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Part Three The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
I.Choose the right answer.
1.The r hyme scheme of Milton’s L’Allkegro and Il Penseroso is _____.
A. aabbccbbc
B. abbacdccd
C. abacdeec
D. ababcdcdd
2. _____ , as a declaration of people’s freedom of the press, has been a weapon in the later democratic revolutionary struggles.
A. On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity
B. Comus
C. Of Reformation in England
D. Areopagitica
3. ____ poems can be divided into two categories: the youthful love lyrics and the later sacred verses.
A. John Milton
B. John Bunyan
C. John Donne
D. John Dryden
4. _____ expressed Donne’s own way of describing love.
A. Holy Sonnets
B. Witchcraft by a Picture
C. The Sun Rising
D. Death, Be Not Proud
5. George Herbert’s ______ is a well-known shaped poem.
A. The Altar
B. To His Coy Mistress
C. To Daffodils
D. Gather Ye Rose Buds While Ye May
6. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.
A. John Donne
B. George Herbert
C. Andre Marvell
D. Henry Vaughan
7. Which of the following is not a Metaphysical poet?
A. Richard Crashaw
B. Henry Vaughan
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Robert Burton
8. ____is a prose poem on death and immortality.
A. The Anatomy of Melancholy
B. Religio Mecici
C. Holy Dying
D. Urn-Burial
9. Izaak Walton’s ____ is a delightful description of the English countryside and the simple and kind people.
A. The Compleat Angler
B. Holy Living
C. To His Coy Mistress
D. To Daffadils
10. Who is the greatest figure of the Cavalier poetry?
A. John Suckling
B. Richard Lovelace
C. Robert Herrick
D. John Dryden
11. ____was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 19th century.
A. John Dryden
B. Richard Steele
C. Joseph Addison
D. Alexander Pope
Key to the multiple choices: 1-5 CDCBA 6-11 ADDAAD
II.Fill in the blanks.
1.In the field of prose writing of the Puritan Age, John Bunyan occupies the most important place.
2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the Puritan Age.
3.The Pilgrim’s Progress gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
4.John Bunyan’s masterpiece, The Pilgrim’s Progress, is an allegory, a narrative in
which general concepts such as sins, despair, and faith are represented as people or as aspects of t
he natural world.
5.John Dryden is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the
Restoration period.
6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of Dryden.
7.In political affairs, John Dryden was quite changeable in attitude.
8.In his “A n Essay of Dr amatic Poesy”, John Dryden showed his famous
appreciation of Shakespeare.
9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is All for Love, a tragedy dealing
with the same story as Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra.
10.The main literary achievements of the 17th century lies in the poetry of John
Milton, in the prose writing of John Bunyan, and in the plays and literary criticism of John Dryden.
11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s epics.
12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece Paradise Lost.
13.Paradise Lost took its material from mysticism.
14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by the
Bible in content and fantasticality in form.
15.Dryden was the forerunner of the English classical school of literature in the 18th
century.
16.Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost embody Milton’s belief in the powers of man.
17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and symbolism is another writing
feature.
18.In the second half of the 17th century we may hear the voices of the private
citizens by letters and diaries.
III.S ay true or false.
1.The major parliamentary clashes of the early 17th century were over land
ownership.
2.After the victory of the English Revolution, the movement of the Diggers broke
out. The leader of this revolt is Wat Tyler.
3.With the establishment of the bourgeois dictatorship, Charles II became the
Protector of the English Commonwealth.
4.The spirit of unity and the feeling of patriotism ended with the reign of James I,
and England was then convulsed (shook, quivered) with the conflict between the
two antagonistic camps, the Royalists and the Puritans.
5.In 1644, James I was sentenced to death and Cromwell became the leader of the
6.English literature of the 17th century witnessed a flourish on the whole.
7.The Revolution Period produced one of the most important poets in English
literature, William Shakespeare.
8.The Revolution Period is also called Age of Milton because it produced a great
poet whole name is William Milton.
9.The main literary form in literature of Revolution Period is drama.
10.Among the English poets during the Revolution Period, John Donne was the
greatest one.
11.John Milton towers over his age as Byron towers over the Elizabethan Age, and as
Chaucer towers over the Medieval Period.
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12.On his first wife’s death, Milton wrote his only love poem, a sonnet, on His
Deceased Wife.
13.The greatest epic produced by Milton, Paradise Lose, is written in heroic couplets.
14.The poem of Samson Agonistes was “to justify the ways of God to man”, i.e. to
advocate submission to the Almighty.
15.It has been noticed by many critics that the picture of Satan surrounded by his
angels who never think of expressing any opinions of their own, resembles the court of an absolute monarch.
16.Izaak Wa lton’s The Compleat Angler becomes a “Piscatorial classic”.
17.Thomas Browne’s Religia Medici is a collection of opinions on a vast number of
subjects more or less connected with religion.
IV. Questions
1.What are the writing features of The Pilgrim’s Progress?
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Part Four
Ⅰ. Match the works and the characters. (3 points)
A
1. ( ) Tome Jones
2. ( ) The Vicar of Wakefield
3. ( ) Robinson Crusoe
4. ( ) Gulliver’s Travels
5. ( ) Pamela
6. ( ) The School for Scandal
B
b.King of Brodingnag
c.Sophia
d.Mr. B
e.William Thornhill
f.Charles Surface
Ⅱ. Choose the right answer.
1.In 1701, Steele published a pamphlet, _____, in which he first displayed his moralizing spirit.
A. The Funeral
B. The Lying Lover
C. The Christian Hero
D. The Tender Husband
2. Which is the most popular newspaper published by Steele?
A. The Tatler
B. The Spectator
C. The Theatre
D. The English
3. _____ is Addison’s great tragedy.
A. A Letter from Italy
B. Rosamond
C. The Campaign
D. Cato
4. Which of the following is not the hero in The Spectator?
A. Isaac Bickerstaff
B. Mr. Roger
C. Captain Sentry
D. Andrew Freeport
5. ______ were looked upon as the model of English composition by British authors all through the 18th century.
A. Jeremy Taylor’s Holy Living
B. Thomas Browne’s Religio Meidic
C. Samuel Pepys’s diaries
D. Addison’s Spectator essays
6. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

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