2024年2月19日发(作者：衡念瑶)
英国文学史及作品选读期中测试试题卷
I. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)
Group A
Column A Column B
Writers Works
1. ( ) Edmund Spenser a. Twelfth Night
2. ( ) Francis Bacon b. The New Instrument
3. ( ) Shakespeare c. Holy Sonnets
4. ( ) Christopher Marlowe d. Moll Flanders
5. ( ) William Blake e. Amelia
6. ( ) John Donne f. Faerie Queen
7. ( ) Henry Fielding g. London
8. ( ) Jonathon Swift h. A Modest Proposal
9. ( ) Daniel Defoe i. The Solitary Reaper
10. ( ) Wordsworth j. The Jew of Malta
Group B
Column A Column B
Characters Works
1. ( ) Cordelia a. Robison Crusoe
2. ( ) Blifil b. Beowulf
3. ( ) Ophelia c. The Tempest
4. ( ) Iago d. Tom Jones
5. ( ) Grendel e. King Lear
6. ( ) Portia f. Paradise Lost
7. ( ) Prospero g. Othello
8. ( ) Friday h. Gulliver’s Travels
9. ( ) Satan i. The Merchant of Venice
10. ( ) Houyhnhnms j. Hamlet
II. Choose the best answer. (35%)
1. Beowulf is a ______ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.
A. pagan B. puritan
C. romantic D. lyric
2. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is _____.
A. the flourishing of the drama
B. the popularity of the realistic novel
C. the domination of the classical poetry
D. the close-down of all the theatres
3. The period between and centuries is generally referred to
Renaissance.
A. 13th, early 16th B. 14th, early 17th
C. 14th, mid-16th D. 14th, mid-17th
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4. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare
A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social
inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.
B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and
should reflect nature and reality.
C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.
D. All of the above.
5. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A. Othello B. Macbeth
C. Romeo and Juliet D. Hamlet
6. The following playwrights belong to the “university wits”, Shakespeare’s
predecessors, except .
A. John Lyly B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Kyd D. Christopher Marlowe
7. Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas?
A. lyric B. sonnet
C. blank verse D. quatrain
8. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe’s best works
in which Dr. Faustus seeks no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic
end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.
A. money
B. immorality
C. knowledge
D. political power
9. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, when he says, “To sleep, perchance to dream:--ay, there’s the
rub.” What is he primarily thinking about?
A. The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him.
B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep, then perhaps after death we have bad
dreams.
C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude, whose guilty dreams he would like to know.
D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action.
10. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed
and digested” is one of the epigrams found in .
A. Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”
B. Thomas Mors’s Utopia
C. john Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
D. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
11. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of
one of Shakespeare’s .
A. comedies B. tragedies
C. sonnets D. histories
12. In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the
Tree of Knowledge of _________.
A. Love and Hate B. Good and Evil
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C. Faith and Betrayal D. Scene and Sensibility
13. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the
search for ________.
A. Material wealth B. spiritual salvation
C. Universal truth D. self-fulfillment
14. Modern English novel arose in the century.
A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th
15. Of the eighteenth-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to _____.
A. instruct the people through his writing
B. give the modern novel its structure and style
C. amuse the people through his works
D. adopt the third-person narration
16. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,
_____.
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 Representatives
17. was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout
Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance B. Puritan Movement
B. Romantic Movement D. The Enlightenment
18. According to the neoclassicists, which of the following is true?
A. All forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the
ancient Greek and Roman writers.
B. They tried to delight, instruct and correct human beings as social animals.
C. They tried to develop a polite, urbane, witty, and intellectual art.
D. All the above.
19. The social significance of Gulliver’s Travels lies in _____.
A. the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and
European life
B. his artistic skill in making the story an organic whole
C. his central concern of study of human nature and life
D. both B and C
20. In the 18th century, found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that
of William Blake and Robert Burns.
A. neoclassicism B. realism C. sentimentalism D. pre-romanticism
21. Who does not belong to the school of Neo-classicism?
A. Steele B. Laurence Sterne C. Pope D. Johnson
22. The leader of the sentimental poetry is .
A. John Donne B. Thomas Gray C. William Blake D. Robert Burns
23. 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
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24. Many of Burn’s songs deal with friendship. has long become a universal
parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.
