英国文学练习

I. Multiple choice.

7. T he English Renaissance period was an age of ______.

A. poetry and drama

B. drama and novel

C. novel and poetry

D. romance and poetry

2. Renaissance first started in _______, with the flowering of the fields of

painting, sculpture and literature.

A. France

B. Italy

C. Germany

D. Britain

10. _____ is the essence of the Renaissance.

A. Poetry

B. Drama

C. Humanism

D. Reason

11 “To be, or not to be—that is the question” is a line taken from ______.

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. King Lear

D. The Merchant of Venice

12. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by

Shakespeare, together with ______.

A. Merchant of Venice

B. Midsummer Night’s dream

C. As you Like it

D. Macbeth

12. “If winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by _______.

A. J. Keats

B.W. Blake

C. W. Wordsworth

D. P. B. Shelley

2. The Bronte sisters are Anne, Emily and ______. They were all talented writers and all of them died young.

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. Jane Eyre

C. Catherine

D. Jane Austen

12. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the

existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the

first _______ heroine.

A. worker

B. peasant

C. governess

D. teacher

13. Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____.

A. The Cloud

B. To a Skylark

C. Ode to a Nightingale

D. Ode to the West Wind

14. In his novel Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _______.

A. aristocratic class

B. enterprising landlords

C. ri sing bourgeoisie

D. hard-working people

17. The Enlightenment Movement did not advocate_______.

A. rationality, reason, order and rules

B. return to the ancient classical

work

C. inner feelings of individuals

D. universal education

23. The _______ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western

Europe in the 18th century.

A. Renaissance

B. Enlightenment

C. Religious Reformation

D. Chartist Movement

39.“ He has a servant called Friday.” “He” in the quoted sentence is a character

in ______.

A. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

B. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

C. Richard Bringsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal

D. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

43. Daniel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English middle-class man of the

eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.

A. Tom Jones

B. Gulliver

C. Moll Flanders

D. Robinson

Cruesoe

52. The 18th century England is known as the ________ in the history.

A. Romanticism

B. E nlightenment

C. Classicism

D.

Renaissance

137._______is the greatest of the 18th century Scots poet.

A. Robert Browning

B. Robert Burns

C. John Donne

D. William Blake

143. O M Y Luve 's like a red, red rose

That 's newly sprung in June:

O my Luve 's like the melodie

That's sweetly play'd in tune!

The above lines are from_______.

A. Robern Burns’ My Heart’s in the Highlands

B. Robert Burns’ A Red, Red Rose

C. William Blake’s Auld Lang Syne

D. Thomas Gray’s London

164. In the last few decades of the 18th century, the neoclassicism was gradually replaced by ______.

A. r omanticism

B. critical realism

C. modernism

D. naturalism

169.The hero in Robinson Crusoe is the prototype of _____.

A. the empire builder

B. the pioneer colonist

C. the working people

D. both A and B

184. _________ was nurtured by the Scottish cultural tradition. The majority of his poems were written in the Scottish dialect.

A. R obert Burns

B. William Blake

C. Thomas Gray

D. Alexander Pope

3. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter

Scott.

A. Washington Irving

B. Jane Austen

C. Herman Melville

D. Charles Dickens

5. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but

also provides the dominant subject matter.

A. love

B. man

C. nature

D. death

6. In the British Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.

A. prose

B. poetry

C. fiction

D. play

17. I n terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?

A. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.

B. Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".

C. Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.

D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and

realistic benefits.

18. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know

that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of_______.

A. simple character and poor understanding

B. simple character and quick wit

C. intricate character and quick wit

D. intricate character and poor understanding

19. R omanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________.

A.1660-----1798

B.1798----1832

C.1483-----1546

D.1836-----1901

23. The two major English novelists produced in the Romantic Age are_____.

a. Byron and Shelley

b. Wordsworth and Coleridge

c. Scott and Austen

d. Lamb and Hazlitt

26. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during

the British Romantic Period is ______.

A. prose

B. drama

C. novel

D. poetry

15. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.

A. 14th...mid-17th

B. 14th...mid-18th

C. 16th...mid-18th

D. 16th...mid-17th

16. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is_______.

A. science

B. philosophy

C. arts

D. humanism

18. Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies are _______.

A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth

B. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet

C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth

D. Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Othello and Macbeth

40. ______, the melancholic scholar, prince, faces the dilemma between

action and mind.

A. Macbeth

B.Hamlet

C. Othello

D. Antonio

57. The success of Jane Eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the

existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.

A. explorer

B. peasant

C. worker

D. governess

59. The Victorian Age was largely an age of________ eminently represented by

Dickens and Thackeray.

A. poetry

B. drama

C. novel

D. prose

73. Charles Dickinson wrote _____ in the following works.

A. Oliver Twist

B. Wuthering Heights

C. Ulysses

D. Vanity Fair

III. True or false

1. Charles Dickens is the author of Robinson Crusoe, which is a scientific and

fantastic work.

2. Shakespeare is extremely famous as a playwright and poet in the 19th

century.

3. Romanticism in poetry was represented by Blake and Robert Burns.

4. Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the Scottish dialect.

5. Byron’s best-known lyrics are A Red, Red Rose, and Auld Lang Syne.

6. Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as Satanic Poets.

7. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is the heroine.

8. Charles Dickinson wrote Oliver Twist.

9. The Great Gatsby is NOT the work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

10. F. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

11. Sister Carrie is considered to be Jane Austen’s greatest work.

12. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was Mark Twain’s masterwork from

which “all modern American literature comes”.

13. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is

well-known for his local color.

14. The character Santiago occurred in A Farewell to Arms.

15. The English Romanticism was largely an age of poetry, eminently

represented by Wordsworth and Byron.

Questions

1.How many groups are the English Romantic poets classified? And who are

the representatives for each group?

2.William Shakespeare is a very famous playwright; please write down at least

two works of Shakespeare.

3.Are the works of Charlotte Bronte characterized with romanticism or critical

realism? Who is the heroine in her novel Jane Eyre?

4.How many types of marriage are concerned in Pride and Prejudice? And what

are they?

5.When does Charles Dickens belong to? Please write down at least two works

of Dickens.

6.Who wrote the poem A Red Red Rose? What is the theme?