Exercise for English Literature (2)Choose the best answer for each blank.1.________, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of England, was born inLondon about 1340.C.Geoffrey Chaucer B.Sir Gawain2.Francis Bacon D.John Dryden3.Chaucer died on the 25th October 1400, and was buried in ________.C.Flanders B.France3.Italy D.Westminster AbbeyA.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.________ encouragedexploration and travel, which were compatible with the interest of the English merchants.C.Henry V B.Henry VII4.Henry VIII D.Queen Elizabeth5.Except being a victory of England over ________, the rout of the fleet “Armada” (Invincible) was also thetriumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.C.Spain B.France5.America D.Norway6.At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist ________ wrote his Utopia in which he gave aprofound and truthful picture of the people’s suffering and put f orward his ideal of a future happy society.C.Thomas More B.Thomas Marlowe6.Francis Bacon D.William Shakespear7.Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen ________.C.Mary B.Elizabeth7.William D.Victoria8.English Renaissance Period was an age of ________.C.prose and novel B.poetry and drama8.essays and journals D.ballads and songs9.From the following, choose the one which is not Francis Bacon’s work: ________.C.The Advancement of Learning B.The New InstrumentE.Essays D.The New AtlanticsF.Venus and Adonis9.“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” This is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.C.songs B.playsedies D.sonnets11.The heroines of Shakespeare’s great comedies, ________ are the daughters of the Renaissance, whoseimages and stories will remain a legacy to readers and audiences of all time.C.Portia B.Roseland11.Viola D.Beatrice12.Choose the four great tragedies of Shakespeare from the following ________.C.Hamlet B.OthelloE.Macbeth D.King LearF.Timon of Athens12.Which play is not a comedy? ________C.A Midsummer Night’s Dream B.The Merchant of VeniceE.Twelfth Night D.Romeo and JulietF.As You Like ItA.“Denmark is a prison”.In which play does the hero summarise his observation of his world into such a bittersentence? ________C.Charles I B.Othello14.Henry VIII D.Hamlet15.The works of ________ and the Authorised Version of the English Bible are the two great treasuries of theEnglish language.C.Geoffrey Chaucer B.Edmund Spenser15.William Shakespeare D.Ben Johnson16.In which play does the hero show his profound reverence for man through the sentence: “What a piece ofwok is a man! How nobel in reason! How finite in faculty!” ________C.Romeo and Juliet B.Hamlet16.Othello D.The Merchant of VeniceA.In 1649, ________ was beheaded.England became a commonwealth.C.James I B.James II17.Charles I D.Charles II18.The revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things: ________.A.the supremacy of ParliamentB.the beginning of modern EnglandC.the triumph of the principal libertyD.the triumph of the principle of political libertyE.the Restoration of monarchy18.Who of the following were the important metaphysical poets? ________C.John Donne B.George Herbert19.John Milton D.Richard Lovelace20.Which work was NOT written by John Milton? ________C.Paradise Lost B.Paradise Regained20.Samson Agonistes D.Volpone21.Paradise Lost is ________.A.John Milton’s masterpieceB.a great epic in 12 booksC.written in blank verseD.about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority21.John Milton is ________.A.a great revolutionary poet of the 17th centuryB.an outstanding political pamphleteerC.a great stylistD.a great master of blank verseA.From the Old Testament, John Milton took his stories of Paradise Lost, i.e.________.B.the creationC.the rebellion in Heaven of Satan and his fellow-angelsD.their defeat and expulsion from HeavenE.the creation of the death and of adam and EveF.the fallen angels in hell plotting against GodG.Satan’s temptation of EveH.the departure of Adam and Eve from Eden23.The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of hell, and ________ is often regarded as the real hero ofthe poem.A.GodB.Satan24. C.Adam D.Eve25.Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? ________C.John Donne B.George Herbert25.Andrew Marvell D.Henry Vaugham26.________ was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century.C.The Renaissance B.The Enlightenment26.The Religious Reformation D.The Chartist MovementA.The main literary stream of the 18th century was ________.What the writers described in their works weremainly social realities.C.naturalism B.romanticismE.classicism D.realismF.sentimentalismA.The eighteenth century was the golden age of the English ________.The novel of this period spoke the truthabout life with an uncompromising courage.C.drama B.poetry28.essay D.novel29.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ________ and ________, which made him well-known as a satirist.C.A Tale of a Tub B.Bickerstaff Almanac29.Gulliver’s Travels D.A Modest Proposal30.