《英国文学史及选读》试题(二)

英国文学史及选读试卷
Ⅰ.Multiple choice（40 points, 2 for each）
1. ________ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. George Gordon Byron
C. Edmund Spender
D. Robert Browning
2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?
A. Macbeth
B. Henry IV
C. Romeo and Juliet
D. King Lear
3. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ________ has been regarded as “Father of the English Novel”.
A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. John Bunyan
D. James Joyce
4. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough. “
4. These two lines are quoted from ________'s poem?
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D. William B. Yeats
5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the ________.
A. late 19th –century
B. 17th -century
C. 20th –century
D. late 18th -century
6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A. Life and Death
B. Religion
C. Love and Nature
D. War and Peace
7. Walden is a ________.
A. Transcendentalist work
B. epic in prose
C. lyric poem
D. short story
8. Henry James' realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to ________.
A. the traditional style
B. the common people
C. the inner world of human beings
D. the class struggle
9. ________ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.
A. The Gilded Age
B. Innocents Abroad
C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
10. At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ________.
A. is a wealthy lady
B. is a conservative aristocrat
C. is a prisoner of the past
D. has good taste
11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.
A. Eugene O'Neill
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?
A. Vernacular
B. Elegant
C. Colloquial
D. Humorous
13. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dicken's works lies in his ________.
A. social criticism
B. optimism
C. character－portrayal
D. social setting
14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce ________ to England.
A. rationalism
B. romanticism
C. criticism
D. realism
15. Shelley's greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama ________.
A. Adonais
B. To a Skylark
C. A Song: Men of England
D. Prometheus Unbound
16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ________.
A. plays
B. novels
C.poems
D. essays
17. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?
A. Mary Bronte
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Emily Bronte
D. Anne Bronte
18. “Histories make men wise;poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. ” This sentence appears in ________.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. A Dictionary of the English Language
C. An Essay on Criticism
D. Of Studies
19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the ________?
A.aristocratic class
B. enterprising landlords
C. rising bourgeoisie
D. hard-working people
20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Adonais
D. Llycidas
II Fill in the following blanks:( 20points, 2 for each )
1.John Milton wrote "Paradise Lost"in the form of epic,which describes the fall of______in a grand style.
2.Walter Scott has been universally regarded as the founder and great master of the ______ novel.
3.Though ______ is not the first English novelist,he has generally been considered as "the father of English novel",for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
4.Richard Brinsley Sheridan is the only important English_______of the eighteenth century.In his plays,morality is the constant theme.
5.The_______couplet is a pair of rhymed iambic pentameter lines,a verse form first used by the 14th-century poet Geoffrey Chaucer.
6.Oscar Wilde,who advocated the idea of "______",represented the literary school of decadence in the late 19th century.
7."Pilgrim's Progress" is written as a book of religious instructions in the form of_______and dream.
8.In England,the literary technique of "stream of consciousness" is best represented in the works of James Joyce and _______.
9.In his novels,Arnold Bennett depicts life and society with a strong_______tendency influenced by the French writer Zola and Guy de Maupassant.
10.Charles Dickens and William Thackeray were the two great representatives of the English critical realism in the _______century.
Ⅲ. Match authors in Column A with their literary works in Column B. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet. （20 points, 2 for each pair）
1. John MiltonA.The Canterbury Tales
2. Samuel JohnsonB. Mrs. Warren's Profession
3. Geoffrey ChaucerC. Joseph Andrews
4. Jane AustenD. She Stoops to Conquer
5. Richard Brinsley SheridanE. A Dictionary of the English Language
6. George Bernard ShawF.Song of Innocence
7.William BlakeG. Samson Agonistes
8. Robert BurnsH. Pride and Prejudice
9.Thomas HardyI. My Heart’s in the Highlands
10.Henry FieldingJ. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Ⅳ.Give a brief explanation to each of the following items. Please write your answer on the Answer Sheet.(10 points in total, 2 for each)
1. Epic
2. Popular ballad
3. Romance
4. Byronic hero
5. English Renaissance
Ⅴ. Answer the following questions.(10 points) What is the theme of The Wasted Land?。