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英国文学期末考试试题（广东外语外贸大学）
Instructions
：
This
examination
consists
of
5
parts
，
and
the
total
time
for
the
examination is 2 hours. All the answers
should be entered onto the Answer
Sheet.
Part I
：
Multiple Choices
（
10%
）
Choose the best
answer to the following sentences.
1.
Which of the following is NOT a feature
of Beowulf
？
A. Alliteration
B. Anglo-
Saxons’
early life in England
C. Germanic language
D. The national
epic of Anglo-Saxon people
2.
English
Renaissance Period was an age of
.
A. prose and
novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and
journals
D. ballads and songs
3.
The
main
literary
form
of
the
early
17
th
century
was
poetry.
John
Milton
was
acknowledged as the greatest. Besides
him
，
there were
two groups of poets. They were the
Cavalier poets and
.
A. the lake
poets
B.
the university wits
C. the Metaphysical poets
D. the Romantic poets
4. Pamela is
widely considered to be the first novel and was
written by ___________.
A. Thomas Hardy
B. James Joyce
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Henry Fielding
5.
The
publication
of
，
which
was
the
joint
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
Samuel T.
Coleridge
，
marked
the beginning of the Romantic Age in England.
A. Don
Juan
B. The Rime of
the Ancient Mariner
C. Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab
6.
Among the most famous realistic
novelists of the Victorian age are
，
W. M.
Thackeray
，
Bronte sisters
，
etc.
A. Joseph Conrad
B.
Henry Fielding
C. Charles
Dickens
D. D. H.
Lawrence
7.
In James
Joyce’s ____________ the story “Eveline” paints a
portrait of a young
woman from Dublin
deciding whether or not to leave her hometown.
A.
Ulysses
B. Orlando
C. Dubliners
D. A Portrait
of the Artist as a Young Man
8.
In
the 18
th
century
England
，
satire
was much used in writing. Literature of this age
produced some excellent
satirists
，
such
as Jonathan Swift
，
Henry Fielding and
.
William Blake
B. Robert
Burns
C.
Alexander
Pope
D. Daniel Defoe
9.
William
Wordsworth never used “gaudy and inane
phraseology” because he felt that
poetry should ____________.
A. be read only by the
well-educated
B. use difficult vocabulary to express
complicated emotions
C. use simple speech to communicate the
truths of human experience
D. rely on strange and uncommon words
to bring people new experiences
10.
Virginia
Woolf
is
renowned
for
adopting
the
technique
，
which
displays
the
sequence of thoughts and
impressions in a person’s mind.
A. mind-
reading
B.
third-person narration
C. stream-of-
consciousness
D.
feminist
Part
II
：
Gap Filling
（
10%
）
Complete the following sentences and
write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1.
Geoffrey Chaucer’s work
gives us a picture of the condition of
English life of
his
day
，
such as its
work and play
，
its deeds and
dreams
，
its fun
and sympathy.
2.
During the
Norman Conquest
，
the most important form of literary
composition is
，
the
representative of which is the legend of King
Arthur and the round table
knights.
3.
Epoch of Renaissance witnessed a
particular development of English drama. It was
William Shakespeare and
who made blank
verse the principal vehicle of expression in
drama.
4.
Hamlet
，
Othello
，
Macbeth
and
are
generally
regarded
as
William
Shakespeare’s four great
tragedies.
5.
Edmund
Spenser
is
generally
regarded
as
the
greatest
nondramatic
poet
of
the
Elizabethan Age. His fame is chiefly
based on his masterpiece
.
6.
In
Elizabethan Period
，
wrote more than 50 excellent
essays
，
which
made him
one of the best essayists in
English literature.
7.
The
was a
progressive intellectual movement throughout
western Europe in the
18
th
century.
8.
In the latter part of the
18
th
century
，
there
appeared
，
as a
reaction against Reason
，
___________ novel and literature of
sentimentality.
9.
