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2014-2015-2 英美文学选读复习题

1 The only organic whole poem to come out of the Anglo-Saxon period is____A_______, an epic of well over 3,000 lines. It is important as the first major English poem and the greatest work of literature of the period.

A)Beowulf B) Vision of Piers the Plowman

C) Robin Hood D) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

2 In ______D________, a collection of 20-odd stories, the first preeminent English poet and first-rate story-teller Geoffrey Chaucer portrayed all walks of life, from the upper strata all the way down the ladder to the lower.

A)The Book of Duchess B) The House of Fame

C) Troilus and Criseyde D) The Canterbury Tales

3 ______C____ wrote and published his Utopia in 1516. Utopia offers the best ideal social system possible at the time. Utopia is an imaginary country where democracy replaces tyranny, commonwealth replaces private property, the work ethic is valued and idleness frowned upon, there is no distinction between the rich and the poor, education is free for all, money is abolished and gold and silver depreciated, religious tolerance is enforced and bigotry outlawed, and there is peace and abundance for all.

A)Martin Luther B) Johnannes Calvin C) Thomas More D) Christopher Marlowe

4 Which of the following is NOT the works of Edmund Spenser, the “most poetical”of all poets?D

A)The Shepheardes Calendar B) The Faerie Queene C) Amoretti D) Apologie for Poetrie

5 Which of the following is NOT William Shakespeare’s tragedy?D

A)Hamlet B) Othello C) King Lear D) A Midsummer Night’s Dream

6 In Act 2, Scene 2 of The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Romeo speaks:“But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the _________. ”

A)moon B) sun C) star D) rose

7 Francis Bacon’s _________ is essentially his deliberations on man and his life. It deals with subjects such as truth, love, envy, high position, good nature, riches, ambition, beauty, vainglory learning, and politics and economy. It reveals his intimate knowledge of human nature.

A)Advancement of Learning B) Essays C) Novum Organum D) New Atlantis

8 William Shakespeare was said to have acted a part in _________, Ben Johnson’s first comedy. In the play, many human foibles are satirized: jealousy, undue worry, credulity, and boasting.

A)Volpone or the Fox B) The Shepherd or A Tale of Robin Hood

C) Every Man in His Humour D) The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

9 In 1604 King James I ordered scholars to retranslate the holy book, which took seven years to finish. Thus the most enduring ________ or the Authorized Bible cam into being in 1611. The version has been seen as the authoritative text because it is accurate in sense and beautiful and dignified in language.

A)King James’s Bible B) Old Testament C) New Testament D) The Great Bible

10 John Donne’s poetry possessed a highly idiosyncratic quality that reveals a peculiar, brilliant imagination at work, with an unconventional mode of perception and thinking, and the power of a mind, at once voluptuous and meditative, and capable of leaving an enduring imprint on his readers. His type of poetry has been known as Metaphysical Poetry and the group of poets, sharing some of his poetic features, has been called “_______________”.

A) University Wits B) Metaphysical Poets C) the Romantics D) the Lakers

11 Which of the following is NOT the poems written by John Milton, the third greatest English poet after Chaucer and Shakespeare?

A)“To His Coy Mistress”B) Paradise Lost C) Paradise Regained D) Samson Agonistes

12 ________ has been seen as “the father of English criticism.”

A)James Thomson B) Edward Young C) John Dryden D) George Crabbe

13 John Bunyan’s masterpiece, __________consists of two parts. The first part is generally considered the better of the two, containing as it does the ten stages of the pilgrim’s progress. Part two relates a similar pilgrimage that his wife and his children undertake, which is rather a weak echo of the first. Like a medieval miracle play with vivid and lively personifications of virtues and vices and all the human qualities in between, the book, an allegory, abounding in acute social criticism, was intended to teach people to be faithful to God and win salvation by constantly purging one’s heart of worldly evil. The book has helped upgrade English prose and paved the way for the rise of the modern English novel.

A)The Life and Death of Mr. Badman B) The Pilgrim’s Progress

C) Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners D) Holy War

14 Alexander Pope is always closely linked with ________. This form of writing had been used in fact by such previous masters as Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, and John Dryden. But it attained to perfection only in the 18th century as a result of Pope’s painstaking effort.

A)blank verse B) sonnet C) tercet D) heroic couplet

15 _________ spent seven years compiling the first English dictionary , A Dictionary of the English Language all by himself.

