c. Richard Brinsley Sheridan' s The School for Scandal
d. Jonathan Swift' s Gulliver' s Travels 4. Pope' s \Essay on Criticism\is a didactic poem written in________.
a. blank verse b. heroic couplets c free verse d. dramatic monologue
5. Sheridan' s plays, especially The Rivals and The School for Scandal, are generally regarded as important links between the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of________, and as true
classics in English comedy. a. Christopher Marlow b. John Galsoworth c Bernard Shaw d. James Joyce
6. ________, written by Alexander Pope, satirized the foolish, meaningless life of the lords and
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ladies in the aristocratic bourgeois society of the eighteenth century England.
a. The Rape of the Lock b. The Rape of Lucrece
c The School for Scandal d. Every Man in His Humor
7. The Pilgrim's Progress by________is often said to be concerned with the search for spiritual salvation.
a. John Milton b. John Bunyan c Daniel d. Thomas Gray
8. John Bunyan' s style was modeled after that of the English________.
a. history b. religion c society d. Bible
9. Backbite, Sneerwell, and Lady Teazle are characters in the play The School for Scandal
by________. a. Christopher Marlowe b. Ben Johnson
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c. Richard Brinsley Sheridan d. George Bernard Shaw
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. Robinson Crusoe, ________story, is universally considered as Daniel Defoe' s masterpiece.
a. a historical b. a fictional c. an imaginary d. an adventure 12. Alexander Pope strongly advocated________, emphasizing that literary works should be
judged by rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.
a. Sentimentalism b.
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Romanticism c. Idealism d. Neoclassicism
13. In Robinson Crusoe, Defoe traces the growth of________from a naive and artless youth into a
shrewd and hardened man, tempered by numerous trials in his eventful life.
a. Robinson b. Gulliver c. Tom Sawyer d. Huckleberry Finn 14. Gulliver' s Travels contains________parts, each part dealing with one particular voyage during
his extraordinary adventures on some remote island.
a. two b. three c. four d. five
15. Henry Fielding has been regarded ad \of the English________, \his contribution
to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
a. Novel h. Poetry
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c. Play d. Essay
16. As a lexicographer, Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English
________by an Englishman.
a. novel b. drama e. poetry d. dictionary
17. Richard Brinsley Sheridan was the only important English________of the eighteenth century.
a. poet b. novelist c essayist d. dramatist
18. \
by________, which first established his reputation as a________ a. Francis Bacon, critic b. Francis Bacon, essayist
c. Alexander Pope, playwright d. Alexander Pope, essayist 19. \from the novel________written by Jonathan Swift are described to be very much
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