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Part Four The English Century

Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)

A B

1. ( ) Tome Jones a.Friday

2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield b.King of Brodingnag

3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe c.Sophia

4. ( ) Gulliver's Travels d.Mr. B

5. ( ) Pamela e.William Thornhill

6. ( ) The School for Scandal f.Charles Surface

The key: (1—c, 2—e, 3—a, 4—b, 5—d, 6—f )

Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.

1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.

A. The Funeral

B. The Lying Lover

C. The Christian Hero

D. The Tender Husband

2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?

A. The Tatler

B. The Spectator

C. The Theatre

D. The English

3. _____ is Addison's great tragedy.

A.A Letter from Italy

B. Rosamond

C. The Campaign

D. Cato

4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?

A. Isaac Bickerstaff

B. Mr. Roger

C. Captain Sentry

D. Andrew Freeport

5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors th century. all through the 18

A. Jeremy Taylor's Holy Living

B. Thomas Browne's Religio Meidic

C. Samuel Pepys's diaries

D. Addison's Spectator essays

6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

A. Steele

B. Addison

C. Pope

D. Dryden

7. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.

A. Essay on Criticism

B. The Rape of the Lock

C. Essay on Man

D. The Dunciad

8. Essay on Man is a _____poem in heroic couplets.

A. didactic

B. satirical

C. philosophical

D. dramatic

th century. 9. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18 A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Industrial Revolution

C. The Religious Reform

D. The Enlightenment

10. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____ readers.

A. aristocratic

B. middle class

C. low class

D. intellectual

11. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.

A. Steele

B. Milton

C. Addison

D. Pope

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th century was ____ . What stream of the 18the writers

12.The main literary

described in their works were mainly social realities.

A. romanticism

B. classicism

C. realism

D. sentimentalism

th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period

The 1813.

spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.

A. drama

B. poetry

C. essay

D. novel

14.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, ____ and ___, which made him well-known as a satirist.

A. A Tale of Tub

B. Bickerstaff Almanac

C. Gulliver's Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

15.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.

A. Essays on Criticism

B. A Modest Proposal

C. Gulliver's Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

16.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.”This sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

17._____'s best-known pamphlet was The Trueborn Englishman—A Satire, which

contained a caustic exposure of the aristocracy and the tyranny of the church.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

18.Henry Fielding's first novel ____ was written in connection with Pamela of Samuel Richardson. But after the first 10 chapters, Henry Fielding became so interested and absorbed in his own hovel as to forget his original plan of

ridiculing Pamela.

A. Tom Jones

B. Joseph Andrews

C.Jonathan Wild

D.Amelia

19.____ the first important work by Tobias Smollett, is based on his own experience as a naval doctor and in part autobiographical.

A. Roderick Random

B. Humphry Clinker

C. Peregrine Pickle

D. A Sentimental Journey

20.From the character Mr. Malaprop, in ___ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is derived the term “malapropism”which means a ridiculous misusage of big

words.

A. The Rivals

B. The School for Scandal

C. The Beggar's Opera

D. The London Merchant

21.Which of the following periodicals is edited by Samuel Johnson? _____.

A. The Review

B. The Tatler

C. The Rambler

D. The Bee

22.Which of the following works are not written by Oliver Goldsmith? ____.

A. The Traveller

B. The Deserted Village

C. The Vicar of Wakefield

D. The School for Scandal

23.Which of the following works is written by Edward Gibbon?______.

A. The School for Scandal

B. She Stoops to Conquer

C. The Good-natured Man

D.The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

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24.The sentence of “The plowman homeward plods his weary way, /And leaves the world to darkness and to me”is written by ____.

A. William Cowper

B. George Crabbe

C. Thomas Gray

D. William Blake

25.______ is not written by William Blake.

A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

B. Songs of Experience

C. Auld Lang Syne

D. Poetical Sketches

26.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”This proverb is cited from William Blake's _____.

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Poetical Sketches

th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties,

The 1827.______, which were satirized by Jonathan Swift in his Gulliver's Travels.

A. the Whigs and the Tories

B. the senate and the House of Representatives

C. The upper House and lower House

D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons

28.____ found its representative writers in the field of poetry, such as Edward Young and Thomas Gray, but it manifested itself chiefly in the novels of Lawrence

Sterne and Oliver Goldsmith.

A. Pre-romanticism

B. Romanticism

C. Sentimentalism

D. Naturalism

29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the

foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Dryden

30.Which of the following novels is not epistolary (written in letter form) novels?

A. Clarissa Harlowe

B. Pamela

C. Sir Charles Grandison

D. Tomes Jones

31.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A. She Stoops to Conquer

B. The Rivals

C. The School for Scandal

D. The Conscious Lovers

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CBCDB 11-15 DDDDB

16-20 CDBAA 21-25 CDDCC 26-31 CACBDC

Ⅳ. Say true or false.

1.Addison's The Spectator was published three times a week, having one essay for

each issue.

2.Addison's chief contribution to literature lies in his essays written for The Tatler and The Spectator.

3.The essays published in The Tatler deal with the current topics of the time which

treated in a serious manner.

4.The character sketches in The Spectator are the forerunner of the English novel.

