¢ñ. Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10%)

Section A

A                                               B

£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(1) Edmund Spenser                      A. Crossing the Bar
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(2) Jane Austen                            B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(3) Alfred Tennyson                      C. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(4) Thomas Gray                          D. The Faerie Queene
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(5) George Bernard Shaw              E. Mansfield Park

Section B

A                                                B

£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(1) Wuthering Heights                   A. Soames Forsyte
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(2) Sons and Lovers                      B. Leopold Bloom
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(3) Ulysses                                   C. Christian
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(4) The Man of Property                D. Mrs. Morel
£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©(5) The Pilgrim’s Progress             E. Catherine Earnshaw
¢ò. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook. (5%)
1. The Elizabethan ______ , in its totality, is the mainstream of the English Renaissance.
2. The novel ______ is supposed to be based on the real adventures of Alexander Selkirk who stayed alone on an uninhabited island for five years. In fact, it is a work of sheer imagination.
3. Fielding adopted “the ______ person narration”, in which the author becomes the “all-knowing God.”
4. English Romanticism is generally said to begin in ______ with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.
5. Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of ______.
¢ó. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement. (50%)
1. The five main qualities of Edmund Spenser’s poetry are: a perfect melody; a rare sense of beauty; a splendid imagination; a lofty moral purity and seriousness; and £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. use of alliteration                                         B. use of metaphors
C. a dedicated idealism                                      D. use of conceits
2. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A. German                                                       B. Greek 
C. English                                                       D. Scottish
3. Shakespeare is known to have used £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© different words. His coinage of new words and distortion of the meaning of the old ones also create striking effects on the reader.
A. 16,000                                                        B. 1600
C.20,000                                                         D. 2000
4. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______and ______.£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©
A. King Lear...Romeo and Juliet                        B. King Lear…Macbeth
C. King John...Julius Caesar                              D. King John…The Merchant of Venice
5. The destination of Christian’s journey in The Pilgrim’s Progress is £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. the City of Destruction                                 B. the Celestial City
C. Vanity Fair                                                  D. the Slough of Despond
6. The hero Robinson Crusoe is a typical £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© man who has a great capacity for work, inexhaustible energy, courage, patience and persistence in overcoming obstacles and struggling against the hostile natural environment.
A. seventeenth-century English upper class
B. eighteenth-century English middle class
C. seventeenth-century English working class
D. eighteenth-century English lower class
7. Henry Fielding has been regarded as “______” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern ______.£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©
A. Father of English Poetry...poetry                  
B. Father of English Novel...novel
C. Father of Modern English Poetry...poetry      
D. Father of Modern English Novel...novel
8. In the last few decades of the 18^th century, the neoclassicism was gradually replaced by £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. romanticism                                                B. critical realism
C. modernism                                                  D. naturalism
9. The most important contribution Wordsworth has made is that £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. he started the modern poetry, the poetry of the growing inner self
B. he changed the course of English poetry by using ordinary speech of the language and by advocating a return to nature
C. he is skillful at describing the city life
D. both A and B
10. £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© was composed in a dream after Coleridge took opium.
A. Kubla Khan                                                 B. Christabel
C. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner                   D. Frost at Midnight
11. £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©defines the poet as a “man speaking to men”, and poetry as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings”, which originates in “emotion recollected in tranquility”.
A. Coleridge                                                    B. Shelley
C. Byron                                                         D. Wordsworth
12. In Victorian Age, the £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.
A. poetry                                                         B. novel
C. familiar essay                                               D. prose
13. In depiction of his characters, Dickens is famous for £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. those innocent, virtuous, persecuted, hopeless child characters
B. those horrible and grotesque characters
C. those broadly humorous or comical ones
D. all the above
14. What makes Jane Eyre one of the most popular and important novels of the Victorian Age are the followings except£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. it is noted for its sharp criticism of the existing society
B. it is an intense moral fable
