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英美文学选读模拟试题
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英美文学选读模拟试题第二套
I Mulitple choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）
I Mulitple choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）
1. which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the
characteristics of Renaissance ？
A. Exaltation of the man's pursuit of happiness in this
life .
B. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture
.
C. Tolerance of human foibles
D. Praise of man's efforts in having his soul delivered
.
2. The most significant intellectual movement of the
Renaissance was __________ .
A. the Reformation
B. humanism
C. the Italian revival
D. geographical explorations
3.What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet
？
A. Cousins
B. Uncle and nephew .
C. Father-in-law and son-in-law .
D. Father and son .
4. Which of the following plays does not belong to
Shakespeare's great tragedies ？
A. Romeo and Juliet
B. King Lear
C. Hamlet
D. Macbeth
5. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not ture
？
A. It is the age of translation .
B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution .
C. It is the age of exploration .
D. It is the age of the protestant reformation .
6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for _______ .
A. chastity
B. holiness
C. truth
D. error
7. In Hamlet's soliloquy ， when he says ， “ To sleep ，
perchance to dream ： ——ay， there's the rub . ” What is the
primarily thinking about ？
A.The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him
.
B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep ， then
perhaps after death we have bad dreams .
C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude ， whose guilty dreams
he would like to know .
D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take
vengeful action .
8. __________ first made blank verse the principle
instrument of English drama .
A. Shakespeare
B. Wyatt
C. Sidney
D. Marlowe
9. “ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ” is an
example of ______ .
A. allegory
B. simile
C. metaphor
D. irony
10. In “ Not on thy sole ， but on thy soul ， harsh Jew
， / Thou mak'st thy knife keen ” ， Gratiano （ a character in
The Merchant of Venice ） uses a rhetorical device called
____.
A. hyperbole
B. homonym
C. paradox
D. pun
11. In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his
skillful blending of religious and historical ________ with
chivalric _________ .
A. symbolism …… lyricism
B. allegory …… romance
C. elegy …… narrative
D. personification …… irony
12. Milton's paradise Lost took its material from ______
.
A. the Bible
B. Greek myth
C. Roman myth
D. French romance
B. Greek myth
C. Roman myth
D. French romance
13. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays
except _______ .
A. Tamburlaine the Great
B. The Jew or Malta
C. Cymbeline
D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
B. The Jew or Malta
C. Cymbeline
D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
14. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a
comedy ？
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. A Midsummer Night's Dream
C. As you like It
D. Romeo and Juliet
B. A Midsummer Night's Dream
C. As you like It
D. Romeo and Juliet
15. _______ is the most common foot in English poetry
.
A. The iamb
B. The anapest
C. The trochee
D. The dactyl
B. The anapest
C. The trochee
D. The dactyl
16. “ In a dream vision ， Arthur witnessed the
loveliness of Gloriana ， and upon awakening resolves to seek her .
” The two literary figures “ Arthur ” and “ Gloriana ” are
from ____ .
A. The Fairie Queene
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Dr. Faustus
D. Paradise Lost
17. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， William Shakespeare _______
.
A. meditates on man's mortality
B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation
C. satirizes human vanity
D. presents a dream vision
18. The 18th century witnessed that in England there
appeared two political parties ____， which were satirized by Swift
in his “ Gulliver's Travels . ”
A. the whigs and Tories
B. the Senate and the House of Representative
C. the upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
19 . __________ compiled the “ the Dictionary of the
English language ” which became the foundation of all the
subsequent English dictionaries .
A. Ben Johnson
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
B. Samuel Johnson
C. Alexander Pope
D. John Dryden
20. The publication of “___________” marked the
beginning of Romantic Age .
A. Don Juan
B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab
B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. The Lyrical Ballads
D. Queen Mab
21. In 1850 ， Wordsworth completed a long
autobiographical poem entitled “________” .
