英国文学史习题全集（含答案）

英国文学史习题 Part One Early and Medieval English Literature

Ⅰ.Fill in the blanks.

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 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

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)

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

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Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB Ⅱ.Questions

1. What are the features of Beowulf?

2. Comment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.

Part Two The English Renaissance

Ⅰ.Match the writer and his works. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Thomas More Holinshed Hakluyt Richard Tottel Philip Sidney 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—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D) 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.

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. 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. 8. 9.

The most gifted of the“university wits”was____. A.Lyly B.Peele C.Greene D.Marlowe Morality plays appeared after_____.

A.miracle plays B.mystery plays C.interlude D.Classical plays _____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 C.Thomas More D.Walter Raleigh

11. _____is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.

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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_____.

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 154 sonnets. A.1606 B.1607 C.1608 1609

19. Shakespeare is one of the founders of____.

A.romanticism B.realism C.naturalism D.classicism

20. Among many poetic forms,Shakespeare was especially at home(good at)with 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 Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 BCDAA 6-10 DDCBA 11-15 BDADA 16-22 ACBADDB Ⅲ.Fill in the blanks. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

The____was universally used by the Catholic Churches.

The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between____and___. The Bible was notably translated into English by the____.

The first complete English Bible was translated by____,“the morning star of the_____”.

_____translated the New Testament and portions of the Old Testament,which is known as Tyndale’s Bible. After Tydale’s Bible,then appeared the______,which was made in 1611 under the auspices of_____.And so was sometimes called the____.

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7. 8. 9.

Apart from the religious influence,the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English___and____. With the widespread influence of the English Bible,the standard modern English has been_____and_____. A great number of____and phrases have passed into daily English speech as household words. 300 years.

10. The____and____language of the Authorized Version has colored the style of the English prose for the last 11. ____was the first English printer.

12. William Caxton was a prosperous merchant himself,but he was fond of___,and his interest was turning

to____.

13. He translated The Recuyell of Historyes of Troy into English from French which was the___book printed in

English.

14. The Recuyell served as a source for____Troilus and Cressida.《特洛埃勒斯与克雷雪达》

15. After having established his printing press,William Caxton devoted himself to the career of a____and_____. 16. William Caxton published about____books,___of which were translated by himself.

17. By rendering(翻译)French books into English,Caxton exercised the youthful language in the airs(曲调),the

graces,the crafts of the elder and contributed to the development of the style of___century English____. 18. The influence of Caxton’s publications is also great in fixing a____language in England.

19. As the first English printer,Caxton invented in England the profession of____,which in fact has had a lasting

significance to the development of English___as a whole.

20. The Renaissance started in the______century and ended in the______century.

21. The word,“renaissance”means________,which was stimulated by a series of historical events,such

as________.

22. In the Renaissance,the humanist thinkers and scholars tried to get rid of those old____in medieval Europe,to

introduce new ideas that expresses____of the rising bourgeoisie,and to recover the____of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

23. ____is the theme of the English Renaissance,which emphasized the capacities of____and the achievements

of____.

24. ____Stanza is a verse form created by_____for his poem,______,in which the rhyme scheme is____. 25. The Wars of the Roses(1455—1485)between the House of___and the House of___struggling for the Crown

continued for 30 years.

26. Because of the conflict between the Roman Catholic Church and the King of England,the far-reaching

movement of___took place in England,started by Henry VIII.

27. After___in England,the helpless,dispossessed peasants,being compelled to work at a low wage,became hired

laborers for the merchants.These laborers were the fathers of modern English___.

28. The introduction of___to England by William Caxton(1476)brought classical works within reach of the

common multitude.

29. The 16th 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 time when,according to Thomas More,“___”. 31. ____broke off with the Pope,dissolved all the monasteries and abbeys in the country,confiscated their lands

and proclaimed himself head of the Church of England.

32. Together with the development of bourgeois relationships and formation of the English national state this

period is marked by a flourishing of national culture known as____. 33. ____,in his translation of Virgil’s Aeneid,wrote the first English blank verse.

34. Richard Tottel’s Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets contained_____poems by______and_____by_____.

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35. Philip Sidney thought that_____had superiority over philosophy and history.

36. _____is a picture of contemporary England with forcible exposure of the___among the laboring classes. 37. More points out that the root of poverty is the_________of social wealth. 38. Sonnets contain_____sonnets and____sonnets.

39. The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its____. 40. The“miracles”were simple plays based on______stories.

