英国文学2

Exercise One of Book II

A. Multiple-choice questions:

(Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.)

1. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less _______ attitude toward the

existing social and political conditions.

A. positive

B. negative

C. neutral

D. indifferent

2. It is ______ who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom

of the human spirit.

A. Jean Jacques Rousseau

B. Johann Wolfgang yon Goethe

C. Edmund Burke

D. Thomas Paine

3. In Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790), the word "marriage", to Blake, means the

__________.

A. subordination of the one to the other

B. co-existence of the conflicting parts

C. reconciliation of the contraries

D. fighting of the conflicting parts

4. Blake began writing poetry at the age of 12, and his first printed work is _________,

which is a collection of youthful verse.

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C. Marriage of Hayden and Hell

D. Poetical Sketches

5. In his poem, "The Chimney Sweeper" (from Songs of Experience), Blake depicted the miseries of the child sweepers in order to reveal the ________ of Christianity.

A. great ideals

B. false ideals

C. magic power

D. true faith

6. For William Blake, the father (and any other in whom he saw the image of the

father such as God, priest, and king) was usually a figure of ___________ .

A. benevolence

B. admiration

C. love

D. oppression

7. Adonis is an elegy for ________ whose early death from tuberculosis Shelley

believed had been hastened by hostile reviews.

A. Byron

B. Keats

C. Tennyson

D. oppression

8. "You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves, which perhaps

will be still better, for as you are as handsome as any of them, Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party." What figure of speech is used in the underlined part?

A. paradox

B. simile

C. irony

D. antithesis

9. According to the subjects, Wordsworth's short poems can be classified into two

groups: poems about _______ and poems about ________ .

A. society, universe

B. nature, society

C. nature, human life

D. human life, universe

10. In the poem, "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways," Wordsworth writes: "A

violet by a mossy stone / Half hidden from the eyes!" The figure of speech used in the two lines is ____.

A. metaphor

B. personification

C. simile

D. metonymy

11. The _______ are generally regarded as Keats's most important and mature works.

A. odes

B. lyrics

C. epics

D. elegy