2021知到答案 英国文学(19秋冬校内) 智慧树网课章节测试答案

第一章 章节测试

1、选择题:English literature began with the ( ) settlement in England.
选项：
A:Anglo-Saxon
B:English
C:Roman
D:Celtic
答案: 【Anglo-Saxon】
2、选择题:Beowulf, written about the life of England in the ( ) society, is said to be the national epic of the English people.
选项：
A:medieval
B:feudal
C:primitive
D:agricultural
答案: 【feudal】
3、选择题:Beowulf is written in the form of ( ), a popular form of poetry in Anglo-Saxon literature.
选项：
A:blank verse
B:alliterative verse
C:ballad
D:couplet
答案: 【alliterative verse】

第二章 章节测试

1、选择题:The medieval period is often called the Dark Age for the dominating power of ( ) over everything in the society.
选项：
A:the King
B:the knights
C:the Church
D:feudal lords
答案: 【the Church】
2、选择题:The central character of a romance is ( ), who follows the code of behavior called chivalry.
选项：
A:a soldier
B:the warrior
C:the Gladiator
D:the knight
答案: 【the knight】
3、选择题:The stories of ( ) are the most well-known ballads, songs of stories told orally in 4-line stanzas.
选项：
A:the green knights
B:King Arthur
C:Robin Hood
D:the Vikings
答案: 【Robin Hood】
4、选择题:Piers the Plowman written by William Langland in the form of ( ) represents the achievements of popular literature of Medieval England.
选项：
A:a dream
B:allegory
C:epic
D:symbolism
答案: 【allegory】
5、选择题:( ) is considered the father of English poetry, whose most representative work is The Canterbury Tales.
选项：
A:John Milton
B:William Langland
C:Geoffrey Chaucer
D:Edmund Spenser
答案: 【Geoffrey Chaucer】
6、选择题: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 ( ).
选项：
A:ballad
B:blank verse
C:heroic couoplet
D:alliterative verse
答案: 【heroic couoplet】
7、选择题:The key-note of the Renaissance is ( ).
选项：
A:romanticism
B:asceticism
C:humanism
D:realism
答案: 【humanism】

第三章 章节测试

1、选择题:It was ( ) who first introduced and reformed the English drama which reached its climax in the hands of William Shakespeare.
选项：
A:University Wits
B:Ben Johnson
C:John Wycliff
D:Christopher Marlowe
答案: 【University Wits】[$]
2、选择题: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.
选项：
A:power
B:God
C:man
D:the world
答案: 【man】
3、选择题:Shakespeare is hailed by ( ), contemporary with Shakespeare, as “not of an age, but for all time”.
选项：
A:Ben Jonson
B:Christopher Marlowe
C:Robert Greene
D:Thomas Nash
答案: 【Ben Jonson】
4、选择题: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.
选项：
A:humanist
B:Puritan
C:patriot
D:idealist
答案: 【humanist】
5、选择题:Edmund Spenser was considered the ( ) for his achievements in poetry.
选项：
A:“father of English poetry”
B:“the saint of English poetry”
C:”the greatest English poet”
D:“the Poets’ Poet”
答案: 【“the Poets’ Poet”】
6、选择题:( ) 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.
选项：
A:blank verse
B:sonnet
C:”The mighty lines”
D:“The Spenserian Stanza”
答案: 【“The Spenserian Stanza”】
7、选择题:Francis Bacon won for himself the first English ( ) for his achievements in English literature of the Renaissance.
选项：
A:prose writer
B:poet
C:dramatist
D:essayist
答案: 【essayist】
8、选择题:The most representative work of Francis Bacon is ( ), which is the first collection of English essays.
选项：
A:Advancement of Learning
B:Novum Organum
C:Essays
D:The Interpretation of Nature
答案: 【Essays】