41. There are significant touches of_____life in the play titled The Shepherds. 42. A morality play presented the_____of good and_____with_____personages. 43. Vice was the predecessor of the modern_____. 44. Through

the

revival

of

classical

literature,English

playwrights

came

into

contact

with______and______drama.

45. From the contact with Greek and Latin drama,English playwrights learned all the important rules

in____and____,the more exact conception of____and____.

46. English comedies and tragedies on classical models appeared in the middle of the____century. 47. The first English comedy is______. 48. The first English tragedy is_____.

49. Miracle plays,morality plays,interludes and classical plays paved the way for the flourishing of____. 50. In the 16th century_____became the centre of English drama. 51. By____,professional actors were organized into companies.

52. ____were wooden buildings,usually circular in form,with tiers（一排排）of galleries surrounding a roofless

pit（楼下剧场）.

53. In the Elizabethan Theater,there were no____and women’s parts were always taken by____.

54. Shakespeare’s narrative poem,Venus and Adonis,is full of vivid images 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 and implications of real life. Key to the blanks: 1. Latin Bible

2. Protestantism;Catholicism 3. Protestants

4. John Wycliffe;Reformation 5. William Tyndal 6. Authorized

James Bible. 7. Language;literature 8. fixed;confirmed 9. Bible coinages 10. simple;dignified 11. William Caxton 12. Reading;literature 13. First

Version,James

I;King

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

Queene;ababbcbcc 25. Lancaster;York 26. The Reformation

Spenser;The

Faerie

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support.

15. Samuel Richardson’s first novel,Pamela,is the first_____novel in English literature.

16. Tobias Smollett,a good humorist,used the form of_____novel.His humor is better shown in Humphrey

Clinker than anywhere else.

17. In describing Robinson’s life on the island,Defoe glorifies human_____. 18. Fielding thought that the stage should be the school of_____.

19. The chapter of“On Hats”in Fielding’s Jonathan Wild is full of satire and______.

20. Laurence Sterne belonged to the school of those writers who were versed 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 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 essays written for The Tatler and The Spectator. 3. The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which treated in a serious manner. 4. The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel. 5. Steele’s translations of Humor’s works are done in heroic couplet. 6. Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.

7. The 18th century was an age of poetry.A group of excellent 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,but the kings and nobles.

9. The 19th century produced the first English novelists,who fall into two groups:the sentimentalist novelists and

the realist novelist.

10. In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray,sentimentalism found its fine expression.

11. A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time,in which the reader is told the

story of the Bee and the Spider.

12. Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of Roderick Random,in which

Random,like Smollett,is a Scot and a doctor.

13. The two most important of all Samuel Johnson’s literary works are the preface and comments of individual

plays in his edition of Shakespeare,and his Lives of Poets,which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.

14. Classicism turned to the countryside for its material,so is in striking contrast to sentimentalism,which had

confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms,and to the social and political life of London.

15. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects. 16. In The School for Scandal,Sheridan contrasts two brothers,Joseph Surface and Charles Surface.

11. persecution 12. lightheartedness 13. manner

14. A Dictionary of English Language 15. epistolary 16. picaresque 17. labor 18. morality 19. symbolism 20. Heart

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17. My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his

unshakable love for his homeland.

18. Racial discrimination is expressed in Blake’s“The Little Black”. 19. Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music.

20. Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake 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 18th century. 2. Comment on The Spectator.

Part Five Romanticism in England

Ⅰ.Choose the right answer. 1. Romanticism fights against the ideas of______. A.realism B.Renaissance C.Enlightenment D.feudalism 2. The main literary stream is____. A.poetry B.novels C.prose D.periodicals 3.

____has a another name called“The Daffodils”. 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

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6. 7. 8.

Prometheus Unbound is____masterpiece. A.Wordsworth’s B.Byron’s C.Shelley’s D.Keats’ ____lived the longest life.

A.Wordsworth B.Byron C.Shelley D.Keats Keats’first poem is____.

A.O Solitude B.On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer C.Poems D.Endymion

9. Keats’best ode is____.

A.“On a Grecian Urn”B.“To Autumn” C.“To Psyche”D.“To a Nightingale”

10. 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

11. 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” 12. 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

13. Wordsworth’s“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”has also been called_______.

A.“The Solitary Reaper”B.“The Daffodils”

C.“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”D.“O Solitude” 14. _____is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.

