英美文学史及作品选读 复习题

1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A.Christian

B.knightly

C.Greek

D.primitive

2. In The song of Beowulf , Beowulf fought against _______.

A. Grendel

B. a knight

C. Hrothgar

D. Sir Gawain

3. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.

A.Piers Plowman

B.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C.Confessio Amantis

D.The Canterbury Tales

4. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D.The speaker meditates on man's salvation.

5. John Milton was the writer of ______

A. Paradise lost

B. The Pilgrims progress

C. Tess

D. Emma

6. The greatest of all English authors is _______

A. William Shakespeare

B. Charles Dickens C, Thomas Hardy D. Robert Frost

7. Of all the 18thcentury novelists, _______ and Tobias Gorge Smollet may be regard as the real founders of the genre of the bourgeois realistic novel in England and Europe.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Joseph Addison

D. Richard Steel

8. The most outstanding figure of English sentimentalism was _____

A. Henry Fielding

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Joseph Addison

urence Sterne

9. The most outstanding figure of the epoch of Enlightenment in England was ______.

A. Oliver Goldsmith

B. Jonathan Swift c. Thomas Grey D. Richard Steel

10. Daniel Defoe was the writer of ______

A. Gulliver’s Travels

B. Robinson Crusoe

C. Jane Eyre

D. A Modest Proposal

11. Gulliver’s Travels was written by ______.

A. Laurence Sterne

B. Daniel Defoe

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Oliver Goldsmith

12. Tom Jones was written by _____

A. Oliver Goldsmith

B. Jonathan Swift c. Thomas Grey D. Henry Feilding

13. The songs of Innocence was written by ____

A. William Wordsworth

B. William Blake

C. Robert Burns

D. J.Keats

14. With the publication of William Wordsworth’s _____ in collaboration with S.T. Colerige, romanticism began to bloom and found a firm place in the history of English literature.

A. The Cloud

B. To a Sky-lark

C. to Autumn

D. Lyrical Ballads

15.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by __.

A.J.Keats

B.W.Blake

C.W.Wordsworth

D.P.B.Shelley

16. ______ was Byron’s greatest work.

A. Don Juan

B.She Walks in Beauty

C. Cain

D. Manfred.

17.Ulysses (1922) is generally acknowledged to be ______’s masterpiece and a typical example of stream of consciousness technique.

A. James Joyce

B. Virginia Woolf

C.

D. h. Lawrence D. Charles Dickens

18. The Title Vanity Fair was borrowed by Thackeray from the_____ by Bunyan.

A. Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Canterbury Tales

C. Paradise Lost

D. Beowulf