英美文学选读3

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英美文学选读模拟试题（三）

（课程代码：0604）

(全部题目用英文作答)

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. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.

1. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the .

A. aristocratic

B. enterprising landlords

C. rising bourgeoisie

D. hard-working people

2. “Metaphsical 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

3. Eugene O‟Neil is recognized as a major figure in world literature, and he is widely acclaimed “”.

A. founder of the American drama

B. greatest American novelist

C. greatest American poet

D. father of the American short stories

4. “Busy old fool, unruly sun, / Why doet thou thus, /Through windows and through curtains call on us? /Must to thy motions lover s‟ seasons run?”wrote it.

A. William Shakespeare

B. John Milton

C. John Donne

D. John Bunyan

5. Of the following works by D. H. Lawrence, established his position as novelist.

A. The White Peacock

B. The Trespasser

C. Women in Love

D. Sons and Lovers

6. Spenser‟s masterpiece is a great poem of its time.

A. The Faerie Queene

B. The Shepheardes Calender

C. The Canterbury Tales

D. Metamorphoses

7. “And better than thy stroke; why swell‟st thou then? One short sleep past, we wake eternally.”In the above sentence, what does “sleep” refer to .

A. a sound dream

B. rest

C. death

D. unconsciousness

8. Which of the following is not among the literary giants of English Renaissance?

A. Edmund Spenser

B. John Donne

C. Samuel Johnson

D. Francis Bacon

9. Shakespeare‟s plays are written in beautiful English language. He created to express his characters.

A. free verse

B. blank verse

C. regular verse

D. short verse

10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. multiple points of view

B. first person point of view

C. expressionism

D. impressionism

11. Fitzgerald‟s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of .

A. the Jazz Age

B. the Romantic Period

C. the Renaissance Period

D. the Neoclassical Period

12. In the following writings, which is not the work by Charles Dickens?

A. Oliver Twist

B. David Copperfield

C. The Tale of Two Cities

D. The Ring and the Book

13. Milton‟s literary achievements can be divided into three groups, which division is not true?

A. Early poetic works.

B. Early prose works.

C. The middle prose pamphlets.

D. The last great poems.

14. Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation?

A. Ezra Pound.

B. William Carlos Williams.

C. Robert Frost.

D. Theodore Dreiser.

15. In “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death .

A. passionately

B. pessimistically

C. in despair

D. peacefully

16. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author‟s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more .

A. optimistic

B. pessimistic

C. humorous

D. rational

17. is known as “the poet‟s poet”.

A. Spenser

B. John Milton

C. Marlowe

D. Robert Frost

18. In the novel “Middlemarch”, man protagonist Lydgate is described as .

A. conceited

B. pessimistic

C. proud and ambitious

D. realistic

19. shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstand the temper and is established once more in the divine favor.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Beowulf

20. Jonathan Swift‟s Gulliver‟s Travels is the greatest work in English literature.

A. realistic

B. satiric

C. romantic

D. poetic