最新英美文学选读期末练习题

《英美文学选读》期末考试练习

一、搭配题

二、判断题

1.( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.

2.(T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance.

3.( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books.

4.( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.

5.( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.”

6.( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.”

7.( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”

8.( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose.

9.( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage.

10.( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history.

11.( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s first novel.

12.( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism.

13.( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. 14.( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats’s matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.”

15.( T ) Shaw’s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation.

16.( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies.

17.( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation.

18.( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton’s masterpiece.

19.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.

20.( T ) In Jonathan Swift’s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed.

21.( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.”

22.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”

23.( F ) The British Romantic period is an age of poetic drama.

24.( T ) Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, Prometheus Unbound.

25.( T ) Oscar Wilde and Walter Pater are advocators of the theory of “art for art’s sake.”

26.( F ) From Under the Greenwood Tree, the tragic sense becomes the keynote of Thomas Hardy’s novels.

27.( T ) The French symbolism heralded modernism.

28.( T ) The modernist writers pay more attention to the psychic time than the chronological one.

29.( T) Kingsley Amis was the first to start the attack on middle-class privileges and power in his novel Lucky Jim.

30.( T ) The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern civilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

31.( F) Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy is Romeo and Juliet.

32.( T) In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding literary forms.

33.( T ) Samson Agonistes is the most perfect example of the verse drama after the Greek style in English.

34.( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people.

35.( T ) Jonathan Swift is a master satirist.

36.( T ) Henry Fielding was the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

37.( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.”

38.( F ) Novel was the most popular literary form in the British Romantic period.

39.( T ) “A Song: Men of England” was written in 1819, the year of the Peterloo Massacre.

40.( T) Charles Dickens and the Bronte Sisters are representatives of critical realism.

41.( F ) Thomas Hardy belongs to one of the English romantic poets.

42.( T ) Modernism takes the irrational philosophy and the theory of psycho-analysis as its theoretical base.