英国文学史及选读
《英国文学史及选读》第二册练习题
I. 浪漫主义时期
I. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choo the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.
1. English Romanticism is generally said to have begun with_____in 1798.(A)
A. the publication of Lyrical Ballads
B. the death of Sir Scott
C. the birth of William Wordsworth
D. the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament
2. The Romantic Period is first of all an age of_____.(B)
A. Novel
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C. drama
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3. Romanticism does not emphasize_____.(D)
monday morningA. the special qualities of each individual’s mind
B. the inner world of the human spirit
C. individuality
D. the features that men have in common
4._____ is not a Romantic poet.(B)
A. William Blake
B. Sir Scott
C. P. B. Shelley
D. Lord Byron
5. _____ is a Romantic novelist but is impresd with neo-classic strains.(C)
A. Walter Scott
B. Mary Shelley
C. Jane Austen
D. Ann Radcliff
6. _____ is not characte ristic of William Blake’s writing.(C)
A. plain and direct language
B. compression of meaning
C. supernatural quality
D. symbolism
7. Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads in 1789 with _____.(B)
A. Byron
B. Coleridge
C. Shelley
D. Keats
8. Wordsworth thinks that _____ is the only subject of literary interest.(D)
A. the life of rising bourgeoisie
B. aristocratic life
C. the life of the royal family
D. common life
9. Don Juan is the masterpiece of_____.(A)
A. Lord Byron’s
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B. P. B. Shelley’s
C. John Keats’s
D. Samuel Coleridge’s
10. _____ is not a novel written by Jane Austen.(A)
A. Jane Eyre
B. Sen and Sensibility
C. Pride and Prejudice
D. Emma
II.维多利亚时期
I. Each of the statement below is followed by four alternative answers. Choo the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets
1. The Victorian period roughly began at the enthronement of Queen Victoria in_____.(B)
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B. 1836
C. 1837
D. 1838
2. The critical realists like Charles Dickens in the Victorian period wrote novels_____.(D)
A. reprenting the 18th century realist novel
B. criticizing the society
C. defending the mass
E. all the above
legend never dies3. _____is not a Victoria novelist.(D)
A. Charles Dickens
大学生英语B. George Eliot
C. William Makepeace Thackeray
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D. D. H. Lawrence
4. _____ is not a work by Charles Dickens.(C)
A. Oliver Twist
B. David Copperfield
C. Middlemarch
D. A Tale of Two Cities
5. Wuthering Heights is a masterpiece written by_____.(B)
A. Charlotte Bronte
B. Emily Bronte
C. Anne Bronte
D. Branwell Bronte
6. _____ is not Thomas Hardy’s work.(A)
A. The Mill on the Floss
B. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
C. Jude the Obscure
D. The Mayor of Casterbridge
7. “My Last Duchess” is _____.(A)
A. a dramatic monologue
B. a short lyric
C. a novel
D. an essay
8. Tennyson’s “Ulyss” gets its inspiration from the following works or writers except_____.(B)
A. Homer’s Odesy
B. Joyce’s Ulyss
C. Dante
D. Greek Mythology
9. In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend _____ appeared. And it flourished in the 1840s and in the early 1950s.(D)
A. romanticism
B. naturalism
C. realism
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D. critical realism
10. The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from_____.(A)
A. The Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
C. Gulliver’s Travels
D. The Canterbury Tales
IV. Name the author of each of the following literary works.
1. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club (Charles Dickens)
2. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Anne Bronte)
3. In Memoriam (Alfred Tennyson)
4. The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot)
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5. The Return of the Native (Thomas Hardy)
VI. For each of the quotations listed below plea give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.
1. That same evening the gentleman in the white waistcoat most positively and decidedly affirmed, not only that Oliver would be hung, but that he would be drawn and quartered into the bargain. Mr.
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Bumble shoot his head with gloomy mystery, and said he wished he might come to good; where—unto Mr. Gamfield replied, that he wished he might come to him---which, although he agreed with the beadle in most matters, would em to be a wish of a totally opposite description. The next morning, the public were once more informed that Oliver Twist was again To Let, and that five pounds would be paid to anybody who would take posssion of him.( It is taken from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist. This part describes how Oliver is punished for asking for more to eat and how he is therefore sold at three pound ten to a notorious chimney-sweeper. It reveals that the pitiable state of the orphan boy and the cruelty and hypocrisy of the workhou board.)
