英美文学作品选读试题

1 Test1Test1 1Which of the following novels by D H Lawrence shows the influence of Freud s theory of psychoanalysis especially that of the Oedipus complex A The Rainbow B Women in Love C Sons and Lovers D Lady Chatterley s Lover 参考答案 Sons and Lovers 2 In Chapter III of Oliver Twist Oliver is punished for that impious and profane offence of asking for more What did Oliver ask for more A More time to play B More food to eat C More books to read D More money to spend 参考答案 More food to eat 3 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 you The above quoted passage is most probable taken from A Pride and Prejudice B Jane Eyre C Wuthering Heights D Great Expectations 参考答案 Jane Eyre 4 In the 19th century English literature a new literary trend appeared A realism B naturalism C romanticism D critical realism 参考答案 critical realism 5 D H Lawrence artistic tendency is mainly which combine dramatic scence with authoritative commentary A romanticism B realism C naturalism D modernism 参考答案 realism 6 The Victorian Age was an age of eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray A poetry B drama C prose D epic prose 2 参考答案 epic prose 7 Dickens best depicted characters are the following EXCEPT A innocent virtuous persecuted and helpless child characters B horrible and grotesque characters C broadly humorous or comical characters D simple innocent and faithful women characters 参考答案 simple innocent and faithful women characters 8 The Movement appeared in the 30s of the 19th century It showed that the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy A Enlightenment B Renaissance C Chartist D Romanticist 参考答案 Chartist 9 Charlotte Bronte s autobiograghical work largely based on her experience in Brussels A The Professor B Shirley C Villette D Jane Eyre 参考答案 Jane Eyre 10 Most of Hardy s later works show his view of life A optimistic B pessimistic C practical D ironical 参考答案 pessimistic 11 The end of the 19th century is a period of struggle between and trends in art and literature A Realistic Anti realistic B Realsistic Surreslistic C Realistic Romantic D Romantic Humansism 参考答案 Realistic Anti realistic 12 So long as men can breathe or eyes can see So long lives this and this gives life to thee Shakespeare Sonnets 18 What does this refer to A Lover B Time C Summer D Poetry 参考答案 Poetry 13 The first novel written by Thomas Hardy is A Desperate Remedies 3 B Under the Greenwood C The Return of the Native D The Mayor of Casterbridge 参考答案 Desperate Remedies 14 The major concer of fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature A D H Lawrence s B J Galsworthy s C W Thackeray s D T Hardy s 参考答案 D H Lawrence s 15 The success of is also due to its introduction to the English novel the first governess heroine A The Professor B Jane Eyre C Wuthering Heights D Far From the Madding Crowd 参考答案 Jane Eyre 16 Which of the following is the hero in the novel Jane Eyre A Mr Rochester B Heathcliff C Hindley D Silas Marner 参考答案 Mr Rochester 17 Which one is the English greatest critical realist novelist A William Makepeace Thackeray B Charles Dickens C George Eliot D Thomas Hardy 参考答案 Charles Dickens 18 Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism A To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being B To put the stress on traditional values C To portray the distorted and alienated relationship between man and his environment D To advocate a conscious break with the past 参考答案 To put the stress on traditional values 19 Charles Dickens novel is famous for its vivid description of the work house and life of the underworld in the 19th century London A The Pickwick Paper B Oliver Twist C David Copperfield D Nicholas Nickleby 4 参考答案 Oliver Twist 20 He was afraid of her the small severe woman with graying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy The postman came running back afraid something had happened They saw his tipped cap over the short curtains Mrs Morel rushed to the door The above passage is taken from A Charlotte Bronte s The professor B Charles Dickens s Dombey and Son C D H Lawrence s Sons and Lovers D John Galsworthy s The Forsyte Saga 参考答案 D H Lawrence s Sons and Lovers 21 Tess of the D Urbervilles one of Thomas Hardy s best known novles portrays man as A being hereditarily either good or bad B being self sufficient C having no control over his won fate D still retaining his own faith in a wold of confusion 参考答案 having no control over his won fate 22 In Hardy s Tess of D urbervilles the heroine s tragic ending is due to A her weak character B her ambition C Angel Clare s selfishness D a hostile society 参考答案 a hostile society 23 When he was young Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a A A printing house B store C Tailor s shop D factory 24 Damn the fool Ther he is cried Heathcliff sinking back into his seat Hush my darling Hush hush Catherine I ll stay If he shot me so I d expire with a blessing in my lips The novel from which the passage is taken must be D A Jane Austen s Pride and Prejudice B Charles Dickens s The Old Curiosity Shop C Samuel Richardson s Pamela D Emily Bronte s Wuthering Heights 5 Test2Test2 试题 1 Of all Herman Melville s sea adventure stories proves to be the best Typee Redburn Moby Dick Omoo 参考答案 Moby Dick 试题 2 American