１．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is not such an event?
　　A．The rediscovery of ancient Rome and Greek culture．
　　B．England's domestic rest．
　　C．New discovery in geography and astrology．
　　D．The religious reformation and the economic expansion．
　　２．Which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language．
　　A．The Pilgrim's Progress
　　B．Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
　　C．The Life and Death of Mr．Badman
　　D．The Holy War
　　３．It is___________alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life．
　　A．Geoffrey Chaucer
　　B．Martin Luther
　　C．William Langland
　　D．John Gower
　　４．All of the following four except___________are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England．
　　A．Francis Bacon
　　B．Christopher Marlowe
　　C．William Shakespeare
　　D．Ben Jonson
　　５．It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of___________．
　　A．elegy
　　B．ode
　　C．epic
　　D．sonnet
　　６．Daniel Defoe's novels mainly focus on___________．
　　A．the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence
　　B．the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security
　　C．the struggle of the pirates for wealth
　　D．the desire of the criminals for property
　　７．In Beowulf,___________fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon．
　　A．the Anglo-Saxons
　　B．Beowulf
　　C．the Scandinavian
　　D．the Winter Dragon
　　８．Francis Bacon is best known for his___________which greatly influenced the development of this literary form．
　　A．essays
　　B．poems
　　C．works
　　D．plays
　　９．Most of Thomas Hardy's novels are set in Wessex___________．
　　A．a crude region in England
　　B．a fictional primitive region
　　C．a remote rural area
　　D．Hardy's hometown
　　１０．We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except___________．
　　A．swift
　　B．proud
　　C．tamed
　　D．wild
　　１１．"Blindness", "partiality", "prejudice", and "absurdity" in the novel "Pride and Prejudice" are most likely the characteristics of___________．
　　A．Elizabeth
　　B．Darcy
　　C．Mr．Bennet
　　D．Mrs．Bennet
　　１２．The modern English novel came into being in___________．
　　A．the middle of the 17th century
　　B．the 17th century
　　C．the late 18th century
　　D．the middle of the 18th century
　　１３．Who is not the major figure of modernist movement?
　　A．Eliot
　　B．Joyce
　　C．Charles Dickens
　　D．Pound
　　１４．Who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare?
　　A．Oscar Wilde
　　B．John Galsworthy
　　C．W．
　　B．Yeats
　　D．George Bernard Shaw
　　１５．Of the following poets, which is not regarded as "Lake Poets"?
　　A．Samuel Taylor Coleridge
　　B．Robert Southy
　　C．William Words worth
　　D．William Shakespeare
　　１６．In the first part of Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver told his experience in___________．
　　A．Lilliput
　　B．Brobdingnag
　　C．Houyhnhnm
　　D．England
　　１７．Which of the following cannot describe "Byronic hero"?
　　A．proud
　　B．mysterious
　　C．noble origin
　　D． progressive
　　１８．In the history of literature, Romanticism is generally regarded as ．
　　A．the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience．
　　B．the thought that designates man as a social animal
　　C．the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common
　　D．the modes of thinking
　　１９．The term "metaphysical poetry" is commonly used to name the work of the 17th century writers who wrote under the influence of___________．
　　A．John Milton
　　B．John Donne
　　C．John Keats
　　D．John Bunyan
　　２０．"The Vanity Fair" is a well-known part in___________．
　　A．The Pilgrim's Progress
　　B．Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
　　C．The Life and Death of Mr．Badman
　　D．The Holy War
　　２１．In Oliver Twist, Charles criticizes___________．
　　A．money worshipping tendency
　　B．dehumanizing of workhouse system
　　C．hypocrisy of the upper society
　　D．distortion of human heart
　　２２．Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is history play?
　　A．Julius Caesar
　　B．The Merry Wives of Windsor
　　C．Henry IV
　　D．King Lear
　　２３．Who is regarded as a "worshipper of nature"．
　　A．John Keats
　　B．William Blake
　　C．William Wordsworth
　　D．Jane Austen
　　２４．Which of the following writing is not the work by Charles Dickens?
　　A．A Tale of Two Cities
　　B．Hard Times
　　C．Oliver Twist
　　D．Sons and Lovers
　　２５．The 18th century England is known as the___________ in the history．
　　A．Romanticism
　　B．Classicism
　　C．Renaissance
　　D．Enlightenment

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