英美文学练习
PART ONE (40 POINTS)
I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or
completes the statement. Mark your choice by blackening the corresponding letter A,
B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. The work that presented, for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive
realis-tic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid
charac-ters from all walks of life is most likely _B_____.
A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The
Canterbury Tales
C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe' s The Tragic
Histo-ry of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ___A___.
A. man is confined to time
B. he tried to join Africa to Spain
C.
he became a man without soul after he sold it
D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for the breaking - up
of the Trojan War
3. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day?" is the beginning line of
one of Shakespeare) s __C____.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from B
A. the Renaissance
B. the Old Testament
C. Greek
Mythology                      D. the New Testament
5.Spenser' s masterpiece __A____ is a great poem of its time.
A.The Faerie Queene
B. The Shepheardes Calender
C.The
Canterbury Talks                D. Metamorphoses
6.___C__ is the essence of the Renaissance.
A.Poetry
B. Drama
C.Humanism
D. Reason
7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe,
William Shakespeare and ___C___.
A.John Milton
B. John Marlowe
C.Ben
Jonson                          D. Edmund Spenser
8.“To be, or not to be—that is the question” is a line taken from __A____.
A.Hamlet
B. Othello              c.king Lear
D. The Merchant of Venice
9.Francis Bacon' s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ___C___.
Aplicity
B. complexity
C.powerfulness
D. mildness
10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ___A___.
A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees
literature as an expression of an individual? s feeling and experiences
B.the former is heavily religious but the latter secular
C.the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the mid-
dle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultiva-tion
D.the former advocates the "return to nature" whereas the latter turns to the ancient
Greek and Roman writers for its models
11.Dmiel Defoe describes __D____ as a typical English Middle - class man of the
eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
A. Tom Jones
B. Gulliver
C.Moll
Flanders                        D. Robinson Crusoe
12.__A__ is a typical feature of Swift' s writings.
A. Bitter satire
B. Elegant style
C.Casual narration
D. Complicated sentence structure
13.The  Pilgrim' s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the
search  for___B___.
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal
truth                          D. self – fulfillment
14.Alexander  Pope  strongly  advocated      D    ,emphasizing  that  literary
works  should be judged  by  rules  of  order, reason, logic, restrained emotion,
good  taste and deco-rum.
A. Sentimentalism
B. Romanticism
C.
Idealism                                  D. Neoclassicism
15. "Metaphysical poetry" refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote
un-der the influence of ___A___.
A. John Donne
B. Alexander Pope
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Milton
16. It is generally regarded that Keats9 s most important and mature poems are in the
form of___A___.
A. ode
B. elegy
C.
epic                                      D. sonnet
17. ___A___ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______
as his encyclopedia - like masterpiece.
A. James Joyce, Ulysses
B. E. M. Foster, A Passage to India
C.
D. H.
Lawrence, Sons and Lovers        D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
18. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry? A
A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
C. "Remorse" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
19. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the
Roman-tic Period is ___D___.
A. prose
B. drama
C. novel
D. poetry
20. Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of
the 20th century English poetry? D
A. Poems 1909 - 1925
B. The Hollow Man
C.
Prufrock and Other Observations          D. The Waste Land
21. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning' s ____D__.
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B. excellent choice of
words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue
22. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of___A___ and pathos.
A. humor
B. satire
C. passion
D. metaphor
23. Walt Whitman, whose ___A___ established him as the most popular American
poet of the 19th century.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Go Down, Moses
C. The
Marble Faun                        D. As I Lay Dying
24.        has always been regarded as a writer who“perfected the best classic style
that American Literature ever produced.” D
A. Edgar Ellen Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Washington Irving
25.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of
American lit-erature , stretches from the end of __ to the outbreak of __B___.
A. the 17th century … the American War of Independence
B. the 18th
century … the American Civil War
C. the 17th century… the American Civil War
D. the 18th
century…the U. S. -Mexican War
26.Which one of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism? D
A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
B. It can be defined philosophically as "the recognition in man of the capacity of
knowing truth intuitively".
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement.
D. It sprang from South America in the late 19th century.
27.The theme of Washington Irving' s Rip Van Winkle is ____D__.
A. the conflict of human psyche
B. the fight against racial discrimination
C. the
familial conflict        D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
28.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was __C____, Emerson' s
first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of
New England Transcendentalism.
A. The American Scholar
B. Self-reliance
C. Nature
D. The Over-Soul
29.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of
man's being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses  B
A. love and hatred
B. sin and evil
C.
frustration and self - denial                D. balance and self - discipline
30.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown' s wife is
____C__, which also contains many symbolic meanings.
A. Ruth
B. Hester
C. Faith
D. Mary
31.Which one of the following statements might be true of the theme of Song of
Myself by Whitman?
A. This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the world around him
and improved himself accordingly. D
B. This poem shows the author' s cynical sentiments against the American Civil War.
C. This poem reflects the author' s belief in Unitarianism or Deism.
D. This poem reflects the author' s belief in the singularity and equality of all beings
in value.
32.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes        A        for Melville, for it is
complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful as well..
A. nature
B. human society
C.
whaling industry                        D. truth
33. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias
towards ro-mance and  self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ___B__.
A. Cynicism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Neo - Classicalism
34. Hemingway once described Mark Twain9 s novel ___A___ the one book from
which "all modem American literature comes. "
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
35. ____C__ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th – century“ stream - of
-consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A.Theodore Dreiser
B. William Faulkner
C.
Henry James                        D. Mark Twain
36. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her
poetry? B
A. She remained unmarried all her life.reaction paper to metaphor
B. She wrote 1,775 poems, and most
of them were published during her life time.
C. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first lines.
D. Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power of her creativity
and imagination.
37. As a genre, naturalism emphasized ___B___ as important deterministic forces
sha-ping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circum-
stances.
A. theological doctrines
B. heredity and environment
C. education and hard
work      D. various opportunities and economic success
38. Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the "____A__" , was one of the most
important poets in his time.
A. Imagist Movement
B. Cubist Movement
C. Reformist
Movement                  D. Transcendentalist Movement
39. Eugene 0 ' Neill' s first full - length play, ____D__, won him the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and death, the interaction of subjective and objective factors.
A. Bound East for Cardiff
B. The Hairy Ape
C. Desire Under
the Elms                D. Beyond the Horizon
40. Hemingway' s "Indian Camp" is one of the fourteen short stories collected under
the title of ___D___. This title is very ironic because there is no peace at all in the sto-ries.
A. Three Stories and Ten Poems
B. Across the River and into the Trees
C. The Green Hills of Africa
D. In Our Time

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