英美文学练习题

1、英美文学选读a. each of the following below is followed by four alternative answer. choose the one that would bet complete the statement and put the letter in the blank.(每小题1分，共30分） 1. generally, the renaissance refers to the period between _ and _ centuries.a. 14th.mid-17th b. 14th.mid-18th c. 16th.mid-18

2、th d. 16th.mid-17th 2. _ frequently applied conceits in his poems.a. spenser b. donne c. blake d. thomas gray 3. _ is known as the poets poet.a. shakespeare b. marlowe c. spenser d. donne 4. the 18th century england is known as the _ in the history.a. renaissance b. classicism c. enlightenment d. ro

3、manticism 5. _ and william shakespeare are the best representatives of the english humanism.a. edmund spenser, christoper marlowe b. thomas more, christoper marlowec. john donne, edmund spenserd. john milton, thomas more 6. the middle of the 18th century was predominated by a newly rising literary f

4、orm, that is the modern english _, which gives a realistic presentation of life of the common english people.a. prose b. short story c. novel d. tragicomedy 7. _ is the central concern to blakes concern in the song of innocence and song of experience.a. childhood b. woman c. poetry d. happiness 8. a

5、mong the following plays which is not written by marlowe? _a. dr. faustus b. the jew of maltac. edward ii d. school for scandal 9. shakespeares greatest tragedies are _.a. hamlet, othello, king lear and macbethb. hamlet, othello, king lear and romeo and julietc. hamlet, coriolanus, king lear and mac

6、bethd. hamlet, julius caesar, othello and macbeth 10. among the pioneers of the 18th century novelists were daniel defoe, samuel richardson, henry fielding and _.a. laurance sterne b. john drydenc. charles dickens d. alexander pope 11. which of the following gothic novels was not written in the 18th

7、 century? _a. the castle of otrantob. the italianc. the monk d. the fall of the house of usher 12. in the theatrical world of the neoclassical period, _ was the leading figure among the host of playwrights.a. william blake b. richard sheridanc. ben johnson d. bernard shaw 13. dickens works are chara

8、cterized by a mingling of _ and pathos.a. humor b. satire c. passion d. metaphor 14. the success of jane eyre is not only because of its sharp criticism of the existing society, but also due to its introduction to the english novel the first _ heroine.a. explorer b. peasant c. worker d. governess 15

9、. in _ tennyson dealt with the theme of womens rights and position.a. poem b. the princess c. in memorian d. idylls of the king 16. the custom-house is an introductory note to _.a. moby-dick b. the scarlet letterc. the marble faun d. the blithedale romance 17. the publication of _ established emerso

10、n as the most eloquent spokesman of the new england transcendentalism.a. nature b. self-reliance c. the over-soul d. the american scholar 18. when lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed is most probably a poem _.a. that celebrates the burgeoning life of citiesb. that sings highly freedom and democracyc

11、. that condemns violence and bloodshedd. that mourns for the death of lincoln 19. _ is not a dominant figure of the realistic period.a. william dean howells b. mark twainc. henry james d. james f. cooper 20. the book from which all modern american literature comes refers to _.a. moby-dick b. the adv

12、entures of huckleberry finnc. the sun also rises d. the great gatsby 21. strong affinity to the chinese and oriental literature can be found in the works of _.a. mark twain b. ezra pound c. emily dikinson d. arthur miller 22. in a station of the metro is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of

13、_.a. the absurd poetry b. the transcendental poetryc. the romantic poetry d. the imagist poetry 23. the founder of the american drama is _.a. arthur miller b. eugene oneill c. tennesee williams d. clifford odets 24. f. scott fitzgerald is not the author of _.a. this side of paradise b. tender is the

14、 nightc. the great gatsby d. in our time 25. _ is not a fictional character in the scarlet letter.a. hester b. arthur dimmersdalec. roger chillingworth d. ishmael 26. the period ranging from 1865 to 1914 has been referred to as _.a. the age of colonicalism b. the age of romanticismc. the age of real

15、ism d. the age of modernism 27. statement _ is not true in describing american naturalists.a. they were deeply influenced by darwinism.b. they were identified with french novelist and theorist emile zola.c. they chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society.d. they used more serious and more

16、sympathetic tone in writing than realists. 28. _ is considered by h.l.mencken as the true father of our national literature.a. hemingway b. poe c. irving d. twain 29. they all shared the same thematic concern except _.a. robert penn warren b. flannery oconnerc. william faulkner d. norman mailer 30.

17、_ draws on the jewish experience and tradition and examines subtly the dismantling of the self by an intolerable modern history.a. allen ginsberg b. john updikec. saul bellow d. j.d. salinger b. give the author and genre of each of the following literary works.(每小题2分，共20分） 1. the shepheardes calende

18、r2. farewell to love3. much ado about nothing4. childe harolds pilgrmage5. dombey and the son6. the iceman cometh7. the road not taken8. the cantos9. the grapes of wrath10. babbit c. define the literary terms listed below. （每小题5分，共10分） 1. utilitarianism2. free versed. for each of the quotations list

19、ed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary work from which it is taken and then briefly interpret it.(每小题5分，共15分） 1. shall i compare thee to a summers day? thou are more lovely and more temperate: rough winds do shake the daring buds of may, and summers least hath all

20、too short a date: sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines and often is his gold complexion dimmed; 2. i heard a flay buzz-when i died- the stillness in the room was like the stillness in the air- between the heaves of storm- 3. there is music from my neighbors house through the summer nights. in

21、his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and stars. at high tide in the afternoon i watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. on week-ends his rolls-royce became an omnibus, b