英美文学练习题

《英美文学》练习题

一

I. Select from the lettered choice the one, which best completes the statement or answers the question. Write the letter of your choice in the brackets.

（）1.Beowulf is a national epic of

A. Germany

B. England

C. Scandinavia

D. France

( ) 2.Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by

A. Chaucer

B. Langland

C. Bede

D. None of the above

（）3.The one who propose the story-telling in the Canterbury tales is

A. the poet

B. the knight

C. the boss

D. the pardoner

( )4.One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:

A. his marriage with a girl of noble family

B. his visit to Italy

C. his duty as a controller of the Customs

D. his participation in the Hundred Years’ War

( )5.Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except

A. search for Cup

B. life of King Arthur

C. fight against Roman invasion

D. illicit love

( )ton was nicknamed “the lady of Christ’s” because he was

A. a lady

B. as serious as a lady

C. as handsome as a lady

D. as

gentle as a lady

( )7.The one who tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree is

A. God

B. Satan

C. Adam

D. Raphael

( )8.Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical

A. mysticism

B. romanticism

C. lyricism

D. decadence

( )9.Dryen’s contribution to England literature lies in the following except

A. he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse

forms

B. he clarified the English prose

C. he raised the English literary criticism to a new level

D. he raised English comedy to a higher level

( ) 10.Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of

A. the 16th century

B. 17th century

C. the 18th century

D. the19th

century

( ) 11.Best known for his novels about the adventure is

A. Dickens

B. Goldsmith

C. Defoe

D. Scott

( ) 12.The Rape of the Lock gives an account of a

A. bull fighting

B. knight duel

C. writer’s life

D. anecdote of the

court

( )13.Richardson was noted as story-telling , letter writer and a

A. critic

B. moralizer

C. poet

D. playwright

( )14.“Humor” according to Ben Jonson means

A. fun

B. comedy thought D. temperament

( )15.All the qualities can be contributed to Portia except

A. nosy

B. cultured

C. courteous

D. kind-hearted

（）16.Romeo and Juliet belongs to Shakespeare’s plays of

A. the first period

B. the second period

C. the third period

D. the fourth period

( ) 17.One of the following is not known as writer

A. Sidney

B. Wyatt

C. Spenser

D. More

( ) 18.The first place visited by Gulliver in Gulliver’ s Travels is

A. The kingdom of horses

B. Brobdingnag

C. Flying Island

D. Lilliput

( ) 19.Quotation and author are correctly paired in all the following except:

A.A little learning is dangerous thing ——Pope

B.I might boast myself Le vainqueur de la terre——Johnson

C. A truth artists’ duty was to produce human being——Goldsmith

D.A man may surely be allowed to take a glass of wine by his own fireside

——Sheridan

( ) 20. “Conceit” is a term applied in particular to the school represented by

A. Herrick

B. Ben Johnson

C. Pope

D. Donne

( ) 21.Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays all the classes of English feudal society except

A. businessmen and scholars

B. nobles and serfs

C. plowmen and franklins

( ) 22.“ Virtue Rewarded is the sub-title of the novel written by

A. Goldsmith

B. Stern

C. Richardson

D. Smollet

( )23. All of the following writers are Irish except

A. Goldsmith b Sheridan C. Spenser D. Swift

( ) 24. Dylan Thomas belongs to the school of

A. Neo-romanticism

B. Auden Group

C. Imagism

D. the Movement

( ) 25. The novel, which foretells the future happening, is written by one of the following writers

A. Huxley

B. Lawrence

C. Woolf

D. Owell

( ) 26. “The poet of the peasants” is a title given to

A. Blake

B. Gray

C. Chatterton

D. Burns

( ) 27. The greatest achievement in the 18th century England in literature was

A. poetry

B. plays

C. essays

D. novels

( ) 28. One of the following plays takes its subject matter from Chinese history

A. Henry IV

B. Macbeth

C. Tamburlaine

D. Alchemist

( )29. Dr. Faustus sells his soul to the devil because he

A. is faced by Mephistopheles

B. wants to gain more money