A)John Stuart Mill B) Samuel Johnson C) Cardinal John Henry Newman D)George Meredith

16 Thomas Gray’s famous ________ has always enjoyed wide acclaim as the best work to come out of the 18th century and has been even viewed by some as the best English poem. It started the tradition of graveyard poetry in English and American literature. The general mode is melancholy and meditative. The poem can be roughly subdivided into seven broad sections.

A)“The Bard” B) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard C) “The Progress of Poesy” D) London

17 Oliver Goldsmith was a versatile genius. He wrote in the three genres of poetry, drama and the novel. His novel, ____________ is still read today. It is a sentimental work based on the moral vision of man as innocent and kind.

A)The Vicar of Wakefield B) The Deserted Village C) Clarissa Howe D) She Stoops to Conquer

18 Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s plays The Rivals and ________ are in historical perspective two of the three best comedies to come out of the 18th century, the other being Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer.

A)Prometheus Unbound B) Mrs. Warren’s Profession

C) The School for Scandal D) The Importance of Being Earnest

19 Which of the following is NOT the representatives of English Romantic poetry?

A)William Blake B) Robert Burns C) Alfred Lord Tennyson D) Samuel Taylor Coleridge

20 Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe is a typical ________ tale. First, Robinson is eager for self-discovery, detests comforts, opts for adventure in becoming a sailor, and rebels in youth against his father’s beliefs. Then, he never gives up on life but always feels confident about creating a life for himself. Next, Robinson believes in diligence and the work ethic, laboring from sunrise to sundown, and resourceful and creative with a thinking mind and a skillful pair of hands. Furthermore, initial failure to adapt on the island and reinvent life brings a fresh bout of despair

and urges him to think about the basic questions like the creation of the world and self-identity. He discovers God for himself, and affirms his faith with which he now begins anew his effort to civilize the island on the cultural and moral pattern that he has inherited but has left behind. Thus he goes back to his father’s middle class tenets--simplicity, moderation, and comfort. The novel justifies the whole spirit of the middle class--adventure, self-directing, and colonizing. In the end Robinson becomes a new man, well poised on the verge of building a middle class democracy at home and looking forward to establishing an empire abroad. He is the prototype of the aggressive British beginning to envision the blueprint for the British Empire.

A)Puritan B) romantic C) sentimental D) Catholic

21 Laurence Sterne is remembered for his originality and his daring to break new ground. Charles Dickens felt deeply impressed by Sterne’s fictions’major features such as their themes of grotesque goodness, sweet humility, sensitive humanity, their boisterous humor, and idiosyncratic discursiveness. Sterne’s major works include The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, and ___________.

A)The Adventures of Roderick Random B) A Tale of Two Cities

C) Great Expectations D) A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick

22 You may have met the term “Yahoo” on the internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ____________.

A)Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels B) John Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress

C) Samuel Richardson’s Pamela D) Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

23 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge anonymously published a volume of verse, Lyrical Ballads, a monumental work in the history of English poetry. In “The Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, Wordsworth said, “...poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful__________: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility”

A)strength B) feelings C) will D) intention

24 The lines, “For oft, when on my couch I lie/In vacant or in pensive mood,/They flash upon that inward eye/Which is the bliss of solitude;/And then my heart with pleasure fills,/And dances with the daffodils.” are found in___________.

A)Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

B)William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

C)John Keats’s “To Autumn”

D)Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “To a Sky Lark”

25 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a great poet and also a philosopher and a seminal critic, spoke ahead of his time on more than one subject. For example, his “Kubla Khan” is actually not about the Mogolian Khan at all. It is really bout the mystery of poetic creation. The king that Coleridge has in mind is not the Khan but the perfect poet, and the beautiful garden, the grand palace, that the Khan decrees to build, is in fact the poet’s idea of a perfect _________.

A)world B) universe C) nature D) poem

26 Walter Scott wrote poetry in the early phase of his career and became the most widely read poet of his day. But his chief achievement was the 20-odd fictions he wrote, which have given him a unique place in literary history. They marked the advent of the genre of the __________.

A)historical novel B) realistic novel C) romantic novel D) Gothic novel

27 Jane Austen is the author of all the following novels except______.

A)Sense and Sensibility B) Pride and Prejudice C) Hard Times D)Emma

28 In the first chapter of Jane Austen’s last complete novel Persuasion, Austen humorously depicts Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall as: “Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could _______ the of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliot, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and dev otion.”

