Part One Early and Medieval
English Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In 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. The story of ___ is the culmination
of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
B.
Beowulf
C. Piers the
Plowman
D. The Canterbury Tales
5. William Langland’s ____ is written
in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla
Khan
B.
Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John
Bull
D. Morte
d’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three
languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke
_____.
A. French
B.
English
C.
Latin
D.
Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of English
religious reformers and the first translator of the
Bible.
A. Langland
B.
Gower
C.
Wycliffe
D.
Chaucer
8. Piers the Plowman describes a series
of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a
picture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitive
B. feudal
C.
bourgeois
D.
modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord
was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B.
revolt
C.
obedience
D.
mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on
the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’Arthur
B.
Robin
Hood
C. The Canterbury
Tales
D.
Piers the Plowman
11. ______, 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
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in
____.
A. Flanders
B.
France
C.
Italy
D.
Westminster Abbey
13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a
translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de
Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying
widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th
centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.
A. The Romaunt of the Rose
B.
“A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good
Women
D.
The Book of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of
occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings.
Which one is not his career? ____.
A. engineer
B.
courtier
C.
office holder
D. soldier
E.
ambassador F. legislator
(议员)
15. 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
Key to the multiple choices： 1-5
ADCAB
6-10 ACBAB
11-15 ADAAB
Ⅱ. Questions
1.
What are the features of Beowulf?
2.
Comment on the social significance and language in The
Canterbury Tales.
Part Two The English
Renaissance
Ⅰ. Match the writer and his
works.
1.
Thomas More
2.
Holinshed
3.
Hakluyt
4.
Richard Tottel
5.
Philip Sidney
6.
Walter Raleigh
A.
Apology for Poetry
B.
Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C.
Utopia
D.
Discovery of Guiana
E.
Principal Navigations, Voyages and
Discoveries
F.
Chronicles
The key: (1—C
2—F
3—E
4—B
5—A
6—D)
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1.
_____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a
totally new type, which met the needs of the rising
bourgeoisie.
A. Henry V B. Henry
VII C. Henry
VIII D. James
I
2.
The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the
morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.
A. William
Tyndal
B. James
I
C. John
Wycliffe
D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3.
The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial
expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which
were compatible with the interests of the English
merchants.
A. Henry
V.
B. Henry VII
C. Henry
VIII
D. Queen Elizabeth
4.
Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet
“Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young
bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.
A.
Spain
B.
France
C. America D. Norway
5.
Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first
English colonies.
A. Francis
Drake
B. Lancelot
Andrews
C. William
Caxton
D. William Tyndal
6.
____ was a forerunner of classicism in English
literature.
A. Ben Johnson
B. William
Shakespeare
C. Thomas More
D. Christopher
Marlowe
7.
The most gifted of the “university wits” was
____.
A. Lyly
B.
Peele
C.
Greene
D.
Marlowe
8.
Morality plays appeared after_____.
A. miracle plays B.
mystery plays C.
interlude
D. Classical plays
9.
_____ is used to say and do good things.
A. Mercy
B.
Folly
C.
Vice
D.
Peace
10.
_____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist
thought.
A. Phillip Sidney
B.
Edmund Spenser
C. Thomas
More
D. Walter
Raleigh
11.
_____ is not a famous translator in the English
Renaissance.
A. Thomas North
B.
Thomas Wyatt
C. George Chapman
D. John
Florio
12.
____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius
Caesar.
A.
Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》
B.
Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C.
Don Quixote
D.
History of the World
13.
____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and
poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing
the poor.
A. John
Wycliffe
B.
William Caxton
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D.
Thomas More
14.
Utopia was written in the form of
_____.
A. prose
B.
drama
C.
essay
D.
dialogue
15.
One of the popular morality plays was
____.
A. The Shepherds
B.
Everyman
C. The Play of the
Weather
D.
Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16.
Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called
“romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594
B.
1595 and
1600
C. 1601 and 1607
D.
1608 and 1612
17.
Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. Pericles
B.
Cymbeline
C. The
Winter’s Tale
D. The
Tempest
18.
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
19.
Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A.
romanticism
B. realism
C.
naturalism D.
classicism
20.
Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good
at) with the _______.
A. dramatic blank
verse B.
song
C.
sonnet D.
couplet
21.
In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.
A. 15000
B.
16000
C.
17000
D.
18000
22.
_____has been called the summit of the English
Renaissance.
