Chapter One （一般掌握）
Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval Ages
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famous __________________
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. The Romance of the Rose
C. The Parliament of Fowls
D. The House of Fame
（ ） 2. Generally speaking, Chaucer's works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life, which period is wrong?
A. The period of French influence
B. The period of Italian influence
C. The period of his maturity
D. The period of American influence
（ ） 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?
A. He died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in the writer's corner of Westminster Abby
B. He was considered as “father of English Poetry”
C. He was one of the narrative poets of England
D. His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales
（ ） 4. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is____.
A. Amoretti B. Venus and Adonis
C. The Tempest D. Sir Gawain and Green Knight
（ ） 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into the following groups except_____.
A. rural dwellers B. church members C. tradesman D. nobles
（ ） 6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written by
A. Chaucer B. Shakespeare C. Marlowe D. Bunyan
Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. English Renaissance Period was an age of ______________
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
（ ） 2. “Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?” is one of the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following comments on the line is NOT true?
A. Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.
B. She is unaware of Romeo's presence.
C. She asks him to deny his family for her love.
D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity and one's inner identity （represented by one's name）.
（ ） 3. The Elizabethan literature____________
A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.
B. witnessed a decline of degeneration
C. expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.
D. was not romantic.
（ ） 4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese history
A. Henry IV B. Macbeth C. Tamburlaine D. Alchemist
（ ） 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he_________.
A. is faced by Mephistopheles
B. wants to gain more money
C. wants to live an extravagant life
D. wants to know more about the world
（ ） 6. Shakespeare is a poet , playwright and ______.
A. critic B. novelist C. an actor D. both b and c
（ ） 7. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is____.
A. Amoretti B. Venus and Adonis
C. The Tempest D. Sir Gawain and Green Knight
（ ） 8. The difference of Surrey's contribution to English poetry from that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey________.
A. wrote the first English sonnet
B. introduce the couplet into England
C. wrote the first English blank verse
D. made the sonnet popular
（ ） 9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama is
A. Surrey B. Marlowe C. Shakespeare D. Jonson
（ ） 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe' s play is the praise of ____.
A. capitalism B. feudalism C. individualism D. nationalism
II．可出填空題有：
1. Rough winds do shake the _______________of May,
And _____________has all too short a date.
2. Sometimes too hot the ______________shines, and often is his __________dimmed.
3. Shakespeare produced __________plays and ____________sonnet.
4. ___________is praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism”.
III．可出簡答題有：
Analyze Shakespeare's four periods of career concisely.
Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. __________was a progressive intellectual movement which began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. The Enlightenment
C. The Religious Reformation
D. The Chartist Movement
（ ） 2.Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lost is NOT correct?
A. The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell and Satan was the real hero.
B. He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angels
C. He remains obeyed and admired by all the angels
D. It is he who makes man revolt against God.
（ ） 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?
A. He was born in a Roman Catholic family.
B. He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.
C. Later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.
D. He wrote only religious poems.
（ ） 4. Dryden's contribution to English literature lies in the following except_____.
A. he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse form
B. he clarified the English prose
C. he raised the English literature criticism to a new level
D. he raised English comedy to a higher level
（ ） 5. Apology for Poetry is ______.
A. a poem B. a romance C. a criticism D. a sonnet
II．可出判斷題有：
（ ） 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.
（ ） 2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.
（ ） 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.
III．可出填空題有：
1． ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.
IV． 可出術(shù)語有：
metaphysical poets
Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as ____________
A. Swift B. Defoe C. Blake D. Burns
（ ） 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were_____________
A. Blake and Wordsworth
B. Burns and Coleridge
C. Blake and Burns
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge
（ ） 3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?
A. He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.
B. He was a poet as well as an engraver.
C. His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.
D. His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.
（ ） 4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was___________.
A. Romanticism
B. Realism
C. Pre-romanticism
D. Critical realism
（ ） 5. __________was considered as “father of English Novel”.
A. Swift
B. Fielding
C. Chaucer
D. Jane Austin
（ ） 6. In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A. Swift B. Blake C. Milton D. Defoe
II．可出判斷題有：
（ ） 1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
（ ） 2. Burn's poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk ballads of his motherland.
（ ） 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.
（ ） 4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer of books and pamphlets on variety of subjects.
（ ） 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governed by sense.
III．可出填空題有：
1. ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.
2. People in 18th century believed in ___________and their watchword was “common sense”.
V．可出術(shù)語有：
Enlightenment
Chapter Two English Literature of the Late Medieval Ages
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. Apart from original poems, Chaucer translated various works of French authors, among them is the famous __________________
A. The Canterbury Tales
B. The Romance of the Rose
C. The Parliament of Fowls
D. The House of Fame
（ ） 2. Generally speaking, Chaucer's works fall into three main groups corresponding roughly to the three periods of his adult life, which period is wrong?
