《英国文学》作业
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         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.In“Ode 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 from“Ode on a Grecian Urn”by _____.
A. John Keats  worshipping  　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