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英国文学史习题全集(含答案)
英国文学史习题全集(含答案)

Part One Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.

1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .

A. Langland

B. Wycliffe

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. romance

D. essay

4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B.Beowulf

C. Piers the Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales

5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.

A. Kubla Khan

B. Piers the Plowman

C. The Dream of John Bull

D. Morte d’Arthur

6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.

A. French

B. English

C. Latin

D. Swedish

7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.

A. Langland

B. Gower

C. Wycliffe

D. Chaucer

8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a

picture of the life in the ____ England.

A. primitive

B. feudal

C. bourgeois

D. modern

9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.

A. loyalty

B. revolt

C. obedience

D. mockery

10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.

A. Morte d’Arthur

B. Robin Hood

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Piers the Plowman

11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London

in about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Dryden

12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D. Westminster Abbey

13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume

de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.

A.The Romaunt of the Rose

B. “A Red, Red Rose”

C. The Legend of Good Women

D. The Book of the Duchess

14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his

writings. Which one is not his career? ____.

A. engineer

B. courtier

C. office holder

D. soldier

E. ambassador

F. legislator (议员)

15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.

A. The Legend of Good Women

B. Troilus and Criseyde

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C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D. Beowulf

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

Ⅱ. Questions

1.What are the features of Beowulf?

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.

Part Two The English Renaissance

Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.

1.Thomas More

2.Holinshed

3.Hakluyt

4.Richard Tottel

5.Philip Sidney

6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for Poetry

B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets

C.Utopia

D.Discovery of Guiana

E.Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries

F.Chronicles

The key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A6—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

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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. V ice

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

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Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 BCDAA6-10 DDCBA11-15 BDADA16-22 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 Engl ish 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 aus pices of _____. And

so was sometimes called the ____.

7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized V ersion 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 V ersion 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 6

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 V irgil’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.V ice 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, V enus 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.

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Key to the blanks:

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,tin Bible

2.Protestantism; Catholicism

3.Protestants

4.John Wycliffe; Reformation

5.William Tyndal

6.Authorized V ersion, James I; King

James Bible.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,nguage; literature

8.fixed; confirmed

9.Bible coinages

10.simple; dignified

11.William Caxton

12.Reading; literature

13.First

14.Shakespeare

15.Printer; publisher

16.100; 24

17.15th ; prose

18.National

19.Publisher; culture

20.14th; 17th

21.Religious reformation

22.feudalist ideas; interests; purity

23.Humanism; human mind; human

culture

24.Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The

Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ncaster; Y ork

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.

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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 M ore’s Utopia and mentioned it in his great work, The Capital.

24.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its poetry.

25.The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as the creation of the world, Noah and the

flood, and the birth of Christ.

26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy, Gorboduc the first English tragedy.

27.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force

in Elizabethan theatre.

28.After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and published his plays in 1623.

29.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political

questions of his time.

30.In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictly regarded.

31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave soldier and national hero to degenerate into a

bloody murder and despot right to his doom.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ing from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summit of Shakespeare’s art.

33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.

34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity.

35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose.

36.There are two main characters in As Y ou 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

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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

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Ⅴ. Questions on the English Renaissance

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on the character of Hamlet.

3.What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?

4.Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary career.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary achievement.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on The Faerie Queene.

Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution

I.Choose the right answer.

1.The r hyme 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 Y e Rose Buds While Y e May

6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. Andre Marvell

D. Henry V aughan

7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?

A. Richard Crashaw

B. Henry V aughan

C. Andrew Marvell

D. Robert Burton

8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.

A. The Anatomy of Melancholy

B. Religio Mecici

C. Holy Dying

D. Urn-Burial

9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countrysi de and the simple and kind people.

A. The Compleat Angler

B. Holy Living

C. To His Coy Mistress

D. To Daffadils

10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?

A. John Suckling

B. Richard Lovelace

C. Robert Herrick

D. John Dryden

11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.

