英美文学选读-英国-浪漫主义时期-练习题汇总(选择大题)

I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.

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12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writers（）.

A. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man

B. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their works

C. took pains to portray a world of harmony and balance

D. tended to glorify Rome and advocated rational Italian and French art as superior to the native traditions

18．Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry?

A．Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth

C．“Remorse ” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D．Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

19．The literary form which is fully developed and the most flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______________.

A．prose B．drama C．novel D．poetry 20．English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have ended in 1832 with ______.

A．the passage of the first Reform Bill in the Parliament

B．the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

C．the publication of T．S．Eliot’s The waste Land

D．the passage of the Bill of Rights in the Parliament

10．Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that ______________.

A．the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences

B．the former is heavily religious but the latter secular

C．the former is an intellectual movement, the purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation

D．the former advocates the “return to nature” whereas the latter turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models.

8. The major British Romantic poets Blake，Wordsworth，Coleridge，Byron，Shelley and Keats started a rebellion against the neoclassical literature，which was later regarded as _____.

A. the poetic romance

B. the poetic movement

C. the poetic revolution

D. the poetic reformation

14. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT______.

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Southey

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

20. English Romanticism,as a historical phase of literature,is generally said to have begun with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s_____.1

A. Poetical Sketches

B. A Defence of Poetry

C. Lyrical Ballads

D. The Prelude

13. The Romantic period is an age of _____.

a. prose

b. drama

c. poetry

d. both a and c

14. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are _____.

a. William Wordsworth and John Keats

b. John Keats and Jane Austen

c. Jane Austen and Walter Scott

d. William

10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct? 6

A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century.

B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.

C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.

D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance.

1 William Blake

7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.

A. William Wordsworth

B. William Blake

C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D. John Keats

7.In his poem “Tyger, Tyger,”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful symmetry”of the big cat.The phrase“fearful symmetry”suggests（）.

A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set

B. the poet’s fear of the predator

C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil

D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation

13.The poems such as“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by（）.

A. William Wordsworth

B. William Blake

C. John Keats

D. Lord Gordon Byron

13.“Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright/ In the forests of the ni ght, / What immortal hand or eye / Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”(“The Tiger”by William Blake) The above lines（）.

A. describe the tiger’s fierce eyes and forceful hands at night

B. express the poet’s curiosity for the skillful creation of the tiger