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世纪文学复习题
tants refers to all the religious sects
except ________.
a.
Church of England
b. Puritanism
c.
Calvinism
d. Catholicism
2. In 1649, ______ was beheaded.
English became a commonwealth.
a.
James I
b. James II
c. Charles I
d.
Charles II
3. The Revolution of 1688
meant three of the following things:_______,
_______,________.
a. the supremacy of
Parliament
b. the beginning of modern England
c. the triumph of the principle of
political liberty
d. the Restoration of
monarchy
4.
The
following belong to the characteristics of
“metaphysical poetry” represented by John Donne
except ___.
A. Conceits
B.
Actual imagery and simple diction
C. Argumentative form
D. Elegant
style
5.
Donne’s
poetry
is
full
of
metaphors,
ori
ginal
images,
wit
and______,
except
ingenuity,
dexterous
use
of
colloquial speech, considerable
flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes
and caustic humor.
a.
c.
conceits
b. Petrarchen
images
rhetorics
d. Brevity
6. ____ poems can be divided into two
categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later
sacred verses.
A. John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D.
John Dryden
7. The theme of the sonnet
Death Be Not Proud
is that
________.
a. death is
predestined
b. death is the
most dreadful thing
c.
death
you are nothing to be feared
d. death is
gentle towards me
8. The main literary
form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the
poets, _______was the greatest.
a.
Milton
b. Bunyan
c. the
Metaphysical poets
d.
the Cavalier poets
9.
Paradise Lost
is actually a story taken
from____.
A. Greek Mythology
B. Roman legend
C. The Old
Testament
D.
The New Testament
10.
Paradise Lost
is __
_’s
masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written
in blank verse, about the heroic revolt
of Satan against God’s
authority.
A. John Donne
B.
Christopher Marlowe
C. John Milton
D. Edmund Spenser
Paradise
Lost
the
author
eulogizes
the
spirit
of
______
that
is
though
lost,
but
the
______cannot
be
conquered, and the pursuit of revenge,
immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.
a. pessimism,
knowledge
b. optimism, ideal
c. rebellion, will
d. cynicism,
concept
12. The following description
fit into Milton except_____.
A. a great
revolutionary poet of the 17th century
B. an outstanding political
pamphleteer
C. a great stylist and
master of blank verse
D. a kind of elegant and refine style.
13. _____is not written by John Milton.
A.
Samson Agonistes
B.
Paradise Lost
C.
Paradise regained
D.
Tamburlaine
14.
In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with more
successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile
eternal
war, / Irreconcilable to our
gr
and Foe” What does the “Eternal war”
mean?
A. To remove God from
his throne
B.
To burn the Heaven Down
C. To corrupt
God’s creation of man and
woman
-----Adam and Eve
D. To
beguile into a snake to threaten man’s
life
15.
Paradise
Lost
is a (n)________.
a.
lyrical poem
b. hymn
c. epic
d. narrative poem
16. ______is the most successful
religious allegory in the English language.
A.
Genesis A
B.
The Holy War
C.
The
Pilgrim’
s progress
D.
Exodus
17. Milton wrote a
number of pamphlets defending the English People.
Choose them from the following.
a.
Defense of the English
People
b.
Second Defense of the English People
c.
L’Allegro
d.
II Penseroso
18._________
,
as
a
declaration
of
people’s
freedom
of
the
press,
has
been
a
weapon
in
the
later
democratic
revolutionary struggles.
A.
On the Morning of Christ’
s
Nativity
B.
Comus
C.
Of Reformation in England
D.
Areopagitica
main literary
achievements of the 17
th
century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the
prose writing of John
Bunyan, and in
the plays and literary criticism of ______.
A. John Donne
B.
Christopher Marlowe
C. John Dryden
D.
Edmund Spenser
20.______gives
a
vivid
and
satirical
picture
of
Vanity
Fair
which
is
the
symbol
of
London
at
the
time
of
Restoration.
A.
Paradise Lost
B.
The Pilgrim’
s
progress
B.
C.
All for Love
D.
The Life and Death of Mr.
Badman
Passage I
“… All is no 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?……
Irreconcilable to our grand
Foe”
1) Please identify the
poem and the poet.
2) Interpret“all is
not lost”.
3) What does the
whole passage mean?
Passage
II
Death, be not proud, thou some have
called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for
thou art not so:
For those whom thou
think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou
kill me.
From rest and sleep, which but
thy pictures be,
Much pleasure; then
from thee much must flow,
And soonest
our best men with thee do go,
Rest of
their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings,
and desperate men,
And dost with
poison, war and sickness dwell,
And
poppy or charms can make us sleep as well
And better by thy stroke; why swell’st
thou then?
One short sleep
past, we wake eternally
And death shall
be no more; Death; thou shall die.
Questions:
1.
This poem is a _________.
2.
Is the rhyme scheme the same with a
Shakespearean sonnet?
3. Who is poet
of the poem? What is his attitude towards death in
this poem?
Passage III
Almost
five
thousand
years
ago, .there
were
pilgrims
walking
to
the
celestial
City,
as
these
two
honest
persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon,
and Legion, with their companions, perceiving, by
the path that the pilgrims
made, that
their way to the city lay through this town of
Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a
fair wherein
should
be
sold
all
sorts
of
vanity,
and
that
it
should
last
all
the
year
long.
Therefore
at
this
fair
are
all
such
merchandise sold, as
houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferment,
titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures
and delights of all sorts, as whores,
bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters,
servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls,
silver, gold, peals, precious stones,
and what not.
Questions:
1. This passage is taken from the
famous book _______ written by _________.
2. The setting here
described is about the best-known episode ________
in the book.
3. How do you understand
the passage?
Questions
1.
Please comment
on the character of Satan in
Paradise
Lost.
2. Analyze the main
idea and artistic features of
Paradise
Lost.
浪漫主义时期复习题
Multiple Choice
1. Romanticism is a period of British
literature roughly dated from _________.
A.1660-----1798 B.1798----1832 C.1483
-----1546 D.1836-----1901
2.
Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.
A. realism
B. Renaissance
C.
Enlightenment
D. feudalism
3.
The
Romantic
Movement
expressed
a
more
or
less______
attitude
toward
the
existing
social
and
political
conditions.
A.
positive
B. negative
C. neutral
D. Indifferent
4. The
publication of ______ marks the beginning of the
Romantic Movement in England.
A.
“Tintern Abbey”
B. Lyrical Ballads
C.
Frost a
t Night
D.
“The Daffodils”
5. The two
major novelists of the English Romantic Period are
_____and Walter Scott.
A.
Washington Irving
B. Jane Austen
C. Herman Melville
D. Charles
Dickens
6. _____defines the poet as
which originates in emotion recollected
in tranquility.
A.
William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.
John Keats
7. For the Romantics, ____is
not only the major source of poetic imagery, but
also provides the dominant subject
matter.
A.
love
B. man
C. nature
D. Death
8. In the Romantic period, ____is the
most prosperous literary form.