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Quiz for Week 1
1、【单选题】Sonnet 75 starting with the line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” was written by ________.
A、Shakespeare
B、Sidney
C、Donne
D、Edmund Spenser
2、【单选题】There are 10 syllables in a line and they follow a regular pattern: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. This line is called a(an) _______ line.
A、iambic pentameter
B、 iambic tetrameter
C、trochaic pentameter
D、trochaic tetrameter
3、【单选题】The ______ sonnet consists of 3 quatrains (3 four-line stanza) and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.
A、Italian
B、English
C、Petrarchan
D、Spenserian
4、【单选题】Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of ______ sonnets by William Shakespeare.
A、154
B、108
C、89
D、38
5、【单选题】In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his beloved to the ______ and argues that his beloved is even better.
A、summer
B、spring
C、autumn
D、winter
6、【单选题】______ is an Elizabethan poet who stood for the Renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”
A、Sir Philip Sidney
B、Shakespeare
C、Henry VIII
D、Edmund Spenser
7、【单选题】Spenser’s masterpiece ______ is an extended hymn dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth.
A、The Faerie Queen
B、Amoretti
C、The Shepherd’s Calendar
D、Sonnets
8、【单选题】The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables.
A、foot
B、syllable
C、word
D、phrase
9、【单选题】A four-line stanza is called a ______.
A、quatrain
B、couplet
C、triplet
D、sestet
10、【单选题】______ started Religious Reformation in Britain.
A、Henry VIII
B、Henry VII
C、Elizabeth I
D、Queen Mary
11、【单选题】______ is often regarded as the father of English Literature.
A、Chaucer
B、Shakespeare
C、Spenser
D、Milton
12、【单选题】Novel appeared in the ______ period.
A、Victorian
B、Renaissance
C、Neoclassical
D、Romantic
13、【单选题】The Victorian Age is the age of ______.
A、romanticism
B、realism
C、neoclassicism
D、modernism
14、【单选题】The the-stream- of- consciousness writing appeared in ______ age.
A、modern
B、realistic
C、neoclassical
D、romantic
15、【单选题】______ (literary form) is popular in Elizabethan age.
A、Sonnet
B、Novel
C、Essay
D、Epic
16、【单选题】Referential language refers to the language that ______.
A、is limited to everyday real life and situational use
B、engages one’s imagination
C、stimulates one’s emotion
D、is mainly used in literary works
17、【单选题】Representational language refers to the language that ______.
A、is mainly used in everyday life
B、 engages one’s emotion and imagination
C、 is transaction-based and socially conditioned
D、 is mainly used in practical writing
18、【单选题】The most important literary work of the Old-English period is ______.
A、 Gulliver’s Travels
B、Beowulf
C、The Canterbury Tales
D、Hamlet
19、【单选题】Medieval romances were ______.
A、stories about poor peasants’ lives
B、 stories about supernatural characters
C、 stories about knights and ladies and the chivalric adventures
D、stories about tragic love
20、【单选题】Renaissance means rebirth or revival of letters. It encourages a rebirth of ______.
A、Christian spirit
B、a respect for church
C、human spirit
D、science spirit
Assignment for week 2
Quiz for Week 3
1、【单选题】The most famous prose work of Milton is probably ______.
A、Paradise Lost
B、Arcades
C、Samson Agonistes
D、Areopagitica
2、【单选题】Milton served as ______ for the Cromwell government.
A、the Latin Secretary
B、the Prime Minister
C、the Foreign Minister
D、the spokesman
3、【单选题】The story of Paradise Lost is taken from ______.
A、Homer
B、Greek Mythology
C、Genesis of the Bible
D、New Testament
4、【单选题】In Paradise Lost, Raphael warned Adam ______.
A、not to eat the fruit on the tree of knowledge
B、to fight against Satan
C、not to follow Eve
D、not to follow Satan
5、【单选题】Milton said that his writing purpose of Paradise Lost was ______.
A、to defend for Satan
B、to blame God’s way to human beings
C、to justify God’s punishment on human beings
D、to explain why human beings lost paradise
6、【单选题】Satan was originally ______.
A、a human
B、an angel
C、God’s son
D、a devil
7、【单选题】After Satan was defeated, he ______.
