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英美文学
》练习题
一
I.
Select from the lettered choice the one, which
best completes the statement or
answers
the question. Write the letter of your choice in
the brackets.
（
）
f is a national
epic of
A. Germany
B. England
C. Scandinavia
D.
France
(
) Gawain and Green Knight
was created by
A. Chaucer
B. Langland
C. Bede
D. None of the above
（
）
one who propose the story-
telling in the Canterbury tales is
A.
the poet
B. the
knight
C. the
boss
D. the
pardoner
(
) of the following events
played an important part in
Chaucer
’
s writing:
A. his marriage
with a girl of noble family
B. his visit to Italy
C.
his duty as a controller of the Customs
D.
his participation in the Hundred
Years
’
War
(
)
Mort D
’
Arthur deals with
the following story except
A. search for Cup
B. life of King Arthur
C.
fight against Roman invasion
D. illicit love
(
)
was nicknamed
“
the lady of C
hrist
’
s
”
because he was
A.
a
lady
B.
as
serious
as
a
lady
C.
as
handsome
as
a
lady
D.
as
gentle as a
lady
(
) one who tempts Eve to eat
an apple from the forbidden tree is
A. God
B. Satan
C. Adam
D. Raphael
(
)ysical Poetry is characterized by
fantastical
A.
mysticism
B.
romanticism
C.
lyricism
D.
decadence
(
)
’
s
contribution to England literature lies in the
following except
A.
he
established
the
heroic
couplet
as
one
of
the
principal
English
verse
forms
B. he clarified
the English prose
C. he raised the English
literary criticism to a new level
D. he raised
English comedy to a higher level
(
)
. Spectator stands for the ideas of
A.
the
16
th
century
B.
17
th
century
C.
the
18
th
century
D.
the19th
century
(
)
known for his novels about the adventure is
A. Dickens
B. Goldsmith
C. Defoe
D. Scott
(
)
Rape of the Lock gives an account of a
A. bull fighting
B. knight
duel
C.
writer
’
s life
D. anecdote of the
court
(
)dson was noted
as story-telling , letter writer and a
A. critic
B. moralizer
C. poet
D. playwright
(
)14.
“
Humor
”
according to Ben
Jonson means
A. fun
B. comedy
thought
D. temperament
(
)
the qualities can be contributed to Portia except
A. nosy
B. cultured
C. courteous
D. kind-hearted
（
）
and Juliet belongs to
Shakespeare
’
s plays of
A. the first period
B. the second
period
C. the third period
D. the fourth period
(
)
of the following is not known as writer
A. Sidney
B. Wyatt
C. Spenser
D. More
(
) first place visited by
Gulliver in Gulliver
’
s
Travels is
A.
The
kingdom
of
horses
B.
Brobdingnag
C.
Flying
Island
D.
Lilliput
(
) ion and author are
correctly paired in all the following except:
A.
A little
learning is dangerous thing
——
Pope
B.
I might boast myself Le vainqueur de la
terre
——
Johnson
C.
A truth artists
’
duty was to produce human
being
——
Goldsmith
D.
A
man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine
by his own
fireside
——
Sheridan
(
) 20.
“
Conceit
”
is a term applied
in particular to the school represented by
A. Herrick
B. Ben Johnson
C. Pope
D. Donne
(
) r is called the founder
of English realism because he portrays all
the classes of English feudal society
except
A.
businessmen
and
scholars
B.
nobles
and
serfs
C.
plowmen
and
franklins
(
)
22.
“
Virtue Rewarded is the
sub-title of the novel written by
A. Goldsmith
B. Stern
C. Richardson
D. Smollet
(
)23. All of the following writers are
Irish except
A. Goldsmith
b Sheridan
C. Spenser
D. Swift
(
) 24. Dylan
Thomas belongs to the school of
A.
Neo-romanticism
B.
Auden
Group
C.
Imagism
D.
the
Movement
(
)
25. The novel, which foretells the future
happening, is written by one of the
following writers
A. Huxley
B. Lawrence
C. Woolf
D. Owell
(
)
26.
