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

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 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

 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 .

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

 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______.

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a.WilliamShakespeare

b.BenJonson

c.ChristopherMarlowe

d.FrancisBacon

2.TheEnglishRenaissanceperiodwasanageof_________.

a.poetryanddrama

b.dramaandnovel

c.novelandpoetry

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d.romanceandpoetry

3.ParadiseLostisthemasterpieceof_____

a.WilliamShakespeare

b.RobertBurns

c.JohnMiltond.WilliamBlake

4.WhichofthefollowingplayswrittenbyShakespeareishistoryplay

a.AMidsummerNight’sDream

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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.

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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.

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a.FrancisBacon

b.EdmundSpenser

c.ThomasMored.Sidney

5.WhatisflourishedinElizabethanagemorethananyotherformofliterature

a.novel

c.essayd.poetry

6.Thepublicationof_______markedthebeginningoftheRomanticAge.

a.DonJuan

b.TheRimeoftheAncientMariner

c.TheLyricalBallads

d.OdetotheWestWind

7.WhichofthefollowingdidnotbelongtoRomanticism

a.JohnKeats

b.PercyShelley

c.WilliamWordsworth

d.AlfredTennyson

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8.Frankensteinwasfilmedmanytimes.Whowrotethebook

a.EdgarAllanPoe

b.JamesJoyce

c.MaryShelley

d.WalterScott

9.Inthemid-18thcentury,anewliterarymovementcalled_______cametoEuropeandthentoEngland.

a.Romanticismb.Classicism

c.Realismd.Restoration

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10.WhichofthefollowingpoemwasnotwrittenbyJohnKeats

a.OdetotheWestWind

b.OdetoAutumn

c.OdeonaGrecianUrn

d.OdetoaNightingale

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1.WilliamShakespeareisoneofthegiantsof________

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a.Romanticism

b.CriticalRealism

c.Aestheticism

d.theRenaissance

2.________isthefirstimportantreligiouspoetinEnglishliterature.

a.JohnDonneb.GeorgeHerbert

c.Caedmond.Milton

3._________wasthefirsttointroducethesonnetintoEnglishliterature.

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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

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D.ChristopherMarlowe

6._____isoneoftheforerunnersofmodernsocialistthought.

A.PhillipSidney

B.EdmundSpenser

C.ThomasMore

D.ChristopherMarlowe

7.Moralityplaysappearedafter_____.

A.miracleplays

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B.mysteryplays

C.interlude

D.Classicalplays

8.WhichofthefollowingisNOTregardedasoneofcharacteristicsofRenaissance

a.Exaltationofman’spursuitofhappinessinthislife.

b.Cultivationofthegenuineflavorofancientculture.

c.Toleranceofhumanweaknesses.

d.Praiseofman’seffortsinhavinghissouldelivered.

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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

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C.AndreMarvellD.HenryVaughan

3.The______wasaprogressiveintellectualmovementthroughoutWesternEuropeinthe18thcentury.

A.RomanticismB.Humanism

C.EnlightenmentD.Sentimentalism

4.Whowasthegreatestdramatistinthe18thcentury

A.OliverGoldsmith

B.RichardSheridan

C.LaurenceSterne

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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

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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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