A、fell down to the human world
B、fell down to the blazing fires of hell
C、was put into a prison of fires by God
D、was turned into a serpent by God
8、【单选题】When Satan woke up after the defeat, he immediately ______.
A、vowed he would ask for God’s forgiveness
B、expressed his remorse
C、expressed his determination that he would never change or beg for forgiveness
D、went back to heaven to fight with God
9、【单选题】Satan told his followers that ______.
A、they should do good things to get God’s forgiveness
B、they should find means of good out of evil
C、doing ill is their only delight
D、doing good is they only purpose thereafter
10、【单选题】Neoclassicists thought that all forms of literature should model on ______.
A、the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers
B、their contemporary Italian writers
C、Elizabethan writers
D、the famous writers in Europe
11、【单选题】The peak of the Neoclassical Age is called the “Golden Age” or the “Augustan Age” represented by ______.
A、Daniel Defoe
B、Alexander Pope
C、John Dryden
D、Samuel Johnson
12、【单选题】The new literary genre which appeared in the Neoclassical Age is ______.
A、prose
B、heroic couplets
C、novel
D、essay
13、【单选题】Which of the following is not a sentimental novel?
A、The Vicar of Wakefield
B、Tristram Shandy
C、A Sentimental Journey
D、Robinson Crusoe
14、【单选题】“A little learning is a dangerous thing” is quoted from ______.
A、Francis Bacon
B、William Shakespeare
C、Alexander Pope
D、John Milton
15、【单选题】______ is a fanciful and ingenious mock-heroic work or a mock epic.
A、The Rape of the Lock
B、An Essay on Criticism
C、The Dunciad
D、The Essay on Man
16、【单选题】In An Essay on Criticism, Alexander Pope suggested that ______.
A、writers should use shining conceits and wits
B、writers should show the real beauty of nature
C、writers should avoid plainness
D、wit should be found in every line
Quiz for Week 4
1、【填空题】A piece of writing which is not patterned into the lines is called ______; if it is patterned into lines, it is called verse.
A、
2、【填空题】Jonathan Swift’s prose satire Gulliver’s Travels describes stories in imagined lands such as ______, where tiny people of 6 inches live.
A、
3、【填空题】A new literary genre, ______ appeared and satisfied the demands of the reading public of the middle-class in the 18th century.
A、
4、【填空题】A main feature of the eighteenth century novel is ______ which means the novels at that time often gave an authentic depiction of the society and its people.
A、
5、【填空题】One feature of the 18th century novel is ______, which means they all concern the life story of a particular individual, rather than the tales of a general group.
A、
6、【填空题】Defoe’s hero or heroine are usually from the ______ class and become a middle class at the end of the story through mercantile spirit and formidable fortitude.
A、
7、【填空题】Crusoe reused a black man from cannibals and renamed him ______ and took him as his servant.
A、
8、【填空题】One way to understand Robinson Crusoe is to read it as a story of ______ which described a lot of thrilling incidents and exiting and dangerous journeys of Crusoe.
A、
9、【填空题】One way to understand Robinson Crusoe is to interpret it as a story of ______ in which Robinson represents the prototype of the empire builder, the pioneer colonist.
A、
10、【填空题】Richardson is often regarded as the founder of the ______ English novel since his novels focus on the limited problems of marriage and other family problems.
A、
11、【填空题】______ tells a story about a virtuous servant girl's resistance to the base attempts of her young master Mr. B and her final reward of matrimony with the man.
A、
12、【填空题】Before Fielding became a novelist, he was a successful ______, but the Theatrical Licensing Act ruined his career.
A、
13、【填空题】Henry Fielding and his brother John found the Bow Street Runners in 1749, which is London's first ______.
A、
14、【填空题】Fielding put forward his theory of fiction as “______”: a work of prose fiction, epic in length and variety of incident and character.
A、
15、【填空题】One night after a trip from London, Mr. Allworthy found an infant in his bed. The infant was later named ______.
A、
16、【填空题】By dramatizing a village quarrel in the ______ style, Fielding makes Tom Jones so ridiculously funny that the reader cannot help bursting into laughter as he reads through the passage.
A、
quiz for week 5
1、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT a feature of English Romanticism?
A、Passion.
B、Emotion.
C、Nature.
D、Reason.
2、【单选题】Which of the following poet is NOT a passive or escapist romanticist?