A)son B) daughter C) valet D) father

29 The younger romantics formed a separate group from the older ones, or the Lakers. They have been called by some people “the Satanic School.” The label is good for the rebellious ______ and Shelley who looked as if they were setting out to upset the system. It is not quite appropriate for the quite Keats who did not constitute a threat to the existing order but simply sought the muse in the ancient world of myths. The three young poets were all young, brilliant, endowed with an unusual gift, and wrote to leave a rich legacy behind and left the scene almost as soon as they came. Associated with the group was a young woman author, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, daughter of the socialist thinker William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft--the vociferous first-generation feminist in English history. Mary Shelley deserves mention for her work, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a horror story.

A)Burns B) Blake C) Scott D) Byron

30 In the first stanza of Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”, Shelley wrote, “...Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; /Destroyer and ________; hear, O hear!”

A)Protector B) Preserver C) Sinner D) Warrior

31 In the fourth stanza of Keat’s masterwork “Ode to a Nightingale”, Keats wrote, “Away! away! for I will fly to thee, /Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards, /But on the viewless wings of Poesy, /Though the dull brain perplexes and retards: /Already with thee! tender is the_____, /And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne, /Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays /But here there is no light, /Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown /Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways.”

A)wind B) leaf C) moon D) night

32 Victorian prose was rich and varied. In no other period were so many great writers writing so mush such powerful and exquisite prose at the same time. These included, scientists like Charles Darwin and Thomas Huxley, philosophers such as Jeremy Bentham, James Mill and John Stuart Mill, ___________ such as Thomas Macaulay and Thomas Carlyle, and a whole group of religious people associated with the Oxford Movement.

A)farmers B) historians C) critics D) politicians

33 Charles Dickens’world is almost Shakespearean. Dickens’ province is the whole of English society of his time. It is a world thronged with the diverse specimens of humanity. It is a world where the readers can get a bird’s-eye view of the panorama of English life then. All the different decades overarching the whole historical period of his creative life get their share of description and offer a historical backdrop for his writings. The mood of Hard Times covers all the Victorian age. A Tale of Two Cities is set in the time of the ___________.

A) 1840s B) 1850s C) French Revolution D) 1860s

34 William Makepeace Thackeray’s classic, ________ tells the story of two major characters

Rebecca (Becky) Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

A)Vanity Fair B) Jane Eyre C) Wuthering Heights D) The Mill on the Floss

35 Thomas Hardy was a prolific writer, but he has been best remembered and valued for the six novels--Under the Greenwood Tree, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Return of the Native, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Tess of the D’Urbervilles, and Jude the Obscure. The stories are all set in the fictional southern England region that Hardy named ______.

A)Wessex B) Weessex C) Wesex D) Weseex

36 The work on which Alfred Lord Tennyson spent over half century writing , _______, was one of the three major epics to come out of Victorian period, the other two being Robert Browning’s The Ring and the Book and Gerard Manley Hopkin’s The Wreck of the Deutschland.

A)The Princess B) In Memoriam C) The Scholar Gypsy D) The Idylls of the King

37 George Bernard Shaw was a highly prolific writer. He wrote some 60 plays. In more than one way he exerted a very wholesome influence on the different phases of the development of 20th century English drama. Which of the following is NOT the most famous plays of Shaw?

A)Pygmalion B) Salome C) Arms and the Man D) Man and Superman

38 James Joyce was born into a declining Irish middle class family. Although he believed that a true artist had to go into self-exile, Joyce wrote about his native_____ all his life. He felt adamant that universality inheres in particularity.

A)London B) New York C) Dublin D) Paris

39 The major theme of D. H. Lawrence is love. His autobiographical Sons and Lovers treats of a mother’s dominant and debilitating love over the ______.

A)daughters B) sons C) money D) work

40 In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the allusion to Helen and the Trojan War?

A)“Sailing to Byzantium”B) “Leda and the Swan”

C) “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”D) “The Second Coming”

41 T. S. Eliot composed ___________, a desperate struggle to attain salvation , in the autumn of 1921.

A)“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”B) “Hollow Man”

C) Four Quartets D) The Waste Land

42 George Orwell’s anti-tyranny stance is best illustrated in his __________. The tyrant here is known as “Big Brother”.

A)Nineteen Eighty-Four B) Animal Farm

C) Brave the New World D) Lady Chatterley’s Lover

43 Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards represent the paradox of Puritan materialism and immateriality. Between them they represent the whole of the __________ mind of America.

A)realistic B) romantic C) colonial D) natural

44 In Part Two of The Autobiography, Benjamin Franklin wrote, “...These Names of Virtues with their Precepts were.... 2.Silence. Speak not but what may benefit others or your self. Avoid trifling ________ ....”

