17世纪文学复习题
1.Protestants refers to all the religious sects except ________. a.Church of England b. Puritanism c. Calvinism d. Catholicism
2. In 1649, ______ was beheaded. English became a commonwealth.
a.James I b. James II c. Charles I d. Charles II
3. The Revolution of 1688 meant three of the following things:_______, _______,________.
a. the supremacy of Parliament b. the beginning of modern England
c. the triumph of the principle of political liberty d. the Restoration of monarchy 4.The
following
belong
to
the
characteristics
of
“metaphysical poetry” represented by John Donne except ___.
A. Conceits
B. Actual imagery and simple diction C. Argumentative form D. Elegant style
5. Donne’s poetry is full of metaphors, ori ginal images, wit and______, except ingenuity, dexterous use of colloquial speech, considerable flexibility of rhythm and meter, complex themes and caustic humor.
a. conceits
b. Petrarchen images c. rhetorics d. Brevity
6. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
A. John Milton B. John Bunyan C. John Donne D. John Dryden
7. The theme of the sonnet Death Be Not Proud is that ________.
a. death is predestined
b. death is the most dreadful thing c. death you are nothing to be feared d. death is gentle towards me
8. The main literary form of seventeenth century was poetry. Among the poets, _______was the greatest.
a. Milton b. Bunyan
c. the Metaphysical poets d. the Cavalier poets
9. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____. A. Greek Mythology B. Roman legend C. The Old Testament D. The New Testament
10. Paradise Lost is ___’s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against God’s authority.
A. John Donne
B. Christopher Marlowe C. John Milton D. Edmund Spenser
11.In Paradise Lost the author eulogizes the spirit of ______ that is though lost, but the ______cannot be conquered, and the pursuit of revenge, immortal hate towards god will never be overcome.
a. pessimism, knowledge b. optimism, ideal c. rebellion, will d. cynicism, concept
12. The following description fit into Milton except_____. A. a great revolutionary poet of the 17th century B. an outstanding political pamphleteer C. a great stylist and master of blank verse D. a kind of elegant and refine style. 13. _____is not written by John Milton. A. Samson Agonistes B. Paradise Lost C. Paradise regained D. Tamburlaine
14. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our gr and Foe” What does the “Eternal war” mean?
A. To remove God from his throne B. To burn the Heaven Down
C. To corrupt God’s creation of man and woman-----Adam and Eve
D. To beguile into a snake to threaten man’s life 15. Paradise Lost is a (n)________. a. lyrical poem b. hymn c. epic
d. narrative poem
16. ______is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. Genesis A B. The Holy War
C. The Pilgrim’s progress D. Exodus
17. Milton wrote a number of pamphlets defending the English People. Choose them from the following.
a. Defense of the English People b. Second Defense of the English People c. L’Allegro d. II Penseroso
18._________ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic
revolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in England D. Areopagitica
19.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of ______.
A. John Donne
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. John Dryden D. Edmund Spenser
20.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
A.Paradise Lost
B. The Pilgrim’s progress
B.C. All for Love D.The Life and Death of Mr. Badman Passage I
“… All is no lost: the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?…… Irreconcilable to our grand Foe” 1) Please identify the poem and the poet. 2) Interpret“all is not lost”.
3) What does the whole passage mean? Passage II
Death, be not proud, thou some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so:
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure; then from thee much must flow, And soonest our best men with thee do go, Rest of their bones, and soul’s delivery.
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war and sickness dwell, And poppy or charms can make us sleep as well And better by thy stroke; why swell’st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally
And death shall be no more; Death; thou shall die. Questions:
1. This poem is a _________.
2. Is the rhyme scheme the same with a Shakespearean sonnet?
3. Who is poet of the poem? What is his attitude towards death in this poem?
Passage III
Almost five thousand years ago, .there were pilgrims walking to the celestial City, as these two honest persons are; and Beelzebub, Apollyon, and Legion, with their companions, perceiving, by the path that the pilgrims made, that their way to the city lay through this town of Vanity, they contrived here to set up a fair; a fair wherein should be sold all sorts of vanity, and that it should last all the year long. Therefore at this fair are all such merchandise sold, as houses, lands, trades, places, honors, preferment, titles, countries, kingdoms, lusts, pleasures and delights of all sorts, as whores, bawds, wives, husbands, children, masters, servants, lives, blood, bodies, souls, silver, gold, peals, precious stones, and what not.
