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第一章 章节测试

1、Beowulf is an epic of 3182 lines, which is the greatest work of literature of the Old English Period.

A:错

B:对

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2、The year 1066 marks the beginning of the Middle English or Anglo-Norman Period.

A:对

B:错

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3、Robin Hood is the hero in the collection of 15th-century medieval romances.

A:错

B:对

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4、The Canterbury Tales is a masterpiece by Geoffrey Chaucer, the first preeminent English poet in history.

A:错

B:对

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5、The structure of The Canterbury Tales is similar to Boccacio’s Decameron.

A:对

B:错

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6、 (   ) refers to a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of some legendary heroes.

A:Legend

B:Ballad

C:Epic

D:Fable

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7、(   ) is also known as “head rhyme” or “initial rhyme”.

A:Onomatopoeia

B:Assonance

C:Consonance

D:Alliteration

8、Who introduced heroic couplet into England?

A:Thomas Malory

B:Alfred the Great

C:Cynewulf

D:Geoffrey Chaucer

答案: 9、Which of the following works belong to the Old English Period?

A:Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

B:Morte d’Arthur

C:Christ

D:Beowulf

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10、Which of the following literary works come from the Middle English Period?

A:The Legend of St. Elena

B:Piers the Plowman

C:Chanson de Roland

D:The Ecclesiastical History of England

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第二章 章节测试

1、The Faerie Queene, fusing adroitly the strands of legend, fable, and praise of Elizabeth  I’s England in iteself, is a masterpiece written by Thomas Wyatt, who introduced sonnet into English poetry.

A:对

B:错

2、“University Wits” were all graduates from Oxford or Cambridge during the 1580s; Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Lodge, Thomas Nash, and Ben Jonson were outstanding representatives of this school.

A:对

B:错

3、Tamburlanine the Great, The Jew of Malta, and The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus are great tragedies written by Christopher Marlowe, the most prominent figure among the “University Wits.”

A:对

B:错

4、William Shakespeare had produced 154 sonnets in total, and the first 126 sonnets seem to be addressed to a young woman, who possesses extreme beauty.

A:对

B:错

5、All Shakespeare’s plays take place in England.

A:对

B:错

6、(   ) is a nine-line stanza of eight lines of iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter.

A:Spenserian stanza

B:Italian sonnet

C:English sonnet

D:Spenserian sonnet

7、Who coined the term “Metaphysical Poets”?

A:Samuel Johnson

B:John Donne

C:Andrew Marvell

D:George Herbert

8、Who is the most popular and most widely respected writer in all English literature?

A:John Donne

B:John Bunyan

C:William Shakespeare

D:John Milton

9、Which of the following adjectives can be used to describe Francis Bacon’s essays?

A:vigorous

B:powerful

C:fresh

D:conservative

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10、Who were dramatists during the Elizabethan Age?

A:Thomas Kyd

B:Robert Greene

C:Thomas Nash

D:Ben Jonson

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第三章 章节测试

1、Alexander Pope was the representative poet of the neo-classical school, and the early 18th century has often been named as the Age of Pope.

A:错

B:对

2、Gulliver’s Travels is the most enduring work by Jonathan Swift, which is a savage satire in the form of a fabulous travelogue.

A:对

B:错

3、Henry Fielding is regarded as the father of English fiction by Sir Walter Scott, and he had applied first-person narration in his novels.

A:错

B:对

4、William Blake is renowned now for his Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience.

A:错

B:对

5、Robert Burns wrote in Scottish dialect, and he followed the Scottish song tradition in his poetry.

A:错

B:对

6、(   ) refers to a lyric poem lamenting a dead friend, or a public figure.

A:Elegy

B:Epic

C:Sonnet

D:Ode

7、Who defined novel as a genre?

A:Jonathan Swift

B:Henry Fielding

C:Daniel Defoe

D:Samuel Johnson

8、“Auld Lang Syne” praises (   ).

A:patriotism

B:friendship

C:freedom

D:love

9、Which of the following are the features of Enlightenment?

A:A devotion to harmony, proportion, and balance.

