中古时期和文艺复兴时期小测

1、单选题：
1. Chaucer has employed ________ in his poems, which was the predominant English measure for all the poetic kinds from the age of John Dryden through that of Samuel Johnson , some poets, including Alexander Pope, used it almost to the exclusion of other meters. ‌   ‌‏‌
选项：
A: A. heroic couplet   
B: B. blank verse     
C: C. sonnet      
D:  D. octet and sestet
答案: 【 A. heroic couplet   】

2、单选题：
2.Since historical times, England, where the early inhabitants were Celts, has been conquered three times. It was conquered by_____________. ‎‎‎‎‎
选项：
A: A.the Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Normans
B: B. the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings
C: C. the Anglo-Saxons, the Vikings and the Normans
D: D. the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Normans
答案: 【 D. the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Normans】

3、单选题：
3.__________, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. ‍A. Deor     B. The Seafarer     C. Beowulf     D. The Wanderer ‍​‍
选项：
A: A. Deor 
B:  B. The Seafarer  
C: C. Beowulf  
D: D. The Wanderer 
答案: 【 C. Beowulf  】

4、单选题：
4._________, which uses narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds,  is a popular literary form in the medieval period.‏         ‏‏‏
选项：
A: A. Ballads
B:  B. Romance  
C:  C.Epic   
D:  D.Lyrics 
答案: 【  B. Romance  】

5、单选题：
5. Which one of the following works is not written by John Milton?                               ‌​                      ‌​‌
选项：
A: A. Samson Agonistes
B:    B. Paradise Lost
C: C. Prometheus Unbound    
D:   D. Paradise Regained
答案: 【 C. Prometheus Unbound    】

6、单选题：
6. Which of the following plays is not a comedy?                                                           ​‎​
选项：
A: A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream
B: B. Twelfth Night      
C: C. Romeo and Juliet
D:  D. The Merchant of Venice
答案: 【 C. Romeo and Juliet】

7、单选题：
7.___________is a long, allegorical poem, in which Spenser dramatized political, religious, and moral themes by personifying them, or making them characters.‎         ‎             ‎‎‎
选项：
A: A. Shepheardes Calender 
B:   B. The Faerie Queene   
C: C. The Jew of Malta 
D:   D. Doctor Faustus
答案: 【   B. The Faerie Queene   】

8、单选题：
8._________ is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result selling his soul to the Devil.‌             ‌        ‌​‌
选项：
A: A. The Jew of Malta 
B:  B. Tamburlaine
C: C. The Faerie Queene 
D:     D. Doctor Faustus
答案: 【     D. Doctor Faustus】

9、单选题：
9. Of greatest tragedies, ______ is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a "blood-and-thunder" thriller and a philosophical exploration of life and death. ‍  ‍‌‍
选项：
A: A. Othello 
B:  B. King Lear   
C:    C. Macbeth   
D:        D. Hamlet  
答案: 【        D. Hamlet  】

10、单选题：
10. As a representative of the Renaissance in England, ________ was one of the earliest and most eloquent spokesmen for experimental science.‎            ‎           ‎‏‎
选项：
A: A. Francis Bacon 
B:   B. John Donne
C: C. John Milton   
D:    D.William Shakespeare
答案: 【 A. Francis Bacon 】

11、单选题：
11. "Metaphysical Poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of _________. ‍               ‍                ‍​‍
选项：
A: A. John Milton   
B:  B. John Donne
C: C. Francis Bacon 
D:  D.William Shakespeare
答案: 【  B. John Donne】

12、单选题：
12. Milton wrote Paradise Lost in ________, or unrhymed iambic pentameter, which rarely used at the time except in dramatic works.‎  ‎​‎
选项：
A: A. heroic couplet 
B:    B. blank verse    
C:   C. sonnet    
D:   D. free verse
答案: 【    B. blank verse    】

13、单选题：
13. Hamlet has been described as melancholic and neurotic, for him, _________is a natural medium, a necessary release of his anguish, especially in his “To be or not to be ” questioning monologues.‌     ‌‎‌
选项：
A: A. sonnet 
B:   B. conceit  
C:    C. soliloquy  
D:     D.dramatic monologue
答案: 【    C. soliloquy  】

14、单选题：
14. Forceful and  persuasive, compact and precise, _________ reveals to us Bacon’s mature attitude towards learning.‍‍‌‍
选项：
A: A. Of Studies 
B: B. Of Self-help   
C:    C. Of Nature   
D:  D. Of Self Reliance  
答案: 【 A. Of Studies 】

15、单选题：
15. The traditional theme of ________ is to praise the friendship between Antonio and Bassanio, to idealize Portia as a heroine of great beauty, wit and loyalty, and to expose the insatiable greed and brutality of the Jew. ‌                 ‌                    ‌ ‌ ‌‍‌
选项：
A: A. The Winter’s Tale   
B:  B. The Merchant of Venice
C: C. Twelfth Night           
D: D. The Tempest 
答案: 【  B. The Merchant of Venice】

Test in Neoclassical period in English Literature

1、单选题：
___________ was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished in France and swept through the whole western Europe in the 18th century, which was an expression of struggle of the bourgeoisie against feudalism.‍‎‍
选项：
A: The Renaissance
B: The Enlightenment  
C: The Reformation
D: The Humanism  
答案: 【 The Enlightenment  】

2、单选题：
‎John Bunyan’s__________ is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. Its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. ‌
选项：
A: The Rape of the Lock    
B: A. Robinson Crusoe 
C: The Pilgrim’s Progress    
D: A. Gulliver’s Travels  
答案: 【 The Pilgrim’s Progress    】

3、单选题：
Alexander Pope’s_________sumps up the art of poetry as upheld and practised by the ancients like Aristotle, Horace, Boileau,etc. and the eighteenth century European classicists. ​‍​
选项：
A: The Rape of the Lock
B: Dunciad
C: An Essay on Man 
D: An Essay on Criticism 
答案: 【 An Essay on Criticism 】

4、单选题：
Daniel Defoe’s most popular novel is ________, an adventure story based partly on the actual experience of a man who had been trapped on a deserted island.‏           ‏                ‏‌‏
选项：
A: Robinson Crusoe    
B: A Journal of the Plague Year
C: Moll Flanders   
D: Roxana
答案: 【 Robinson Crusoe    】

5、单选题：
In the fictional work_______the similarities between human beings and the Lilliputians and the contrast between the Brobdingnagians and human beings both bear reference to the possibilities of human state. ‏             ‏              ‏
选项：
A: Journal to Stella    
B: The Drapier’s Letters
C: Gulliver’s Travels 
D:  A Modest Proposal  
答案: 【 Gulliver’s Travels 】

6、单选题：
____________generally considered Henry Fielding’s masterpiece, brings its author the name of the "Pose Homer."‏ ‏‌‏
选项：
A: Joseph Andrews 
B: Jonathan Wild   
C: Tom Jones  
D: Amelia
答案: 【 Tom Jones  】

7、单选题：
As a lexicographer, ____________distinguished himself as the author of the first English dictionary by an Englishman-A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), a gigantic task which he undertook single-handedly and finished in over seven years.‌            ‌      ‌‌‌
选项：
A: Daniel Defoe      
B: Alexander Pope
C: Henry Fielding       
D: Samuel Johnson
答案: 【 Samuel Johnson】

8、单选题：
Richard B. Sheridan’s masterpiece__________ is considered one of the finest English comedies of manners. A satire on gossip, hypocrisy, and the corrupting influence of fashionable city life, it is also admired for its ingenious plot construction and witty dissection of character. ‍          ‍             ‍‏‍
选项：
A: The School for Scandal    
B: The Rivals
C: A Modest Proposal    
D: Gulliver’s Travels
答案: 【 The School for Scandal    】

9、单选题：
 "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" was published in 1751, which once and for all established Thomas Gray as the leader of the sentimental poetry of the day, especially "_____________." ​         ​            ​‎​
选项：
A: the Metaphysical School   
B:  the Graveyard School
C: the Cavalier School    
D: Comic epic in prose
答案: 【  the Graveyard School】

10、单选题：
Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Neoclassicism in English literature?‏‏‏‏‏
选项：
A: According to the neoclassicists, all forms of literature were to be modeled after the classical works of the ancient Greek and Roman writers and those of the contemporary French ones.
B: Neoclassicists believed that the artistic ideals should be order, logic, restrained emotion and accuracy, and that literature should be judged in terms of its service to humanity.
C: Neoclassicists saw poetry as a healing energy: they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls & the society.
D: Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for almost every genre of literature. 
答案: 【 Neoclassicists saw poetry as a healing energy: they believed that poetry could purify both individual souls & the society.】

Test in the Romantic period in English Literature

1、单选题：
English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1789 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_________ and to ended in 1832 with Sir Walter Scott’s death and the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament.‎   ‎      &nb