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Test for English Literature
I. Make the best choice from a), b), c) and d) to complete the statement
or answer the question.
1. In the second half of the 14th century, many long narrative poems were
written in forms of alliterative meter. They include the following except
A. Pearl
B. Piers the Plowman C. Sir Gawain
D. The Canterbury Tales
2. who pave the foundation for Shakespeare’s dramas?
A. John Lyly
B. Marlowe C. Ben Johnson
D. Thomas More
3. which is a collection of sonnets in the English Renaissance among the
following works?
A. The Shepheardes Calender
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. Paradise Lost
D. Troilus and Criseyde
4. In The Faerie Queene, a new kind of stanza is introduced. This
kind of stanza is called
A. seven—line stanza
B. Spenserian Stanza
C. octonary D. hexastich
5. Who introduces blank verse into English with his translation of Virgil’s
The Aeneid.
A. Thomas Wyatt
B. Henry Howard
C. Spenser D. Philip
Sidney
6. Among the following comments on Utopia, which one is not right?
A. It is a humanistic work.
B.
It is an attempt to describe the Platonic Republic in a new way.
C.
Utopia was the product of the conditions More lived in.
D.
Its sameness to the Platonic Republic is in internals.
7.A Midsummer Night’s Dream is belonged to which period of
Shakespeare’s dramatic career?
A. The first period
B. The second period
C. The third period
D. The fourth period
8.“For I have sworn thee fair and thought thee bright, who art as black as
hell, as dark as night” is a line from
A. Shakespeare's Sonnet 147
B. Astrophel and Stella
C. Spenser’s Amoretti
D. John Donne’s Woman’s Constancy
9. Who is the first to use blank verse in non-dramatic works?
A. Milton
B. Marlowe
C. Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
10. Who wrote An Essay On Criticism?
A. Pope
B. Dryden
C. Johnson
D. Milton
11. “put the proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a
style.” is said by
A. Pope
B. Bunyan
C. Johnson
D. Swift
12. Poetry of Romanism stressed on the following elements except
A. Imagination
B. Nature
C. common people’s life D. literary rules
13. Which is not Wordsworth’s poem?
A. The Solitary Reaper
B. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
C. To Solitude
D. Lines Written in Early Spring
14. Who established the form of the historical novel?
A. Defoe
B Swift
C. Scott
D. Fielding
15. In Jane Austen’s novels, which kind of subject is not her major concern?
A. young women’s social growth and self-discover
B. women’s longing for freedom in marriage
life.
C. the hypocrisy of the middle-class
Englishmen, and their male chauvinistic attitude towards women D. passionate
love
16. Which is not the right overview on English novels written in the 18th
century and that written in the 19th century?
A. the content of the novels in the 19th century was much wider and the
theme much deeper.
B. generally speaking, English novels written in the 18th century are not
realistic works.
C English novels in the 19th century is mainly to criticize the society.
D. The function of English novels in 18th century is mainly description and
moralization
17. Hardy’s the most outstanding novels are called “Novels of Characters and
Environment”, which one is not one of them?
A. Under the Greenwood Tree
B. The Mayor of Casterbridge
C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
D. A Pair Of Blue Eyes
18.About Jane Eyre which is not the correct opinion?
A .Charlotte mainly wrote through romantic approach and presented us a
realistic picture of the social life of the 19th century.
B. Charlotte exposes and criticizes the charity
schools
C. Charlotte shows her sympathy for the poor
girls in such kind of charity schools.
D. This novel also raises the question of women’s position in society in the
author’s age.
19. The representatives of Georgian Poets included
A. Walter de la Mare
B. W. H. Davies C. Edmund Blunden D. Wilfred
Owen
20. Under whose influence, Yeats’ poem creation changed from early
Romanticism to Modernism in 1910s?
A .Hardy
B. Ezra Pound. C. Auden
D. Tennyson
II. March the works in column A and authors in column B
A
B
1. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
A. Bacon
2. Of Studies
B. Sheridan
3. The Alchemist
C. Ben Jonson
4. Lycidas
D. Marlowe
5. The School for Scandals
E. Milton
6. Characters of Shakespeare's plays
F. Yeats
7. The Mill on the Floss
G. Hardy
8. The Dynasts
H. Hazlitt
9. The Wild Swans at Coole
I. Dylan Thomas
10.The Hunchback in the Park
J. G. Eliot
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