英国文学练习题及答案.docx

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英国文学练习题及答案

1.The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ____.

A Robin Hood B Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C The Canterbury Tales D Beowulf

2. ____was the most outstanding single romance on the Arthurian legend written in

alliterative verse.

A The Canterbury Tales B Piers the Plowman 

C Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D Beowulf

3. ____was  famous for The Canterbury Tales.

A Geoffrey Chaucer B John Milton

C William Shakespeare D Francis Bacon

4. Most of the ballads of the15th century focused on the legend about ____ as a heroic

figure.

A Green Nights B Gawain

C Robin Hood D Hamlet

5.In the 16th century, Thomas More’s work ____became immediately popular after its 

publication.

A Paradise Lost B A Pleasant Satire of the Three Estates

C Of Studies D Utopia

6. ____was Edmund Spencer’s masterpiece which has been regarded as one of the great poems in the English language.

A Amoretti B The Shepherd’s Calendar

C The Faerie Queene D Four Hymns

7. ____ is from Shakespeare’s sonnet No.18.

A “Let me not to the marriage of true minds”

B “To be or not to be:

 that is the question”

C “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”

D “No longer mourn for me when I am dead”

8. _____,the“fatherofEnglishpoetry”andoneofthegreatestnarrativepoetsofEngland,wasborninLondonabout1340.

A. GeoffreyChaucer B. SirGawain C. FrancisBacon D. JohnDryden

9.The four great tragedies written by Shakespeare are Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and ____.

A. Antony and Cleopatra B. Julius Caesar

C Twelfth Night D King Lear

10. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare’s romantic love comedies?

A Twelfth Night B The Tempest

C As You Like It D The Merchant of Venice

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▪1.AllofthefollowingarethemosteminentdramatistsintheRenaissanceEnglandexcept______.

▪a.WilliamShakespeare

▪b.BenJonson

▪c.ChristopherMarlowe

▪d.FrancisBacon

▪2.TheEnglishRenaissanceperiodwasanageof_________.

▪a.poetryanddrama

▪b.dramaandnovel

▪c.novelandpoetry

▪d.romanceandpoetry

▪3.ParadiseLostisthemasterpieceof_____

▪a.WilliamShakespeare

▪b.RobertBurns

▪c.JohnMiltond.WilliamBlake

▪4.WhichofthefollowingplayswrittenbyShakespeareishistoryplay?

▪a.AMidsummerNight’sDream

▪b.TheMerryWivesofWindsor

▪c.HenryIVd.KingLear

▪5.ThefirstofficialversionofBibleknownastheGreatBible,wasrevisedin______

a.16thcenturyb.17thcentury

▪c.18thcenturyd.19thcentury

▪6.FrancisBacon’sEssaysfirstpublishedin1597hasbeenconsideredasanimportantlandmarkinthedevelopmentofEnglish_______,andasthefirstcollectionofessaysintheEnglishlanguage.

▪a.poetryb.epicsc.fictiond.prose

▪7.DanielDefoewasfamousforhisnovel____whichfirstestablishedhisreputation.

▪a.Gulliver’sTravels

▪b.TheAdventureofRobinsonCrusoe

▪c.ThePilgrim’sProgress

▪d.OliverTwist

▪8.Thefamouspoem“ARedRedRose”waswrittenby_________

▪a.WilliamWordsworth

▪b.GeorgeByron

▪c.RobertBurns

▪d.WilliamBlake

▪9.MaryShelley’snovelFrankensteinbelongstothetypeof____whichisoftensetingloomycastleswherehorrifying,supernaturaleventstakeplace.

▪a.Gothicb.Realism

▪c.Romanticismd.Classicism

▪10.ThefirstcompleteEnglishBiblewastranslatedby_______,“themorningstaroftheReformation”andhisfollowers.

▪A.WilliamLanglandB.JamesI

▪C.JohnWycliffe

▪D.BishopLancelotAndrews

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▪1.TheliteratureoftheAnglo-Saxonperiodfallsnaturallyintotwodivisions,______andChristian.

▪a.Paganb.Roman

▪c.Frenchd.Danish

▪2.“PoetryisSpontaneous”wasputforwardby________

▪a.RobertBurnsb.WilliamBlake

▪c.WilliamWordsworth

▪d.CharlesLamb

▪3.WhichofthefollowingwritingscanberegardedastypicalbelongingtotheschoolofRomanticliterature?

▪a.DonJuanb.Ulysses

▪c.JaneEyre

▪d.SonsandLovers

▪4.______isthefirstimportantEnglishessayistandthefounderofmodernscienceinEngland.

▪a.FrancisBacon

▪b.EdmundSpenser

▪c.ThomasMored.Sidney

▪5.WhatisflourishedinElizabethanagemorethananyotherformofliterature?

▪a.novelb.drama

▪c.essayd.poetry

▪6.Thepublicationof_______markedthebeginningoftheRomanticAge.

▪a.DonJuan

▪b.TheRimeoftheAncientMariner

▪c.TheLyricalBallads

▪d.OdetotheWestWind

▪7.WhichofthefollowingdidnotbelongtoRomanticism?