Transcendentalists most typically believe that man is divine in name art is superior to life man can transform nature poetry is the highest form of art 参考答案 man can transform nature 试题 3 Besides sketches tales and essays Washington Irving also published a book on which is also considered an important part of his creative writing poetic theory French art history of New York life of George Washington 参考答案 history of New York 试题 4 Poe s first collection of short stories is Tales of a Traveller Leatherstocking Tales Canterbury Tales Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 参考答案 Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque 试题 5 In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is Washington Irving Ralph Waldo Emerson Nathaniel Hawthorne Walt Whitman 参考答案 Washington Irving 试题 6 Henry David Thoreau s work has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism Walden The pioneers Nature Song of Myself 参考答案 Walden 试题 7 The Transcendentalists believe that first nature is ennobling and second the individual is 参考答案 divine insignificant vicious by nature divine forward looking 试题 8 Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson the chief spokesman of American Romanticism Importance of the Individual Faith in Christianity The Over soul Self reliance 参考答案 Faith in Christianity 试题 9 It is on his that Washington Irving s fame mainly rested childhood recollections sketches about his European tours early poetry tales about America 参考答案 tales about America 试题 10 The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his black 6 vision The term black vision refers to Hawthorne s observation that every man faces a black wall Hawthorne s belief that all men are by nature evil that Hawthorne s employed a dream vision to tell his story that Puritans of Hawthorne s time usually wore black clothes 参考答案 Hawthorne s belief that all men are by nature evil 试题 11 In Hawthorne s novels and short stories intellectuals ususlly appear as commentators observers villains saviors 参考答案 villains 试题 12 The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as the romantic period the realistic period the naturalistic period the modern period 参考答案 the romantic period 试题 13 usually was regarded as the first American writher William Bradford Anne Bradstreet Emily Dickinson Captain John Smith 参考答案 Captain John Smith 试题 14 Which of the following works concerns most concentratedly the Calvinistic view of original sin The Wasteland The Scarlet Letter Leaves of Grass As I Lay Dying 参考答案 The Scarlet Letter 试题 15 Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the who appeared in America Ninth Muse Tenth Muse Best Muse First Muse 参考答案 Tenth Muse 试题 16 The literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century is generally charaterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they speak local dialets are polite and elegant gentlemen are simple and crude farmers are noble savages red and white untainted by society 参考答案 are polite and elegant gentlemen 试题 17 In American literature escaping from the society and returning to nature is common subject The following titles are all related in one way or another to the subject EXCEPT Mark Twain s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Dreiser s Sister Carrie Cooper s Leather Stocking Tales Thoreau s Walden 参考答案 Dreiser s Sister Carrie 试题 18 Which work is written by Freneau The Right of Man The Wild Honey Suckle 7 Poor Richard s Almanac The Day of Doom 参考答案 The Wild Honey Suckle 试题 19 The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the Revolutionism Reason Inividualism Rationalism 参考答案 Inividualism 试题 20 Hester Pryme Dimmsdale Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gablest The Portrait of a Lady The pioneers 参考答案 The Scarlet Letter 试题 21 The American Puritanism as a cultural heritage benefited the Americans in strengthening their moral values weakening their religious faith knowing truth intuitively developing their science and technology 参考答案 strengthening their moral values 试题 22 American Transcendentalists most typically believe that man is divine in name art is superior to life man can transform nature poetry is the highest form of art 参考答案 man can transform nature 试题 23 Which work is written by Freneau The Right of Man The Wild Honey Suckle Poor Richard s Almanac The Day of Doom 参考答案 The Wild Honey Suckle 试题 24 The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the in the American literary histrory A individual feelings B idea of survival of the fittest C strong imagination D return to nature 8 参考答案 idea of survival of the fittest Test3Test3 1 试题 About Naturalism which of the following statements is NOT correct A They portrayed misery and poverty of the underdogs who were demonstrably victims of society and nature B Naturalists chose their subjects from the lower ranks of society C American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism D One of the most familiar themes in American Naturalism is the theme of human bestiality especially an explanation of sexual desire 参考答案 American Naturalism is a reaction against Realism 2 试题 Robert Frost rejected choosing instead A the conventional poetic principles the revolutionary way B the romantic way the revolutionary principles C the revolutionary