Part 1 Early and Medieval English Literature
1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.
A. William the Conqueror B. Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great D. Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .
A. Langland B. Wycliffe C. Gower D. Chaucer 3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.
A. novel B. drama C. romance D. essay
4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. Beowulf C. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales
5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla Khan B. Piers the Plowman
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C. The Dream of John Bull D. Morte d’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.
A. French B. English C. Latin D. Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the Bible.
A. Langland B. Gower C. Wycliffe D. Chaucer
8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed, through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitive B. feudal C. bourgeois D. modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty B. revolt C. obedience D. mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’Arthur B. Robin Hood
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C. The Canterbury Tales D. Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born in London in about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer B. Sir Gawain C. Francis Bacon D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
A. Flanders B. France C. Italy D. Westminster Abbey
13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.
A. The Romaunt of the Rose B. “A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good Women D. The Book of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.
A. engineer B. courtier C. office holder
D. soldier E. ambassador F. legislator (议员)
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15. Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of Good Women B. Troilus and Criseyde C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight D. Beowulf 16. 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
17. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.
A. Piers the Plowman B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
C. Confessio Amantis D. The Canterbury Tales 18. 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
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B．Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales C．John Gower’s Confession Amantis
D．Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Part 2 The English Renaissance
Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.
1. Thomas More----Utopia 2. Holinshed----Chronicles
3. Hakluyt----Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries 4. Richard Tottel----Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets 5. Philip Sidney----Apology for Poetry 6. Walter Raleigh----Discovery of Guiana
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1. _____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.
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A. Henry V B. Henry VII C. Henry VIII D. James I
2. The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of the Reformation” and his followers.
A. William Tyndal B. James I
C. John Wycliffe D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3. The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad. ____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.
A. Henry V. B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII D. Queen Elizabeth
4. Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.
A. Spain B. France C. America D. Norway
5. Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.
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A. Francis Drake B. Lancelot Andrews
C. William Caxton D. William Tyndal
6. ____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.
A. Ben Johnson B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas More D. Christopher Marlowe
7. The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
A. Lyly B. Peele C. Greene D. Marlowe
8. Morality plays appeared after_____.
A. miracle plays B. mystery plays C. interlude D. Classical plays
9. _____ is used to say and do good things.
A. Mercy B. Folly C. Vice D. Peace
10. _____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip Sidney B. Edmund Spenser
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C. Thomas More D. Walter Raleigh
11. _____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.
A. Thomas North B. Thomas Wyatt
C. George Chapman D. John Florio
12. ____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.
A. Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》
B. Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C. Don Quixote
D. History of the World
13. ____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
A. John Wycliffe B. William Caxton
C. Geoffrey Chaucer D. Thomas More 14. Utopia was written in the form of _____.
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A. prose B. drama C. essay D. dialogue
15. One of the popular morality plays was ____.
A. The Shepherds B. Everyman
C. The Play of the Weather D. Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16. Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594 B. 1595 and 1600
C. 1601 and 1607 D. 1608 and 1612
17. Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. Pericles B. Cymbeline C. The Winter’s Tale D. The Tempest
18. In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 1 sonnets.
A. 1606 B. 1607 C. 1608 D. 1609
19. Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
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A. romanticism B. realism C. naturalism D. classicism
20. Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially good at the _______.
A. dramatic blank verse B. song C. sonnet D. couplet
21. In the plays, Shakespeare used about ______words.
A. 15000 B. 16000 C. 17000 D. 18000
22. _____has been called the summit of the English Renaissance.
A. Christopher Marlow B. Francis Bacon
C. W. Shakespeare D. Ben Johnson
Part 4 The 18th Century
1. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A. The Tatler B. The Spectator C. The Theatre D. The English
2. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.
A. Steele B. Addison C. Pope D. Dryden
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3. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.
A. Essay on Criticism B. The Rape of the Lock
C. Essay on Man D. The Dunciad
4. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.
A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Industrial Revolution
C. The Religious Reform D. The Enlightenment
5. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.
A. aristocratic B. middle class C. low class D. intellectual
6. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.
A. Steele B. Milton C. Addison D. Pope 7. The main literary stream of the 18th century was ____ . What the writers described in their works were mainly social realities.
A. romanticism B. classicism C. realism D. sentimentalism 11
8. The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.
A. drama B. poetry C. essay D. novel
9. In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, The Battle of the Books and ___, which made him well-known as a satirist.
A. A Tale of Tub B. Bickerstaff Almanac
C. The Battle of the Books D. Gulliver’s Travels
10. 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
11. “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
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12. Henry Fielding’s first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of ridiculing
Pamela.
A. Tom Jones B. Joseph Andrews C. Jonathan Wild D. Amelia
13. From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is derived the term “malapropism” which means a ridiculous misusage of big words.
