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英美文学名著导读期末考试模拟题

(You are required to write down your answers on the Answer Sheet)

I.Multiple Choice:

1.The Renaiance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is Not such an event?()

A.the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture

B.new discovery in geography and astrology

C.England’s domestic rest

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.Matin LutherB.Geoffrey ChaucerC.William Langland

3.The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s____.()

A.comediesB.odesC.sonnets

4.All the following 3 except ____ are the most famous dramatist in the Renaiance England.()

A.Francis BaconB.William ShakespeareC.Christopher Marlowe

5.In Beowulf, ____ fought against the monster Grendel and a fire breathing dragon.()

A.the ScandinaviansB.the Winter DragonC.the Anglo-Saxons

6.Francis Bacon is best known for his ____ which greatly influenced the development of this

literary form.()

A.worksB.poemsC.eays

7._____is the most succeful religious allegory in the English language.()

A.The Holy WarB.The Pilgrim’s Proce

C.The Life and Death of Mr.Badman

8.Generally, the renaiance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its eence is ____()

A.philosophyB.scienceC.humanism

9.“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”

What does “this ” refer to?()

A.poetryB.timeC.lover

10.“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulle and heartle? …

And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave.” The above quoted paage is most probably taken from ____.()

A.Jane EyreB.Wuthering HeightsC.Great Expectations

11.It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poem are in the form of ____.()

A.EpicB.odeC.sonnet

12.Daniel Defoe’s novels mainly focus on ____.()

A.the struggle of the pirates for wealth

B.the struggle of the shipwrecked persons for security

C.the struggle of the unfortunate for mere existence

13.“So much the worse for me, that I am strong.Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you-oh, God!Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?” In the above paage

quoted from Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the word “soul” apparently refers to ____.()

A.CatherineB.ghostC.Heathcliff

14.Which statement about Emily Brontë is not true?()

A.She lived a very short life.B.Her masterpiece is noted for its optimistic tone

C.She was famous for her Wuthering Heights.15.We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley’s poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms except _____.()

A.tamedB.proudC.swift

16.“Blindne”, “partiality”, “prejudice” and “absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice most

likely the characteristics of ____.()

A.Mrs.BennetB.Mr.BennetC.Elizabeth Bennet

17.The greatest poet of the Middle English period is _____, the father of English poetry.()

A.John MiltonB.Geoffrey ChaucerC.William Langland

18.Portia, the heroine in “______”is one of Shakespeare's ideal women: beautiful, prudent, cultured and capable of rising to an emergency.()

A.“The Merchant of Venice”B.“King Lear”C.“As You Like It”

19.“Modern Fiction” is one of Woolf's important critical eays, in which the writerpraises_____ as “the most notable” of “several young writers.”()

A.James JoyceB.Thomas HardyC.Joseph Conrad

20._____develops around the life of a middle-cla Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus, from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later.()

A.“Ulyes”B.“Dubliners”C.“A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man”

21.The heroine Te in “Te of the D'urbervilles” seems to be led to her finaldestruction step by step by _____, as Hardy says at the end of the novel: “Justice was done,and the President of the Immortals had ended his sport with Te.”()

A.AlecB.Angel ClareC.Fate

22.Which of the following novels by D.H.Lawrence shows the influence of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis, especially that of the “Oedipus complex”?()

A.“Sons and Lovers”B.“Women in Love”C.“The Rainbow“

23.”If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?“ This is written by _____, one of the leading Romantic poets.()

A.Percy Byhe ShelleyB.William WordsworthC.John Keats

24.Jonathan Swift's ”Gulliver's Travels“ gives an unparalleled_____depiction of thevices of his age.()

A.satiricalB.romanticC.comic

25.John Keats' famous poem_____exprees the poet’s pursuit of truth, virtue andbeauty.()

A.”Ode on a Grecian Urn“B.”Ode to a Nightingale“C.”Endymion“ 26.”The School for Scandal“ by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as thebest

_____since Shakespeare.()

A.comedyB.proseC.tragedy

27.______ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature.()

A.Geoffrey ChaucerB.Edmund SpenderC.George Gordon Byron

28.Which of the following is William Shakespeare's history play?

A.Henry IVB.MacbethC.King Lear

29.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.“ These two lines are quoted from ____'s poem?()

A.Emily DickinsonB.Ezra Pound C.Robert Lee Frost

30.Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere.The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the _____.()

A.late 18th-centuryB.17th –centuryC.late 19th –century

31.Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addrees iues that concern the whole human beings.Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expreion?

()

A.Life and DeathB.War and PeaceD.Love and Nature

32.Walden is a ______.()

A.lyric poemB.short storyC.Transcendentalist work

33.______ is considered Mark Twain's greatest achievement.()

A.The Gilded Age B.Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC.Innocents Abroad

34.At the beginning of Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily's old house.The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it ______.()

A.has good tasteB.is a prisoner of the pastC.is a conservative aristocrat

35.______ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.()

A.F.Scott Fitzgerald B.Eugene O'NeillC.Ernest Hemingway

36.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain's language?()

A.HumorousB.ColloquialC.Elegant

37.The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens's works lies in his ______.()

A.optimismB.social criticismC.character portrayal

38.The Victorian Age is most famous for its ______.()

A.novelsB.playsC.poems

39.Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters?()

A.Charlotte BronteB.Mary BronteC.Emily Bronte

40.“Histories make men wise;poets, witty;the mathematics, subtle;natural philosophy, deep;moral, grave;logic and rhetoric, able to contend.” This sentence appears in _____.()

A.Of StudiesB.The Advancement of LearningC.An Eay on Criticism

41.In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _____?()

A.rising bourgeoisieB.enterprising landlordsC.hard-working people

42.About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not right?()