A. A Red, Red Rose B. Auld Lang Syne
C. My Heart’s in the Highlands D. John Anderson, My Jo
25. Blake’s Songs of Experience paints a world of _____ with a melancholy tone.
A. misery, poverty, disease, war and repression
B. happiness and love and romantic ideals
C. misery, poverty mixed with love and happiness
D. loss and institutional cruelty with sufferings
26. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT
_______.
A. normal contemporary speech patterns
B. humble and rustic life as subject matter
C. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
27. Who is not among the “Lake Poets?”
A. Wordsworth B. Keats C. Coleridge D. Southey
28. In_______ ,_______set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.
A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth
B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Coleridge
C. “A Defence of Poetry”; Shelley
D. “Lectures on the English Poets”; Hazlitt
29. All the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Don Juan
C. She Walks in Beauty
D. Queen Mab
30. In 1843, _______was made poet laureate.
A. Southey B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth D. Keats
31. Of the following statements about Lyrical Ballads, which is NOT true？
A. The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity of much of the
language.
B. The poems show the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but
with particular，dramatized examples of them.
C. The poems Wordsworth added to the1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads are
among the best of his achievements.
D. The natural description and expressions of inward states of mind fused into one
in most of the poems.
32. All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT that .
A. where their predecessors saw man as a social animal，the Romantics saw him
essentially as an individual in the solitary state
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B. where the Augustans emphasized those features that men have in common，the
Romantics emphasized the special qualities of each individual’s mind
C. Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention to the inner world
of human spirit to the outer world of social civilization
D. Romantics also tended to be nationalistic，defending the great poets and
dramatists of their own national heritage against the advocates of classical rules
who tended to glorify Rome and Rational Italian and French neoclassical art as
superior to the native traditions.
33. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true?
A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.
B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God
to men.
C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.
D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.
34. Which of the following historical events doesn’t directly help to stimulate the
rising of the Renaissance Movement?
A. The Glorious Revolution.
B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.
C. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
35. All the following about metaphysical poetry are true EXCEPT that .
A. metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th –century
writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne
B. metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious
structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and
metaphysical conceits and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas
C. generally, in metaphysical poetry, the diction is simple and echoes the words and
cadences of common speech
D. metaphysical poetry has gained new recognition because of their seriousness of
art, their spirit of revolt, and their realism in the poetry of 19th century
III. Fill in the blanks. (20%)
1. Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight. The other two are William Langland and____,
whose masterpiece is , consisting of 24 stories and giving us a picture of
contemporary English life.
2. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories
according to dramatic type: , comedies, and romances.
3. Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets’ ” because of his considerable
influence on later poets. He has created a stanza called the , which is a
nine-line stanza of 8 lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter.
4. is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important
Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare and he is also one of the first
playwrights to use in English drama.
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5. A Shakespearean is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding
two-line .
6. “ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.”
The above verse lines are taken from the famous poem________, written
by .
7. The century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of
________.
8. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when
______and ______published _______ and ended in 1832 when ______died.
9. _______ is Byron’s masterpiece. It is a , possibly the only great long epic
poem in English. It was written in the prime of his creative power. He called it an
“epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society.”
IV. Selected Readings (25%)
Passage 1
…
All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
That Glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
…
Questions:
1. Which poem is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the poem? (1″)
3. From the selected, what conclusion can you draw? (3″)
Passage 2
…Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer
little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much
cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not…
Questions:
1. Which work is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the work? (1″)
3. What do these lines tell us? (3″)
Passage 3
…
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
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Nor Lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Questions:
1. Which poem is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the poem? (1″)
3. What does “this” in the line refer to? (1″)
4. Through the lines, what does the poet express? (3″)
Passage 4
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
Sank chill on my brow
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o’er me
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:
Long, long shall I rue (hate) thee
Too deeply to tell.
In secret we met
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
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After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.
…
Questions:
1. This poem is written by a romantic poet, who creates a hero, a proud, mysterious
rebel figure of noble origin in his poems. Who is the author? (1″)
2. What is the rhyme scheme in the poem? (1″)
3. What is the theme of this poem? How does the author express the theme? (4″)
Passage 5
…
Continuous as the stars that shine
and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
…
Questions:
1. Which poem is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the poem? (1″)
3. What is the rhyme scheme in the stanza? (1″)
V. Essay Question (10%)
Directions: Answer the following question in no less than 150 words. Try your best
to be logical in your answer, and keep your writing clear and tidy.
