爱华网Part One Early and MedievalEnglish Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army,succeeded in invading and defeating England.
A. William the ConquerorB.Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the GreatD.Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the mostimportant writer (poet) is ____ .
A. LanglandB. WycliffeC. GowerD.Chaucer
3. The prevailing form of Medieval Englishliterature is ____.
A. novelB.dramaC.romance D.essay
4. The story of ___ is the culmination of theArthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green KnightB.Beowulf
C. Piers thePlowmanD. The Canterbury Tales
5. William Langland’s ____ is written in theform of a dream vision.
A. Kubla KhanB.Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of JohnBullD. Morted’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three languagesexisted in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.
A. FrenchB.EnglishC.LatinD.Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of Englishreligious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. LanglandB.GowerC.WycliffeD.Chaucer
8. Piers the Plowman describes a series ofwonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see apicture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitiveB. feudalC.bourgeoisD.modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord wasrepeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyaltyB.revoltC.obedienceD.mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on thestories about a legendary outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’ArthurB.RobinHood
C. The Canterbury TalesD.Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of thegreatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. SirGawain C. FrancisBacon D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in____.
A. FlandersB.FranceC.ItalyD.Westminster Abbey
13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, atranslation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume deLorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoyingwidespread popularity in the 13th and 14thcenturies not only in France but throughout Europe.
A. The Romaunt of the RoseB.“A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good WomenD.The Book of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety ofoccupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings.Which one is not his career? ____.
A. engineerB.courtierC.office holder
D. soldierE.ambassador F. legislator(议员)
15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based onBoccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of GoodWomenB. Troilus and Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the GreenKnightD. Beowulf
Key to the multiple choices： 1-5ADCAB6-10 ACBAB11-15 ADAAB
Ⅱ. Questions
1.What are the features of Beowulf?
2.Comment on the social significance and language in TheCanterbury Tales.
Part Two The EnglishRenaissance
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—C2—F3—E4—B5—A6—D)
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of atotally new type, which met the needs of the risingbourgeoisie.
A. Henry V B. HenryVII C. HenryVIII D. JamesI
2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “themorning star of the Reformation” and his followers.
A. WilliamTyndalB. JamesI
C. JohnWycliffeD. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercialexpansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, whichwere compatible with the interests of the English merchants.
A. HenryV.B. Henry VII
C. HenryVIIID. Queen Elizabeth
4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet“Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising youngbourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.
A.SpainB.FranceC. America D. Norway
5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the firstEnglish colonies.
A. FrancisDrakeB. LancelotAndrews
C. WilliamCaxtonD. William Tyndal
6.____ was a forerunner of classicism in Englishliterature.
A. Ben JohnsonB. WilliamShakespeare
C. Thomas MoreD. Christopher Marlowe
7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was____.
A. LylyB.PeeleC.GreeneD.Marlowe
8.Morality plays appeared after_____.
A. miracle plays B. mysteryplays C.interludeD. Classical plays
9._____ is used to say and do good things.
A. MercyB.FollyC.ViceD.Peace
10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip SidneyB.Edmund Spenser
C. ThomasMoreD. WalterRaleigh
11. _____is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.
A. Thomas NorthB.Thomas Wyatt
C. George ChapmanD. JohnFlorio
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 povertyto understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing thepoor.
A. JohnWycliffeB.William Caxton
C. Geoffrey ChaucerD.Thomas More
14.Utopia was written in the form of_____.
A. proseB.dramaC.essayD.dialogue
15. One ofthe popular morality plays was ____.
A. The ShepherdsB.Everyman
C. The Play of the WeatherD.Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called“romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594B.1595 and1600
C. 1601 and 1607D.1608 and 1612
17.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. PericlesB.CymbelineC. TheWinter’s TaleD. TheTempest
18. In_____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never beforeImprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.
A. 1606B.1607C.16081609
19.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A.romanticismB. realismC.naturalism D.classicism
20. Amongmany poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at)with the _______.
A. dramatic blankverse B.songC.sonnet D.couplet
21. In theplays, Shakespeare used about ______words.
A. 15000B.16000C.17000D.18000
22._____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. ChristopherMarlow B.FrancisBacon
C. W. ShakespeareD.Ben Johnson
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5BCDAA6-10DDCBA11-15 BDADA16-22 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 thestruggle between ____ and ___.
3.The Bible was notably translated into English by the ____.
4.The first complete English Bible was translated by ____, “themorning star of the _____”.
5._____ translated the New Testament and portions of the OldTestament, which is known as Tyndale’s Bible.
6.After Tydale’s Bible, then appeared the ______, which was made in1611 under the auspices of _____. And so was sometimes called the____.
7.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has hada great influence on English ___ and ____.
8.With the widespread influence of the English Bible, the standardmodern English has been _____ and _____.
9.A great number of ____and phrases have passed into daily Englishspeech as household words.
10. The____and ____ language of the Authorized Version has colored thestyle of the English prose for the last 300years.
11. ____was the first English printer.
12.William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself, but he was fondof ___ , and his interest was turning to ____.
13. Hetranslated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into Englishfrom French which was the ___ book printed in English.
14. TheRecuyell served as a source for ____ Troilus andCressida. 《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》
15. Afterhaving established his printing press, William Caxton devotedhimself to the career of a ____ and _____.
16.William Caxton published about ____ books, ___ of which weretranslated by himself.
17. Byrendering (翻译) French books into English, Caxton exercised theyouthful language in the airs (曲调), the graces, the crafts of theelder and contributed to the development of the style of ___century English ____.
18. Theinfluence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a ____language in England.
19. As thefirst English printer, Caxton invented in England the profession of____, which in fact has had a lasting significance to thedevelopment of English ___ as a whole.
20. TheRenaissance started in the ______ century and ended in the______century.
21. Theword, “renaissance” means ________, which was stimulated by aseries of historical events, such as ________.
22. In theRenaissance, the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid ofthose old ____in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas thatexpresses ____ of the rising bourgeoisie, and to recover the ____ofthe early church from the corruption of the Roman CatholicChurch.
23. ____is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized thecapacities of ____and the achievements of ____.
24. ____Stanza is a verse form created by _____ for his poem, ______, inwhich the rhyme scheme is ____.
25. TheWars of the Roses (1455—1485) between the House of ___ and theHouse of ___ struggling for the Crown continued for 30 years.
26.Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and theKing of England, the far-reaching movement of ___ took place inEngland, started by Henry VIII.
27. After___ in England, the helpless, dispossessed peasants, beingcompelled to work at a low wage, became hired laborers for themerchants. These laborers were the fathers of modern English___.
28. Theintroduction of ___ to England by William Caxton (1476) broughtclassical works within reach of the common multitude.