A. Christopher
Marlow B.
Francis
Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare
D.
Ben Johnson
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5
BCDAA
6-10
DDCBA
11-15 BDADA
16-22 ACBADDB
Ⅲ. 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.
6.
After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in
1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the
____.
7.
Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had
a great influence on English ___ and ____.
8.
With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standard
modern English has been _____ and _____.
9.
A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily English
speech as household words.
10.
The ____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored the
style of the English prose for the last 300
years.
11.
____ was the first English printer.
12.
William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fond
of ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.
13.
He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English
from French which was the ___ book printed in English.
14.
The Recuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus and
Cressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》
15.
After having established his printing press, William Caxton devoted
himself to the career of a ____ and _____.
16.
William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which were
translated by himself.
17.
By rendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised the
youthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of the
elder and contributed to the development of the style of ___
century English ____.
18.
The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a
____ language in England.
19.
As the first English printer, Caxton invented in England the
profession of ____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to
the development of English ___ as a whole.
20.
The Renaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the
______century.
21.
The word, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by a
series of historical events, such as ________.
22.
In the Renaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get
rid of those old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas
that expresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the
____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic
Church.
23.
____ is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the
capacities of ____and the achievements of ____.
24.
____ Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______,
in which the rhyme scheme is ____.
25.
The Wars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and the
House of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30
years.
26.
Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the
King of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place in
England, started by Henry VIII.
27.
After ___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, being
compelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for the
merchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English
___.
28.
The introduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) brought
classical works within reach of the common multitude.
29.
The 16th century in England was a period of the breaking
up ____of relations and the establishing of the foundations of
____.
30.
Because the wool trade was rapidly growing in bulk, it was a time
when, according to Thomas More, “___”.
31.
____ broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and
abbeys in the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed
himself head of the Church of England.
32.
Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and
formation of the English national state this period is marked by a
flourishing of national culture known as ____.
33.
____, in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the first
English blank verse.
34.
Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____
poems by ______ and _____ by _____.
35.
Philip Sidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy
and history.
36.
_____ is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure
of the ___ among the laboring classes.
37.
More points out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of
social wealth.
38.
Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.
39.
The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its
____.
40.
The “miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.
41.
There are significant touches of _____ life in the play titled
The Shepherds.
42.
A morality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with
_____personages.
43.
Vice was the predecessor of the modern _____.
44.
Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrights
came into contact with ______ and ______drama.
45.
From the contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights
learned all the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact
conception of ____ and ____.
46.
English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the
middle of the ____ century.
47.
The first English comedy is ______.
48.
The first English tragedy is _____.
49.
Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays paved
the way for the flourishing of ____.
50.
In the 16th century _____ became the centre of English
drama.
51.
By ____, professional actors were organized into
companies.
52.
____ were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with
tiers（一排排） of galleries surrounding a roofless
pit（楼下剧场）.
53.
In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts
were always taken by ____.
54.
Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vivid
images of the ______, and aphorisms (格言、警句) on life.
55.
Shakespeare was a great ____ of the English language.
56.
Shakespeare’s dramatic creation often used the method of
_____.
57.
Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English
______.
58.
Shakespeare was a _____ for
play-writing.
59.
Shakespeare’s _____ people represent all the complexities and
implications of real life.
Key to the blanks:
1.
Latin Bible
2.
Protestantism; Catholicism
3.
Protestants
4.
John Wycliffe; Reformation
5.
William Tyndal
6.
Authorized Version, James I; King James Bible.
7.
Language; literature
8.
fixed; confirmed
9.
Bible coinages
10. simple; dignified
11. William Caxton
12. Reading; literature
13. First
14. Shakespeare
15. Printer; publisher
16. 100; 24
17. 15th ; prose
18. National
19. Publisher; culture
20.
14th; 17th
21. Religious reformation
22. feudalist ideas; interests;
purity
23. Humanism; human mind; human
culture
24. Spenserian; Edmund Spenser; The
Faerie Queene; ababbcbcc
25. Lancaster; York
26. The Reformation
27. the Enclosure Movement;
proletarians
28. printing
29. feudal; capitalism
30. sheep devours men
31. William VIII
32. Renaissance
33. Henry Howard, Earl of
Surrey
34. 96, Sir Thomas Wyatt, 40, Henry
Howard, Earl of Surrey
35. poetry
36. Utopia, Book One;
poverty
37. private ownership
38. Italian/Petrarchan ;
Shakespearean
39. Drama
40. Bible
41. real
42. Conflict; evil;
allegorical
43. Clown
44. Greek; Latin
45. Structure; style; comedy;
tragedy
46.
