英国文学知识120题

英国文学知识120题

1._____is a folk legend brought to England by Anglo-Saxons from their continental homes, it is

a long poem of over 3000 lines and the national epic of the English people.

A.Beowulf

B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C.The Canterbury Tales

D.King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

2.The father of English poetry, the author of Troilus and Criseyde is also the one of the _____.

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. The Faerie Queen

C. Tamburlaine

D. The Canterbury Tales

3. The group of Shakespeare plays known as “romance” or “reconciliantion plays” is _____.

A. Merchant of Venice, As You Like It

B. The Tempest, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale

C. Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra

D. The Merry Wives of Winsor, Twelfth Night

4. Which of the following are regarded as Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?

A. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear

B. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth

C. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

D. Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Macbeth, Timon of Athens

5. Which of the following is not the work of Francis Bacon?

A. Advancement of Learning

B. New Instrument

C. Songs of Innocence

D. Essays

6. At the beginning of 17th century appeared a school of poets called metaphysics by Samuel Johnson, _____is the founder of metaphysical poetry.

A. Ben Johnson

B. John Milton

C. John Bunyan

D. John Donne

7. Daniel Defoe is a famous_____.

A. poet

B. novelist

C. playwright

D. essayist

8. “He has a servant called Friday.”“He” in the quoted sentence is a character in _____.

A. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

B. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandal

D. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe

9. Gulliver’s Travels was written by_____.

A. Daniel Defoe

B. Charles Dickens

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Joesph Addison

10. William Wordsworth is generally known as a _____poet.

A. romantic

B. realistic

C. naturalistic

D. neo-classic

1-10 A D B C C D B D C A

11. “Ode to the west wind” was written by the author of _____.

A. “I wandered lonely as a cloud”

B. “Kubla Khan”

C. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”

D. “A Defence of Poetry”

12. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?

A. William Wordsworth

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. George Gordon Byron

D. John Donne

13. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except _____.

A. Oliver Twist

B. David Copperfield

C. A Tale of Two Cities

D. Heart of Darkness

14. “A Red, Red Rose” was written by _____.

A. Alexandra Pop

B. Robert Burns

C. William Blake

D. John Keats

15. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’ novel _____.

A. Oliver Twist

B. David Copperfield

C. A Tale of Two Cities

D. Great Expectations

16. Sense and Sensibility is a _____ by _____.

A. play … Jane Austen

B. novel… Jane Austen

C. play … Emily Bronte

D. novel … Anne Bronte

17. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be---that is the question” by _____.

A. Iago in Othello

B. Lear in King Lear

C. Shylock in the Merchant of Venice

D. Hamlet in Hamlet

18. Robert Browning’s “My Last Duchess” is composed in the form of a(n) _____.

A. dramatic monologue

B. extended metaphor

C. syllogistic argument

D. dialogue

19. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of _____.

A. character and environment

B. pure romance

C. “stream of consciousness”

D. psychoanalysis

20. “Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by _____.

A. Charles Dickens

B. D. H. Lawrence

C. James Joyce

D. Thomas Hardy

11-20 A D D B D B D A A D

21. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s _____.

A. comedies

B. tragedies

C. sonnets

D. histories

22. The three dialects spoken by _____ _____ and _____ mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.

A. Anglos, Saxons, Jutes

B. Anglos, Saxons, Irish

C. Anglos, Saxons, Scottish

D. Anglos, Saxons, Welsh

23. _____ contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in Iambic meter--- the Heroic couplet-to English poetry.

A. William Shakespeare’s

B. Geoffrey Chaucer’s

C. Thomas More’s

D. Edmund Spenser’s

24. Spenserian Stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry _____.

A. The Faerie Queene

B. The Shepherd’s Calendar

C. Epihalamion

D. Amoretti

25. Francis Bacon is a _____.

A. poet

B. playwright

C. essayist

D. novelist

26. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms except _____.

A. tamed

B. swift

C. proud

D. wild

27. The novel starts with “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.” This novel is Jane Austen’s _____.

A. Emma

B. Persuasion

C. Sense and Sensibility

D. Pride and Prejudice

28. The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A. Charles Dickens’s

B. D. H. Lawrence’s

C. Thomas Hardy’s

D. John Galsworthy’s

29. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”

The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _____.

A. Pride and Prejudice

B. Jane Eyre

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Great Expectations

30. Which of the Following is not one of the Bronte Sisters?

A. Charlotte Bronte

B. Anne Bronte

C. Jenny Bronte

D. Emily Bronte

21-30 C A B A C A D B B C

31. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n) _____.

