《英美文学选读》模拟试题(2)

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（二）

一、单项选择题

1.D. Father and son in the medieval period, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive _____ picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of valid _________ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “the Canterbury Tales”.

A. visionary/women

B. romantic/men

C. realistic/characters

D. natural/figures

2.Humanism sprang from the endeavor to restore a medieval reverence for the antique authors and is frequently taken as the beginning of the Renaissance on its conscious, intellectual side, for the Greek and Roman civilization was based on the conception that man is the _____ of all things.

A. measure

B. king

C. lover

D. rule

3.Many people today tend to regard the play “The Merchant of Venice” as a satire of the hypocrisy of ___________ and their false standards of friendship and love, their cunning ways of pursuing worldliness and their unreasoning prejudice against _____.

A. Christians/Jews

B. Jews/Christians

C. oppressors/oppressed

D. people/Jews

4.Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare’s great tragedies?

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. King Lear

C. Hamlet

D. Macbeth

5.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true?

A. It is the age of translation.

B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution

C. It is the age of exploration

D. It is the age of the protestant reformation.

6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for ______.

A. chastity

B. holiness

C. truth

D. error

7._____ first make blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.

A. Shakespeare

B. Wyatt

C. Sidney

D. Marlowe

8.“The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” is an example of _____.

A. allegory

B.simile

C. metaphor

D. irony

9.In “Not only sole, but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou mak’st thy knife keen”, Gratiano (a character in The Merchant of Venice) uses a rhetorical device called _____.

A. hyperbole

B. homonym

C. paradox

D. pun

10.In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical _____ with chivalric _____.

A. symbolism … lyricism

B. allegory … romance

C. elegy … narrative

D. personific ation … irony

ton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.

A. the Bible

B. Greek myth

C. Roman myth

D. French romance

12.Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _____.

A. Tamburlaine the Great

B. The Jew or Malta

C. Cymbeline

D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus