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PART ONE
I. Multiple Choice
1. Although _______ was essentially a medieval writer, he bore marks of humanism and anticipated a new
era of literature to come.
A. William Langland
B. John Gower
C. Geoffrey Chaucer
D. Edmund Spenser
Answer: C
2. The religious reformation in the early 16th-century England was a reflection of the class struggles
waged by the _____.
A. rising bourgeoisie against the feudal class and its ideology
B. working class against the corruption of the bourgeoisie
C. landlord class against the rising bourgeoisie and its ideology
D. feudal class against the corruption of the Catholic Church
Answer: A
3. The statement that a man gained the whole world but lost his own soul makes a good summary of the main
plot of ______.
A. Paradise Lost
B. The Merchant of Venice
C. Hamlet
D. The Tragic History of Doctor Faustus
Answer: D
4. "Is not a patron, my Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and
when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?"
The above passage is taken from _______.
A. Francis Bacon’s "Of Studies"
B. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
C. Samuel Johnson’s "To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield"
D. Jonathan Swift’s "A Modest Proposal"
Answer: C
5. The essence of humanism is to ______.
A. restore a medieval reverence for the church
B. avoid the circumstances of earthly life
C. explore the next world in which men could live after death
D. emphasize human qualities
Answer: D
6. In The Pilgrim’s Progress, John Bunyan describes The Vanity Fair in a ______ tone.
A. delightful
B. satirical
C. sentimental
D. solemn
Answer: B
7. The 18th century witnessed a new literary form -the modern English novel, which, contrary to the
medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common English people.
A. romantic
B. idealistic
C. prophetic
D. realistic
Answer: D
8. As a literary figure, John Rivers appears in _______.
A. Fielding’s Tom Jones
B. Dickens’s Oliver Twist
C. Bronte’s Jane Eyre
D. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Answer: C
9. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe created the image of an enterprising Englishman, typical of the English
bourgeoisie in the ______ century.
A. 17th
B. 18th
C. 19th
D. 20th
Answer: B
10. In "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Thomas Gray compares the common folk with the great ones,
wondering what the commons could have achieved if they had had the ______.
A. chance
B. love
C. money
D. material sources
Answer: A
11. The poetic view of ______ can be best understood from his remark about poetry, that is, "all good
poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings."
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. John Keats
C. William Wordsworth
D. Percy Bysshe Shelly
Answer: C
12. Pip, Estella, Havisham, Magwitch, and Joe Gargery are most likely names of characters in _______.
A. Oliver Twist
B. David Copperfield
C. Bleak House
D. Great Expectations
Answer: B
13. In English poetry the _______ is regarded as the most common foot.
A. iamb
B. anapest
C. trochee
D. dactyl
Answer: A
14. In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet finds out some weak points about herself in the process of
judging others. Which of the following is NOT a weak point of hers?
A. Blindness.
B. Partiality.
C. Snobbishness.
D. Prejudice.
Answer: C
15. In Byron’s poem "Song for the Luddites," the word "Luddite" refers to the _______.
A. workers who destroyed the machines in their protest against unemployment
B. rising bourgeoisie who fought against the aristocratic class
C. descendents of the ancient king, King Lud
D. poor country people who suffered under the rule of the landlord class
Answer: A
16. "Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean."
The above lines are taken from ______.
A. Wordsworth’s "The Solitary Reaper"
B. Blake’s "The Chimney Sweeper"
C. Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
D. Keats’s "Ode on an Grecian Urn"
Answer: C
17. In his poem, "Ode to the West Wind," Shelley intends to present his wind as a central _______ around
which the poem weaves various cycles of death and rebirth.
A. concept
B. symbol
C. simile
D. metonymy
Answer: B
18. In the conversation with his wife in Chapter One of Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennet uses a(n) ______
tone with sarcastic humor.
A. solemn
B. harsh
C. arrogant
D. teasing
Answer: D
19. Charles Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of his novel ______.
A. Great Expectations
B. A Tale of Two Cities
C. Bleak House
D. Oliver Twist
Answer: B
20. A typical feature of the English ______ literature is that writers became social and moral critics,
exposing all kinds of social evils.
A. Renaissance
B. Romantic
C. Victorian
D. Medieval
Answer: C
21. The statement that those extraordinary people, seeking something beyond the provincial life, have
finally to subject themselves to the limitations of the reality either due to their own weakness or the
social environment may well sum up one of the major themes of ______.
A. Fielding’s Tom Jones
B. Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
C. Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
D. Eliot’s Middlemarch
Answer: D
22. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______, who never
pays any attention to human feelings.
A. justice
B. property
C. morality
D. humor
Answer: B
23. Which of the following statements about The Scarlet Letter is NOT true?
A. It explores man’s never-ending search for the satisfaction of materialistic desires.
B. It relates the conflicts between the society and the individual.
C. It is about the effect of sin on the people involved and the society as a whole.
D. It presents a psychological analysis of the inward tensions of the characters.
Answer: B
24. "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from _______’s
writings.
A. Walt Whitman
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Herman Melville
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Answer: D
