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.songs B.Plays

edies

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

edies

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.In1847,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

ton

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