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单选题 英国文学
单选题 英国文学

1. In 1066, ____, with his Norman army, succeeded in invading and defeating

England.

A. William the Conqueror

B. Julius Caesar

C. Alfred the Great

D. Claudius

2. In the 14th century, the most important writer (poet) is ____ .

A. Langland

B. Wycliffe

C. Gower

D. Chaucer

3. The prevailing form of Medieval English literature is ____.

A. novel

B. drama

C. romance

D. essay

4. The story of ___ is the culmination of the Arthurian romances.

A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

B.Beowulf

C. Piers the Plowman

D. The Canterbury Tales

5. After the Norman Conquest, three languages existed in England at that time. The Normans spoke _____.

A. French

B. English

C. Latin

D. Swedish

6. The theme of ____ to king and lord was repeatedly emphasized in romances.

A. loyalty

B. revolt

C. obedience

D. mockery

7. The most famous cycle of English ballads centers on the stories about a legendary

outlaw called _____.

A. Morte d?Arthur

B. Robin Hood

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Piers the Plowman

8. ______, the “father of English poetry” and one of the greatest narrative poets of

England, was born in London in about 1340.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Sir Gawain

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Dryden

9. Chaucer died on October 25th, 1400, and was buried in ____.

A. Flanders

B. France

C. Italy .

D. Westminster Abbey 10._____ founded the Tudor Dynasty, a centralized monarchy of a totally new type, which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie.

A. Henry V

B. Henry VII

C. Henry VIII

D. James I

11.Except being a victory of England over ___, the rout of the fleet “Armada”

(Invincible) was also the triumph of the rising young bourgeoisie over the declining old feudalism.

A. Spain

B. France

C. America

D. Norway

12.____ was a forerunner of classicism in English literature.

A. Ben Johnson

B. William Shakespeare

C. Thomas More

D. Christopher Marlowe

13.The most gifted of the “university wits” was ____.

A. Lyly

B. Peele

C. Greene

D. Marlowe

14.Morality plays appeared after_____.

A. miracle plays

B. mystery plays

C. interlude

D. Classical plays

15.Utopia was written in the form of _____.

A. prose

B. drama

C. essay

D. dialogue

16.Shakespeare is one of the founders of ____.

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. classicism

17. ____ is the leading figure of Metaphysical poetry.

A. John Donne

B. George Herbert

C. Andre Marvell

D. Henry Vaughan

18. The most important classicist in the Enlightenment Movement is _____.

A. Steele

B. Addison

C. Pope

D. Dryden

19. The masterpiece of Alexander Pope is ____.

A. Essay on Criticism

B. The Rape of the Lock

C. Essay on Man

D. The Dunciad

20. ____ was an intellectual movement in the first half of the 18th century.

A. The Enclosure Movement

B. The Industrial Revolution

C. The Religious Reform

D. The Enlightenment

21. The literature of the Enlightenment in England mainly appealed to the ____

readers.

A. aristocratic

B. middle class

C. low class

D. intellectual

22. ____ is a great classicist but his satire is not always just.

A. Steele

B. Milton

C. Addison

D. Pope

23. The 18th century was the golden age of the English ___. The novel of this period spoke the truth about life with an uncompromising (unbending) courage.

A. drama

B. poetry

C. essay

D. novel

24.In 1704, Jonathan Swift published two works together, A Tale of a Tub and ___,

which made him well-known as a satirist.

A. A Tale of a Tub

B. Bickerstaff Almanac

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D.The Battle of the Books

25.In a series of pamphlets Jonathan Swift denounced the cruel and unjust treatment

of Ireland by the English government. One of the most famous is ____.

A. Essays on Criticism

B.A Modest Proposal

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. The Battle of the Books

26.“Proper words in proper places, makes the true definition of a style.” This

sentence is said by ____, one of the greatest masters of English prose.

A. Alexander Pope

B. Henry Fielding

C. Jonathan Swift

D. Daniel Defoe

27.______ is not written by William Blake.

A. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

B. Songs of Experience

C.Auld Lang Syne

D. Poetical Sketches

28.“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” This proverb is cited from

William Blak e?s _____.

