《英国文学史及选读》试题(二)

英国文学史及选读试卷

Ⅰ.Multiple choice（40 points, 2 for each）

1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first

time in the history of English Literature.

A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. George Gordon Byron

C. Edmund SpenderD. Robert Browning

2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?

A. MacbethB. Henry IV

C. Romeo and JulietD. King Lear

3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel,

________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.

A. Henry FieldingB. Daniel Defoe

C. John BunyanD. James Joyce

4. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;

Petals on a wet, black bough. “

4. These two lines are quoted from ________'s poem?

A. Emily DickinsonB. Robert Frost

C. Ezra PoundD. William B. Yeats

5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social

setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.

A. late 19th –centuryB. 17th -century

C. 20th –centuryD. late 18th -century

6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that

concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of

her poetic expression?

A. Life and DeathB. Religion

C. Love and NatureD. War and Peace

7. Walden is a ________. A. Transcendentalist workB. epic in prose

C. lyric poemD. short story

8. Henry James' realism is different from others, because he pays more attention

to ________.

A. the traditional styleB. the common people

C. the inner world of human beingsD. the class struggle

9. ________ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.

A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocents Abroad

C. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10. At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed

description of Emily's old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the

person living in it ________.

A. is a wealthy ladyB. is a conservative aristocrat

C. is a prisoner of the pastD. has good taste

11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.

A. Eugene O'NeillB. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Ernest HemingwayD. William Faulkner

12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?

A. VernacularB. Elegant

C. ColloquialD. Humorous

13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken's works lies in his

________.

A. social criticismB. optimism

C. character－portrayalD. social setting

14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to

introduce ________ to England.

A. rationalismB. romanticism

C. criticismD. realism

15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.

A. AdonaisB. To a Skylark C. A Song: Men of EnglandD. Prometheus Unbound

16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.

A. playsB. novels

C.poemsD. essays

17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte

Sisters?

A. Mary BronteB. Charlotte Bronte

C. Emily BronteD. Anne Bronte

18. “Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural

philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in

mores. ” This sentence appears in ________.

A. The Advancement of LearningB. A Dictionary of the English Language

C. An Essay on CriticismD. Of Studies

19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?

A.aristocratic classB. enterprising landlords

C. rising bourgeoisieD. hard-working people

20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?

A. Paradise LostB. Paradise Regained

C. AdonaisD. Llycidas

II Fill in the following blanks:( 20points, 2 for each )

1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall

of______in a grand style.

2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the

______ novel.

3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as

"the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of

the modern novel.

4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth

century.In his plays,morality is the constant theme. 5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first

used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.

6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of

decadence in the late 19th century.

7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form

of_______and dream.