英国文学样题
I. Multiple Choice: (20%)
1. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. The Wife’s Complaint B. Beowulf
C. The Dream of the Rood D. The Seafarer
2. Which of the following plays do NOT belong to Shakespeare’s comedies?
A. Henry V B. The Merchant of Venice
C. A Midsummer Night’s Dream D. The Winter’s Tale
3. Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas?
A. lyric B. sonnet
C. blank ver D. quatrain
4. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are the following works EXCEPT____.
A. Hamlet B. King Lear
C. Romeo and Juliet D. Othello
5. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is one of the epigrams found in ______.
A. “Of Studies”
B. Utopia
C. The Pilgrim’s Progress
D. Tom Jones
6. The following belong to the characteristics of ’metaphysical poetry’ EXCEPT___.
A. Conceits B. Actual imagery and simple diction
C. Argumentative form D. Elegant style
7. Paradi Lost is actually a story taken from____.
A. Greek Mythology B. Roman legend
C. The Old Testament D. The New Testament
8. In John Milton’s Paradi Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of ______.
A. Love and Hate B. Good and Evil
C. Faith and Betrayal D. Sen and Sensibility
9. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. Genesis A B. The Holy War
C. The Pilgrims progress D. Exodus
10. The Pilgrims progress is often said to be concerned with the arch for _______.
A. material wealth B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth D. lf-fulfillment
11. “To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grad Foe. ” (John Milton, Paradi Lost) By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
A. By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B. By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.
C. By removing God from His throne
D. By corrupting man created by God
12. As the reprentative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce_________to England.
A. Rationalism B. Criticism
C. Romanticism D. Realism
13. In which of the following works can you find the proper names "Lilliput", "Brobdingnag", "Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoo"?
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. The Faririe Queene
C. Gulliver’s travels D. The School of Scandal
14. ______is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A. Elegant style B. Causal narration
C. Bitter satire D. Complicated ntence structure
15. Which of the following is NOT a character in the novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling?
A. Blifil B. Sophia
C. Mr. Allworthy D. Amelia
16. _________ was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance B. Puritan Movement
C. Romantic Movement D. The Enlightenment
17. The poem _____ indicates Pope’s political and philosophical views on human nature and relation with the univer, the society and himlf.
A. Dunciad B. The Rape of the Lock
C. An Essay on Man D. Essay on Criticism
18. The ri and growth of _______ is the most prominent achievement of the 18th century English literature, which has given the world such writers as Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift and Henry Fielding.
A. neo-classical poetry B. realistic novel
C. ntimentalist novel D. Gothic novel
19. The Romantic Movement expresd a more or less______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.
A. positive B. negative
C. neutral D. indifferent
20. The tone of literature in "Song of Experience" by William Blake is _______.
A. doleful B. lively
C. plain D. utter
II. Fill in the following blanks with proper words or phras (30 %)
1. Old English was spoken by the people called (1) ________________.
2. Chaucer is regarded as the father of (2) ____________________. The Canterbury Tales is written in the poetic form of (3) _________________________.
3. The key-note of Renaissance is (4) ________________.
4. Of Studies is written by (5) __________________.
