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日期：2004-3-29 作者：Cathy  
Chapter 3 The Romantic Period

I. Choose the right answer:
1. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______
attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.
A.positive
B.negative
C.neutral
D.indifferent
Answer: B (P160)

2. It is _____who established the cult of the individual
and championed the freedom of the human spirit.
A.Jean Jacques Rousseau
B.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
C.Edmund Burke
D.Thomas Paine
Answer: A (P157)

3. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period
are _____and Walter Scott.
A.Washington Irving
B.Jane Austen
C.Herman Melville
D.Charles Dickens
Answer: B (P165)

4. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men,"
and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,
which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."
A.William Blake
B.William Wordsworth
C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.John Keats
Answer: B (P161)

5. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of

poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A.love
B.man
C.nature
D.death
Answer: C (P162)

6. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary

form.
A.prose
B.poetry
C.fiction
D.play
Answer: B (P161)

7. The tone of literature in "Song of Experience" by William

Blake is _______.

A.doleful
B.lively
C.plain
D.utter
Answer: A (doleful: 悲哀的P168-169)

8. _____is regarded as a "worship of nature".
A.John Keats
B.William Blake
C.William Wordsworth
D.Jane Austen
Answer: C (P176)

9. Which of the following writings is not created by William

Wordsworth?

A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.
B.Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.
C.The Solitary Reaper.
D.The Chimney Sweeper.
Answer: D (P179---182)

10. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups:
poems about nature and poems about________.
A.love
B.human life
C.freedom
D.social activities
Answer: B (P176)

11. "Don Juan" is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ______of the

early 19th century.
A.comedy
B.tragedy
C.comic epic
D.novel
Answer: C (P194)

12. In his lyrics such as "Ode to Liberty", "Ode to Naples",
Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love for_____ and his hatred
toward tyranny.
A.the middle class
B.the poor
C.freedom
D.the proletariat
Answer: C (P207)

13. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and

Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in_____.
A.Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne
B.Ode to the West Wind by Shelly
C.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
D.Ulysses by Joyce
Answer: B (P212)

14. In Shelly’s "To a Skylark", the bird, suspended between
reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song
which suggests to the poet________.
A.both celestial rapture and human limitation
B.both image creation and profound meaning
C.both music and words
D.both inspiration and skills of writing
Answer: A (P206)

15. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.
A.Wordsworth
B.Austen
C.Byron
D.Keats
Answer: D (217)

16. Jane Austen’s first novel is __________.
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Sense and Sensibility
C.Emma
D.Plan of a Novel
Answer: B (P222)

17. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?
A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s

novels.
B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First

Impressions".
C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.
D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between

great love and realistic benefits.
Answer: C (P223-225)

18. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice,
we may come to know that Mrs.Bennet is a woman of_______.
A.simple character and poor understanding
B.simple character and quick wit
C.intricate character and quick wit
D.intricate character and poor understanding
Answer: A (P227)

19. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated

from _________.
A.1660-----1798
B.1798----1832
C.1483-----1546
D.1836-----1901
Answer: B (P157)

20. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?
A.Shelly’s Prometheus Unbound
B.Keats’ Lamia
C.Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
D.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Answer: C (P166)

21.The lines "It was a miracle of rare device,
/ A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice" are found

in__________.
A.Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
B.William Wordsworth’s Lines Written in Early Spring"
C.John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "Ode to the West Wind"
Answer: A (P190---191)

22. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ "Ode on a

Grecial Urn"?
A."I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!"
B."They are both gone up to the church to pray.’
C."Earth has not anything to show more fair."
D."Beauty is truth, truth beauty".
Answer: D (P221)

II. Read the quoted part and answer the questions:
1. "A little black thing among the snow
Crying "’weep! ’weep! In notes of woe
"where are thy father & mother? Say? "
"They are both gone up to the church to prey."

(1)Identify the poem and poet.
(2)Explain "notes of woe".
(3)What does the sentence mean "they ate both gone up to the

church to prey."

Answer:
(1)It is from "The Chimney Sweeper (from songs of

experience) by Blake.(P172)

(2)"notes of woe" means the songs/notes of sadness.

(3)It implies: religion is the instrument of their repression/

oppression, its nature is to help bring misery to the poor

children.(P169)

2. "The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece!
Where burning Sappho loved and sung,
Where grew the arts of war and peace,
Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung!
Eternal summer gilds them all,
But all, except their sun, is set."

(1)Identify the poem and its author;
(2)What does it mean "But all, except their sun, is set."
(3)What does the passage imply?

Answer:
(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from "The Isles of

Greece (from Don Juan)" (P199)

(2)The sentence means: The sun is still on the rise, but the

rest things all set.

(3)The passage implied: The author lamented over the fallen

Greece:
In the past, Greece nurtured/ cultivated great poets and

heroes,who enjoyed freedom and civilization, but now Greece had

been enslaved,the past honorable history couldn’t be found

again. (P199)

3. "With plough and spade and hoe and loom
Trace your grave and build your tomb
And weave your winding-sheet---till fair
England be your Sepulcher"

(1)Explain "sepulcher"
(2)What was the deep implication of the poem?

Answer:
(1)Sepulcher means grave. (P210~211)

(2)The poem ironically addressed to the workers who submit to

capitalist exploitation. It warned them: If they gave up the

struggle, they would be digging graves for themselves wish

their own hands. (P211)

4. "Thou still unravish’d bride of quietness,
Thou foster-child of silence and slow time,
Sylvan historian, who canst thus express
A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:"

(1)Who is the poet? The name?
(2)Explain the sentence.
(3)What was the theme of the poem?

Answer:
(1)This is the "ode on a Grecian Um", which was written by the

poet---John Keats. (P219)

(2)The sentence means: though time has passed, the urn ,
the works of the art still remains, and it tells a

pastoral/lyrical tale to us, and the description of the urn is

much more beautiful than the words of any human. (P218)

(3)The theme is: Human life is transient, but the art is

immortal. (P218)

5. "Place me on Sunium’s marbles steep,
Where nothing, save the waves and I,
May her our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan like, let me sing and die:
A land of slaves shall ne’er be mine---
Dash down you cup of Samian wine!"
(1)Identify the poem and its author. (P203)
(2)Explain "swan like, let me sing and die" (P199)

Interpret the passage and spot its implication.

Answer:
(1)The poet is Byron. The poem is taken from "The Isles of

Greece (from Don Juan)" (P203)

(2)Swan is famous for its faith to its lover, one of them die,
the other will refuse to eat and drink, it will cry till death.
Here the author used a simile to show his strong desire to

fight with the invaders till death, and appeal to the

suppressed Greek people to struggle for their freedom and

liberation.

6. "For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dance with the daffodils."

(1) What is the "bliss of the solitude"?
(2) Interpret the passage.
(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to

express?

Answer:
(1)The Daffodils the poem saw. (P180)

(2)It is a bliss/happiness to recollect the beauty of nature in

his mind when he is solitude/lonely.

(3)The poem depicts/deals with the flowers that he came across

along waterside, by which he expresses the quiet, sympathy,

loving feeling to nature just like his words "poetry is from

"emotion recollected in tranquility".