29. The16th 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 timewhen, according to Thomas More, “___”.
31. ____broke off with the Pope, dissolved all the monasteries and abbeysin the country, confiscated their lands and proclaimed himself headof the Church of England.
32.Together with the development of bourgeois relationships andformation of the English national state this period is marked by aflourishing of national culture known as ____.
33. ____,in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid, wrote the firstEnglish blank verse.
34.Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained _____poems by ______ and _____ by _____.
35. PhilipSidney thought that _____ had superiority over philosophy andhistory.
36. _____is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the___ among the laboring classes.
37. Morepoints out that the root of poverty is the ____ _____ of socialwealth.
38.Sonnets contain _____ sonnets and ____ sonnets.
39. Thehighest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its____.
40. The“miracles” were simple plays based on ______stories.
41. Thereare significant touches of _____ life in the play titled TheShepherds.
42. Amorality play presented the _____ of good and _____ with_____personages.
43. Vicewas the predecessor of the modern _____.
44.Through the revival of classical literature, English playwrightscame into contact with ______ and ______drama.
45. Fromthe contact with Greek and Latin drama, English playwrights learnedall the important rules in ____ and ____, the more exact conceptionof ____ and ____.
46.English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in themiddle of the ____ century.
47. Thefirst English comedy is ______.
48. Thefirst English tragedy is _____.
49.Miracle plays, morality plays, interludes and classical plays pavedthe way for the flourishing of ____.
50. In the16th century _____ became the centre of Englishdrama.
51. By____, professional actors were organized into companies.
52. ____were wooden buildings, usually circular in form, with tiers（一排排） ofgalleries surrounding a roofless pit（楼下剧场）.
53. In theElizabethan Theater, there were no ____ and women’s parts werealways taken by ____.
54.Shakespeare’s narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, is full of vividimages 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 andimplications 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 FaerieQueene; 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’sNeedle 《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) inthe course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility, totallydependent on King’s power, come to the fore.
2.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign ofQueen Elizabeth.
3.The progress of bourgeois economy made England a powerful state andenabled her in 1588 to inflict a defeat on the Spanish InvincibleArmada.
4.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in apolitical guise.
5.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used bythe Catholic churches.
6.Walter Raleigh wrote his History of the World inimprisonment.
7.More the man is even more interesting than More thewriter.
8.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communistsociety.
9.Translations occupied an important place in the EnglishRenaissance.
10. PhilipSidney’s collection of love sonnets is Astrophel andStella.
11. TheMiracle plays were not forbidden to perform in churches after theactors introduced secular and even comical elements into theperformance.
12. Thewriter of Gammer Gurton’s Needle isunknown.
13. Twolawyers who wrote Gorboduc were Thomas Sackville (托马斯·萨克维尔) andThomas 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. Engelssaid, “Realism implies, besides truth in detail, the truthfulreproduction of typical characters under typicalcircumstances.”
17.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his owntime.
18.Shakespeare’s one play contains one theme.(contains more than one theme)
19. Toreproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majesticwith the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic withthe comic.
20. Engelscalled Shakespeare’s plays the “Shakespearean vivacity (活泼、快活) andwealth of (大量的) action”.
21. Utopiais More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between Moreand Hythloday, a voyage.
22. SirPhilip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.
23. CarlMarx commented highly on More’s Utopia and mentioned it inhis great work, The Capital.
24. Thehighest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably itspoetry.
25. Themiracle plays were simple plays based on Bible stories, such as thecreation of the world, Noah and the flood, and the birth ofChrist.
26.Grammer Gurton’s Needle is the first English comedy,Gorboduc the first English tragedy.
27. Boththe gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But theupper class was the dominant force in Elizabethantheatre.
28. AfterShakespeare’s death, Herminge and Condell collected and publishedhis plays in 1623.
29. FromShakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took agreat interest in the political questions of histime.
30. InShakespeare’s historical plays, historical accuracy is not strictlyregarded.
31.King Lear is a tragedy of ambition, which drives a bravesoldier and national hero to degenerate into a bloody murder anddespot right to his doom.
32. Comingfrom an old Danish legend, Othello is considered the summitof Shakespeare’s art.
33.Shakespeare is one of the founders of romanticism in worldliterature.
34.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama wasundergoing a process of prosperity.
35.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and wasan age of prose.
36. Thereare two main characters in As You Like It: Orlando andRosalind.
37. BenJohnson’s comedies are “comedies of humors” and every character inhis comedies personifies a definite “humor”.
38. In BenJohnson’s later years he became the “literary king” of histime.
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 literaryachievement.
6.Comment on The Faerie Queene.
Part Three The Period of theEnglish Bourgeois Revolution
I.Choose the right answer.
1.The rhyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is_____.
A. aabbccbbcB. abbacdccdC. abacdeecD.ababcdcdd
2. _____ , as a declaration of people’sfreedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democraticrevolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’sNativity B. Comus
C. Of Reformation inEnglandD.Areopagitica
3. ____ poems can be divided into twocategories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacredverses.
A. John MiltonB. John BunyanC. John DonneD. JohnDryden
4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way ofdescribing love.
A. HolySonnetsB. Witchcraftby a Picture
C. The Sun RisingD. Death, BeNot Proud
5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-knownshaped poem.
A. The AltarB.To His Coy Mistress
C. To DaffodilsD.Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May
6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysicalpoetry.
A. John DonneB.George Herbert
C. Andre MarvellD. HenryVaughan
7. Which of the following is not aMetaphysical poet?
A. Richard CrashawB. HenryVaughan
C. Andrew MarvellD. RobertBurton
8. ____is a prose poem on death andimmortality.
A. The Anatomy of MelancholyB. Religio Mecici
C. Holy DyingD.Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightfuldescription of the English countryside and the simple and kindpeople.
A. The Compleat Angler B.Holy Living
C. To His Coy MistressD. To Daffadils
10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalierpoetry?
A. John SucklingB.Richard Lovelace
C. Robert HerrickD.John Dryden
11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school ofliterature in the 19th century.
A. John DrydenB.Richard Steele
C. Joseph AddisonD.Alexander Pope
Key to the multiplechoices: 1-5CDCBA6-11 ADDAAD
II.Fill in the blanks.
1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, _______ occupiesthe most important place.
2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces ofChristian writing produced during the _____Age.
3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which isthe symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
4._____masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, anarrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, andfaith are represented as people or as aspects of the naturalworld.
5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism inthe Restoration period.
6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionallycalled “Age of _____.
7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable inattitude.
8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famousappreciation of Shakespeare.
9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, a tragedydealing with the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony andCleopatra.
10. The main literary achievements of the17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in theprose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literarycriticism of ______.
11. Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s______.
12. Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece__________.
13. Paradise Lost took its materialfrom ______.
14. The works of the Metaphysical poets arecharacterized, generally speaking, by _____in content andfantasticality in form.
