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Test for English Literature
I. Select from the lettered choice the one, which best completes the
statement or answer the question.
1. In Anglo-Saxon period, Beowulf represented the ________ poetry.
a. pagan
b. religious c.
romantic d.
sentimental
2. William Langland’ s “________” is written in the form of a dream of
vision.
a. Kubla Kham b. Piers the
Plowman c. The Dream of John Bull
d. Morte d’ Athur
3. ________ was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of Westminster
Abbey.
a. Chaucer
b. Keats c. Southey
d. Tennyson
4. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English
drama. It was ________ who made blank verse the principal vehicle of
expression in drama.
a. Christopher Marlowe b. Thomas Loge
c. Edmund Spenser d. Thomas More
5. English Renaissance Peri od was not an age of prose, but Thomas
More wrote his famous prose work_________.
a. Utopia
b. Robinson Crusoe c.
Gulliver’s Travels d. Of
Studies
6. Which was not written by Milton?
a. Areopagitica b.
Lycidas c. L’Allegro
d. Song to Celia
7. Of the many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most
important and well-known was ________ , who became the poet laureate in
1616.
a. John Dryden
b. Samuel Johnson c. Ben Johnson
d. Robert Southey
8. most of the English writers in the 18th century were enlighteners. They
fell into groups, one is __________, and the other is __________.
a. the moderate group; the radical group b. the
passive romantic poets; the active Romantic poets
c. the Metaphysical poets; the Cavalier poets
d. the lakers; the sentimentalists
9. In the 18th century English literature, the representative writer of
neo-classicism is _________.
a. Pope
b. Swift c. Defoe
d. Milton
10. _________ is a satirical novel, in which the author Fielding exposes the
English bourgeois aristocratic society and mocks at its political system.
a. A modest Proposal
b. Gulliver’s Travels c. Volpone
d. Jonathan Wild the Great
11. The English Romantic Age produced two major novelists. They are
_________.
a. Byron and Shelley
b. Wordsworth and Coleridge
c. Scott and Austen d. Lamb and
Hazlitt
12. In 1805, Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled
“_________”.
a. Biographia literaia
b. The Prelude
c. Lucy Poems d. The
Lyrical Ballads
13. Which poem tells a story similar to Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet?
a. Isabella
b. The Eve of St. Agnes c. Lamia
d. All or love
14. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _________
appeared. And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.
a. romanticism
b. naturalism
c. realism d.
critical realism
15. In the novel “_________”, Dickens gives a truthful presentation of the
sufferance of the poor , and makes a complete exposure the terrible
conditions in the English workhouse of the time and the brutality and
corruption of the oppressors under the mask of philanthropy.
a. David Copperfield
b. Oliver Twist
c. Great Expectations d. Hard times
16. Oscar Wilde was the representative among the writers of ________.
a. Aestheticism
b. Neo-classicism c. critical realism
d. pre-romanticism
17. “My Last Duchess” is _________.
a. a dramatic monologue
b. a short lyric c. a novel
d. an essay
18. William Butler Yeats was _______
a. an Irish poet
b. a. dramatist
c. a critic d. all the above
19. T. S. Eliot defined his belief as “____________”.
a. classicist in literature
b. royalist in politics c. Anglo-Catholic in
religion
20. Which poem was not written by Auten?
a. “For the Time Being”
b. “The Sea and the Mirror”
c. “The Age of Anxiety”
d. "The Waste Land”
II. Match the works in column A and the authors in column B
A
B
1. Romeo and Juliet
a. John Dryden
2. All for love
b. William Shakespeare
3.The Jew of Malta
c. Christopher Marlowe
4. Volpone
d. Oliver Goldsmith
5. She Stoops to Conquer
e. George Gordon Byron
6.The School for Scandal
f. George Bernard Shaw
7. Cain
g. Ben Johnson
8. Prometheus Unbound
h. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
9.Mrs. Warren’s Profession
i. Arthur Miller
10.Death of a Salesman
j. Percy Bysshe Shelley
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