B卷 作品赏析试题2011.6

山东科技大学2010 —2011 学年第二学期《作品赏析》考试试卷(B)班级姓名学号Directions: This is the term-final test to English Literature Appreication. This paper includes 4 items and the total point is 100. Time allowed is 2 hours. All your answers should be written on the answer sheet. Remember to write it clearly.I. Multiple choices (30%): Please choose the best answers to the following statements.1. The Romantic Period began in 1798 with the publication of The Lyrical Ballads which was written by_____.A. WordsworthB. JohnsonC. ColeridgeD. Wordsworth and Coleridge2. Lake Poets refer to the following poets EXCEPT___________.A. William WordsworthB. Samuel Taylor ColeridgeC. George Gordon ByronD. Robert Southey3. Many of Burns‟ songs deal with friendship. ____ has long become a universal parting-song of all the English speaking countries.A. A Red, Red RoseB. Auld Lang SyneC. My Heart‟s in the HighlandsD. John Anderson, My Jo4. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by___.A. John KeatsB. William BlakeC. William WordsworthD. Percy Shelley5. The revolutionary Romantic poet___ went to Greece to help that country in its struggle for liberty and died of fever there.A. ShelleyB. ByronC. KeatsD. Burns6. The Lamb is included in William Blake‟s __________.A. Poetical SketchesB. The Songs of InnocenceC. The Songs of ExperienceD. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell7. _______ was composed in a dream after Coleridge took opium.A. Kubla KhanB. The Rime of the Ancient MarinerC. ChristabelD. Frost at Midnight8. Who is the first English Essayist?A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund SpenserC. William ShakespeareD. Francis Bacon9. Sir Walter Scott‟s greatest contribution to english literarture is ________.A. historical novelB. poemC. dramaD. essays10. Which of the following is NOT true of Robert Burns?A. known as ploughman poetB. mainly wrote in Scottish dialectC. well-educatedD. major themes are life of common people and love11. Which of the following poets was awarded as Poet Laureate?A. ByronB.WordsworthC. KeatsD. Shelley12. Hemingway once described _____ the one book from which “all modern American literature comes.”A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Innocents Abroad13. Mark Twain employed an unpretentious style of ______ in his novels which is best described as “vernacular”.A. standard EnglishB. Afro-American EnglishC. colloquialismD. urbanism14. _________ is Jack London‟s semi-autobiographical novel?A. Call of the WildB. Martin EdenC. Sea WolfD. White Fang15. Which of the following does NOT belong to naturalist writers?A. Stepen CraneB. Frank NorrisC. Theodore DreiserD. Mark Twine16. My Last Duchess is ____.A. a short lyricB. a dramatic monologueC. a novelD. an essay17.____ stands as a great dividing line between the nineteenth century and the contemporary American literature.A. World War OneB. World War TwoC. War of IndependenceD. War of Revolution18. Which of the following writers does not belong to The Lost Generation?A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. E. E. CummingsD. Eugene O‟Neill19. Which of the following works is not written by Ernest Hemingway?A. Main StreetB. The Sun Also RisesC. A Farewell to ArmsD. For Whom the Bell Tolls20. In Gulliver's Travels, Gulliver shipwrecks in ______where the tallest people were six inches high.A. LilliputB. Vanity FairC. BrobdingnagD. Laputa21. The pamphlet --"A Modest Proposal" by _______exposes a fact that the English are devouring the Irish.A. John DrydenB. Daniel DefoeC. John BunyanD. Jonathan Swift22. ______ adopted “ the third-person narration,” in which the author becomes the “all-knowing God.”A. Alexander PopeB. Thomas GrayC. Henry FieldingD. Richard Brinsley Sheridan23. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by _____ is famous for its clarity in thought and itsneatness in structure.A. William WordsworthB. Thomas GrayC. Oliver GoldsmithD. Samuel Johnson24. Metaphysical poets refer to a school of poets at the beginning of the 17th century England who wrote under the influence of _______.A. John DonneB. John MiltonC. William BlakeD. Robert Burns25. ______ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan is Comedy of manners.A. Much Ado About NothingB. Vanity FairC. My Last DuchessD. School for Scandal26. The 17th century literature is closely related to ______.A. politicsB. economyC. the industial revolutionD. natural disasters27. The romantic period of American Literature Started with Washington Irving's _____ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.A. Bracebridge HallB. Oliver GoldsmithC. A History of New YorkD. The Sketch Book28. _____ was the first American writer of imaginative literature to gain international fame.A. Washington IrvingB.Mark TwainC. Walt WhitmanD. Emily Dickinson29. The author of To a Waterfowl, ______, is considered a Poet of nature.A. James Fenimore CooperB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. William Cullen Bryant30. The author of Representative Men, _______, is a leader of the philosophical movement of transcendentalism.A. Ralph Waldo EmersonB. Walt WhitmanC. William BlakeD. Edgar Allan PoeII. Please define the literary terms listed below. (15%)1. Renaissance2. tragedy3. Stream of ConsciousnessIII. Please answer the following questions after reading the selections. (45%)Selection One (15%)I lay down on the grass, which was very short and soft, where I slept sounder than ever I remembered to have done in my life, and, as I reckoned, about nine hours; for when I awaked, it was just day-light. I attempted to rise, but was not able to stir: for, as I happened to lie on my back, I found my arms and legs were strongly fastened on each side to the ground; and my hair, which was long and thick, tied down in the same manner. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.In a little time I felt something alive moving on my left leg, which advancing gently forward over my breast, came almost up to my chin; when, bending my eyes downwards as much as I could, I perceived it to be a human creature not six inches high, with a bow and arrow in his hands,and a quiver at his back..Questions:1. From what novel is this passage taken from? (2%)2. The “I” in the novel was dropped in a strange country, and what is the country‟s name? (2%)3. What is the name of the “I” in this passage? (2%)4. What is the writing style? (9%)Selection Two(15%)I wandered lonely as a cloudThat floats on high o…er vales and hills,When all at once I saw a crowd,A host, of golden daffodils;Beside the lake, beneath the trees,Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the stars that shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending line,Along the margin of a bay:Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance…………………Questions:1. What is the title of this poem? (2%)2. Who wrote this poem? (2%)3. Please Comment on this poem (11%)Selection Three (15%)In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.Questions:1. Who wrote this poem? (2%)2. What is Imagism? (5%)3. Please Comment on this poem (8%)IV. How do you understand the English national heroic epic Beowulf?. (10%)。