英美文学选择题-附答案版

1. Which of the following statements 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.

2. used narrative verse or prose to sing knightly adventures or other heroic deeds.

A. Sonnet

B. Romance

C. Novel

D. Drama

3.The hero of romance was usually the , who set out a journey to accomplish some missions---to protect the church, to attack infidelity, to rescue a maiden，to meet a challenge, or to obey a knightly command.

A. soldier

B. poet

C. knight（骑士）

D. singer

4. marked the beginning of Romanticism in English poetry.

A. Wuthering Heights

B. A Red, Red Rose

C. Lyrical Ballads （抒情歌谣集）

D. Ode to the West Wind

5. “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’’

This quotation is a .

A. quatrain

B. ballad

C. trimeter

D. couplet（相连并押韵的两行诗，对句）

6. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line from .

A. She Walks in Beauty

B. Ode to the West Wind（西风颂）

C. The Solitary Reaper

D. On the Seas and Far Away

7. is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.

A. Hamlet

B. Beowulf

C. Utopia

D. Lyrical Ballads

8. Which of the following is not included in the most famous four tragedies of William Shakespeare?

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. The Merchant of Venice

D. King Lear

9. is the forerunner of English realistic novel, also the writer of the famous novel“Robinson Crusoe”.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Samuel Richardson

C. Daniel Defoe（笛福）

D. Jonathan Swift

10. Which of the following was not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. The American Scholar（论美国学者）

B. Nature

C. Self-Reliance

D. Walden（瓦尔登湖）

11. He was called “ father of American Literature” and his stories “ Rip Van Winkle”and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”（睡谷的传说）are widely read even today.Who is he?

A. Washington Irving（欧文）

B. Sherwood Anderson

C. Mark Twain

D. Ernest Hemingway

12. Generally speaking, which literary school was Mark Twain grouped into?

A.romanticism

B.realism

C.naturalism

D. post-modernism

13. The major trend in American literature in the first half of the 19th century is .

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. sentimentalism

D. naturalism

14. Who is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective fiction?

A. Washington Irving

B. William Dean Howells

C. Mark Twain

D. Edgar Allan Poe（埃德加·爱伦·坡）

15. Which of the following is NOT true about Robert Burns?

A. He wrote in Scottish dialect.

B. He was a peasant poet.

C. His language is plain.

D. A Red Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne and The Song of Innencenc are his poems.

16. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative（创新的）in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “.”

A. free verse(自由诗体)

B. blank verse

C. alliteration

D. end rhyming

17.The five“I”s in Romanticism is: Imagination, Intuition, Idealism, .

A. integrality and Inspiration

B. Inspiration and Individuality

C. Individuality and integrality

D. integrality and Industry

18.I Died for Beauty was written by ?

A. Walt Whitman

B. Emily Dickinson（艾米丽狄金森）

C. Robert Frost

D. Stephen Crane

19. Which literary school was Charles Dickens generally grouped into?

A. The English Critical Realism of the Nineteenth Century

B. The English Realistic School of the Eighteenth Century

C. The English Romanticism of the Nineteenth Century

D. The English Modernism of the Twentieth Century

20. Which of the following was not written by Thomas Hardy?

A. Tess of D’Urberville

B. Far from the Madding Crowd

C. Jude the Obscure

D. The Forsyte Saga

21. American literature is based on a myth, that is, the Biblical myth of .

A. Genesis

B. the Garden of Eden

C. the Deliverance from Slavery

D. Song of Songs

22. Among four of the following writers , who was the author of Invisible Man?

A.Ralph Waldo Ellison

B. Richard Wright(1908-1960

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D. Frederick Douglass

23. is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.

A. Hamlet

B. Utopia

C. Beowulf

D. Lyrical Ballads

24. Utopia was written by .

A. Thomas More

B. John Milton

C. John Keats

D. Ben Johnson

25. “So long as man can breathe or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.’’

This quotation is taken from “”.

A. She Walks in Beauty

B. Ode to the West Wind

C. The Solitary Reaper

D. Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare

26. “If W inter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line from .

A. She Walks in Beauty

B. Ode to the West Wind

C. The Solitary Reaper

D. On the Seas and Far Away

27. The hero of romance was usually the , who set out a journey to accomplish some missions---to protect the church, to attack infidelity, to rescue a maiden，to meet a challenge, or to obey a knightly command.