Thomas Gray’s
highly praised poem
shows the
poet’s sympathy for the
poor
，
and
condemns the great ones who despise the poor and
bring sufferings to the common
people.
10.
The
Romantic
movement
in
England
had
two
significant
movements
as
its
background
：
the French Revolution and
.
11
________
is
perhaps
the
most
talented
early
novelist.
She
wrote
a
number
of
books concerning
young
，
relatively
wealthy women pursuing
marriage
，
such as
Pride and
Prejudice and Emma.
12.
George
Byron
is
chiefly
known
for
his
two
long
poems.
One
is
Childe
Harold’s
Pilgrimage and the other is
.
13
John
Keats
wrote
several
famous
___________
，
a
type
of
lyric
poem
that
is
meditative and formal.
14.
________
_
，
the
eldest of the two famous novelist
sisters
，
wrote
Jane Eyre in the
middle of the
19
th
century.
15.
_____________
monologue
was
first
successfully
used
in
poetry
by
Robert
Browning.
16.
One of the most striking features
of
in the 20
th
century literature is anti-
past
，
anti-
tradition
，
anti-
novel
，
anti-
hero
，
etc.
17.
__________
，
the manifesto of modernist poetry in
the 20
th
century
，
was
written
by T. S. Eliot.
18.
A
Passage to India
，
Howard’s End
，
and A Room with a View are three of the
most
famous novels by ___________.
19.
Lord Jim is one of the most famous
novels by _________
，
who was born in Poland
and
learned English as his third language.
20.
Man and Superman and Pygmalion are two
of most famous plays by __________.
Part
III
：
Definition
of Terms
（
15%
）
Choose THREE
out of the following terms and explain them in two
or three sentences.
Sonnet
；
Point of view
；
Soliloquy
；
Setting
；
Heroic couplet
Part IV
：
Appreciation
（
40%
）
Choose TWO of
the following three excerpts and write a passage
of comment
（
about 80
words
）
on each one. Your comment should cover
the questions after each excerpt.
Excerpt
1
：
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on
high o’er vales and hills
，
When all at
once I saw a crowd
，
A
host
，
of golden
daffodils
；
Beside the
lake
，
beneath the
trees
，
Fluttering and dancing in
the breeze.
…
For oft
，
when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive
mood
，
They flash upon that inward
eye
Which is
the bliss of solitude
；
And then my
heart with pleasure fills
，
And dances with
the daffodils.
（
William
Wordsworth
，
“I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
）
Questions
：
1. What is the
central image of this poem
？
What is the poet’s reaction as revealed
in the
poem
？
2. Wordsworth
believes that “All good poetry is the spontaneous
overflow of powerful
feelings”
and
poetry “takes its origin from emotion recollected
in tranquility”. How does this
poem
reflect the poet’s philosophy of
composition
？
Excerpt
2
：
The proper study of mankind is man.
Placed on this
isthmus of a middle state
，
A being darkly
wise
，
and rudely
great
：
With too much knowledge for
the Skeptic side
，
With too much
weakness for the Stoic’s
pride
，
He hangs
between
；
in doubt
to act
，
or
rest
；
In doubt to deem himself a
God
，
or
beast
；
In doubt his mind or body
to prefer
；
Born but to
die
，
and
reasoning such
，
Whether he thinks too
little or too much
；
Chaos of
thought and passion
，
all confused
；
Still by
himself abused or disabused
；
Created half to
rise
，
and half to
fall
；
（
Alexander
Pope
，
An Essay on
Man
）
Questions
：
1.
What’
s the topic of the above
lines
？
ize the main idea in a few
sentences.
Excerpt 3
：
I shall now
therefore humbly propose my own
thoughts
，
which I
hope will not be liable
to the least
objection.
I
have been assured by a very knowing American of my
acquaintance in London
，
that a
young healthy child
well nursed is at a year old a most
delicious
，
nourishing
，
and wholesome