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5.Steele's translations of Humor's works are done in heroic couplet.

6.Isaac Bickerstaff is the major character of The Spectator.

th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as The 187.Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced.

th century. The main characters in the Novel writing made a big advance in the 188.novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles.

th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the The 199.sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist.

10.In the poems of Edward Young and Thomas Gray, sentimentalism found its fine expression.

11.A Tale of a Tub is mainly an attack on pedantry in the literary world of the time, in which the reader is told the story of the Bee and the Spider.

12.Tobias Smollett gives a true picture of the evils in the British navy in the novel of Roderick Random, in which Random, like Smollett, is a Scot and a doctor.

13.The two most important of all Samuel Johnson's literary works are the preface and comments of individual plays in his edition of Shakespeare, and his Lives of Poets, which pass judgment on a century of English poetry.

14.Classicism turned to the countryside for its material, so is in striking contrast to sentimentalism, which had confined itself to the clubs and drawing-rooms, and to

the social and political life of London.

15.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on

a variety of subjects.

16.In The School for Scandal, Sheridan contrasts two brothers, Joseph Surface and

Charles Surface.

17.My Heart's in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland.

18.Racial discrimination is expressed in Blake's “The Little Black”.

19.Many of Goldsmith's poems were put to music.

20.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton.

Key to the True/False statements:

1.F (one time a day)

2.T

3.F (light and pleasant manner)

4.T

5.F(Pope's )

6.F (The Tatler)

7.F (prose)

8.F (nobles; common people)

th ) F (189.

10.T

11.F ( The Battle of the Books)

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12.T

13.T

14.F ( Sentimentalism; classicism)

15.F ( Scottish)

16.T

17.T

18.T

19.F (Burns's)

20.F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)

Ⅴ. Questions

th century. Comment on the English classicists in the 181.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/8115773220.html,ment on The Spectator.

Part Five Romanticism in England

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism

B. Renaissance

C. Enlightenment

D. feudalism

2.The main literary stream is ____.

A. poetry

B. novels

C. prose

D. periodicals

3.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

B. “Tintern Abbey”

C. “Revolution”

D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

4.Coleridge's _____ is a “conversation”poem.

A. Frost at Midnight

B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

5.Byron's ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

B. Hours of Idleness

C. Lara

D. Don Juan

6.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth's

B. Byron's

C. Shelley's

D. Keats'

7.____ lived the longest life.

A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

8.Keats' first poem is ____.

A. O Solitude

B. On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

C. Poems

D. Endymion

9.Keats' best ode is ____.

A. “On a Grecian Urn”

B. “To Autumn”

C. “To Psyche”

D. “To a Nightingale”

10.The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.

A. The Spirit of the Age

B. Table Talk

C. The Characters of Shakespeare's Plays

D. On the English Poets

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11.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.

A. “Tintern Abbey”

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Frost at Night

D. “The Daffodils”

12.The Prelude has also been called _____.

A. The Last Brazil

B. The First Impression

C. Growth of a Poet's Mind

D. The Spirit of the Age

13.Wordsworth's “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”has also been called _______.

A. “The Solitary Reaper”

B. “The Daffodils”

C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

D. “O Solitude”

14._____ is considered Wordsworth's masterpiece.

A. The Prelude

B. Endymion

C. Don Juan

D. Biographia Literaria

15.The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.

A. models of classicism

B. familiar essay

C. rules of neo-romanticism

D. ways of modernism

16.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

A. Keats

B. Walter Scott

C. Charles Lamb

D. William Hazlitt

17.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.

A. pride and prejudice

B. the writer's own personalities

C. love and marriage

D. Both A and C

18._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A.Jane Austen

B. Charles Lamb

C. William Hazlitt

D. Waler Scott

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/8115773220.html,mb's writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.

A. romanticism

B. conversations

C. inspirations

D. archaisms

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/8115773220.html,mb is a romanticist of ______.

A. the city

B. the countryside

C. nature

D. imagination

21._____ is based on Boccaccio's Decameron.

A. Endymion

B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia

22.Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare, Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.

A. Keats

B. Wordsworth

C. Coleridge

D. William

23.The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic Age from _____.

A. Dun Juan

B. The Prelude

C. Kubla Khan

D. Isabella

24.Some critics think that some of Byron's poems show his _____.

A. individual heroism and pessimism

B. love of nature and optimism

C. love of old writers

D. hatred for the imperialism

25.One of Coleridge's best “conventional”poems is _____.

A. Kubla Khan

B.Frost at Night

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

26.Coleridge's best literary criticism is _________.

A. Kubla Khan

B.Frost at Night

C. Christabel

D. Biographia Literaria

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27.____ is Shelley's masterpiece.

A. Zastrozzi

B. The Necessity of Atheism

C. Queen Mab

D. Prometheus Unbound

28._____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.

A. John Woodvil

B.Essays of Elia

C. Mr H

D. Tales from Shakespeare

29.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy

B. A Defence of Poetry

C. The Necessity of Atheism

D. The Triumph of Life

30.______ is Shelley's first book written in ____.

A. Zastrozzi; Eton

B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy

C. Queen Mab; Greece

D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy

31.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)

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