A. Songs of Experience

B. Songs of Innocence

C.The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D. Poetical Sketches

29._____ compiled the A Dictionary of the English Language which became the

foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.

A. Ben Johnson

B. Samuel Johnson

C. Alexander Pope

D. John Dryden

30.Which play is regarded as the best English comedy since Shakespeare?

A. She Stoops to Conquer

B. The Rivals

C.The School for Scandal

D. The Conscious Lovers

31.Romanticism fights against the ideas of ______.

A. realism

B. Renaissance

C. Enlightenment

D. feudalism

32.The main literary stream of Romanticism in Enland is ____.

A. poetry

B. novels

C. prose

D. periodicals

33.____ has a another name called “The Daffodils”.

A. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

B. “Tintern Abbey”

C. “Revolution”

D. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

34.Byron?s ____ is regarded as the great poem of the Romantic Age.

A. Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

B. Hours of Idleness

C. Lara

D. Don Juan

35.Prometheus Unbound is ____ masterpiece.

A. Wordsworth?s

B. Byron?s

C. Shelley?s

D. Keats?

36.____ lived the longest life.

A. Wordsworth

B. Byron

C. Shelley

D. Keats

37.Keats? best ode is ____.

A. “On a Grecian Urn”

B. “To Autumn”

C. “To Psyche”

D. “To a Nightingale”

38.The publication of ______ marks the beginning of the Romantic Movement in

England.

A. “Tintern Abbey”

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Frost at Night

D. “The Daffodils”

39.The Prelude has also been called _____.

A. The Last Brazil

B. The First Impression

C. Growth of a Poet’s Mind

D. The Spirit of the Age

40.Wordsworth?s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” has also been called _______.

A. “The Solitary Reaper”

B. “The Daffodils”

C. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”

D. “O Solitude”

41._____ is considered Wordsworth?s masterpiece.

A. The Prelude

B. Endymion

C. Don Juan

D. Biographia Literaria

42.The best essayist in the English Romantic Age is _____.

A. Keats

B. Walter Scott

C. Charles Lamb

D. William Hazlitt

43.The themes of Pride and Prejudice are _____.

A. pride and prejudice

B. the writer?s own personalities

C. love and marriage

D. Both A and C

44._____ is considered the father of historical novelist in the English Romantic Age.

i.Jane Austen B. Charles Lamb C. William Hazlitt D. Waler Scott

ii.

45.Some critics think that some of Byron?s poems show his _____.

A. individual heroism and pessimism

B. love of nature and optimism

C. love of old writers

D. hatred for the imperialism

46.____ is Shelley?s masterpiece.

A. Zastrozzi

B. The Necessity of Atheism

C. Queen Mab

D.Prometheus Unbound

47.Because of _______, Shelley was expelled from the Oxford University.

A. The Masque of Anarchy

B. A Defence of Poetry

C.The Necessity of Atheism

D. The Triumph of Life

48.The Romantic Age began in____ and came to an end in _____.

A. 1789...1821 B. 1778...1823 C. 1798...1832 D. 1768 (1819)

49.Byron, Shelley and Keats belong to Romantic poets of ___ generation.

A. the first

B. the second

C. the third

D. the forth

50.____ is the greatest representative of English critical realism.

A. Jane Austen

B. Thackeray

C. Dickens

D. Charlotte

51.____ is Thackeray?s one of the best known works.

A. Sense and Sensibility

B. The Book of Snobs

C. The Pickwick Papers

D. The Song of Lower Class

52.Pride and Prejudice?s first title is ____.

A. First Impression

B. A Book Without a Hero

C. The Newcomes

D. Persuasion

53.Vanity Fair has a sub-title. It is ____.

A. First Impression

B.A Book Without a Hero

C. The Newcomes

D. Persuasion

54.In the 19th century English literature, a new literary trend ____ appeared. And it

flourished in the forties and in the early fifties.

A. romanticism

B. naturalism

C. realism

D. critical realism

55.English critical realism found its expression chiefly in the form of ____ .

A. novel

B. drama

C. poetry

D. sonnet

56.______?s Vanity Fair is a satirical portrayal of the upper strata(阶层) of society.

