第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.
A:Anglo-Saxon
B:English
C:Roman
D:Celtic
正确答案:【Anglo-Saxon】
2、单选题：Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society, is said to be the national epic of the English people.
A:medieval
B:feudal
C:primitive
D:agricultural
正确答案:【feudal】
3、单选题：Beowulf is written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.
A:blank verse
B:alliterative verse
C:ballad
D:couplet
正确答案:【alliterative verse】
第二章 单元测试
1、单选题：The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over everything in the society.
A:the King
B:the knights
C:the Church
D:feudal lords
正确答案:【the Church】
2、单选题：The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.
A:a soldier
B:the warrior
C:the Gladiator
D:the knight
正确答案:【the knight】
3、单选题：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:Robin Hood
D:the Vikings
正确答案:【Robin Hood】
4、单选题：Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.
A:a dream
B:allegory
C:epic
D:symbolism
正确答案:【allegory】
5、单选题：( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.
A:John Milton
B:William Langland
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:Edmund Spenser
正确答案:【Geoffrey Chaucer】
6、单选题：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:ballad
B:blank verse
C:heroic couoplet
D:alliterative verse
正确答案:【heroic couoplet】
7、单选题：The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).
A:romanticism
B:asceticism
C:humanism
D:realism
正确答案:【humanism】
第三章 单元测试
1、单选题：It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
A:University Wits
B:Ben Johnson
C:John Wycliff
D:Christopher Marlowe
正确答案:【University Wits】
2、单选题：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:power
B:God
C:man
D:the world
正确答案:【man】
3、单选题：Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.
A:Ben Jonson
B:Christopher Marlowe
C:Robert Greene
D:Thomas Nash
正确答案:【Ben Jonson】
4、单选题：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:humanist
B:Puritan
C:patriot
D:idealist
正确答案:【humanist】
5、单选题：Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
A:“father of English poetry”
B:“the saint of English poetry”
C:“the greatest English poet”
D:“the Poets’ Poet”
正确答案:【“the Poets’ Poet”】
6、单选题：( ) 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:blank verse
B:sonnet
C:“The mighty lines”
D:“The Spenserian Stanza”
正确答案:【“The Spenserian Stanza”】
7、单选题：Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
A:prose writer
B:poet
C:dramatist
D:essayist
正确答案:【essayist】
8、单选题：The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
A:Advancement of Learning
B:Novum Organum
C:Essays
D:The Interpretation of Nature
正确答案:【Essays】
第四章 单元测试
1、单选题：( ) 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:George Herbert
B:John Bunyan
C:John Dryden
D:Francis Bacon
正确答案:【John Bunyan】
2、单选题：The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in the form of ( ) .
A:symbols
B:allegory
C:allusions
D:aggressions
正确答案:【allegory】
3、单选题：“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:conceit
C:metaphor
D:imagination
正确答案:【conceit】
4、单选题：In his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.
A:an earthquake
B:a farewell to a dying person
C:a piece of gold
D:a pair of compasses
正确答案:【a pair of compasses】
5、单选题：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、单选题：( ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God’s supreme authority over human beings.
A:
Humanism
B:
Puritanism
C:
Calvinism
D:
Republicanism
正确答案:【
Puritanism
】
7、单选题：Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
A:John Miltion
B:John Dryden
C:Robert Herrick
D:John Donne
正确答案:【John Miltion】
8、单选题：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 Commonwealth
C:the Parliament
D:the Monarch
正确答案:【the Commonwealth】
9、单选题：“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton’s ( ).
A:blank verses
B:alliterative verses
C:sonnets
D:elegies
正确答案:【sonnets】
10、单选题：Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.
A:Luke
B:Matthew
C:Genesis
D:Exodus
正确答案:【Genesis】
11、单选题：The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
A:resurrection
B:the fall of man
C:final judgment
D:the creation of man
正确答案:【the fall of man】
第五章 单元测试
1、单选题：The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).
A:classicism
B:humanism
C:puritanism
D:feudalism
正确答案:【feudalism】
2、单选题：Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
A:moderate
B:conservative
C:royalist
D:revolutionary
正确答案:【moderate】
3、单选题：The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
A:contemporary manners
B:cultural state
C:social evils
D:class struggles
正确答案:【contemporary manners】
4、单选题：As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
A:satires
B:heroic couplets
C:three unities
D:realistic techniques
正确答案:【three unities】
5、单选题：( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
A:Pre-romanticist
B:Realist
C:Enlightenment
D:Neo-classicist
正确答案:【Neo-classicist】
6、单选题：Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
A:classicism
B:naturalism
C:realism
D:aestheticism
正确答案:【classicism】
7、单选题：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:sentimentalist
D:realist
正确答案:【realist】
8、单选题：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:
Henry Fielding
B:
Johnathan Swift
C:
Daniel Defoe
D:
Samuel Richardson
正确答案:【
Johnathan Swift
】
9、单选题：Gulliver’ s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).
A:human heart
B:human spirit
C:human nature
D:human mind
正确答案:【human nature】
10、单选题：( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.
A:Oliver Goldsmith
B:Daniel Defoe
C:Henry Fielding
D:Jonathan Swift
正确答案:【Henry Fielding】
11、单选题：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:motherland
C:countryside
D:nature
正确答案:【nature】
12、单选题：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:
A Sentimental Journey
B:
Pamela
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