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This sentence is said by ________, oneof the greatest masters of English prose.C.Alexander Pope B.Henry Fielding30.Daniel Defoe D.Jonathan SwiftA.As a journalist, ________ had learned how to make his reporting vivid and credible by a skillful use ofcircumstantial detail.This power to make his characters alive and his stories credible is an inimitable gift.C.Joseph Addison B.Daniel Defoe31.Samuel Richarson D.Tobias Smollett32.Which of the following are NOT written by William Blake? ________C.Poetical Sketches B.Songs of InnocenceE.Songs of Experience D.Auld Lang SyneG.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell F.ProphecisH.Visions of the Daughters of Albion and America, a Prophecy32.In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of pre-romanticism were ________.C.William Wordsworth B.William Blake33.Robert Burns D.Jonathan Swift34.The Romantic Age begab with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by ________.C.William Wordsworth B.Samuel Johnson34.Samuel Taylor Coleridge D.Wordsworth and Coleridge35.The Romantic Age came to an end with the death of the last well-known romantic writer ________.C.Jane Austen B.Walter Scott35.Samuel Taylor Coleridge D.William Wordsworth36.The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the poetry of ________.C.William Wordsworth B.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeE.George Gordon Byron D.Percy Bysshe ShelleyF.John KeatsA.The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists.They are ________.B.George Gordon Byron and Percy Bysshe ShelleyC.William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeD.Walter Scott and Jane AustenE.Charles Lamb and William Hazlitt37.Which poets belong to the Active Romantic group? ________C.George Gordon Byron B.William WordsworthE.Percy Bysshe Shelley D.John KeatsF.John Milton38.Which poets belong to the Lakers? ________C.William Wordsworth B.Samuel Taylor ColeridgeE.John Keats D.Robert SoutheyF.Walter Scott39.Which of the folloeing were written by Wordsworth ONLY? ________C.To the Cuckoo B.The Lyrical BalladsE.Lucy Poems D.The Solitary ReaperF.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud40.The publication of ________ marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century,i.e., with classicism, and the beginning of the Romantic revival in England.C.The Lyrical Ballads B.The Prelude41.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D.Don Juan42.As contrasted with the classicists who made reason, order and the old, classical traditions the criteria in theirpoetical creations, ________ based his own poetical principle on the premise that “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling.”C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge B.George Gordon Byron42.Percy Bysshe Shelley D.William Wordsworth43.________ was the first critic of the Romantic School.C.William Wordworth B.Samuel Johnson43.Samuel Taylor Coleridge D.Wordworth and Coleridge44.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about George Gordon Byron? ________A.Byron’s early years had been far from happy for he was born with a clubfoot, in the frequent family scenes hismother called him “you lame brat.”B.Byron died in Italy annd was deeply mourned by the Italian people and by all progressive people throughoutthe world.C.The reactionary criticism of the 19th century tried to belittle Byron’s genius and his role in the development ofEnglish literature, but Byron remains one of the most popular English poets both at home and abroad.44.Since the May 4 Movement in 1919, more and more of Byron’s poems have been translated into Chineseand well received by the poets and young readers.Byron has now become one of the best-known English poets in our country.45.In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled ________.C.Biographia literaria B.The Prelude45.Lucy Poems D.The Lyrical Ballads46.________ is regarded as the most wonderful lyricist England has ever produced mainly for his poems onnature, on love, and on politics.C.William Wordsworth B.John Keats46.George Gordon Byron D.Percy Bysshe Shelley47.Which of the following statements is (are) NOT true about Percy Bysshe Shelley? ________A.Prometheus Unbound is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s masterpiece, a long epic poem.B.At Eton Percy Bysshe Shelley was known as “Mad Shelley”, for his obstinate opposition to the brutal faggingsystem, according to which the younger school-boys were obliged to obey the older boys and bear a great deal of cruel treatment.C.George Gordon Byron alled Percy Bysshe Shelley “the best and least selfish man I ever knew.”D.Percy Bysshe Shelley loved the people and hated their oppressors and exploiters.A.________’s pursuit of beauty in all things bespoke an aspiration after a better life than the sordid realityunder capitalism.His leading principle is: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.”C.Percy Bysshe Shelley B.George Gordon Byron48.William Wordsworth D.John KeatsA.Choose the four immortal odes written by John Keats.________C.Ode to the West Wind B.Ode to a NightingaleE.To Autumn D.Ode on MelancholyF.Ode on a Grecian UrnA.Choose the works written by Jane Austen.