Many readers and critics have, over the centuries, tended to confuse Gulliver
with the author and see the narrator as Swift’s surrogate (person that acts another). Do
you agree with the idea that the narrator Gulliver is Swift’s surrogate? Why or why
not?
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英国文学史及作品选读期中测试答题卷
Class: Number: Name: Score:
I. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)
Group A：
1. ( ) 2. ( ) 3. ( ) 4. ( ) 5. ( )
6. ( ) 7. ( ) 8. ( ) 9. ( ) 10. ( )
Group B：
1. ( ) 2. ( ) 3. ( ) 4. ( ) 5. ( )
6. ( ) 7. ( ) 8. ( ) 9. ( ) 10. ( )
II. Choose the best answer. (35%)
1. ( ) 2. ( ) 3. ( ) 4. ( ) 5. ( )
6. ( ) 7. ( ) 8. ( ) 9. ( ) 10. ( )
11. ( ) 12. ( ) 13. ( ) 14. ( ) 15. ( )
16. ( ) 17. ( ) 18. ( ) 19. ( ) 20. ( )
21. ( ) 22. ( ) 23. ( ) 24. ( ) 25. ( )
26. ( ) 27. ( ) 28. ( ) 29. ( ) 30. ( )
31. ( ) 32. ( ) 33. ( ) 34. ( ) 35. ( )
III. Fill in the blanks. (20%)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
IV. Selected Readings (25%)
Passage 1
1.
2.
3.
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Passage 2
1.
2.
3.
Passage 3
1.
2.
3.
4.
Passage 4
1.
2.
3.
Passage 5
1.
2.
3.
V. Essay Question (10%)
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2024年2月19日发(作者：衡念瑶)
英国文学史及作品选读期中测试试题卷
I. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)
Group A
Column A Column B
Writers Works
1. ( ) Edmund Spenser a. Twelfth Night
2. ( ) Francis Bacon b. The New Instrument
3. ( ) Shakespeare c. Holy Sonnets
4. ( ) Christopher Marlowe d. Moll Flanders
5. ( ) William Blake e. Amelia
6. ( ) John Donne f. Faerie Queen
7. ( ) Henry Fielding g. London
8. ( ) Jonathon Swift h. A Modest Proposal
9. ( ) Daniel Defoe i. The Solitary Reaper
10. ( ) Wordsworth j. The Jew of Malta
Group B
Column A Column B
Characters Works
1. ( ) Cordelia a. Robison Crusoe
2. ( ) Blifil b. Beowulf
3. ( ) Ophelia c. The Tempest
4. ( ) Iago d. Tom Jones
5. ( ) Grendel e. King Lear
6. ( ) Portia f. Paradise Lost
7. ( ) Prospero g. Othello
8. ( ) Friday h. Gulliver’s Travels
9. ( ) Satan i. The Merchant of Venice
10. ( ) Houyhnhnms j. Hamlet
II. Choose the best answer. (35%)
1. Beowulf is a ______ poem, describing an all-round picture of the tribal society.
A. pagan B. puritan
C. romantic D. lyric
2. One of the distinct features of the Elizabethan time is _____.
A. the flourishing of the drama
B. the popularity of the realistic novel
C. the domination of the classical poetry
D. the close-down of all the theatres
3. The period between and centuries is generally referred to
Renaissance.
A. 13th, early 16th B. 14th, early 17th
C. 14th, mid-16th D. 14th, mid-17th
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4. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare
A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social
inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.
B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and
should reflect nature and reality.
C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.
D. All of the above.
5. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?
A. Othello B. Macbeth
C. Romeo and Juliet D. Hamlet
6. The following playwrights belong to the “university wits”, Shakespeare’s
predecessors, except .
A. John Lyly B. Ben Jonson
C. Thomas Kyd D. Christopher Marlowe
7. Which of the following poetic forms is the principal form of Shakespeare’s dramas?
A. lyric B. sonnet
C. blank verse D. quatrain
8. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus is one of Christopher Marlowe’s best works
in which Dr. Faustus seeks no matter at what cost and finally meets his tragic
end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.
A. money
B. immorality
C. knowledge
D. political power
9. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, when he says, “To sleep, perchance to dream:--ay, there’s the
rub.” What is he primarily thinking about?
A. The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him.
B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep, then perhaps after death we have bad
dreams.