A. George Eliot

B. Elizabeth Gaskell

C. W. M. Thackeray

D. John Buyan

57.Which novel makes a fierce attack on the bourgeois system of education?

A. Oliver Twist

B.Hard Times

C. Great Expectations

D. A Tale of Two Cities

58.In the novel ______, Dickens describes the Chartist Movement and shows his

sympathy for the workers.

A. Great Expectations

B. A Tale of Two Cities

C. Hard Times

D. Oliver Twist

59._____ is often regarded as the semi-autobiography of the author Dickens in which

the early life of the hero is largely based on the author?s early life.

A. The Curiosity Shop

B. David Copperfield

C. Oliver Twist

D. Great Expectations

60.In 1864, Dickens published his last complete novel _______.

A. The Old Curiosity Shop

B. The Pickwick Paper

C.Our Mutual Friend

D. Little Dorrit

61.Which of the following is Thackeray?s masterpiece?

A. The Virginians

B. The Books of Snobs

C. The Newcomes

D.Vanity Fair

62.The title of the novel Vanity Fair was taken from Bunyan?s masterpiece _____.

A. The Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Child Harold’s Pilgrimage

C. Gulliver’s Travels

D. The Canterbury Tales

63.Emily Bronte wrote only one novel entitled ______.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Agnes Grey

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Emma

64.Dickens? third literary period shows intensifying ______.

A. optimism

B. excitement

C. irritation

D. pessimism

65.The Victorian Literature began in____ and ended in _____.

A. 1837...1900 B. 1835...1901 C.1832...1902 D. 1830 (1903)

66.____ is the greatest among the critical realists of the Victorian Age.

A. Earnest Jones

B. Emily Brontё

C. Charlotte Brontё

D. Charles Dickens

67.Charles Dickens was impressive for his _____.

A. wide spread of critical realism

B. his spirit of democracy and humanism

C.his unforgettable figures with satire and simple and clear language

D.including A, B and C

68.The two cities in A Tale of Two Cities refer to ____.

A. London and New York

B. London and Paris

C. Paris and New York

D. Brussels and Washington

69.____ is the major literary form in the Victorian Period.

A. essay

B. poetry

C. novel

D. drama

70.____ is the main hero in the novel of Wuthering Heights.

A. Rochester

B. Heathcliff

C. Manette

D. Martin

71.Both Charlotte and Emily wrote about the ____ around them.

A. familiar things

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C. neighbors

D. evils

72.The most important poet in the Victorian Age was _____.

A. Earnest Jones

B. Elizabeth Gaskell

C. Mr. Browning

D. Alfred Tennyson

73.______ made Dickens famous overnight.

A. Sketches by Boz

B. The Pickwick Papers

C. Oliver Twist

D. The Old Curiosity Shop

74._____ is an autobiographical novel and loved by Dickens himself most.

A. Great Expectations

B. David Copperfield

C.Bleak House

D. The Pickwick Papers

75.Dickens? writing is an encyclopedic knowledge of _____.

A. Paris

B. New York

C. London

D. Portsmoth

76.In the ____ period, Charles Dickens believed that all the evils of the capitalist

world would be remedies of only men who behaved to each other with kindliness, justice, and sympathetic understanding.

A. first

B. second

C. third

D. fourth

77.____is Oscar Wilde?s only novel.

A. Lady Windermere’s Fan

B. A Woman of No Importance

C. The Picture of Dorian Gray

D. The Importance of Being Earnest

78.After writing _____, Hardy turned to poetry.

A. Under the Greenwood Tree

B. The Return of the Native

C. Jude the Obscure

D. The Mayor of Casterbridge

79.Yeats?s fame rests chiefly on his ______, using a lot of symbols in his poem.

A. novels

B. poetry

C. dramas

D. prose

80.____ was a leader of the modernist movement in English poetry and a great

innovator of verse technique.

A. W.

B. Yeats B. T. S. Eliot

C.

D. H. Lawrence D. G. B. Shaw

81.____ is a great novel spending James Joyce 7 years of hard working to complete.

A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

B.Ulysses

C. Finnegans Wake

D. Dubliners

82.Which of the following is Not written by D. H. Lawrence?

A.The Waste Land

B. The Rainbow

C. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

D. Women in Love

83.Which of the following is not written by Yeats?

