英国文学史习题全集含答案
Part One Early and Medieval English Literature
Ⅰ. Fill in the blanks.
1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating England.
A. William the Conqueror
B. Julius Caesar
C. Alfred the Great
D. Claudius
2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .
A. Langland
B. Wycliffe
C. Gower
D. Chaucer
3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.
A. novel
B. drama
C. romance
D. essay
4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.
A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
B.Beowulf
C. Piers the Plowman
D. The Canterbury Tales
5. William Langland’s ____ is written in the form of a dream vision.
A. Kubla Khan
B. Piers the Plowman
C. The Dream of John Bull
D. Morte d’Arthur
6. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The
Normans spoke _____.
A. French
B. English
C. Latin
D. Swedish
7. ______ was the greatest of English religious reformers and the first translator of the
Bible.
A. Langland
B. Gower
C. Wycliffe
D. Chaucer
8. Piers the Plowman describes a series of wonderful dreams the author dreamed,
through which, we can see a picture of the life in the ____ England.
A. primitive
B. feudal
C. bourgeois
D. modern
9. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.
A. loyalty
B. revolt
C. obedience
D. mockery
10. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary
outlaw called _____.
A. Morte d’Arthur
B. Robin Hood
C. The Canterbury Tales
D. Piers the Plowman
11. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of
England, was born in Londonin about 1340.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. Sir Gawain
C. Francis Bacon
D. John Dryden
12. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.
A. Flanders
B. France
C. Italy
D. Westminster Abbey
13. Chaucer’s earliest work of any length is his _____, a translation of the French
Roman de la Rose by Gaillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung, which was a love allegory enjoying widespread popularity in the 13th and 14th centuries not only in France but throughout Europe.
A.The Romaunt of the Rose
B. “A Red, Red Rose”
C. The Legend of Good Women
D. The Book of the Duchess
14. In his lifetime Chaucer served in a great variety of occupations that had impact on
the wide range of his writings. Which one is not his career? ____.
A. engineer
B. courtier
C. office holder
D. soldier
E. ambassador
F. legislator (议员)
15.Chaucer composes a long narrative poem named _____ based on Boccaccio’s poem
“Filostrato”.
A. The Legend of Good Women
B. Troilus and Criseyde
C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D. Beowulf
Key to the multiple choices：1-5 ADCAB 6-10 ACBAB 11-15 ADAAB
Ⅱ. Questions
1.What are the features of Beowulf?
https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3c17397098.html,ment on the social significance and language in The Canterbury Tales.
Part Two The English Renaissance
Ⅰ. Match the writer and his works.
1.Thomas More
2.Holinshed
3.Hakluyt
4.Richard Tottel
5.Philip Sidney
6.Walter Raleigh A.Apology for Poetry
B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C.Utopia
D.Discovery of Guiana
E.Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries
F.Chronicles
The key: (1—C 2—F 3—E 4—B 5—A 6—D)
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer.
1._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type,
which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.
A. Henry V
B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII
D. James I
2.The first complete English Bible was translated by _______, “the morning star of
the Reformation” and his followers.
A. William Tyndal
B. James I
C. John Wycliffe
D. Bishop Lancelot Andrews
3.The progress in industry at home stimulated the commercial expansion abroad.
____ encouraged exploration and travel, which were compatible with the interests of the English merchants.
A. Henry V.
B. Henry VII
C. Henry VIII
D. Queen Elizabeth
4.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”
(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.
A. Spain
B. France
C. America
D. Norway
5.Those, both traders and pirates like ____, established the first English colonies.
A. Francis Drake
B. Lancelot Andrews
C. William Caxton
D. William Tyndal
6.____was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.
A. Ben Johnson
B. William Shakespeare
C. Thomas More
D. Christopher Marlowe
7.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.
A. Lyly
B. Peele
C. Greene
D. Marlowe
8.Morality plays appeared after_____.
A. miracle plays
B. mystery plays
C. interlude
D. Classicalplays
9._____ is used to say and do good things.
A. Mercy
B. Folly
C. Vice
D. Peace
10._____is one of the forerunners of modern socialist thought.
A. Phillip Sidney
B. Edmund Spenser
C. Thomas More
D. Walter Raleigh
11._____ is not a famous translator in the English Renaissance.
A. Thomas North
B. Thomas Wyatt
C. George Chapman
D. John Florio
12.____ had supplied Shakespeare with the material for Julius Caesar.
A.Lives of Greek and Roan Heroes《希腊罗马名人传》
B.Miscellany of Songs and Sonnets
C.Don Quixote
D.History of the World
13.____ was one of the first to see the relation between wealth and poverty to
understand that the rich were becoming richer by robbing the poor.
A. John Wycliffe
B. William Caxton
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Thomas More
14.Utopia was written in the form of _____.
A. prose
B. drama
C. essay
D. dialogue
15.One of the popular morality plays was ____.
A. The Shepherds
B. Everyman
C. The Play of the Weather
D. Gammer Gurton’s Needle
16.Shakespeare’s plays written between _____ are sometimes called “romances” and
all end in reconciliation and reunion.
A. 1590 and 1594
B. 1595 and 1600
C. 1601 and 1607
D. 1608 and 1612
17.Miranda is a heroine in Shakespeare’s ______.
A. Pericles
B. Cymbeline
C. The Winter’s Tale
D. The Tempest
18.In _____ appeared Shakespeare’s Sonnet，Never before Imprinted（《莎士比亚十
四行诗》“迄今从未刊印过”）which contains 154 sonnets.
A. 1606
B. 1607
C. 1608 1609
19.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.
A. romanticism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. classicism
20.Among many poetic forms, Shakespeare was especially at home (good at) with the
_______.
A. dramatic blank verse
B. song
C. sonnet
D. couplet