Quiz on English Literature 含答案

Quiz on English Literature

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. Multiple Choice Questions

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 14

th

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.

After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The

Normans spoke _____.

A. French

B. English

C. Latin

D. Swedish

5.

The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.

A. loyalty

B. revolt

C. obedience

D. mockery

6. 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

7

. ______, 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

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

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy

D. Westminster Abbey

9. 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

10.

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

11. Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or

other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A. Christian

B. knightly

C. Greek

D. primitive

12. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive

realistic

picture

of

the

medieval

English

society

and

created

a

whole

gallery

of

vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______________.

A

．

William Langland

’

s Piers Plowman

B

．

Geoffrey Chaucer

’

s The Canterbury Tales

C

．

John Gower

’

s Confession Amantis

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D

．

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

13. 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

14.

____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.

A. Ben Johnson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Thomas More

D. Christopher Marlowe

15.

The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.

A. Lyly

B. Peele

C. Greene

D.

Marlowe

16.

Utopia

was written in the form of _____.

A. prose

B. drama

C. essay

D. dialogue

17.

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

18.

Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. classicism

19.

Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with

the _______.

A. dramatic blank verse

B. song

C. sonnet

D. couplet

20.

In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.

A. 15000

B. 16000

C. 17000

D. 18000

21.

_____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.

A. Christopher Marlow

B. Francis Bacon

C. W. Shakespeare

D. Ben Johnson

22. ____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

23. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

A. Steele

B. Addison

C. Pope

D. Dryden

24. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.

A.

Essay on Criticism

B.

The Rape of the Lock

C.

Essay on Man

D.

The Dunciad

25.

Essay on Man

is a _____poem in heroic couplets.

A. didactic

B. satirical

C. philosophical

D. dramatic

26. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18

th

century.

A. The Enclosure Movement

B. The Industrial Revolution

C. The Religious Reform

D. The Enlightenment

27.

The

literature

of

the

Enlightenment

in

England

mainly

appealed

to

the

____

readers.

A. aristocratic

B. middle class

C. low class

D. intellectual

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28. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.

A. Steele

B. Milton

C. Addison

D. Pope

29. The main literary stream of the 18

th

century was ____ . What the writers described

in their works were mainly social realities.

A. romanticism

B. classicism

C. realism

D. sentimentalism

30. The 18

th

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

31. 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

32.

“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

33.

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

34.

______ is not written by William Blake.

A.

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

B.

Songs of Experience

C.

Auld Lang Syne

D.

Poetical Sketches

35.

The

18

th

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

36.

_____

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

37.

Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism

B. Renaissance

C. Enlightenment

D. feudalism

38.

____ has another name called

“

The Daffodils

”

.

A.

“

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

”

B.

“

Tintern Abbey

”

C.

“

Revolution

”

D.

“

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

”

39.

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

40.

Prometheus Unbound

is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth

’

s

B. Byron

’

s

C. Shelley

’

s

D. Keats

’

41.

____ lived the longest life.

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A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

42.

Keats

’

best ode is ____.

A.

“

On a Grecian Urn

”

B.

“

To Autumn

”

C.

“

To Psyche

”

D.

“

To a Nightingale

”

43.

The

publication

of

______

marks

the

beginning

of

the

Romantic

Movement

in

England.

A.

“

Tintern Abbey

”

B.

Lyrical Ballads

C.

Frost at Night

D.

“

The Daffodils

”

44.

_____ is considered Wordsworth

’

s masterpiece.

A.

The Prelude

B.

Endymion

C.

Don Juan

D.

Biographia Literaria

45.

The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.

A. models of classicism

B. familiar essay

C. rules of neo-romanticism

D. ways of modernism

46.

The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

A. Keats

B. Walter Scott

C. Charles Lamb

D. William Hazlitt

47.

The themes of

Pride and Prejudice

are _____.

A. pride and prejudice

B. the writer

’

s own personalities

C. love and marriage

D. Both A and C

48.

_____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

i.

Jane Austen

B. Charles Lamb

C. William Hazlitt

D. Walter Scott

49.

Lamb is a romanticist of ______.

A. the city

B. the countryside

C. nature

D. imagination

50.

Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton

and Wordsworth in the history English literature.

A. Keats

B. Wordsworth

C. Coleridge

D. William

51.

The reader can get a broad

panorama of the social life of the English Romantic

Age from _____.

A.

Dun Juan

B.

The Prelude

C.

Kubla Khan

D.

Isabella

52.

Some critics think that some of Byron

’

s poems show his _____.

A. individual heroism and pessimism

B. love of nature and optimism

C. love of old writers

D. hatred for the imperialism

53.

____ is Shelley

’

s masterpiece.

A.

Zastrozzi

B.

The Necessity of Atheism

C.

Queen Mab

D.

Prometheus Unbound

54.

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

55.

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

A. 1789

…

1821

B. 1778

…

1823

C. 1798

…

1832

D. 1768

…

1819

56.

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

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. the forth

57.

The Examiner

is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.

A. novel

B. poem

C. periodical

D. newspaper

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