英美文学作品选读试题5

英美文学作品选读试题 5

I. Find the items in the right column which fit the left column the best and write your letters in the blank.( 20 points in all, 2 for each)

1. ________

2. ________

3. ________

4. ________

5. ________

6. ________

7. ________

8. ________

9. _______ 10.________

II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase.

(20 points in all, 2 for each)

1. In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as____________________________.

2. Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. He defined a good style as “____________________________.”

3. Wordsworth is regarded as a “_____________________.”He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature.

4._____________________ is the most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works.

5. In his long dramatic career, Shaw wrote more than _____________________ plays.

6. James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent _____________________ novelist, concentrating on the revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters.

7. Galsworthy is essentially a bourgeois liberal, a_____________________.

8. Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of ___________________.

9. Most of Faulkner’s works are about people from a small region in _____________________, Yoknapatawpha County.

10. In Our Times is the first book to present a Hemingway hero—_____________________.

III. Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and write you answer in the blanks. (20 points in all, 2 for each)

1._______ is regarded as “worshipper of nature.”

A. Coleridge

B. Wordsworth

C. T. S. Eliot

D. Robert Browning

2. M arlowe’s play Dr. Faustus is based on _______ of a magician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.

A. the Scandinavian

B. the German

C. the ancient English

D. the French

3. Who defi ned a good style as “proper words in proper places?”

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Charles Dickens

C. Edmund Spencer

D. George Bernard Shaw

4. _______ is central to Blake’s concern in the Sogns of Innocence and Songs of Experience?

A. innocence and experience

B. the poor

C. society

D. childhood

5. As a novelist _______ wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 18th-century England.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Jane Austen

C. Thomas Hardy

D.