“
The poet of the
peasants
”
is a title given
to
A. Blake
B. Gray
C. Chatterton
D. Burns
(
) 27. The greatest
achievement in the 18
th
century England in literature was
A. poetry
B. plays
C. essays
D. novels
(
) 28. One of the following plays takes
its subject matter from Chinese history
A.
Henry IV
B.
Macbeth
C.
Tamburlaine
D.
Alchemist
(
)29. Dr. Faustus sells his soul to the
devil because he
A. is faced by
Mephistopheles
B. wants to gain more money
C.
wants
to
live
an
extravagant
life
D.
wants
to
know
more
about
the
world
(
) .30. Of the
following, the one which employs the form of
romance is
A. Amoretti
B. V
enus and Adonis
C. The Tempest
D. Sir Gawain
and Green Knight
（
）
31. Each of the professions
listed below is correctly paired with Dickens
except
A. novelist
B. clerk
C. reporter
D. dramatist
(
)
32.
The Idylls of the King
is
written by
A. Browning
B. Tennyson
C. George Eliot
D. Carlyle
(
) ic monologue was created
by the author who wrote
A. Crossing the Bar
B. Ode to the West Wind
C.
The Ring and the Book
D. Jude the Obscure
(
)
Young Man of the 1950
’
s most
came from
A. the lower
class
B. the
upper class
C.
peasants
D.
workers
(
) 35.
Dubliners
is
writing of
A. realism
B. modernism
C. stream of
consciousness
D. none of the
above
(
)
36.
In Memoriam
is written
by Tennyson in memory of his friend
A. Hallam
B. Browning
C. Arnold
D. Hardy
(
)
’
s chief contribution to
English literature lies in his novels of
A.
war
B. history
C. city
D. romance
(
)
38.
“
The poet of the
peasants
”
is a title given
to
A.
Blake
B. Gray
C. Chatterton
D. Burns
(
)
orth, Coleridge and Southey have the following in
common except
they all
A.
wrote poems
B. belonged to the first generation of
Romanticism
C. began as conservatives and ended as
radicals
D. began as radicals and ended as
conservatives
(
) line
“
If
winter comes, can spring be far
behind
”
comes from
A. Revolt of
Islam
B. Ode to
the lark
C. Ode to Autumn
D. Ode to the West Wind
(
) 41.
“
Merry
England
”
is a term used by
one of the following schools
A.
the
first
generation
of
Romanticism
B.
the
second
generation
of
Romanticism
C. the third generation of
romanticism
D.
all of the above
(
) 42. The style of
Lamb
’
s essays is not
characterized by the following feature
A. essayist
B. sarcasm
C. familiarity
D. gracefulness
(
) 43. Scott is both a
romantic novelist and romantic
A. essayist
B. poet
C. critic
D. satirist
(
) 44. Satan is a character with a
strong desire for
A.
submission
B. freedom
C. peacefulness
D. compromise
(
) 45. Bunyan
’
s
style is marked by dignity and
A. ornateness
B. grandness
C. complicatedness
D. simplicity
II
．
Match the
author's name with the title of the book
Whitman
Irving
Howells
James
Fitzgerald
Kerouac
Ellison
Amy Tan
Maxine Hong Kingston
O'Neill
Bradstreet
Hawthorne
Crane
Mark Twain
Steinbeck
Ginsberg
Hughes
Frank Chin
Hellman
Williams
Melville
Cooper
Sinclair
James
Hemingway
Pynchon
Morrison
Yep
Odets
Albee
1.
The Portrait
of a Lady
2.
Invisible Man
3.
The Great Gatsby
4.
Woman Warrior
5.
The Sketch Book
6.
Leaves of
Grass
7.
Joy Luck
Club
8.
On the Road
9.
Long Day's Journey into
Night
10.
The Rise of Silas
Lapham
1.
The
Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
2.
The Weary
Blues
3.
The
Grapes of Wrath
4.
Donald Duk
5.
The
Red Badge of Courage
6.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7.
Watch on the
Rhine
8.
Howl
9.
The Glass Menagerie
10.
The Scarlet Letter
1.
The Leatherstocking Tales
2.
Song of Solomon
3.
