TestofBritishLiterature-Chapter2..doc

Test of British literature-Chapter 2 日志地址: 请用Ctrl+C复制后贴给好友。 大 Chapter 2 The Neoclassical Period A. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative an?swers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets. ( ) 1. ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. A. Genesis A B. Exodus C. The Pilgrims Progress D. The Holy War ( ) 2. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and final?ly brought to its last perfection______Dryden had success?fully used in his plays. A. the heroic couplet B. the free verse C. the blank verse D. the Spenserian stanza ( ) 3. The object of______novels was to present a faithful picture of life, the just copies of human manners, with sound teaching woven into their texture, so as to teach them to know themselves, their proper spheres and appropriate man?ners. A. John Bunyans B. Alexander Popes C. Jonathan Swifts D. Henry Fieldings ( ) 4. ______has been regarded by some as Father of the English novel for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. A. John Bunyan B. Henry Fielding C Daniel Defoe D. Jonathan Swift ( ) 5. Of all the 18th century novelists ______was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a comic epic in prose. A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe C. John Bunyan D. Jonathan Swift ( ) 6.______brings Henry Fielding the name of the Prose Homer. A. The Pilgrims Progress B. Tom Jones C. Robinson Crusoe D. Colonel Jack ( ) 7. ______was very much concerned with the theme of the vani?ty of human wishes and tried to awaken men to this folly and hoped to cure them of it through his writing. A. Samuel Johnson B. Jonathan Swift C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan D. Thomas Gray ( ) 8. ______was the only important dramatist of the 18th century. A. Alexander Pope B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan C. Samuel Johnson D. George Bernard Shaw ( ) 9. The Rivals and______are generally regarded