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07年4月 《英美文学选读》客观题及参考答案
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07年4月 《英美文学选读》
客观题及参考答案
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 realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole
gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.
A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman
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 realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole
gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely ______.
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 History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ______.
A. man is confined to time
2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christopher Marlowe' s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very fact that ______.
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 ______.
A. comedies
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 ______.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from
A. the Renaissance
4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from
A. the Renaissance
B. the Old Testament
C. Greek Mythology
D. the New Testament
5.Spenser' s masterpiece ______ is a great poem of its time.
A.The Faerie Queene
5.Spenser' s masterpiece ______ is a great poem of its time.
A.The Faerie Queene
B. The Shepheardes Calender
C.The Canterbury Talks
D. Metamorphoses
6._____ is the essence of the Renaissance.
A.Poetry
6._____ 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 ______.
A.John Milton
7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______.
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.Hamlet
8.“To be, or not to be—that is the question” is a line taken from ______.
A.Hamlet
B. Othello
c.king Lear
D. The Merchant of Venice
9.Francis Bacon' s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______.
A.complicity
9.Francis Bacon' s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and ______.
A.complicity
B. complexity
C.powerfulness
D. mildness
10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.
A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual? s feeling and experiences
10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______.
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 middle class for political
rights while the latter is concerned with the personal
cultivation
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 ______ 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
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 ______ 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.____ is a typical feature of Swift' s writings.
A. Bitter satire
12.____ 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______.
A. material wealth
13.The
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self – fulfillment
14.Alexander Pope
strongly advocated, emphasizing that
literary
works should be judged
by rules of order,
reason, logic, restrained
emotion, good taste and decorum.
A. Sentimentalism
14.Alexander
emotion, good
A. Sentimentalism
B. Romanticism
C. Idealism
D. Neoclassicism
15. "Metaphysical poetry" refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of ______.
A. John Donne
15. "Metaphysical poetry" refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of ______.
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. ode
16. It is generally regarded that Keats9 s most important and mature poems are in the form of______.
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet
17. ______ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______ as his encyclopedia - like masterpiece.
A. James Joyce, Ulysses
17. ______ 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. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
18. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?
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 leridge
C. "Remorse" by Samuel Taylor leridge
D. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
19. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______.
A. prose
19. The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______.
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?
A. Poems 1909 - 1925
20. Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?
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 ______.
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
21. "My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier Robert Browning' s ______.
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______ and pathos.
A. humor
22. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of______ and pathos.
A. humor
B. satire
C. passion
D. metaphor
23. Walt Whitman, whose ______ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A. Leaves of Grass
23. Walt Whitman, whose ______ 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.”
A. Edgar Ellen Poe
24.
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 literature , stretches from the end of __ to the outbreak of _____.
A. the 17th century … the American War of Independence
25.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature , stretches from the end of __ to the outbreak of _____.
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?
A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
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 ______.
A. the conflict of human psyche
27.The theme of Washington Irving' s Rip Van Winkle is ______.
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 ______, Emerson' s first little book, which established him ever since as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. The American Scholar
28.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______, 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
A. love and hatred
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
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 ______, which also contains many symbolic meanings.
A. Ruth
30.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown' s wife is ______, 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.
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.
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 ______ for
Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant, and beautiful
as well..
A. nature
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. nature
B. human society
C. whaling industry
D. truth
33. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating
fictions, and paved the way to _____.
A. Cynicism
33. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and
A. Cynicism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Neo - Classicalism
34. Hemingway once described Mark Twain9 s novel ______ the one book from which "all modem American literature comes. "
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
34. Hemingway once described Mark Twain9 s novel ______ 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. ______ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th – century“ stream - of -consciousness" novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A.Theodore Dreiser
35. ______ 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?
A. She remained unmarried all her life.
36. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Emily Dickinson and her poetry?
A. She remained unmarried all her life.
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 ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. theological doctrines
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 ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.
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 "______" , was one of the most important poets in his time.
A. Imagist Movement
38. Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the "______" , 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, ______, 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
39. Eugene 0 ' Neill' s first full - length play, ______, 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 ______. This title is very ironic because there is no
peace at all in the stories.
A. Three Stories and Ten Poems
40. Hemingway' s "Indian Camp" is one of the fourteen short stories collected under the title of ______. This title is very ironic because there is no
peace at all in the stories.
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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C
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B 37.
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