(Week 1 & Week 2) Unit 1 Introduction and Elizabethan Poetry

Quiz for Week 1

1、单选题:
‎Sonnet 75 starting with the line “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” was written by ________.   ​
选项:
A: Shakespeare
B: Sidney
C: Donne
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Edmund Spenser

2、单选题:
‌There are 10 syllables in a line and they follow a regular pattern: an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one. This line is called a(an) _______ line. ‍
选项:
A: iambic pentameter
B:  iambic tetrameter
C: trochaic pentameter
D: trochaic tetrameter
答案: 【 iambic pentameter

3、单选题:
‌The ______ sonnet consists of 3 quatrains (3 four-line stanza) and a couplet. The rhyme scheme is abab cdcd efef gg.‏
选项:
A: Italian
B: English
C: Petrarchan
D: Spenserian
答案: 【 English

4、单选题:
‏Shakespeare's Sonnets is the title of a collection of ______ sonnets by William Shakespeare.‌
选项:
A: 154
B: 108
C: 89
D: 38
答案: 【 154

5、单选题:
​In Sonnet 18, Shakespeare compares his beloved to the ______ and argues that his beloved is even better. ‎
选项:
A: summer
B: spring
C: autumn
D: winter
答案: 【 summer

6、单选题:
‏______ is an Elizabethan poet who stood for the Renaissance ideal of “the complete man.”‎
选项:
A: Sir Philip Sidney
B: Shakespeare
C: Henry VIII
D: Edmund Spenser
答案: 【 Sir Philip Sidney

7、单选题:
​Spenser’s masterpiece ______ is an extended hymn dedicated to the Queen Elizabeth.‎
选项:
A: The Faerie Queen
B: Amoretti 
C: The Shepherd’s Calendar
D: Sonnets
答案: 【 The Faerie Queen

8、单选题:
‏The basic unit of poetic meter in English is a ______ which normally consists of one stressed syllable plus one or two unstressed syllables. ‍
选项:
A: foot
B: syllable
C: word
D: phrase
答案: 【 foot

9、单选题:
‎A four-line stanza is called a ______. ​
选项:
A: quatrain
B: couplet
C: triplet
D: sestet
答案: 【 quatrain

10、单选题:
‎______ started Religious Reformation in Britain.‍
选项:
A: Henry VIII
B: Henry VII
C: Elizabeth I
D: Queen Mary
答案: 【 Henry VIII

11、单选题:
‎______ is often regarded as the father of English Literature.‎
选项:
A: Chaucer
B: Shakespeare
C: Spenser
D: Milton
答案: 【 Chaucer

12、单选题:
‌Novel appeared in the ______ period.‌
选项:
A: Victorian
B: Renaissance
C: Neoclassical
D: Romantic
答案: 【 Neoclassical

13、单选题:
‎The Victorian Age is the age of ______.‏
选项:
A: romanticism
B: realism
C: neoclassicism
D: modernism
答案: 【 realism

14、单选题:
‎The the-stream- of- consciousness writing appeared in ______ age.‏
选项:
A: modern
B: realistic
C: neoclassical
D: romantic
答案: 【 modern

15、单选题:
______ (literary form) is popular in Elizabethan age.‏‍‏
选项:
A: Sonnet
B: Novel
C: Essay
D: Epic
答案: 【 Sonnet

16、单选题:
‎Referential language refers to the language that ______.‎
选项:
A: is limited to everyday real life and situational use
B: engages one’s imagination
C: stimulates one’s emotion
D: is mainly used in literary works
答案: 【 is limited to everyday real life and situational use

17、单选题:
​Representational language refers to the language that ______. ‌
选项:
A: is mainly used in everyday life
B:  engages one’s emotion and imagination
C:  is transaction-based and socially conditioned
D:  is mainly used in practical writing
答案: 【  engages one’s emotion and imagination

18、单选题:
​The most important literary work of the Old-English period is ______.​
选项:
A:  Gulliver’s Travels
B: Beowulf
C: The Canterbury Tales
D: Hamlet
答案: 【 Beowulf

19、单选题:
‏Medieval romances were ______.‌
选项:
A: stories about poor peasants’ lives
B:  stories about supernatural characters
C:  stories about knights and ladies and the chivalric adventures
D: stories about tragic love
答案: 【  stories about knights and ladies and the chivalric adventures

20、单选题:
​"Renaissance" means rebirth or revival of letters. It encourages a rebirth of ______.‍
选项:
A: Christian spirit
B: a respect for church
C: human spirit
D: science spirit
答案: 【 human spirit