________C.Pride and Prejudice B.Sense and SensibilityE.Northanger Abbey C.Emma50.Mansfield Park F.PersuasionA.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend called ________ appeared.And it flourished in theforties and in the early fifties.C.romanticism B.naturalism51.realism D.critical realismA.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ________.The critical realists, most of whowere novelists, described with vividness and artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticised the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint.C.novel B.drama52.poetry D.essay53.The greatest English critical realist novelist was ________, who criticised the bourgeois civilisation andshowed the misery of the common people.C.William Makepeace Thackeray B.Charles Dickens53.Charlotte Bronte D.Emily Bronte54.Which of the following writers belong to critical realists? ________Charles Dickens B.Charlotte Bronte54. C.Emily Bronte D.Thomas HardyA.________ wrote a number of little sketches of “cockney characters”.He signed them “Boz”, which washis nickname for his young brother.His first book, Sketches by Boz appeared in 1836.C.Elizabeth Gaskell B.William M.Thackeray55.Charles Dickens D.Jane Austen56.________ has been called “the supreme epic of English life.”C.A Tale of Two Cities B.David Copperfield56.Pickwick Papers D.Oliver Twist57.The theme underlying ________ is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution”.C.A Tale of Two Cities B.David Copperfield57.Pickwick Papers D.Oliver TwistA.In the Victorian Age, poetry was not a major art intended to change the world.The main poets of the age were________.C.Alfred Tennyson B.Robert BrowningE.Mrs.Browning D.Robert BurnsF.William BlakeA.The ________ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century.It showed the English workers were ableto appear as an independent political force and were already realising the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.C.Enlightenment B.Renaissance59.Chartist D.Romanticist60.Which novel is a great satire upon the society and those people who dream to enter the higher societyregardless of the social reality? ________C.A Tale of Two Cities B.David Copperfield60.Great Expectation D.Dombey and Son61.Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel ________.C.A Tale of Two Cities B.Great Expectation61.Hard Times D.David Copperfield62.________ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of thehero is largely based on the author’s early life.C.Tom Jones B.David Copperfield62.Oliver Twist D.Great ExpectationA.The Bronte sisters are ________.They were all talented writers and all of them died young.C.Charlotte Bronte B.Emily BronteE.Anne Bronte D.Jane AustenF.Catherine63.Charlotte Bronte produced four novels: ________.C.Professor B.Jane EyreE.Shirley D.VilletteF.Agnes Grey64.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ________.C.Wuthering Heights B.Jane Eyre65.Emma D.Agnes GreyA.Choose the names appear in the novel Jane Eyre.________C.Jane Eyre B.Mr.Rochester66.Mary Barton D.Silas Marner67.Which characters appear in the novel Wuthering Heights? ________C.Heathcliff B.CatherineE.Hindley D.CathyF.Hareton67.In the novel Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte ________.A.pours a great deal of her own experienceB.criticises the bourgeois system of educationC.shows that true love is the foundation of marriageD.shows that women should have equal rights with men68.Women novelists began to appear in England during the second half of the ________ century.C.17th B.18th69.19th D.20th70.Anne Bronte also wrote two novels ________ and ________.C.Shirley B.Villette70.The Tenant of the Wildfell Hall D.Agnes Grey71.Which of the following statements are true about Jane Eyre? ________A.One of the central themes of the book is the criticism of the bourgeois system of education.B.Another problem raised in the novel is the position of women in society.C.This book is Charlottel Bronte’s best literary production.71.In this book, the author attacked the greed, petty tyranny and lack of culture among the bourgeoisie andsympathised with the sufferings of the poor people.Her realism was coloured by petty-bourgeois philanthropy.72.Most of Robert Browning’s important works, including ________, are written in the form of dramaticmonologue.Dramatic Lyrics B.Dramatic Romances72. C.Men and Women D.dramatics Personae73.Thomas Hardy is one of the representatives of English ________ at the turn of the 19th century.C.critical realism B.pre-romanticism73.neo-classicism D.new romanticism74.Which statement is true? ________A.Thomas Hardy is a famous novelist.B.Thomas Hardy is also a poet.C.Thomas Hardy is a critical realist.D.Fatalism is strongly reflected in Thomas Hardy’ novels.A.According to Thomas Hardy’s own classification, his novels divided themselves into three groups.They are________.B.Novels of character and environmentC.Romances and FantasiesD.Novels of IngenuityE.Working class literatureA.Novels of character and environment are also called Wessex novels, taking the southwest counties of Englandfor their setting.They include: ________.C.Under the Greenwood Tree B.The Return of the NativeE.The Mayor of Casterbridge D.Tess of the D’UrbervillesF.Jude the Obscure76.The following statements are about Thomas Hardy’s novels, which are true? ________A.His Wessex novels are of great significance.B.The Southwest counties of England are the setting of his Wessex novels.C.There is pessimism in his novels.D.Mankind is subjected to hostile and mysterious fate.E.There are elements of naturalism in his works.A.Oscar Wilde is one of the important dramatists in the 19th century.In his comedies, he criticises the upper classof the English bourgeois society.His best comedies are ________.dy Windermere’s FanC.A Woman of No ImportanceD.An Ideal HusbandE.The Importance of Being EarnestF.The Picture of Dorian Gray78.Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.C.aestheticism B.decadence79.critical realism D.pre-romanticismA.Alfred Tennyson’s poetic output was vast and varied.His main poems are ________.C.The Princess B.MaudE.In Memoriam D.Idylls of the KingF.Crossing the Bar80.Which of the following short poems was/were written by Alfred Tennyson? ________C.Break, Break, Break B.Crossing the BarE.The Eagle D.Sweet and LowF.Tears, Idle Tears81.Which lament was written by Alfred Tennyson for the death of his friend Hallam? ________C.In Memoriam B.Lycidas82.Adodais D.Elegy written in a Country Churchyard83.My Last Duchess is ________.C.a dramatic monologue B.a short lyric83. a novel D.an essay84.________ are generally regarded as Joseph Conrad’s finest novels.C.Lord Jim B.Nostromo84.Youth D.The Old Wives’Tale85.Who is regarded as a forerunner of the “stream of consciousness” literature in the 20th century?C.John Galsworthy B.Henry James85.Thomas Stearns Eliot D.James Joyce86.George Bernard Shaw’s essay ________, a commentary on Henrik Ibsen’s dramatic works, served also as theauthor’s own program of dramatic creation.C.Widower’s Houses B.Mrs.Warren’s Profession86.Major Barbara D.The Quintessence of Ibsenism87.In English literature, ________ and ________ are the two best-known novelis ts of the “stream ofconsciousness” school.C.David Herbert Lawrence B.Robert Tressell87.James Joyce D.Virginia Woolf88.________’s admirers have praised him as “second only to Shakespeare in his mastery of English language.”wrence B.T.S.Eliot88.James Joyce D.W.B.Yeats89.________ is the climax of Virginia Woolf’s experiments in novel form.C.The Window B.Time Passes89.To the Lighthouse D.The Waves90.Which of the following novels belong(s) to the “stream of consciousness” school of novel writing?C.Ulysses B.Finnegans Wake90.To the Lighthouse D.The Waves91.________ was written by James Joyce.A.The Portrait of an Artist as a Young ManB.Portrait of a LadyC.The Picture of Dorian GrayD.To the Lighthousewrence’s representative work ________ was positively taken as a typical example and livelymanifestation of the Oedipus Complex in fiction, as the result of Lawrence’s long-range study of the psychologic theories of Sigmund Freud.Sons and Lovers B.The Rainbow92. dy Chatterley’s Lover D.Women in Love93.Which of the characters are in the novel Sons and Lovers?93.Mrs.Morel B.Paul C.Miriam D.Clara94.Which of the following writers were from Ireland?C.George Bernard Shaw B.Jonathan SwiftCI.James Joyce Oscar Wilde94.W.B.Yeats95.Which of the following play(s) was/were NOT written by George Bernard Shaw?C.Mrs.Warren’s Profession B.Widower’s HousesE.Major Barbara D.PygmalionF.The Man of Property95.Which of the following plays deals with the story that a linguist trains a flower girl to speak the so-calledhigh-civilised English?C.Major Barbara B.Pygmalion96.Mrs.Warren’s Profession D.Man and Superman97.In 1923, ________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.C.William Butler Yeats B.Samuel Butler97.Thomas Stearns Eliot D.David Herbert Lawrence98.William Butler Yeats was _______.98.an Irish poet B.a dramatist C.a critic D.a senator in the Irish Free State in 192199.Thomas Stearns Eliot defined his belief as ________.C.classicist in literature B.royalist in politics99.Anglo-Catholic in religion D.all of the above100.Which of the following statement is NOT true?A.Thomas Stearns Eliot was born in America.B.Thomas Stearns Eliot became a British subject in 1927.C.Thomas Stearns Eliot was educated in Harvard University and Oxford University.D.Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, a critic and a playwright.E.Thomas Stearns Eliot was also a great novelist.100.In which poem are the sterility and chaos of the contemporary world after 1st World War expressed?C.Ode to the West Wind B.The Solitary ReaperLamia D.The Waste LandKeys:1-5: A, D, D, A, A 6-10: B, B, D, D, ABCD11-15:ABCD, D, D, C, B 16-20: C, ABC, AB, D, ABCD21-25: ABCD, ABCDEFG, B, A, B 26-30: D, D, AD, D, B31-35: D, BC, D, B, ABCDE 36-40: C, ACD, ABD, ACDE, A41-45: D, C, B, B, D 46-50: A, D, BCDE, ABCDEF, D 51-55: A, B, ABCD, C, C 56-60: A, ABC, C, C, A61-65: B, ABC, ABCD, A, AB 66-70: ABCDE, ABCD, C, CD, ABCD 71-75: ABCD, A, ABCD, ABC, ABCDE76-80: ABCDE, ABCD, AB, ABCED, ABCDE81-85: A.A.AB, B, D 86-90: CD, C, D, ABCD, A91-95: A, ABCE, ABCDE, E, B 96-100: A, ABCD, D, E, D。