A. The Rivals B. The School for Scandal
C. The Beggar’s Opera D. The London Merchant
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periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.
Which of the following
A. The Review B. The Tatler C. The Rambler D. The Bee
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not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.
Which of the following works are
A. The Traveller B. The Deserted Village
C. The Vicar of Wakefield D. The School for Scandal
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16.
written by Edward Gibbon?______.
Which of the following works is
A. The School for Scandal B. She Stoops to Conquer
C. The Good-natured Man D. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
17. 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
18. ______ is not written by William Blake.
A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell B. Songs of Experience
C. Auld Lang Syne D. Poetical Sketches
19. “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in
winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from William Blake’s _____.
A. Songs of Experience B. Songs of Innocence
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C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. Poetical Sketches
20. The 18th century witnessed that in England
there appeared two political parties, ______, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver’s Travels.
A. the Whigs and the Tories B. the senate and the House of Representatives
C. The upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
21. ____ found its representative writers in the
field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.
A. Pre-romanticism B. Romanticism C. Sentimentalism D. Naturalism
22. _____ 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
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23. Which of the following novels is not
epistolary (written in letter form) novels?
A. Clarissa Harlowe B. Pamela
C. Sir Charles Grandison D. Tom Jones
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comedy since Shakespeare?
Which play is regarded as the best English
A. She Stoops to Conquer B. The Rivals C. The School for Scandal D. The Conscious Lovers Part 5 Romanticism in England
1. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism B. Renaissance C. Enlightenment D. feudalism
2. The main literary stream is ____in Romanticism in England.
A. poetry B. novels C. prose D. periodicals
3. ____ has another name called “The Daffodils”.
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A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey”
C. “Revolution” D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
4. Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.
A. Frost at Midnight B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
5. 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
6. Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.
A. Wordsworth’s B. Byron’s C. Shelley’s D. Keats’
7. ____ lived the longest life.
A. Wordsworth B. Byron C. Shelley D. Keats
8. Keats’ best ode is ____.
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A. “On a Grecian Urn” B. “To Autumn”
C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale”
9. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.
A. The Spirit of the Age B. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D. On the English Poets
10. 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”
11. The Prelude has also been called _____.
A. The Last Brazil B. The First Impression C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind D. The Spirit of the Age
12. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.
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A. “The Solitary Reaper” B. “The Daffodils”
C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” D. “O Solitude”
13. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.
A. The Prelude B. Endymion
C. Don Juan D. Biographia Literaria
14. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.
A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt
15. 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 16. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott 17. Lamb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.
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A. romanticism B. conversations C. inspirations D. archaisms
18. Lamb is a romanticist of ______.
A. the city B. the countryside C. nature D. imagination
19. 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
20. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from _____.
A. Don Juan B. The Prelude C. Kubla Khan D. Isabella
21. 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
22. One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
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C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
23. Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.
A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night
C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria
24. ____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.
A. Zastrozzi B. The Necessity of Atheism
C. Queen Mab D. Prometheus Unbound
25. _____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.
A. John Woodvil B. Essays of Elia
C. Mr H D. Tales from Shakespeare
26. 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
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27. The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.
A. 17…1821 B. 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D. 1768…1819
28. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth
Part 6 English Critical Realism
1. ____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.
A. Jane Austen B. Thackeray
C. Dickens D. Charlotte
2. Pride and Prejudice’s first title is ____.
A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero
C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion
3. Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.
A. First Impression B. A Book Without a Hero
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C. The Newcomes D. Persuasion
4. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
A. romanticism B. naturalism C. realism D. critical realism
5. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .
A. novel B. drama C. poetry D. sonnet
6. ______’s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.
A. George Eliot B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. W. M. Thackeray D. John Buyan
7. The ____ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.
A. Enlightenment B. Renaissance C. Chartist D. Romanticist
8. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into literature, the struggle of the _____ for its rights.
A. soldiers B. peasants C. bourgeoisie D. proletariat
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9. The greatest of Chartist poets was _____.
A. Earnest Jones B. John Milton
C. Thomas Hardy D. John Keats
10. The story of ______ deals with the adventures of a retired old merchant.
A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield
C. Pickwick Papers D. Oliver Twist
11. The novel _____ exposes the terrible conditions of English private schools.
A. Nicholas Nickleby B. Oliver Twist
C. Hard Times D. Great Expectations
12. The story of _____ deals with the sufferings and hardships of an old man named Trent, and his granddaughter, Nell.
A. Pickwick Papers B. The Old Curiosity Shop
C. Great Expectations D. Hard Times
13. Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of
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education?
A. Oliver Twist B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectations D. A Tale of Two Cities
14. Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher society regardless of the social reality?