第四章 章节测试

1、选择题:( ) 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.
选项：
A:George Herbert
B:John Bunyan
C:John Dryden
D:Francis Bacon
答案: 【John Bunyan】
2、选择题:The Pilgrim’s Progress is written in the form of ( ) .
选项：
A:symbols
B:allegory
C:allusions
D:aggressions
答案: 【allegory】
3、选择题:”The Metaphysical Poets” refer to the loose group of 17th-century English poets whose work was characterized by the inventive use of ( )
选项：
A:symbols
B:conceit
C:metaphor
D:imagination
答案: 【conceit】
4、选择题:In his “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, John Donne makes a most impressive comparison between love and ( ) as the dominant conceit of the poem.
选项：
A:an earthquake
B:a farewell to a dying person
C:a piece of gold
D:a pair of compasses
答案: 【a pair of compasses】
5、选择题: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.
选项：
A:the Tory Party
B:institutional monarchy
C:the United Kingdom
D:the Whig Party
答案: 【institutional monarchy】
6、选择题:(     ) was the religious cloak of the English Bourgeois Revolution which advocated God’s supreme authority over human beings.
选项：
A:
Humanism
B:
Puritanism
C:
Calvinism
D:
Republicanism
答案: 【
Puritanism
】
7、选择题:Puritan poetry in the 17th-century English literature is represented best by ( ), who produced Paradise Lost as his representative work.
选项：
A:John Miltion
B:John Dryden
C:Robert Herrick
D:John Donne
答案: 【John Miltion】
8、选择题: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.
选项：
A:the Royalists
B:the Commonwealth
C:the Parliament
D:the Monarch
答案: 【the Commonwealth】
9、选择题:“On his Blindness” and “On his Deceased Wife” are the two best-known of Milton’s ( ).
选项：
A:blank verses
B:alliterative verses
C:sonnets
D:elegies
答案: 【sonnets】
10、选择题:Milton’s Paradise Lost employs the themes taken from ( ) of the Christian Bible.
选项：
A:Luke
B:Matthew
C:Genesis
D:Exodus
答案: 【Genesis】
11、选择题:The central theme of Paradise Lost is ( ).
选项：
A:resurrection
B:the fall of man
C:final judgment
D:the creation of man
答案: 【the fall of man】

