《英美文学》练习题一
一、
I. Select from the lettered choice the one, which best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of your choice in the brackets.
( B ) 1. ____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A. Charles Dickens B. Thomas Hardy C. Bernard Shaw D. George Eliot ( A ) 2. The Elizabethan literature____________
A. had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.
B. witnessed a decline of degeneration
C. expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism. D. was not romantic.
( C ) 3. Which of the following information about John Donne is NOT true? A. he was born in a Roman Catholic family
B. he received his education at Oxford and Cambridge
C. later he gave up his Catholic faith and took orders in the Anglican Church. D. he wrote only religious poems.
( B ) 4. Which of the following information about John Milton is NOT true? A. John Milton was the greatest English Poets after Shakespeare.
B. Milton was born in a Roman Catholic family and both his parents were understanding parents. C. He received education at Cambridge and in 1632 he completed his M.A D. His masterpiece is Paradise Lost
( D ) 5. In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”. A. Swift B. Blake C. Milton D. Defoe ( D ) 6. The 18th century is called Age of ______
A. Chaucer B. Shakespeare C. Pope D. Reason
( B ) 7. Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays all the classes of English feudal
society except_______
A. businessmen and scholars B. nobles and serfs C. plowmen and priests D. knights and franklins ( C ) 8. Romanticism shares the following common features except
A. imagination B. intuition C. restraint D. natural sentiment (A ) 9. Shakespeare's comedies are composed of ______
A. ordinary people and clowns B. knights and nobles C. witches and prophets D. shrews and princes ( B ) 10. The following poets are all Poet Laureate except_____
A. Ben Jonson B. Thomas Gray C. Robert Southey D. William Wordsworth ( A ) 11. Author of Gulliver’s Ttravels also wrote
A. A Modest Proposal B. Robinson Crusoe C. Henry V D. The Tyger ( D ) 12. John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect ___
A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica
( C ) 13. The ______ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers
were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A. Enlightenment B. Renaissance C. Chartist D. Romanticist
( C ) 14. ______ was written by James Joyce.
A.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Portrait of a Lady C. Picture of Dorian Gray D. To the Lighthouse ( A ) 15. Saint Joan was written by Shaw. It is a ______
A. historical play B. novel C. poem D. ballad
II．Fill in the author's name according to the given title of the work
1. __Whitman ___ Leaves of Grass 2. ____ Irving______ The Sketch Book
3. ___ Howells_______ The Rise of Silas Lapham 4. ____ James______ The Portrait of a Lady 5. ____Fitzgerald ______ The Great Gatsby 6. ___Kerouac _______ On the Road 7. ____ Ellison ______ Invisible Man 8. _____Amy Tan____ Joy Luck Club
9. ___Maxine Hong Kingston_____ Woman Warrior 10. ____O' Neill______ Long Day's Journey into Night
III．Fill in the blanks.
1.The Preface to __Lyrical Ballads_______ by Wordsworth and Coleridge served as the manifesto of ____Romanticism________.
2.Milton was a master of ____blank verse;____. He first used it in __Paradise Lost_____.
3.In the last adventure, Gulliver came to a country where _____horses;______ were possessed of reason while ______Yahoos_____ were brute beasts.
4.Joyce was born in _Ireland______and became the founder of ___stream of consciousness____ school of novel writing.
5.Both Hardy’ s poems and novels are transition from ____Realism______ to _ Modernism_______.
Ⅳ Explain the terms in your own words . 1. Transcendentalism
答：intellectual movement developed as an American version of and peak of Romanticism ;/ led by Emerson ;/ rejected 18th century rationalism and established religion , celebrated the power of human imagination to commune with universe and transcend limitation of material world ;/ emphasized Oversoul , importance of individual and nature .
2. Jewish Literature
答： a unique part of American Literature ; / can be defined as published creative writings by American
Jewish writers dealing with Jew's experience in America from a Jewish perspective self–consciously .
V．Answer the following questions briefly.
1. The symbolic meaning of the title in the story of Araby by Joyce.
答：1）The word Araby comes from Arabian which reminds the reader of the oriental land----a wonderful and
dreaming world.
2) In his story, Araby is the name of a bazaar which symbolizes the dream, the ideal and the embodiment of beauty for the boy.
2. The significance of the sentence “ It was a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”.
答：1) It tells the theme of the novel— marriage.
2) It implies the plot— the process of finding a marriage partner. 3) It implies the characters— young men and women. 4) It tells the reader the convention of the society. 5) It implies the style of the novel— irony.
3. Talk about the development of Black American Literature . 答：1).Oral tradition in the form of songs , ballads , etc ;
2). Abolitionist Movement brought a new impetus to Black Literature ; 3). Black novel developed at the turn of the 20th century ; 4). Harlem Renaissance in 1920s ; 5). maturity in 1940s ;
6). particular growth in 1960s with Civil Rights Movement . 二、
（ b ）1.Beowulf is a national epic of
A. Germany B. England C. Scandinavia D. France
( d ) 2.Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by
A. Chaucer B. Langland C. Bede D. None of the above
（ c ）3.The one who propose the story-telling in the Canterbury tales is
A. the poet B. the knight C. the boss D. the pardoner
( b )4.One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing: A. his marriage with a girl of noble family
B. his visit to Italy
C. his duty as a controller of the Customs D. his participation in the Hundred Years’ War
( c )5.Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except
英美文学-东北师范大学考试及答案