A. A Tale of Two Cities B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations D. Dombey and Son
15. In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his sympathy for the workers.
A. Great Expectations B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Hard Times D. Oliver Twist
16. In the novel ___ , Defarge and Madame Defarge represent the revolutionaries.
A. Dombey and Son B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Little Dorrit D. Bleak House
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17. In the novel _____, Dr. Manette is a typical bourgeois intellectual.
A. David Copperfield B. Wuthering Heights
C. Bleak House D. A Tale of Two Cities
18. _____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author’s early life.
A. The Curiosity Shop B. David Copperfield
C. Oliver Twist D. Great Expectations 19. In 18, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.
A. The Old Curiosity Shop B. The Pickwick Paper
C. Our Mutual Friend D. Little Dorrit
20. Which of the following is Thackeray’s masterpiece?
A. The Virginians B. The Books of Snobs
C. The Newcomes D. Vanity Fair 21. The sub-title of Vanity Fair is _____.
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A. The First Impression B. A Novel Without a Hero
C. The Spirit of the Age D. The Daffodils
22. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan’s masterpiece _____.
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress B. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage
C. Gulliver’s Travels D. The Canterbury Tales
23. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.
A. Jane Eyre B. Agnes Grey C. Wuthering Heights D. Emma 24. Dickens’ third literary period shows intensifying ______.
A. optimism B. excitement C. irritation D. pessimism
25. The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.
A. 1837…1900 B. 1835…1901 C. 1832…1902 D. 1830…1903
26. The conflicts between the capitalists and the proletarian in industrial England caused the ______.
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A. Enlightenment Movement B. Industrial Revolution
C. Chartist Movement D. Romantic Movement
27. _____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.
A. Earnest Jones B. Emily Brontё
C. Charlotte Brontё D. Charles Dickens
28. Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.
A. wide spread of critical realism
B. his spirit of democracy and humanism
C. his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear language
D. including A, B and C 29. “The pride of wealth” or “purse-pride” is the theme of _____.
A. Dombey and Son B. Nicholas Nickleby
C. The Old Curiosity Shop D. Martin Chuzzlewit
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30. The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.
A. London and New York B. London and Paris
C. Paris and New York D. Brussels and Washington
31. ____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.
A. essay B. poetry C. novel D. drama
32. ____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.
A. Rochester B. Heathcliff C. Manette D. Martin
33. Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.
A. familiar things B. common people
C. neighbors D. evils
34. The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.
A. Earnest Jones B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. Mr. Browning D. Alfred Tennyson
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35. ______ made Dickens famous overnight.
A. Sketches by Boz B. The Pickwick Papers C. Oliver Twist D. The Old Curiosity Shop
36. _____ is Dickens’ first novel of social history reflecting the sharp social contradictions.
A. Sketches by Boz B. American Notes
C. Martin Chuzzlewit D. Barnaby Rudge
37. Which of the following Dickens’ works is not based on Christmas with religious coloring?
A. Christmas Day in the Morning B. A Christmas Carol
C. The Chimes D. The Cricket on the Heart
38. _____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.
A. Great Expectations B. David Copperfield
C. Bleak House D. The Pickwick Papers
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39. Dickens’ writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.
A. Paris B. New York C. London D. Portsmoth
Part 7 Prose Writers and Poets of the Mid and Late 19th Century
1. ____is Oscar Wilde’s only novel.
A. Lady Windermere’s Fan B. A Woman of No Importance
C. The Picture of Dorian Gray D. The Importance of Being Earnest
2. A Dream of John Ball is a prose work which ____ recalled the peasants’ rising of the 14th century.
A. Morris B. Gissing C. Stevenson D. Wilde
3. News from Nowhere is a prose work which ____ describes a dream of the future classless society.
A. Morris B. Gissing C. Stevenson D. Wilde
4. ____introduced German literature to England with his Life of Schiller.
A. Thomas Carlyle B. John Ruskin
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C. Matthew Arnold D. Tomas Macaulay
5. In ____, Carlyle contrasted the misery and confusion of industrial England with a certain Abbot Sampson’s admirable rule of his monastery in the 12th century.
A. Past and Present B. Heroes and Hero-Worship
C. Sartor Resartus D. The French Revolution
6. Thomas Macaulay’s masterpiece is ___.
A. History of England B. Culture and Anarchy
C. Heroes and Hero-Worship D. Modern Painters
7. Tennyson’s _____ expresses his optimistic attitude towards death when he is old.
A. Break, Break, Break B. Crossing the Bar C. The Princess D. Maud
8. ____remained a poet in his painting and a painter in his poetry.