15. _______ was the forerunner of the Englishclassical school of literature in the 18th century.
16. Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embodyMilton’s belief in the powers of _____.
17. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religiousallegory and _____ is another writing feature.
18. In the second half of the 17thcentury we may hear the voices of the private citizens by lettersand _____.
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 17thcentury were over land ownership.
2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of theDiggers broke out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.
3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles IIbecame the Protector of the EnglishCommonwealth.
4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with thereign of James I, and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered)with the conflict between the two antagonistic camps, the Royalistsand the Puritans.
5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became theleader of the country.
6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed aflourish on the whole.
7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets inEnglish literature, William Shakespeare.
8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because itproduced a great poet whole name is William Milton.
9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period isdrama.
10. Among the English poets during theRevolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one.
11. John Milton towers over his age as Byrontowers over the Elizabethan Age, and as Chaucer towers over theMedieval Period.
12. On his first wife’s death, Milton wrotehis 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 “tojustify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to advocate submission to theAlmighty.
15. It has been noticed by many critics thatthe picture of Satan surrounded by his angels who never think ofexpressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of anabsolute monarch.
16. Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler becomesa “Piscatorial classic”.
17. Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is acollection of opinions on a vast number of subjects more or lessconnected 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 EnglishCentury
Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3points)
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 firstdisplayed his moralizing spirit.
A. The FuneralB.The LyingLover
C. The ChristianHero D.The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published bySteele?
A. TheTatler B. TheSpectator C. TheTheatre D. TheEnglish
3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.
A. A Letter fromItaly B.RosamondC. The CampaignD.Cato
4. Which of the following is not the hero in TheSpectator?
A. IsaacBickerstaffB. Mr. Roger
C. CaptainSentryD. Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English compositionby British authors all through the 18thcentury.
A. Jeremy Taylor’s HolyLiving B.Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic
C. Samuel Pepys’sdiariesD. Addison’s Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movementis _____.
A.SteeleB.AddisonC.PopeD. Dryden
7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is____.
A. Essay onCriticismB. The Rape of theLock
C. Essay onManD.The Dunciad
8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroiccouplets.
A.didacticB.satiricalC.philosophicalD. dramatic
9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the18th century.
A. The EnclosureMovement B.The Industrial Revolution
C. The ReligiousReformD. The Enlightenment
10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainlyappealed to the ____readers.
A.aristocraticB. middleclass C. lowclass D.intellectual
11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not alwaysjust.
A.SteeleB.MiltonC.AddisonD. Pope
12. Themain literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . Whatthe writers described in their works were mainly socialrealities.
A.romanticismB. classicismC. realismD. sentimentalism
13. The18th century was the golden age of the English ___. Thenovel of this period spoke the truth about life with anuncompromising (unbending) courage.
A. dramaB.poetryC.essayD. novel
14. In1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___,which made him well-known as a satirist.
A. A Tale of TubB.Bickerstaff Almanac
C. Gulliver’s TravelsD. The Battle of theBooks
15. In aseries of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjusttreatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the mostfamous is ____.
A. Essays onCriticismB. A Modest Proposal
C. Gulliver’s TravelsD.The Battle of the Books
16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of astyle.” This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest mastersof English prose.
A. AlexanderPope B. HenryFielding
C. JonathanSwiftD. Daniel Defoe
17._____’s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—ASatire, which contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracyand the tyranny of the church.
A. AlexanderPope B. HenryFielding
C. JonathanSwiftD. Daniel Defoe
18. HenryFielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection withPamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in hisown hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculingPamela.
A. Tom Jones B.Joseph Andrews C.Jonathan Wild D.Amelia
19. ____the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his ownexperience as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.
A. RoderickRandom B.Humphry Clinker
C. Peregrine PickleD. ASentimental Journey
20. Fromthe character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, isderived the term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage ofbig words.
A. The RivalsB.The School forScandal
C. The Beggar’s OperaD. TheLondonMerchant
21. Whichof the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson?_____.
A. The Review B.The TatlerC.The RamblerD. The Bee
22. Whichof the following works are not written by OliverGoldsmith? ____.
A. The TravellerB.The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar ofWakefieldD. The School for Scandal
23. Whichof the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.
A. The School forScandal B. She Stoops toConquer
C. The Good-natured ManD. The Decline and Fall ofthe Roman Empire
24. Thesentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leavesthe world to darkness and to me” is written by ____.
A. William CowperB.George Crabbe
C. ThomasGrayD.William Blake
25. ______is not written by WilliamBlake.
A. The Marriage of Heaven andHell B. Songs ofExperience
C. Auld Lang SyneD.Poetical Sketches
26. “Inseed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverbis cited from William Blake’s _____.
A. Songs ofExperienceB. Songs of Innocence
C. The Marriage of Heaven andHell D.Poetical Sketches
27. The18th century witnessed that in England there appearedtwo political parties, ______, which were satirized by JonathanSwift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and theTories
B. the senate and the House of Representatives
C. The upper House and lowerHouse
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
28. ____found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such asEdward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly inthe 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 whichbecame the foundation of all the subsequent Englishdictionaries.
A. Ben JohnsonB.Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander PopeD. JohnDryden
30. Whichof the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form)novels?
A. ClarissaHarloweB. Pamela
C. Sir CharlesGrandisonD. Tomes Jones
31. Whichplay is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?
A. She Stoops to ConquerB. The Rivals
C. The School for ScandalD. The ConsciousLovers
Key to the multiplechoices:
1-5CADAD6-10 CBCDB11-15 DDDDB
16-20 CDBAA21-25 CDDCC26-31CACBDC
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks.
1.The essays in Steele’s The Tatler were written in the formof ______ style.
2.Steele’s appeal was made to the ____classes.
3.The purpose of Addison and Steele’s ideas expressed in TheSpectator is ______.
4._____ is the most striking feature in The Spectator.
5.Addison and Steele developed the form of letter writing to theverge of the _____ novel.
6.Humor, intimacy and elegance shown in The Tatler and TheSpectator essays have become the striking features of theEnglish _____.
7.Essay on Criticism is a______poem.
8.The Dunciad is ______apoem.
9.English enlighteners believed in the _____.
10. English enlighteners believed that socialproblems could be dealt with by ____.
11. Blakeattacks religious ______in the poem, A Little Boy Lost.
12.Burns’s poems like The Jolly Beggars are characterized by humor and_____.
13.Sheridan’s The School for Scandal has been called a greatcomedy of _____, giving a brilliant portrayal and a biting satireof English high society.
14. SameulJohnson’s ______ also marked the end of English writers’ relianceon the patronage of noblemen for support.
15. SamuelRichardson’s first novel, Pamela, is the first _____novel inEnglish literature.
16. TobiasSmollett, a good humorist, used the form of _____ novel. His humoris better shown in Humphrey Clinker than anywhere else.
