英国文学史 试 题
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Ⅰ. Identification. (15%)
1. Identify each writer on the left column with what is written on the right column. (10%) (1) John Lyly a. pre-romanticism (2) William Blake b. impressionism (3) Laurence Sterne c. Angry Young Man (4) Kingsley Amis d. comic epic in prose (5) Joseph Conrad e. historical novel (6) Walter Scott f. University Wit (7) Pamela g. sentimentalism (8) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man h. Oedipus Complex (9) Sons and Lovers i. Künstlerroman (10) The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling j. epistolary novel
2. Identify the author with his or her work. (5%) (1) Charles Dickens a. Don Juan (2) E. M. Foster b. Hard Times (3) John Milton c. Mrs. Warren’s Profession (4) Henry Fielding d. The Faerie Queene (5) George Bernard Shaw e. “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” (6) Oscar Wilde f. The Pilgrim’s Progress (7) John Bunyan g. A Passage to India (8) Edmund Spencer h. Paradise Regained (9) Thomas Gray i. Jonathan Wild the Great (10) George Gordon Byron j. The Importance of Being Earnest
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer for each blank. (20%) 1. The hero in the romance is usually a . A. king B. knight C. Christ D. churchman
2. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class. A. working B. aristocratic C. bourgeois D. capitalist
3. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens is written in the form of a novel.
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A. epistolary B. picaresque C. Gothic D. psychological
4. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland? A. Jonathan Swift B. Daniel Defoe C. George Bernard Shaw D. James Joyce
5. is the most accomplished example of medieval romance, dealing with Arthurian romance. A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. The Canterbury Tales C. Piers the Plowman D. The Song of Beowulf
6. by Alexander Pope is taken as a manifesto of the English Neo-classicism as Pope put forward his aesthetic theories in it. A. Essay on Criticism B. The Rape of the Lock C. Dunciad D. An Essay on Man
7. “Some books are to be tasted, others are to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested” is taken from ’s work. A. Thomas More B. Francis Bacon C. John Bunyan D. Matthew Arnold
8. Literature of Neo-classicism is different from that of Romanticism in that . A. the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political
rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation B. the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C. the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an
expression on an individual’s feelings and experiences
D. the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman
writers for its models
9. Which of the following places does Gulliver visit last in Gulliver’s Travels? A. Lilliput B. Brobdingnag C. Laputa D. Houyhnhnms
10. defined poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”. A. William Wordsworth B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. T. S. Eliot
11. could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a critical realistic writer. A. Charles Dickens B. George Eliot C. Thomas Hardy D. Emily Bront?
12. are Nobel Prize winners.
A. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence
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B. Rudyard Kipling, T. S. Eliot, John Galsworthy C. W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Thomas Hardy D. Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, James Joyce
13. Christopher Marlowe first made the principal instrument of English drama. A. blank verse B. heroic couplet C. free verse D. monologue
14. 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. The Faerie Queene
15. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from . A. Gulliver’s Travels B. The Pilgrim’s Progress C. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D. The Canterbury Tales
16. In the chaos of the contemporary world and the despair and despondency among the westerners after the First World War are expressed. A. Ode to the West Wind B. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud C. The Waste Land D. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
17. Which of the following is NOT true about The Canterbury Tales? A. It is written in the form of a dream.
B. Chaucer chose a pilgrimage as the framework for the stories involved in it. C. It is written for the greater part in heroic couplet.
D. “The General Prologue” introduces the pilgrims and the time and occasion of the pilgrimage.
18. Robert Louis Stevenson is the representative of the literary school . A. aestheticism B. neo-romanticism C. euphuism D. sentimentalism
19. Which of the following is a Gothic novel? A. Northanger Abbey B. The Mysteries of Udolpho C. Tristram Shandy D. Robinson Crusoe
20. Which is correct according to the time when they appeared? A. romanticism, neo-classicism, humanism, critical realism B. humanism, neo-classicism, romanticism, critical realism C. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalism D. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanism
Ⅲ. Fill in the blanks. (15%)
1. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk traditions and old Scottish poetry.
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2. The slogan of aesthetic literature is .
3. The Romantic Age is said to have begun in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work .
4. In “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne compares the souls of lovers to . 5. A play presents the conflicts between good and evil with allegorical personages such as Mercy, Peace and Hate.
6. The narrator in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a(n) one. 7. is the oldest poem in the English language and also the national epic.
8. The dominant influence over modernist poetry came from two traditions: and .
9. The three unities followed by neo-classical dramatists are the unity of , the unity of time and the unity of place.
10. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of , a legendary outlaw.
11. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.
12. is usually taken as the Father of English Prose.
13. Modernism upholds a new view of time by emphasizing the time over the chronological time. 14. written by Charles Dickens is generally taken as a semi-autobiographical novel.
Ⅳ. Define the following terms. (16%) 1. Omniscient narrator 2. Heroic couplet 3. Allegory
4. Metaphysical poetry 5. Naturalism 6. Sonnet
7. Comedy of manners 8. Byronic hero
Ⅴ. Short-answer questions. (24%)
1. What are the major themes of modernist literature?
2. Analyse the character of Tom Jones in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. 3. What are the essential features of Medieval Romance?
4. Name three Romantic poets and state their chief characteristics.
5. Make a comparison between the two volumes of William Blake: The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience.
6. How many groups does Old English poetry fall into? Briefly explain. 7. What are the general features of English Romanticism?
8. Make a comparison between James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence.
Ⅵ. Essay question. (10%)
Write an essay on the following poem so as to demonstrate your understanding as well as your English
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