英国文学期末考试题目
Section B
column A column B (1) Doctor Faustus A. Darcy
(2) The Merchant of Venice B. Joseph Surface (3) The School for Scandal C. Portia (4) Pride and Prejudice D. Friday (5) Robinson Crusoe E. Mephistophilis
Part Ⅱ: Complete each of the following statements with a proper words or a phrase. (10%)
1. The Canter bury Tales first time to use“”
is Spenser’s idealism, his love of beauty, and his exquisite melody that made him known as “______”.
3. is a playwright & poet who is considered above all writers in the past and in the present time
4. Pope is one of the first to introduce to England, for him the supreme value was order.
5. The Pilgrim’s Progress is a religious, its purpose is to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and seek salvation(拯救) through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils. Its predominant metaphor –life as a journey.
6. The two major novelists of the Romantic period are Jane Austen and ______.
7. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge & Robert Southey are “”.
8. James Joyce’s novels and short stories are regarded as his great works, all of which have the same setti ng: ______.
9. Love and are the major themes in Jane Austin’s novels. 10. is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness
novelist in 20th century English literature
Part Ⅲ: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers. Choose
the one that would best complete the statement. (40%) 1. which of the following is regarded as the most successful religious allegory in the English language.？
A. The Pilgrim's Progress
B. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners C. The Life and Death of Mr. Badman D. The Holy War
2. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are: Hamlet, Othello, ______ and ___.
A. King Lear…Romeo and Juliet B. King Lear…Macbeth C. King John…Julius Caesar
D. King John…The Merchant of Venice
3. it is generally regarded that keats's most important and mature poems are in the form
Of____. A. elegy B. ode C. epic D. sonnet
4. Francis bacon is best known for his ____which greatly influenced the development of this literary form.
A. essays B. poems C. works D plays
5. who is not the major figure of modernist movement？ A. Eliot
B. Joyce
C. Charles dickens D. Pound
6. who is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare？
A . Oscar Wilde B. john Galsworthy C. . Yeats D. George Bernard Shaw
7. Of the following poets, which is not regarded as 'lake poets'？
A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. Robert Southy C .William words worth D. William Shakespeare
8. Which of the following cannot describe 'Byronic hero'？ A. proud B. mysterious C. noble origin D. progressive
9. who is regarded as a 'worshipper of nature'. A. john Keats B. William Blake C. William Wordsworth D. Jane Austen
10. Thomas Gray’s“Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” once and for all established his fame as the leader of the ______ poetry. A. Romantic B. Pastoral C. Neoclassical D. Sentimental
11. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind” is
quoted from Shelley’s ______. A. The Cloud B. Ode to Liberty C. Ode to the West Wind D. To a Skylark
12. According to the subjects, Wordsworth’s short poems can be classified into two groups: poems about ______ and poems about ______.
A. nature…love & friendship B. nature…human life
C. Scotland…love & friendship D. Scotland…human life
13. Which of the following is NOT James Joyce’s works A. The Portrait of a Lady B. Dubliners C. Ulysses
D. Finnegans Wake
14. As a leading Romanticist, Byron’s chief contribution is his creation of the “Byronic hero”, a ______. A. proud, strong-minded rebel under pressure B. proud, mysterious rebel of noble birth C. proud, selfish person with evil heart D. a proud, vindictive person without mercy
15. In his works, ______ set out a full map and a large-scale criticism of 19th century England, particularly London. A. Dickens B. Hardy C. George Eliot D. Walter Peter
16. The name of Robert Browning is often associated with the term______. A. dramatic monologue B. transferred epitet C. blank verse D. free verse
17. In Lawrence’s opinion, the______ is responsible for the unhealthy development of human personaliti es, the perversion of love and the failure of human fulfillment in marital relationships.
A. the First World War B. original sin
C. Victorian conventions D. mechanical civilization
18. .__________is the pseudonym of Marry Ann Evans. A. Jane Austen B. George Eliot C. D. Anne Bronte
19. .__________is regarded as the most prominent stream- of-consciousness novelist. A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf C. D.
20. .__________, a collection of 15 short stories, is the first important work of James Joyce’s life long preoccupation with Dublin life.
A. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B. Dubliners D. Finnegans Wake
Part Ⅳ: Answer the following questions(40%)
1. W hat are the reasons for Chaucer’s being honored as “the father of English poetry”(10 points )
2. What is dramatic monologue (5 points)
Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe was a great success partly because the protagonist was a real middle-class hero. Discuss Crusoe, the protagonist of the novel, as an embodiment of the rising middle-class virtues in the mid-eighteenth England. (15points)
briefly the character of Elizabeth, the heroine Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. (10 points )
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