英国文学史智慧树网课章节测试答案

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第一章 章节测试

1、______, 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

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2、Of the following poets, which is not regarded as “Lake Poets” ?

A:Saumel Taylor Coleridge

B:Robert Southey

C:William Wordsworth

D:John Donne.

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3、Who wrote Waiting for Godot ?

A:John Berger

B:Samuel Beckett

C:Harold Pinter

D:Martin Amis

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

A:Lyly

B:Peele

C:Greene

D:Marlowe

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5、 Utopia was written in the form of _____.

A:prose

B:drama

C:essay

D:dialogue

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6、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

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7、Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies include _____.

A:Hamlet

B:Romeo and Juliet

C:Othello

D:King Lear

E:Macbeth

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8、Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?

A:The Waste LandB:Dubliners

C:Women in Love

D:To the Lighthouse

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9、Sir Philip Sidney is well-known as a poet and dramatist.

A:对

B:错

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10、Joseph Conrad’s novels have groups: jungle novels, sea novels and political novels.

A:对

B:错

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第二章 章节测试

1、What is the oldest literary form?Poetry.

A:对

B:错

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2、Beowulf is ______.

A:a heroB: a monste

C:a kingD:a writer

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3、The author of Piers Plowman is ______.

A:Robin Hood

B:William Langland

C:William

D:Beowulf

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4、The Canterbury Tales is the only work of Chaucer.

A:对

B:错

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5、Shakespearean sonnet is imported from______.

A:Italy

B:France

C:Spain

D:Russia

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6、 Milton’s fame and reputation derive chiefly from______.

A:Samson Agonistes

B:ComusC:Paradise Lost

D:“Lycidas”

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7、The first professional non-dramatic poet in English is Alexander Pope.

A:对

B:错

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8、______ was the keystone of Shelley’s poetic achievement.

A:Prometheus UnboundB:Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

C:The Eve of St. Agnes

D:The Revolt of Islam

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9、“The Big Three” of Victorian poets are Tennyson, Browning and Keats.

A:对

B:错

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10、In 1923 Yeats was awarded______.

A:the Nobel Prize for Literature

B:The Pulitzer Prize

C:Man Booker International Prize

D:Forward Prizes for Poetry

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第三章 章节测试

1、________ was considered the highest achievement of Oscar Wilde as a playwright.

A:The Importance of Being Earnest

B:King Lear

C:The Dumb Waiter

D:The School for Scandal

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2、In 1938, a film version of ________ earned Bernard Shaw an Academy Award for his screenplay.

A: The Second Shepherds’ Play

B:Pygmalion

C: Doctor Faustus

D:Othello

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3、Beckett secured his position as a master dramatist on April 3, 1957 when his second masterpiece, _________, premiered (in French) at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

A:Waiting for Godot

B:All That Fall

C:Krapp’s Last Tape

D:Endgame

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4、

 Christopher Marlowe wrote some important plays, including ________.

A:Tamburlaine

B:The Jew of Malta

C:Edward II

D:Doctor Faustus

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5、Shakespeare is marked by his romantic comedies like ________.

A:The Merchant of Venice

B:Much Ado about Nothing

C: As You Like ItD:Twelfth Night

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6、George Bernard Shaw’s plays include ________.

A:Widower’s Houses

B:Mrs. Warren’s Profession

C:Saint Joan

D:Pygmalion

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7、Morality plays used religious characters and religious themes to teach a moral lesson.

A:对

B:错

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8、Macbeth has been the most popular of Shakespeare’s plays in the last 400 years. It was the firstof Shakespeare’s plays to be translated into Chinese.

A:对

B:错

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9、The Rivals is generally recognized as one of the masterpieces of British Drama and the greatest of the 18th-century English comedy of manners.

A:对

B:错

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10、The first half of the 20th century also saw the attempted revival of drama in verse.

A:对

B:错

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第四章 章节测试

1、Which of the following has been considered as the best specimen of the Old English prose？

A:Utopia

B:History of King Richard III

C:The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

D:An Apology for Poetry

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2、John Milton’s ______ (1644) is the first great plea in English for the freedom of the press.

A:Paradise Lost

B:Areopagitica

C:The Complete Angler

D:Religio Medici

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3、______ is sometimes called the third great Victorian poet, along with Alfred Tennyson and Robert Browning.

A:Matthew Arnold

B:Sir Richard Steele

C:Joseph Addison

D:William Hazlitt

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4、Senecan style of English prose emphasizes ______ and ______.

A:lucidity

B:rhetoric

C:expressiveness

D:logic

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5、According to what we have discussed about English essay, which of the following genre can NOT be understood as Essay?

A:Prose

B:PoetryC:DramaD:Novel

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6、Which of the following prose works were written by Thomas Carlyle?

A:Chartism

B:The French Revolution

C:A Tale of Two Cities

D:The Spectator

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7、 The reason why Maugham is so popular among the readers might be that his writting is complicated and confusing.

