知到英国文学漫谈智慧树章节测试答案

第一章 单元测试

1、单选题：English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.

A:Celtic

B:Anglo-Saxon

C:Roman

D:English

正确答案:【Anglo-Saxon】

2、单选题：Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society, is said to be the national epic of the English people.

A:primitive

B:feudal

C:agricultural

D:medieval

正确答案:【feudal】

3、单选题：Beowulf is written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.

A:ballad

B:couplet

C:alliterative verse

D:blank verse

正确答案:【alliterative verse】

第二章 单元测试

1、单选题：The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over everything in the society.

A:the King

B:feudal lords

C:the Church

D:the knights

正确答案:【the Church】

2、单选题：The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.

A:the Gladiator

B:a soldier

C:the warrior

D:the knight

正确答案:【the knight】

3、单选题：The stories of ( ) are the most well-known ballads, songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.

A:Robin Hood

B:King Arthur

C:the Vikings

D:the green knights

正确答案:【Robin Hood】

4、单选题：Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.

A:allegory

B:epic

C:a dream

D:symbolism

正确答案:【allegory】

5、单选题：( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.

A:Edmund Spenser

B:William Langland

C:Geoffrey Chaucer

D:John Milton

正确答案:【Geoffrey Chaucer】

6、单选题：The Canterbury Tales, a collection of stories strung together and told by 30 pilgrims on their way to pilgrimage, is written in the form of ( ).

A:ballad

B:blank verse

C:alliterative verse

D:heroic couoplet

正确答案:【heroic couoplet】

7、单选题：The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).

A:humanism

B:realism

C:asceticism

D:romanticism

正确答案:【humanism】

第三章 单元测试

1、单选题：It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.

A:John Wycliff

B:Ben Johnson

C:Christopher Marlowe

D:University Wits

正确答案:【University Wits】

2、单选题：Great writers of the English Renaissance who are known for humanism, took ( ) as the centre of the world and voiced the human aspirations for freedom and equality.

A:power

B:man

C:God

D:the world

正确答案:【man】

3、单选题：Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.

A:Ben Jonson

B:Robert Greene

C:Christopher Marlowe

D:Thomas Nash

正确答案:【Ben Jonson】

4、单选题：Hamlet is characterized as a(an) ( ) on that, he loves good and hates evil; he is a man free from prejudice and superstition; he has unbounded love for the world and firm belief in the power of man.

A:Puritan

B:idealist

C:humanist

D:patriot

正确答案:【humanist】

5、单选题：Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.

A:“father of English poetry”

B:“the Poets’ Poet”

C:“the greatest English poet”

D:“the saint of English poetry”

正确答案:【“the Poets’ Poet”】

6、单选题：( ) is a distinctive verse form adopted by Edmund Spenser in his works incluiding his masterpiece The Faerie Queene. It has 9-line stanzas, rhyming in ababbcbcc.

A:“The Spenserian Stanza”

B:sonnet

C:blank verse

D:“The mighty lines”

正确答案:【“The Spenserian Stanza”】

7、单选题：Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.

A:essayist

B:dramatist

C:prose writer

D:poet

正确答案:【essayist】

8、单选题：The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.

A:Essays

B:The Interpretation of Nature

C:Novum Organum

D:Advancement of Learning

正确答案:【Essays】

第四章 单元测试

1、单选题：( ) is regarded as the greatest prose writer in the English literature of the 17th century, who is best known for his work The Pilgrim’s Progress.

A:John Bunyan

B:Francis Bacon

C:John Dryden

D:George Herbert

正确答案:【John Bunyan】

2、单选题：The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in the form of ( ) .

A:symbols

B:allegory

C:allusions

D:aggressions

正确答案:【allegory】

3、单选题：“The Metaphysical Poets” refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )

A:conceit

B:metaphor

C:imagination

D:symbols

正确答案:【conceit】

4、单选题：In his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.

A:a piece of gold

B:a pair of compasses

C:a farewell to a dying person

D:an earthquake

正确答案:【a pair of compasses】

5、单选题：The 17th century of English history was marked mainly by the English Bourgeois Revolution which ended with the establishment of ( ) as a compromise between the bourgeoisie and the monarchy.

A:institutional monarchy

B:the Whig Party

C:the Tory Party

D:the United Kingdom

正确答案:【institutional monarchy】

6、单选题：(     ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God’s supreme authority over human beings.

A:Calvinism

B:Republicanism

C:Humanism

D:Puritanism

正确答案:【Puritanism】

7、单选题：Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.

A:Robert Herrick

B:John Dryden

C:John Donne

D:John Miltion

正确答案:【John Miltion】

8、单选题：Throughout his life, Milton showed strong rebellious spirit agaisnt many things he thought unjust and acted as the voice of ( ) of England under Oliver Cromwell.

A:the Royalists

B:the Commonwealth

C:the Parliament

D:the Monarch

正确答案:【the Commonwealth】

9、单选题：“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton’s ( ).

A:sonnets

B:blank verses

C:elegies

D:alliterative verses

正确答案:【sonnets】

10、单选题：Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.

A:Luke

B:Exodus

C:Matthew

D:Genesis

正确答案:【Genesis】

11、单选题：The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).

A:resurrection

B:the fall of man

C:the creation of man

D:final judgment

正确答案:【the fall of man】

第五章 单元测试

1、单选题：The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).

A:puritanism

B:humanism

C:classicism

D:feudalism

正确答案:【feudalism】

2、单选题：Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.

A:royalist

B:moderate

C:conservative

D:revolutionary

正确答案:【moderate】

3、单选题：The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).

A:social evils

B:cultural state

C:class struggles

D:contemporary manners

正确答案:【contemporary manners】

4、单选题：As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.

A:heroic couplets

B:three unities

C:realistic techniques

D:satires

正确答案:【three unities】

5、单选题：( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.

A:Enlightenment

B:Pre-romanticist

C:Neo-classicist

D:Realist

正确答案:【Neo-classicist】

6、单选题：Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.

A:classicism

B:naturalism

C:realism

D:aestheticism