《英国文学》题库答案
I.Choose the best to complete the following statements
1.“O Wind/If winter comes,can spring be far behind? The two lines are from _______.
A. To Autumn                       B. To a Nightingale
C. Ode to the West Wind                  D. To a Skylark
2. To be or not to be----that is the question is taken from_______.
A.Hamlet      B.Romeo and Juliet     C.The Merchant of theVenice      D.Macbeth
3. _______ is romantic love tragedy.
A. Romeo and Juliet            B. Macbeth 
C.The Merchant of the Venice          D. Hamlet
4. Beowulf. is considered as _______.
A. the best epic in English literature       B. the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons
C. the best narrative poem in English literature   D.the best romance
5. In_____,Chaucer created a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society and a whole gallery of vivid characters.
A.The Canterbury Tales            B.The Romaunt of the Rose 
C.The Legend of Good Women        D.Troilus and Criseyde
6. ___ marks a transition from the medieval to the modern world.
A. Enlightenment Movement        B. The Glorious Revolution
C. The Renaissance           D. Reformation
7. _____is not a writer in the Renaissance.
A .Francis Bacon    B .William Shakespeare    C. John Milton    D .Jonathan Swift
8. __ is NOT the style of Bacon’s essays.
A. brevity       B. compactness       C .powerfulness    D .high-flowness
9 ______ is generally accepted  as  an English epic besides Beowulf.
A.Samson Agonistes    B.Paradise Lost      C.Paradise Regained    D. Lycidas
10.The Neo-classicism is markedly characterized by the emphisis of__________.
A.realism       B.didactic function     C.elegant style     D. lyricism
11.____________ is not a picaresque novel.
A. Great Expectations             B Gulliver’s Travels   
C. Robinson Crosue             D. The Pilgrim’s Progress
12. Death, Be not Proud is an Italian sonnet by____.
A.Shakespeare      B.John Milton        C.John Donne     D. Drydon
13. In Paradise Lost, Milton doesn’t refers God to____.
A.King         B.Foe          C.Victor        D. Friend                 
14._________ is not a Lake poet?
A.Southey          B.Wordworth        C.Shelley        D.Coleridge
15. ____is a typical Byronic heroe. 
A.Don Juan         B.Shelley        C. Beowulf      D. Iliad
16.He was the 1st important Romantic poet,showing a contempt for rationalism and bringing  something fresh to British poetry.He is __.
A .Wordsworth      B.Blake         worshipping C.Keats        D.Coleridge
17. Did he smile his work to see? /Did he who made the Lamb make thee?, the 2 lines are from___.
A. the Lamb    B. The Tyger   C. The Cheminey Sweeper    D. The Sick Roes
18. In the above quoted lines, the Lamb refers to____.
A .Nature      B.Jesus Christ   C.God           D.Uncertain
19. The waves beside them danced; but they /Outdid the sparking waves in glee; here, they refer to____.
A. roses        B.volets      C.daffodils          D.girls
20.The pleasure dome is described in ____.
A. Kubla Khan   B. Christabel   C. Frost at Midnight    D. Dejection:An Ode
21.Ode to the West Wind is in____.
A.abb bbc       B.terza rima     C.aab bcb         D.free verse
22.InOde to the West Wind, west wind is the biggest symbol; it symbolizes______.
A. destroyer and preserver    B.boundless freedom    C.a lyre   D.both A and B
23. Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard /Are sweeter;therefore,ye soft pipes,play on;the 2 lines are fromOde on a Grecian Urnby _____.
A. John Keats     B.William Wordsworth       C.Byron      D.Sheelley
24.The striking characteristic of the Victorian fiction lies in___.
A.critical realism            B.a return to rationalism 
C.naturalism                D.an overall negation of society
25.____is not a character created by Charles Dickens.
A.Oliver Twist     B.David Copperfield        C.Pip      D. Ishmael
26. Tess is sandwiched between and murdered by two so-called gentlemen: one is Alec, and the other is ______.
A. Angel Clare      B. Alec’s brother          C. Louis        D. Babalou
27.Linguist Higgins appears in____.
A.Widower’s Houses   B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession   C. St. Joan     D. Pygmalion