16th
47. Gammer Gurton’s
Needle 《葛顿大娘的缝衣针》
48. Gorboduc
《高波特克》
49. Drama
50. London
51. 1567
52. Elizabethan theatres
53. actress; boys
54. countryside
55. master
56. adaptation (revision)
57. Renaissance
58. master-hand
(能手)
59. full-blood
Ⅳ. Say true or false.
1.
The old English aristocracy having been exterminated (wiped out) in
the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totally
dependent on King’s power, come to the fore.
2.
Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of
Queen Elizabeth.
3.
The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state and
enabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish Invincible
Armada.
4.
The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a
political guise.
5.
Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by
the Catholic churches.
6.
Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World in
imprisonment.
7.
More the man is even more interesting than More the
writer.
8.
Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist
society.
9.
Translations occupied an important place in the English
Renaissance.
10.
Philip Sidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel and
Stella.
11.
The Miracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after
the actors introduced secular and even comical elements into the
performance.
12.
The writer of Gammer Gurton’s Needle is
unknown.
13.
Two lawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔) and
Thomas Norton（托马斯·诺顿）.
14.
Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17,
Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154.
15.
Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of
virtues.
16.
Engels said, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the
truthful reproduction of typical characters under typical
circumstances.”
17.
Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own
time.
18.
Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme.
(contains more than one theme)
19.
To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic
with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with
the comic.
20.
Engels called Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity
(活泼、快活) and wealth of (大量的) action”.
21.
Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters
between More and Hythloday, a voyage.
22.
Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
23.
Carl Marx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it
in his great work, The Capital.
24.
The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its
poetry.
25.
The miracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as
the creation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth of
Christ.
26.
Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy,
Gorboduc the first English
tragedy.
27.
Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But
the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan
theatre.
28.
After Shakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and
published his plays in 1623.
29.
From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare
took a great interest in the political questions of his
time.
30.
In Shakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not
strictly regarded.
31.
King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a brave
soldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder and
despot right to his doom.
32.
Coming from an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the
summit of Shakespeare’s art.
33.
Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in world
literature.
34.
Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was
undergoing a process of prosperity.
35.
English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was
an age of prose.
36.
There are two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando and
Rosalind.
37.
Ben Johnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character
in his comedies personifies a definite “humor”.
38.
In Ben Johnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of his
time.
Key to the True/False statements:
1.
T
2.
T
3.
T
4.
F. (a political movement in a religious guise)
5.
F. (the Latin Bible)
6.
T
7.
F (Sidney)
8.
T
9.
T
10. T
11. T
12. T
13. F ( Book Two)
14. T
15. T
16. T
17. T
18. F
19. T
20. T
21. F (a conversation)
22. F (poet and critic of
poetry)
23. F
24. F(darma)
25. T
26. T
27. T
28. T
29. T
30. T
31. F (Macbeth)
32. F (Hamlet)
33. F (realism)
34. F(decline)
35. F (not an age of prose)
36. T
37. F (ordinary people were)
38. T
Ⅴ. Questions on the English
Renaissance
1.
Comment on the image of Henry V and Sir John Falstaff.
2.
Comment on the character of Hamlet.
3.
What are the features of Shakespeare’s drama?
4.
Remember Shakespeare’s major plays in each literary
career.
5.
Comment on Marlowe’s social significance and literary
achievement.
6.
Comment on The Faerie Queene.
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. _____ , as a declaration of people’s
freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic
revolutionary
struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s
Nativity B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in
England
D.
Areopagitica
3. ____ poems can be divided into two
categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred
verses.
A. John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D. John
Dryden
4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of
describing love.
A. Holy
Sonnets
B. Witchcraft
by a Picture
C. The Sun Rising
D. Death, Be
Not Proud
5. George Herbert’s ______ is a
well-known shaped
poem.
A. The Altar
B.
To His Coy Mistress
C. To Daffodils
D.
Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May
6. ____ is the leading figure of
Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne
B.
George Herbert
C. Andre Marvell
D. Henry
Vaughan
7. Which of the following is not a
Metaphysical poet?
A. Richard Crashaw
B. Henry
Vaughan
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Robert
Burton
8. ____is a prose poem on death and
immortality.
