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I.
Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (30 points in
all, 1.5 point for each)
1. (
) Edmund Spenser
2. (
) Oliver Goldsmith
3. (
) Laurence Sterne
4. (
) Daniel Defoe
5. (
) Henry Fielding
A. Women In Love
B. Sense and Sensibility;
C. Queen Mab
D. Young Goodman Brown
E. The Portrait of A Lady
6. (
) George Gordon Byron
F. The Sound and the Fury
7. (
) Percy Bysshe Shelley
8. (
) Jane Austen
9. (
) Sir Walter Scott
G. The Great Gatsby
H. For Whom the Bell Tolls
I. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
10. (
) Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
J. The Faerie Queene
11. (
) George Eliot
K. Ivanhoe
12. (
) John Galsworthy
L. Mary Barton
13. (
) William Shakespeare
M. The Forsyte Saga
14. (
) Nathaniel Hawthorne
N. Robinson Crusoe
15. (
) Henry James
O. Tom Jones
16. (
) Theodore Dreiser
P. The Vicar of Wakefield
17. (
) Scott Fitzgerald
Q. A Sentimental Journey
18. (
) Ernest Hemingway
R. American Tragedy
19. (
) William Faulkner
S. Middlemarch
20. (
) David Herbert Lawrence
T. Othello
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11-20 SMTDE
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II.
Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according
to the textbook. (20 points in all, 2 points for each)
1.
The earliest settlers of the British Isles were the ______, who migrated to the British Isles
about 600 B.C. .
2.
The Anglo-Saxons were heathen people before they accepted ______.
3.
After
the
Norman
conquest,
Latin
and
______
were
the
languages
of
the
upper
class,
spoken at courts and used in churches and schools.
4.
______ in the 14
th
century claimed the lives of one third of the whole population in Europe.
5.
The House of Lancaster and the House of York fought the Thirty Years
’
War from 1455 to
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6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1485, the House of York using ______ as its emblem.
The
Elizabethan
spectators
paid
a
penny
to
stand
throughout
the
performance
in
the
pit
were called ______.
Sonnets was first written by the Italian poet ______ who wrote them to a lady named Laura.
As a philosopher Bacon is praised by Marx as
“
______
”
because he stressed the importance
of experience, or experiment.
Pope
translated
the
entire
“
______
”
and
half
of
the
“
Odyssey
”
,
the
other
half
being
translated by two Cambridge scholars.
The Rape of the Lock
is a brilliant satire written in the form of a ______ poem.
1.
the Celts
2.
Christianity
3.
French
4.
Black Death
5.
a white rose
6.
groundlings
7.
Petrarch
8.
the progenitor of English materialism
9.
Iliad
10.
mock-heroic
III.
Each
of
the
following
statements
below
is
followed
by
four
alternative
answers.
Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (20 points in all, 2 points for
each)
1.
The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events
，
which
one of the following is NOT such an event?
A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture
.
B. England’s domestic rest.
C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
2.
_________ is the successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
D. The Holy War
3.
Generally
，
the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries
，
its essence is _________
A. science
B. philosophy
C. arts
D. humanism
4.
Among the representatives of the Enlightenment
，
who was the first to introduce rationalism
to England?
A. John Bunyan
B. Daniel Defoe
C. Alexander Pope
D. Jonathan Swift
5.
It
is
_________
alone
who
，
for
the
first
time
in
English
literature
，
presented
to
us
a
comprehensive
realistic
picture
of
the
English
society
of
his
time
and
created
a
whole
gallery of vivid characters from ail walks of life.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Martin Luther
C. William Langland
D. John Gower
6.
In A Tale of Two Cities, the
A. Dublin
B. Paris
C. New York
D. Vienna
7.
The Lyrical Ballads
written by Wordsworth and Coleridge was published in ________.
A. 1789
B. 1798
C. 1829
D. 1903
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8.
_______ is the representative of Aestheticism and Decadence in English literature.
A. R. L. Stevenson
B. Oscar Wilde
C. Samuel Butler
D. Charles Dickens
9.
Which of the following novels does not belong to the
school of
novel writing?
