英语专业八级人文知识练习附讲解第26期

【练习】

1. John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress is a(n)___.

A allegory                             B romance

C comedy of manners          D realistic novel

2. Which of the following can not be used to describe John Dryden?

A poet                          B playwright

C essayist                    D novelist

3. “Conceil” was wildly used by the __ poets.

A metaphysical               B romantic

C religious                      D realistic

4. Of the many contemporaries and successors of Shakespeare, the most well known was Ben Johnson. He has been chiefly remembered for his___, the hest of which include “Every Man in His Humor”, “Volphone”, and “The Alchemist”.

A tragedies                B comedies

C histories                 D sonnets

5. John Milton created Satan the real hero in his poem_________.

A Paradise lost        B Paradise Regained

C Agonistes            D Lycidas

6. “University Wits” refers to a group of___.

A poets               B playwrights

C essayists         D novelists

7. Marlowe’s best works includes three of his plays but__.

A “Tamburlaine”            B “The Jew of Malta”

C “Doctor Faustus”       D “Julius Caesar”

8. The author of “The Flea” was the representative of ___ poets.

A religious                   B romantic

C metaphysical          D realistic

9. “Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.” Is one of the epigrams found in__.

A Bacon’s “Of Studies”

B Bunyan’s “The Pilgrim’s Progress”　　　　

C Fielding’s “Tom Jones”

D Johnson’s “A Dictionary of the English language”

10. In the line “So long lives this, and this gives life to thee” of Sonnet 18, Shakespeare_____.

A meditates on man’s mortality

B eulogizes the power of artistic creation

C satirizes human vanity

D presents a dream vision