A. Four Quartets

B. A Vision

C. The Winding Stair

D. The Tower

84.____ is the climax of Virginia Woolf?s experiments through the novel form of

“stream of consciousness”.

A.Jacob’s Room

B. To the Lighthouse

C. Orlando

D.The Waves

85.All of the following are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England

except______. D

a. William Shakespeare

b. Ben Jonson

c. Christopher Marlowe

d. Francis Bacon

86. The English Renaissance period was an age of _________. A

a. poetry and drama

b. drama and novel

c. novel and poetry

d. romance and poetry

87. Which of the followin is not among Shakespeare?s four great tragedies? B

a. Hamlet

b. Romeo and Juliet

c. Macbeth

d. King Lear

88. ______is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England. A

a. Francis Bacon

b. Edmund Spenser

c. Willam Carxton

d. Sidney

89. What flourished in Elizabenthan age more than any other form of literature? B

a. novel

b.drama

c. essay

d. poetry

90. William Sakespeare is one of the gaints of________. D

a. Romanticism

b. critical realism

c. Aetheticism

d. the Renaissance

91. Paradise Lost is the masterpiese of_________. C

a. William shakespeare

b. Robert Buns

c. John Milton

d. William Blake

92. Which of the following plays written by Shakespeare is history play? C

a. Juliet Caesar

b. The Merry Wives of Windsor

c. H enry IV

d. King Lear

93. “To be or not to be” has become a universal question puzzling every intellectual mind. This is a quotation from______. B

a. King Lear

b. Hamlet

c. Romeo and Juliet

d. Othello

94. The first official version of Bible known as the Great Bible, was revised in _______. B

a. 16th century

b. 17th century

c. 18th century

d. 19th century

95. Which of the following does not belong to Shakespeare?s romantic love comedies? B

a. Twelfth Night

b. The Tempest

c. As You Like It

d. The Merchant of Venice

96. Francis Bacon?s Essays first published in 1597 has been considered as an important landmark in the development of English_______, and as the first collection of essays in the English language. D

a. poetry

b. epics

c. fiction

d. prose

97. Daniel Defoe was famous for his novel__________ which first established his reputation as a novelist. B

a. Gulliver’s Travels

b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe

c. The Pilgrim’s Progress

d. Oliver Twist

98. “Yahoos” from the novel______written by Jonathan Swift are described to be very much similar to human beings in outward appearance and their unworthy actions as well. A

a. Gulliver’s Travels

b. The Adventure of Robinson Crusoe

c. The Pilgrim’s Progress

d. Oliver Twist

99. “ Poetry is Spontaneous” was put forward by_______. C

a. Robert Buns

b. William Blake

c. William Wordsworth

d. Charles Lamb

100. The publication of ______marked the beginning of the Romantic Age. C

a. Don Juan

b. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

c. The Lyrical Balladss

d. Queen Mab

101. Wordsworth is a _______. C

a. realist

b. classicist

c. romanticist

d. impressionist

102. The authoe of Ode To the West Wind is _______. A

a. Shelley

b. Byron

c. Allen Poe

d. Emerson

103. Which of the following does not belong to Romanticism? D

a. Keats

b. Shelley

c. Wordsworth

d. Alfred Tennyson

104. Frankenstein was filmed many times. Who wrote the book? C

a. Edga Allan Poe

b. James Joyce

c. Mary Shelley

d. Brain Stoker 105. In the mid-18th century, a new literary movement called_____came to Europe and then to England. A

a. romanticism

b. classicism

c. realism

d. restoration

106. The famous poem “ A Red Red Rose” was written by______. C

a. Wordsworth

b. Byron

c. Burns

d. Keats

107. Which of the following poem was not written by John Keats? A

a. Ode to the West Wind

b. Ode to Autumn

c. Ode on a Grecian Urn

d. Ode to a Nightingale

108. Mary Shelley?s novel Frankenstein belongs to the type of _______which is often set in gloomy castles where horrifying, supernatural events take place. A

a. Gothic

b. realism

c. romanticism

d. classicism

109. The English poets________, William Wordsworth, and Robert Southey, were known as “ Lake Poets” because they lived in the Lake District Northwestern England at the beginning of the 19th century. D

a. Goerge Gordon Byron

b. John Keats

c. Percy B.Shelley

d. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

110. The first Roman general who came to Britain was ______. B

A. Hannibal

B. Julius Caesar

C. Mark Antony

D. Octavianus

111. In the middle of the 5th century, Britain was invaded by three ______ tribes: the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes. A