B:Strong belief in the clarity of thought.

C:Strong belief in imagination.

D:Profound faith in the powers of human reason.

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10、Who are writers of neo-classicism?

A:Alexander Pope

B:Thomas More

C:Henry Fielding

D:John Dyden

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第四章 章节测试

1、The Romantic Age began with the publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 and ended with the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832.

A:错

B:对

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2、The romantic poets paid great attention on reason or rationality in their poetry.

A:错

B:对

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3、In the preface for the first edition of Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth put forward his principles of poetry.

A:错

B:对

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4、The Revolt of Islam is P. B. Shelley’s first long poem of importance.

A:对

B:错

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5、Jane Austen is the first important English woman novelist, who wrote altogether six novels.

A:错

B:对

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6、Who is the author of Biographia Literaria?

A:S. T. Coleridge

B:P. B. Shelley

C:William Wordsworth

D:Robert Southey

7、Which of the following novel by Scott has its spatial setting in England?

A:Ivanhoe

B:Quentin Durward

C:The Talisman

D:Waverley

8、Which of the following are ideals advocated by the French Revolution?

A:reason

B:equality

C:liberty

D:fraternity

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9、Which of the following are characters from Prometheus Unbound?

A:Africa

B:Panthea

C:Demogorgon

D:Eternal Love

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10、Which work made Byron famous?

A:Don Juan

B:The Revolt of Islam

C:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

D:A Defense of Poetry

第五章 章节测试

1、The critical realists criticised the capitalist social system from a proletarian point of view.

A:对

B:错

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2、Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, and John Ruskin were all eminent figures among the Victorian poets.

A:对

B:错

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3、Dickens took the French Revolution as the background of A Tale of Two Cities, and the two cities are Paris and London.

A:对

B:错

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4、Wuthering Heights, the masterpiece of Emily Brontë, narrates the tragic love story of a governess.

A:错

B:对

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5、Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English critical realism in the early part of the Victorian period.

A:错

B:对

6、Which is the most popular form of all the literary art during the Victorian period?

A:prose

B:fiction

C:drama

D:poetry

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7、Who wrote the bewitching Sherlock Holmes cycle of detective stories?

A:Lewis Carroll

B:Wilkie Collins

C:Robert Louis Stevenson

D:Conan Doyle

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8、What is an archetypal Dickensian hero like?

A:An adult.

B:A boy.

C:A girl.

D:An orphan.

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9、Which of the following are spatial settings in Jane Eyre?

A:Lowood

B:Ferndean

C:Thornfield

D:Gateshead

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10、Which of the following characters are included in The Importance of Being Earnest?

A:Gwendolyn

B:Jack Worthing

C:Algernon

D:Cecily

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第六章 章节测试

1、Realism and modernism coexisted in the 20th-century British literature.

A:错

B:对

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2、The theoretical base of modernism is rationalism.

A:错

B:对

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3、Sons and Lovers, an autobiographical novel by D. H. Lawrence, deals with a story of a father’s dominant and debilitating love over the sons.

A:错

B:对

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4、The Waste Land, T. S. Eliot’s masterpiece, uses the past as a yardstick to measure the present and underscore what is missing from the present.

A:错

B:对

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5、W. B. Yeats played a major role in the Irish literay revival.

A:对

B:错

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6、Who wrote The Time Machine?

A:John Galsworthy

B:Rudyard Kipling

C:Arnold Bennett

D:H. G. Wells

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7、Who won the Nobel Pize in 1923?

A:James Joyce

B:Virginia Woolf

C:W. B. Yeats

D:T. S. Eliot

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8、Which of the following work suggests Eliot had turned conservative?

A:The Confidential Clerk

B:Ash Wednesday

C:Murder in the Cathedral

D:The Cocktail Party

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9、Who were “Edwardians” as termed by Woolf?

A:E. M. Forster

B:John Galsworthy

C:H. G. Wells

D:Arnold Bennett

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10、Which of the following poems are written by Yeats?

A:The Waste Land

B:”The Second Coming”

C:”Sailing to Byzantium”

D:”Gerontion”

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