英美文学模拟题含答案

一、Muliple choice

1. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's .A. song s B. Plays

C. comedies

D. Sonnets

2.Which of the followings is not Shakespeare’s work?

A.The merchant of Venice

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. King Lear

D. Of Truth

3.___ is regarded as the pioneer of English drama.

A. William Shakespeare

B. Christopher Marlowe

C. Edmund Spenser

D. John Donne

4. ___ are Shakespeare's two narrative poems.

A. Venus and Adonis

B. The Two Noble Kinsmen

C. The Rape of lucrece

D. The Winter's Tale

5.English Renaissance Period was an age of ____.

A. prose and novel

B. poetry and drama

C. essays and journals

D. ballads and songs

6. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" This is the beginning line of Shakespeare's ______.

A. songs

B. plays

C. comedies

D. sonnets

7. Which play is not a comedy?

A. A Midsummer Night's

B. The Merchant of Venice

C. Twelfth Night

D. Romeo and Juliet

E. As You Like It

8. In 1847, the Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels except______.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Shirley

C.Wuthering Heights

D. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

9. In _____'s hands, "dramatic monologue" reaches its maturity and perfection.

A. Alfred Tennyson

B. Robert Browning

C. Williams Shakespeare

D. George Eliot

10. ___ is a natural medium for Hamlet to release his anguish.

A. conversation

B. speech

C. soliloquy

D. action

11．The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events EXCEPT_ ________.

A．the rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture

B．the vast expansion of British colonies in North America

C．the new discoveries in geography and astrology

D．the religious reformation and the economic expansion

12. William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and ____ are the best representatives of the Englis

h humanists.

A. Edmund Spenser

B. Francis Bacon

C. John Milton

D. Thomas More

13. ___ is not a comedy.

A. As You Like It

B. Romeo and Juliet

C. A Midsummer Night Dream

D. The Twelfth Night

14. Marlowe's ____ is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for knowledge a nd finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.

A. Dr. Faustus

B. Tamburlaine

C. The Jew of Malta

D. Edward II

15. All the following poets except ___ belong to the metaphysical school.

A. Donne

B. Herbert

C. Marvell

D. Milton

16.The publication of ___ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England t ranscendentalism.

A. Nature

B. Self-reliance

C. The American Scholar

D. The Over-soul

17. American Romanticism started with the publication of ___ and ended with Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Nature

C. The Alhambra

D. Leatherstocking Tales

18. Being a period of the great flowering of American literature, the ___ period is also called "the American Renaissance".

A. Puritan

B. Romantic

C. Realistic

D. modern

19. The American ___ as a cultural heritage exerted great influence over American moral values a nd literature.

A. democracy

B. ideal

C. Puritanism

D. Romanticism

20. ___ is considered by H. L. Mencken as "the true father of our national literature."

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Washington Irving

D. Mark Twain

21．“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good for-tune, m ust be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______.

A．Jane Eyre B ．Wuthering Heights

C．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility

22．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ___ _.

A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

B．“An Evening Walk”

C．“Tintern Abbey”

D．“The Solitary Reaper”

23．All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________.

A．Pilgrimage B．Ulysses C．Mrs. Dalloway D．Tess of the D’ Urbervilles

24．Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________.

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

B．Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice

C．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth

D．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet

25．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study o f problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.

A．Robinson Crusoe B．Captain Singleton C．Moll Flanders D．Colonel Jack

二、True or False

1.English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.

2.Ode to the West Wind is Bysshe Shelley’s work.

3.Jane Austin is the author of Pride and Prejudice.

4.Oliver Twist is written by Charles Dickens.

5.The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Ga

lsworthy and Bernard Shaw.

6.If Winters comes, can Spring be far behind? is from Ozymandias.

7. Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.

8.The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature.

9. Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and Americancon

sciousness.

10. In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its gre

atest heights.

三、

1.Enlightenment

2.Humanism

3.Renaissance

4.Allusion

5. Byronic Hero

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1.Enlightenment

1>Enlightenment movement was a progressive philosophical and artistic movement which flouris hed in france and swept through western Europe in the 18th century.

2> the movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance from 14th century to the mid-17th century.

3>its purpose was to enlighten the whole world with the light of modern philosophical and artistic ideas.

4>it celebrated reason or rationality, equality and science. It advocated universal education.

5>famous among the great enlighteners in england were those great writers like Alexander pope. J onathan swift.etc.

2.Humanism

1>Humanism is the essence of the Renaissance.

2> it emphasizes the dignity of human beings and the importance of the present life. Humanists voiced their beliefs that man was the center of the universe and man did not only have the right to enjoy the beauty of the present life, but had the ability to perfect himself and to perform wonders.

3.Renaissance

1>The word “Renaissance”means “rebirth”, it meant the reintroduction into westerm Europe o

f the full cultural heritage of Greece and Rome.

2>the essence of the Renaissance is Humanism. Attitudes and feelings which had been characterist ic of the 14th and 15th centuries persisted well down into the era of Humanism and reformation.

3> the real mainstream of the english Renaissance is the Elizabethan drama with william shakespe are being the leading dramatist.

4.Allusion

A reference to a person, a place, an event, or a literary work that a writer expects the reader to reco gnize and respond to. An allusion may be drawn from history, geography, literature, or religion.

5. Byronic Hero

1>Byronic hero refers to a proud, mysterious rebel figure of noble origin.

2> with immense superiority in his passions and powers, this Byronic Hero would carry on his sho ulders the burden of righting all the wrongs in a corrupt society. And would rise single-handedly a gainst any kind of tyrannical rules either in government, in religion, or in moral principles with un conquerable wills and inexhaustible energies.

3> Byrons chief contribution to English literature is his creation of the “Byronic Hero”

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