英国文学史及作品选读自测题1

Test Paper One

Ⅰ. Identification.

1. Identify each on the left column with its related information on the right column.

(1) Ernest Jones A. euphuism

(2) Oscar Wilde B. Lake poet

(3) John Lyly C. Chartist poetry

(4) Robert Louis Stevenson D. tragedy

(5) Robert Southey E. sentimentalism

(6) George Eliot F. critical realism

(7) Laurence Sterne G. art for art’s sake

(8) Pamela H. Kunstlerroman

(9) A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man I. epistolary novel

(10) Macbeth J. neo-romanticism

2. Identify the author with his or her work.

(1) Charles Dickens A. A Passage to India

(2) E. M. Foster B. Paradise Regained

(3) Virginia Woolf C. The Garden Party

(4) John Milton D. Of Studies

(5) Shelley E. Jonathan Wild the Great

(6) Francis Bacon F. Jude the Obscure

(7) Katherine Mansfield G. The Waste Land

(8) Henry Fielding H. Hard Times

(9) T. S. Eliot I. To the Lighthouse

(10) Thomas Hardy J. Prometheus Unbound

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1. was one of the most prominent of the 20th century English realistic writers. The Man of Property is one of his works.

2. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels written by .

3. Of Human Bondage is a naturalistic novel by , dealing with the story of

a deformed orphan trying vainly to be an artist.

4. , T. S. Eliot’s most important single poem, has been hailed as a landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry, comparable to Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads.

5. Henry James’ most famous short story is , a ghost story in which the question of childhood corruption obsesses governess.

6. The pessimistic view of life that p redominates most of Hardy’s later works earns him a reputation as a writer.

7. is regarded as the oldest poem in English literature.

8. The most famous English ballads of the 15th century is the Ballads of ,

a legendary outlaw.

9. The greatest and most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is ________.

10. and were two schools of poetry prevailing in the 17th century.

11. wrote his famous prose composite on “An Essay of Dramatic Poesy” i n1668, which established his position as the leading critic of the day. 12. , one of Graham Green’s best novels, tells a story of the wandering of a whisky priest, an outlaw in Mexico, who is seedy and alcoholic as an ordinary man, but fulfills his function as priest.

13. is Byron’s masterpiece, written in the prime of his creative power. He called it an “epic satire”, “a satire on abuses of the present state of society.”14. Romanticism was in effect a revolt of the English against the neoclassical , which prevailed from the days of Pope to those of Johnson.

15. All such works of Coleridge as “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, “Christable” and “Kubla Khan” revealed his keen interest in.

16. The Chartist writers introduced a new theme into English literature: the struggle of the for its rights.

17. The Rape of the Lock takes the form of a , which describes the triviality of high society in a grand style.

18. In , Jonathan Swift suggests that children of the poor Irish people be sold at one year old as food for the English nobles. It shows his indignation toward the terrible oppression and exploitation of the Irish people by the English ruling class.

19. Horace Walpole’s novel began the tradition of Gothic romance in English literature.

20. The typical feature of Robert Browning’s poetry is the .

Ⅲ. Choose the best answer.

1. Life of Charlotte Bronte is written by .

A. Emily Bronte

B. Anne Bronte

C. Mrs. Gaskell

D. George Eliot

2. was appointed poet laureate in succession to Wordsworth in1850.

A. Alfred Tennyson

B. Robert Browning

C. Mrs. Browning

D. Dante Rossetti

3. Most of Hardy’s novels are set in , the fictional primitive and

crude region which is really the home place he both loves and hates.

A. London

B. Yoknapatawpha

C. Wessex

D. Paris

4. Which of the following novels doe s NOT belong to the “stream-of- consciousness” school of novel writing?

A. Ulysses

B. Finnegan’s Wake

C. The Rainbow

D. The Waves

5. is a story about the three generations of the Brangwen family on the Marsh farm.

A. Sons and Lovers

B. Women in Love

C. The Rainbow

D. Man and Superman

6. William Butler Yeats was .

A. an Irish poet

B. a dramatist

C. a critic

D. all of the above

7. The hero in the romance is usually the .

A. king

B. knight

C. Christ

D. churchman

8. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the Elizabethan age?

A. It is the age of intellectual liberty.

B. It is the age of protestant reformation.

C. It is the age of social contentment.

D. It is the age of bourgeois revolution.

9. The Pilgrim’s Progress is .

A. a religious allegory

B. a dramatic sonnet

C. a historical novel

D. a long epic

10. In his early volumes of poetry, mainly writes about animals which are emblems and analogues intended as comments on human life.

A. Philip Larkin

B. W. H. Auden

C. Dylan Thomas

D. Ted Hughes

11. In The French Lieutenant’s Woman, is an existentially independent woman, as she said in the novel, “No limit, no blame, can touch me.”