A. Ulysses
B. Mrs. Dalloway
C. The Rainbow
D. To the Lighthouse
10.
The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence
on a lonely island reflects _________
A. man’s desire to return to nature
B. the author’s criticism of the colonization
C. the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie
D. the aristocrat
s’disillusionment of the harsh social reality
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IV.
Explain the following literary terms. (12 points in all, 4 points for each)
1.
Renaissance
2.
The War of Roses
3.
Morality Play
V.
Chose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (15 points in all,
1.5 points for each)
A.
Find out the author and his work.
1.
(
) Thomas More
2.
(
) Edmund Spencer
3.
(
) John Lyly
a.
Gorge Green
b.
Eupheus
c.
The Fairy Queene
d.
Utopia
e.
The Jew of Malta
4.
(
) Christopher Marlowe
5.
(
) Robert Greene
B.
Find out the work from column on the
left
and its
content from column on the
right
.
6.
(
)
Il Penseroso
7.
(
)
Lycidas
a. attack on the censorship
b. defense of the Revolution
8.
(
)
Defense for the English People
c. about dear friend
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9.
(
)
Areopagitica
d. Satan against God
e. meditation
10.
(
)
Paradise Lost
A.
Find out the author and his work.
1-5 d c b e a
B.
Find out the work from column on the
left
and its
content from column on the
right
.
6-10 e c b a d
VI.
Decide
whether
the
following
statements
are
true
or
false
and
write
T
or
F
in
the
brackets. (15 points in all, 1.5 points for each)
1.
(
) The author of The Song of Beowulf is Cynwulf.
2.
(
) The setting of The Song of Beowulf is in Scotland.
3.
(
) Alfred the Great compiles The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles.
4.
(
) Venerable Bede wrote The Ecclesiastic History of the English people.
5.
(
) The author of Paraphrase is Caedmon.
6.
(
) Chaucer
’
s poetry traces out a path to the literature of English renaissance.
7.
(
) Being specially fond of the great writer Boccaccio, Chaucer composes a long
narrative poem
Filostrato
based upon Boccaccio
’
s poem
Troilus and Cressie
.
8.
(
)
The
32
pilgrims,
according
to
Chaucer
’
s
plan,
was
to
exceed
that
of
Bo
ccaccio’s
Decameron.
9.
(
) The Prologue is a splendid masterpiece of Romantic portrayal, the first of its
kind in the history of English literature.
10.
(
)
The
Canterbury
Tales
is
a
vivid
and
brilliant
reflection
of
15
th
century
of
England.
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F F T T T
T F T F F
VII.
Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according
to the textbook. (20 points in all, 2 points for each)
11.
The earliest settlers of the British Isles were the ______, who migrated to the British
Isles about 600 B.C. .
12.
Geoffrey
Chaucer,
the
“
______
”
and
one
of
the
greatest
narrative
poets
of
England,
was born in London in about the year 1340.
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13.
The
______
provides
a
framework
for
the
tales
in
The
Canterbury
Tales,
and
it
comprises a group of vivid pictures of various medieval figures.
14.
In
contradiction
to
the
_______
verse
of
Anglo- Saxon
poetry,
Chaucer
chose
the
metrical form which laid the foundation of the English tonico-syllabic verse.
15.
The
House
of
Lancaster
and
the
House
of
York
fought
the
Thirty
Years
’
War
from
1455 to 1485, the House of York using ______ as its emblem.
16.
The 16
th
century in England was a period of the breaking up of ______ relations and
the establishing of the foundations of capitalism.
17.
Sonnets was first written by the Italian poet ______ who wrote them to a lady named
Laura.
18.
As
a
philosopher
Bacon
is
praised
by
Marx
as
“
______
”
because
he
stressed
the
importance of experience, or experiment.
19.
______ is often referred to as
“
the poets
’
poet
”
.
20.
The Rape of the Lock is a brilliant satire written in the form of a ______ poem.
21.
Celts
2.
Father of English Poetry
3.
Prologue
4.
Alliterative
5.
a white rose
6.
feudal
7.
