英国文学选择题1

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

A. Langland B. Gower C. Wycliffe D. Chaucer

5. ______, 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

6. _____ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature.

a. Thomas Wyatt b. William Shakespeare c. Phillip Sidney d. Thomas Campion

7. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English Drama. It was _______

who made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

a. Christopher Marlowe b. Thomas Loge c. Edmund Spenser d. Thomas More

8. At the beginning the 16th century the outstanding humanist_____ wrote his Utopia in which he

gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put forward his ideal of a future

happy society.

a. Christopher Marlowe b. Thomas More c. Phillip Sidney d. Edmund Spencer

9. Renaissance Period was an age of ____ .

a. prose and novel b. poetry and drama c. essays and journals d. ballads and songs

10.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This line is taken from one of Shakespeare’s ______.

a. Sonnet 18 b. the tragedy King Lear

c. a long poem Venus and Adonis d. the comedy As You Like It

11. Among the following, ______ is not written by Francis Bacon.

a. The Advancement of Learning b. The New Instrument c. Of Studies d. The rape of the Lock

12. Elizabethan poetry is remarkable. England then became “a nest of singing birds”. The famous

poet of that period was_______.

a. Edmund Spenser b. Thomas Kyd c. Earl of Surry d. Thomas More

13. Which play is not a comedy?

a. The Jew of Malta b. Every One in His Humor

c. A Midsummer Night’s Dream d. Much Ado about Nothing

14. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of ______’s best plays.

a. Shakespeare b. Thomas Kyd c. Ben Jonson d. Christopher Marlowe

15. The name “the father of English poetry” was given to the greatest poet born in London about

1340 and the one who did much in making the dialect of London (Midland dialect the language

of the court, the learned and the well-to do) the foundation for modern English language.

a. Shakespeare b. Spenserc. C. Philip Sidney d. Chaucer

16. The basic note of Chaucer’s style is_______.

a. the fusion of humor and genial satire b. the fusion of irony with sarcasm

c. the fusion of humor with epigrams d. the fusion of humor with irony

17. _____was the first buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster Abby.

a. Southy b. Francis Bacon c. Shakespeare d. Chaucer

18. Macbeth by Shakespeare is a ______.

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a. tragedy b. comedy c. tragicomedy d. historical play

19. “To be, or not to be: that is the question:

Whether ‘tis nobler in the mind to suffer

The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune

Or to take arms against a sea of trouble,

And by opposing ” are the famous lines in Hamlet which expresses the Hamlet’s

______ character.

a.. resolute b. resolute and hesitant c. stubbon d. indecisive and hesitant

20. Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________.

of England b. Puritanism ism d. Catholicism

21. Though Beowulf was introduced by Angles, the events and _____ are Scandinavian.

b. characters c. idea d. God

22. In 1066, ___ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.

a. William the conqueror b. Julius Caesar c. Alfred the Great d. Claudius

23. Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most important and well known

was ______who became the Poet Laureate in 1616.

a. John Dryden b. Samuel Johnson c. Ben Jonson d. Robert Southy

24. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets,___was the greatest.

a. Milton b. Bunyan c. the Metaphysical poets d. the Cavalier poets

25. Among the following poest, _____ does not belong to the Cavalier group.

a. Sir John Suckling b. Richard Lovelace c. Thomas Carew d. George Herbert

title of “Poet’s poet” is given to the writer of the following work __ _____.

a. Death Be Not Proud b. Venus and Adonis c. Romeo and Juliet d. The Faerie Queen

27. The Merchant of Venice belongs to Shakespearian plays of_______.

a. comedy b. sequence of sonnets c. tragedy d. historical play

r was the first important poet of a royal court to write in____ after the Norman conquest.

a. French b. Latin c. English d. Celt

29. “He was not of an age, but for all the time”. “He” here refers to _____.

a. Shakespeare b. Chaucerc. Milton d. Ben Jonson

30. The father of the school of Metaphysical poets is _______.

More b. Spenser c. John Donne d. Wyatt

31. The most important prose writer of Elizabethan Age was _______, who was also the founder of

the English materialistic philosophy.

a. Thomas More b. Spenser c. John Donne d. Francis Bacon

32. The culmination of all Renaissance translation is ________.

a. King James Bible b. New Instrument c. Of Study d. The Reason of Church Government

33. Donne’s poetry is full of metaphors, original images, wit and______, except ingenuity,

dexterous use of colloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes

and caustic humor.

ts b. Petrarchen images ics d. brevity

34. The Cavaliers mostly dealt in short songs on the flitting joys of the day, but underneath their

light-heartedness lies some foreboding of _____ to enjoy the present day. This is typical of

pessimism and cynicism.

a. philosophical thought b. impending doom c. intellectual idea d. expecting happiness.

35. Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes were the poems written by _______.

a. Milton b. William Shakespeare c. Ben Jonson d. Marlowe

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36. In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of _____ that is though lost, but the ____cannot

be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.

a. pessimism, knowledge b. optimism, ideal c. rebellion, will d. cynicism, concept

37. Blank verse was first used by ______ as the principle instrument of English drama.

a. the Earl of Surry b. Christopher Marlowe c. Samuel Johnson d. Shakespeare

theme of the sonnet Death Be Not Proud is that ________.

a. death is predestined b. death is the most dreadful thing

c. death you are nothing to be feared d. death is gentle towards me

39. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.

A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon C. W. Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson

40. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.

A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. classicism

41. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the _______.

A. dramatic blank verse B. song C. sonnet D. couplet

42._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.

A. Phillip Sidney B. Edmund Spenser C. Thomas More D. Walter Raleigh

43.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.

A. Ben Johnson B. William Shakespeare C. Thomas More D. Christopher Marlowe

most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.

A. Lyly B. Peele C. Greene D. Marlowe

45. ____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

46. _____is the first philosopher of industrial science.

A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon C. W. Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson

48. ____has six knights representing 6 virtues: holiness, Temperance, Chastity, Friendship, Justice

and Courtesy.

a. The Faerie Queen b. The Pilgrim’s Progress c. Paradise Lost D. Essays

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