.
A blank verse.
B "The Spenserian Stanza".
C "The mighty lines" .
D sonnet.
7 Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
A prose writer.
B poet.
C dramatist.
D essayist.
8 The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
A Novum Organum.
B The Interpretation of Nature.
C Advancement of Learning.
D Essays
第四章测试
1 ( ) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim's Progress.
A John Dryden.
B John Bunyan.
C George Herbert.
D Francis Bacon.
2 The Pilgrim's Progress is written in the form of ( ) .
A allegory.
B symbols.
C aggressions.
D allusions.
3 "The Metaphysical Poets" refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )
A symbols.
B imagination.
C metaphor.
D conceit.
4 In his "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning", John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.
A an earthquake.
B a pair of compasses.
C a piece of gold.
D a farewell to a dying person.
5 The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of ( ) as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.
A the Whig Party.
B the United Kingdom.
C the Tory Party.
D institutional monarchy.
6 (   ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God's supreme authority over human beings.
A Puritanism
B Republicanism
C Calvinism
D Humanism
7 Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
A Robert Herrick.
B John Miltion.
C John Dryden.
D John Donne.
8 Throughout his life, Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of ( ) of England under Oliver Cromwell.
A the Royalists.
B the Parliament.
C the Commonwealth.
D the Monarch.
9 “On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton's ( ).
A elegies.
B sonnets.
C alliterative verses.
D blank verses.
10 Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.
A Exodus.
B Genesis.
C Matthew.
D Luke.
11 The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
A final judgment.
B the fall of man.
C the creation of man.
D resurrection
第五章测试
1 The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).
A puritanism.
B humanism.
C feudalism.
D classicism.
2 Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
A conservative.
B royalist.
C moderate.
D revolutionary.
3 The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
A class struggles.
B social evils.
C cultural state.
D contemporary manners.
4 As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
A realistic techniques.
B heroic couplets.
C three unities.
D satires.
5 ( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
A Pre-romanticist.
B Enlightenment.
C Neo-classicist.
D Realist.
6 Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
A aestheticism.
B naturalism.
C realism.
D classicism.
7 Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the ( ) novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.
A epistolary.
B Gothic.
C realist.
D sentimentalist.
8 As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, (   ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver's Travels.
A Johnathan Swift.
B Daniel Defoe.
C Samuel Richardson
D Henry Fielding
9 Gulliver' s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).
A human nature.
B human spirit.
C human heart.
D human mind.
10 ( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.
A Daniel Defoe.
B Oliver Goldsmith.
C Henry Fielding.
D Jonathan Swift.
11 Tom Jones shows Fielding's philosophical view of "return to ( )". Thus, in characterization, a contrast is made between Tom Jones, the good-nautured though flawed man, and Bilfil, the hypocritical villain.
A childhood.
B motherland.
C countryside.
D nature.
12 Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern's novel (   ) in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.
A The Vicar of Wakefield
B Tristram Shandy
C A Sentimental Journey
D Pamela
13 Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson's ( ) novels which convey female characters' feelings and sentiments.
A realist.
B adventure.
C historical.
D epistolary.
14 The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" earned for him the name of a "( ) Poet".
A Local.
B Lake.
C Graveyard.
D National.
15 Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and ( ) in the 18th-century English literature.
A realism.
B satire.
C localism.
D romanticism.
16 The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as ( ).
A sentimentalism.
B realism.
C pre-romanticism.
D neo-classicism.
17Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the ( ) dialect.
A Irish.
B London.
C Celtic.
D Scottish
第六章测试
1 Romanticism preferred ( ) to reason and rationalism. To William Wordsworth, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
A emotion.
B art.
C devices.
D rhetoric.
2 The joint publication of (   ) in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in England.
A 'Rime of Ancient Mariner'
. B 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads'.
C 'Lines Composed upon Tinten Abbey'
D Lyrical Ballads
3 To Wordsworth, the theme of poetry should be concerned with ( ), the language of peotry should be plain, and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.
