英美文学选择题
1. The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event.
A. The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture. B. England’s domestic rest
C. New discovery in geography and astrology.
D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion. 2. Of all the 18
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century novelists, who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Johathan Swift
D. Henry Fielding
write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style? A. Thomas Gray
3. Which of the following is Not true about Renaissance? A. Humanism is the essence of Renaissance.
B. Attitudes and feelings which had been characteristic of the 14down into the era of Humanism and Regoirmation. C. It was Chaucer, who initiated the Reformation.
D. The Elizabethan drama, in its totality, is the real main stream of the English Renaissance. 4. ______ was the first person who introduced printing into England. A. William Caxto
B. Flovio
C.Homer D. Plutarch
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5. In Shelley’s “To a Skylark”, the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song which suggests to the poet ______. A. both celestial rapture and human limitation C. both music and words
B. both image creation and profound meaning D. both inspiration and skill of writing
6. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and hearless?...And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you.”
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from______. A.Great Expectations B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane Eyre D. Pride and Prejudice
7. The sentences “And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of his gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not meltin____.
A. Wuthering Heights
B. Jane Eyre C. Gulliver’s Travels D. Paradise Lost
” are found
8. ______ is considered by H.L. Mencken as “the true father of our national literature”. A. Hemingway
B. Poe C. Irving
D. Twain
9. All of the following four except ____ are the most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England. A. Francis Bacon
B. Christopher
C. William Shakespeare
D. Ben Jonson
10. The first two lines of Alfred Tennyson’s well-known poem “Break, Break, Break” read “Break, break, break,/On thy cold grey stones, O sea!” The repeated word “break” suggests____ A. joy
B. fear C. fondness D. hatred
11. In the following descriptions of The Neoclassical Period, which is wrong? A. The Neoclassical Period is prior to the Romantic Period
B. Henry Fielding is one of the representatives of the Neoclassical period C. The modern English novel came into being in the Neoclassical period D. The Neoclassical Period is also known as the Age of Enlightenment.
12. In the long poem “The Ring and the Book”, the “Book” is compared to _____ A. love
B. comprehensive knowledge
C. the hard truth D. the method of study
13. Which of the following comments on William Blake is not true?
A. Childhood is central to Blake’s concern in the songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience B. Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell marks his entry into maturity C. The Book of Loss is his masterpiece
D. Symbolism in wide range is a distinctive feature of his poetry
14. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ____. A. The Stoic
B. The Giant
C. The Tycoon D. The Genius
15. The belief that first, nature is ennobling; and second, the individual is divine describes _____. A. romanticists
B. stream-consciousness novelists C. realists D. eranscengdentalists
16. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____ A. The House of the Seven Gables B. White Jacket C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithedale Romance
17. Which of the following descriptions of Ernest Hemingway is appropriate? A. In Our Time is the first book to present a Hemingway hero---Nick Adams. B. A Farewell to Arms is Hemingway’s first big success C. For whom the Bell Tolls is Hemingway’s masterpiece D. A Farewell to Arms represents his climax in writing.
18. “There was music from my neighbour’s house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the shisperings and the champagne and the stars…”, the two sentences are taken from______ A. The Greeat Gatesby by F.Scott Fitzgerald B. Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser
C. Daisy Miller by Henry James D. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
19. In the Shepeardes Calender, Edmund Spenser tried to express_____ A. he met Sir Philip Sidney and started a friendship with him B. he met Leicester
C. his laments over the loss of Rosalind
D. his laments over the loss of Elizabeth
20. In Beowulf, ______fought against the monster Grendel and a five breathing dragon. A. the Anglo-Saxons
B. Beowulf
C. the Scandinavian
D. the Winter Dragon
21. Among the works by Eugene O’Nell, which has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the Climax of Odrama?
A. Long Day’s Journey Into Night C. Bound East for Cardiff
B. Strange Interlude D. The Great God Brown
’Nell’s literary career and the coming of age of American
22. In Spenser’s masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of _____virtues of the private gentleman
A. 10 B.11 C.12 D.13
23. Which statement about Emily Bronte is Not true? A. She was famous for her Wuthering Heights. B. She wrote 193 poems. C. She lived a very short life.
D. Her masterpiece is noted for its optimistic tone.
24. Which of the following cannot correctly describe Enlightenment Movement? A. Enlightenment Movement flourished in France.
