
2.The Protestant Reformation was in essence a religious movement in a political guise. F
3.Before the Reformation, the English Bible was universally used by the Catholic churches. F
4.Shakespeare’s sonnets are divided into three groups: Numbers 1—17, Numbers 18—126, and Numbers 127—154. T
5.Shakespeare’s sonnets are written for variety of virtues. T
6.Shakespeare wrote about his own people and for his own time. T
7.To reproduce the real life, Shakespeare often combines the majestic with the funny, the poetic with the prosaic(散文体的) and tragic with the comic. T
8.Utopia is More’s masterpiece, written in the form of letters between More and Hythloday, a voyage. F
9.Both the gentlemen and the common people went to the theatres. But the upper class was the dominant force in Elizabethan theatre. T
10.From Shakespeare’s history plays, it can be seen that Shakespeare took a great interest in the political questions of his time. T
11.Generally speaking, after Shakespeare, the English drama was undergoing a process of prosperity. F
12.English Renaissance Period was an age of poetry and drama, and was an age of prose. F
13.Utopia, Book One, describes an ideal communist society. F
14.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole. F
15.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great poet whole name is William Milton. F
16.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama. F
17.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the greatest one. F
18.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lost, is written in heroic couplets. F
19.The 18th century was an age of poetry. A group of excellent prose writers, such as Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, were produced. F
20.Novel writing made a big advance in the 18th century. The main characters in the novels were no longer common people, but the kings and nobles. F
21.The 19th century produced the first English novelists, who fall into two groups: the sentimentalist novelists and the realist novelist. F
22.Robert Burns is remembered mainly for his songs written in the English dialect on a variety of subjects. F
23.My Heart’s in the Highlands is one of the best known poems written by Robert Burns in which he pored his unshakable love for his homeland. T
24.Many of Goldsmith’s poems were put to music. F
25.Pre-romanticism is ushered by Burns and Blake and represented by Percy, Macpherson and Chatterton. F
26.English Romantic literature started from mid-18th to the early 19th century. F
27.Jane Austen is one of the greatest romantic woman novelists. T
28.After composing the Lucy poems, Wordsworth began his The Prelude . T
29.P.B. Shelley gained his nickname, “Mad Shelley〞 because of his independent and rebellious attitude. T
30.Lyrical Ballads begins with Coleridge’s long poem, “Tintern Abbey〞. F
31.Many of the subjects of the poems in Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T
32.Coleridge wrote the majority of poems in Lyrical Ballads. F
33.Wordsworth’s “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud〞 has another name, Growth of a Poet’s Mind. F
34.The Prelude is a long and autobiographical poem considered as Coleridge’s masterpiece. F
35.Some romantic writers stood on the side of the feudal forces and even combined themselves with those forces. T
36.Wordsworth and Coleridge are revolutionary Romantic poets. F
37.Byron and Shelley and Keats are known as the romantic poets of the second generation. T
38.The romanticists paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man. T
39.Jane Austen is a writer who regards novel writing as a sophisticated art. T
40.The story of Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound was taken from Roman mythology. F
41.Shelley is one of the leading Romantic poets, an intense and original lyrical poet in the English language. T
42.Byron’s Don Juan begins with descriptions of the hero’s childhood. T
43.Byron’s literary career was closely linked with the struggle and progressive movements of his age. T
44.Byron opposed oppression and slavery, and has a passionate love for liberty. T
45.Wordsworth drew inspirations from the mountains and lakes. T
46.Dickens’ The Pickwick Papers gives a rather comprehensive picture of early 19th century England. T
47.Mr. Pickwick and Sam Weller were two major characters in The Pickwick Papers which aroused the interests of the readers. T
48.In Oliver Twist, Dickens makes his readers aware of the inhumanity of country life under capitalism. F
49.The title Bleak House is not only the name of a house but is also an apt (贴切的) description of the society of the time. T
50.Hard Times is a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education and ethics(论理学,道德学) and on utilitarianism (功利主义〕. T
51.A Tale of Two Cities takes the Industrial Revolution as the subject. F
52.The theme underlying A Tale of Two Cities is the idea “Where there is oppression, there is revolution.〞 T
53.The story of Tess is filled with a feeling of dismal foreboding and doom. T
54.Fateful circumstances and tragic coincidences abound in the book of Jude the Obscure. F