A. Germanic

B. Danish

C. French

D. Roman

112. Henry VIII (1491-1547) was King of England who transformed his country into

a _____ nation during the Reformation. A

A. Protestant

B. modern

C. Catholic

D. feudal

113. The author of The Iliad and The Odyssey is ______, a blind Greek poet. C

A. Aeschylus

B. Sappho

C. Homer

D. Sophocles

114. All of the following four EXCEPT ______ are the most eminent dramatists in the Renaissance England. A

A. Spencer

B. Marlowe

C. Shakespeare

D. Jonson

115.______ is a Medieval English romance in the Arthurian tradition. It is an alliterative poem of 2530 lines written by an anonymous author. C

A. Beowulf

B. Le Morte D’Arthur

C. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

D. History of the Kings of Britain

116. The national epic of the Anglo-Saxons is ______. D

A. Le Morte D’Arthur

B. The Faerie Queene

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Beowulf

117.Chaucer served in the Hundred Years? War between England and ______, both as

a soldier and as a diplomat. A

A. France

B. Germany

C. Spain

D. Italy

118. ______ is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.

C

A. Piers the Plowman

B. The Geste of Robin Hood

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. The Shepherds’ Calendar

119. The heroic couplet was used for the first time by ______. A

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spenser

C. John Dryden

D. William Shakespeare

120.The Canterbury Tales was written in ________. B

A. Old English

B. Middle English

C. Modern English

D. Current Modern English

121. In Arthurian legend, all the knights traveled to distant lands to quest ______, but only three knights found it. D

A. the Sword of King Arthur

B. the Green Knight

C. the Round Table

D. the Holy Grail

122. In Arthurian legend, the bravest knights were allowed to sit at a huge table. They were known as the “______”. B

A. Knights Round the Table

B. Knights of the Round Table

C. Arthurian Table Knights

D. Brave Knights of the Table

123. ______ refers to the medieval codes of knighthood, which was often associated with ideals of knightly virtues, honor and courtly love. C

A. Humanism

B. Feudalism

C. Chivalry

D. Monarchy

124.Christopher Marlowe is an English playwright who introduced ______ as a form of dramatic expression. C

A. heroic couplet

B. romance

C. blank verse

D. sonnets

125.The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus is a play written by ______. B

A. Francis Bacon

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Thomas More

D. Ben Jonson

126. The University Wits were a group of pioneer English ______ writing during the last 15 years of the 16th century. B

A. poets

B. dramatists

C. critics

D. essayists

127. William Shakespeare wrote 38 _____, 154 _____ and 2 ______. B

A. sonnets, plays, narrative poems

B. plays, sonnets, narrative poems

C. narrative poems, epics, novels

D. novels, sonnets, history plays

128.Shakespeare?s four great tragedies are ______, ______, ______, and ______. B

A. Romeo and Juliet Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, Julius Caesar

B. King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth

C. Henry IV , Julius Caesar Hamlet, Othello, King John

D. The Merchant of Venice, King Lear, Hamlet, Othello

129. How does Hamlet die? C

A. He drinks the poisonous wine.

B. He commits suicide.

C. He dies of his poisoned wound.

D. Claudius kills him.

130. Francis Bacon is famous for his ______, which covers a wide variety of subjects, such as love, truth, friendship, beauty, etc. A

A. Essays

B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C.Le Morte D’Arthur

D. Piers the Plowman

131. Thomas More is famous for his ______ — a description of an imaginary republic.

C

A. Tamburlaine the Great

B. New Instrument

C. Utopia

D. The Shepherds’ Calendar

132. ______ is a traditional form for English poetry, which consists of two lines of rhyming iambic pentameter. C

