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《英美文学史》练习题库及答案
1. Write the names of the authors of the following literary works.
1)Pamela
2)Joph Andrews
3)The School for Scandal
4)Dictionary
5)Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
6)Songs of Innocence
7) A Red, Red Ro
8)Lyrical Ballads
9)Kubla Khan
10)Poems
11)Ivanhoe
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13)Jane Eyre
14)Wuthering Heights
15)Middlemarch
16)Treasure Island
17)Salome
18)The Forsyte Saga
19)The Return of the Native
20)Mrs. Warren’s Profession
21)Sailing to Byzantium
22)The Rainbow
23)To the Lighthou
24)Dombey and Son
25)Queen Mab: A philosophical Poem
26)The Jew of Malta
27)Gulliver’s Travels
28)Sen and Sensibility
29)Jonathan Wild
30)T ess of D’Urbervilles
31)King Lear
32)Don Juan
33)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
34)The Shepherd’s Calendar
35)The Rape of the Lock
36)The Rivals
37)The Mill on the Floss
38)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
39)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy
40)A Sentimental Journey
41)Ode to the West Wind
42) The Declaration of Independence
43) The Pathfinder
44) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
45) Nature
46) Walden
47) Young Goodman Brown
48) Moby Dick
49) The Black Cat
50) Song of Mylf
51) Captain, My Captain
52) Becau I could stop for Death
53) The Road Not Taken
54) The Fall of the Hou of Usher
55) Uncle Tom’s Cabin
56) The Ri of Silas Lapham
57) The Portrait of a Lady
58) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
59) The Cop and the Anthem
60) The Sea Wolf
61) The Red Badge of Courage
62) The Pit
63) Sister Carrie
64) In a Station of the Metro
65) The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Let ter
66) Anecdote of the Jar
67) Chicago
68) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
69) The Grapes of Wrath
70) The Great Gatsby
71) The Sound and the Fury
72) The Old Man and the Sea
73) The Hairy Ape
74) Death of a Salesman
75) A Ro for Emily
76) The Hollow Men
77) The Song of Hiawatha
78) Of Mice and Men
79) The Gilded Age
80) U.S.A
2. Choo the right answer.
1. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?
A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.
B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.
C. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man’s foibles.
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D. Prai of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.
2. It is ___ alone who, for the first time in English literature prented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A. Edmund Spenr
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. William Shakespeare
D. John Donne
3.The following belong to the characteristics of ’metaphysical poetry’ reprented by ’John Donne’ except___.
A. Conceits
B. Actual imagery and simple diction
C. Argumentative form
D. Elegant style
4. Paradi Lost is actually a story taken from____.
A. Greek Mythology
B. Roman legend
C. The Old Testament
D. The New Testament
5. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” t hriller and a ‘philosophical exploration’ of life and death.
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. Hamlet
C. King Lear
D.The Winter’s Tale
6. It was ___and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the ri and growth of English literature.
A. Anglos/ Saxons
B. Normans/ Anglo-Saxons
C. Romans/ Normans
D. Greeks/ Romans
7. Marlow’s greatest achievement is that he perfected the ’blank ver’, and he is regarded as ’the pioneer of English drama’, which of the following is not written by him?
A. Tamburlaine
B. The Jew of Malta
C. The Passionate to His Love
D. The Sun Rising
8. ____Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English pro.
A. John Milton’s
B. Francis Bacon’s
C. Montaigne’s
D. Thomas Gray’s
9. _____Was known as “the poets’ poet”.
A. William Shakespeare
B. Edmund Spenr
C. John Donne
D. John Milton
10. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden had successfully ud in his plays.
A. the heroic couplet
B. the free ver
C. the blank ver
D. the Spenrian stanza
11. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.
A. Genesis A
B. The Holy War
C. The Pilgrims progress
D. Exodus
12.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson’s language style?
A. His ntences are long and well structured.
B. His ntences are interwoven with parallel words.
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C. He tends to u informal and colloquial words.
D. His ntences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expresd.
13. ____has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
A. John Bunyan
B. Henry Fielding
C. Daniel Defoe
D. Jonathan Swift
14. ____was the only important dramatist of the 18th century, in his plays, morality is the constant theme.
A. Alexander Pope
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Samuel Johnson
D. George Bernard Shaw
15. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter Scott.顾全大局
A. Washington Irving
B. Jane Austen
有什么好看的书C. Herman Melville
D. Charles Dickens
16. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men," and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."
A. William Blake
B. William Wordsworth
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge彩虹画
D. John Keats
17. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.
A. love
B. man
C. nature
D. death
18. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.
A. pro
B. poetry
C. fiction
D. play
歪脑袋木头桩读后感19. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.
A. Wordsworth
B. Austen
C. Byron
D. Keats
20. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?
知柏地黄丸副作用A. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.
B. Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".
C. Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.
D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.
21. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________.
A.1660-----1798
B.1798----1832
C.1483-----1546
D.1836-----1901
22. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?
A. Shelly’s Prometheus Unbound
B. Keats’ Lamia
C. Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein
D. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
23. Chronologically the Victorian refers to__________.
A.1798---1832
B.1836---1901
C. the Romantic period
D. the Neoclassical Period
24. ____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of ‘nature”, both inside and outside.
A. Charles Dickens
B. Thomas hardy
C. Bernard Shaw
D.T.S. Eliot
25. “Self-conceited”, “cruel” and “tyrannical” are m ost likely the names of the character in______.
A. Robert Browning’s ‘My Last Duchess’
B. Christopher Marlowe’s ‘Dr. Faustus’
C. Shakespeare’s Love’s ‘Labor’s lost’
D. Sheridan’s ‘The School for Scandal’
26. Robert Browning’s style is_______.
A. identical with that of the other Victorian
B. similar to that of Tennyson
C. perfectly artistic
D. rough and disproportionate in appearance
27.According to D.H. Lawrence, _____was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”.
A. George Eliot
B. Thomas Hardy
C. Charles Dickens
D.T.S. Eliot
28. Which of the following description of Thomas Hardy is wrong?
A. Most of his novels are t in Wesx.
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles is one of the most reprentative of him as both a naturalistic and a critical realist writer.
C. Among Hardy’s major works, Under the Greenwood Tree is the most cheerful and idyllic.
D. From The Mayor of Casterbridge on, the tragic n becomes the keynote of his novels.
29. Charlotte’s works are famous for the depiction of the life of the middle-class working women, particularly________.
A. governess
B. clerks C .baby-sitters D. managers
30. The three trilogies of _____ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.
A. D. H. Lawrence’s
B. John Galsworthy’s
C. James Joyce’s
D. Thomas Hardy’s