17. Indescribing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human_____.
18.Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of _____.
19. Thechapter of “On Hats” in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satireand ______.
20.Laurence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who wereversed in the “knowledge of _____.”
Key to the blanks:
1.conversational
2.middle
3.social reform
4.Character sketch
5.epistolary
6.familiar essay
7.didactic
8.satirical
9.power of reason
10. human intelligence
11. persecution
12. lightheartedness
13. manner
14. A Dictionary of EnglishLanguage
15. epistolary
16. picaresque
17. labor
18. morality
19. symbolism
20. Heart
Ⅳ. Say true or false.
1.Addison’s The Spectator was published three times a week,having one essay for each issue.
2.Addison’s chief contribution to literature lies in his essayswritten for The Tatler and TheSpectator.
3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the currenttopics of the time which treated in a serious manner.
4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunnerof the English novel.
5.Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroiccouplet.
6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of TheSpectator.
7.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group ofexcellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson,Henry Fielding, were produced.
8.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century.The main characters in the novels were no longer common people, butthe kings and nobles.
9.The 19th century produced the first English novelists,who fall into two groups: the sentimentalist novelists and therealist novelist.
10. In the poems of Edward Young and ThomasGray, sentimentalism found its fine expression.
11. A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack onpedantry in the literary world of the time, in which the reader istold the story of the Bee and the Spider.
12. Tobias Smollett gives a true picture ofthe evils in the British navy in the novel of RoderickRandom, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and adoctor.
13. The two most important of all SamuelJohnson’s literary works are the preface and comments of individualplays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, whichpass judgment on a century of English poetry.
14. Classicism turned to the countryside forits material, so is in striking contrast to sentimentalism, whichhad confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to thesocial and political life of London.
15. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for hissongs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects.
16. In The School for Scandal, Sheridancontrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and Charles Surface.
17. My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of thebest known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored hisunshakable love for his homeland.
18. Racial discrimination is expressed inBlake’s “The Little Black”.
19. Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put tomusic.
20. Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns andBlake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton.
Key to the True/False statements:
1.F (one time a day)
2.T
3.F (light and pleasant manner)
4.T
5.F(Pope’s )
6.F (The Tatler)
7.F (prose)
8.F (nobles; common people)
9.F (18th )
10. T
11. F (The Battle of the Books)
12. T
13. T
14. F (Sentimentalism; classicism)
15. F (Scottish)
16. T
17. T
18. T
19. F(Burns’s)
20. F (Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)
Ⅴ. Questions
1.Comment on the English classicists in the 18thcentury.
2.Comment on The Spectator.
Part Five Romanticism inEngland
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism B.Renaissance C.EnlightenmentD. feudalism
2.The main literary stream is ____.
A.poetryB.novelsC.proseD. periodicals
3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.
A. “The Rime of the AncientMariner” B.“Tintern Abbey”
C.“Revolution”D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
4.Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost atMidnightB. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
C.ChristabelD. Biographia Literaria
5.Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.
A. Childe Harold’sPilgrimageB. Hours of Idleness
C.LaraD. Don Juan
6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.
A.Wordsworth’sB. Byron’s C.Shelley’s D.Keats’
7.____ lived the longest life.
A.WordsworthB.ByronC.ShelleyD. Keats
8.Keats’ first poem is ____.
A. OSolitudeB. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
C.PoemsD. Endymion
9.Keats’ best ode is ____.
A. “On a Grecian Urn”B. “To Autumn”
C. “ToPsyche”D. “To a Nightingale”
10. Thebest works of William Hazlitt is ____.
A. The Spirit of theAgeB. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’sPlays D.On the English Poets
11. Thepublication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movementin England.
A. “TinternAbbey”B. LyricalBallads
C. Frost atNightD. “The Daffodils”
12. ThePrelude has also been called _____.
A. The LastBrazilB. The First Impression
C. Growth of a Poet’sMindD. The Spirit of the Age
13.Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called_______.
A. “The SolitaryReaper”B. “The Daffodils”
C. “The Rime of the AncientMariner” D.“O Solitude”
14. _____is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.
A. ThePreludeB. Endymion
C. DonJuanD. Biographia Literaria
15. Theprose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of_______.
A. models of classicism B.familiar essay
C. rules of neo-romanticismD. ways of modernism
16. Thebest essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.
A. Keats B. WalterScott C. CharlesLamb D. William Hazlitt
17. Thethemes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.
A. pride andprejudiceB. the writer’s own personalities
C. love andmarriageD. Both A and C
18. _____is considered the father of historical novelist in the EnglishRomantic Age.
A.Jane Austen B. CharlesLamb C. WilliamHazlitt D. Waler Scott
19. Lamb’swritings are full of ______for he is especially fond of oldwriters.
A. romanticism B.conversations C.inspirationsD. archaisms
20. Lambis a romanticist of ______.
A. the city B. thecountryside C.nature D. imagination
21. _____is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.
A. Endymion B.Isabella D.Hyperion D.Lamia
22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing withShakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in the history Englishliterature.
A. Keats B.Wordsworth C.Coleridge D. William
23. Thereader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the EnglishRomantic Age from _____.
A. DunJuan B.ThePreludeC. KublaKhan D.Isabella
24. Somecritics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.
A. individual heroism andpessimism B. love of nature andoptimism
C. love of oldwritersD. hatred for the imperialism
25. One ofColeridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.
A. KublaKhanB. Frost at Night
C. ChristabelD.Biographia Literaria
26.Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.
A. KublaKhanB. Frost at Night
C. ChristabelD.Biographia Literaria
27. ____is Shelley’s masterpiece.
A.ZastrozziB. The Necessity of Atheism
C. QueenMabD. Prometheus Unbound
28. _____is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.
A. JohnWoodvilB. Essays of Elia
C. MrHD. Tales from Shakespeare
29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the OxfordUniversity.
A. The Masque ofAnarchyB. A Defence of Poetry
C. The Necessity of AtheismD.The Triumph of Life
30. ______is Shelley’s first book written in ____.
A. Zastrozzi;EtonB. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy
C. Queen Mab;GreeceD. Prometheus Unbound; Italy
31. TheRomantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.
A. 1789…1821 B.1778…1823 C.1798…1832 D. 1768…1819
32. Byron,Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. thesecond C. thethird D. the forth
33. TheExaminer is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.
A. novel B.poem C.periodical D. newspaper
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5CADAD6-10CACDA11-15 BCBAB
16-20CDDDA21-25BAAAB26-30 BDDCA
31-33 CBC
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, “____” equaled “_____”.
2.William Wordsworth was influenced by the _____ Revolution.
3.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of ____.
4.Wordsworth’s The Prelude is an ____ poem.
5.Writing The Prelude is a process of ____.
