英美文学选择题

Chapter I

1. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the __C___legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil

A. British/ immorality

B. French/money

C. German/knowledge

D. American/political power

2. ___B__, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A. The Wife‟s Complaint

B. Beowulf

C. The Dream of the Rood

D. The Seafarer

3. It‟s Chaucer alone who, f or the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece____A______.

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. The Legend of Good Women

C. Troilus and Criseyde

D. The Romaunt of the Rose.

4. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was___D__.

A. Geographical exploration

B. Religious reformation

C. Publishing and translation

D. Humanism.

5. “Prince Arthur‟s greatest mission is his search for Gloriana, with whom he has fallen in love through a love vision. ”The two figures come from___C__.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Dr. Faustus

C. The Faerie Queene

D. Hamlet

6. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_______A__________.

A. Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.

B. Satirize human‟s vanity.

C. Predict the eternity of love.

D. Eulogize the power of the beauty.

7. _C___ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ‟blank verse‟ the principle vehicle of expression in drama.

A. Surrey

B. Wyatt

C. Marlowe

D. Sidney

8. Shakespeare‟s greatest tragedies are the following works except__C__.

A. Hamlet

B. King Lear

C. Romeo and Juliet

D. Othello

9. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___ and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ‟real mainstream (真正的文学主流)‟ was __B__.

A. Victoria/poetry

B. Elizabeth/ drama

C. Mary/ novel

D. James/ drama

10. In The Legend of Good Women, Chaucer used for the first time in English the rhymed couplet of iambic pentameter, which is to be called later___B_.

A. The Spenserian stanza

B. The heroic couplet

C. The blank verse

D. The free verse

11. The Redcrosse Knight in “The Faerie Queene” stands for__B___, and Una stands for_____.

A. bravery/ chastity

B. holiness/ truth

C. error/ delivery

D. true gentleman/ lady.

12. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance? D

A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.

C. Exaltation of man‟s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man‟s foibles.

D. Praise of man‟s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.

13. “The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of __A____.

A. Metaphor

B. Simile

C. Irony

D. Personification

14. __B___ introduced the Petrarchan sonnet into England.

A. Anglos/ Saxons

B. Normans/ Anglo-Saxons

C. Greeks/ Romans

D. Romans/ Normans

15. It is _B__ alone who, for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Edmund Spenser

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. John Donne

16. The following belong to the characteristics of ‟metaphysical poetry‟ represented by ‟John Donne‟ except__D_.

A. Conceits

B. Actual imagery and simple diction

C. Argumentative form

D. Elegant style

17. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from__C__.

A. Greek Mythology

B. Roman legend

C. The Old Testament

D. The New Testament

18. In “Paradise Lost”, Satan says “We may with more successful hope resolve/ To wage by force or guile eternal war, / Irreconcilable to our grand Foe” What does the “Eternal war” mean? C

A. To remove God from his throne

B. To burn the Heaven Down

C. T o corrupt God‟s creation of man and woman-----Adam and Eve

D. To beguile into a snake to threaten man‟s life

19. __B___, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare‟s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a ‟philosophical exploration‟ of life and death. A. The Merchant of Venice B. Hamlet C. King Lear D. The Winter‟s Tale

20. It was __ B_and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature.

A. Anglos/ Saxons

B. Normans/ Anglo-Saxons

C. Romans/ Normans

D. Greeks/ Romans

21. Paradise Lost is _C__‟s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against Go d‟s authority.

A. John Donne

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. John Milton

D. Edmund Spenser

22. The following description fit into Milton ‟except‟__D___.