第五章 章节测试

1、选择题:The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century which was an expression of the struggle of bourgeoisie against ( ).
选项：
A:classicism
B:humanism
C:puritanism
D:feudalism
答案: 【feudalism】
2、选择题:Among the English Enlighteners of the 18th century, there were chiefly two groups: the ( ) group and the radical group.
选项：
A:moderate
B:conservative
C:royalist
D:revolutionary
答案: 【moderate】
3、选择题:The Tatler, a British literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele in 1709, featured cultivated essays on ( ).
选项：
A:contemporary manners
B:cultural state
C:social evils
D:class struggles
答案: 【contemporary manners】
4、选择题:As a distinctive way, ( ) are adopted by the neo-classicist playwrights in the 18th-century English literature.
选项：
A:satires
B:heroic couplets
C:three unities
D:realistic techniques
答案: 【three unities】
5、选择题:( ) writers in the 18th-century English literature modelled themselves on the Greek and Roman writers in their dramatic writings.
选项：
A:Pre-romanticist
B:Realist
C:Enlightenment
D:Neo-classicist
答案: 【Neo-classicist】
6、选择题:Alexaner Pope was a master of poetry in heroic couplet. He strongly advocated ( ), emphasizing that literary works should be judged by classical rules.
选项：
A:classicism
B:naturalism
C:realism
D:aestheticism
答案: 【classicism】
7、选择题:Daniel Defoe is an early proponent of the ( ) novel whose masterpiece Robinson Crusoe tells about the adventures of a sailor on the sea and on an island.
选项：
A:epistolary
B:Gothic
C:sentimentalist
D:realist
答案: 【realist】
8、选择题:As one of the greatest satirists in the 18th century, (     ) made use of satire to attack social evils and call for social changes in his Gulliver’s Travels.
选项：
A:
Henry Fielding
B:
Johnathan Swift
C:
Daniel Defoe
D:
Samuel Richardson
答案: 【
Johnathan Swift
】
9、选择题:Gulliver’ s Travels tells about the adventures of Gullliver through the fairy tale of fantasy which is a great satire on ( ).
选项：
A:human heart
B:human spirit
C:human nature
D:human mind
答案: 【human nature】
10、选择题:( ), the greatest realist novelist of the 18th-century English literature, is also considered the father of the English novel.
选项：
A:Oliver Goldsmith
B:Daniel Defoe
C:Henry Fielding
D:Jonathan Swift
答案: 【Henry Fielding】
11、选择题:Tom Jones shows Fielding’s philosophical view of “return to ( )”. Thus, in characterization, a contrast is made between Tom Jones, the good-nautured though flawed man, and Bilfil, the hypocritical villain.
选项：
A:childhood
B:motherland
C:countryside
D:nature
答案: 【nature】
12、选择题:Sentimentalism of English literature got its name from Lawrence Stern’s novel (     ) in which Sterne tries to catch the actual flow of human mind and sentiment.
选项：
A:
A Sentimental Journey
B:
Pamela
C:
The Vicar of Wakefield
D:
Tristram Shandy
答案: 【
A Sentimental Journey
】
13、选择题:Sentimetalism is also found in Samuel Richardson’s ( ) novels which convey female characters’ feelings and sentiments.
选项：
A:adventure
B:epistolary
C:realist
D:historical
答案: 【epistolary】
14、选择题:The only poet of the sentimentalist school of literature is Thomas Gray, whose well-known “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” earned for him the name of a “( ) Poet”.
选项：
A:Graveyard
B:Lake
C:National
D:Local
答案: 【Graveyard】
15、选择题:Oliver Goldsmith’s The Vicar of Wakefield conveys his reflections on the relations between sentimentalism and ( ) in the 18th-century English literature.
选项：
A:romanticism
B:realism
C:localism
D:satire
答案: 【satire】
16、选择题:The latter half of the 18th century English literature was marked by a strong protest against the bondage of classicism and a recognition of the claims of passion and emotion which is later known as ( ).
选项：
A:realism
B:neo-classicism
C:pre-romanticism
D:sentimentalism
答案: 【pre-romanticism】
17、选择题:Robert Burns is the best known of the poets who have written in the ( ) dialect.
选项：
A:Scottish
B:Irish
C:London
D:Celtic
答案: 【Scottish】

第六章 章节测试

1、选择题:Romanticism preferred ( ) to reason and rationalism. To William Wordsworth, poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.
选项：
A:emotion
B:rhetoric
C:art
D:devices
答案: 【emotion】
2、选择题:The joint publication of  (     ) in 1798 by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of the Romantic movement in England.
选项：
A:
‘Rime of Ancient Mariner’
B:
‘Lines Composed upon Tinten Abbey’
C:
‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’
D:
Lyrical Ballads
答案: 【
Lyrical Ballads
】
3、选择题:To Wordsworth, the theme of poetry should be concerned with ( ), the language of peotry should be plain, and the people poetry should deal with are country folk.
选项：
A:fantastic life
B:city life
C:common life
D:country life
答案: 【common life】
4、选择题:In “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”, “the inward eye” refers to ( ), which is a metaphor to appeal to the reader’s imagination of the author’s inner feelings.
选项：
A:”emotians”
B:”heart”
C:”mind”
D:”reason”
答案: 【“mind”】
5、选择题:In “The Solitary Reaper”, the feeling of ( ) is clearly conveyed to the reader, especially in the first stanza.
选项：
A:disillusionment
B:homesickness
C:melancholy
D:loneliness
答案: 【melancholy】
6、选择题:Percy Bysshe Shelley belongs to the school of ( ) romantic poets, whose masterpiece Prometheus Unbound owes much to the Greek tragedy Prometheus Bound.
选项：
A:lyrical
B:revolutionary
C:passive
D:active
答案: 【active】
7、选择题:( ) is Shelley’s bestknown lyric in which he calls forth the overthrowing of the old social system and bringing destruction to it.
选项：
A:“The Cloud”
B:”To a Skylark”
C:“Ode to the West Wind”
D:”Song to the Man of England”
答案: 【“Ode to the West Wind”】
8、选择题:Walter Scott is the only novelist of the romantic literature of the 19th-century England and his novels are mainly ( ) novels as far as genre is concerned.
选项：
A:realist
B:historical
C:psychoanalytical
D:sentimentalist
答案: 【historical】
9、选择题:Scott’s historical novels touch upon the subject matters of the history of ( ), the history of England and the history of European countries.
选项：
A:Wales
B:Scotland
C:France
D:Ireland
答案: 【Scotland】