6.Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage is an ____ poem.
7.Shelley’s works reflect his interests both in _____ and in____ ____.
8.The theme of Keats’ Hyperion is the ____ between the old andthe new.
9.Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for _____.
10. ______a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.
11. Thepublication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginningof the _____ in England.
12. Thepoems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a _____withthe poor, simple peasants, a passionate love of nature and the_____and ____of the language.
13. Thedescription of the book, ______ has been called a long journeyhome.
14. _____was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to thecause of the French Revolution.
15. Allhis life, Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____, _____and ______.
16.Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the _____ to ____century.
17. Thepublication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with______.
18. TheRomantic Age is an age of romantic ______ and _______.
19. TheRomantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and SamuelTaylor Coleridge published their joint work_______.
20. TheRomantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer_______ died.
21. Womenas ____ appeared in the romantic age. It was during this periodthat women took, for the first time, an important place in Englishliterature.
22. Thegreatest historical novelist ______was produced in the RomanticAge.
23. TheEnglish Romantic period produced two major novelists: _____ and_____.
24. ____is regarded as the best essayist during the RomanticAge.
25. AmongWordsworth’s longer poems, the best-known one is _______.
26. ______marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realismwhich followed it.
27. In1817, _______ finished his literary criticism, BiographiaLiteraria.
28. At theturn of the 18th and 19th century _____appeared in England as a new trend inliterature.
29. Incontrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists inthe 18th century, the _____ paid great attention to thespiritual and emotional life of man.
30.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the _____ of hislanguage.
31.Queen Mab, Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem, is writtenin the form of a _____.
32. _____was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people. Hispolitical lyrics are among the best of their kind in the wholesphere of European romantic poetry.
33. Afterhis second book Endymion appeared in 1818, _____ gave upmedicine for poetry.
34. ____’sgrave bears the epitaph: “Hear lies one whose name is writ inwater.”
35. TheEve of St. Agnes is a narrative poem written in ______.
36. Thetheme of ____ is the conflict between the old and the new, and thestory is derived from Greek mythology. In this work, the poetexpresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order ofthings and the coming of a new.
37. Modernessay originated from Montaigne’s _____, which were translated intoEnglish by Florio and had an extensive influence upon Englishliterature.
38. Thefirst poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is ____ ’smasterpiece. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
39. On thedeath of Robert Southey in 1843, ____ was made poet laureate.
40. In1805, Wordsworth completed ______, containing all together 14books.
41. In1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a smallvolume called Hours of Idleness. The volume was sharply attacked inthe influential Edinburgh Review. Byron responded with hisfirst important poem, a biting satirecalled____.
42. In1824, the Revolutionary Romantic poet ___ went to Greece to helpthat country in its struggle for liberty against Turks. Not long,he died of fever there.
43. GeorgeGordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One isChilde Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is____.
44. Thepoem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage contains ____ cantos. It iswritten in Spenserian stanza.
45. GeorgeGordon Byron wrote ____ in Italy. It contains sixteencantos.
46. GeorgeGordon Byron’s masterpiece is ______.
47. ____is George Gordon Byron’s philosophical poeticdrama.
48. ____is Byron’s poetic drama with the material taken from Biblicalstory.
49. GeorgeGordon Byron’s first volume of poems is _____.
50. ____was expelled after only six months at Oxford, because he hadwritten the pamphlet The Necessity ofAtheism.
51. Afterthe death of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first wife, he was compelled toleave England in 1818, and spent all the rest of his life in_____.
52. ____is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s first long poem of importance. It waswritten in the form of a fairy tale dream.
53. _____, a lyrical drama, is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece. The storywas taken from Greekmythology.
54. TheMasque of Anarchy is one of Shelley’s political lyrics. Itdeals with the infamous ____ which happened on August 16,1819.
55.Shelley wrote an elegy ______ lamenting the early death of hisfellow-poet _____.
56. Odeto a Nightingale was written by ____.
57.Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist____.
58. Theprose-writers in the 19th century made the informalessay a pliable (flexible) vehicle for expressing the writer’s ownpersonality, thus ringing into English literature _____.
59. ____had a bitter hatred of the meaningless drudgery (toil) which wastedtwo-thirds of his lifetime.
60. ToCharles Lamb, ____ was a side-occupation. His daily drudgery leftlittle time for his literary work.
61.Specimens from English Dramatic Poets Contemporary withShakespeare was written by ____.
62.William Hazlitt is one of the representatives of ___ criticism, inwhich individual taste took the place of universal reason as thefoundation of literarycriticism.
63. Afterthe defeat of Napoleon, ____ was the only old Romantic who neverwavered in his devotion to the cause of the FrenchRevolution.
64. ____was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for denouncing the PrinceRegent, future George IV, as a rake and aliar.
65. Theimportance of Leigh Hunt lies chiefly in his development of thelight miscellaneous ___.
66. Inorder to relieve the pains of facial neuralgia, ____ became “aregular and confirmedopium-eater.”
67. ThomasDe Quincey is famous for the ornate descriptions of his fantasiesand dreams. The major flow of his style is ____.
68. ____has been universally regarded as the founder and great master ofhistorical novel.
Key to the blanks:
1.literature; poetry
2.French
3.nature
4.autobiographical
5.self-exploration
6.autobiographical
7.politics; social justice
8.conflict
9.children
10. Lyrical Ballads
11. Romantic Movement
12. Sympathy; simplicity; purity
13. The Prelude, or Growth of aPoet’s Mind
14. Hazlitt
15. liberty; equality; fraternity
16. late 18th;mid-19th
17. classicism
18. enthusiasm; poetry
19. Lyrical Ballads
20. Walter Scott
21. novelist
22. Walter Scott
23. Water Scott, Jane Austen
24. Charles Lamb
25. The Prelude
26. Scott
27. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
28. romanticism
29. romanticists
30. simplicity
31. fairy tale dream
32. Shelley
33. John Keats
34. John Keats
35. Spenserian Stanza
36. Hyperion
37. Essais
38. Coleridge
39. Wordsworth
40. The Prelude
41. English Bards and ScotchReviewers
42. Byron
43. Don Juan
44. four
45. Don Juan
46. Don Juan
47. Manfred
48. Cain
49. Hour of Idleness
50. Shelley
51. Italy
52. Queen Mab
53. Prometheus Unbound
54. Peterloo Massacre
55. John Keats
56. John Keats
57. Scott
58. the familiar essay
59. Charles Lamb
60. literature
61. Charles Lamb
62. Romantic
63. William Hazlitt
64. Leigh Hunt
65. essay
66. Thomas De Quincey
67. discursiveness
68. Walter Scott
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to theearly 19th century.
2.Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.
3.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his ThePrelude .
4.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of hisindependent and rebellious attitude.
5.The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc,ded, ee.
6.Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.