C. it is the first introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine
D. Jane Eyre is too timid to love her master Rochester.
15. £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© shows a particular concern for the destiny of women, especially those with great intelligence, potential and social aspirations.
A. Jane Austen                                                 B. Charlotte Bront¢ƒ  
C. Mrs. Gaskell                                                D. George Eliot
16. As to Idylls of the King, which of the following statements is not right?£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©
A. It is Tennyson’s most ambitious work which took him over 30 years to complete.
B. It is made up of 6 books of narrative poems.
C. It is based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table.
D. It is a modern interpretation of the classic myth.
17. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term£¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. dramatic monologue                                     B. transferred epitet
C. blank verse                                                  D. free verse
18. In the mid-1950s and early 1960s, there appeared a group of young novelists and playwrights with lower-middle-class background, who were known as “ £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©”.
A. the Irish Theater Movement                           B. the Angry Young Man
C. the Lost Generation                                      D. both A and B
19. Murder in the Cathedral, with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© verse plays in spite of its primarily religious purpose.
A. W.B. Yeats’                                                 B. Christopher Fry’s   
C. T.S. Eliot’s                                                  D. G.B. Shaw’s
20. The overall style of Yeats’ early poetry is £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. very delicate with natural imagery                 B. dream-like atmosphere
C. musical beauty                                             D. all the above
21. By presenting the psychological experience of individual human life and of human relationships, £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£© has opened up a wide new territory to the novel.
A. James Joyce                                                B. Virginia Woolf       
C. D.H. Lawrence                                             D. E.M. Forster
22. £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist.
A. James Joyce                                                B. Virginia Woolf
C. D.H. Lawrence                                             D. E.M. Forster
23. Lawrence was regarded as a prominent novelist only after he published his third novel, £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©.
A. Sons and Lovers                                           B. Women in Love      
C. The Rainbow                                               D. The White Peacock
24. £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©, Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th-century English poetry.
A. The Hollow Men                                         
B. The Waste Land
C. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock              
D. Four Quartets
25. Much of Bernard Shaw’s drama is constructed around the £¨¡¡¡¡¡¡£©of a conventional theatrical situation. The device is an integral part of an interpretation of life.
A. inversion                                                     B. revision
C. subversion                                                   D. supervision
¢ô. Interpretation (20%)
Read the following selections and then answer the questions.
(1)
Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,
But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.
Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;
For thought from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crossed the bar.
1. What is the title of this poem? Who is the author?
2. What is the theme of this poem?
(2)
Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at every line;
Pleased with a work where nothing is just or fit,
One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
Poets like painters, thus unskilled to trace
The naked nature and the living grace,
With gold and jewels cover every part,
And hide with ornaments their want of art.
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed,
What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed;
Something whose truth convinced at sight we find,
That gives us back the image of our mind.
As shades more sweetly recommend the light,
So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit;
For works may have more wit than does them good,
As bodies perish through excess of blood.
3. What does “conceit” mean? What is the poet’s attitude toward “conceit in poetry”?
4. What does the author think is the essence of a poem?
(3)
“What is his name?”
“Bingley.”
“Is he married or single?”
“Oh! single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!”
“How so? how can it affect them?”
“My dear Mr. Bennet,” replied his wife, “how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them.”
“Is that his design in settling here?”
“Design! nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is very likely that he may fall in love with one of them, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.”
“I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.”
“My dear, you flatter me. I certainly have had my share of beauty, but I do not pretend to be any thing extraordinary now. When a woman has five grown up daughters, she ought to give over thinking of her own beauty.”
“In such cases, a woman has not often much beauty to think of.”
“But my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood.”
“It is more than I engage for, I assure you.”
“But consider your daughters. Only think what an establishment it would be for one of them. Sir William and Lady Lucas are determined to go, merely on that account, for in general, you know they visit no newcomers. Indeed you must go, for it will be impossible for us to visit him, if you do not.”
5.Please sum up the characterization of Mr. Bennet as seen from the given passage.
¢õ. Give brief answers to the following questions.(15%)
1. Make a brief comment on Christopher Marlowe’s literary achievements.
2. What are the main characteristics of the Romantic Movement in Europe?
 


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