▪a.JohnKeats

▪b.PercyShelley

▪c.WilliamWordsworth

▪d.AlfredTennyson

▪8.Frankensteinwasfilmedmanytimes.Whowrotethebook?

▪a.EdgarAllanPoe

▪b.JamesJoyce

▪c.MaryShelley

▪d.WalterScott

▪9.Inthemid-18thcentury,anewliterarymovementcalled_______cametoEuropeandthentoEngland.

▪a.Romanticismb.Classicism

▪c.Realismd.Restoration

▪10.WhichofthefollowingpoemwasnotwrittenbyJohnKeats?

▪a.OdetotheWestWind

▪b.OdetoAutumn

▪c.OdeonaGrecianUrn

▪d.OdetoaNightingale

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▪1.WilliamShakespeareisoneofthegiantsof________

▪a.Romanticism

▪b.CriticalRealism

▪c.Aestheticism

▪d.theRenaissance

▪2.________isthefirstimportantreligiouspoetinEnglishliterature.

▪a.JohnDonneb.GeorgeHerbert

▪c.Caedmond.Milton

▪3._________wasthefirsttointroducethesonnetintoEnglishliterature.

▪a.ThomasWyattb.WilliamShakespeare

▪c.PhilipSidneyd.ThomasGray

▪4.TheEnglishpoets________,WilliamWordsworth,andRobertSouthey,wereknownas“LakePoets”becausetheylivedintheLakeDistrictNorthwesternEnglandatthebeginningofthe19thcentury.

▪a.GeorgeByronb.JohnKeats

▪c.PercyShelleyd.SamuelColeridge

▪5.Themostgiftedofthe“UniversityWits”was____.

▪A.JohnLilyB.ThomasKyd

C.ThomasGreene

D.ChristopherMarlowe

▪6._____isoneoftheforerunnersofmodernsocialistthought.

▪A.PhillipSidney

▪B.EdmundSpenser

▪C.ThomasMore

▪D.ChristopherMarlowe

▪7.Moralityplaysappearedafter_____.

▪A.miracleplays

▪B.mysteryplays

▪C.interlude

▪D.Classicalplays

▪8.WhichofthefollowingisNOTregardedasoneofcharacteristicsofRenaissance?

▪a.Exaltationofman’spursuitofhappinessinthislife.

b.Cultivationofthegenuineflavorofancientculture.

c.Toleranceofhumanweaknesses.

d.Praiseofman’seffortsinhavinghissouldelivered.

▪9.ThemostintellectualmovementoftheRenaissancewas________.

▪A.theReformation

▪B.Humanism

▪C.theItalianrevival

▪D.Geographicalexploration

▪10.WhatistherelationshipbetweenClaudiusandHamlet?

▪A.CousinsB.Uncleandnephew

▪C.Father-in-lawD.Fatherandson

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▪1.WhichofthefollowingisatypicalfeatureofSwift’swritings?

▪A.Greatwit.B.Bittersatire.

▪C.Richmythicallusions.

▪D.Complicatedsentencestructures.

▪2.____istheleadingfigureofMetaphysicalpoetry.

▪A.JohnDonneB.GeorgeHerbert

▪C.AndreMarvellD.HenryVaughan

▪3.The______wasaprogressiveintellectualmovementthroughoutWesternEuropeinthe18thcentury.

▪A.RomanticismB.Humanism

▪C.EnlightenmentD.Sentimentalism

▪4.Whowasthegreatestdramatistinthe18thcentury?

▪A.OliverGoldsmith

▪B.RichardSheridan

▪C.LaurenceSterne

▪D.HenryFielding

▪5.Inwhichofthefollowingworkscanyoufindthepropernames“Lilliput”,“Brobdingnag”,“Houyhnhnm”and“Yahoo”?

▪A.ThePilgrim’sProgress

▪B.TheFaerieQueene

▪C.Gulliver’sTravels

▪D.TheSchoolforScandal

▪6.____poemscanbedividedintotwocategories:

theyouthfullovelyricsandthelatersacredverses.

▪A.JohnMiltonB.JohnBunyan

C.JohnDonneD.JohnDryden

▪7.InThePilgrim’sProgress,JohnBunyandescribesTheVanityFairina_____tone.

▪A.delightfulB.solemn

▪C.sentimentalD.satirical

▪8.Defoe’sRobinsonCrusoecreatedtheimageofanenterprisingEnglishman,typicaloftheEnglishbourgeoisieinthe_____century.

▪A.17thB.19thC.18thD.20th

▪9._____compiledtheADictionaryoftheEnglishLanguagewhichbecamethefoundationofallthesubsequentEnglishdictionaries.

▪A.BenJohnsonB.SamuelJohnson

▪C.AlexanderPopeD.JohnDryden

▪10.____founditsrepresentativewritersinthefieldofpoetry,suchasEdwardYoungandThomasGray,butitmanifesteditselfchieflyinthenovelsofLawrenceSterneandOliverGoldsmith.

▪A.Pre-romanticismB.Romanticism

▪C.SentimentalismD.Naturalism

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