A. allegory

B. romance

C. comedy of manners

D. realistic novel

32. Which of the following can not be used to describe John Dryden?

A. poet

B. playwright

C. essayist

D. novelist

33. “Conceit” was wildly used by the _____poets.

A. metaphysical

B. romantic

C. religious

D. realistic

34. Of the many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most well known was Ben Johnson. He has been chiefly remembered for his _____. The best of which include “Every Man in His Humour”, “Volpone”, and “The Alchemist”.

A. tragedies

B. comedies

C. histories

D. sonnets

35. John Milton created Satan the real hero in his poem _____.

A. Paradise Lost”

B. “Paradise Regained”

C. “Agonistes”

D. Lycidas

36. “University Wits” refers to a group of _____.

A. poets

B. playwrights

C. essayists

D. novelists

37. Marlowe’s best works includes three of his plays but _____.

A. “Tamburlaine”

B. “The Jew of Malta”

C. “Doctor Faustus”

D. “Julius Caesar”

38. The author of “The Flea” was the representative of _____ poets.

A. religious

B. romantic

C. metaphysical

D. realistic

39. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.”Is one of the epigrams found in _____.

A. Bacon’s “Of Studies”

B. Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”

C. Fiedlding’s “Tom Jones”

D. Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English Language”

40. In the line “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare _____.

A. meditates on man’s mortality

B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation

C. satirizes human vanity

D. presents a dream vision

31-40 A D A B A B D C A B

41. “Utopia” was written by _____.

A. Thomas More

B. Francis Bacon

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Jonathan Swift

42. William Blake wrote all the following except _____.

A. Poetical Sketches

B. Songs of Innocence

C. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. The Tree of Liberty

43. “Auld Lang Sygn” was written by the author of _____.

A. A Red, Red Rose

B. The Sick Rose

C. A Rose for Emily

D. Tiger

44. All of the following poets except _____ are called “Lake Poets”.

A. William Wordsworth

B. Robert Southey

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

45. Love for Love is a comedy written by _____.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Ben Johnson

C. William Congere

D. Christopher Marlowe

46. Which of the following group of writers are the playwrights of the 17th century?

A. Ben Johnson and John Dryden.

B. Christopher Marlowe and Daniel Defoe.

C. John Milton and Oscar Wilde.

D. Ben Johnson and George Bernard Shaw.

47. “The poet’s poet” is _____.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Donne

48. “The founder of English poetry” is _____.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Donne

49. “The founder of English materialist philosophy ” is _____.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Donne

50. “The founder of metaphysical school” is _____.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Donne

41-50：A D A D C A B A D

51. The representatives of the Enlightenment in English literature were the following writers but _____.

A. Joseph Addison

B. Richard Steele

C. William Blake

D. Alexander Pope

52. Joseph Addison, Richard Steele and Alexander Pope belonged to the school of _____.

A. classicism

B. romanticism

C. realism

D. modernism

53. _____ is a didactic poem written in heroic couplets by Alexander Pope. It sums up the art of poetry as taught by Aristotle, Horace, Boileau and the 18th century classicists. It tells the poets and critics to write and appreciate poetry according to the principles set up by the old Greek and Roman writers.

A. The Dunciad

B. The Rap of the Rock

C. Essay on Criticism

D. Essay on Man

54. “The three Unities”, formulated by Renaissance dramatists, are the unities of the following elements but _____.

A. time

B. place

C. action

D. character

55. “The father of the English novel” is _____.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. Francis Bacon

D. Henry Fielding

56. “Tom Jones” was written by _____.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Samuel Richardson

57. Why is Samuel Johnson called “Dictionary Johnson”?

A. Because he knows a lot more than other writers in words.

B. Because he often consults an encyclopedia while writing.

C. Because he is a master of English language.

D. Because he is author of the first English dictionary.

58. “The School for Scandal’ is a _____ written by _____.

A. Tragedy…Richard Brinsley Sheridan

B. Comedy…Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Comedy…Samuel Johnson

D. Tragedy…Samuel Johnson

59. Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Deserted Village” is a poem of _____.

A. transcendentalism

B. romanticism

C. sentimentalism

D. realism

60. Oliver Goldsmith’s “The Citizen of the World” was originally published as _____.

A. English Letters

B. Chinese Letters

C. French Letters

D. American Letters

51-60: C A C D D A D B C B

61. “Pamela” by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of _____.

A. diary

B. letter

C. autobiography

D. reminiscences

62. “Clarissa Harlowe” by Samuel Richardson is written in forms of _____.

A. diary

B. letter

C. autobiography

D. reminiscences

63. “The Adventure of Roderick Random” is written by _____.