principles the romantic way D the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries the old fashioned way to be new 参考答案 the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries the old fashioned way to be new 3 试题 As a great innovator in American literature Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called that is A hymn poetry with chanting refrains B blank verse poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat C free verse poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme D ode poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings 参考答案 free verse poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme 4 试题 Generally speaking all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be A transcendentalists B optimists C pessimists D idealists 参考答案 pessimists 5 试题 In her life Emily Dickinson makes enchanting poetry out of A a happy and active life B adventurous experiences C a single household and an inactive life D a hard and suffering life 9 参考答案 a single household and an inactive life 6 试题 American another school of realism resulted mainly from the impact of Darwin s evolutionary theory and the influence of the 19th century French literature A Transcendentalism B Naturalism C Enlightenment D Freudianism 参考答案 Naturalism 7 试题 Typical of the iceberg analogy is writing style A Eugene O Neill s B Ernest Hemingway s C William Faulkner s D Scott Fitzgerald s 参考答案 Ernest Hemingway s 8 试题 The three dominant figures of the period of Realism in American literature are A Mark Twain Henry James and Jack London B Mark Twain Henry James and Theodore Dreiser C William Dean Howells Mark Twain and Jack London D William Dean Howells Mark Twain and Henry James 参考答案 William Dean Howells Mark Twain and Henry James 9 试题 The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their A pessimistic view of life B indestructible spirit C war experiences D masculinity 参考答案 indestructible spirit 10 试题 The modern stream of consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters including Negroes and the redneck as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin A Faulkner B Fitzgerald C Hemingway D Steinbeck 参考答案 Faulkner 11 试题 won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only dramatist ever 10 to win a Nobel Prize He is widely acclaimed founder of the American drama and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature A Miller B William C Heller D O Neill 参考答案 O Neill 12 试题 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 The Old Man and the Sea C For Whom the Bell Tolls D A Farewell to Arms 参考答案 The Sun Also Rises 13 试题 In his famous poem Song of Myself Walt Whitman sets forth two principal beliefs the belief in the singularity and equality of all beings in value and the theory of which is illustrated by lengthy catalogues of people and things A nationality B universality C nature D community 参考答案 universality 14 试题 Which of the following statements about Mark Twain is NOT true A He is a humorist B He is a realist C He is a local colorist D He is a psychologist 参考答案 He is a psychologist 15 试题 In the poem I heard a Fly buzz when I died Emily Dickinson gives a tense description of the greatest rending of the moment of A death B immortality C love D nature 参考答案 death 16 试题 Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings EXCEPT A religion and death 11 B immortality C man and woman love and nature 参考答案 man and woman 17 试题 Henry James fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the theme A Deep South B local color C international D national 参考答案 international 18 试题 was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called Imagist movement A Eliot B Pound C Frost D Dickinson 参考答案 Pound 19 试题 Ezra Pound is a leading spokesman of the famous Movement in the history of American literature A Symbolist B Impressionist C Existentialist D Imagist 参考答案 Imagist 20 试题 Which of the following can NOT be included in the thematic concerns of Robert Frost s Poems A The contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman B The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being C His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working D The terror and tragedy in nature as well as its beauty 参考答案 The contradiction and misunderstanding between man and woman 21 试题 Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner A He is a master of stream of consciousness narrative B His writing is often complex and difficult to understand C He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago D He represents a new group of Southern writers 参考答案 He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago 12 22 试题 Whitman s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT A a free and natural rhythmic pattern B a simple and conversational language C a strict poetic form D an easy flow of feelings 参考答案 a strict poetic form 23 试题 fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of Jazz Age in which he shows a particular interest in the upper class society especially the upper class young people A Eugene O Neill s B Scott Fitzgerald s C Ernest Hemingway s D William Faulkner s 参考答案 Scott Fitzgerald s 24 试题 Which of the following statements is NOT a typical feature of Emily Dickinson s poetry A Her poems have no