A、Wordsworth.
B、Coleridge.
C、Byron.
D、Southey.
3、【单选题】Songs of Innocence, published in 1809, is a lovely volume of poems. The poems praise _______.
A、the beauty of nature and the innocence of the child
B、the kindness of the masters and parents
C、power of dream and comfort of religion
D、the white and happy world
4、【单选题】 In the poem “Songs of Innocence”, “lamb” is the symbol of __________ in Christianity.
A、courage
B、patience
C、innocence
D、endurance
5、【单选题】Songs of Experience paints this world of misery, poverty, disease, war and repression with a _________ tone.
A、playful
B、serious
C、melancholy
D、sarcastic
6、【单选题】In the line of the poem “The Chimney Sweeper”, “a heaven of our misery” is a figure of speech called ________. “Heaven” and “misery”, two words of opposite meaning, are put together to create strong ironic effect.
A、oxymoron
B、symbol
C、metaphor
D、comparison
7、【单选题】“A Red, Red Rose” is one of Burns most popular songs of _________ in Scottish dialect.
A、friendship
B、love
C、patriotism
D、dream
8、【单选题】Robert Burns is most famous for his songs, in which he uses simple and ________ language to celebrate love, friendship, patriotism and other beautiful human feelings and emotions.
A、idiomatic
B、informal
C、formal
D、musical
9、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT a feature of the poetry of Wordsworth?
A、Musical poetry is spontaneous.
B、Nature inspires poetry.
C、Common subjects can be poetic.
D、Poems should describe supernatural realm.
10、【单选题】What are the 2 subjects of Wordsworth’s poetry?
A、Nature and common life.
B、Emotion and spirituality.
C、Individuality and convention.
D、Revolution and oppression.
11、【单选题】 The “never-ending line” of flowers is compared to _____________ in “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud”.
A、dancing daffodils
B、twinkling stars
C、clouds
D、sparkles of water
12、【单选题】Which of the following expression is NOT a suitable description for the solitude and mysteriousness of Lucy in the “Lucy Poems”?
A、“Untrodden ways.”
B、“None to praise.”
C、“Very few to love.”
D、“Fair as a star.”
13、【单选题】Coleridge can be regarded as the first ________ of the romantic age because of his work Biographia Literia.
A、scholar
B、critic
C、poet
D、writer
14、【单选题】_________ is a dream-poem.
A、“The Rime of Ancient Mariner”
B、“Christabel”
C、“Kubla Khan”
D、“Nightingale”
15、【单选题】 A recurring motif throughout Coleridge’s poetry is the power of dreams and of the _________.
A、imagination
B、reality
C、nature
D、emotion
quiz for week 6
1、【单选题】All the following are main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets EXCEPT ______.
A、Keats
B、Pope
C、Byron
D、Shelley
2、【单选题】Byron’s masterpiece is ______.
A、Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
B、Don Juan
C、The Prisoner of Chillon
D、Cain
3、【单选题】“Ode to the West Wind” was first published in 1820 as part of the collection entitled ______.
A、Queen Mab
B、Divine Comedy
C、Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems
D、Prometheus Bound
4、【单选题】The first three cantos of “Ode to the West Wind” describe the wind's powerful influence upon all the following EXCEPT ______.
A、the art
B、the earth
C、the air
D、the ocean
5、【单选题】In “Ode to the West Wind”, west wind is presented as ______.
A、destroyer
B、preserver
C、both destroyer and preserver
D、neither destroyer nor preserver
6、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT true?
A、Byron's chief contribution is to introduce into English poetry a new style of character, “Byronic Hero”.
B、Byron was once regarded as a satanic poet on the Continent but as the poet of the people in England.
C、Shelley held a life-long aversion to cruelty, injustice, authority, institutional religion, and the oppressive and hypocritical society.
D、Shelley never uses any political term and revolution slogan in “Ode to the West Wind”.
7、【单选题】Through the line “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Shelly shows ______.
A、his longing for beauty
B、his emphasis on truth
C、his love for art
D、his passion and optimism
8、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT true of Prometheus Unbound?
A、Prometheus has stolen the fire from Heaven.
B、Prometheus is punished by Zeus.
C、With the others’ help, Prometheus is unbound and freed.
D、Prometheus finally reconciles with Zeus.