A. Biographic literaria
B. The Prelude
C. Lucy poems
D. The Lyrical Ballads
B. The Prelude
C. Lucy poems
D. The Lyrical Ballads
22. Which is Shelley's masterpiece ？
A. Queen Mab
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Prometheus Bound
D. The Revolt of Isiam
B. Prometheus Unbound
C. Prometheus Bound
D. The Revolt of Isiam
23. Which is Shelley's work of literary criticism ？
A. An Essay on criticism
B. A Defence of Poetry
C. On the Necessity of Atheism
D. Of Studies
C. On the Necessity of Atheism
D. Of Studies
24. In the 19th century English literature ， a new
literary trend _____ appeared And it flourished in the forties and
in the early fifties .
A.romantism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
B. naturalism
C. realism
D. critical realism
25. The greatest English critical realist novelist was
_____ ， who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the
misery of the common people .
A. william Makepeace Thackeray
B. Charles Dickens
C. charlotte Bronte
D. Emily Dickinson
B. Charles Dickens
C. charlotte Bronte
D. Emily Dickinson
26. ______ was a critical realist and also a severe
exposer of contemporary society . His novels ， such as “ Vanity
Fair ” ， are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of
society .
A. George Eliot
B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. William Makepeace Thackeray
B. Elizabeth Gaskell
C. William Makepeace Thackeray
D. John Bunyan
27. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background
of the novel “_______” .
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Great Expectations
C. Hard Times
D. David Copperfield
28. “________ ” is often regarded as the
semiautobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of
the hero is largely based on the author's early life .
A. Tom Jones
B. David Copperfiels
C. Oliver Twist
D. Great Expectation
29. Which is Thackeray's masterpiece ？
A. The virginians
B. Vanity Fair
C. The Books of Snobs
D. The Newcomes
30.The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair” was taken from
Bunyan's masterpiece “_________”。
A. The Dilgrim's Progress
B. Child Harold's Pilgrimage
C. Gulliver's Travels
D. The Canterbury Tales
31. Of all the following issues ， ______ is definitely
NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary
history .
A. Puritan morality
B. human bestiality
C. noble savages
D. divinity of man
32. Henry David Thoreau's work ， ______ ， has always
been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental
Movement .
A. Walden
B. The pioneers
C. Nature
D. “ Song of Myself ”
33. “ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your
own mind ” is a famous quote from ______'s writings .
A. Walt Whitman
B. Henry David Thoreau
C. Herman Melville
D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
34. The famous 20 -year sleep in “ Rip Van Winkle ”
helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly
affected by Irving's _______ .
A. involvement with the passage of time
B. transient beauty
C. laziness and corruptibility of human beings .
D. supernatural manipulation of man's life
B. transient beauty
C. laziness and corruptibility of human beings .
D. supernatural manipulation of man's life
35. According to Emerson ， man's capacity is _______
.
A. ambiguous
B. limited
C. infinite
D. subsidiary to god
B. limited
C. infinite
D. subsidiary to god
36. Moby Dick ， the big white whale ， is possibly read
as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT _________ .
A. malignancy
B. beauty
C.adultery
D. God
B. beauty
C.adultery
D. God
37.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne ， romance should be
_______ .
A. both imaginative and creative
B. full of adventures
C. a true record of human life
D. a mixture of facts and fancy
38. Which of the following is NOT emphasized by the New
England Transcendentalism ？
A. Nature is not purely of matter ， but alive with God's
overwhelming presence .
B. Individual human beings are depraved ， hence they
should be improved .
C. Material economy is good for spiritual wealth .
D. In every single human being there dwells the divine
spirit .
39. The pink ribbon appears three times in respectively
three places in “ Young Goodman Brown”， which might possibly
suggest that ______ .
A. Goodman Brown's night trial in the forest might be an
illusion .
B. Faith is seen to be there with Brown at the witch
meeting .
C. Hawthorne uses it as an indication of Brown's physical
pressence in the forest .
D. the pink ribbon is not Faith's
40. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry
. His innovation first of all lies in his use of _____ ， poetry
without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme .
A. blank verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
http://bear1415926535.blogspot.com/ 40. Walt Whitman was a founding
figure of American poetry . His innovation first of all lies in his
use of _____ ， poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme
.
A. blank verse
B. heroic couplet
C. free verse
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