Petrarch
8.
the
progenitor
of
English
materialism
9.
Edmund
Spencer
10.
mock-heroic
VIII.
Each
of
the following
statements
below
is followed by four
alternative
answers.
Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (20 points in all, 2 points for
each)
1.
About Edmund Spencer which of the following statements is not true?
A. He was educated in Cambridge.
B. His father was the Keeper of the Privy Seal to Queen Elizabeth.
C. He interacted with Philip Sidney.
D. He wrote
“
Epithalamion
”
to his love affair with Elizabeth Boyle
2.
About the Renaissance humanists which of the following statements is true?
A. They thought money and social status was the measure of all things.
B. They
emphasized
the
dignity
of
human
beings
and
the
importance
of
the
present
life.
C. They couldn't see the human values in their works.
D.
They
thought
people
were
largely
subordinated
to
the
ruling
class
without
any
freedom and independence.
3.
In his tragedy
Romeo and Juliet
, Shakespeare eulogizes _____.
A. the faithfulness of love
B. the spirit of pursuing happiness
C. the heroine's great beauty, wit and loyalty
D. both a and b
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4.
5.
6.
One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is _____.
A. the flourishing of the drama
B. the popularity of the realistic novel
C. the domination of the classical poetry
D. the close-down of all the theatres
Which of the following is not John Milton's works?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Othello
Tempest is a typical example of Shakespeare______ view of life towards human life
and society in his late years.
A. pessimistic
B. optimistic
C. satirical
D. none of the above
7.
______ introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England, while ______ brought in blank
verse, ie. The unrhymed iambic pentameter line.
A. Wyatt
…
Surrey
B. Wyatt
…
Sidney
C. Surrey
…
Sidney
D. Sidney
…
Spencer
8.
Christopher Marlowe
’
s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the ______ and
made it the principal medium of English drama.
A. blank verse
B. free verse
C. sonnet
D. alliteration
9.
Christian is the character in ______.
A. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman
B. The Pilgrim
’
s Progress
C. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
D. None of the above
10.
The significance of The Canterbury Tales excludes:
A. A comprehensive picture of Chaucer
’
s time.
B. The dramatic structure of the poem.
C. Chaucer
’
s humour.
D.
“
Round
”
characters.
11.
The ceremony of May Day comes from the tradition of _______.
A. The Celts
C. The Normans
B. The Saxons
D. The Angles
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II. Definitions of literary terms
(1
’
×
10=10
’):
1. A group of dramatists active in the 1950s, who believed that human life was meaningless and
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absurd and that the world was irrational _____________.
[A] the angry young men
[B] the beat generation
[C] the theatre of the absurd
[D] dramatist of black humour
2.A long narrative poem about the deeds of some national hero(es) ____________.
[A] a lyric
[B] an epic
[C] a sonnet
[D] a satirical poem
3. A poem describing the life and love of shepherds and shepherdesses__________.
[A] an eclogue
[B] a pastoral poem
[C] a lyric poem
[D] a narrative poem
4.
The
unconscious
tendency
of
a
son
to
be
attached
to
his
mother
and
hostile
toward
his
father_______
[A] psychoanalysis
[B] Oedipus complex
[C] inferiority complex
[D] interpretation of dreams
5. Works in prose or poetry meant to ridicule and correct the follies and vices of the society and
of the individuals ___________.
[A] sentimentalism
[B] Neo- classicism
[C] allegory
[D] satire
6. Traditionally a song that tells a story which became a form of poetry later __________
[A] a folk song
[B] a sonnet
[C] a ballad
[D] romance
7.
A
long
piece
of
poetry
or
prose
describing
the
adventures
and
love
of
a
medieval
knight
_________.
[A] romance
[B] epic
[C] ballad
[D] narrative poem or prose
lines of poetry in iambic pentameter rhymed aa
____________.
[A] sonnet
[B] ballad
[C] ode
[D] heroic couplet
9. Unrhymed poetry in iambic pentameter ____________.
[A] free verse
[B] blank verse
[C] sonnet
[D] heroic couplet
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