A Farewell to
Arms
4.
Pay the
Chinaman
5.
The Jungle
6.
The Portrait of a Lady
7.
Waiting for
Lefty
8.
The
Crying of Lot 49
9.
The Zoo
Story
10.
Moby
Dick
III
．
Write T in
the bracket if the statement is true and F if the
statement is false
(
)
1. Beowulf was created in England.
(
)
2.
In
Shakespeare
’
s
comedies
the
heroes
and
heroines
attained
their
victory
without much struggle.
(
)
3. Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies.
(
) 4. Essays of Elia was written by Mary
Lame when she worked in East India
House.
(
)5.
Wordsworth
’
s best poems are
description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds,
streets and buildings.
（
）
6. The Neo-classicism saw
its decline in Johnson.
(
)
7.
The
most
striking
similarities
between
Milton
and
Samson
Agonistes
are
their blindness and unhappy marriage.
(
)
8.
The
Celestial
City
in
the
Pilgrim
’
s
Progress
stands
for
an
ideal
happy
society.
(
)
9. It was Maud Gonne who helped Yeats establish
Abbey Theatre.
(
) 10. Monks
tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
(
)
established
the
heroic
couplet
as
one
of
the
principal
English
verse
forms.
(
)
is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
(
) stories in the Canterbury Tales are
only connected by the host of Tabard
Inn.
(
)orth
’
s best
poems are descriptions of mountains, rivers,
flowers, and
birds.
(
) main
technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is
symbolism.
(
) of the most important features in
Austen
’
s novel Pride and
Prejudice is
the use of dramatic
languages.
(
) of English ballads were collected in
the 18
th
century.
(
)
style
of
Lambs
essays
is
characterized
by
its
humor,
familiarity
and
archaism.
(
) most gifted of the
University Wits was Shakespeare.
(
)20.
Scott
’
s literary career
marked the transition from romanticism to realism
(
)
21.
Pardoner
in
The
Canterbury
Tales
sold
the
relics
of
the
dead
saints
to
exempt the sins from the
buyers
(
)
22.
Beowulf
was
brought
by
Anglo-Saxon
people
from
the
Continent
to
England.
(
) 23. A ballad is written
in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines
rhymes.
(
) 24. King Lear distributed his
territory among his three daughters.
(
) 25.
Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in
1616.
(
) 26. The
“
dark
comedy
”
refers to those
written by Jonson in his third period of
dramatic career.
(
) 27.
Scott
’
s literary career
marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
(
)
28.
Auld Lang Syne
was
composed by Burns.
(
) 29. The poetry of
Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for
the French
Revolution.
(
) 30.
Wuthering Heights
deals with
a story of love and violence.
Ⅳ
Explain the
terms in your own words .
1. Puritanism
2. Harlem
Renaissance
3. Free verse
4
Naturalism
5. Transcendentalism
6. Jewish Literature
V
．
Answer the
following questions briefly
symbolic meaning of the title in the
story of Araby by Joyce.
2.
The significance of the sentence
“
It was a truth universally
acknowledged that a
single man in
possession of a good fortune must be in want of a
wife
”
.
3. Talk about the development of Black
American Literature .
4. What did those women novelists in
18
th
and
19
th
centuries mainly focus
on?
5 What are the features
of Scott
’
s historical
novels?
6 What are the
themes of
The Woman Warrior
?
7
．
What are Steele
and Addison
’
s contributions
to English literature?
8
．
How are
characters portrayed in
Joseph
Andrews
by Fielding?
9
．
Read
the
following
passage
,
identify
the
author
and
the
work
first
,
then
explain
the
numbered
parts
in
simple
English
,
finally
answer
the
question
after the passage .
Most of those reports were a
nightmare
—
grotesque ,
circumstantial , eager , and
untrue .
When
Michaelis'
①
testimony
at
the
inquest
brought
to
light
②
Wilson's
③
suspicions of
his wife I
④
thought the
whole tale would shortly be served up in racy
pasquinade
—
but
Catherine
⑤
who
might have said anything , didn't say a
word .
Question:
What is the theme
of this novel ?
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