Questions:
1. This passage is taken from the famous book _______ written by _________.
2. The setting here described is about the best-known episode ________ in the book.
3. How do you understand the passage? Questions
1.Please comment on the character of Satan in Paradise Lost. 2. Analyze the main idea and artistic features of Paradise Lost. 浪漫主义时期复习题Multiple Choice
1. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________.
A.1660-----1798 B.1798----1832 C.1483-----1546 D.1836-----1901
2. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______. A. realism B. Renaissance C. Enlightenment D. feudalism
3. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.
A. positive B. negative C. neutral D. Indifferent
4. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England.
A. “Tintern Abbey” B. Lyrical Ballads C. Frost a t Night D. “The Daffodils”
5. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter Scott.
A. Washington Irving B. Jane Austen C. Herman Melville D. Charles Dickens
6. _____defines the poet as \"man speaking to men,\" and
poetry as \"the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility.\"
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats
7. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A. love B. man C. nature D. Death
8. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.
A. prose B. poetry C. fiction D. Play
9. _____is regarded as a \"worship of nature\". A. John Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Jane Austen
10. ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”. A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey” C. “Revolution”
D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
11. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece. A. The Prelude
B. Endymion C. Don Juan
D. Biographia Literaria
12. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
B. “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802”
C. “The Solitary Reaper” D. “The Chimney Sweeper”
13. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.
A. love B. human life C. freedom D. social activities
14. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.
A. The Masque of Anarchy B. A Defence of Poetry C. The Necessity of Atheism D. The Triumph of Life
15. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.
A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth
16. \"Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and Preserver; hear, O hear!\" The two lines are found in_____.
A. Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne B. Ode to the West Wind by Shelly C. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman D. Ulysses by James Joyce
17. The author of \"Ode on a Grecian Urn\" is __________. A. Wordsworth B. Austen C. Byron D. Keats
18. Keats’ first poem is ____. A. O Solitude
B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer C. Poems D. Endymion
19. Keats’ best ode is ____. A. “On a Grecian Urn” B. “To Autumn” C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale”
20. Jane Au sten’s first novel is __________. A. Pride and Prejudice B. Sense and Sensibility C. Emma
D. Plan of a Novel
21. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____. A. The Spirit of the Age B. Table Talk
C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D. On the English Poets
22. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed
a kind of _______.
A. models of classicism B. familiar essay
C. rules of neo-romanticism D. ways of modernism
23. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____. A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt
24. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.
A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott
25. Which of the following is the Gothic novel? A. Shelly’s Prometheus Unbound B. Keats’ Lamia
C. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein D. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice Passage I
\"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 dance with the daffodils.\" (1) What is the \"bliss of the solitude\"? (2) Interpret the passage.
(3) Why did the poet write the poem, what did he want to express?
Passage II
\"As thus with thee in prayer in my sore need. Oh! Lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift and proud.\" (1)Explain \"I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed\" .
(2)Can you comprehend the deep emotion contained in the poem? What’s that?
(3)The poet was called the \"the heart of all hearts\he trumpeted the radical prophecy of hope and rebirth. Please write out his classic words.
Passage III
\"Wild spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and Preserver; hear, O hear!\" (1)What does the \"wild spirit \"refer to?
(2)Why called it \"Destroyer and Preserver\" at the same time? (3)Identify the poet and the poem. Passage IV
Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget What thou among the leaves hast never known, The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and specter-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow. (1)Identify the poet and the poem.
(2) What 's the main idea of this stanza?What the poem wants to convey in this stanza?
(3) Comment on the artistic features of the poet’s works.
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