7.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “TinternAbbey”.
8.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads dealwith elements of nature.
9.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in LyricalBallads.
10.Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name,Growth of a Poet’s Mind.
11.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem consideredas Coleridge’s masterpiece.
12.Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the riseand fall of the French Revolution.
13.Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romanticliterature.
14.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces andeven combined themselves with those forces.
15.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.
16.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of thesecond generation.
17.The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual andemotional life of man.
18.The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenesand the country people of that area in their writings.
19.Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as asophisticated art.
20.The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken fromRoman mythology.
21.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense andoriginal lyrical poet in the English language.
22.Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’schildhood.
23.Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle andprogressive movements of his age.
24.Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love forliberty.
25.But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish;many of his lines are harsh, rugged and not rhythmical;
26.Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.
27.Lamb’s essays are intensely personal.
28.Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone andwide range of subject matter.
29.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.
30.Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form ofballad.
Key to True/False statements:
1.F (from late 18th to the mid-19thcentury)
2.T
3.T
4.T
5.T
6.F (city)
7.F (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)
8.T
9.F (Wordsworth)
10. F (“The Daffodils”)
11. F (Wordsworth)
12. T
13. F (familiar essay)
14. T
15. F ( Passive Romantic poets)
16. T
17. T
18. F (the first generation/ The LakePoets)
19. T
20. F (Greek)
21. T
22. T
23. T
24. T
25. F (Byron)
26. F (Keats)
27. T
28. F (Lamb)
29. T
30. F (Coleridge’s “The Rime of the AncientMariner”)
Ⅳ. Terms:
1.Romanticism
2.Lake Poets
Ⅴ. Questions:
1.Comment on Lyrical Ballads.
2.Comment on Charles Lamb.
3.Comment on those Lake Poets.
4.What are the features of Romanticism.
5.Comment on The Prelude.
6.Comment on Endymion.
7.Comment on all the writers of the Romantic Age.
8.Tell the main idea of some representative works of the Romanticwriters.
Part Six English CriticalRealism
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.____ is the greatest representative of English criticalrealism.
A. Jane Austen
B. Thackeray
C.Dickens
D. Charlotte
2.____ is Thackeray’s one of the best known works.
A. Sense andSensibility
B. The Book of Snobs
C. The Pickwick Papers
D. The Song of Lower Class
3.Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.
A. First Impression
B. A Book Without a Hero
C. TheNewcomes
D. Persuasion
4.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.
A. First Impression
B. A Book Without a Hero
C. TheNewcomes
D. Persuasion
5.In the 19th century English literature, a new literarytrend ____ appeared. Anditflourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
A. romanticism B.naturalism C.realism D. critical realism
6.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the formof ____ .
A. novel B.drama C.poetry D. sonnet
7.______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upperstrata(阶层) of society.
A. GeorgeEliotB. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. W. M. ThackerayD.John Buyan
8.The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19thcentury.
A.EnlightenmentB. Renaissance C.Chartist D. Romanticist
9.The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, thestruggle ofthe _____ forits rights.
A. soldiers B.peasants C.bourgeoisie D. proletariat
10. The greatest of Chartistpoets was _____.
A. EarnestJonesB. JohnMilton
C. ThomasHardyD. John Keats
11. The story of ______deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.
A. A Tale of TwoCitiesB. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick PapersD.Oliver Twist
12. The novel _____ exposesthe terrible conditions of English private schools.
A. NicholasNicklebyB. Oliver Twist
C. HardTimesD. Great Expectations
13. The story of _____ dealswith the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent, andhis granddaughter, Nell.
A. PickwickPapersB. The Old Curiosity Shop
C. GreatExpectationsD. Hard Times
14. Which novel makes afierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?
A. OliverTwistB. Hard Times
C. GreatExpectationsD. A Tale of Two Cities
15. Which novel is a greatsatire upon the society and those people who dream to enter thehigher society regardless of the social reality?
A. ATale of TwoCitiesB. David Copperfield
C. GreatExpectationsD. Dombey and Son
16. In the novel ______,Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows hissympathyfor the workers.
A. Great ExpectationsB.A Tale of Two Cities
C. Hard TimesD.Oliver Twist
17. In the novel ___ ,Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.
A. Dombey andSonB. A Tale of Two Cities
C. LittleDorritD. Bleak House
18. In the novel _____, Dr.Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.
A. DavidCopperfieldB. Wuthering Heights
C. BleakHouseD. A Tale of Two Cities
19. _____ is often regardedas the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in whichtheearly life of the hero is largely based on the author’s earlylife.
A. The CuriosityShopB. David Copperfield
C. OliverTwistD. Great Expectations
20. In 1864, Dickenspublished his last complete novel _______.
A. The Old CuriosityShopB. The Pickwick Paper
C. Our MutualFriendD. Little Dorrit
21. Which of the followingis Thackeray’s masterpiece?
A. TheVirginiansB. The Books ofSnobs
C. TheNewcomesD. Vanity Fair
22. The sub-title ofVanity Fair is _____.
A. The FirstImpressionB. A Novel Without a Hero
C. The Spirit of the AgeD.The Daffodils
23. The title of the novelVanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.
A. The Pilgrim’sProgressB. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
C. Gulliver’sTravelsD. The Canterbury Tales
24. Emily Bronte wrote onlyone novel entitled ______.
A. JaneEyre B.AgnesGrey C.Wuthering Heights D.Emma
25. Charlotte’sVillette is based on her sad days in_____.
A.GermanyB.LondonC. Paris D.Brussels
26. Dickens’ third literaryperiod shows intensifying ______.
A. optimism B.excitement C.irritation D.pessimism
27. ______is Dickens’ bestof social satires.
A. AmericanNotesB. Martin Chuzzlewit
C. Dombey andSonD. David Copperfield
28. Tennyson’s InMemoriam is a collection of ____ short poems.
A. 130 B.131 C.132 D.133
29. The chief source ofTennyson’s Idylls of the King is taken from _____.
A. The History of the King ofBritainB. The History of Pendennis
C. The History of HennyEsmondD. Morte d’Arthur.
30. The Chartists refer tothose _____ in the early Victorian Age
A. RomanticwritersB. working class writers
C. realisticpoetsD. bourgeois writers
31. The Victorian Literaturebegan in____ and ended in _____.
A. 1837…1900 B.1835…1901 C.1832…1902 D. 1830…1903
32. The conflicts betweenthe capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England causedthe ______.
A. EnlightenmentMovement B.Industrial Revolution
C. ChartistMovementD. Romantic Movement
33. _____ is the greatestamong the critical realists of the Victorian Age.
A. EarnestJones B.Emily Brontё
C. CharlotteBrontё D.Charles Dickens
34. Charles Dickens wasimpressive for his _____.
A. wide spread of criticalrealism
B. his spirit of democracy and humanism
C.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clearlanguage
D.including A, B and C
35. “Thepride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.
