Bri Exam Paper (4)

Ⅰ.Choose the ONE answer that is the most suitable to the sentence. (30 points in total, 2 for each)

( )1.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______,the father of English poetry.

A.Geoffrey Chaucer B.John Lyly C.William Langland D.John Milton

( )2.Portia,the heroine in \"______\"is one of Shakespeare's ideal women-beautiful,prudent,cultured and capable of rising to an emergency. A.\"The Merchant of Venice\" B.\"As You Like It\" C.\"King Lear\" D.\"Twelfth Night\"

( )3.\"Modern Fiction\" is one of Woolf's important critical essays,in which the writer praises______ as \"the most notable\"of\"several young writers.\" A.Thomas Hardy B.James Joyce C.Joseph Conrad D.T.S.Eliot

( )4.\"The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock\" is T.S.Eliot's most striking early achievement.The poem is a sort of ______monologue.

A.private B.personal C.dramatic D.poetic

( )5.______develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy,Stephen Dedalus,from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.

A.\"Ulysses\" B.\"A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man\" C.\"Finnegans Wake\" D.\"Dubliners\"

( )6.In \"The Pilgrim's Progress\" Christian and Faithful come to the ______where both are arrested as alien agitators and tried.

A.Vanity Fair B.Doubting Castle C.Celestial City D.hell

( )7.John Milton's \"On His Blindness\" is written in the form of ______sonnet which consists of an octave(an eight-line stanza) and a sestet(a six-line stanza) A.English B.Italian C.Russian D.Chinese

( )8.In \"Tom Jones\"______ is depicted as a hypocritical,wicked man who is outwardly good but inwardly bad.

A.Tom B.Blifil C.Mr.Allworthy D.Sophia

( )9.The heroine Tess in \"Tess of the D'urbervilles\"seems to be led to her final destruction step by step by ______,as Hardy says at the end of the novel:\"Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Tess.\" A.Angel Clare B.Alec C.Fate D.Jude

( )10.Which of the following novels by D.H.Lawrence shows the influence of Freud's theory of psychoanalysis,especially that of the \"Oedipus complex\"?

A.\"The Rainbow\" B.\"Women in Love\" C.\"Sons and Lovers\" D.\"Lady Chatterley's Lover\"

( )11.\"If Winter comes,can Spring be far behind?\"This is written by ______,one of the leading Romantic poets.

A.John Keats B.William Wordsworth C.Percy Bysshe Shelley D.William Blake

( )12.Jonathan Swift's\"Gulliver's Travels\" gives an unparalleled______depiction of the vices of his age.

A.religious B.romantic C.satirical D.comic

( )13.John keats' famous poem______expresses the contrast between the happy world of natural loveliness and human world of agony.

A.\"Endymion\" B.\"Ode to a Nightingale\" C.\"Ode on a Grecian Urn\" D.\"Ode to Psyche\"

( )14.The story of \"Tom Jones\"by Henry Fielding is told _______. A.in a series of letters B.in the third-person narration C.by Tom Jones D.in the form of diary

( )15.\"The School for Scandal\"by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best ______since Shakespeare.

A.tragedy B.prose C.comedy D.fable

Ⅱ. Fill the following blanks with proper information. (30 points in total, 2 for each)

1. \"The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus\" is one of _____'s best plays.

2. The epoch of Renaissance witnessed a particular development of English drama. Marlowe made ____the principal vehicle of expression in drama. 3. Ben Jonson's best works include _______, ________, ______.

4. The English drama experienced a process of decline after _________. 5. \"Tamburlaine\" is a story of ________.

6. \"The Jew of Malta\" depicts a man who _______.

7. In __________, Marlowe created a man who sells his soul to the Devil.

8. In 12, civil war broke out in England between the royalists and ___________. 9. The __________, led by Oliver Cromwell, defeated the royalists decisively in Naseby in 15.

10. The English Revolution was carried out in the disguise of the ________ Revolution.

11. The Revolution of 1688 was often called _________. It caused England to become _________.

12. As soon as the bourgeoisie won their victory over the monarch, they split with several groups: _________, _______, ________, ________.

13. ____ maintained that \"the poorest he that is in England hath a life to live as the greatest.\"

14. ________ led peasants to open up the waste land in several places of England. 15. ________ wrote his masterpiece \"The Pilgrim's Progress\" during his second imprisonment. Ⅱ. Decide whether the following statements are true or false. (10 points in total, 2 for each)

( ) 1. The English people were the first residents in England.

( ) 2. Beowulf is the oldest poem in the English language, and also the oldest

surviving epic in the English language.

( ) 3. After the Roman Conquest, the English language developed very quickly. ( ) 4. Christianity was not introduced to England until after the English Conquest. ( ) 5. The Norman Conquest marked the rise of feudalism in England. Ⅲ. Explain the following terms briefly. (10 points in total, 2 for each) 1. The Miracle Play 2. The Morality Play 3. Sentimentalism 4. Sonnet 5. Free Verse

Ⅳ. Answer the following questions. () Ⅴ