英美文学选择题-附答案版

1. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

B .The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C. .The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.

2. ___________used narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.

A. Sonnet

B. Romance

C. Novel

D. Drama

3.The hero of romance was usually the _______, who set out a journey to accomplish some missions---to protect the church, to attack infidelity, to rescue a maiden，to meet a challenge, or to obey a knightly command.

A. soldier

B. poet

C. knight（骑士）

D. singer

4. ____ marked the beginning of Romanticism in English poetry.

A. Wuthering Heights

B. A Red, Red Rose

C. Lyrical Ballads （抒情歌谣集）

D. Ode to the West Wind

5. “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’’

This quotation is a _____.

A. quatrain

B. ballad

C. trimeter

D. couplet（相连并押韵的两行诗，对句）

6. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line from ____.

A. She Walks in Beauty

B. Ode to the West Wind（西风颂）

C. The Solitary Reaper

D. On the Seas and Far Away

7._________ is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.

A. Hamlet

B. Beowulf

C. Utopia

D. Lyrical Ballads

8. Which of the following is not included in the most famous four tragedies of William Shakespeare?

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. The Merchant of Venice

D. King Lear

9. ___________ is the forerunner of English realistic novel, also the writer of the famous novel“Robinson Crusoe”.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Samuel Richardson

C. Daniel Defoe（笛福）

D. Jonathan Swift

10. Which of the following was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. The American Scholar（论美国学者）

B. Nature

C. Self-Reliance

D. Walden（瓦尔登湖）

11. He was called “ father of American Literature” and his stories “ Rip Van Winkle”and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”（睡谷的传说）are widely read even today.Who is he?

A. Washington Irving（欧文）

B. Sherwood Anderson

C. Mark Twain

D. Ernest Hemingway

12. Generally speaking, which literary school was Mark Twain grouped into?

A.romanticism

B.realism

C.naturalism

D. post-modernism

13. The major trend in American literature in the first half of the 19th century is____

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. sentimentalism

D. naturalism

14. Who is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective fiction?

A. Washington Irving

B. William Dean Howells

C. Mark Twain

D. Edgar Allan Poe（埃德加·爱伦·坡）

15. Which of the following is NOT true about Robert Burns?

A. He wrote in Scottish dialect.

B. He was a peasant poet.

C. His language is plain.

D. A Red Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne and The Song of Innencenc are his poems.

16. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative（创新的）in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”

A. free verse(自由诗体)

B. blank verse

C. alliteration

D. end rhyming

17.The five“I”s in Romanticism is: Imagination, Intuition, Idealism, ___________.

A. integrality and Inspiration

B. Inspiration and Individuality

C. Individuality and integrality

D. integrality and Industry

18.I Died for Beauty was written by _____________?

A. Walt Whitman

B. Emily Dickinson（艾米丽狄金森）

C. Robert Frost

D. Stephen Crane

19. Which literary school was Charles Dickens generally grouped into?

A. The English Critical Realism of the Nineteenth Century

B. The English Realistic School of the Eighteenth Century

C. The English Romanticism of the Nineteenth Century

D. The English Modernism of the Twentieth Century

20. Which of the following was not written by Thomas Hardy?

A. Tess of D’Urberville

B. Far from the Madding Crowd

C. Jude the Obscure

D. The Forsyte Saga

21. American literature is based on a myth, that is, the Biblical myth of _________________.

A. Genesis

B. the Garden of Eden

C. the Deliverance from Slavery

D. Song of Songs

22. Among four of the following writers , who was the author of Invisible Man?

A.Ralph Waldo Ellison

B. Richard Wright(1908-1960

ngston Hughes

D. Frederick Douglass

23. _________ is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.

A. Hamlet

B. Utopia

C. Beowulf

D. Lyrical Ballads

24. Utopia was written by _______________.

A. Thomas More

B. John Milton

C. John Keats

D. Ben Johnson

25. “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’’