C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude, whose guilty dreams he would like to know.
D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action.
10. “Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed
and digested” is one of the epigrams found in .
A. Francis Bacon’s “Of Studies”
B. Thomas Mors’s Utopia
C. john Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress
D. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
11. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of
one of Shakespeare’s .
A. comedies B. tragedies
C. sonnets D. histories
12. In John Milton’s Paradise Lost, Adam and Eve are forbidden to eat the fruit of the
Tree of Knowledge of _________.
A. Love and Hate B. Good and Evil
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C. Faith and Betrayal D. Scene and Sensibility
13. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the
search for ________.
A. Material wealth B. spiritual salvation
C. Universal truth D. self-fulfillment
14. Modern English novel arose in the century.
A. 16th B. 17th C. 18th D. 19th
15. Of the eighteenth-century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to _____.
A. instruct the people through his writing
B. give the modern novel its structure and style
C. amuse the people through his works
D. adopt the third-person narration
16. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,
_____.
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 Representatives
17. was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout
Europe in the 18th century.
A. The Renaissance B. Puritan Movement
B. Romantic Movement D. The Enlightenment
18. According to the neoclassicists, which of the following is true?
A. All forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the
ancient Greek and Roman writers.
B. They tried to delight, instruct and correct human beings as social animals.
C. They tried to develop a polite, urbane, witty, and intellectual art.
D. All the above.
19. The social significance of Gulliver’s Travels lies in _____.
A. the devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and
European life
B. his artistic skill in making the story an organic whole
C. his central concern of study of human nature and life
D. both B and C
20. In the 18th century, found its expression chiefly in poetry, especially that
of William Blake and Robert Burns.
A. neoclassicism B. realism C. sentimentalism D. pre-romanticism
21. Who does not belong to the school of Neo-classicism?
A. Steele B. Laurence Sterne C. Pope D. Johnson
22. The leader of the sentimental poetry is .
A. John Donne B. Thomas Gray C. William Blake D. Robert Burns
23. 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
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24. Many of Burn’s songs deal with friendship. has long become a universal
parting-song of all the English-speaking countries.
A. A Red, Red Rose B. Auld Lang Syne
C. My Heart’s in the Highlands D. John Anderson, My Jo
25. Blake’s Songs of Experience paints a world of _____ with a melancholy tone.
A. misery, poverty, disease, war and repression
B. happiness and love and romantic ideals
C. misery, poverty mixed with love and happiness
D. loss and institutional cruelty with sufferings
26. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following EXCEPT
_______.
A. normal contemporary speech patterns
B. humble and rustic life as subject matter
C. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D. intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
27. Who is not among the “Lake Poets?”
A. Wordsworth B. Keats C. Coleridge D. Southey
28. In_______ ,_______set forth his principles of poetry, “all good poetry is the
spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.
A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads; Wordsworth
B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”; Coleridge
C. “A Defence of Poetry”; Shelley
D. “Lectures on the English Poets”; Hazlitt
29. All the poems were written by Byron EXCEPT_______.
A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
B. Don Juan
C. She Walks in Beauty
D. Queen Mab
30. In 1843, _______was made poet laureate.
A. Southey B. Shelley
C. Wordsworth D. Keats
31. Of the following statements about Lyrical Ballads, which is NOT true？
A. The poems are noted for the uncompromising obscurity of much of the
language.
B. The poems show the strong sympathy not merely with the poor in general but
with particular，dramatized examples of them.
C. The poems Wordsworth added to the1800 edition of the Lyrical Ballads are
among the best of his achievements.
D. The natural description and expressions of inward states of mind fused into one
in most of the poems.
32. All the following about Romanticism are true EXCEPT that .
A. where their predecessors saw man as a social animal，the Romantics saw him
essentially as an individual in the solitary state
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B. where the Augustans emphasized those features that men have in common，the
Romantics emphasized the special qualities of each individual’s mind
C. Romanticism constitutes a change of direction from attention to the inner world
of human spirit to the outer world of social civilization
D. Romantics also tended to be nationalistic，defending the great poets and
dramatists of their own national heritage against the advocates of classical rules
who tended to glorify Rome and Rational Italian and French neoclassical art as
superior to the native traditions.
33. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true?
A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.
B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God
to men.
C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.
D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.