A. Samuel Richardson

B. Tobias Smollett

C. Lawrence Sterne

D. Henry Fielding

64. “The Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy” is written by _____.

A. Samuel Richardson

B. Tobias Smollett

C. Lawrence Sterne

D. Henry Fielding

65. _____ named his own realistic novel as “comic epic in prose”.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Charles Dickens

C. Jack London

D. Tobias Smollett

66. “Lyrical Ballads” was written by _____ and Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

A. Robert Burns

B. Robert southey

C. William Wordsworth

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley

67. George Gordon Byron was most famous for _____.

A. Don Juan

B. Ode to the West Wind

C. Kubla Khan

D. Ode to a Nightingale

68. George Gordon Byron created a “Byronic hero” firstly in his _____.

A. Prometheus Unbound

B. Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage

C. Kubla Khan

D. Ode on a Grecian Urn

69. Prometheus Unbound was written by _____ who also wrote _____.

A. George Gordon Byron…Childe Herold’s Pilgrimage

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley… Ode to a Nightingale

C. George Gordon Byron… Ode to the West Wind

D. Percy Bysshe Shelley…Ode to the West Wind

70. John Keats is the author of _____.

A. Ode to a Skylark and Ode to a Nightingale

B. Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to the West Wind

C. Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn

D. Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Nightingale

61-70: B B B C A C A B D C

71. Percy Bysshe Shelley is famous for _____.

A. Ode to a Skylark and Ode to a Nightingale

B. Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to the West Wind

C. Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn

D. Ode to the West Wind and Ode to a Skylark

72. “Three or four families in a country village is something to work..”This statement was presented by _____.

A. Emily Bronte

B. Jane Austen

C. Mrs. Gaskell

D. George Eliot

73. George Eliot wrote all the following except _____.

A. The Mill of Floss

B. Silas Marner

C. Middlemarch

D. Agnes Grey

74. The novel Vanity Fair was written by _____.

A. William Makepeace Thackeray

B. Charles Dickens

C. O. Henry

D. Henry James

75. Vanity Fair was a novel written by William Makepeace Thackeray, and the term “vanity fair”firstly appeared in _____ by _____.

A. Canterbury Tales…Geoffrey Chaucer

B. The Pilgrim’s Progress…John Bunyan

C. Tome Jones…Henry Fielding

D. Dubliners…James Joyce

76. The novel Vanity Fair was written by William Makepeace Thackeray who also wrote _____.

A. The Way of All Life

B. The History of Henry Esmond

C. Sister Carrie

D. Howards End

77. Barchester Series is a series of novels written by _____.

A. Barchester

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Anthony Trollope

D. Mark Twin

78. Erehwon is a satiric novel written by _____.

A. Samuel Butler

B. Henry Fielding

C. Thomas More

D. Mark Twin

79. In “the Lake Isle of Innisfree” Willaim Butler Yeats express his _____?

A. desire to escape from the materialistic society

B. fear caused by the impending war

C. interest in the Irish legend

D. Love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress

80. Walter Scott’s historical novels cover a long period of time, from the Middle Ages to 18th century. His work Ivanhoe deals with an epoch of _____ history.

A. English

B. French

C. Scotland

D. Irish

71-80: D B D A B B C A A A

81. “The Graveyard Poets” got the name because _____.

A. they chose to live near graveyards

B. they often wrote about death and melancholy

C. they always wrote about dead people.

D. they often use “graveyard” as the title.

82. It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is _____.

A. man against nature

B. love and marriage

C. social criticism

D. fate and destiny

83. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of _____.

A. William Blake’s Songs of Innocence

B. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

C. Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

D. Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

84. It is generally regarded that Keats’ most important and mature poems are in the form of _____.

A. ode

B. elegy

C. epic

D. sonnet

85. G..B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _____ in the English society.

A. slum landlordism

B. inequality between men and women

C. political corruption

D. economic exploitation of women

86. The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ______.

A. G.

B. Shaw B. Samuel Johnson

C. Ben Johnson

D.

E.M. Foster

87. The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of _____.

A. Alfred Tennyson

B. Robert Browning

C. Thomas Hardy

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

88. Matthew Arnold is the writer of _____.

A. Dover Beach

B. My last Duchess

C. Break, Break, Break

D. The Eagle

89. The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of _____.

A. Time of Machine

B. Jim

C. Lord Jim

D. A Passage to India

90. Of Human Bondage is a novel by _____.

A. Herbert George Wells

B. Arnold Bennett

C. William Somerset Maugham

D. John Galsworthy

81-90: B D C A D B B A C C

91. The Time Machine is a piece of _____.

A. science fiction

B. detective story

C. picaresque novels

D. historical story

92. All of the following but _____ are the plays written by George Bernard Shaw.

A. Mr. Warren’s Profession

B. Saint Joan

C. Pygmalion

D. A Doll’s House

93. “The Drama of Ideas” or “The Discussion Play” refers to the plays written by _____.

