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台州学院外国语学院学年第学期

级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II 》期末试卷（11）( 闭卷 )

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考试时间 :120 分钟I II III IV V VI VII总分10101015201025100

I. Multiple choice . Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)

1.The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____.

A. strong-willed heroes

B. mysticism

C. moderation

D. exotic pictures

2. “O, wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being, ”is from____.

A. Ozymandias

B. Ode to the West Wind

C. She Walks in Beauty

D. The Isles of Greece

3.____is one of the Satanic“school ” poets.

A. John Keats

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. Leigh Hunt

D. S. T. Coleridge

4.Dickens ’ first true novel is ____.

A. David Copperfield

B. Bleak House

C. Oliver Twist

D. Hard Times

5.The following novels are all written by Jane Austen Except.

A. Pride and Prejudice

B. Emma

C. Mansfield Park

D. Far from the Madding Crowd

wrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. For Whom the Bell Tolls

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. The Old Man and the Sea

7.____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19th century.

A. Jane Austen’ s

B. Walter Scott’Cs. Henry Fielding’ s D. Charles Lamb’ s

8.The title of Thackeray ’novels ____was borrowed from The Pilgrim s ’Progress by John

Bunyan .

A. The Roundabout Paper

B. The Newcomers

C. Vanity Fair

D. The Four Georges

9.,which was written by Charlotte Bronte, is a poetic, imaginative story of the love of a

young governess for her married employer .

A. Wuthering Heights

B. Jane Eyre

C. The Professor

D. Agnes Grey

10.___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his

representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.

A. Richard Sheridan

B. Oliver Goldsmith

C. Oscar Wilde

D. Bernard Shaw

II. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10)

____1. The glory of the Romantic Age lies in the prose of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.

____2.The Lakers include Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth .

____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight.

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___4. In Tennyson’s Ulysses, Ulysses is the Greek name for the Roman hero Odysseus in Homer ’s Odyssey.

____ 5. Jane Austen is the first historical novelist in English literature.

____ 6. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18 th century poetry.

____ 7. Tess’ s character can be described astreacherous and unfaithful.

____ 8.Charles Lamb is remembered by the later generations as a great poet.

____ 9. Thomas Hardy is a representative of the English naturalism.

____10. Chronologically, Jane Austen ’s career belongs to the Romantic period. She was a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)

1.The Romantic Age came to an end in 1832 when the last Romantic writer_______ died.

2.is often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry, who succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.

3.Dicken s’ first true novel is ____.

4. D.H. Lawrence ’ s novel is often taken to be largely biographical .

5. Don Juan , the greatest work by, was written in the prime of his creative power, in the year of 1818-1823.

6.As a literary school of fiction, in England, stream of consciousness is best represented in the works of Virginia Woolf and.

7.In English literature, Oscar Wilde is the representative of the“movement ”.

8. The title of Thackeray’ s novwasel borrowed from The Pilgrim s Progress’by Bunyan .

9.The lines “Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter; Therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; ”are probably taken from by Keats.

10. James Joyce’s masterpiece, which employs the techniques of the Stream of Consciousness, roughly corresponds to the episodes of Homer ’sOdyssey.

IV . Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)

edy of manners

2.Byronic hero

3.Dramatic Monologue

V. Identify (20%=10*2)

Passage I

Not having a very clearly defined notion of what a live board was, Oliver was rather astounded by this intelligence, and was not quite certain whether he ought to laugh or cry.

Questions

1.Which novel is this passage taken from?

2.Who is the author?

3. In the selection,“ board”,andis athis rhetorical device gives a touch of humor.

4. A sentence in the novel said by the hero is a challenge against the divine right of the rulers, it

is“”.

5.The writer of this selection is quite productive. Mention four novels by him.

Passage II

I wandered lonely as a cloud

That floats on high o ’er vales and hills,