A. Dombey andSonB. Nicholas Nickleby
C. The Old CuriosityShopD. Martin Chuzzlewit
36. The two cities in ATale of Two Cities refer to ____.
A. London and New York B.London and Paris
C. Paris and NewYorkD. Brussels and Washington
37. ____ is the majorliterary form in the Victorian Period.
A. essay B.poetry C.novel D. drama
38. ____ is the main hero inthe novel of Wuthering Heights.
A. Rochester B.Heathcliff C.Manette D. Martin
39. Both Charlotte and Emilywrote about the ____ around them.
A. familiar things B. commonpeople
C.neighborsD. evils
40. The most important poetin the Victorian Age was _____.
A. EarnestJonesB. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. Mr.BrowningD. Alfred Tennyson
41. ______ made Dickensfamous overnight.
A. Sketches byBoz B.The Pickwick Papers
C. OliverTwistD. The Old Curiosity Shop
42. _____ is Dickens’ firstnovel of social history reflecting the sharp socialcontradictions.
A.Sketches by BozB.American Notes
C. MartinChuzzlewit D. BarnabyRudge (《巴纳比·拉奇》)
43. Which of the followingDickens’ works is not based on Christmas with religiouscoloring?
A.Christmas Day in theMorningB. A Christmas Carol
C. TheChimes（《教堂钟声》） D. The Cricket onthe Heart (《灶上蟋蟀》)
44. _____is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.
A. GreatExpectationsB. DavidCopperfield
C.BleakHouseD. The Pickwick Papers
45. Dickens’ writing is anencyclopedic knowledge of _____.
A.Paris B. NewYork C.London D.Portsmoth
46. The head of the gang ofthieves is _____.
A.Fagin B.Gradgrind C.Pecksmiff D.Manette
47. _____ has been called“the supreme epic of English life”.
A. NicholasNickleby B. A Tale ofTwo Cities
C. HardTimesD. The Pickwick Papers
48. _____marked a greatadvance in Dickens’ art of novel-writing with closely knit andlogical plot of his maturer works.
A. DavidCopperfieldB. Dombey and Son
C. LittleDorritD. The Chimes
49. In the ____ period,Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist worldwould be remedies of only men who behaved to each other withkindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.
A. firstB. secondC.third D.fourth
50. ____ is the mostclass-conscious book among the Christmas books.
A. A ChristmasCarolB.The Chimes
C. The Cricket on theHearthD. The Battle of Life
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5CBABD6-10 ACCDA11-15 CABBC
16-20CBDBC21-25DAACD26-30 DBBDB
31-35CCDDA36-40BCBAD41-45 BDABC
46-50 ADBAB
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic ofyouthful _______.
2.Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of_______.
3.Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of ______.
4.Nicholas Nickleby touches upon a burning question of thetime—the education of ____ in privateschools.
5._____ is a great novel of social satire and famous for itscriticism of both the British and Americanbourgeoisie.
6.The theme of Dombey and Son is the pride of wealth, or“_____”.
7.David Copperfield was written in the ____ person in acombination of ____, sense of ____ and artistic ______.
8.The main butt (目标) of satire in Bleak House is aimed at theabuses of the English _____.
9.In Hard Times Dickens describes the ____ movement with greatartistic power.
10.Dickens used ______ as his pen name in his first book.
Key to the blanks:
1.optimism
2.excitement and irritation
3.pessimism
4.children
5.Martin Chuzzlewit
6.purse-pride
7.first; verisimilitude; familiarity; maturity
8.courts
9.Chartist
10.Boz
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensivepicture of early 19th century England.
2.Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in ThePickwick Papers which aroused the interests of thereaders.
3.In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of theinhumanity of country life undercapitalism.
4.The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but thenovel fascinates the reader from beginning to end by its comicalepisodes.
5.The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but isalso an apt (贴切的) description of the society of thetime.
6.Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system ofeducation and ethics(论理学，道德学) and on utilitarianism(功利主义）.
7.Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, bothmatter-o-fact or symbolic, as its centraltheme.
8.A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as thesubject.
9.The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Wherethere is oppression, there isrevolution.”
10. Pip is the major character in Dickens’novel Our Mutual Friend.
Key to True/False statements:
1-5TTFFT6-10 TFFTF
Part Seven Prose Writers andPoets of the Mid
and Late 19th Century
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
A. Lady Windermere’sFanB. A Woman of No Importance
C. The Picture of DorianGray D.The Importance of Being Earnest
2.____ is a description of the misery of man of letters.
A. New GrubStreetB. TheCurrent
C. Charles Dickens: A Critical Study D.The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
3.A Dream of John Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled thepeasants’ rising of the 14th century.
A.MorrisB. Gissing C.StevensonD. Wilde
4.News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes adream of the future classless society.
A. MorrisB. Gissing C.Stevenson D.Wilde
5._____is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.
A. F. ScottFitzgeraldB. William Fitzgerald
C. RobertFitzgeraldD. Edward Fitzgerald
6._____ is Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s best-known poem.
A. The BlessedDamozelB. Poems by D. G. Rossetti
C. The House ofLifeD. Ballads and Sonnets
7.____ is considered “the Sage of Chelsea”.
A. ThomasCarlyleB. John Ruskin
C. MatthewArnoldD. Tomas Macaulay
8.____introduced German literature to England with his Life ofSchiller.
A. ThomasCarlyleB. John Ruskin
C. MatthewArnoldD. Tomas Macaulay
9.In ____, Carlyle contrasted the misery and confusion of industrialEngland with a certain Abbot Sampson’s admirable rule of hismonastery in the 12th century.
A. Past andPresentB. Heroes and Hero-Worship
C. SartorResartusD. The French Revolution
10. Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is ___.
A. History of EnglandB.Culture and Anarchy
C. Heroes and Hero-Worship D. ModernPainters
11. Tennyson’s _____ expresses his optimisticattitude towards death when he is old.
A. Break, Break,BreakB. Crossing the Bar
C. ThePrincessD. Maud
12. ____remained a poet in his painting and apainter in his poetry.
A. Dante GabrielRosettiB. Christina Georgina Rossetti
C. EdwardFitzgeraldD. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Key to the multiple choices:
1-5CAAAD6-10AAAAA11-12 BA
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus is a ____phrase meaning “the tailorretailored”.
2.Ruskin’s works on art expound his ______ thoughts andprinciples.
3.Ruskin’s The Stones of Venice is a book in the sphere of____ criticism.
4.Tennyson’s book, ______, was written in memory of his friend A. H.Hallam.
5.Tennyson’s The Idylls of the King is based on the stories of_____ and his Knights of the Round Table.
6.Christina Georgina Rossetti was famous for her _____, her chiefnarrative poem.
