智慧树知到《英国文学漫谈》章节测试答案

智慧树知到《英国文学漫谈》章节测试答案
第一章单元测试
1、English literature began with the（） settlement in EnglanD.
A.Anglo-Saxon
B.Celtic
C.English
D.Roman
正确答案：Anglo-Saxon
2、Beowulf， written about the life of England in the（） society， is said to be the national epic of the English people.
A.primitive
B.agricultural
C.feudal
D.medieval
正确答案：feudal
3、Beowulf is written in the form of（）， a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.
A.couplet
B.blank verse
C.alliterative verse
D.ballad
正确答案：alliterative verse
第二章单元测试
1、The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of（） over everything in the society.
A.the King
B.feudal lords
C.the Church
D.the knights
正确答案：the Church
2、The central character of a romance is（）， who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.
A.the warrior
B.a soldier
C.the knight
D.the Gladiator
正确答案：the knight
3、The stories of（） are the most well-known ballads， songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.
A.the green knights
B.King Arthur
C.the Vikings
D.Robin Hood
正确答案：Robin Hood
4、Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of（） represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.
A.allegory
B.a dream
C.epic
D.symbolism
正确答案：allegory
5、（） is considered the father of English poetry， whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.
A.Geoffrey Chaucer
B.Edmund Spenser
C.John Milton
D.William Langland
正确答案：Geoffrey Chaucer
6、The Canterbury Tales， a collection of stories strung together and told by 30 pilgrims on their way to pilgrimage， is written in the form of（）.
A.heroic couoplet
B.blank verse
C.alliterative verse
D.ballad
正确答案：heroic couoplet
7、The key-note of the Renaissance is（）.
A.realism
B.asceticism
C.romanticism
D.humanism
正确答案：humanism
第三章单元测试
1、It was（） who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
A.Ben Johnson
B.University Wits
C.John Wycliff
D.Christopher Marlowe
正确答案：University Wits
2、Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism， took（） as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.
A.man
B.power
C.God
D.the world
正确答案：man
3、Shakespeare is hailed by（）， contemporary with Shakespeare， as "not of an age， but for all time".
A.Christopher Marlowe
B.Robert Greene
C.Ben Jonson
D.Thomas Nash
正确答案：Ben Jonson
4、Hamlet is characterized as a（an）（） on that， he loves good and hates evil； he is a man free from prejudice and superstition； he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.
A.Puritan
B.humanist
C.idealist
D.patriot
正确答案：humanist
5、Edmund Spenser was considered the（） for his achievements in poetry.
A."the greatest English poet"
B."the saint of English poetry"
C."father of English poetry"
D."the Poets' Poet"
正确答案："the Poets' Poet"
6、（） is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene.It has 9-line stanzas， rhyming in ababbcbcc.
A.sonnet
B."The mighty lines"
C."The Spenserian Stanza"
D.blank verse
正确答案："The Spenserian Stanza"
7、Francis Bacon won for himself the first English（） for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
A.prose writer
B.poet
C.essayist
D.dramatist
正确答案：essayist
8、The most representative work of Francis Bacon is（）， which is the first collection of English essays.
A.Essays
B.Novum Organum
C.The Interpretation of Nature
D.Advancement of Learning
正确答案：Essays
第四章单元测试
1、（） is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century， who is best known for his work The Pilgrim's Progress.
A.Francis Bacon
B.John Bunyan
C.George Herbert
D.John Dryden
正确答案：John Bunyan
2、The Pilgrim's Progress is written in the form of（） .
A.symbols
B.aggressions
C.allegory
D.allusions
正确答案：allegory
3、"The Metaphysical Poets" refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of（）
A.symbols
B.metaphor
C.conceit
D.imagination
正确答案：conceit
4、In his "A Valediction：Forbidding Mourning"， John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and（） as the dominant conceit of the poem.
A.a farewell to a dying person
B.an earthquake
C.a pair of compasses
D.a piece of gold
正确答案：a pair of compasses
5、The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of（） as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.
A.the Tory Party
B.institutional monarchy
C.the United Kingdom
D.the Whig Party
正确答案：institutional monarchy
6、（）was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God'；s supreme authority over human beings.
A.Calvinism
B.Republicanism
C.Puritanism
D.Humanism
正确答案：Puritanism
7、Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by（）， who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
A.John Donne
B.Robert Herrick
C.John Miltion
D.John Dryden
正确答案：John Miltion
8、Throughout his life， Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of（） of England under Oliver Cromwell.
A.the Royalists
B.the Monarch
C.the Commonwealth
D.the Parliament
正确答案：the Commonwealth
9、“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton's（）.