A. John Dryden

B. Richard Steele

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C. Joseph Addison

D. Alexander Pope

Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA6-11 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 V anity 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 “A n 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

2.(The Pilgrim’s Progress)

3.(John Bunyan’s)

4.(John Dryden)

5.(Dryden)

6.(John Dryden)

7.(John Dryden)

8.(All for Love)

9.(John Dryden)

10.(epics)

11.(Paradise Lost)

12.(mysticism)

13.(the Bible) 14.(Dryden)

15.(man)

16.(symbolism)

17.(diaries

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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 l ove 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 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 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

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IV. Questions

1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on the image of Satan.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on Samson.

Part Four The English Century Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)

A

1. ( ) Tome Jones

2. ( ) The V icar 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 S teele?

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.

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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

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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 Y oung and Thomas Gray, but it

manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.

A. Pre-romanticism

B. Romanticism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Naturalism

29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the

subsequent English dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Dryden

30.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?

A. Clarissa Harlowe

B. Pamela

C. Sir Charles Grandison

D. Tomes Jones

31.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A. She Stoops to Conquer

B. The Rivals

C. The School for Scandal

D. The Conscious Lovers

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB

16-20 CDBAA21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC

Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.

1.The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the form of ______ style.

2.Steele’s appeal was made to the ____classes.

3.The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in The Spectator is ______.

4._____ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.

5.Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to the verge of the _____ novel.

6.Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and The Spectator essays have become the striking

features of the English _____.

7.Essay on Criticism is a ______poem.

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8.The Dunciad is ______a poem.

9.English enlighteners believed in the _____.

10.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by ____.

11.Blake attacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.

12.Bur ns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and _____.

13.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a great comedy of _____, giving a brilliant portrayal and a

biting satire of English high society.

14.Sameul Johnson’s ______ also marked the end of English writers’ reliance on the patronage of noblemen for

support.

15.Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel in English literature.

16.Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humor is better shown in Humphrey

Clinker than anywhere else.

17.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human _____.

18.Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.

19.The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ______.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,urence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the “knowledge of _____.”

Key to the blanks:

1.conversational

2.middle

3.social reform

4.Character sketch

5.epistolary

6.familiar essay

7.didactic

8.satirical

9.power of reason

10.human intelligence 11.p ersecution

12.l ightheartedness

13.m anner

14.A Dictionary of English Language

15.e pistolary

16.p icaresque

17.l abor

18.m orality

19.s ymbolism

20.H eart

Ⅳ. Say true or false.

1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay for each issue.

2.Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler and The Spectator.

3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which treated in a serious manner.

4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.

5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet.

6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.

7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel

Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.

8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer

common people, but the kings and nobles.

9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the sentimentalist novelists

and the realist novelist.

10.In the poems of Edward Y oung and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fine expression.

11. A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in which the reader is told

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the story of the Bee and the Spider.

12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of Roderick Random, in which

Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.

13.The two most important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface and comments of individual

plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.

14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to sentimentalism, which had

confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to the social and political life of London.

15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects.

16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and Charles Surface.

17.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his

unshakable love for his homeland.

18.Racial discrimination is expressed in B lake’s “The Little Black”.

19.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.

20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton.

Key to the True/False statements:

1. F (one time a day)

2.T

3. F (light and pleasant manner)

4.T

5.F(Pope’s )

6. F (The Tatler)

7. F (prose)

8. F (nobles; common people)

9. F (18th )

10.T

11. F ( The Battle of the Books)

12.T

13.T

14. F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)

15. F ( Scottish)

16.T

17.T

18.T

19. F (Burns’s)

20. F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)

Ⅴ. Questions

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on the English classicists in the 18th century.

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,ment on The Spectator.

Part Five Romanticism in England

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Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism

B. Renaissance

C. Enlightenment

D. feudalism

2.The main literary stream is ____.

A. poetry

B. novels

C. prose

D. periodicals

3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

B. “Tintern Abbey”

C. “Revolution”

D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.

