滨2009级英美文学名篇导读.doc

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 Renaissance 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 cultureB. new discovery in geography and astrologyC. Englands domestic rest2. 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 Luther B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. William Langland 3. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summers day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeares_. ( ) A. comedies B. odes C. sonnets4. All the following 3 except _ are the most famous dramatist in the Renaissance England. ( ) A. Francis Bacon B. William Shakespeare C. Christopher Marlowe 5. In Beowulf, _ fought against the monster Grendel and a fire breathing dragon. ( ) A. the Scandinavians B. the Winter Dragon C. the Anglo-Saxons 6. Francis Bacon is best known for his _ which greatly influenced the development of this literary form. ( ) A. works B. poems C. essays7. _is the most successful religious allegory in the English language. ( ) A. The Holy War B. The Pilgrims Process C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman 8. Generally, the renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is _( ) A. philosophy B. science C. 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. poetry B. time C. lover10. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless? 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 passage is most probably taken from _. ( ) A. Jane Eyre B. Wuthering Heights C. Great Expectations 11. It is generally regarded that Keatss most important and mature poem are in the form of _. ( ) A. Epic B. ode C. sonnet12. Daniel Defoes 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 existence13. “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 passage quoted from Emily Bronts Wuthering Heights, the word “soul” apparently refers to _. ( ) A. Catherine B. ghost C. Heathcliff14. Which statement about Emily Bront 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 Shelleys poem “Ode to the West Wind” with all the following terms except _. ( ) A. tamed B. proud C. swift16. “Blindness”, “partiality”, “prejudice” and “absurdity” in the novel Pride and Prejudice most likely the characteristics of _. ( ) A. Mrs. Bennet B. Mr. Bennet C. Elizabeth Bennet17. The greatest poet of the Middle English period is _, the father of English poetry. ( )A. John Milton B. Geoffrey Chaucer C. William Langland18. Portia, the heroine in _is one of Shakespeares ideal women: beautiful, prudent, cultured and capable of rising to an emergency. ( )A. The Merchant of Venice B. King Lear C. As You Like It19. Modern Fiction is one of Woolfs important critical essays, in which the writer praises_ as the most notable of several young writers. ( )A. James JoyceB. Thomas Hardy C. Joseph Conrad20. _develops around the life of a middle-class Irish boy, Stephen Dedalus, from his infancy to his departure from Ireland some twenty years later. ( )A. UlyssesB. Dubliners C. A Portrait of the Aritist as a Young Man21. The heroine Tess in Tess of the Durbervilles seems to be led to her final destruction 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 Tess. ( )A. AlecB. Angel ClareC. Fate 22. Which of the following novels by D. H. Lawrence shows the influence of Freuds theory of psychoanalysis, especially that of the Oedipus complex?( )A. Sons and Lovers B. Women in LoveC. “The Rainbow23.If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? This is written by _, one of the leading Romantic poets. ( )A. Percy Bysshe ShelleyB.William Wordsworth C. John Keats 24. Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels gives an unparalleled_depiction of the vices of his age. ( )A. satiricalB. romanticC. comic25.John Keats famous poem_expresses the poets pursuit of truth, virtue and beauty. ( )A. Ode on a Grecian UrnB.Ode to a Nightingale C. Endymion26.The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan has been regarded as the best _since Shakespeare. ( )A. comedy B.prose C. tragedy27. _ employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature. ( )A. Geoffrey ChaucerB. Edmund Spender C. George Gordon Byron28. Which of the following is William Shakespeares history play?A. Henry IVB. Macbeth C. King Lear29. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. “ These two lines are quoted from _s poem? ( )A. Emily Dickinson B. Ezra Pound C.Robert Lee Frost30. 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 century C. late 19th century31. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? ( )A. Life and Death B. War and PeaceD. Love and Nature32. Walden is a _.( )A. lyric poem B. short story C. Transcendentalist work33. _ is considered Mark Twains greatest achievement. ( )A. The Gilded AgeB. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn C. Innocents Abroad 34. At the beginning of Faulkners A Rose for Emily, there is a detailed description of Emilys old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it _.( )A. has good taste B. is a prisoner of the past C. is a conservative aristocrat 35. _ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner. ( )A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Eugene ONeill C. Ernest Hemingway36. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twains language? ( )A. Humorous B. Colloquial C. Elegant37. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickenss works lies in his _.( )A. optimismB. social criticism C. character portrayal38. The Victorian Age is most famous for its _.( )A. novels B. plays C. poems 39. Which of the following women does not belong to the famous Bronte Sisters? ( )A. Charlotte Bronte B. Mary Bronte C. Emily Bronte40. “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 Studies B. The Advancement of Learning C. An Essay on Criticism 41. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the _?( )A. rising bourgeoisie B. enterprising landlords C. hard-working people42. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is not right? ( )A. Its 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. Its 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-expressed. ( )A. skepticism B. happiness C.denial 44. Eugene ONeill 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 frustrationsC. the relationship between man and nature as well as man and woman45. 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 wordsC. a direct treatment of poetic subjects46. Hemingways 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 RisesB. A Farewell to Arms C. The Old Man and the Sea47. 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 richC. the free spirit of the New World48. Which of the following can be said about Faulkners A Rose for Emily? ( )A. The chronology of narration is displaced.B. The “stream of consciousness” 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 War B. the Revolutionary War C. the War for Independence 50.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 lifeC. the overwhelming, mysterious vastness of the universe and the awesome forces51. The impact of Darwins 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. Naturalism B. Romanticism C. 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 success.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, mans greatest achievement is to show _.( )A. optimism under pressure B. grace under pressure C. bravery before danger56. 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 hollowness 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 above59. The pen name of Mark Twain is _. ( )A. Langhorne Samuel Clemens B. Langhorne Clemens Samuel C. Samuel Langhorne Clemens60. 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 Jamess fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the _ theme. ( )A. international B. local color C. Deep South 62. As a poet in the 20th century, Robert Frost _. ( )A. rejected the romantic way choosing instead the revolutionary principlesB. rejected the conventional poetic principles and chose the revolutionary wayC. rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries choosing instead the old-fashioned way to be new63. Which of the following is not written by Eugene ONeill? ( )A. The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape B. Long Days Journey into Night and The Great GatsbyC. Desire under the Elms and Beyond the Horizon64. Which of the following can be said of the recurring themes of Ernest Hemingways writings? ( )A. Lifes 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 Hemingways writing style, which of the following statements is right? ( )A. Its 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 clearness, terseness and great care.66. _ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class, the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “Poor Whites”, and the Negroes who labored for both of them. ( )A. E. Hemingway B. F. S. Fitzgerald C. W. Faulkner67. Which of the following statements about Hemingways works is Not true? ( )A. Man can be physically destroyed and spiritually defeated.B. “Grace under pressure” is actually an attitude towards life that Hemingway had been trying to demonstrate in his works.C. Hemingways style is actually polished and tightly controlled, but highly suggestive and connotative.68. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes _ . ( ) A. short stories B. poems C. literary critic theories69. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud is one of William Wordsworths best-known poems. The last stanza of this poem describes the kind of _.( )A. recollection in tranquilityB. concern with the French revo