英国文学I期末考试试题B.doc

History and Anthology of English Literature I. Identify each of the authors in Column A with his or her work in Column B by putting the appropriate letter in the brackets. (15%) Column A Column B ( d) Alexander Pope a. The Pilgrim’s Progress ( e) Geoffrey Chaucer b. The Merchant of Venice ( j ) Jonathan Swift c. Samson Agonistes ( ) Horace Walpole d. Moll Flanders ( a ) John Bunyan e. of Truth ( ) Daniel Defoe f. The Castle of Otranto ( k ) Robert Burns g. The Rape of the Lock ( c ) John Milton h. Doctor Faustus ( ) John Donne i. The Canterbury Tales ( h ) Thomas More j. Gulliver’s Travels ( ) Edmund Spenser k. A Red, Red Rose ( b) William Shakespeare l. Songs and Sonnets ( ) Francis Bacon m. Utopia ( ) Christopher Marlowe n. The Fairy Queen II. Fill in the Blanks in the following summary statement according to what you have learnt of British history and literature. (15%) 1. Hamlet, , King Lear and Macbeth are generally regarded as Shakespeares four great tragedies. 2.___________ was the first to introduce the sonnet into English literature. 3. Of Bacon’s literary works, the most important are the ___________. 4. Milton gave us the only _________ since Beowulf, and Bunyan gave us the only great _________. 5. Defoes masterpiece ___________ is based upon the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned in the island of Juan Fernadez off the coast of Chile and who had had lived there in solitude for five years. 6. Alexander Pope was called the representative poet in the ________ Age. 7. ________is regarded as the “father of English prose”, who was the first to write essays in the English language. 8. In the 17th century, John Donne, Andrew Marvell, and George Herbert were the typical poets in the school of . 9. Name three types