A.The Prelude B.Endymion C.Don Juan D.Biographia Literaria

15. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of_______.

A.models of classicism B.familiar essay

C.rules of neo-romanticism D.ways of modernism 16. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is_____.

A.Keats B.Walter Scott C.Charles Lamb D.William Hazlitt 17. 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

18. _____is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A. Jane Austen B.Charles Lamb C.William Hazlitt D.Waler Scott 19. Lamb’s writings are full of______for he is especially fond of old writers.

A.romanticism B.conversations C.inspirations D.archaisms 20. Lamb is a romanticist of______.

A.the city B.the countryside 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 with Shakespeare,Milton and Wordsworth in the

history English literature.

A.Keats B.Wordsworth C.Coleridge D.William

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23. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from_____.

A.Dun Juan B.The Prelude C.Kubla Khan D.Isabella 24. 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 25. One of Coleridge’s best“conventional”poems is_____.

A.Kubla Khan B.Frost at Night C.Christabel D.Biographia Literaria

26. Coleridge’s best literary criticism is_________.

A.Kubla Khan B.Frost at Night C.Christabel D.Biographia Literaria 27. ____is Shelley’s masterpiece.

A.Zastrozzi B.The Necessity of Atheism C.Queen Mab D.Prometheus Unbound

28. _____is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.

A.John Woodvil B.Essays of Elia C.Mr H D.Tales from Shakespeare

29. 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 30. ______is Shelley’s first book written in____.

A.Zastrozzi;Eton B.The Necessity of Atheism;Italy C.Queen Mab;Greece D.Prometheus Unbound;Italy 31. The Romantic 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.the second C.the third D.the forth

33. The Examiner is a famous_____in the English Romantic Age.

A.novel B.poem C.periodical D.newspaper Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB 16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA 31-33 CBCⅡ.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 and the new. 9.

Charles Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare is for_____.

10. ______a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Coleridge.

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11. The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the_____in England.

12. The poems in Lyrical Ballads are characterized by a_____with the poor,simple peasants,a passionate love of

nature and the_____and____of the language.

13. The description of the book,______has been called a long journey home.

14. _____was the only old romantic who never wavered in his devotion to the cause of the French Revolution. 15. All his life,Hazlitt remained loyal to the principles of____,_____and______. 16. Romanticism is applied to a European movement in the_____to____century. 17. The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with______. 18. The Romantic Age is an age of romantic______and_______.

19. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published their

joint work_______.

20. The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer_______died.

21. Women as____appeared in the romantic age.It was during this period that women took,for the first time,an

important place in English literature.

22. The greatest historical novelist______was produced in the Romantic Age. 23. The English Romantic period produced two major novelists:_____and_____. 24. ____is regarded as the best essayist during the Romantic Age. 25. Among Wordsworth’s longer poems,the best-known one is_______.

26. ______marked the transition from romanticism to the period of realism which followed it. 27. In 1817,_______finished his literary criticism,Biographia Literaria.

28. At the turn of the 18th and 19th century_____appeared in England as a new trend in literature.

29. In contrast to the rationalism of the enlighteners and classicists in the 18th century,the_____paid great

attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man.

30. Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the_____of his language.

31. Queen Mab,Pecy Bysshe Shelley’s important poem,is written in the form of a_____.

32. _____was the first poet in Europe who sang for the working people.His political lyrics are among the best of

their kind in the whole sphere of European romantic poetry.

33. After his second book Endymion appeared in 1818,_____gave up medicine for poetry. 34. ____’s grave bears the epitaph:“Hear lies one whose name is writ in water.” 35. The Eve of St.Agnes is a narrative poem written in______.

36. The theme of____is the conflict between the old and the new,and the story is derived from Greek

mythology.In this work,the poet expresses the eternal law of nature—the passing of an old order of things and the coming of a new.

37. Modern essay originated from Montaigne’s_____,which were translated into English by Florio and had an

extensive influence upon English literature.

38. The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is____’s masterpiece.The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. 39. On the death of Robert Southey in 1843,____was made poet laureate. 40. In 1805,Wordsworth completed______,containing all together 14 books.

41. In 1807 George Gordon Byron published his lyric poems in a small volume called Hours of Idleness.The

volume was sharply attacked in the influential Edinburgh Review.Byron responded with his first important poem,a biting satire called____.

42. In 1824,the Revolutionary Romantic poet___went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty

against Turks.Not long,he died of fever there.

43. George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems:One is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,the other

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