English Literature Test Two
I. Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the
statement.
1. The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. John Lyly
C. William Langland
D. John Milton
2. In “The Pilgrim's Progress” Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien
agitators and tried.
A. Vanity Fair
B. Doubting Castle
C. Celestial City
D. hell
3. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ______.
A. King Lear…Romeo and Juliet
B. King Lear…Macbeth
C. King John…Julius Caesar
D. King John…The Merchant of Venice
4. The keynote of the Renaissance is ____________.
A. humanism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. skepticism
5. The English Renaissance period was an age of ______.
A. poetry and drama
B. drama and novel
C. novel and poetry
D. romance and poetry
6. The predominated metaphor in The Pilgrim’s Progress is that ______.
A. Life is a journey
C. Life is to endure hardship
B. Life is a dream
D. none of the above
7. _____is a typical feature of Swift’s writings.
A. Bitter satire
B. Elegant style
C. Casual narration
D. Complicated sentence structure
8. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? ... And if God had
gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for
me to leave you." The above quoted passage is most probable taken from_______ .
A. Pride and Prejudice
C. Wuthering Heights
B. Jane Eyre
D. Great Expectations
9. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman
of_________ .
A. simple character and quick wit
B. simple character and poor understanding
C. intricate character and quick wit
D. intricate character and poor understanding
10. The work that presented , for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the
medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most
likely______.
A. William Langland ’ Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
C. Beowulf
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Ⅱ. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write T for true
and F for false on your
answer sheet.
(
) 1. William Wordsworth is one of the representative writers of Critical Realism.
(
) 2. Geoffrey Chaucer is regarded as the father of English poetry.
(
) 3. Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s novels.
(
) 4. The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge copublished their joint work “Kubla
Khan”
(
) 5. Renaissance is also called the Age of Reason.
(
) 6. Mr. Rochester is a character in the novel Jane Eyre, which was written by Emily Bronte.
(
) 7. In English literature, the Elizabethan period is traditionally called “Age of Shakespeare”.
(
) 8. The greatest English critical realist was Charles Dickens.
(
) 9. English literature in the Renaissance Period is usually regarded as the highlight in the history of English
literature.
(
) 10. Gulliver’s Travels is a novel mainly about love and friendship.
III. Matching.
Writers and works
A
(1)Charles Dickens
(2)Charlotte Bronte
(3) William Shakespeare
B
A. Battle of Books
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Romeo and Juliet
(4) Jane Austen
D. Oliver Twist
(5) Jonathan Swift
E. Jane Eyre
(6) William Thackeray
F. Farie Queen
(7) Edmund Spenser
G. Ivanhoe
(8) Sir. Walter Scott
H. Mrs. Dalloway
(9) Virginia Woolf
I. Tom Jones
(10) Henry Fielding
J. Vanity Fair
B.
Characters and works
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(1) Banquo
A. Oliver Twist
(2) Lydia
B. Macbeth
(3) Nancy
C. Robinson Crusoe
(4) Friday
D. Pride and Pejudice
(5) Marianne
E. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
(6) Pip
F. Sense and Sensibility
(7) Vivie
G. Great Expectations
(8) Satan
H. Paradise Lost
(9) Sophia
I. Wuthering Heights
(10) Catherine
J. Tom Jones
C.
Quotations and works
(1) Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?
A. Jane Austen
(2) It is a truth universally acknowledged that every single man
in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
(3) I am Heathcliff!
(4) My love is like a red, red rose.
(5) I wandered lonely as a cloud.
B.
William Wordsworth
C. William Shakespeare
D. T. S. Eliot
E. Emily Bronte
(6) She walks in beauty like the night.
F. Robert Burns
(7) If winter comes, can spring be far behind?
H. Percy Bysshe Shelly
(8)Awake, arise, or be forever fallen.
I. John Keats
(9) Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
J. John Milton
(10) Let us go then, you and I
K. George Gordon Byron
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IV．Terms. (You can choose four of the followings to give your definition.)
1.
Sonnet
2.
Renaissance
3.
Alliteration
4.
British Romanticism
5.
Lake Poets/Lakers
6.
The Metaphysical School
V．Interpretation ： Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.
1.
For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
Questions:
(1) What does the poem describe?
(2) Can you paraphrase the meaning of “the bliss of the solitude"?
(3) What is the relation between man and nature, and in what way does the poem reflect some characteristics of
Romanticism?
2.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a
wife.
However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighborhood, this
truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of some
one or other of their daughters.
"My dear Mr. Bennet," said his lady to him one day, "have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"
Mr. Bennet replied that he had not.
"But it is," returned she; "for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it."
Mr. Bennet made no answer.
"Do not you want to know who has taken it?" cried his wife impatiently.
"You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
This was invitation enough.
"Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune
from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much
delighted with it that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and
some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week."
"What is his name?"
"Bingley." "Is he married or single?"
"Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year.What a fine thing
for our girls!"
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Questions:
(1) Why Mrs. Bennet insist Mr. Bennet visiting Netherfield and Mr. Bingley?
(2) What kind of people are Mr. and Mrs. Bennet ?
(3) The underlined sentence reveals the subject that interests Mrs.Bennet most. From the sentence can you discern
why she is so excited?
IV. Essay Question:
In this part you are asked to choose one topic from the followings and write a short essay. You should concentrate
on those important points and demonstrate your ideas with brief, apt episodes or quotations from the Text. Try
your best to be logical in your essay. (within 500 words)
1.
Gulliver has made four travels to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the land of Houyhnhnms. His travels
away from England bring the readers closer to the problems of the English society. Use two or three
examples to explain what kinds of problems the novel has revealed.
2.
Use examples from Oliver Twist or Jane Eyre to illustrate the major themes of the novel.
3.
Select two major characters from Pride and Prejudice or Sense and Sensibility to analyze the characteristics
of these characters.
4.
Who is the real victim of Macbeth? How to understand its tragic factors? Use relative quotations to illustrate
your viewpoints.
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