专八英美文学习题-18世纪文学习题

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Multiple choices:

1.

________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout western Europe

in the 18

th

century

.

a. The Renaissance

b. The Enlightenment

c. The Religious Reformation

d. The Chartist Movement

2.

Most

of

the

English

writers

in

the

18

th

century

were

Enlighteners.

They

fell

into two groups, one is_______, and the other is_________.

a.

a.

the moderate group, the radical group

b.

b.

the lake poets, the younger generation

c.

c.

the Metaphysical poets, the cavalier poets

d.

d.

the lake poets; the sentimentalists

3.

The 18

th

century was an age of prose. A

group of excellent prose writers, such

as ____, were produced.

a. Addison

b. Steele

c. Smallet

d. Fielding

4.

In the

18

th

century

,

satire

was

much

used

in

writing,

and

English

literature

of

this age produced some excellent satirists, such as ______.

a. Pope

b. Swift

c. Defoe

d. Blake

5.

The main literary stream of the 18

th

century was ______.

a. naturalism

b. romanticism

c. neo-classicism

d. sentimentalism

6.

In

the

18

th

century

English

literature,

the

representative

writers

of

neo-classicism is _____.

a. Pope

b. Swift

c. Defoe

d. Milton

7.

In

the

18

th

century

English

literature,

the

representative

poets

of

pre-romanticism were________.

a. Alexander Pope

b. William Blake

c. Robert Burns

d. Jonathan Swift

8.

In the 18

th

century English literature, the representative writers of realism were

_______.

a. Richardson

b. Fielding

c. Smollett

d. Goldsmith

9.

The 18

th

century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,

________, which were satirized by Swift in his

Gulliver’

s Travels.

e.

a.

the Wigs and the Tories

f.

b.

the Senate and the House of Representatives

g.

c.

the Upper House and Lower House

h.

d.

the House of Lords and the House of Commons

10.

________found its representative writers in the field of poetry

, such as Y

oung

and Gray

, but it manifested itself in the novels of Sterne and Goldsmith.

a. Pre- romanticism

b. Romanticism

c. Sentimentalism

d. Naturalism

11.

During

the

reign

of

reason

the

Enlightenment

meant

education

of

people

to

free them from all the unreasonable fetters, which include_______.

a. theology

b. theocracy

c. conventional ideology

d. all of the above

12.

In

the

early

18

th

century

English

writers

of

the

neo-classic

school

were_______.

a. Pope

b. Addition

c. Steele

d. Goldsmith

13.

“___________”,

written

in

heroic

couplet

by

Pope,

was

a

manifesto

of

English neo-classicism as Pope

put forward his aesthetic theories in it.

a. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

b. An Essay on Criticism

c. The Advance of Learning

d. An Essay on Criticism

14.

Which are Pope’s works?

a. An Essay on Criticism

b. An Essay on Man

c. The Rape of the Lock

d. The Rape of Lucrece

15.

_______was

Pope’s

poem

which

satirized

the

idle

and

artificial

life

of

the

aristocracy

.

a. The Rape of the Lock

b. The Rape of Lucrece

c.

The School for Scandal

d. Every Man in His Humor

16.

In

the

middle

decades

of

the

18

th

century

,

_____

became

the

leader

of

the

neo- classic school in English poetry and prose.

a. Pope

b. Samuel Johnson

c. Robert Burns

d. William Blake

17.

Which

two

periodicals

were

Steele

and

Addison’s

chief

contribution

to

English literature.

a.

“The

Tatler”

and

“The

Spectator”

b.

“The

Rambler”

and

“The

Spectator”

c.

“The

Tatler”

and

“The

Review”

d.

“The

Spectator”

and

“The

Review”

18.

_______compiled

“The

Dictionary

of

the

English

language”

which

became

the foundation of all the subsequent English Dictionaries.

a. Ben Jonson

b. Samuel Johnson

c. Alexander Pope

d. John Dryden

19.

Choose Samuel Johnson’s works from the following.

a.

Lives

of

the

Poets

b.

The

Dictionary

of

the

English

Language

c. Every Man in His Humor

d. An Essay on Criticism

20.

Choose

the

representative poets of pre-romanticism

in the 18

th

century and

the forerunners of romanticism.

a. Thomas Gray

b. Edward Y

oung

c. William Blake

d. Robert Burns

21.

Sentimentalism

in

the 18

th

century English

literature

found

its fine expression

in poetry and novels. Which poems or novels belong to sentimentalism?

a.

Night

Thoughts

b.

Elegy

Written

in

a

Country

Churchyard

c.

A sentimental Journey

d. A Tale of Tub

22.

In

the

last

twenty

years

of

the

18

th

century

,

England

produced

two

great

romantic poets. They are _____.

a. Johnson and Blake

b. Gray and Y

oung

c. Pope and Goldsmith

d. Blake and Burns

23.

The two great realistic novelists of the 18

th

century are ______.

a. Defoe

b. Swift

c. Fielding

d. Smollett

24.

Henry Fielding was a versatile man. He was_______.

a. a novelist

b. a dramatist

c. an essayist

d. a political pamphleteer