A.It's very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.B.In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.C.It's a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.43.More than five hundred poems Emily Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general ______ about the relationship between man and nature is well-expreed.()

A.skepticismB.happineC.denial

44.Eugene O'Neill is remembered for his tragic view of life and most of his plays are about ______.()

A.the moral nature of the modern mankind

B.the root, the truth of human desires and human frustrations

C.the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman

45.Which of the following is not said about the main principles of the Imagist Movement?()

A.the treatment of the medium of poetry in agreement with Romanticism

B.the elimination of merely ornamental or superfluous words

C.a direct treatment of poetic subjects

46.Hemingway's first true novel ______ casts light on a whole generation after the First World War and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation.”()

A.The Sun Also Rises B.A Farewell to ArmsC.The Old Man and the Sea

47.In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ______.()

A.the change of the social forceB.the corruption of the newly rich

C.the free spirit of the New World

48.Which of the following can be said about Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily?()

A.The chronology of narration is displaced.B.The “stream of consciousne” technique is employed in it.C.There are too many characters whose relations are too complicated.49.The Romantic Period in American literature stretches from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of ______.()

A.the Civil WarB.the Revolutionary WarC.the War for Independence50.The novel Moby Dick shows the rebellious struggle of Captain Ahab against______.()

A.the savage harpooners and the motley crew

B.the gliding great demon of the seas of life

C.the overwhelming, mysterious vastne of the universe and the awesome forces

51.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American ______.()

A.NaturalismB.RomanticismC.Realism

52.Which of the following statements can be said about the novel Sister Carrie?()

A.Its heroine is a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities but soon gets tired of her succe.B.It tells about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon gets disillusioned.C.Its heroine is a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms with the present.53.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, romance should be______.()

A.full of adventuresB.a true record of human life

C.a mixture of facts and fancy

54.In his writings, Fitzgerald could present a panorama of the Jazz Age with a deep sight because ______.()

A.He stood aloof and kept a cold eye on the performance of his contemporaries.B.He joined the big party in the 1920s, partaking of the wealth, frivolity, temptations of the time.C.He is both an insider and an outsider of the Jazz Age with a double vision.55.To Hemingway, man’s greatest achievement is to show ______.()

A.optimism under preureB.grace under preure

C.bravery before danger

56.Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?

A.They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.B.They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.C.Many of them portrayed the hollowne of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment.57.Which of the following is reflected in the hero of The Great Gatsby by F.S.Fitzgerald?()

A.The contradictions and disillusionment of the American dream.B.The moral confusion and social decay of the South after the Civil War.C.The hypocrisy and materialism of small town life in the Middle West.58.Which of the following can be said about the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller?()

A.Her innocence turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality in the new world.B.She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the new world.C.all of the above

59.The pen name of Mark Twain is ______.()

A.Langhorne Samuel ClemensB.Langhorne Clemens Samuel

C.Samuel Langhorne Clemens

60.Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is NOT true?()

A.He is a local colorist.B.He is a realist.C.He is a psychologist.61.Henry James's fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the _____theme.()

A.internationalB.local colorC.Deep South

62.As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _____.()

A.rejected the romantic way choosing instead the revolutionary principles

B.rejected the conventional poetic principles and chose the revolutionary way

C.rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries choosing instead the old-fashioned way to be new

63.Which of the following is not written by Eugene O’Neill?()

A.The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape

B.Long Day’s Journey into Night and The Great Gatsby

C.Desire under the Elms and Beyond the Horizon

64.Which of the following can be said of the recurring themes of Ernest Hemingway’s writings?

A.Life’s tragedies and the courage required to face them.B.The affinities between the idealistic and the materialistic, and the human effort to reconcile the extremes.C.The evitability of world wars and their impacts in individuals.65.As to Hemingway’s writing style, which of the following statements is right?()

A.It’s colloquialism that makes his characters dull and boring.B.It is seldom polished and loosely controlled though seemingly simple and natural.C.The use of short, simple and conventional words and sentences has an effect of clearne, tersene and great care.66.______ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper cla, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous cla of the “Poor Whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them.()

A.E.HemingwayB.F.S.FitzgeraldC.W.Faulkner

67.Which of the following statements about Hemingway’s works is Not true?()

A.Man can be physically destroyed and spiritually defeated.B.“Grace under preure” is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works.C.Hemingway’s style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but highly suggestive and connotative.68.Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ______.()

A.short storiesB.poemsC.literary critic theories

69.”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud“ is one of William Wordsworth’s best-known poems.The last stanza of this poem describes the kind of ______.()

A.recollection in tranquility

B.concern with the French revolution

C.spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

70.In her novels, Jane Austen is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between ______.（）

A.men and women in love.B.fathers and sons in conflict.C.mothers and daughters in love.II.Read the following paages selected from the textbook and answer the questions below：

1.Paraphrase the sentence “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in

poeion of a good fortune, must be want of a wife.” in Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice and explore the function of this sentence.2.What is the theme of the short story “A Rose for Emily” by W.Faulkner? And what does the

rose symbolize or mean?

3.The selected chapter in our textbook from D.H.Lawrence’s novel Sons and Lovers is entitled

“The Young Life of Paul”.Describe Paul’s life condition.Think about the role the title plays in the novel.Do they reveal much information about the story?

4.With the paage of time, the meaning of the scarlet letter A Hester bears changes gradually.Describe the changes and analyze the relationship between the scarlet letter and Hester’s personality.5.According to Hamlet, why would people rather bear all the sufferings of the world instead of

choosing death to get rid of them?

6.How does William Wordsworth define poetry? And why he prefers to use plain and simple

language for his poetry?

7.In Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare, what’s the relationship between “beauty” and “poetry”?

8.In Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken”, what does the road stand for? Give your interpretation of this poem from your own experience.