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.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

ACAABCDCAA

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____