A. The Anatomy of
Melancholy B. Religio
Mecici
C. Holy Dying
D.
Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful
description of the English countryside and the simple and kind
people.
A. The Compleat
Angler B. Holy
Living
C. To His Coy
Mistress D.
To Daffadils
10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier
poetry?
A. John Suckling
B.
Richard Lovelace
C. Robert Herrick
D.
John Dryden
11. ____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
Key to the multiple
choices: 1-5
CDCBA
6-11 ADDAAD
II.
Fill in the blanks.
1.
In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupies
the most important place.
2.
The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of
Christian writing produced during the _____
Age.
3.
______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is
the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
4.
_____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a
narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and
faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural
world.
5.
_____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in
the Restoration period.
6.
In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally
called “Age of _____.
7.
In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in
attitude.
8.
In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous
appreciation of Shakespeare.
9.
Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedy
dealing with the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and
Cleopatra.
10. The main literary achievements of
the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in
the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary
criticism of ______.
11. Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s
______.
12. Satan is the hero in Milton’s
masterpiece __________.
13. Paradise Lost took its
material from ______.
14. The works of the Metaphysical poets
are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and
fantasticality in
form.
15. _______ was the forerunner of the
English classical school of literature in the 18th
century.
16. Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost
embody Milton’s belief in the powers of _____.
17. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a
religious allegory and _____ is another writing feature.
18. In the second half of the
17th century we may hear the voices of the private
citizens by letters and _____.
Key to the blanks:
1.
(John Bunyan)
2.
(Puritan)
3.
(The Pilgrim’s Progress)
4.
(John Bunyan’s)
5.
(John Dryden)
6.
(Dryden)
7.
(John Dryden)
8.
(John Dryden)
9.
(All for Love)
10. (John Dryden)
11. (epics)
12. (Paradise Lost)
13. (mysticism)
14. (the Bible)
15. (Dryden)
16. (man)
17. (symbolism)
18. (diaries)
III. Say true or
false.
1.
The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th
century were over land ownership.
2.
After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the
Diggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat
Tyler.
3.
With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II
became the Protector of the English
Commonwealth.
4.
The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the
reign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered)
with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalists
and the Puritans.
5.
In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the
leader of the country.
6.
English literature of the 17th century witnessed a
flourish on the whole.
7.
The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in
English literature, William Shakespeare.
8.
The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it
produced a great poet whole name is William Milton.
9.
The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is
drama.
10. Among the English poets during the
Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.
11. John Milton towers over his age as
Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over
the Medieval Period.
12. On
his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet,
on His Deceased Wife.
13. The greatest epic produced by
Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.
14. The poem of Samson Agonistes was
“to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to
the Almighty.
15. It has been noticed by many critics
that the picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think
of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an
absolute monarch.
16. Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler
becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.
17. Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a
collection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or less
connected with religion.
Key to True/False statements:
1.
F (ownership: monopolies)
2.
F (Wat Tyler: Gerald Winstanley)
3.
F (Charles II: Oliver Cromwell)
4.
F (Donne: Milton)
5.
F (James I: Charles I)
6.
F (flourish: decline)
7.
T (William Shakespeare)
8.
F (William: John)
9.
F (drama: poetry)
10. F (James I: Elizabeth I)
11. F (Byron: Shakespeare)
12. F (first: second)
13. F (heroic couplets: blank
verse)
14. F (Satan: God)
15. F (Samson Agonistes: Paradise
Lost)
16. T
17. T
IV. Questions
1.
What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s
Progress?
2.
Comment on the image of Satan.
3.
Comment on Samson.
Part Four The English
Century
Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3
points)
A
1.
(
) Tome Jones
2.
(
) The Vicar of Wakefield
3.
(
) Robinson Crusoe
4.
(
) Gulliver’s Travels
5.
(
) Pamela
6.
(
) The School for Scandal
B
a.
Friday
b.
King of Brodingnag
c.
Sophia
d.
Mr. B
e.
William Thornhill
f.
Charles Surface
The key: (1—c, 2—e,
3—a, 4—b,
5—d, 6—f )
Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.
1.
In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first
displayed his moralizing spirit.
A. The Funeral
B.
The Lying
Lover
C. The Christian
Hero D.
The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by
Steele?
A. The
Tatler B. The
Spectator C. The
Theatre D. The
English
3. _____ is Addison’s great
tragedy.
