自考英美文学选读00604考前串讲(4)

英美文学考前串讲（4）Chapter 3 The Romantic Period

I. Choose the right answer:

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

Answer: B (P160)

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 von Goethe

C.Edmund Burke

D.Thomas Paine

Answer: A (P157)

3. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period

are _____and Walter Scott.

A.Washington Irving

B.Jane Austen

C.Herman Melville

D.Charles Dickens

Answer: B (P165)

4. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men,"

and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."

A.William Blake

B.William Wordsworth

C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D.John Keats

Answer: B (P161)

5. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of

poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.

A.love

B.man

C.nature

D.death

Answer: C (P162)

6. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary

form.

A.prose

B.poetry

C.fiction

D.play

Answer: B (P161)

7. The tone of literature in "Song of Experience" by William Blake is _______.

A.doleful

B.lively

C.plain

D.utter

Answer: A (doleful: 悲哀的P168-169)

8. _____is regarded as a "worship of nature".

A.John Keats

B.William Blake

C.William Wordsworth

D.Jane Austen

Answer: C (P176)

9. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?

A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

posed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.

C.The Solitary Reaper.

D.The Chimney Sweeper.

Answer: D (P179---182)

10. Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about nature and poems about________.

A.love

B.human life

C.freedom

D.social activities

Answer: B (P176)

11. "Don Juan" is Byron’s masterpiece, a great ______of the

early 19th century.

edy

B.tragedy

ic epic

D.novel

Answer: C (P194)

12. In his lyrics such as "Ode to Liberty", "Ode to Naples", Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love for_____ and his hatred toward tyranny.

A.the middle class

B.the poor

C.freedom

D.the proletariat

Answer: C (P207)

13. "Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; / Destroy and

Preserver; hear, O hear!" The two lines are found in_____.

A.Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne

B.Ode to the West Wind by Shelly

C.Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

D.Ulysses by Joyce

Answer: B (P212)

14. In Shelly’s "To a Skylark", the bird, suspended between reality and poetic image, pours forth an exultant song

which suggests to the poet________.

A.both celestial rapture and human limitation

B.both image creation and profound meaning

C.both music and words

D.both inspiration and skills of writing

Answer: A (P206)

15. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.

A.Wordsworth

B.Austen

C.Byron

D.Keats