07年4月 《英美文学选读》客观题及参考答案
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07年4月
《英美文学选读》
客观题及参考答案
PART ONE (40 POINTS)
I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers
the question or completes the statement. Mark your choice by
blackening the
corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. The work that presented, for the first time in English
literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval
English society and created a whole
gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely
______.
A. William Langland5 s Piers Plowman
B. Geoffrey Chaucer9 s The Canterbury
Tales
C. John Gower5 s Confession Amantis
D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. The tragedy of Dr. Faustus, the protagonist in Christ
opher Marlowe' s The Tragic History of Dr. Faustus, is the very
fact that ______.
A. man is confined to time
B. he tried to join Africa to Spain
C. he became a man without soul after he sold
it
D. he conjured up Helen, the lady who was partially responsible for
the breaking - up of the Trojan War
3. The sentence 'Shall I compare thee to a summer5 s day?' is the
beginning line of one of Shakespeare) s ______.
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. sonnets
D. histories
4. Paradise Lost is actually a story taken from
A. the Renaissance
B. the Old Testament
C. Greek Mythology
D. the New Testament
5.Spenser' s masterpiece ______ is a great poem of its time.
A.The Faerie Queene
B. The Shepheardes Calender
C.The Canterbury Talks
D. Metamorphoses
6._____ is the essence of the Renaissance.
A.Poetry
B. Drama
C.Humanism
D. Reason
7.The most famous dramatists in the Renaissance England are
Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and ______.
A.John Milton
B. John Marlowe
C.Ben Jonson
D. Edmund Spenser
8.“To be, or not to be—that is the question” is a line taken from
______.
A.Hamlet
B. Othello
c.king Lear
D. The Merchant of Venice
9.Francis Bacon' s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness
and ______.
A.complicity
B. complexity
C.powerfulness
D. mildness
10.Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of
Romanticism in that ______.
A.the former celebrates reason, rationality, order and instruction
while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual?
s feeling and experiences
B.the former is heavily religious but the latter
secular
C.the former is an intellectual movement, the
purpose of which is to arouse the middle class for political rights
while the latter is concerned with the personal cultivation
D.the former advocates the 'return to nature' whereas the latter
turns to the ancient Greek and Roman writers for its models
11.Dmiel Defoe describes ______ as a typical English Middle - class
man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire
builder or the
pioneer colonist.
A. Tom Jones
B. Gulliver
C.Moll Flanders
D. Robinson Crusoe
12.____ is a typical feature of Swift' s writings.
A. Bitter satire
B. Elegant style
C.Casual narration
D. Complicated sentence structure
13.The Pilgrim' s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to
be concerned with the search for______.
A. material wealth
B. spiritual salvation
C. universal truth
D. self – fulfillment
14.Alexander Pope strongly
advocated, emphasizing that literary works
should be judged by rules of order,
reason, logic, restrained
emotion, good taste and decorum.
A. Sentimentalism
B. Romanticism
C. Idealism
D. Neoclassicism
15. 'Metaphysical poetry' refers to the works of the 17th - century
writers who wrote under the influence of ______.
A. John Donne
B. Alexander Pope
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Milton
16. It is generally regarded that Keats9 s most important and
mature poems are in the form of______.
A. ode
B. elegy
C. epic
D. sonnet
17. ______ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness
novelist, with ______ as his encyclopedia - like masterpiece.
A. James Joyce, Ulysses
B. E. M. Foster, A Passage to India
C. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers
D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
18. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English
poetry?
A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
B. 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud' by William
Wordsworth
C. 'Remorse' by Samuel Taylor leridge
D. Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman
19. The literary form which is fully developed and the most
flourishing during the Romantic Period is ______.
A. prose
B. drama
C. novel
D. poetry
20. Which of the following poem by T. S. Eliot is hailed as a
landmark and a model of the 20th century English poetry?
A. Poems 1909 - 1925
B. The Hollow Man
C. Prufrock and Other Observations
D. The Waste Land
21. 'My Last Duchess' is a poem that best exemplifier Robert
Browning' s ______.
A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English
language
B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices
D. use of the dramatic monologue
22. Dickens' works are characterized by a mingling of______ and
pathos.
