《英国文学简史(刘炳善版)》期末试题及答案A卷(英语本科专业用)

英语系副教授制订的英语专业《英国文学简史》期末考试试题,答题纸和答案俱全。供各院校英语专业教师期末出题参考。

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《英国文学简史》试卷 A 卷

________级_______专业_____班学号___________ 姓名___________

Ⅰ. Multiple choices (50 points, 1 point each)

1.The most important work of Alfred the Great is _________, which is

regarded as the best monument of the old English prose.

A. The Song of Beowulf

B. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

C. Brut

D. History of the King of Britain

2.William Langland’s “_________” is written in the form of a

dream vision.

A. Kubla Kan

B. Piers the Plowman

C. The Dream of John Bull

D. Morte d’Arthur

3.In 1066, ________ led the Norman army to invade and defeat England.

A.Julius Caesar

B. Alexander the Great

C.William the Conqueror

D. Claudius

4._________ was the first to be buried in the Poet’s Corner of

Westminster Abbey.

A. Keats

B. Southey

C. Tennyson

D. Chaucer

5._________ composed a long narrative poem named “________”based

on Boccaccio’s poem “Filostrato”.

A.Shakespeare, Troilus and Criseyde

B.Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde

C.Chaucer, The House of Fame

D.Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose

6.In the following, which word is not French origin?

A. pork

B. mutton

C. veal

D. swine

7.The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of

English drama. It was _______ who first made blank verse the principal vehicle of expression in drama.

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A. Robert Greene

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. William Shakespeare

8.English Renaissance Period was an age of ______.

A. prose and novel

B. poetry and drama

C. essays and journal

D. ballads and songs

9.Great popularity was won by John Lyly’s prose romance _________

which gave rise to the term “euphuism”, designating an affected style of court speech.

A. Cymbeline

B. Venus and Adonis

C. The Rape of Lucrece

D. Euhpues

10.Which one is not the resource of medieval romance?

A.adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of Round Table

B.Emperor Charlemagne and his peers

C.Alexander the Great and matters of Rome

D.The Rising of 1381

11.“When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentlemen?”

is the sermon of __________.

A. Wat Tyler

B. John Ball

C. Langland

D. Thomas Malory

12.Which statement about More’s “Utopia” is NOT true?

A. Book One of “Utopia” is a picture of contemporary England

with forcible exposure of the poverty among the laboring

classes, the greed and luxury among the rich, and an eagerness

for war on the part of the rulers

B. In Book Two we have a sketch of an ideal commonwealth in some

unknown ocean, where prosperity is held in common and there

is no poverty.

C. “Utopia” is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of a

conversation between More and Hythloday, a returned voyager.

D. As a great thinker, More had pointed out that the root of poverty

is the private ownership of the social wealth, so he wished

to arouse the people to start a revolutionary movement against

the ruling classes, which cost his life.

13. Chaucer is the first great poet who wrote in the English language,

and one of his great contributions is the introduction of the rhymed stanza from France, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter--- _______, instead of the old Anglo-Saxon _________.

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A.alliterative verse, heroic couplet;

B.heroic couplet, sonnets;

C.heroic couplet, alliterative verse;

D.alexandrine verse, ballads.

14.Among various English versions of Bible, which one is the best?

A.John Wycliffe’s Bible;

B.William Tyndal’s Bible;

C.The King James Bible;

D.Miles Coverdale’s Bible.

15.Among the so-called “university wits”, it is _______ that

satirized William Shakespeare as “an upstart crow”.

A. Peele

B. Marlowe,

C. Nash

D. Greene

16.It is _______ that says of Hamlet,

“The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword;

The expectancy and rose of the fair state,

The glass of fashion, and the mould of form…” (Ⅲ.1.)

A. Ophelia

B. Polonius

C. Claudius

D. Gertrude

17.“Hamlet”, “Othello”, “King Lear”, and ________ are called

the four great tragedies.

A. “Romeo and Juliet”

B. “Antony and Cleopatra”

C. “Julius Caesar”

D. “Macbath”

18.Of many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most

important and well-know was __________, who became the first poet laureate in 1616.

A. John Dryden

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Ben Jonson

D. Robert Southey

19.In Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, the mariner

suffers the horror of death, because __________.

A.he experience a ship wreck

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