A. A Letter from
Italy B.
Rosamond
C. The Campaign
D.
Cato
4. Which of the following is not the hero in The
Spectator?
A. Isaac
Bickerstaff
B. Mr. Roger
C. Captain
Sentry
D. Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English
composition by British authors all through the 18th
century.
A. Jeremy Taylor’s
Holy Living
B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic
C. Samuel Pepys’s
diaries
D. Addison’s Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment
Movement is _____.
A.
Steele
B.
Addison
C.
Pope
D. Dryden
7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is
____.
A. Essay on
Criticism
B. The Rape of the
Lock
C. Essay on
Man
D.
The Dunciad
8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic
couplets.
A.
didactic
B.
satirical
C.
philosophical
D. dramatic
9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of
the 18th
century.
A. The Enclosure
Movement B.
The Industrial Revolution
C. The Religious
Reform
D. The Enlightenment
10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly
appealed to the ____
readers.
A.
aristocratic
B. middle
class C. low
class D.
intellectual
11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not
always just.
A.
Steele
B.
Milton
C.
Addison
D. Pope
12.
The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ .
What the writers described in their works were mainly social
realities.
A.
romanticism
B. classicism
C. realism
D. sentimentalism
13.
The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___.
The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an
uncompromising (unbending) courage.
A. drama
B.
poetry
C.
essay
D.
novel
14.
In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___,
which made him well-known as a satirist.
A. A Tale of Tub
B.
Bickerstaff Almanac
C. Gulliver’s
Travels D. The Battle of
the Books
15.
In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and
unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the
most famous is ____.
A. Essays on
Criticism
B. A Modest
Proposal
C. Gulliver’s
Travels
D.
The Battle of the Books
16.
“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a
style.” This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters
of English prose.
A. Alexander
Pope B. Henry
Fielding
C. Jonathan
Swift
D. Daniel Defoe
17.
_____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A
Satire, which contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy
and the tyranny of the church.
A. Alexander
Pope B. Henry
Fielding
C. Jonathan
Swift
D. Daniel Defoe
18.
Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with
Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10
chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his
own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing
Pamela.
A. Tom
Jones B. Joseph
Andrews C. Jonathan
Wild D.
Amelia
19.
____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his
own experience as a naval doctor and in part
autobiographical.
A. Roderick
Random B.
Humphry Clinker
C. Peregrine Pickle
D. A
Sentimental Journey
20.
From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, is derived the term “malapropism” which means a
ridiculous misusage of big words.
A. The Rivals
B.
The School for
Scandal
C. The Beggar’s Opera
D. The
London
Merchant
21.
Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson?
_____.
A. The
Review B. The Tatler
C.
The Rambler
D. The
Bee
22.
Which of the following works are not written by Oliver
Goldsmith? ____.
A. The Traveller
B.
The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of
Wakefield
D. The School for Scandal
23.
Which of the following works is written by Edward
Gibbon?______.
A. The School for
Scandal B. She Stoops to
Conquer
C. The Good-natured
Man D. The Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire
24.
The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And
leaves the world to darkness and to me” is written by
____.
A. William Cowper
B.
George Crabbe
C. Thomas
Gray
D.
William Blake
25.
______ is not written by William
Blake.
A. The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell B. Songs
of Experience
C. Auld Lang
Syne
D.
Poetical Sketches
26.
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This
proverb is cited from William Blake’s _____.
A. Songs of
Experience
B. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of
Heaven and
Hell D.
Poetical Sketches
27.
The 18th century witnessed that in England there
appeared two political parties, ______, which were satirized by
Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and the
Tories
B. the senate and the House of Representatives
C. The upper House and lower
House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
28.
____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such
as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly
in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
A. Pre-romanticism B.
Romanticism C.
Sentimentalism D.
Naturalism
29.
_____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language
which became the foundation of all the subsequent English
dictionaries.
A. Ben Johnson
B.
Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John
Dryden
30.
Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter
form) novels?
A. Clarissa
Harlowe
B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles
Grandison
D. Tomes Jones
31.
Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since
Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to
Conquer B. The
Rivals
C. The School for
Scandal D. The Conscious
Lovers
Key to the multiple
choices:
1-5
CADAD
6-10 CBCDB
11-15 DDDDB
16-20 CDBAA
21-25 CDDCC
26-31
CACBDC
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