《英美文学史》练习题库

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《英美文学史》练习题库

1. Write the names of the authors of the following literary works.

1)Pamela

2)Joseph Andrews

3)The School for Scandal

4)Dictionary

5)Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

6)Songs of Innocence

7) A Red, Red Rose

8)Lyrical Ballads

9)Kubla Khan

10)Poems

11)Ivanhoe

12)Vanity Fair

13)Jane Eyre

14)Wuthering Heights

15)Middlemarch

16)Treasure Island

17)Salome

18)The Forsyte Saga

19)The Return of the Native

20)Mrs. Warren’s Profession

21)Sailing to Byzantium

22)The Rainbow

23)To the Lighthouse

24)Dombey and Son

25)Queen Mab: A philosophical Poem

26)The Jew of Malta

27)Gulliver’s Travels

28)Sense and Sensibility

29)Jonathan Wild

30)T ess of D’Urbervilles

31)King Lear

32)Don Juan

33)The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

34)The Shepherd’s Calendar

35)The Rape of the Lock

36)The Rivals

37)The Mill on the Floss

38)A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

39)An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

40)A Sentimental Journey

41)Ode to the West Wind

42) The Declaration of Independence

43) The Pathfinder

44) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

45) Nature

46) Walden

47) Young Goodman Brown

48) Moby Dick

49) The Black Cat

50) Song of Myself

51) Captain, My Captain

52) Because I could stop for Death

53) The Road Not Taken

54) The Fall of the House of Usher

55) Uncle Tom’s Cabin

56) The Rise of Silas Lapham

57) The Portrait of a Lady

58) The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

59) The Cop and the Anthem

60) The Sea Wolf

61) The Red Badge of Courage

62) The Pit

63) Sister Carrie

64) In a Station of the Metro

65) The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

66) Anecdote of the Jar

67) Chicago

68) The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

69) The Grapes of Wrath

70) The Great Gatsby

71) The Sound and the Fury

72) The Old Man and the Sea

73) The Hairy Ape

74) Death of a Salesman

75) A Rose for Emily

76) The Hollow Men

77) The Song of Hiawatha

78) Of Mice and Men

79) The Gilded Age

80) U.S.A

2. Choose the right answer.

1. Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?

A. Rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.

B. Attempt to remove the old feudalist ideas in Medieval Europe.

C. Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in his life, and tolerance of man’s foibles.

D. Praise of man’s efforts in soul delivery and personal salvation.

2. It is ___ alone who, for the first time in English literature presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.

A. Edmund Spenser

B. Geoffrey Chaucer

C. William Shakespeare

D. John Donne

3.The following belong to the characteristics of ’metaphysical poetry’ represented by ’John Donne’ except___.

A. Conceits

B. Actual imagery and simple diction

C. Argumentative form

D. Elegant style

4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.

A. Greek Mythology

B. Roman legend

C. The Old Testament

D. The New Testament

5. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare’s most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thri ller and a ‘philosophical exploration’ of life and death.

A. The Merchant of Venice

B. Hamlet

C. King Lear

D.The Winter’s Tale

6. It was ___and ___ the two conquests that provided the source for the rise and growth of English literature.

A. Anglos/ Saxons

B. Normans/ Anglo-Saxons

C. Romans/ Normans

D. Greeks/ Romans

7. Marlow’s greatest achievement is that he perfected the ’blank verse’, and he is regarded as ’the pioneer of English drama’, which of the following is not written by him?

A. Tamburlaine

B. The Jew of Malta

C. The Passionate to His Love

D. The Sun Rising

8. ____Essays is the first example of that genre in English literature, which has been recognized as an important landmark in the development of English prose.

A. John Milton’s

B. Francis Bacon’s

C. Montaigne’s

D. Thomas Gray’s

9. _____Was known as “the poets’ poet”.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Edmund Spenser

C. John Donne

D. John Milton

10. Alexander Pope worked painstakingly on his poems and finally brought to its last perfection ______Dryden had successfully used in his plays.

A. the heroic couplet

B. the free verse

C. the blank verse

D. the Spenserian stanza

11. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.