A. Sarah

B. Ernestina

C. Miranda

D. Mantissa

12. is distinctive in English literature because he makes thriller a serious form, and thus he bridges the gap between popular and serious writers.

A. Graham Greene

B. George Orwell

C. Evelyn Waugh

D. William Golding

13. In , William Wordsworth set forth his prin ciples of poetry, “all good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling”.

A. The Preface to Lyrical Ballads

B. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

C. A Defence of Poetry

D. Lectures on the English Poets

14. The following statements are about “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”. Which statement is NOT true?

A. It is about a young aristocrat whose “world-weariness” bespeaks his loathing for

English high society.

B. Besides Harold’s impressions of the countries he visits, the poem is interspersed

with lyrical outbursts which give utterance to the poet’s own philosophical and political views.

C. The first canto deals with Albania and Greece.

D. The last canto sings of Italy and the Italian people who have given the world

great writers and thinkers like Dante.

15. ’s poetry is always sensuous, colorful and rich in imagery, which expresses the acuteness of his senses. In his poetry, sight, sound, scent taste and

feeling are all taken into give an entire understanding of an experience.

A. Keats

B. Shelley

C. Wordsworth

D. Byron

16. Modern English novel, as a product of the 18th century Enlightenment and industrialization, really came with the rising of the class.

A. working

B. aristocratic

C. bourgeois

D. capitalist

17. T. B. Smollett used the form of the novel in his books. This was later followed by Charles Dickens in The Pick wick Papers.

A. epistolary

B. picaresque

C. Gothic

D. psychological

18. wrote under the influence of Scottish folk tradition and old Scottish poetry.

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Robert Burns

C. William Blake

D. Thomas Gray

19. Which of the following is NOT from Ireland?

A. Jonathan Swift

B. Alexander Pope

C. Oliver Goldsmith

D. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

20. Which one is correct according to the time when they appeared?

A. romanticism, neoclassicism, humanism, critical realism

B. humanism, neoclassicism, romanticism, critical realism

C. romanticism, humanism, realism, naturalism

D. realism, critical realism, romanticism, humanism

Ⅳ. Define the following terms.

1. Parody

2. Anti-novel

3. Heroic couplet

4. Blank verse

5. Point of view

6. Byronic hero

7. Epistolarynovel https://www.wendangku.net/doc/3b12504344.html,edyofmanners

Ⅴ. Short-answer questions.

1. Please analyze Adam Bede to illustrate George Eliot’s moral view.

2. What are the main features of the romance in the Middle Ages?

3. Analyze the image of God in Paradise Lost.

4. State briefly the artistic features of Jane Austen.

5. What are the characteristics of William Blake’s poetry? Take “The Sick Rose” as an example.

Ⅵ. Answer the questions according to the following passages.

Passage 1

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the mourning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Questions:

1.Identify the author and the title of the poem.

2.Why does the poet want to “arise and go”?

3. Analyze the structure of this poem briefly.

4. What is the theme of this poem?

5. What are stylistic features of this poem?

Passage2

The spectral, half-compounded, aqueous light which pervaded the open mead impressed them with the feeling of isolation, as if they were Adam and Eve... It was then, as has been said, that she impressed him most deeply. She was no longer the milk maid, but a visionary essence of woman-a whole sex condensed into one typical form....Then it would grow lighter, and her features would becomes imply feminine; they had changed from those of a divinity who could confer bliss to those of a being who craved it.

Questions:

6. This is from Tess of the D’ Urbervilles, the section titled “The Rally” and Chapter XX. Who is “she” in this passage?

7. What does this phrase “as if they were Adam and Eve” symbolize?

8. How does the paragraph summarize the way that the man feels about the woman and how does this view of her influence the plot?

Ⅶ. Essay question.

Comment on D. H. Lawrence with reference to Sons and Lovers.

Keys

Ⅰ. Identification.

1. Identify each on the left column with the related information on the right column. (1) C (2) G (3) A (4) J (5) B

(6) F (7) E (8) I (9) H (10) D

2. Identify the author with his or her work.

(1) H (2) A (3) I (4) B (5) J

(6) D (7) C (8) E (9) G (10) F

Ⅱ. Fill in the blanks.

1. John Galswathy

2. James Joyce

3. William Somerset Maugham

4. The Waste Land

5. The Turn of the Screw

6. naturalistic

7. Beowulf 8. Robin Hood

9. drama 10. Metaphysical Poetry; Cavalier Poetry 11. John Dryden 12. The Power and the Glory

13. Don Juan14. Imagination; reason

15. mysticism 16. proletariat

17. mock epic 18. A Modest Proposal

19. The Castle of Otranto20. dramatic monologue

Ⅲ. Choose the best answer.