A. humor
B. satire
C. passion
D. metaphor
23. Walt Whitman, whose ______ established him as the most popular
American poet of the 19th century.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Go Down, Moses
C. The Marble Faun
D. As I Lay Dying
24. ______ has always been regarded as a writer
who“perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever
produced.”
A. Edgar Ellen Poe
B. Walt Whitman
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Washington Irving
25.The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the
history of American literature , stretches from the end of __ to
the outbreak of _____.
A. the 17th century … the American War of Independence
B. the 18th century … the American Civil
War
C. the 17th century… the American Civil
War
D. the 18th century…the U. S. -Mexican
War
26.Which one of the following statements is NOT
true of American Transcendentalism?
A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic
literary movement.
B. It can be defined philosophically as 'the
recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth
intuitively'.
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of
this spiritual movement.
D. It sprang from South America in the late 19th
century.
27.The theme of Washington Irving' s Rip Van Winkle is
______.
A. the conflict of human psyche
B. the fight against racial
discrimination
C. the familial conflict
D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
28.The unofficial manifesto for the Transcendental Club was ______,
Emerson' s first little book, which established him ever since as
the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. The American Scholar
B. Self-reliance
C. Nature
D. The Over-Soul
29.Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the 'interior
of the heart' of man's being. So in almost every book he wrote,
Hawthorne discusses
A. love and hatred
B. sin and evil
C. frustration and self - denial
D. balance and self - discipline
30.In Young Goodman Brown by Hawthorne, the name of Goodman Brown'
s wife is ______, which also contains many symbolic meanings.
A. Ruth
B. Hester
C. Faith
D. Mary
31.Which one of the following statements might be true of the theme
of Song of Myself by Whitman?
A. This poem describes the growth of a child who learned about the
world around him and improved himself accordingly.
B. This poem shows the author' s cynical sentiments
against the American Civil War.
C. This poem reflects the author' s belief in
Unitarianism or Deism.
D. This poem reflects the author' s belief in the singularity and
equality of all beings in value.
32.In Moby-Dick, the white whale symbolizes ______
for Melville, for it is complex, unfathomable, malignant,
and beautiful as well..
A. nature
B. human society
C. whaling industry
D. truth
33. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from
the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and
paved the way to _____.
A. Cynicism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Neo - Classicalism
34. Hemingway once described Mark Twain9 s novel ______ the one
book from which 'all modem American literature comes. '
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age
D. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
35. ______ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th –
century“ stream - of -consciousness' novels and the founder of
psychological realism.
A.Theodore Dreiser
B. William Faulkner
C. Henry James
D. Mark Twain
36. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of Emily
Dickinson and her poetry?
A. She remained unmarried all her life.
B. She wrote 1,775 poems, and most of them were
published during her life time.
C. Her poems have no titles, hence are always quoted by their first
lines.
D. Her limited private world has never confined the limitless power
of her creativity and imagination.
37. As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______ as important
deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were
presented in special and detailed circumstances.
A. theological doctrines
B. heredity and environment
C. education and hard work
D. various opportunities and economic success
38. Ezra Pound, a leading spokesman of the '______' , was one of
the most important poets in his time.
A. Imagist Movement
B. Cubist Movement
C. Reformist Movement
D. Transcendentalist Movement
39. Eugene 0 ' Neill' s first full - length play, ______, won him
the first Pulitzer Prize. Its theme is the choice between life and
death, the interaction of
subjective and objective factors.
A. Bound East for Cardiff
B. The Hairy Ape
C. Desire Under the Elms
D. Beyond the Horizon
40. Hemingway' s 'Indian Camp' is one of the fourteen short stories
collected under the title of ______. This title is very ironic
because there is no
peace at all in the stories.
A. Three Stories and Ten Poems
B. Across the River and into the Trees
C. The Green Hills of Africa
D. In Our Time
l.B 2. A
3.C 4.B 5.
A
6. C 7. C
8. A 9. C
10. A
11. D 12. A 13. B
14. D 15. A
16. A 17. A
18. A 19. D
20. D
21. D 22. A 23. A
24. D 25. B
26. D 27. D
28. C 29. B
30. C
31. D 32. A 33. B
34. A 35. C
36. B 37. B
38. A 39. D
40. D
