英国文学试题库1.doc

I. Multiple Choice 1. Generally speaking, the Renaissance refers to the period between the ___and mid-17th centuries. A? 13th? B 14th? C? 15th ?D? 16th 2. The Faerie Queene was written by______. A Sir Philip Sidney? B W. Shakespeare? C E. Spenser? D F. Bacon 3. ____was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. A Thomas Wyatt? B William Shakespeare? C Philip Sidney? D Thomas Campion 4. Which of the following was not written by Henry Fielding? A The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling B The History of the Adventures of Joseph Andrew C The History of Amelia D Pamela 5. _____ compiled The Dictionary of the English Language which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries. A Ben Jonson? B Samuel Johnson? C Alexander Pope? D John Dryden 6. Henry Fiellding was a versatile man. But he was not a(n) ____. A novelist? B dramatist? C essayist? D critic 7. The Romantic Period began in 1798 with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by_____.1,5,10,12,19,21,23,32,37,39 A Wordsworth? B Johnson? C Coleridge? D Wordsworth and Coleridge 8. Which of the following is not a novel by Austen? A Pride and Prejudice? B Sense and Sensibility? C Northanger Abbey? D Waverly 9. Which of the following is the hero in the novel Jane Eyre? A Mr. Rochester? B Heathcliff? C Hindley? D Silas Marner 10. It is Browning who developed the literary form ____. A monodrama? B dramatic monologue? C soliloquy? D point of view???? key II. Filling the blanks with proper words 1. In the year _____, at the battle of _______, the Normans headed by William, Duke of Normandy, defeated the Anglo-Saxons. 2. Chaucer died on the 25th of October, 1400, and was buried in _______. 3. _______ are anonymous narrative songs that have been preserved by oral transmission. 4. At the beginning of the 16th century the outstanding humanist_______ wrote his Utopia in which he gave a profound and truthful picture of the people’s sufferings and put forward his ideal of a future h