(Week 10) Unit 6 Later Romantic Poetry

quiz for unit 6 (week 10)

1、单选题:
‍All the following are main figures of the second generation of Romantic poets EXCEPT ______. ‎
选项:
A: Keats
B: Pope
C: Byron
D: Shelley
答案: 【 Pope

2、单选题:
‍Byron’s masterpiece is ______.​
选项:
A: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
B: Don Juan
C: The Prisoner of Chillon
D: Cain
答案: 【 Don Juan

3、单选题:
‏“Ode to the West Wind” was first published in 1820 as part of the collection entitled ______.‏
选项:
A: Queen Mab
B: Divine Comedy
C: Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems
D: Prometheus Bound
答案: 【 Prometheus Unbound, A Lyrical Drama in Four Acts, With Other Poems

4、单选题:
​The first three cantos of “Ode to the West Wind” describe the wind's powerful influence upon all the following EXCEPT ______.‏
选项:
A: the art
B: the earth
C: the air
D: the ocean
答案: 【 the art

5、单选题:
‍In “Ode to the West Wind”, west wind is presented as ______.‍
选项:
A: destroyer
B: preserver
C: both destroyer and preserver
D: neither destroyer nor preserver
答案: 【 both destroyer and preserver

6、单选题:
‏Which of the following is NOT true?‍
选项:
A: Byron's chief contribution is to introduce into English poetry a new style of character, “Byronic Hero”.
B: Byron was once regarded as a satanic poet on the Continent but as the poet of the people in England.
C: Shelley held a life-long aversion to cruelty, injustice, authority, institutional religion, and the oppressive and hypocritical society.
D: Shelley never uses any political term and revolution slogan in “Ode to the West Wind”. 
答案: 【 Byron was once regarded as a satanic poet on the Continent but as the poet of the people in England.

7、单选题:
‎Through the line “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” Shelly shows ______.‍
选项:
A: his longing for beauty
B: his emphasis on truth
C: his love for art
D: his passion and optimism
答案: 【 his passion and optimism

8、单选题:
‍Which of the following is NOT true of Prometheus Unbound?‍
选项:
A: Prometheus has stolen the fire from Heaven.
B: Prometheus is punished by Zeus.
C: With the others’ help, Prometheus is unbound and freed.
D: Prometheus finally reconciles with Zeus.
答案: 【 Prometheus finally reconciles with Zeus.

9、单选题:
‎All the following are the features of the "Byronic hero" EXCEPT that ______.‌
选项:
A: he is a poor yet proud, mysterious rebel figure
B: he has immense superiority in his passions and powers
C: he shoulders the burden of righting all the wrongs
D: he fights single-handedly and unyieldingly against the tyrannical rules
答案: 【 he is a poor yet proud, mysterious rebel figure

10、单选题:
‏Keats produced all the following famous odes EXCEPT ______.‌
选项:
A: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
B: “Ode to a Nightingale”
C: “Ode to the West Wind”
D: “Ode on Melancholy”
答案: 【 “Ode to the West Wind”

11、单选题:
‍“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is the most famous words of the poem ______.‍
选项:
A: Hyperion
B: Don Juan
C: “To a Skylark”
D: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
答案: 【 “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

12、单选题:
‍Shelley was expelled from Oxford for publishing ______.‌
选项:
A: “Ode to Psyche”
B: “The Necessity of Atheism”
C: “The Cloud”
D: “The Spirit of Solitude”
答案: 【 “The Necessity of Atheism”

13、单选题:
‎All the following poems belong to the same poem collection EXCEPT ______. ‍
选项:
A: Lamia
B: Isabella
C: Alastor
D: The Eve of St. Agnes
答案: 【 Alastor

14、单选题:
‍Which of the following is NOT true of Don Juan?‏
选项:
A: He is sent abroad to Cadiz for the hope that he would develop better morals.
B: On the seashore of a Greek Island he is saved by the pure and beautiful daughter of a pirate.
C: In Constantinople, the sultan's fourth and favorite wife, the 26-year-old beauty forced him to "love" her.
D: He fights and dies in the French revolution.
答案: 【 He fights and dies in the French revolution.

15、单选题:
‎As to rhyme scheme, the pattern terza rima is followed in ______.‍
选项:
A: Don Juan
B: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
C: "Ode to the West Wind"
D: Prometheus Unbound
答案: 【 "Ode to the West Wind"

(Week 13 & Week 14) Unit 8 Male Novelists and Dramatists in the 19th Century

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