A.alliterative verses
B.blank verses
C.elegies
D.sonnets
正确答案：sonnets
10、Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from（） of the Christian Bible.
A.Luke
B.Genesis
C.Exodus
D.Matthew
正确答案：Genesis
11、The central theme of Paradise Lost is（）.
A.the fall of man
B.final judgment
C.resurrection
D.the creation of man
正确答案：the fall of man
第五章单元测试
1、The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against（）.
A.feudalism
B.classicism
C.puritanism
D.humanism
正确答案：feudalism
2、Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century， there were chiefly two groups：the（） group and the radical group.
A.revolutionary
B.royalist
C.conservative
D.moderate
正确答案：moderate
3、The Tatler， a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709， featured cultivated essays on（）.
A.social evils
B.cultural state
C.class struggles
D.contemporary manners
正确答案：contemporary manners
4、As a distinctive way，（） are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
A.three unities
B.satires
C.realistic techniques
D.heroic couplets
正确答案：three unities
5、（） writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
A.Realist
B.Neo-classicist
C.Pre-romanticist
D.Enlightenment
正确答案：Neo-classicist
6、Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet.He strongly advocated（）， emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
A.aestheticism
B.naturalism
C.realism
D.classicism
正确答案：classicism
7、Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the（） novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.
A.epistolary
B.Gothic
C.realist
D.sentimentalist
正确答案：realist
8、As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century，（） made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver'；s Travels.
A.Daniel Defoe
B.Samuel Richardson
C.Johnathan Swift
D.Henry Fielding
正确答案：Johnathan Swift
9、Gulliver' s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on（）.
A.human nature
B.human spirit
C.human mind
D.human heart
正确答案：human nature
10、（）， the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature， is also considered the father of the English novel.
A.Henry Fielding
B.Oliver Goldsmith
C.Jonathan Swift
D.Daniel Defoe
正确答案：Henry Fielding
11、Tom Jones shows Fielding's philosophical view of "return to（）".Thus， in characterization， a contrast is made between Tom Jones， the good-nautured though flawed man， and Bilfil， the hypocritical villain.
A.childhood
B.nature
C.motherland
D.countryside
正确答案：nature
12、Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern'；s novel（）in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.
A.Pamela
B.A Sentimental Journey
C.The Vicar of Wakefield
D.Tristram Shandy
正确答案：A Sentimental Journey
13、Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson's（） novels which convey female characters' feelings and sentiments.
A.adventure
B.epistolary
C.realist
D.historical
正确答案：epistolary
14、The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray， whose well-known "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" earned for him the name of a "（） Poet".
A.National
B.Graveyard
C.Local
D.Lake
正确答案：Graveyard
15、Oliver Goldsmith's The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and（） in the 18th-century English literature.
A.romanticism
B.satire
C.localism
D.realism
正确答案：satire
16、The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as（）.
A.pre-romanticism
B.sentimentalism
C.realism
D.neo-classicism
正确答案：pre-romanticism
17、Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the（） dialect.
A.Scottish
B.Irish
C.London
D.Celtic
正确答案：Scottish
第六章单元测试
1、Romanticism preferred （） to reason and rationalism.To William Wordsworth， poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
A.emotion
B.art
C.rhetoric
D.devices
正确答案：emotion
2、The joint publication of（）in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in EnglanD.
A.'；Lines Composed upon Tinten Abbey'
B.'；Preface to Lyrical Ballads'
C.'；Rime of Ancient Mariner'
D.Lyrical Ballads
正确答案：Lyrical Ballads
3、To Wordsworth， the theme of poetry should be concerned with（）， the language of peotry should be plain， and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.
A.city life
B.country life
C.common life
D.fantastic life
正确答案：common life
4、In "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"， "the inward eye" refers to（）， which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader's imagination of the author's inner feelings.
A."emotians"
B."heart"
C."mind"
D."reason"
正确答案："mind"
5、In “The Solitary Reaper”， the feeling of（） is clearly conveyed to the reader， especially in the first stanza.
A.homesickness
B.disillusionment
C.melancholy
D.loneliness
正确答案：melancholy
6、Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of（） romantic poets， whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus BounD.
A.revolutionary
B.passive
C.active
D.lyrical
正确答案：active
7、（） is Shelley's bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
A."Song to the Man of England"
B."Ode to the West Wind"
C."To a Skylark"
D."The Cloud"
正确答案："Ode to the West Wind"
8、Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly（） novels as far as genre is concerneD.