1. C

2. A

3. C

4. C

5. C

6. D

7. B

8. D

9. A 10. D

11. A 12. A 13. A 14. C 15. A

16. C 17. B 18. B 19. B 20. B

Ⅳ. Define the following terms.

1. Parody: A parody is a high burlesque. It imitates the serious manner and characteristic features of a particular literary work, or the distinctive style of a particular author, or the typical stylistic and other features of a serious literary genre, and deflates the original by applying the imitation to a lowly or comically inappropriate subject. Henry Fielding in Joseph Andrews parodied Samuel Richardson’s Pamela by putting a hearty male heroin place of Richardson’s heroine.

2. Anti-novel: A form of experimental fiction that dispenses with certain traditional elements of novel-writing like the analysis of characters’ states of mind or the unfolding of a sequential plot. Antecedents of the anti-novel can be found in the blank pages and comically self-defeating digressions of Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (1759~1767) and in some of the innovations of modernism, like the absence of narration in Virginia Woolf’s The Waves (1931).

3. Heroic couplet: Iambic pentameter lines rhyming in pairs are called decasyllabic (ten-syllable) couplets or heroic couplets.

4. Blank verse:Blank verse was first introduced by the Earl of Surrey in his translations of Books 2 and 4of Virgil’s The Aeneid. It consists of lines of iambic pentameter (five-stress iambic verse) which are unrhymed—hence the term “blank”. Of all English metrical forms it is closest to the natural rhythms of English speech, and at the same time flexible and adaptive to diverse levels of discourse; as a result it has been more frequently and variously used than any other type of versification. It became the standard meter for Elizabethan and later poetic drama; a free form of blank verse is still the medium in twentieth-century verse plays.

5. Point of view: The vantage point from which a narrative is told. There are two basic points of view: first-person and third-person.

(1) In the first-person point of view, the story is told by one of the characters in his

or her own word. The first-person point of view is limited, since the reader is told only what this character knows and observes.

(2) In the third person point of view, the narrator is not a character in the story .The

narrator may be an “omniscient” or “all-knowing” observer who can describe and comment on all the characters and actions in the story. On the other hand, the third-person narrator might tell a story from the point of view of only one character in the story.

6. Byronic hero:A stereotyped character created by Byron. This kind of hero is usually a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin. With immense superiority in his passions and powers, he would carry on his shoulders the burden of right in gall the wrongs in a corrupt society. He would rise single-handedly against any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with unconquerable wills and inexhaustible energies. The conflict is usually one of rebellious individuals against outworn social systems and conventions.

7. Epistolary novel: A type of novel in which the narrative is carried on by means of series of letters. The genre was extremely popular during the 18th century. Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is among the best-known epistolary novels.

8. Comedy of manners: A kind of comedy representing the complex and sophisticated code of behavior current in fashionable circles of society, where appearances count for more than true moral character. Its humor relies chiefly on elegant verbal wit and repartee. In England, the comedy of manners flourished as the dominant form of Restoration comedy in the works of Etheredge, Wycherley and Congreve. It was revived in a more subdued form in the 1770s by Goldsmith and Sheridan, and later by Oscar Wilde.

Ⅴ. Short-answer questions.

1. As a philosopher turned novelist, Eliot wrote her novels with the aim o f propagating her moral views. Adam Bede is a novel of moral conflicts, showing the contest of personal desires, passion, temperament, human weaknesses and the claims of moral duty. The theme of social in equality is blended in the book with a moralization typical of the author. In the novel, the two pairs, Arthur and Hetty on the one hand, and Adam and Dinah on the other, are described in contrast to each other. The former couple are shown to be always thinking of their own interests without any consideration of others, while the latter pair are endowed with high moral principles which guide their conduct for the good of others and of themselves. The novelist takes her side with the latter party. According to Eliot, the moral principles of man are closely c onnected with the “religion of heart”. This shows the

influence of the bourgeois positivist philosophy which seeks to reconcile science with religion and to prove the possibility of social harmony and concord in a capitalist society.

2. The romance was the prevailing form of literature in the Middle Ages. Its essential features are:

(1) It lacks general resemblance to truth or reality.

(2) It exaggerates the vices of human nature and idealizes the virtues.

(3) It contains perilous adventures more or less remote from ordinary life.

(4) It lays emphasis on supreme devotion to a fair lady.

(5) The central character of the romance is the knight, a man of noble birth skilled

in the use of weapons. He is commonly described as riding forth to seek adventures, taking part in tournaments, or fighting for his lord in battle. He is devoted to the church and the king.

3. In the poem God is no better than a selfish despot, seated upon a throne with a chorus of angels about him eternally singing his praises. His long speeches are never pleasing. He is cruel and unjust in his struggle against Satan.

4. (1) Jane Austen’s main concern is about human beings in their personal relations,

human beings with their families and neighbors. She is particularly preoccupied with the relationship between men and women in love.