A:对

B:错

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8、 Jonathan Swift shows his support for the rich English in A Modest Proposal.

A:对

B:错

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9、 Thomas Carlyle handled the English language as if it were completely raw material that he had to recast from the ground up.

A:对

B:错

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10、The 18th century witnessed the rising of magazines and the increasing popularity of essays.

A:对

B:错

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第五章 章节测试

1、What kind of elements should be taken into consideration when we analyze a novel?

A:Setting

B:characterization

C:plot

D:themes

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2、Distinct achievements of Charles Dickens’ novels are the following EXCEPT________.

A:character sketches and exaggeration.

B:broad humor and penetrating satire.

C:complicated and fascinating plot.

D:the high praise for the power of proletariat

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3、Thomas Hardy’s novel can be divided into three groups: Romances and Fantasies, Novels of Ingenuity and Novels of Character and Environment. The most important ones were the third group, among which Tess and ____ were very famous.

A:Under the Greenwood Tree

B:Jude the Obscure

C:Far from the Madding Crowd

D:The Mayor of Casterbidge

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4、Which of the following novels were written by George Eliot?

A:Silas Marner

B: Adam Bede  

C:To the Lighthouse

D:Middlemarch

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5、Which of the following statements is true about Bronte sisters?

A:Charlotte Bronte’s masterpiece is Wuthering Heights.

B:Jane Eyre is Emily Bronte’s autographical fiction.

C:Their novels by them include The Professor, Shirley, Adam Bede.

D:Together with George Eliot, they were important female writers of Victorian Age.

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6、

What are Thackeray’s greatest achievement in novel writing?

A:the narrative skill   

B:subtle characterization

C: descriptive power make

D:complicated plots.

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7、Novel in the modern era usually makes use of a literary prose style .

A:对

B:错

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8、Daniel Defoe was regarded as the farther of epistolary novel.

A:对

B:错

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9、Oliver Goldsmith was famous for his novel A Sentimental Journey.

A:对

B:错

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10、Sir Walter Scott was among the first to draw upon religion as source material for his fiction and is generally cited as the father of the critical realism.

A:对

B:错

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第六章 章节测试

1、In the Edward Period, the Victorian values totally diminished.

A:对

B:错

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2、 H. G. Wells is a prominent social satirist.

A:对

B:错

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3、Animal Farm isn’t an anti- Utopian novel.

A:对

B:错

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4、 ____ proposed that both clock and psychological time should be measured.

A:Sigmund Freud

B:Bertrand Russell

C:Henri Bergson

D:Aristotle

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5、The three literary giants in the Edwardian Period include Herbert George Wells, Arnold Bennett, and ___.

A:John Galsworthy

B:James Joyce

C:William Somerset

D:The other three are right.

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6、Most of Henry James’ novels deal with the clashes between ____.

A:flesh and spirit

B:the American and the European

C:the past and the future

D:The other three are right.

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7、In the short lifetime, Mansfield produced more than 70 short stories, among which, ___ may be the best one.

A:“The Garden Party”

B:“Bliss”

C:“Araby”

D:The other three are right.

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8、Virginia Woolf’s major novels include ___.

A:Mrs. Dalloway

B:The Rainbow

C:To the Lighthouse  

D:The Waves

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9、In the transition of British fiction from realism to modernism, major figures included ____.

A:Henry James

B:E. M. Forster

C:Joseph Conrad

D:Virginia Woolf

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10、At the peak of British modernist fiction, there appeared such masters as ____.

A:Henry James

B:D. H. Lawrence

C:James Joyce

D:Virginia Woolf

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第七章 章节测试

1、Britain began to build a “welfare state” after 1954.

A:对

B:错

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2、John Wayne and Kingsley Aymis’s novels became the precursors of “angry young men”.

A:对

B:错

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3、The novels of the “Angry Young Men” are also called “Social Satirical Comedy”.

A:对

B:错

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4、Most of “The Angry Young Men” are from ________.

A:Middle Class

B:Upper-Class

C:Lower Class

D:Bourgeoisie

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5、 Which of following is regarded as the representative of “The Angry Young Men”?

A:Jim Dixon

B:Kingsley Amis

C:Thomas Hardy

D:John Galsworthy

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6、In 1990, _________ followed Margaret Thatcher as the Prime Minister.

A:John Major

B:Tony Blair

C:George Bush

D:Clement Attlee

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7、Samuel Beckett won the Nobel Prize for Literature in ____.

A:1963

B:1969

C:1973

D:1980

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8、Which of the following won Novel Prize for Literature?

A:Elias Canetti

B:William Golding

C:V. S. Naipaul

D:Doris Lessing

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9、Iris Murdoch’s philosophical books include ______.

A:Sartre: Romantic Rationalist

B:The Sovereignty of GoodC:The Fire and the Sun

D:Existentialists and Mystics (1997).

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10、Malcolm Bradbury’s novels include ______.

A:The History Man

B:Rate of Exchange

C:Changing Places

D:Eating People Is Wrong

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