A fantastic life.
B common life.
C city life.
D country life.
4 In "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud", "the inward eye" refers to ( ), which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader's imagination of the author's inner feelings.
A "heart".
B "emotians".
C "reason".
D "mind".
5 In “The Solitary Reaper”, the feeling of ( ) is clearly conveyed to the reader, especially in the first stanza.
A disillusionment.
B homesickness.
C melancholy.
D loneliness.
6 Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of ( ) romantic poets, whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.
A lyrical.
B passive.
C revolutionary.
D active.
7 ( ) is Shelley's bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
A "Ode to the West Wind".
B "To a Skylark".
C "Song to the Man of England".
D "The Cloud".
8 Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly ( ) novels as far as genre is concerned.
A psychoanalytical.
B historical.
C realist.
D sentimentalist.
9 Scott's historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of ( ), the history of England and the history of European countries.
A Ireland.
B Wales.
C Scotland.
D France
第七章测试
1 Jane Austen's novels mainly concern such issues as the ( ) of young women. Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices, she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.
A ethics.
B morals.
C manners.
D feminism.
2 The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and ( ) respectively.
A Agnes Grey.
B The Professor.
C Villette.
D Wuthering Heights.
3 Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.
A Mrs. Gaskell.
B George Eliot.
C Jane Austen.
D Charlotte Bronte.
4 The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with ( ) problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.
A psychological.
B cultural.
C social.
D moral
第八章测试
1 In response to the social, political and economic problems associated with industrialisation, ( ) novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.
A new romanticist.
B psychoanalytical.
C aestheticist.
D critial realist.
2 The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by (   ) and the novels are filled with moral teachings.
A pessimism.
B mysticism
C optimism
D fatalism
3 Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.
A realist.
B character and environment.
C modernist.
D Bildungsroman.
4 In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, "Art for Art's Sake" can simply mean the focus on ( ) rather than on deep meaning of literary works.
A technique.
B impression.
C beauty.
D form.
5 ( ) is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author's subtle psychological analysis.
A Psycho-analysis.
B Interior monologue.
C Free association.
D Dramatic monologue.
6 "Break, Break, Break" is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.
A sonnet.
B lyric.
C ode.
D elegy
第九章测试
1 Writers, artists and composers we consider “modern” had their roots in the ( ) era which produced such writers as Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, W. S. Maugham, etc.
A Elizabethan.
B Edwardian.
C Victorian.
D Georgian.
2 A Passage to India is set on Joseph Conrad's own experience in India which deals with the theme of ( ) in addition to persoal relationships.
A colonialism.
B patriotism.
C culturalism.
D fatalism.
3 ( ) is admittedly an autobiographical novel which draws much on Maugham’s own experience.
A Of Human Bondage.
B The Razor's Edge.
C The Moon and Sixpence.
D Howard's End
第十章测试
1 "The Waste Land" is written by T. S. Eliot in which the theme of the ( ) of the post-World War I generation is declared to the reader.
A disillusionment.
B dream.
C radicalism.
D enlightenment.
2 Because of his Irish background, ( ) is thought to be the driving force of the Irish Literary Revival.
A Matthew Arnold.
B Alfred Tennyson.
C Robert Browning.
D William Butler Yeats.
3 Ulysses, written by James Joyce and considered the most representative of the Egnlish stream-of-consciousness novels, is set in ( ), Ireleand .
A Edinburgh.
B Manchester.
C London.
D Dublin.
4 The only female writer of the stream-of-consciousness novel is ( ), who produced such novels as To the Lighthouse, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waves, etc. .
A George Eliot.
B Elizabeth Bowen.
C Catherine Mansfield.
D Virginia Woolf.
5 D. H. Lawrence is a modernist novelist who makes reflections upon the dehumanizing effects of ( ) in his representative work Sons and Lovers.
A modernization.
B industrialisation.
C urbanization.
D mechanization