英美文学选读试卷-
英美文学选读试卷
A. Each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. Choo the one that would bet complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.(每小题1分，共30分)
1. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and _______ centuries.
A. id-17th
B. id-18th
C. id-18th
D. id-17th
2. _______ frequently applied conceits in his poems.
A. Spenr
B. Donne
C. Blake
D. Thomas Gray
3. _______ is known as "the poet's poet".
A. Shakespeare
B. Marlowe
C. Spenr
D. Donne
4. The 18th century England is known as the ______ in the history.
A. Renaissance
B. Classicism
C. Enlightenment
D. Romanticism
5. ________ and William Shakespeare are the best reprentatives of the English humanism.
A. Edmund Spenr, Christoper Marlowe
B. Thomas More, Christoper Marlowe
C. John Donne, Edmund Spenr
D. John Milton, Thomas More
6. The middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary form, that is the modern English ______, which gives a realistic prentation of life of the common English people.
A. pro
B. short story
C. novel
D. tragicomedy
7. _______ is the central concern to Blake's concern in the Song of Innocence and Song of Experience.
A. childhood
B. woman
C. poetry
D. happiness
8. Among the following plays which is not written by Marlowe? _____
A. Dr. Faustus
B. The Jew of Malta
C. Edward II
D. School for scandal
9. Shakespeare's greatest tragedies are _______.
A. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth
B. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet
C. Hamlet, Coriolanus, King Lear and Macbeth
D. Hamlet, Julius caesar, Othello and Macbeth
10. Among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry fielding and _______.
A. Laurance Sterne
B. John Dryden
C. Charles Dickens
D. Alexander Pope
11. Which of the following Gothic novels was not written in the 18th century? ______
A. The Castle of Otranto
B. The Italian
C. The Monk
D. The Fall of the Hou of Usher
12. In the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _______ was the leading
figure among the host of playwrights.
A. William Blake
B. Richard Sheridan
C. Ben Johnson
D. Bernard Shaw
13. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of _______ and pathos.
A. humor
B. satire
C. passion
D. metaphor
14. The success of Jane Eyre is not only becau of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the English novel the first ______ heroine.
A. explorer
B. peasant
C. worker
D. governess
15. In ______ Tennyson dealt with the theme of women's rights and position.
A. Poem
B. The Princess
C. In Memorian
D. Idylls of the King
16. "The Custom-Hou" is an introductory note to ______.
A. Moby-Dick
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithedale Romance
17. The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The Over-Soul
D. The American Scholar
18. "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed" is most probably a poem ______.
A. that celebrates the burgeoning life of cities
B. that sings highly freedom and democracy
C. that condemns violence and bloodshed
D. that mourns for the death of Lincoln
19. _______ is not a dominant figure of the Realistic Period.
A. William Dean Howells
B. Mark Twain
C. Henry James
D. James F. Cooper
20. The book from which "all modern American literature comes" refers to _______.
A. Moby-Dick
B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Sun Also Ris
D. The Great Gatsby
21. Strong affinity to the Chine and Oriental literature can be found in the works of _______.
A. Mark Twain
B. Ezra Pound
C. Emily Dikinson
D. Arthur Miller
22. "In a Station of the Metro" is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of _______.
A. the absurd poetry
B. the transcendental poetry
C. the romantic poetry
D. the imagist poetry
23. The founder of the American drama is _______.
A. Arthur Miller
B. Eugene O'Neill
C. Tennee Williams
D. Clifford Odets
24. F. Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of _______.
A. This Side of Paradi
B. Tender is the Night
C. The Great Gatsby
D. In Our Time
25. _______ is not a fictional character in the Scarlet Letter.
A. Hester
B. Arthur Dimmersdale
C. Roger Chillingworth
D. Ishmael
26. The period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _____.