A. Blank verse

B. Free verse

C. Heroic couplet

D. Lyric poem

133.The repetition of initial sounds of words is ______, as the following lines from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: “If any so ha rdy in this house holds himself, / Be so bold in his blood, brain in his head” C

A. blank verse

B. heroic couplet

C. alliteration

D. end rhyme

134. “Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man, and writing an exact man”

is from ______?s essay “Of Studies”. C

A. Alexander Pope

B. John Milton

C. Francis Bacon

D. Charles Lamb

135.The following excerpt is quoted from Shakespeare?s ______.“So long as me n can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives life to th ee.” A

A. Sonnet 18

B. Sonnet 29

C. Sonnet 30

D. Sonnet 65

136. Sonnet was brought to England by ___________in mid-16th century. B

A.Shakespeare

B. Thomas Wyatt

C. Spenser

D. Petrarch

137. Dr. Faustus is a play based on the _____legend of a magician aspiring for ____ and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A.British/immorality

B.French/money

C.German/knowledge

D.American/political power

Answer: C

138. _____, is a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A.The Wife?s Complaint

B.Beowulf

C.The Dream of the Rood

D.The Seafarer

Answer: B

139.It?s Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English Society in his masterpiece__________.

A.The Canterbury Tales

B.The Legend of Good Women

C.Troilus and Criseyde

D. The Romaunt of the Rose.

Answer: A

140. The Essence of Renaissance, the most significant intellectual movement, was_____.

A. Geographical exploration

B. Religious reformation

C. Publishing and translation

D. Humanism.

Answer: D

141. In “Sonnet 18”, Shakespeare_________________.

A.Meditate on the destructive power of time and eternal beauty by poetry.

B.Satirize human?s van ity.

C.Predict the eternity of love.

D.Eulogize the power of the beauty.

Answer: A (P37)

142. ____ gave new vigor to the blank verse with his “mighty lines” and make ?blank verse? the principle vehicle of expression in drama.

A.Surrey

B.Wyatt

C.Marlowe

D.Sidney

Answer: C (P21)

143. Shakespeare?s greatest tragedies are the following works except____.

A.Hamlet

B.King Lear

C.Romeo and Juliet

D.Othello

Answer: C (P33)

144. The Renaissance refers to between 14th----mid-17th century, which was under the reign of Queen___and absolute monarchy in England reached its summit, and in which the ?real mainstream (真正的文学主流)? was ____.

A.Victoria/poetry

B.Elizabeth/ drama

C.Mary/ novel

D.James/ drama

Answer: B (P11)

145. 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.Edmund Spenser

B.Geoffrey Chaucer

C.William Shakespeare

D.John Donne

Answer: B (P4)

146. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from____.

A.Greek Mythology

B.Roman legend

C.The Old Testament

D.The New Testament

Answer: C (P73)

147. _____, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded as Shakespeare?s most popular pl ay on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a ?philosophical exploration? of life and death.

A.The Merchant of Venice

B.Hamlet

C.King Lear

D.The Winter?s Tale

Answer: B (P33)

148. Paradise Lost is ___?s masterpiece, which is an epic in 12 books, written in blank verse, about the heroic revolt of Satan against God?s authority.

A.John Donne

B.Christopher Marlowe

C.John Milton

D.Edmund Spenser

Answer: C (P71)

149.Which of the following statement best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare?s Sonnet 18?

A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

B.The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C.The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D.The speaker meditates on man?s salvation.

Answer: C (P37)

150. ____is the most successful religious allegory in the English language.

A.Genesis A

B.The Holy War

C.The Pilgrims progress

D.Exodus

Answer: C (P85)

151. In which of the following works can you find the proper names "Lilliput", "Brobdingnag", "Houyhnhnm" and "Yahoo"?

A.The Pilgrim?s Progress

B.The Faririe Queene

C.Gulliver?s travels

D.The School of Scandel

Answer: C (P108)

152. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Samuel Johnson?s language style?

A.His sentences are long and well structured.

B.His sentences are interwoven with parallel words.

C.He tends to use informal and colloquial words.

D.His sentences are complicated, but his thoughts are clearly expressed.

Answer: C (P132)

153. ____has been regarded by some as "Father of the English novel" for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.

