2英国文学史习题全集(含答案)

3 Part One Early and Medieval English Literature 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 4 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 Part Two The English Renaissance 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 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 5 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 6 C W Shakespeare D Ben Johnson 1 5 BCDAA 6 10 DDCBA 11 15 BDADA 16 22 ACBADDB 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 7 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 8 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 9 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 b 11 Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution 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 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 12 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 15 Part Four The English Century 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 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 16 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