A)Talk B) Dialogue C) Conversation D) Communication

45 ______ was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame.

A)James Fenimore Cooper B) Washington Irving C) Nathaniel Hawthorne D) Herman Melville

46 James Fenimore Cooper was best known in his own day and is still read and remembered today

as the author of the “_______ Tales”, a series of five novels about the frontier life of American settlers.

A)Hawk-Eye B) Pathfinder C) Deerslayer D) Leatherstocking

47 Ralph Waldo Emerson’s call for an independent culture in both Nature and “The American Scholar” played a very important part in the intellectual history of America. __________ has been regarded as “America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.

A)“Wealth”B) “The American Scholar”C) “The Poet”D) “Power”

48 Henry David Thoreau’s masterpiece, ________, is a great Transcendentalist work. Thoreau saw nature as a genuine restorative, healthy influence on man’s spiritual well-being, and regarded it as a symbol of the spirit. He tried to seek a way to unlock the secrets of the spirit.

A)Walden B) Nature C) the Dial D) A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

49 At the beginning of Henry David Thoreau’s famous essay, “Civil Disobedience”, he wrote:

I HEARTIL Y ACCEPT THE motto,—“That government is best which governs least;”and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe,—“That government is best which governs ______ ;”and when men are prepared for it, that will be the kind of government which they will have.

A)everything B) not at all C) the country well D) naturally

50 ________ suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritan moralism. It shows Nathaniel Hawthorne, the literary artist, at his best. In craftsmanship perhaps only The Great Gatsby can touch it in American literature.

A)Moby Dick B) “The Raven”C) Daisy Miller D) The Scarlet Letter

51 In his “ONE’S-SELF I SING” from Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman wrote: “One’s-self I sing,

a simple separate person, /Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. /Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, /The Female equally with the Male I sing. /Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, /Cheerful, for freest action form’d under the laws divine, /The Modern ____ I sing.”

A)Man B) man C) men D)Men

52 Which of the following writers is not a novelist?

A)Emily Dickinson B) Emily Bronte C) Charles Dickens D) Edgar Allan Poe

53 The Imagist poem “In a Station of the Metro” was written by________.

A)T. S. Eliot B) Wallace Stevens C) Ezra Pound D) William Carlos Williams

54 ______________ is Ernest Hemingway’s masterwork.

A)The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B) The Old Man and the Sea

C) The Great Gatsby D) Sister Carrie

55 Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, the first uncompromising naturalistic novel in America, The Red Badge of Courage, one of greatest war novels, and short story “The Open Boat” were written by __________.

A)Frank Norris B) Theodore Dreiser C) Jack London D) Stephen Crane

56 Which of the following novels can NOT be regarded as masterpieces of William Faulkner?

A)The Sound and the Fury B) Absalom, Absalom! C) Go Down, Moses D) The Grapes of Wrath

57 Who is NOT one of the greatest American dramatists?

A)Eugene O’Neill B) Tennessee Williams C) Robert Frost D) Arthur Miller

58 Which of the following can be regarded as the representative work of “Beat” literature?

A)Saul Bellow’s Herzog B) Allen Ginsberg’s Howl

C) Sinclair Lewis’Main Street D) John Dos Passos’U.S.A.

59 Which of the following statements is NOT correct?

A)J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye has been definitely a very influential book to come out of the postwar period.

B)John Updike is best known for his “Rabbit” pentalogy: Rabbit, Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest, and Licks of Love.

C)The best ingredients of an Flannery O’Connor story converge in his most famous work “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”.

D)Joseph Heller’s Catch-22was the first book in America to treat the absurdist theme with absurdist techniques.

60 Vladimir Nabokov’s best known novels include Dar, or the Gift, ____________ and Pale Fire.

A)Lolita B) One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest C) Slaughterhouse-Five D) Invisible Man

Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “Self-Reliance”

An effective essay will contain a minimum of 300 words. Your essay will be judged on the quality of your writing. This includes the development of your ideas, the organization of your essay, and the quality and accuracy of the language you use to express your idea.

An excellent essay largely accomplishes all of the following:

1 effectively addresses the topic

2 is well organized and well developed, using clearly appropriate explanations, exemplifications, and /or details

3 displays unity, progression, and coherence

4 displays consistent facility in the use of language, demonstrating syntactic variety, appropriate word choice, and idiomaticity, though it may have minor lexical or grammatical errors.

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