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

D. Arthur Miller

94. The only tragedy of George Bernard Shaw _____ won him the Nobel Prize.

A. Mr. Warren’s Profession

B. Heartbreak House

C. Saint Joan

D. The Doctor’s Dilemma

95. The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy by _____.

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Oscar Wilde

C. Richard Brinsley Sheridand

D. William Shakespeare

96. Aspect of the Novel was originally a series of lectures delivered at Cambridge by _____. It was one of the most important books on the theory of novel.

A. E.M. Forster

B. Mark Twain

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

97. All the following writers are the great masters of “stream of consciousness” but ____.

A. James Joyce

B. Virginia Woolf

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

98. The novel of Ulysses is a masterpiece of _____.

A. James Joyce

B. Virginia Woolf

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

99. Possessions was written by _____.

A. A. S. Byatt

B. Doris Lessing

C. Margaret Drabble

D. Anita Brookner

100. Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse are novels of “stream of consciousness”written by _____.

A. James Joyce

B. Virginia Woolf

C. William Faulkner

D. Henry James

91-100: A D A C B A D A A B

101. T.S Eliot is most famous for _____

A. The Waste Land

B. A Vision

C. The Unknown Citizen

D. The North Ship

102. William Butler Yeats is the writer of the following works but _____.

A. A Vision

B. The Waste Land

C. The Tower

D. Responsibilities

103. Murder on the Orient Express is written by _____ a novelist of detective fiction.

A. Arthur Conan Doyle

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Agatha Christie

D. John Fowels

104. Death on the Nile is written by _____ a novelist of detective fiction.

A. Arthur Conan Doyle

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Agatha Christie

D. John Fowels

105. A Handful of Dust was _____ best novel and it took its title from T.S. Eliot’s The Waster Land (I have seen fear in a handful dust ) and it was a modern Gothic comic-tragedy.

A. Graham Greene’s

B. Evelyn Waugh’s

C. Robert Graves’

D. John Fowels’

106. Robert Graves wrote all the following novels except _____.

A. I, Claudius

B. Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina

C. Count Belisarius

D. The Power and the Glory

107. The Power and the Glory was written by _____.

A. Graham Greene

B. Evelyn Waugh

C. Robert Graves

D. John Fowels

108. Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty Four were written by _____.

A. George Orwell

B. William Golding

C. Graham Greene

D. Robert Graves

109. Which of the following group of authors is sometimes referred to as belonging to the “angry young man”?

A. Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck

B. Kingsley Amis, John Wain

C. Willaim Golding, John Steinbeck

D. John Wain, Willaim Golding

110. _____ is the representative work of the school of “the angry young man”.

A. Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis

B. Jim by Rudyard Kipling

C. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

D. Heart of Darkness

101-110: A B C C B D A A B A

111. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels by _____.

A. D. H. Lawrence

B. John Galsworthy

C. George Eliot

D. James Joyce

112. The French Lieutenants Woman is the masterpiece of _____.

A. John Fowles

B. Doris Lessing

C. Muriel Spark

D. Joseph Conrad

113. The Golden Notebook was written by _____.

A. John Fowles

B. Doris Lessing

C. Muriel Spark

D. Joseph Conrad

114. Waiting for Godot is a (an) _____ by Samuel Beckett.

A. novel

B. poem

C. play

D. essay

115. “Kitchen sink realism” is referred to as the works of _____.

A. novel

B. poem

C. play

D. essay

116. Seamus Heaney won the Nobel Prize of literature in 1995 and most of his poems focused on the _____.

A. city life

B. legend

C. country

D. history

117. An article on “the Observer” describes the bursting of all these young _____as a kind of “the movement”.

A. poets

B. playwright

C. novelist

D. critic

118. The novel _____ told a story of a Nazi war criminal. In this novel Martin Amis set the narrative clock in reverse.

A. Money: a suicide Note

B. Time’s Arrow

C. London Fields

D. Dead Bodies

119. Satanic Verse was written by _____ who was born in a Muslin family in Bombay, India.

A. Salman Rushdie

B. Kazuo Ishguro

C. Julian Barnes

D. Grahm Swife

120. The novel The Remains of the Day won the Booker Prize for its author_____ who was born in Japan.

A. Salman Rushdie

B. Kazuo Ishguro

C. Julian Barnes

D. Grahm Swife

111-120: D A B C C C A B A B

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