第七章 章节测试

1、选择题:Jane Austen’s novels mainly concern such issues as the ( ) of young women. Because of the use of satire and criticism of social prejudices, she is considered as a realist novelist rather than a romantic writer.
选项：
A:morals
B:ethics
C:feminism
D:manners
答案: 【manners】
2、选择题:The Bronte sisters refer to Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte, with the elder two represented by Jane Eyre and ( ) respectively.
选项：
A:Wuthering Heights
B:Agnes Grey
C:The Professor
D:Villette
答案: 【Wuthering Heights】
3、选择题:Of the women writers in the 19th century English literature, ( ) is the only one that deals with the life of the working-class people, represented by her novel Mary Barton.
选项：
A:Jane Austen
B:Charlotte Bronte
C:Mrs. Gaskell
D:George Eliot
答案: 【Mrs. Gaskell】
4、选择题:The novels of George Eliot mostly deal with ( ) problems and contain psychological studies of the characters.
选项：
A:cultural
B:social
C:moral
D:psychological
答案: 【moral】

第八章 章节测试

1、选择题:In response to the social, political and economic problems associated with industrialisation, ( ) novel becomes the leading genre of the Victorian literature.
选项：
A:aestheticist
B:critial realist
C:psychoanalytical
D:new romanticist
答案: 【critial realist】
2、选择题:The first period of Charles Dickens’s literary career is characterized mainly by (     ) and the novels are filled with moral teachings.
选项：
A:
pessimism
B:
mysticism
C:
fatalism
D:
optimism
答案: 【
optimism
】
3、选择题:Thomas Hardy is the most representative realist in the later decades of the Victorian era, whose principal works are the ( ) novels, i.e., the novels describing the characters and environment of his native countryside.
选项：
A:Bildungsroman
B:character and environment
C:realist
D:modernist
答案: 【character and environment】
4、选择题:In the aesthetic movement of the 19th century, “Art for Art’s Sake” can simply mean the focus on ( ) rather than on deep meaning of literary works.
选项：
A:technique
B:form
C:beauty
D:impression
答案: 【beauty】
5、选择题:( ) is a type of poetry written in the form of a speech of an individual character whose spiritual world is conveyed to the reader through the author’s subtle psychological analysis.
选项：
A:Free association
B:Interior monologue
C:Psycho-analysis
D:Dramatic monologue
答案: 【Dramatic monologue】
6、选择题:“Break, Break, Break” is a short lyric poem written by Alfred Tennyson which is a(n) ( ) for the poet to reveal his grief over the death of his friend.
选项：
A:sonnet
B:lyric
C:ode
D:elegy
答案: 【elegy】
7、选择题:Thomas Carlyle’s non-fiction The French Revolution: A History was the inspiration for Charles Dickens‘ s novel (    ).
选项：
A:
Hard Times
B:
A Tale of Two Cities
C:
Great Expectations
D:
Oliver Twist
答案: 【
A Tale of Two Cities
】
8、选择题:John Ruskin was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era. In his Modern Painters, he argued that the principal role of the artist is ( ).
选项：
A:”truth to nature“
B:innovation
C:”art for art’s sake”
D:creativity
答案: 【“truth to nature“】
9、选择题:In his Culture and Anarchy, ( ) showed his deepest contempt for and most frequent attack on the middle-class Philistines who he thought lacked culture.
选项：
A:Matthew Arnold
B:Thomas Carlyle
C:John Ruskin
D:Charles Kinsley
答案: 【Matthew Arnold】[/$]