(2) She writes with in a narrow sphere. The subject matter, the character range, the

moral setting, physical setting and social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial or village life of the 19th-century England, all concerning three or four landed gentry families with the trivial incidents of their everyday life. (3) Her novels are surprisingly realistic, with keen observation and penetrating

analysis. She keeps the balance between fact and form as no other English novelist has ever done.

(4) Austen uses dialogues to reveal the personalities of her characters. The plots of

her novels appear natural and unforced. Her characters are vividly portrayed and everyone comes alive.

(5) Her language, which is of typical neoclassicism, is simple, easy, naturally lucid

and very economical.

5. Blake writes his poems in plain and direct language. His poems often carry the lyric beauty with immense compression of meaning. He distrusts the abstractness and tends to present his view with visual images instead of abstract terms. Symbolism in wide range is also a distinctive feature of his poetry.

In “The Sick Rose”, the poet is looking at a blighted rose. He is moved to reflect on some kind of curious relationship between love and death. The poem is brief and on the surface the language is simple and lucid. Beneath the poem is a profound vision of good and evil, of life-bringing and death-bringing love, of brightness and darkness, of forces we can know little about, of motives that are hard to fathom.

Ⅵ. Answer the questions according to the following passages.

Passage 1

1. William Butler Yeats’ “The Lake Isle Of Innisfree”.

2. “While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray”, which is a typical image of city dwe lling, the poet finds that he doesn’t feel good in urban surroundings and is tired of the life of his day, and he hears in his heart “lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore”, so he wants to “arise and go” to escape into an ideal “fairyland” where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of the nature.

3. The poem consists of three quatrains of iambic pentameter, with each stanza rhymed abab.

4. The poem is one of the poet’s best-known lyrics and a popular representative of the poems which get meaning by contrasting ideas or images like human and fairy, natural and artificial, domestic and wild, and ephemeral and permanent. Tired of the life of his day, the poets ought to escape into an ideal “fairyland” where he could live calmly as a hermit and enjoy the beauty of the nature. From his viewpoint, the best remedy for the blankness of his life seems to be a return to simple and serene life of the past.

5. The poem is closely woven, easy, subtle and musical. The clarity and control of the imagery give the poem a hunting quality.

Passage 2

6. Tess of the D’s Urbervilles, or “Tess” is an acceptable answer.

7. It symbolizes their innocence or perhaps the idea that they see each other, especially Angel sees Tess, as perfect.

8. Angel basically sees Tess as a pure, innocent representative of the whole race, not as a real person. He idealizes her too much and does not allow for her to be an actual human with weaknesses. Later, he deserts her when he realizes that she has been with another man already—she is not the perfect person he had imagined so he leaves her. Grading notes: to get all the points the student must mention the fact that Angel sees Tess as more perfect than she is, that he is disappointed in some way by this, and that he leaves h er later when he realizes that she isn’t perfect/innocent.

Ⅶ. Essay question.

D. H. Lawrence is one of the greatest English novelists of the 20th century. He makes a strong protest against the mechanical civilization. It is this agonized concern about the dehumanizing effect of mechanical civilization on the sensual tenderness of human nature that haunts Lawrence’s writing. He holds that the only remedy to the decaying civilization is through are arrangement of personal relationships and are turn to nature .In his writings, he is chiefly concerned with human relationships, especially with the relation of self to other selves. From his viewpoint, the most important relationship is the one between man and woman, which should develop freely and healthily. Lawrence is one of the first novelists to introduce themes of ps ychology into his works. Lawrence’s artistic tendency is mainly realism, which combines dramatic scenes with an authoritative commentary. Through a combination of traditional realism and the innovating elements of symbolism and poetic imagination, Lawrence has managed to depict the subtle ebb and flow of his characters’ subconscious life.

All these features of D. H. Lawrence are reflected in his autobiographical novel Sons and Lovers thematically, sociologically and psychologically. Lawrence was from a working-class family. His father was a miner with little education, thus his mother, a school teacher, thought she had married beneath her and was eager to raise the level of her sons. His mother’s claims on him kept frustrating his relationships with girls, and personal problems and conflicts that resulted are vividly presented in this novel.

Sons and Lovers displays Lawrence’s characteristic themes: the dehumanizing effect of the bourgeois industrialization; the complexity of human relationship; the emotional possession; and the spiritual liberation of the protagonist in search for identity and fulfillment as an artist. The psychic conflict in human relationships is the central theme. Sociologically, Sons and Lovers is a novel about the “sickness of a whole ci vilization” that causes the destruction of human nature. Psychologically, the novel depicts a triangle of father, mother and son, which embodies Freud’s remarkable psychosexual theory.

英国文学史及选读__期末试题及答案

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