第一部分：Exercises of the First Part of the British Literature
Section One: Multiple-choice questions
1. “Upon a great adventure he was bond, / That greatest Gloriana to him gave.” These two lines are taken from
[A] Milton's Samson Agonistes [B] Spenser's The Faerie Queene
[C] Beowulf [D] Gray's Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
2. "O prince, O chief of many throned powers,
That led th' embattled Seraphim to war
Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds
Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King. "
In the first line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "O prince, O chief of many throned powers” refers to________.
[A] Satan [B] God [C] Adam [D] Eve
3. Shakespeare claims through the mouth of Hamlet that the "end" of the dramatic creation is to give ________ of the social realities of the time.
[A] faithful reflection [B] instructive representation
[C] imaginative narration [D] allegorical description
4. Humanists of the Renaissance turned to the spirit of ________ culture for inspiration.
[A] Anglo-Saxon [B] Italian and French
[C] Greeek and Roman [D] medieval
5. Paradise Lost is composed in blank verse, which permits the ________ Milton needed for his subject.
[A] epic grandeur [B] narrative sweep
[C] descriptive subtlety [D] intellectual grasp
6. Donne?s famous analogy of parting lovers to a drawing compass affords a prime example of________
[A] dramatic style [B] exaggeration
[C] paradox [D] conceit
subjection7. ________ is a study of the lust for wealth, which centers on Barabas, the Jew, a terrible old money lender.
[A] The Jew of Malta [B] The Merchant of V enice
[C] Tamburlaine the Great [D] The Tempest
8. In his conception of tragedy, Marlowe perceived that tragic action must issue from, and be reflected in, ________.
[A] the Renaissance hero [B] endless aspiration for knowledge
[C] the individual [D] human dignity and capacity
9. In The Faerie Queene, the Red Cross Knight, who stands for true religion of ________ , sets out on the orders of Queen of Faerie, who represents ________.
[A] the Anglican Church, Queen Elizabeth [B] the Roman Catholic Church, Pope
[C] Christianity, Christ [D] humanism, divine truth
10. What figure of speech is used in the lines: "Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer's lease too short a date"?
[A] Simile [B] Metonymy
[C] Personification [D] Hyperbole
11. The underlined part in "My deeds upon my head! I crave the law, / The penalty and forfeit of my bond. " (from TF, chant of V enice) means ________.
[A] What is done can't be undone [B] Let me responsible for what I do
[C] I would give anything for fulfilling my bond [D] I deserve what I demand
12. The line "When we have shuffled off this mortal coil" be, or not to be" soliloquy means________.
[A] when we have got rid of this coil that is doomed to die
[B] when we have unloaded this heavy burden like a coil
[C] when we have taken off this coat made of coils
[D] when we are relived from the trouble of mortal life wound around us like coils
13. What does the word "humour" mean in the following quotation from "Of Studies": "to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of “a scholar”?
[A] funniness [B] Wit
[C]character [D] A sudden whim
14. The Spenserian stanza is a group of eight lines of iambic pentameter followed by a six-stress line, with a rhyme scheme ababbcbcc.
[A] trochaic [B] iambic
[C] anapestic [D] dactylic
15. In Satan?s speech: …if he, whom mutual league, / United : thoughts and .counsels, equal hope / And hazard in the glorious enterprise, /.joined with me once . . . " What does "the glorious enterprise refer to?
[A] The former scheme to overthrow God.
[B] stealing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil
[C] Finding means of evil out of good.
[D] corrupting Adam and Eve.
16. What is the tone in the following lines: " Saucy pedantic .go wretch, go chide / Late school-boys, and sour prentices"?
[A] Ironic [B] Sarcastic [C]Humorous [D] Understated
17. In the best metaphysical poetry, feeling and ________ fuse in an image that is always
ingenious and appropriate, though it may be disconcerted at first in the shock of bringing incongruities together.
[A] imagery [B] conceit [C] thought [D] colloquialism
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