Chapter Four English Literature of the Seventeenth Century

I．可出选择题有：

（   ）  1. __________was a progressive intellectual movement which began in France and had a wide impact throughout Europe in 18th century.

A. The Renaissance

B. The Enlightenment

C. The Religious Reformation

D. The Chartist Movement

（   ）  2.Which of the following comment on the image of Satan in Paradise Lost is NOT correct?

A. The finest thing in Paradise Lost is the description of Hell and Satan was the real hero.

B. He is firmer than the rest of the fallen angels

C. He remains obeyed and admired by all the angels

D. It is he who makes man revolt against God.

（   ）  3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true?

A. He was born in a Roman Catholic family.

B. He received his education at Oxford and Cambridge.

C. Later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church.

D. He wrote only religious poems.

（  ）  4. Dryden's contribution to English literature lies in the following except_____.

A. he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse form

B. he clarified the English prose

C.     he raised the English literature criticism to a new level

D. he raised English comedy to a higher level

（   ）  5. Apology for Poetry is ______.

A. a poem   B. a romance   C. a criticism   D. a sonnet

II．可出判断题有：

（   ） 1. John Donne is famous for his metaphysical conceit, that is, a comparison between the two strikingly resemblant objects.

（   ） 2. Newspaper was born in 17th century.

（   ） 3. One of the characteristics of the English bourgeois revolution was that it was carried out under the cloak of religion.

III．可出填空题有：

1． ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.

IV．可出术语有：

metaphysical poets

Chapter Five English Literature in the Eighteenth Century

I．可出选择题有：

（   ）  1. In the 18th century, satire was much used in writing, English literature of this age produced some excellent satirists, such as ____________

A. Swift    B. Defoe      C. Blake     D. Burns

（  ） 2. In the 18th century English literature, the representative poets of Pre-romanticism were_____________

A. Blake and Wordsworth

B. Burns and Coleridge

C. Blake and Burns

D. Wordsworth and Coleridge

（   ）  3. Which of the following information about William Blake is NOT true?

A. He was born in London, the son of Irish hosier.

B. He was a poet as well as an engraver.

C. His first book of poem was Songs of Innocence.

D. His later poems are mysterious and hard to understand.

（   ）  4. The main literary stream of the 18th century was___________.

A. Romanticism

B. Realism

C. Pre-romanticism

D. Critical realism

（   ）  5.  __________was considered as “father of English Novel”.

A. Swift

B. Fielding

C. Chaucer

D. Jane Austin

（   ）  6. In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.

A. Swift   B. Blake   C. Milton    D. Defoe

II．可出判断题有：

（   ） 1. Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.

（   ） 2. Burn's poems are largely based on imitation and revision of folk ballads of his motherland.

（   ） 3. Neo-classicism means restraint, thus it is unfit for the requirement of French Revolution, which aroused the age of Romantic Revival to unfetter spirit of humankind.

（   ） 4. Swift is known as a pioneer novelist of English and also a prolific writer of books and pamphlets on variety of subjects.

（   ） 5. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal rational existence, a life governed by sense.

III．可出填空题有：

1. ________________is the glorious pioneer to introduce blank verse into non-dramatic poetry.

2. People in 18th century believed in ___________and their watchword was “common sense”.

V．可出术语有：

Enlightenment