9、【单选题】All the following are the features of the Byronic hero EXCEPT that ______.
A、he is a poor yet proud, mysterious rebel figure
B、he has immense superiority in his passions and powers
C、he shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs
D、he fights single-handedly and unyieldingly against the tyrannical rules
10、【单选题】Keats produced all the following famous odes EXCEPT ______.
A、"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
B、“Ode to a Nightingale”
C、“Ode to the West Wind”
D、“Ode on Melancholy”
11、【单选题】“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is the most famous words of the poem ______.
A、Hyperion
B、Don Juan
C、“To a Skylark”
D、“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
12、【单选题】Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ______.
A、“Ode to Psyche”
B、“The Necessity of Atheism”
C、“The Cloud”
D、“The Spirit of Solitude”
13、【单选题】All the following poems belong to the same poem collection EXCEPT ______.
A、Lamia
B、Isabella
C、Alastor
D、The Eve of St. Agnes
14、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT true of Don Juan?
A、He is sent abroad to Cadiz for the hope that he would develop better morals.
B、On the seashore of a Greek Island he is saved by the pure and beautiful daughter of a pirate.
C、In Constantinople, the sultan's fourth and favorite wife, the 26-year-old beauty forced him to "love" her.
D、He fights and dies in the French revolution.
15、【单选题】As to rhyme scheme, the pattern terza rima is followed in ______.
A、Don Juan
B、"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
C、"Ode to the West Wind"
D、Prometheus Unbound
Women's Lives Reflected in Victorian Novels
quiz for week 8
1、【单选题】Written in 1837-38, ______ tells the story of an orphan boy, whose adventures provide material for a description of the lower depths of London.
A、Nicholas Nickleby
B、David Copperfield
C、Oliver Twist
D、A Tale of Two Cities
2、【单选题】_____ is a literary trend in nineteenth century and it also refers to a way of writing which presents life as it really is.
A、Naturalism
B、Realism
C、Modernism
D、Neoclassicism
3、【单选题】Victorian dramatist and novelist ______ believed that art had nothing to do with morality, but should exist for its own sake. Art was independent of life. Art was not the reflection of nature but rather nature was created by art.
A、Oscar Wilde
B、Thomas Hardy
C、George Bernard Shaw
D、William M. Thackeray
4、【单选题】_____ accepts the theory of “survival of the fittest” and believes in pessimistic determinism.
A、Modernism
B、Realism
C、Naturalism
D、Neoclassicism
5、【单选题】______ believes that man’s fate is predetermined tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A、Charles Dickens
B、Thomas Hardy
C、 George Bernard Shaw
D、T.S. Eliot
6、【单选题】“He rose from the table; and advancing to the master, basin and spoon in hand, said: somewhat alarmed at his own temerity: ‘Please, sir, I want some more.’” This takes from______.
A、Oliver Twist
B、A Tale of Two Cities
C、Jane Eyre
D、Tess of D’Urbervilles
7、【单选题】Most of George Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with political, economic, moral, or religious problems, so they are often termed as _____.
A、the comedies of manners
B、problem plays
C、tragic plays
D、hero plays
8、【单选题】Written by George Bernard Shaw in 1893, and first performed in London in 1902, ______ is about a former prostitute, now a madam and brothel proprietor, who attempts to come to terms with her disapproving daughter, illustrating Shaw's belief that the act of prostitution was not caused by moral failure but by economic necessity.
A、Widower’s House
B、Pygmalion
C、Mrs. Warren's Profession
D、The Happy Prince and Other Tales
9、【单选题】______ attracted criticism for its sympathetic portrayal of a fallen woman and was initially refused publication. Its subtitle, A Pure Woman: Faithfully Presented, was intended to raise the eyebrows of the Victorian middle classes.
A、Mrs. Warren's Profession
B、Tess of the d'Urbervilles
C、Jane Eyre
D、Pygmalion
10、【单选题】In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde followed the tradition of ____ of the 18th century.
A、the comedy of manners
B、problem plays
C、romantic comedy
D、tragicomedy
11、【单选题】In Chapter 5 of _____, it describes the scene that a cask of wine is broke in the street. People rush in to drink every drop of it. In order not to waste the wine, they even take away the mud together with the wine. They celebrate it as if it were a holiday.
