第一章 单元测试
1、单选题：English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.
A:Celtic
B:Anglo-Saxon
C:Roman
D:English
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:primitive
B:feudal
C:agricultural
D:medieval
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:ballad
B:couplet
C:alliterative verse
D:blank verse
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:feudal lords
C:the Church
D:the knights
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:the Gladiator
B:a soldier
C:the warrior
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:Robin Hood
B:King Arthur
C:the Vikings
D:the green knights
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:allegory
B:epic
C:a dream
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:Edmund Spenser
B:William Langland
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:John Milton
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:alliterative verse
D:heroic couoplet
正确答案:【heroic couoplet】
7、单选题：The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).
A:humanism
B:realism
C:asceticism
D:romanticism
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:John Wycliff
B:Ben Johnson
C:Christopher Marlowe
D:University Wits
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:man
C:God
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:Robert Greene
C:Christopher Marlowe
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:Puritan
B:idealist
C:humanist
D:patriot
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 Poets’ Poet”
C:“the greatest English poet”
D:“the saint of English poetry”
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:“The Spenserian Stanza”
B:sonnet
C:blank verse
D:“The mighty lines”
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:essayist
B:dramatist
C:prose writer
D:poet
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:Essays
B:The Interpretation of Nature
C:Novum Organum
D:Advancement of Learning
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:John Bunyan
B:Francis Bacon
C:John Dryden
D:George Herbert
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:conceit
B:metaphor
C:imagination
D:symbols
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:a piece of gold
B:a pair of compasses
C:a farewell to a dying person
D:an earthquake
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:institutional monarchy
B:the Whig Party
C:the Tory Party
D:the United Kingdom
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:Calvinism
B:Republicanism
C:Humanism
D:Puritanism
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:Robert Herrick
B:John Dryden
C:John Donne
D:John Miltion
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:sonnets
B:blank verses
C:elegies
D:alliterative verses
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:Exodus
C:Matthew
D:Genesis
正确答案:【Genesis】
11、单选题：The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
A:resurrection
B:the fall of man
C:the creation of man
D:final judgment
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:puritanism
B:humanism
C:classicism
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:royalist
B:moderate
C:conservative
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:social evils
B:cultural state
C:class struggles
D:contemporary manners
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:heroic couplets
B:three unities
C:realistic techniques
D:satires
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:Enlightenment
B:Pre-romanticist
C:Neo-classicist
D:Realist
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:sentimentalist
B:Gothic
C:realist
D:epistolary
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:Samuel Richardson
B:Henry Fielding
C:Daniel Defoe
D:Johnathan Swift
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 nature
B:human spirit
C:human mind
D:human heart
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:Daniel Defoe
B:Jonathan Swift
C:Oliver Goldsmith
D:Henry Fielding
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:nature
D:countryside
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:Pamela
B:The Vicar of Wakefield
C:Tristram Shandy
D:
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