ENGLISH  LITERATURE  UNIT  TEST （unit 1-5）

I.                     Match the writer with his or her works. (10%)

A.      “The solitary Reaper”  B. ”Ode on Melancholy“  C. The Winter‘s Tale

D. Moll Flanders  E. “The Tree of Liberty”   F. Captain singleton  G. “We are Seven”   H. “A Man‘s a Man for A’That”   I. As You Like It   J. "Ode on a Grecian Urn”  

1. William Shakespeare  2. Daniel Defoe  3. Robert Burns

4. William Wordsworth 5. John Keats

II.                   II. Decide whether the following sentences are true or false. (15%)

1. The Romantics emphasized the special qualities of each individual's mind.

2. The Romantic Movements expressed a more or less negative attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization and the growing importance of the bourgeoisie.

3. The hero in Robinson Crusoe lived on the island for twenty years.

4. Hamlet pretends to be mad before he meets his father's ghost.

5. In the early stage of the Renaissance, poetry and novel were the most outstanding literary forms.

6. The leading principle for Keats is "Beauty is truth, truth beauty".

7. Generally speaking, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries.

8. Existentialism is the essence of the Renaissance.

9. The preface to the Lyrical Ballads is best read as a statement of Wordsworth's principles of poetry.

10. Robert Burns devoted all his free time to collecting, editing and restoring traditional British songs.

   III．III. Fill in the blanks with proper words or names. (15%)

1. Hamlet,_____, King Lear and______ are generally considered as Shakespeare's four great tragedies.

2. Shakespeare holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and________.
3. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer was written by______.
4. Defoe began to write his first novel _______at the age of nearly______.
5. _______has been regarded as the most famous dramatist in the   Renaissance in England.
6. When Keats' second poem______ was published, it was severely criticized by the literary magazine at that time.
7. Robinson Crusoe is based on the real fact of a _______sailor.

8. Shakespearean sonnet runs in iambic________.

 IV. Explain the following terms. (10%)

1.        rime scheme

2. ode

V. Answer the following questions in about 60 words or so. (30%)

1. Why does Hamlet hesitate before taking decisive action?

2.      What does the song of the nightingale stand for?

3.      Why does the writer of "My Heart's in the Highland" love his homeland so much? Quote some lines from the poem to support your view?

VI. Essay questions. (20%)
  Choose ONE of the following topics to write an essay in about 200 words.

1.        What do you think of Wordsworth and his poetry?

2. What are the features of style of Robinson Crusoe?