A.John Bunyan

B.Henry Fielding

C.Daniel Defoe

D.Johnathan Swift

Answer: B (P121)

154. ____was the only important dramatist of the 18th century, in his plays, morality

is the constant theme.

A.Alexander Pope

B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C.Samuel Johnson

D.George Bernard Shaw

Answer: B (P136)

155. The Rivals and ____are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.

A.The School for Scandal

B.The Duenna

C.Widower?s Houses

D.The Doctor?s Dilemma

Answer: A (P137)

156. ______is a typical feature of Swift?s writings.

A.Elegant style

B.Causal narration

C.Bitter satire

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/9018802989.html,plicated sentence structure

Answer: C (P107)

157. The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions.

A.positive

B.negative

C.neutral

D.indifferent

Answer: B (P160)

158. The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _____and Walter Scott.

A.Washington Irving

B.Jane Austen

C.Herman Melville

D.Charles Dickens

Answer: B (P165)

159. _____defines the poet as "man speaking to men," and poetry as "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings,which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility."

A.William Blake

B.William Wordsworth

C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge

D.John Keats

Answer: B (P161)

160. For the Romantics, ____is not only the major source of poetic imagery, but also provides the dominant subject matter.

A.love

B.man

C.nature

D.death

Answer: C (P162)

161. In the Romantic period, ____is the most prosperous literary form.

A.prose

B.poetry

C.fiction

D.play

Answer: B (P161)

162. The tone of literature in "Song of Experience" by William Blake is _______.

A.doleful

B.lively

C.plain

D.utter

Answer: A (doleful: 悲哀的P168-169)

163. _____is regarded as a "worship of nature".

A.John Keats

B.William Blake

C.William Wordsworth

D.Jane Austen

Answer: C (P176)

164. Which of the following writings is not created by William Wordsworth?

A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.

https://www.wendangku.net/doc/9018802989.html,posed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.

C.The Solitary Reaper.

D.The Chimney Sweeper.

Answer: D (P179---182)

165. Wordsworth?s short poems can be classified into two groups:poems about nature and poems about________.

A.love

B.human life

C.freedom

D.social activities

Answer: B (P176)

166. In his lyrics such as "Ode to Liberty", "Ode to Naples", Percy Bysshe Shelly expressed his love for_____ and his hatred toward tyranny.

A.the middle class

B.the poor

C.freedom

D.the proletariat

Answer: C (P207)

167. The author of "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is __________.

A.Wordsworth

B.Austen

C.Byron

D.Keats

Answer: D (217)

168. Jane Austen?s first novel is __________.

A.Pride and Prejudice

B.Sense and Sensibility

C.Emma

D.Plan of a Novel

Answer: B (P222)

169. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?

A.Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen?s novels.

B.Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as "First Impressions".

C.Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.

D.In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.

Answer: C (P223-225)

170. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs.Bennet is a woman of_______.

A.simple character and poor understanding

B.simple character and quick wit

C.intricate character and quick wit

D.intricate character and poor understanding

Answer: A (P227)

171. Romanticism is a period of British literature roughly dated from _________. A.1660-----1798

B.1798----1832

C.1483-----1546

D.1836-----1901

Answer: B (P157)

172. Which of the following is the Gothic novel?

A.Shelly?s Prometheus Unbound

B.Keats? Lamia

C.Mary Shelly?s Frankenstein

D.Jane Austen?s Pride and Prejudice

Answer: C (P166)

173. Chronologically the Victorian refers to__________.

A.1798---1832

B.1836---1901

C.the Romantic period

D.the Neoclassical Period

Answer: B (P233)

174. ____works are characterized by a mingling of humor and pathos.

A.Thomas Hardy?s

B.Charles Dickens?s

C.Charlotte Bronte?s

D.Emily Bronte?s

Answer: B (P241)

175. _____is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the 19th century London.

A.Oliver Twist

B.Great Expectations

C.David Copper Field

D.Hard Times

Answer: A (P243)

176. _____is Robert Browning?s best-known dramatic monologue.

A.“My Last Duches”

B.“Meeting at Night”

C.“Parting at Morning”

D.“Pippa Passes”

Answer: A (P287)

177. _____initiates a new type of realism and sets into motion a variety of developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.

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