英美文学史试题.doc

台州学院外国语学院学年第学期

级英语本科专业《英国文学史及选读II》期末试卷（12）(闭卷) 姓名班级学号

考试时间:120 分钟

I. Multiple choice. Choose the best out of the four. (10%=1*10)

1. The subject matters of Romanticism include the following But ____.

A. order

B. mysticism

C. exotic pictures

D. interest in the past

2. ____is one of the “Lakers”, or Lake school poets.

A. John Keats

B. Percy Bysshe Shelley

C. Leigh Hunt

D. William Wordsworth

3. Dickens’ autobiographical novel is ____.

A. Hard Times

B. Bleak House

C. Oliver Twist

D. David Copperfield

4. “The Scian and the Teian muse ”are recalled in____.

A. My Last Duchess

B. Ozymandias

C. The Isles of Greece

D. She Walks in Beauty

5. The followig novels are all written by Thomas Hardy except .

A. The Forsyte Saga

B. Jude the Obscure

C. The Return of the Native

D. Far from the Madding Crowd

6. Lawrence revealed Oedipus complex in his novel __________.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. For Whom the Bell Tolls

C. The Sun Also Rises

D. The Old Man and the Sea

7. ____historical novel paved the path for the development of the realistic novel of the 19th century.

A. Jane Austen’s

B. Walter Scott’s

C. Henry Fielding’s

D. Charles Lamb’s

8. The title of Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair was borrowed from ____ by John Bunyan .

A. The Roundabout Paper

B. The Newcomers

C.The Pilgrim’s Progress

D. The Four Georges

9. Anne , the youngest of the Brontes , was the writer of ____.

A. Wuthering Heights

B. Jane Eyre

C. The Professor

D. Agnes Grey

10. In the Idylls of the King, ____ painted the character of the first English national hero, King Arthur, and gave a new meaning to the legends.

A. Robert Browning

B. Thomas Hardy

C. Charles Dickens

D. Alfred Tennyson

II. True or False? Put a T before the statement if you think it is true and put an F if you think it is false.(10%=1*10)

____1. Jane Austen is one of the naturalist novelists . She drew vivid and realistic pictures of everyday life of the country society in her novels .

____2.The Satanic school is composed of Byron , Shelley and Keats .

____3.Childe Harold Pilgrimage made Byron famous overnight .

___4. In Tennyson’s Ulysses, Ulysses is the Greek name for the Roman hero Odysseus in Homer’s Odyssey.

____ 5. The Romantic Age is emphatically an age of novel .

____ 6. In his poems Byron aimed at simplicity and purity of the language, fighting against the conventional forms of the 18th century poetry.

____ 7. Tess’s character can be described as treacherous and unfaithful.

____ 8.Charles Lamb is remembered by the later generations as a great poet.

____ 9. Jane Austen is chronologically a contemporary of Wordsworth and Coleridge.

____10.Ozymandias is Shelley’s sonnet on the transient nature of man and the futility of the dream of immortality.

III. Blank Filling. (10%=1*10)

1. Romanticism in England began in 1798, with the publication of ____.

2. Don Juan, the greatest work by , was written in the prime of his creative power, in the year of 1818-182

3.

3. Ode to a Nightingale was written by _______.

4. Ivanhoe is the masterpiece of the historical novelist_______.

5. The greatest English realist of the Victorian Age was ____.

6. The second half of the 19th century in England produced a number of outstanding poets such as____ , Robert Browning, Charles Algernon Swinburne and so on.

7. ____ is the last and one of the greatest of Victorian novelists .

8. D.H. Lawrence’s novel ____is often taken to be largely biographical .

9. Thomas Hardy is a representative of the English , an extreme form of realism.

10.was written by Alfred Tennyson on the question of the immortality of the soul, in memory of Arthur Hallam, the poet’s beloved friend.

IV. Define or explain the following .(15%=5*3)

1. Onomatopoeia

2. Symbol

3. Stream of consciousness

V. Identify (20%=10*2)