A、A Tale of Two Cities
B、Widower’s House
C、Bleak House
D、The Return of the Native
12、【单选题】Pygmalion, one of _____'s most famous plays, was probably his most popular play.
A、Charles Dickens
B、Thomas Hardy
C、George Bernard Shaw
D、T.S. Eliot
13、【单选题】The Return of the Native is written by ____.
A、Charles Dickens
B、Thomas Hardy
C、George Bernard Shaw
D、Oscar Wilde
14、【单选题】______ is the most successful novel by Thackeray, which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
A、Vanity Fair
B、The Return of the Native
C、Tess of the d'Urbervilles
D、A Tale of Two Cities
15、【单选题】______ has a famous opening sentence: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way…”
A、Oliver Twist
B、A Tale of Two Cities
C、Great Expectation
D、David Copperfield
quiz for week 9
1、【单选题】Which of the following poet is NOT a major one in Victorian age?
A、Lord Alfred Tennyson
B、Robert Browning
C、Matthew Arnold
D、Lord Byron
2、【单选题】Victorian poets wrote poems with more social concerns and have assumed a more _______ and realistic attitudes towards nature and human life.
A、rational
B、ironic
C、comic
D、optimistic
3、【单选题】In 1847, The Princess was published, which was a satire on _______’s education.
A、a royal member
B、princess
C、women
D、men
4、【单选题】“Ulysses” is written in the form of ________ and has been called the first true dramatic monologue.
A、sonnet
B、blank verse
C、couplet
D、ballad
5、【单选题】In Memoriam is a long ________ recording the emotional, religious and intellectual changes of the poet during the 17 years after the death of his close friend Hallam.
A、elegy
B、sonnet
C、ode
D、romance
6、【单选题】Which of the following work recounts Arthur’s attempt and failure to lift up mankind and create a perfect kingdom, from his coming to power to his death?
A、Idylls of the King
B、Maud
C、The Princess
D、“Ulysses”
7、【单选题】 In what mood is the speaker talking to the sea in the poem “Break, Break, Break”?
A、pessimistic
B、indifferent
C、melancholy
D、resentful
8、【单选题】Why do lines 5 - 10 provide a joyful picture in the poem “Break, Break, Break”?
A、For comparison.
B、For contrast.
C、For analogy.
D、As a simile.
9、【单选题】The poem “Crossing the Bar” describes the poet _______ attitude toward death.
A、horrified
B、placid
C、panic
D、indifferent
10、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT an image connotating death in the poem “Crossing the Bar”?
A、Sunset.
B、Evening star.
C、Twilight.
D、Moving tide.
11、【单选题】As for the title of the poem “Crossing the Bar”, what figure of speech is employed?
A、Metaphor.
B、Simile.
C、Analogy.
D、Hyperbole.
12、【单选题】The long blank-verse poem _______ finally established Browning’s position as one of the greatest English poets.
A、The Ring and the Book
B、Men and Women
C、Pauline
D、Sonnets from the Portuguese
13、【单选题】 Browning compares poem writing to the work of goldsmith in making a ________ in one of his long poems.
A、diamond
B、ring
C、bracelet
D、metal
14、【单选题】Which of the following is NOT the image of the duke in the poem “My Last Duchess”?
A、Jealousy.
B、Arrogance.
C、Brutality.
D、Generosity.
15、【单选题】Which of the following poet has the natural power of linking visual pictures with musical expressions in Victorian age?
A、Matthew Arnold.
B、Christina Rossetti.
C、Robert Browning.
D、Alfred Tennyson.
16、【单选题】Goblin Market is a narrative poem written by ______ for children.
A、 Christina Rossetti
B、Dante Gabriel Rossetti
C、Elizabeth Barrett Browning
D、Matthew Arnold
17、【单选题】The large number of ______’s poems even made him/her a rival to Tennyson as a candidate for poet laureate in 1850 on the death of Wordsworth.
A、Elizabeth Barrett Browning
B、Robert Browning
C、Christina Rossetti
D、Matthew Arnold
18、【单选题】In the poem “My Last Duchess,” what does the duke mean when he says that “This grew; I gave commands; / Then all smiles stopped together?”
A、He ordered the duchess to keep silence.
B、He required the duchess to be solemn.
C、He murdered the duchess.
D、He locked up the duchess.
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