A. Frost at Midnight

B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

B. Hours of Idleness

C. Lara

D. Don Juan

6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth’s

B. Byron’s

C. Shelley’s

D. Keats’

7.____ lived the longest life.

A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

8.Keats’ first poem is ____.

A. O Solitude

B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

C. Poems

D. Endymion

9.Keats’ best ode is ____.

A. “On a Grecian Urn”

B. “To Autumn”

C. “To Psyche”

D. “To a Nightingale”

10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.

A. The Spirit of the Age

B. Table Talk

C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays

D. On the English Poets

11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.

A. “Tintern Abbey”

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Frost at Night

D. “The Daffodils”

12.The Prelude has also been called _____.

A. The Last Brazil

B. The First Impression

C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind

D. The Spirit of the Age

13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.

A. “The Solitary Reaper”

B. “The Daffodils”

C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

D. “O Solitude”

14._____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.

A. The Prelude

B. Endymion

C. Don Juan

D. Biographia Literaria

15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.

A. models of classicism

B. familiar essay

C. rules of neo-romanticism

D. ways of modernism

16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

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A. Keats

B. Walter Scott

C. Charles Lamb

D. William Hazlitt

17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.

A. pride and prejudice

B. the writer’s own personalities

C. love and marriage

D. Both A and C

18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A.Jane Austen

B. Charles Lamb

C. William Hazlitt

D. Waler Scott

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,mb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.

A. romanticism

B. conversations

C. inspirations

D. archaisms

https://www.doczj.com/doc/1012909733.html,mb is a romanticist of ______.

A. the city

B. the countryside

C. nature

D. imagination

21._____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.

A. Endymion

B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia

22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in the

history English literature.

A. Keats

B. Wordsworth

C. Coleridge

D. William

23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from _____.

A. Dun Juan

B. The Prelude

C. Kubla Khan

D. Isabella

24.Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.

A. individual heroism and pessimism

B. love of nature and optimism

C. love of old writers

D. hatred for the imperialism

25.One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.

A. Kubla Khan

B.Frost at Night

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.

A. Kubla Khan

B.Frost at Night

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

27.____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.

A. Zastrozzi

B. The Necessity of Atheism

C. Queen Mab

D. Prometheus Unbound

28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.

A. John Woodvil

B.Essays of Elia

C. Mr H

D. Tales from Shakespeare

29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy

B. A Defence of Poetry

C. The Necessity of Atheism

D. The Triumph of Life

30.______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.

A. Zastrozzi; Eton

B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy

C. Queen Mab; Greece

D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy

31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)

32.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. the forth

33.The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.

A. novel

B. poem

C. periodical

D. newspaper

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Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA11-15 BCBAB

16-20 CDDDA21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA

31-33 CBC

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.

2.William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.

3.Many subjects of L yrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.

4.Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.

5.Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.

6.Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.

7.Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in ____ ____.

8.The theme of Keats’Hyperion is the ____ between the old and the new.

9.Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.

10.______ a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.

11.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the _____ in England.

12.The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____with the poor, simple peasants, a passionate love

of nature and the _____and ____of the language.

13.The description of the book, ______ has been called a long journey home.

14._____ was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution.

15.All his life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____ and ______.

16.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____ century.

17.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with ______.

18.The Romantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.

19.The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published their

joint work _______.

20.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer _______ died.

21.Women as ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this period that women took, for the first time,

an important place in English literature.

22.The greatest historical novelist ______was produced in the Romantic Age.

23.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and _____.

24.____ is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age.

25.Among Wordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is _______.

26.______ marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it.

27.In 1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria.

28.At the turn of the 18th and 19th century _____ appeared in England as a new trend in literature.

29.In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century, the _____ paid great

attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.

30.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of his language.

31.Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is written in the form of a _____.

32._____ was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. His political lyrics are among the best

of their kind in the whole sphere of European romantic poetry.

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