B. Enlightenment Movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance. C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world. D. It advocated individual education
25. “Place me on sunium’s marbled steep,/where nothing, save the waves and I,/ May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;/There, swan-like, let me sing and die;/ A land of slaves shall neer be mine----/Sash down you cup of samian wine!” These lines are taken from___ A. The Isles of Greece by Byron
B. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray C. The Solitary Reaper by William Wordsworth D. Song for the Luddites by George Gordon Byron. 26. In the following statements, which is wrong?
A. Tom Jones brings its author the name of “Prose Homer”, because the panoramic view it provides of the 18
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century English country and city life with scores of different glaces and a
whole gallery of many different characters.
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is a naturalistic account of the heorand his final artistic and spiritual liberation.
C. Jane Austen’s first novel was pride and Prejudice, dealing with the five Bennet sisters and their search for suitable husband.
D. William Blake’s two poems entitled “The Chimney Sweeper” hold the similar subject-matter, but the tone, emphasis and conclusion differ.
27. Which of writings by John Milton is the most influential dramatic poem after the Greek style in English?
A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Lost
C. Paradise Regained D. Areopagitica
’s bitter experiences
28. The modern English novel came into being in ____ A. the middle of the 17C. the late 18 century
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century B. the 17 century
D. the middle of the 18 century
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29. The author of the work “The Sound and the Fury” is _____ A. William Faulkner
B. George Gordon Byron
C. Jonathan Swift
D. Christopher Marlowe TION & VISION,” and
30. The declaration that “ I know that This World is a World of IMAGINAwriters?
A. William Blake B. William Wordsworth C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
that “The Nature of my work is visionary or imaginative”belongs to which of the following
D. George Gordon Byron
31. Middlemarch is considered to be George Eliot’s greatest novel, owing to all the following reasons EXCEPT____
A. it vividly depicts English country life
B. it probes into perpetual philosophical thoughts C. It provides a panoramic view of life D. it reveals women’s true feelings
32. In William Blake’s poetry, the father ( and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God& his Priest, & King) was usually a figure of _____ A. tyranny
B. love
C. admiration
D. benevolence
33. The author of the writing “The Return of the Native” is___ A. Thomas Hardy
B. D.H. Lawrence
C. Robert Browning
D. Alfred Tennyson
34. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled_____ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmesas “Our Intellectual Declaration of Independence”. A. “Self-Reliance”
B. “Divinity School Address”
C. “The American Scholar”D. “Nature”
35. Who is the author of the writing “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”?
A. Byron B. Blake C. Keats D. Coleridge
“A viel conceit in pompous words expressed/ Is
36. When he writes, in An Essay on Criticism,
like a clown in regal purple dressed”, Alexander Pope means that ____ A. pompus words are always destructive to good taste.
B. the purple color is for the royal only and it is ridiculous to dress a clown in purple C. conceits are always misleading D. true wit is best set in a plain style
37. The following playwrights brought about Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20century except___.
A. W.B. Yeats B. J.M.Synge
C. George Bernald Shaw D. Lady Gregory
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38. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from___.
A. the Renaissance B. the Old Testament C. Greek Mythology 39. It is on his _______that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested. A. tales about America European tours
40. ____is the most ambivalent writers in the American literary history. A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Walt Whitman
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Mark Twain
B. early poetry C. Childhood recollections D. Sketches about his
D. the New Testament
41. The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A. John Galsworthy’s B. Thomas Hardy’s C. D.H. Lawrence’s D. Charles Dicken’s 42. “Every day, every hour, brought to him one more little stroke of her nature, and to her one more of his”, the sentence is found in_____ A. Middlemarch by George Eliot C. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
B. Tess by Thomas Hardy
D. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
43. In _____, Tennyson dealt with the theme of women’s rights and positions A. The Princess B. Memorial
C. Idylls of the King
D. Poems
44. Jane Austen’s first novel is_____ A. Pride and Prejudice
B. Sense and Sensibility
C. Emma D. Plan of a novel
45. _____’s history plays are mainly written under the principle that national unity under a mighty and just sovereign is a necessity. A. Spenser
B. Marlowe
C. Shakespeare D.Donne
46. Leopold Bloom is the symbol of everyman in the Post-World-War-I Europe. He is a character
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