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Test for English Literature
I. Select from the lettered choice the one, which best
completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of your
choice in the brackets. (20 points)
1. For his masterpiece, Bede got the title of “Father of English _________”.
A. novel B. poetry C. drama D. History
2. The enormous number of the romances falls into three cycles or three
groups: the “matters of ________”, the “matters of France”, and the “matters
of Rome”:
A Britain B. Scotland C. Greece D. Irish
3. Sir Gawain and Green knight was written about 1375-1400 by an unknown
poet and it is seen as
the most outstanding single romance on the_________
legend
A. Restoration B Arthurian C. Elizabethan D. Victorian
4. Piers the Plowman is written in the form of dream vision. It is a mirror
to England in that age, vividly presenting English society in the ____
century with dramatic descriptions and living dialogues.
A. 13th B. 14th C 15th D 16th
5. The General Prologue, which has usually been seen as the most important
part of the Canterbury Tales, opens the poem with a description of the
return of___________.
A. fall B. winter C. spring D. summer
6. The theme of the popular ballad is often _________.
A. optimistic B. comic C. sarcastic D. tragic
7. English drama had its beginnings with the _________ plays and pantomimes
of the Middle Ages.
A. folk B. church C. classical D. comic
8. Johnson was not famous for his poetry. But his London and ____________are
outstanding.
A. Vanity Fair B. Pasquin
C. Moll Flanders D. The Vanity of Human Wishes
9. English literature of the Renaissance may be divided into three stages of
development, and the ___________ chief literary trends running through the
three distinct stages.
A. two B. three C. four D. five
10. __________ was the most influential figure in shaping the immediate
future course of English drama in the early 17th century.
A. Milton B. Dryden C. Ben Johnson D. Samuel Johnson
11. ___________ can be known as the father of English poetry.
A. Chaucer B. Milton C. Wordsworth D. Sir Thomas Wyatt
12. The poets who belong to the group of Metaphysics are:
A. John Donne and George Eliot B. Andrew Marvell and Richard Crashaw
C. Henry Vaughan and Thomas Wyatt D. John Cleveland and Dryden
13. Cavalier poets often called themselves “Sons of _______”, because their
verse was frequently written with classical finish in imitation of him.
A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Milton D. Dryden
14. ________ was often called the first British dramatic theorist and
critic.
A. Coleridge B. Wordsworth C. Dryden D. Milton
15.________ is the first important novelist in English literary history with
his realistic views on novel writing that has influenced many generations.
A. Fielding B. Defoe C. Dickens D. Richardson
16. The first British modern poet was _________, the Irish, who had begun
his poetic career in1890s by following Aestheticism but turned to Modernism
later.
A. Yeats B. T. S. Eliot C Auden D. Ruskin
17. Waugh was mainly a satirist and his works were mainly about the polite
society. ____________ was his first novel that established his fame as a
novelist.
A. Vile Bodies B. Decline and Fall
C. Brideshead Revisited D. Unconditional Surrender
18. Wells’ genius as a realistic novelist was better shown in novels
about________.
A. social lives B. political lives C. literary lives D. international theme
19. Among War Poets, ________reflected the optimism of the pre-war era.
A. Dylan Thomas B. George Orwell C. Aldous Huxley D. Rupert Brooke
20. Forster’s best-known work, _________can be divided into three parts:
Mosque, Caves and Temple, each of them bore profound symbolic meaning.
A. A Passage to India B. Animal Farm
C. A Tale of Tub D. The Wild Swans at Coole
II. Match the works in the column A and the authors in the column B. (5
points)
A B
1. The Canterbury Tales A. Marlowe
2. A Tale of a Tub B. Byron
3. The Wild Swans at Coole C. Hardy
4. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage D. Richardson
5. Tess of the D’Urbervilles E. Blake
6. The Rainbow F. Virginia Woolf
7. Doctor Faustus G. Yeats
8. To the Light house H. Chaucer
9. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell I. D. H. Lawrence
10. Pamela J. Swift
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