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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. (20%)
1. Of the earliest poetry in Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf is the most famous
literary work, and the oldest existent national
A. ode
B. epic
C. lyric
D. elegy
2. Piers the Plowman is an allegorical poem in unrhymed
A. blank verse
B. heroic couplets C. alliterative verse
D. free verse
3. All of the following are the features of Popular Ballads except
A. The ballad is a narrative meant to
be sung B.
Usually composed in the ballad stanza
C. A ballad must be well-known among
people
D.
The ballads are in various English and Irish dialects and the ballad meter
is used
4. During which period drama reached its top in England
A. the 16th century
B. the 17th century
C. the late 16th century and
the early 17th century D. the early 18th
century
5. The restoration of Charles II ushered in a literature characterized
without
A. reason and moderation
B. good taste and deft management
C. simplicity
D. passion
6. Everywhere in the Restoration plays are traces of
A. European influence
B. Greek influence
C. Roman influence
D. French influence
7. “The generall end... of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble
person in vertuous and gentle discipline”. So writes Edmund Spenser in a
letter he introduces his masterpiece
A. The Shepheardes
Calender
B. The Faerie Queene
C. Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight
D. Castiglione's Courtier
8. A novelist, who has been called the “father of the English novel, he is
A. Daniel Defoe
B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift
D. Samuel Johnson
9. Although lived in a remote rural country in Scotland, he is the real
forefather of English Romanticism, he is
A. Burns
B. Keats
C. Byron
D. Shelly
10. William Wordsworth wrote a preface expounding his theories of what made
good poetry. These theories contain the following principles except:
A. All good poems should be “ the spontaneous overflow
feeling.”
B. The poems should be the reflection of feelings,
thoughts, and experiences of the other people.
C. Poetry should be in high degree of imagination.
D. Poetry should “takes all its origin from emotion
recollected in tranquility.”
11. The second generation, who led the Romantic poetry out off mountains,
rivers, countryside, the study musing and meditation, including the
following poets except:
A. Byron
B. Shelley
C. Keats
D. Wordsworth
12. Charles Lamb, English essayist and poet, most famous for his collection
A. The Old Familiar Faces
B. Essays of Elia
C. Dream Children
D. Old China
13. This novel is autobiographical to some extent, because it is known to
embody many of the early experiences of Dickens, although it is not an exact
autobiography,
it is
A. Oliver Twist
B. Great Expectations C.
David Copperfield D. Bleak House
14. Thackeray pictures a real vanity fair in England which he introduced
this name from
A. Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Milton’s Paradise Lost
C. John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding
Mourning”
D. Bunyan’s Grace Abouding to the Chief
of Sinners
15. Byron’s masterpiece is
A. Fugitive Pieces
B. Hours of Idleness C.
Don Juan D. Childe Harold
16. All of the following novels were Written by Thomas Hardy except
A. Far From the Madding
Crowd
B. The Bleak House
C. The Mayor of
Casterbridge
D. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
17. He had a great gift in mixing his feelings with natural scenerie. For
example, in “Break, Break, Break”, the sound of the sea reflected the
feelings of the heart-broken poet. This poet is
A. Wordsworth
B. Mr. Browning C. Mrs. Browning
D. Tennyson
18. Browning’s greatest contribution to English poetry lies in the new form
he introduced into Britain, the dramatic
A. monologue
B. dialogue
C. discourse
D. conversation
19 the First Half of the Twentieth Century Literature in Britain took such
literary trends except
A. symbolism
B. naturalism
C. stream of consciousness
D. realism
20 Samuel Beckett is probably the most celebrated of the absurdist
playwrights because of his work
A. Waiting for Godot
B. Krapp’s Last Tape C. Happy
Days D. Not I
Ⅱ. March the words in the column A and the authors in column B and write
the letter of your choice in the brackets.(5%)
A
B
1. Paradise Regained
a. James Joyce
2. Sense and Sensibility
b. Jonathan Swift
3.The Mill on the Floss
c. Defoe
4. Jude the Obscure
d. Scott
5. The Gulliver’s Travels
e. Dickens
6. Robinson Crusoe
f. Milton
7. Ivanhoe
g. George Eliot
8. Great Expectations
h. Austen
9. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
i. Hardy
10. The Waste Land
j. T. S. Eliot
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