A. The period of French influence
B. The period of Italian influence
C. The period of his maturity
D. The period of American influence
（ ） 3. Which of the following information about Chaucer is wrong?
A. He died on the 25th of October 1400, he was the first to be buried in the writer's corner of Westminster Abby
B. He was considered as “father of English Poetry”
C. He was one of the narrative poets of England
D. His masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales
（ ） 4. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is____.
A. Amoretti B. Venus and Adonis
C. The Tempest D. Sir Gawain and Green Knight
（ ） 5. The characters in the Canterbury Tales can be divided into the following groups except_____.
A. rural dwellers B. church members C. tradesman D. nobles
（ ） 6. Piers the Plowman is similar in form to the work written by
A. Chaucer B. Shakespeare C. Marlowe D. Bunyan
Chapter Three English Literature in the Renaissance
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. English Renaissance Period was an age of ______________
A. prose and novel
B. poetry and drama
C. essays and journals
D. ballads and songs
（ ） 2. “Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore art thou Romeo?” is one of the most famous lines from Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following comments on the line is NOT true?
A. Juliet speaks the line in the balcony scene.
B. She is unaware of Romeo's presence.
C. She asks him to deny his family for her love.
D. A major theme in Romeo and Juliet is the tension between social and family identity and one's inner identity （represented by one's name）.
（ ） 3. The Elizabethan literature____________
A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.
B. witnessed a decline of degeneration
C. expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.
D. was not romantic.
（ ） 4. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese history
A. Henry IV B. Macbeth C. Tamburlaine D. Alchemist
（ ） 5. Dr Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he_________.
A. is faced by Mephistopheles
B. wants to gain more money
C. wants to live an extravagant life
D. wants to know more about the world
（ ） 6. Shakespeare is a poet , playwright and ______.
A. critic B. novelist C. an actor D. both b and c
（ ） 7. Of the following, the one which employs the form of romance is____.
A. Amoretti B. Venus and Adonis
C. The Tempest D. Sir Gawain and Green Knight
（ ） 8. The difference of Surrey's contribution to English poetry from that of Wyatt lies in that Surrey________.
A. wrote the first English sonnet
B. introduce the couplet into England
C. wrote the first English blank verse
D. made the sonnet popular
（ ） 9. The one who first made blank verse the principal instrument of English drama is
A. Surrey B. Marlowe C. Shakespeare D. Jonson
（ ） 10. The recurrent theme of Marlowe' s play is the praise of ____.
A. capitalism B. feudalism C. individualism D. nationalism
II．可出填空題有：
1. Rough winds do shake the _______________of May,
And _____________has all too short a date.
2. Sometimes too hot the ______________shines, and often is his __________dimmed.
3. Shakespeare produced __________plays and ____________sonnet.
4. ___________is praised by Marx as “the progenitor of English Materialism”.
III．可出簡答題有：
Analyze Shakespeare's four periods of career concisely.
Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth Century
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. __________was a progressive intellectual movement which began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.
A. The Renaissance
B. The Enlightenment
C. The Religious Reformation
D. The Chartist Movement
（ ） 2.Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lost is NOT correct?
A. The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell and Satan was the real hero.
B. He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angels
C. He remains obeyed and admired by all the angels
D. It is he who makes man revolt against God.
（ ） 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?
A. He was born in a Roman Catholic family.
B. He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.
C. Later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.
D. He wrote only religious poems.
（ ） 4. Dryden's contribution to English literature lies in the following except_____.
A. he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse form
B. he clarified the English prose
C. he raised the English literature criticism to a new level
D. he raised English comedy to a higher level
（ ） 5. Apology for Poetry is ______.
A. a poem B. a romance C. a criticism D. a sonnet
II．可出判斷題有：
（ ） 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.
（ ） 2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.
（ ） 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.
III．可出填空題有：
1． ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.
IV． 可出術(shù)語有：
metaphysical poets
Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century
I．可出選擇題有：
（ ） 1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as ____________
A. Swift B. Defoe C. Blake D. Burns
（ ） 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were_____________
A. Blake and Wordsworth
B. Burns and Coleridge
C. Blake and Burns
D. Wordsworth and Coleridge
（ ） 3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?
A. He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.
B. He was a poet as well as an engraver.
C. His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.
D. His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.
（ ） 4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was___________.
A. Romanticism
B. Realism
C. Pre-romanticism
D. Critical realism
（ ） 5. __________was considered as “father of English Novel”.
A. Swift
B. Fielding
C. Chaucer
D. Jane Austin
（ ） 6. In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A. Swift B. Blake C. Milton D. Defoe
II．可出判斷題有：
（ ） 1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
（ ） 2. Burn's poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk ballads of his motherland.
（ ） 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.
（ ） 4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer of books and pamphlets on variety of subjects.
（ ） 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governed by sense.
III．可出填空題有：
1. ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.
2. People in 18th century believed in ___________and their watchword was “common sense”.
V．可出術(shù)語有：
Enlightenment