7.The keynote of Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s love poems is the union ofthe body and the ______.
8.Robert Browning’s greatest contribution to literature is____.
9.Robert Browning’s masterpiece is ____.
10. TheImportance of Being Earnest is the first modern _____ ofEnglish.
11. RobertLouis Stevenson’s masterpiece is ________.
12.William Morris was a great poet, artist and _______.
13.Swinburne’s mastery of metrical skill, versatility in the use oflyric forms and unconventional choice of themes made him an_______.
14.Songs before Sunrise expresses Swinburne’s support andsympathy to the _________ revolution of independence.
15._______is the 4-lined stanza rhyming in its first, second, andfourth lines.
Key
1.Latin
2.aesthetic
3.art
4.In Memoriam
5.King Arthur
6.Goblin Market
7.soul
8.dramatic monologue
9.The Ring and the Book
10.comedy
11. Treasure Island
12. socialist
13.aesthete
14. Italian
15. “Rubaiyat”
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.In Carlyle’s works, archaic words and expressions are revived andnew ones invented in the German manner.
2.Swinburn wrote a number of plays including a trilogy of Mary Queenof Scots.
3.Mrs. Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows written in 1851 is asupport to the Irish people’s struggle for independence.
4.Mr. Browning’s Pippa Passes is the first poem in the bookBells andPomegranates.
5.Robert Louis Stevenson’s An Inland Voyage made himfamous.
6.George Gissing is a leading figure of naturalism.
7.Swinburne wrote a trilogy of Mary Queen of Scots.
8.F. Scott Fitzgerald is famous for his translation of Rubaiyat.
9.The Germ is the magazine of the Pre-RaphaeliteBrotherhood.
Key to the True/False statements:
1.T
2.T
3.F (Italian)
4.T
5.F (Treasure Island)
6.T
7.T
8.F (Edward Fitzgerald)
9.T
Part Eight Twentieth CenturyEnglish Literature
Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.
1.The Way of All Flesh written by _____gives a devastatingpicture of the bourgeois family and hypocrisy of the British middleclass.
A. SamuelButlerB. George Meredith
C. Herbert GeorgeWellsD. John Galsworthy
2._____ is considered “the bard of imperialism”.
A. JosephConradB. Arnold Bennett
C. RudyardKiplingD. Sean O’Casey
3.Arnold Bennett’s masterpiece is _____.
A.KimB. The Old Wives’ Tale
C. LordJimD. The History of Polly
4.Henry James is the forerunner of the _____.
A. ImagismB. Chartism C.impressionism D. stream of consciousness
5.Katharine Mansfield is a master of ____ at the turn of thecentury.
A. short storywriter B.dramaticpoetry C.realisticnovels D.humor
6.After writing _____, Hardy turned to poetry.
A.Under the GreenwoodTreeB. The Return of the Native
C.Jude theObscureD. The Mayor of Casterbridge
7.John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature because of_____.
A. The End of theChapterB. The Forsyte Saga
C. A ModernComedyD. The Island Pharisees
8.The Man of Property is taken from Galsworthy’s trilogy, _____.
A. The End of theChapterB. The Forsyte Saga
C. A ModernComedyD. The Island Pharisees
9.The Abbey Theatre performed works by _____ dramatists.
A.Irish B.British C.American D.Scottish
10.Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols inhis poem.
A.novels B.poetry C.dramas D.prose
11. ____was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and agreatinnovator of versetechnique.
A. W. B.Yeats B. T.S. Eliot C.D. H. Lawrence D. G. B.Shaw
12. ____is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working tocomplete.
A. APortrait of the Artist as a YoungManB. Ulysses
C. FinnegansWakeD.Dubliners
13. ____is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects oflife in politics, culture and religion.
A. APortrait of the Artrist as a YoungManB. Ulysses
C. FinnegansWakeD. Dubliners
14. Whichof the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?
A. TheWasteLandB. The Rainbow
C. Lady Chatterley’sLover D. Women inLove
15. Whichof the following is not written by Yeats?
A. FourQuartets B. AVision C. The WindingStair D. The Tower
16. ____is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments through the novelform of “stream of consciousness”.
A. Jacob’s Room B.To theLighthouseC. OrlandoD. TheWaves
Key to the multiplechoices:
1-5ACBDA6-10 CBBAB11-16BBDAAD
Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.
1.Herbert George Wells’s literary works fall into three groups: the_____ novels, ____novels and _____novels.
2.Henry James’ method of characterization is “a complete _____ ofcharacters”.
3.Hardy’s poetry is famous for its ____ poetry.
4.Hardy’s novels are well-known for the _____ and_____.
5._____ made Galsworthy famous as a playwright.
6.Lady Gregory is the founder of the ____Theatre.
7.Sean O’Casey is renowned for his drama of ____ slums in war andrevolution.
8.Shaw’s ____ play expose the seamy side of thesociety.
9.Rupert Brooke is one of the “_____ poets” whose poems is TheSoldier.
10. JohnMasefield is considered “the poet of the_____”.
11.Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf were great ____ fictionwriters.
12. RobertTressell was a working-class ____ in the early 20thcentury.
13. Christopher Caudwell made greatcontribution to _____ literary criticism by his 2 books,Illusion and Reality and Studies in a DyingCulture.
Key to the blanks:
1.realistic; scientific; discussion
2.objectification
3.Wessex
4.characters; environment
5.The Silver Box
6.Abbey
7.Dublin
8.unpleasant
9.war
10.sea
11.psychological
12.novelist
13. Marxist
Ⅲ. Say true or false.
1.George Meredith’s novels are masterpieces of satirical portrayaland psychological analysis.
2.Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups: jungle novels, sea novels andpolitical novels.
3.Henry James’s fundamental theme was the innocence of the New Worldand the corruption of the Old.
4.The story of Tess is filled with a feeling of dismalforeboding and doom.
5.Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book ofJude the Obscure.
6.Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey were greatIrish dramatists.
7.The house in Shaw’s Heartbreak House embodies bourgeoisEngland.
8.Shaw’s Saint Joan is a historical play devoted to the greatdaughter of the English people, Joan of Arc, and her struggle forthe liberty of her country.
9.Alfred Edward Housman, a classical scholar of the highest order andprofessor of Latin at London University and Cambridge wrote poetryof crystal clarity.
10. JamesJoyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the“stream of consciousness”school.
11. RobertTressell was a working class novelist whose great work is TheRagged TrouseredPhilanthropists.
12. In the1930s, British Marxist literary criticism was represented by tworevolutionary writers, Ralph Fox and ChristopherCaudwell.
13. RalphFox’s representative book is The Novel and the People.
Key to True/False statements:
1.T
2.T
3.T
4.T
5.F (Tess)
6.T
7.T
8.F (French people)
9.T
10. T
11. T
12. T
13. T
