英国文学考试试题

英国文学考试

There are 30 statements in this part. Choose A, B,C or D on your Answer Sheet.

1.Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic

pentameter means________.

A.the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

B.the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

C.the line has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable.

D.the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable.

2.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.

3. The story of The Grass is Singing takes place in ______.

A. England

B. America

C. Asia

D. Africa

4. Which work was not written by John Milton?______________.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Volpone

5. John Donne was a great poet and ________ as well.

A. dramatist

B. novelist

C. preacher

D. lawyer

6. John Donne’s “Holy Sonnet 10” expresses ________.

A. the fear of death

B. the admiration of death

C. the triumph over death

D. the pleasure from death

7. In addition to The Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Defoe also wrote ______.

A. Tom Jones

B. Pamela

C. The Adventures of Roderick Random

D. Moll Flanders

8. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels is the greatest _________ work in English literature.

A. realistic

B. satiric

C. romantic

D. poetic

9. The central image of “The Tyger” is ________.

A. hammer

B. chain

C. anvil

D. fire

10. Authors and poems are correctly paired in all of the following except ________.

A. William Wordsworth—“The Solitary Reaper”

B. William Blake—“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge—“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

D. Robert Burns—“The Tree of Liberty”

11. William Wordsworth asserts that poetry originated from_______________.

A. form

B. thoughts

C. Artistic devices

D. Emotion.

12. That supernatural an d fantastic stories call for “a willing suspension of disbelief” was a statement made by

________.

A. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

B. Mary Shelley

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. H. G. Wells

13. The description of “a man proud, moody, cynical, with def iance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection” may be applied to ________.

A. an epic hero

B. an antihero

C. a Byronic hero

D. a modern hero

14. All the following have written plays in verse except ________.

A. George Gordon Byron

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. George Bernard Shaw

D. T. S. Eliot

15. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” This sentence is presented in a(an)__________ tone.

A. ironic

B. indifferent

C. delightful

D. jealousy

16. English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of _____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. poetry

D. sonnet

17. “A Pure Woman” is the subtitle of ________.

A. Far from the Madding Crowd

B. The Return of the Native

C. Tess of the D’Urbervilles

D. Jude the Obscure

18. Charlotte Bronte produced four novels. Which of the following works does not belong to her?___________.

A. Professor

B. Shirley

C. Jane Eyre

D. Wuthering Heights

19. Robert Browning distinguished himself in ______.

A. lyrics

B. dramatic monologues

C. sonnets

D. odes

20. Oscar Wilde was the author of the following works except ________.

A. The Picture of Dorian Gray

B. Salomé

C. Lady Windermere’s Fan

D. My Fair Lady

21. In Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf adopted a writing technique called__________, in which the whole story was presented with the interior monologues of the characters.

A. stream-of-consciousness

B. Expressionism

C. Symbolism

D. Naturalism

22. ___is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.