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| I Mulitple choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）
1. which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance ？ A. Exaltation of the man's pursuit of happiness in this life . B. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture . C. Tolerance of human foibles D. Praise of man's efforts in having his soul delivered . 2. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was __________ . A. the Reformation B. humanism C. the Italian revival D. geographical explorations 3.What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet ？ A. Cousins B. Uncle and nephew . C. Father-in-law and son-in-law . D. Father and son . 4. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies ？ A. Romeo and Juliet B. King Lear C. Hamlet D. Macbeth 5. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not ture ？ A. It is the age of translation . B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution . C. It is the age of exploration . D. It is the age of the protestant reformation . 6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for _______ . A. chastity B. holiness C. truth D. error 7. In Hamlet's soliloquy ， when he says ， “ To sleep ， perchance to dream ： ——ay， there's the rub . ” What is the primarily thinking about ？ A.The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him . B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep ， then perhaps after death we have bad dreams . C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude ， whose guilty dreams he would like to know . D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action . 8. __________ first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama . A. Shakespeare B. Wyatt C. Sidney D. Marlowe
9. “ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ” is an example of ______ . A. allegory B. simile C. metaphor D. irony 10. In “ Not on thy sole ， but on thy soul ， harsh Jew ， / Thou mak'st thy knife keen ” ， Gratiano （ a character in The Merchant of Venice ） uses a rhetorical device called ____. A. hyperbole B. homonym C. paradox D. pun 11. In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical ________ with chivalric _________ . A. symbolism …… lyricism B. allegory …… romance C. elegy …… narrative D. personification …… irony 12. Milton's paradise Lost took its material from ______ . A. the Bible B. Greek myth C. Roman myth D. French romance 13. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _______ . A. Tamburlaine the Great B. The Jew or Malta C. Cymbeline D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus 14. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy ？ A. The Merchant of Venice B. A Midsummer Night's Dream C. As you like It D. Romeo and Juliet 15. _______ is the most common foot in English poetry . A. The iamb B. The anapest C. The trochee D. The dactyl 16. “ In a dream vision ， Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana ， and upon awakening resolves to seek her . ” The two literary figures “ Arthur ” and “ Gloriana ” are from ____ . A. The Fairie Queene B. Romeo and Juliet C. Dr. Faustus D. Paradise Lost 17. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， William Shakespeare _______ .A. meditates on man's mortality B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation C. satirizes human vanity D. presents a dream vision 18. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties ____， which were satirized by Swift in his “ Gulliver's Travels . ” A. the whigs and Tories B. the Senate and the House of Representative C. the upper House and lower House D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons 19 . __________ compiled the “ the Dictionary of the English language ” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries . A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden 20. The publication of “___________” marked the beginning of Romantic Age . A. Don Juan B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner C. The Lyrical Ballads D. Queen Mab 21. In 1850 ， Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “________” . A. Biographic literaria B. The Prelude C. Lucy poems D. The Lyrical Ballads 22. Which is Shelley's masterpiece ？ A. Queen Mab B. Prometheus Unbound C. Prometheus Bound D. The Revolt of Isiam 23. Which is Shelley's work of literary criticism ？ A. An Essay on criticism B. A Defence of Poetry C. On the Necessity of Atheism D. Of Studies 24. In the 19th century English literature ， a new literary trend _____ appeared And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties . A.romantism B. naturalism C. realism D. critical realism 25. The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____ ， who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .A. william Makepeace Thackeray B. Charles Dickens C. charlotte Bronte D. Emily Dickinson 26. ______ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society . His novels ， such as “ Vanity Fair ” ， are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society . A. George Eliot B. Elizabeth Gaskell C. William Makepeace Thackeray D. John Bunyan 27. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “_______” . A. A Tale of Two Cities B. Great Expectations C. Hard Times D. David Copperfield 28. “________ ” is often regarded as the semiautobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author's early life . A. Tom Jones B. David Copperfiels C. Oliver Twist D. Great Expectation 29. Which is Thackeray's masterpiece ？ A. The virginians B. Vanity Fair C. The Books of Snobs D. The Newcomes 30.The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair” was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece “_________”。 A. The Dilgrim's Progress B. Child Harold's Pilgrimage C. Gulliver's Travels D. The Canterbury Tales 31. Of all the following issues ， ______ is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history . A. Puritan morality B. human bestiality C. noble savages D. divinity of man 32. Henry David Thoreau's work ， ______ ， has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement . A. Walden B. The pioneers C. Nature D. “ Song of Myself ” 33. “ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind ” is a famous quote from ______'s writings . A. Walt Whitman B. Henry David Thoreau C. Herman Melville D. Ralph Waldo Emerson 34. The famous 20 -year sleep in “ Rip Van Winkle ” helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's _______ . A. involvement with the passage of time B. transient beauty C. laziness and corruptibility of human beings . D. supernatural manipulation of man's life 35. According to Emerson ， man's capacity is _______ . A. ambiguous B. limited C. infinite D. subsidiary to god 36. Moby Dick ， the big white whale ， is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT _________ . A. malignancy B. beauty C.adultery D. God 37.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne ， romance should be _______ .A. both imaginative and creative B. full of adventures C. a true record of human life D. a mixture of facts and fancy 38. Which of the following is NOT emphasized by the New England Transcendentalism ？ A. Nature is not purely of matter ， but alive with God's overwhelming presence . B. Individual human beings are depraved ， hence they should be improved . C. Material economy is good for spiritual wealth . D. In every single human being there dwells the divine spirit . 39. The pink ribbon appears three times in respectively three places in “ Young Goodman Brown”， which might possibly suggest that ______ . A. Goodman Brown's night trial in the forest might be an illusion . B. Faith is seen to be there with Brown at the witch meeting . C. Hawthorne uses it as an indication of Brown's physical pressence in the forest . D. the pink ribbon is not Faith's 40. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry . His innovation first of all lies in his use of _____ ， poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme . A. blank verse B. heroic couplet C. free verse D. iambic pentameter |