A. soldier

B. poet

C. knight

D. singer

28. Which of the following is a comedy by William Shakespeare?

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. The Merchant of Venice

D. King Lear

29. is the forerunner of English realistic novel, also the writer of the famous novel“Robinson Crusoe”.

A. Henry Fielding

B. Samuel Richardson

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Jonathan Swift

30. Which of the following was written by Henry David Thoreau?

A. The American Scholar

B. Nature

C. Self-Reliance

D. Walden

31. He was called “ father of American Literature” and his stories “ Rip Van Winkle”and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are widely read even today.Who is he?

A. Sherwood Anderson

B. Washington Irving

C. Mark Twain

D. Ernest Hemingway

32. Generally speaking, which literary school was Mark Twain grouped into?

A.romanticism

B.realism

C.naturalism

D. post-modernism

33. The major trend in American literature in the last decade of the 19th century was .

A. romanticism

B. modernism

C. sentimentalism

D. naturalism

34. Who is usually acknowledged as the originator of detective fiction?

A. Washington Irving

B. William Dean Howells

C. Mark Twain

D. Edgar Allan Poe

35. Which of the following is NOT true about Robert Burns?

A. He wrote in Scottish dialect.

B. He was a peasant poet.

C. A Red Red Rose, Auld Lang Syne and The Solitary Reaper are his poems.

D. His language is plain.

36. Who wrote the famous short story The Triumph of the Egg?

A. Sherwood Anderson

B. Washington Irving

C. Mark Twain

D. Ernest Hemingway

37.Who wrote Catch-22 (1961) ——the first book to treat the absurdist theme with absurdist technique？

A. Sherwood Anderson

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Joseph Heller

D. Thomas Pynch

38.I Died for Beauty was written by ?

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Emily Dichinson

C. Robert Frost

D. Stephen Crane

39. Which literary school was Charles Dickens generally grouped into?

A. The English Critical Realism of the Nineteenth Century

B. The English Realistic School of the Eighteenth Century

C. The English Romanticism of the Nineteenth Century

D. The English Modernism of the Twentieth Century

40. Poor Richard’s Alm anac was a calendar, which includes a large amount of information about weather, astronomy, puzzles, mathematics, practical household, etc. It was written by .

A. Washington Irving

B. Jonathan Edwards

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. Benjamin Franklin

41. “Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines.”The underlined phrase refers to .

A. black hole

B. the sun

C. the moon

D. the star

42. was categorized into the group of dark romanticism. He believed that there was evil in every human heart, which might remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstance might rouse it to activity.

A. Ralph Waldo Emerson

B. Hermen Melville

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Edgar Allan Poe

43. Renaissance originated in in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe until the 17th century.

A. Italy

B. German

C. Britain

D. Greece

44. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning .

A. nature, man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

45. Who was called “father of American Literature” ? His stories “ Rip Van Winkle” and “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” are widely read even today.

A. Washington Irving

B. Sherwood Anderson

C. Mark Twain

D. Ernest Hemingway

46. In the title Vanity Fair, “Fair” means.

A. town B market C. place D. equality

47. is the national epic of the Anglo-Saxon and English people.

A. Hamlet

B. Beowulf

C. Utopia

D. Lyrical Ballads

48. believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beau ty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

A. Walt Whitman

B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

49. Idealized figures most often appear in .

A. Romantic poetry

B. Renaissance drama

C. Enlightenment literature

D. Victorian novels

50. employs the language of common man in literary writing.

A. Thomas Hardy

B. Emily Bronte.

C. William Wordsworth

D. John Milton

51. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale .Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in .

A. The House of the Seven Gables

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. T he Portrait of a Lady

D. The Pioneers

52. The Victorian Age witnessed the perfection of in the hands of Thackeray and Dickens.

A. poetry

B. drama

C. novel

D. epic

53. All the following issues EXCEPT were emphasized by the British Romantic writers.

A. individual feelings

B. idea of survival of the fittest

C. strong imagination

D. return to nature

54. “Where thoughts serenely sweet express / How pure, how dear their dwelling-place”. The underlined part means .

A. beauty

B. wisdom

C. brain

D. heart

55. All of the following poets are regarded as “Lake Poets” EXCEPT .

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Southey

C. William Wordsworth

D. William Blake

56. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?

