Part One  Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.

1. ______, 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

2. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.

A. Flanders       B. France      C. Italy        D. Westminster Abbey

3. 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

Part Two  The English Renaissance

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.

1.        Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.

A. Pericles     B. Cymbeline    C. The Winter’s Tale    D. The Tempest

2.        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

3.        Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.

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

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

A. Christopher Marlow    B. Francis Bacon    

C. W. Shakespeare        D. Ben Johnson

II. Fill in the blanks.

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.

Ⅳ. Say true or false.

6.        Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world literature.  

7.        Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity. 

8.        English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose. 

Part Three  The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution

I.             Choose the right answer.

1.      The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____. 

A. aabbccbbc     B. abbacdccd     C. abacdeec    D. ababcdcdd

2.  ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry. 

A. John Donne        B. George Herbert  

C. Andre Marvell      D. Henry Vaughan

3.. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry? 

A. John Suckling         B. Richard Lovelace  

C. Robert Herrick        D. John Dryden

4. ____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

II.    Fill in the blanks.

1.      _______ was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18^th century.

2.      Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.

3.      The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.

4.      In the second half of the 17^th century we may hear the voices of the private citizens by letters and _____.

III.  Say true or false.

1.      The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English literature, William Shakespeare.

2.      The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.

3.      The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.

Part Four  The English Century

I. Choose the right answer.

11.    Samuel Richardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel in English literature.

12.    Tobias Smollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humor is better shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere else.

13.    In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human _____.

14.    Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.

15.    The chapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and ______.

16.    Laurence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed in the “knowledge of _____.”

II. Say true or false.

1.      Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects.

2.      In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and Charles Surface.

3.      My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.

4.      Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.

5.      Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton.

Part Five  Romanticism in England

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.        Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism   B. Renaissance   C. Enlightenment    D. feudalism

2.        The main literary stream is ____.

A. poetry     B. novels     C. prose     D. periodicals

3.        ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”    B. “Tintern Abbey”

C. “Revolution”                      D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

4.        Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.

A. Frost at Midnight     B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

C. Christabel           D. Biographia Literaria

5.        Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage       B. Hours of Idleness

C. Lara                         D. Don Juan

C. Mr H                D. Tales from Shakespeare

6.        Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy        B. A Defence of Poetry

C. The Necessity of Atheism       D. The Triumph of Life

7.        ______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.

A. Zastrozzi; Eton             B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy

C. Queen Mab; Greece         D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy

8.        The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 1789…1821   B. 1778…1823   C. 1798…1832   D. 1768…1819

9.        Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

A. the first   B. the second   C. the third   D. the forth

10.    The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.

A. novel   B. poem   C. periodical   D. newspaper

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1.        In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.

2.        William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.

3.        Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.

4.        Ode to a Nightingale was written by ____.

5.        Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist ____.

6.        To Charles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery left little time for his literary work. 

7.        Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary with Shakespeare was written by ____. 

8.        In order to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “a regular and confirmed opium-eater.”  

9.        Thomas De Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasies and dreams. The major flow of his style is ____.

10.    ____ has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of historical novel.  

Ⅲ. Say true or false.

1.         English Romantic literature started from mid-18^th to the early 19^th century.

2.         Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.

3.         After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .

4.         P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent and rebellious attitude.

5.         The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee.

6.         Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

7.         Lamb’s essays are intensely personal.

8.         Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range of subject matter.

9.         Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.

10.     Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.

Part Six  English Critical Realism

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.       ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.

A. Jane Austen  

B. Thackeray  

C. Dickens   

D. Charlotte

2.       ____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.

   A. Sense and Sensibility     

   B. The Book of Snobs   

C. The Pickwick Papers    

D. The Song of Lower Class

3.       Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.

   A. First Impression          

B. A Book Without a Hero

   C. The Newcomes           

D. Persuasion

4.       Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.

A. First Impression          

B. A Book Without a Hero

   C. The Newcomes          

D. Persuasion

5.       In the 19^th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it     flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.

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

6.       Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.

   A. Paris    B. New York   C. London    D. Portsmoth

7.       _____ has been called “the supreme epic of English life”.