A.psychoanalytical
B.realist
C.historical
D.sentimentalist
正确答案：historical
9、Scott's historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of（）， the history of England and the history of European countries.
A.Scotland
B.Ireland
C.France
D.Wales
正确答案：Scotland
第七章单元测试
1、Jane Austen's novels mainly concern such issues as the（） of young women.Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices， she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.
A.manners
B.ethics
C.feminism
D.morals
正确答案：manners
2、The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte， Emily and Anne Bronte， with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and（） respectively.
A.Wuthering Heights
B.Villette
C.Agnes Grey
D.The Professor
正确答案：Wuthering Heights
3、Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature，（） is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people， represented by her novel Mary Barton.
A.Charlotte Bronte
B.Jane Austen
C.George Eliot
D.Mrs.Gaskell
正确答案：Mrs.Gaskell
4、The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with（） problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.
A.moral
B.psychological
C.social
D.cultural
正确答案：moral
第八章单元测试
1、In response to the social， political and economic problems associated with industrialisation，（） novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.
A.aestheticist
B.new romanticist
C.critial realist
D.psychoanalytical
正确答案：critial realist
2、The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by（）and the novels are filled with moral teachings.
A.pessimism
B.mysticism
C.fatalism
D.optimism
正确答案：optimism
3、Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era， whose principal works are the（） novels， i.e.， the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.
A.Bildungsroman
B.character and environment
C.modernist
D.realist
正确答案：character and environment
4、In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century， "Art for Art's Sake" can simply mean the focus on（） rather than on deep meaning of literary works.
A.impression
B.technique
C.beauty
D.form
正确答案：beauty
5、（） is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author's subtle psychological analysis.
A.Dramatic monologue
B.Psycho-analysis
C.Interior monologue
D.Free association
正确答案：Dramatic monologue
6、"Break， Break， Break" is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a（n）（） for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his frienD.
A.sonnet
B.ode
C.lyric
D.elegy
正确答案：elegy
7、Thomas Carlyle'；s non-fiction The French Revolution：A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens'；s novel（）.
A.Great Expectations
B.A Tale of Two Cities
C.Oliver Twist
D.Hard Times
正确答案：A Tale of Two Cities
8、John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era.In his Modern Painters， he argued that the principal role of the artist is（）.
A.innovation
B.creativity
C."art for art's sake"
D."truth to nature"
正确答案："truth to nature"
9、In his Culture and Anarchy，（） showed his deepest contempt for and most frequent attack on the middle-class Philistines who he thought lacked culture.
A.Matthew Arnold
B.Charles Kinsley
C.John Ruskin
D.Thomas Carlyle
正确答案：Matthew Arnold
第九章单元测试
1、Writers， artists and composers we consider “modern” had their roots in the （） era which produced such writers as Joseph Conrad， E.M.Forster， W.S.Maugham， etc.
A.Elizabethan
B.Georgian
C.Edwardian
D.Victorian
正确答案：Edwardian
2、A Passage to India is set on Joseph Conrad's own experience in India which deals with the theme of（） in addition to persoal relationships.
A.fatalism
B.colonialism
C.patriotism
D.culturalism
正确答案：colonialism
3、（） is admittedly an autobiographical novel which draws much on Maugham’s own experience.
A.The Razor's Edge
B.The Moon and Sixpence
C.Howard's End
D.Of Human Bondage
正确答案：Of Human Bondage
第十章单元测试
1、"The Waste Land" is written by T.S.Eliot in which the theme of the（） of the post-World War I generation is declared to the reader.
A.enlightenment
B.disillusionment
C.dream
D.radicalism
正确答案：disillusionment
2、Because of his Irish background， （） is thought to be the driving force of the Irish Literary Revival.
A.Matthew Arnold
B.William Butler Yeats
C.Robert Browning
D.Alfred Tennyson
正确答案：William Butler Yeats
3、Ulysses， written by James Joyce and considered the most representative of the Egnlish stream-of-consciousness novels， is set in（）， Ireleand .
A.Edinburgh
B.Dublin
C.London
D.Manchester
正确答案：Dublin
4、The only female writer of the stream-of-consciousness novel is（）， who produced such novels as To the Lighthouse， Mrs.Dalloway， The Waves， etc..
A.Virginia Woolf
B.George Eliot
C.Elizabeth Bowen
D.Catherine Mansfield
正确答案：Virginia Woolf
5、D.H.Lawrence is a modernist novelist who makes reflections upon the dehumanizing effects of（） in his representative work Sons and Lovers.
A.modernization
B.industrialisation
C.urbanization
D.mechanization
正确答案：industrialisation