Part Three  The Period of the English Bourgeois Revolution
I.Choose the right answer.
1.The rhyme 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. 
steeleA. 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, _______ occupies the most important place. 
2.The Pilgrim’s Progress is one of the most popular pieces of Christian writing produced during the _____ Age. 
3.______gives a vivid and satirical picture of Vanity Fair which is the symbol of London at the time of Restoration.
4._____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 the natural world. 
5._____ is the most excellent representative of English classicism in the Restoration period.
6.In English literature, the Restoration period is traditionally called “Age of _____. 
7.In political affairs, ____ was quite changeable in attitude. 
8.In his “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy”, ____ showed his famous appreciation of Shakespeare.
9.Dryden wrote about 27 plays. The famous one is _______, 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 ______. 
11.Paradise Lost is one of Milton’s ______.
12.Satan is the hero in Milton’s masterpiece __________.
13.Paradise Lost took its material from ______. 
14.The works of the Metaphysical poets are characterized, generally speaking, by _____in content and fantasticality in form. 
15._______ 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 _____.
17.The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious allegory and _____ 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 _____.
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