   A. Nicholas Nickleby   B. A Tale of Two Cities

   C. Hard Times         D. The Pickwick Papers

8.       _____marked a great advance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit and logical plot of his maturer works.

   A. David Copperfield     B. Dombey and Son

 C. Little Dorrit          D. The Chimes

9.       In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist world would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.

A. first    B. second    C. third    D. fourth

10.   ____ is the most class-conscious book among the Christmas books.

   A. A Christmas Carol            B. The Chimes

C. The Cricket on the Hearth      D. The Battle of Life

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1.      The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or “_____”. 

2.      David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in a combination of ____, sense of ____ and artistic ______.

3.      The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at the abuses of the English _____.

4.      In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with great artistic power.

5.    Dickens used ______ as his pen name in his first book.

Ⅲ. Say true or false.

1.      Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19^th century England.

2.      Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused the interests of the readers.  

3.      In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism.  

4.      The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.”  

5.      Pip is the major character in Dickens’ novel Our Mutual Friend. 

Part Seven  Prose Writers and Poets of the Mid

and Late 19^th Century

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.      ____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.

A. Lady Windermere’s Fan       B. A Woman of No Importance

C. The Picture of Dorian Gray    D. The Importance of Being Earnest

2.      ____ is a description of the misery of man of letters.

A. New Grub Street                B. The Current   

C. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study  D. The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

3.      Tennyson’s _____ expresses his optimistic attitude towards death when he is old.

   A. Break, Break, Break       B. Crossing the Bar

   C. The Princess             D. Maud

4.      ____remained a poet in his painting and a painter in his poetry.

   A. Dante Gabriel Rosetti      B. Christina Georgina Rossetti

   C. Edward Fitzgerald         D. Algernon Charles Swinburne

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1.        Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a ____phrase meaning “the tailor retailored”.

2.        Ruskin’s works on art expound his ______ thoughts and principles. 

3.        Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice is a book in the sphere of ____ criticism. 

4.        Songs before Sunrise expresses Swinburne’s support and sympathy to the _________ revolution of independence.

5.        _______is the 4-lined stanza rhyming in its first, second, and fourth lines.

Ⅲ. Say true or false.

1.      In Carlyle’s works, archaic words and expressions are revived and new ones invented in the German manner.

2.      Swinburne wrote a trilogy of Mary Queen of Scots.

3.      F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.

4.      The Germ is the magazine of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Part Eight  Twentieth Century English Literature

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.        The Way of All Flesh written by _____gives a devastating picture of the bourgeois family and hypocrisy of the British middle class.

A. Samuel Butler           B. George Meredith  

C. Herbert George Wells     D. John Galsworthy

2.        _____ is considered “the bard of imperialism”.

A. Joseph Conrad       B. Arnold Bennett  

C. Rudyard Kipling      D. Sean O’Casey  

3.        Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?

    A. The Waste Land         B. The Rainbow  

C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover   D. Women in Love

4.        Which of the following is not written by Yeats?

    A. Four Quartets    B. A Vision   C. The Winding Stair   D. The Tower

5.        ____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments through the novel form of “stream of consciousness”.

A. Jacob’s Room   B. To the Lighthouse    C. Orlando    D. The Waves

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1.        Herbert George Wells’s literary works fall into three groups: the _____ novels, ____novels and _____novels.

2.        Henry James’ method of characterization is “a complete _____ of characters”.  

3.        Hardy’s poetry is famous for its ____ poetry.

4.        Hardy’s novels are well-known for the _____ and _____. 

5.        Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf were great ____ fiction writers.

Ⅲ. Say true or false.

1.        George Meredith’s novels are masterpieces of satirical portrayal and psychological analysis.

2.        Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups: jungle novels, sea novels and political novels.

3.        Robert Tressell was a working class novelist whose great work is The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.  

4.        In the 1930s, British Marxist literary criticism was represented by two revolutionary writers, Ralph Fox and Christopher Caudwell. 

5.        Ralph Fox’s representative book is The Novel and the People.