PART ONE (50 Points)
I. Multiple Choice (50 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter [ A ], [ B ], [ C ] or [ D ] on the ANSWER SHEET.
1. Concerning Middle English literature, which of the following statements is NOT true?
A. In the second half of the 14th century, English literature started to flou:dsh with the appearance of writers like Geoffrey Chaucer, William Lang land, John Gower, and others.
B. Popular folk literature also occupied an important place in this period. Its presentation of life was accurate, lively and colorful, and it never lacked the originality of thought.
C. Middle English literature strongly reflects the principles of the mediewtl Christian doctrine,
which were primarily concerned with the issue of personal salwltion.
D. Romance was a popular literary form in the medieval period. The importance of romance itself can be seen as a means of showing medieval aristocratic men and women in relation to their idealized view of the world.
2. The early period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. Sidnc) introduced __ into England.
A. blank verse B. iambic pentameter
C. the Petrarchan sonnet D. sestina and terza rima
3. "One short sleep past, we wake eternally / And death shall be no more; I)eath, thou shah
die. " These lines were written by __
A. T. S. Eliot B. John Keats
C. Thomas Gray D. John Donne
4. "...What though the field be lost? / All is not lost: the unconquerable will, / And study
of revenge, immortal hate, / And courage never to submit or yield : / And what is else not
to be overcome?" These few lines are taken from
A. Hamlet B. Dr. Faustus
C. The Isles of Greece D. Paradise Lost
5. "The plowman homeward plods his weary way, / And leaves the world to darkness and to
me. " These lines are
A. heroic couplet B. iambic pentameter
C. iambic hexameter D. anapest pentameter
6. Which of the following works by Marlowe is a play about an ambitious and pitiless Tartar
conqueror in the 14~ century, who rose from a shepherd to an overpowering king?
A. Tamburlaine B. The Jew of Malta
C. Dr. Faustus D. Edward H
7. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is a tragedy?
A. Julius Caesar B. The Taming of the Shrew
C. A Midsummer Night's Dream D. Much Ado About Nothing
kidnapping an heiress 8. Which of the following statements about John Donne is NOT true?
A. Idealism and cynicism about love coexist in Donne's love poetry.
B. In his poetry, Donne frequently applies conceits.
C. As a stout Puritan, Donne had made a conscientious study of the Bible and firmly be-
lieved in salvation through spiritual struggle.
D. Donne's poetry involves a certain kind of argument, sometimes in rigid syllogistic
form.
9. Which of the following matches is WRONG?
A. Vanity Fair The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Lilliput Gulliver's Travels
C. Thrushcross Grange Wuthering tleights
D. Thomfield Middlemarch
10. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for
A. material wealth B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth D. self-fulfillment
11. Swift is a master satirist. Which of the following satirical works is NOT written by him?
A. "A Modest Proposal" B. The Battle of Books
C. The Drapier's Letters D. "The Shortest Way with the Dissenters"
12. In The Life of Jonathan Wild the Great, the word "great" is used __.
A. euphemistically B. allegorically
C. satirically D. objectively
13. Which of the following statements about Samuel Johnson is NOT true?
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