34. Which of the following historical events doesn’t directly help to stimulate the
rising of the Renaissance Movement?
A. The Glorious Revolution.
B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.
C. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
35. All the following about metaphysical poetry are true EXCEPT that .
A. metaphysical poetry is commonly used to name the work of the 17th –century
writers who wrote under the influence of John Donne
B. metaphysical poetry is characterized by verbal wit and excess, ingenious
structure, irregular meter, colloquial language, elaborate imagery, and
metaphysical conceits and a drawing together of dissimilar ideas
C. generally, in metaphysical poetry, the diction is simple and echoes the words and
cadences of common speech
D. metaphysical poetry has gained new recognition because of their seriousness of
art, their spirit of revolt, and their realism in the poetry of 19th century
III. Fill in the blanks. (20%)
1. Among the Middle English poets, three are the greatest. One is the author of Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight. The other two are William Langland and____,
whose masterpiece is , consisting of 24 stories and giving us a picture of
contemporary English life.
2. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories
according to dramatic type: , comedies, and romances.
3. Edmund Spenser is often referred as “the poets’ ” because of his considerable
influence on later poets. He has created a stanza called the , which is a
nine-line stanza of 8 lines in iambic pentameter plus an iambic hexameter.
4. is considered the first great English dramatist and the most important
Elizabethan playwright before Shakespeare and he is also one of the first
playwrights to use in English drama.
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5. A Shakespearean is composed of three four-line quatrains and a concluding
two-line .
6. “ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I will luve thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.”
The above verse lines are taken from the famous poem________, written
by .
7. The century England is known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of
________.
8. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 1798 when
______and ______published _______ and ended in 1832 when ______died.
9. _______ is Byron’s masterpiece. It is a , possibly the only great long epic
poem in English. It was written in the prime of his creative power. He called it an
“epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society.”
IV. Selected Readings (25%)
Passage 1
…
All is not lost; the unconquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overcome?
That Glory never shall his wrath or might
Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace
…
Questions:
1. Which poem is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the poem? (1″)
3. From the selected, what conclusion can you draw? (3″)
Passage 2
…Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer
little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much
cunning, to seem to know, that he doth not…
Questions:
1. Which work is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the work? (1″)
3. What do these lines tell us? (3″)
Passage 3
…
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
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Nor Lose possession of that fair thou ow’st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand’rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow’st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Questions:
1. Which poem is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the poem? (1″)
3. What does “this” in the line refer to? (1″)
4. Through the lines, what does the poet express? (3″)
Passage 4
When we two parted
In silence and tears,
Half broken-hearted,
To sever for years,
Pale grew thy cheek and cold,
Colder thy kiss;
Truly that hour foretold
Sorrow to this.
The dew of the morning
Sank chill on my brow
It felt like the warning
Of what I feel now.
Thy vows are all broken,
And light is thy fame:
I hear thy name spoken,
And share in its shame.
They name thee before me,
A knell to mine ear;
A shudder comes o’er me
Why wert thou so dear?
They know not I knew thee,
Who knew thee too well:
Long, long shall I rue (hate) thee
Too deeply to tell.
In secret we met
In silence I grieve
That thy heart could forget,
Thy spirit deceive.
If I should meet thee
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After long years,
How should I greet thee?
With silence and tears.
…
Questions:
1. This poem is written by a romantic poet, who creates a hero, a proud, mysterious
rebel figure of noble origin in his poems. Who is the author? (1″)
2. What is the rhyme scheme in the poem? (1″)
3. What is the theme of this poem? How does the author express the theme? (4″)
Passage 5
…
Continuous as the stars that shine
and twinkle on the Milky Way,
They stretched in never-ending line
along the margin of a bay;
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
…
Questions:
1. Which poem is the selected taken from? (1″)
2. Who is the author of the poem? (1″)
3. What is the rhyme scheme in the stanza? (1″)
V. Essay Question (10%)
Directions: Answer the following question in no less than 150 words. Try your best
to be logical in your answer, and keep your writing clear and tidy.
Many readers and critics have, over the centuries, tended to confuse Gulliver
with the author and see the narrator as Swift’s surrogate (person that acts another). Do
you agree with the idea that the narrator Gulliver is Swift’s surrogate? Why or why
not?
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英国文学史及作品选读期中测试答题卷
Class: Number: Name: Score:
I. Find the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)
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IV. Selected Readings (25%)
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