55.James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are the two best-known novelists of the “stream of consciousness〞 school. T
56. With the establishment of the Jacobin dictatorship in France, Wordsworth’s attitude toward revolution changed into active. ( F )
57.In the revised version of Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge held that poetry is the “spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling〞. ( F )
58. Romanticism is a literary trend. It prevailed in England in the period (1798---1832) ( F )
59. The ideals of French Revolution are liberty, democracy, and equality. ( F )
6. The brilliant literary criticism “Biographia Literaria〞 is written by Wordsworth. ( F )
60. A Tale of Two Cities belongs to the first writing phase of Dickens’s career, and the two cities are London and Paris. ( F )
61. Symbolism, Surrealism, Imagism, Expressionism, etc, all belong to School of Modernism. ( T )
62. The Rainbow is D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical work. ( T )
63. Chaucer employed the heroic couplet in writing his greatest work The Canterbury tales. T
. Shakespeare’s plays have been traditionally divided into four categories according to dramatic type: histories, comedies, tragedies and romances. T
65. John Milton’s Paradise Lost opens with the description of a meeting among the fallen angels, and ends with the departure of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden. T
66. “ Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear, / And the rocks melt wi’ the sun: / I will luve thee still, my dear, / While the sands of life shall run.〞 The above lines are taken from the famous poem “Scots Wha Hae〞. F
67. In Gulliver’s Travels, Yahoos are the creatures living in Houyhnynms. T
68. As an age of romantic enthusiasm, the Romantic Age began in 17 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads. F
69. Odes are generally regarded as Keats’ most important and mature works. T
70. Wuthering Heights is written by Ann Bronte. It is a morbid story of love, but a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system. F
71.The English translation of the Bible emerged as a result of the struggle between Protestant and Catholicism. T
72.The Bible was notably translated into English by the Protestants. T
73.Apart from the religious influence, the Authorized Version has had a great influence on English language and literature. T
74.Rationalism is the theme of the English Renaissance, which emphasized the capacities of human mind and the achievements of human nature. F
75.Sonnets contain Italian sonnets and Shakespeare sonnets. T
76.The highest glory of the English Renaissance was unquestionably its novel. F
77.In the 16th century, London became the centre of English drama. T
78.In the Elizabethan Theater, there were no actress and women’s parts were always taken by boys. T
79.Shakespeare’s drama becomes a monument of the English neo-classicism. F
80.The Pilgrim’s Progress gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration. T
81.John Milton’s masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of the natural world. F
82.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece The Pilgrim’s Progress. F
83.English enlighteners believed in the emmotion. F
84.English enlighteners believed that social problems could be dealt with by human intelligence. T
85.Sameul Johnson’s A Dictionary of English Language also marked the end of English writers’ reliance on the patronage of noblemen for support. T
86.In describing Robinson’s life on the island, Defoe glorifies human labor. T
87.In a sense, in English Romantic Age, literature equaled poetry. T
88.William Wordsworth was influenced by the American Independence War. F
.Many subjects of Lyrical Ballads deal with elements of nature. T
90.Lyrical Ballads a joint work of Wordsworth and his friend Southey. F
91.The publication of Lyrical Ballads in 1798 marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in England. T
92.The publication of Lyrical Ballads marked the break with classcism. T
93.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer Robert Soughey died. F
94.The English Romantic period produced two major novelists: Walter Scott and Jane Austen. T
95.In 1817, Samuel Taylor Coleridge finished his literary criticism, Biographia Literaria. T
96.Wordsworth’s poetry is distinguished by the simplicity of his language. T
97.The first poem in the collection The Lyrical Ballads is Coleridge’s masterpiece. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. T
98.On the death of Robert Southey in 1843, Wordsworth was made poet laureate. T
99.George Gordon Byron is chiefly known for his two long poems: One is Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, the other is Don Juan. T
100.Dickens’ writings from 1836 to 1841 show the characteristic of youthful optimism. T
101.Dickens’ writings from 1842 to 1850 show the character of excitement and irritation. T
102.Dickens’ writings from 1852 to 1870 show the feature of optimism. F
