英国文学习题练习

12. T 13. T

14. F ( Sentimentalism; classicism) 15. F ( Scottish) 16. T 17. T 18. T

19. F (Burns’s)

20. F ( Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton; Burns and Blake)

Ⅴ. Questions

1. Comment on the English classicists in the 18th century. 2. Comment on The Spectator.

Part Five Romanticism in England

Ⅰ. Choose the right answer.

1. Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism B. Renaissance C. Enlightenment D. feudalism 2. The main literary stream is ____.

A. poetry B. novels C. prose D. periodicals 3. ____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” B. “Tintern Abbey”

C. “Revolution” D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” 4. Coleridge’s _____ is a “conversation” poem.

A. Frost at Midnight B. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria

5. Byron’s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage B. Hours of Idleness C. Lara D. Don Juan 6. Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth’s B. Byron’s C. Shelley’s D. Keats’ 7. ____ lived the longest life.

A. Wordsworth B. Byron C. Shelley D. Keats 8. Keats’ first poem is ____.

A. O Solitude B. On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer C. Poems D. Endymion 9. Keats’ best ode is ____.

A. “On a Grecian Urn” B. “To Autumn”

C. “To Psyche” D. “To a Nightingale” 10. The best works of William Hazlitt is ____.

A. The Spirit of the Age B. Table Talk

C. The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays D. On the English Poets

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11. The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in

England.

A. “Tintern Abbey” B. Lyrical Ballads C. Frost at Night D. “The Daffodils” 12. The Prelude has also been called _____.

A. The Last Brazil B. The First Impression C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind D. The Spirit of the Age

13. Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.

A. “The Solitary Reaper” B. “The Daffodils” C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” D. “O Solitude” 14. _____ is considered Wordsworth’s masterpiece.

A. The Prelude B. Endymion

C. Don Juan D. Biographia Literaria

15. The prose writers in the English Romantic Age developed a kind of _______.

A. models of classicism B. familiar essay

C. rules of neo-romanticism D. ways of modernism 16. The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

A. Keats B. Walter Scott C. Charles Lamb D. William Hazlitt 17. The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.

A. pride and prejudice B. the writer’s own personalities C. love and marriage D. Both A and C

18. _____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

A. Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott 19. Lamb’s writings are full of ______for he is especially fond of old writers.

A. romanticism B. conversations C. inspirations D. archaisms 20. Lamb is a romanticist of ______.

A. the city B. the countryside C. nature D. imagination 21. _____ is based on Boccaccio’s Decameron.

A. Endymion B. Isabella D. Hyperion D. Lamia

22. Critics agree that ____ is a great romantic poet, standing with Shakespeare,

Milton and Wordsworth in the history English literature.

A. Keats B. Wordsworth C. Coleridge D. William

23. The reader can get a broad panorama of the social life of the English Romantic

Age from _____.

A. Dun Juan B. The Prelude C. Kubla Khan D. Isabella 24. Some critics think that some of Byron’s poems show his _____.

A. individual heroism and pessimism B. love of nature and optimism C. love of old writers D. hatred for the imperialism 25. One of Coleridge’s best “conventional” poems is _____.

A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night

C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria 26. Coleridge’s best literary criticism is _________.

A. Kubla Khan B. Frost at Night

C. Christabel D. Biographia Literaria

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27. ____ is Shelley’s masterpiece.

A. Zastrozzi B. The Necessity of Atheism C. Queen Mab D. Prometheus Unbound 28. _____ is a joint book by Charles Lamb and his sister.

A. John Woodvil B. Essays of Elia

C. Mr H D. Tales from Shakespeare

29. Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy B. A Defence of Poetry C. The Necessity of Atheism D. The Triumph of Life 30. ______ is Shelley’s first book written in ____.

A. Zastrozzi; Eton B. The Necessity of Atheism; Italy C. Queen Mab; Greece D. Prometheus Unbound; Italy 31. The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 1789…1821 B. 1778…1823 C. 1798…1832 D. 1768…1819 32. Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

A. the first B. the second C. the third D. the forth 33. The Examiner is a famous _____ in the English Romantic Age.

A. novel B. poem C. periodical D. newspaper

Key to the multiple choices:

1-5 CADAD 6-10 CACDA 11-15 BCBAB 16-20 CDDDA 21-25 BAAAB 26-30 BDDCA 31-33 CBC

Ⅲ. Say true or false.

1. English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. 2. Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists.

3. After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude .

4. P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley” because of his independent

and rebellious attitude.

5. The rhythm scheme of “The Ode to the West Wind” is aba, bcb, cdc, ded, ee. 6. Charles Lamb is a romanticist of the village life.

7. Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey”.

8. Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of

nature.

9. Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads.

10. Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud” has another name, Growth of a

Poet’s Mind.

11. The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s

masterpiece.

12. Hazlitt’s life and career had been greatly influenced by the rise and fall of the

French Revolution.

13. Hazlitt became a master of novels in English Romantic literature.

14. Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined

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themselves with those forces.

15. Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets.

16. Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second

generation.

17. The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. 18. The poets of the second generation described the beautiful scenes and the

country people of that area in their writings.

19. Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art.

20. The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology. 21. Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet

in the English language.

22. Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood.

23. Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive

movements of his age.

24. Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty. 25. But some critics think Keats lacks the care for artistic finish; many of his lines

are harsh, rugged and not rhythmical;

26. Byron’s leading principle is “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”. 27. Lamb’s essays are intensely personal.

28. Keats’ essays are marked by relaxed style, conversational tone and wide range

of subject matter.

29. Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes.

30. Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” tells a strange story in the form of ballad.

Key to True/False statements:

1. F (from late 18th to the mid-19th century) 2. T 3. T 4. T 5. T

6. F (city)

7. F (“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) 8. T

9. F (Wordsworth) 10. F (“The Daffodils”) 11. F (Wordsworth) 12. T

13. F (familiar essay) 14. T

15. F ( Passive Romantic poets)

Ⅳ. Terms:

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16. T 17. T

18. F (the first generation/ The Lake Poets) 19. T

20. F (Greek) 21. T 22. T 23. T 24. T

25. F (Byron) 26. F (Keats) 27. T

28. F (Lamb) 29. T

30. F (Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”) 1. Romanticism 2. Lake Poets