A. Temperance

B. Humanity (Humility)

C. Frugality

D. Immoderation

57. Renaissance was the humanistic revival of classical art, architecture, literature, and learning that originated in Italy in the 14th century and later spread throughout Europe until the 17th century. The underlined word means .

A Greek

B German

C old

D Greek and Roman

58. Didactic and satirical literature was dominant in the .

A. Renaissance

B. Age of Enlightenment

C. Victorian Age D age of Romanticism

59. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this, and this gives l ife to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?

A. Love

B. Poetry

C. Summer

D. Time

60. Which of the following was not written by Thomas Hardy?

A. Tess of D’Urberville

B. Far from the Madding Crowd

C. Jude the Obscure

D. The Forsyte Saga

练习题：

1. Shakespeare's complete works include .

A. 37 plays, 4 tragedies and 154 sonnets.

B .154 plays, 2 narrative poems and 37 sonnets.

C. 37 plays, 2 narrative poems and 154 sonnets.

D. 73 plays, 4 tragedies, and 154 sonnets.

6. “All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings” is a declarative statement taken from .

A. The Solitary Reaper

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. She Walks in Beauty

D. On the Seas and Far Away

10. Which of the following was written by Henry David Thoreau?

A. The American Scholar

B. Nature

C. Self-Reliance

D. Walden

17. By the 7th century the small kingdoms on the British Island were combined called England, or the land of .

A. Britons

B. Angles

C. Saxons

D. Jutes

19. He was founder and great master of the historical novel in British literature, and whose death marks the ending of Romantic Period in Britain. Who was he?

A. George Gordon Byron

B. Thomas More

C. John Keats

D. Walter Scott

20. Which of the following was not written by Thomas Hardy?

A. Tess of D’Urberville

B. Far from the Madding Crowd

C. Jude the Obscure

D. The Forsyte Saga

2. In 1798, together with , William Wordsworth published Lyrical Ballads,

which marked the break with 18th century classicism and the beginning of romanticism in English poetry.

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

B. Robert Burns

C. John Keats

D. William Blake

7. David Copperfield(1850) is, to a certain extent, an autobiographical novel by .

A. Henry Fielding

B. Charles Dickens

C. Daniel Defoe

D. Jonathan Swift

8. Which of the following plays is a comedy composed by William Shakespeare?

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. The Merchant of Venice

D. King Lear

12. Generally speaking, which literary school was John Keats grouped into?

A. romanticism

B. realism

C. naturalism

D. post-modernism

20. Poor Richard’s Almanac was a calendar, which includes a large amount of information about weather, astronomy, puzzles, mathematics, practical household, etc. It was written by .

A. Washington Irving

B. Jonathan Edwards

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. Benjamin Franklin

1. The early inhabitants on the island we now called England were , a tribe of Celts. From the Britons the island got its name of Britain, the land of Britons.

A. Britons

B. Angles

C. Saxons

D. Jutes

2. Paradise Lost (1667) was written by .

A. Thomas More

B. John Milton

C. John Keats

D. Ben Johnson

3. , founder of modern science, his New Instrument (1602) tells some of the secrets of the inductive method of reasoning, and Of Studies is one of his most famous essays.

A. Thomas More

B. John Milton

C. Francis Bacon

D. Ben Johnson

10. believes that the chief aim of literary creation is be auty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”

A. Walt Whitman

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Edgar Allen Poe

11. Idealized figures most often appear in .

A. Romantic poetry

B. Renaissance drama

C. Enlightenment literature

D. Victorian novels

12. It is publicly believed that employs the language of common man in his literary writing.

A. Thomas Hardy

B. Ben Johnson

C. William Wordsworth

D. John Milton

14. Vanity Fair is Thackeray’s masterpiece. The book takes its title from that fair described in .

A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

B. Thomas More’s Utopia

C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost

D. William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice

16. Which of the following is NOT included in the virtues that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?

A. Temperance

B. Humility

C. Frugality

D. Immoderation

19. “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. Love

B. Poetry

C. Summer

D. Time

20. A Red, Red Rose was written in “”, i.e., in each stanza the odd-numbered lines are iambic tetrameters.

A. drama

B. English sonnet

C. ballad metre

D. monologue