A. Dante Gabriel Rosetti B. Christina Georgina Rossetti
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C. Edward Fitzgerald D. Algernon Charles Swinburne
Part 8 Twentieth Century English Literature
1. The Way of All Flesh written by _____gives a devastating picture of the bourgeois family and hypocrisy of the British middle class.
A. Samuel Butler B. George Meredith
C. Herbert George Wells D. John Galsworthy
2. _____ is considered “the bard of imperialism”.
A. Joseph Conrad B. Arnold Bennett
C. Rudyard Kipling D. Sean O’Casey
3. Arnold Bennett’s masterpiece is _____.
A. Kim B. The Old Wives’ Tale
C. Lord Jim D. The History of Polly
4. Henry James is the forerunner of the _____.
A. Imagism B. Chartism C. impressionism D. stream of consciousness
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5. Katharine Mansfield is a master of ____ at the turn of the century.
A. short story writer B. dramatic poetry C. realistic novels D. humor
6. After writing _____, Hardy turned to poetry.
A. Under the Greenwood Tree B. The Return of the Native
C. Jude the Obscure D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
7. John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature because of _____.
A. The End of the Chapter B. The Forsyte Saga
C. A Modern Comedy D. The Island Pharisees
8. The Man of Property is taken from Galsworthy’s trilogy, _____.
A. The End of the Chapter B. The Forsyte Saga C. A Modern Comedy D. The Island Pharisees
9. The Abbey Theatre performed works by _____ dramatists.
A. Irish B. British C. American D. Scottish
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10. Yeats’s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.
A. novels B. poetry C. dramas D. prose
11. ____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great innovator of verse technique.
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 to complete.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners
13. ____ is a collection of short stories which reflect three aspects of life in politics, culture and religion.
A. A Portrait of the Artrist as a Young Man B. Ulysses
C. Finnegans Wake D. Dubliners
14. Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?
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A. The Waste Land B. The Rainbow
C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover D. Women in Love
15. Which of the following is not written by Yeats?
A. Four Quartets B. A Vision C. The Winding Stair D. The Tower
16. ____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments through the novel form of “stream of consciousness”.
A. Jacob’s Room B. To the Lighthouse C. Orlando D. The Waves True or false 1
1. English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. (from late 18th to the mid-19th century)
2. Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.
3. After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude.
4. P. B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent and rebellious attitude.
5. The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded,
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ee.
6. Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life. (city)
7. Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”. (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”)
8. Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature.
9. Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads. (Wordsworth)
10. Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name,
Growth of a Poet’s Mind. (“The Daffodils”)
11. The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s masterpiece. (Wordsworth)
12. Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the French Revolution.
13. Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature. (familiar essay)
14. Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined themselves with those forces.
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15. Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets. ( Passive Romantic poets)
16. Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second generation.
17. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.
18. The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and the country people of that area in their writings. (the first generation/ The Lake Poets)
19. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.
20. The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology. (Greek)
21. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language.
22. Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.
23. Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive movements of his age.
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24. Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty.
25. Byron’s poetry was first introduced into China at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when China was on the eve of the 1911 Revolution.
26. Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. (Keats) 27. Lamb’s essays are intensely personal.
28. Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range of subject matter. (Lamb) 29. Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.
30. Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad. (Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
True or false 2
1. Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England.
2. Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused the interests of the readers.
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3. In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism. 4. The plot of Sketches by Boz is rather formless, but the novel fascinates the reader from beginning to end by its comical episodes. 5. The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt description of the society of the time.
6. Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and
ethics and on utilitarianism.
7. Dombey and Son is a novel with imprisonment, both matter-of-fact or symbolic, as its central theme.
8. A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject.
9. The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.”
10. Pip is the major character in Dickens’ novel Our Mutual Friend. True or false 3
1. George Meredith’s novels are masterpieces of satirical portrayal and psychological analysis.
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2. Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups: jungle novels, sea novels and political novels.
3. Henry James’s fundamental theme was the innocence of the New World and the corruption of the Old.
4. The story of Tess is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom.
5. Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of Jude the Obscure. (Tess) 6. Lady Gregory, John Millington Synge and Sean O’Casey were great Irish dramatists.
7. The house in Shaw’s Heartbreak House embodies bourgeois England.
8. Shaw’s Saint Joan is a historical play devoted to the great daughter of the English people, Joan of Arc, and her struggle for the liberty of her country. (French people)
9. Alfred Edward Housman, a classical scholar of the highest order and professor of Latin at London University and Cambridge wrote poetry of crystal clarity.
10. James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness” school.
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11. Robert Tressell was a working class novelist whose great work is The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists.
12. In the 1930s, British Marxist literary criticism was represented by two revolutionary writers, Ralph Fox and Christopher Caudwell.
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Ralph Fox’s representative book is The Novel and the People.
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