一、Muliple choice
1. \ .A. songs B. Plays C. comedies 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. \A. songs B. plays C. comedies 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. In 1847, 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, \ 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 English 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 and 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 D. Milton
16.The publication of ___ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England transcendentalism.
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 \American Renaissance\
A. Puritan B. Romantic C. Realistic D. modern
19. The American ___ as a cultural heritage exerted great influence over American moral values and literature.
A. democracy B. ideal C. Puritanism D. Romanticism
20. ___ is considered by H. L. Mencken as \ 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, must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from ______. A．Jane Eyre B ．Wuthering Heights
C．Pride and Prejudice D．Sense and Sensibility
22．All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT ____.
A．“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B．“An Evening Walk” C．“Tintern Abbey”
D．“The Solitary Reaper”
23．All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A．Pilgrimage B．Ulysses C．Mrs. Dalloway D．Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
24．Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies are ________. A．Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, Hamlet
B． Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice C．Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth
D．Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, Hamlet
25．All of the following novels by Daniel Defoe are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people EXCEPT ______.
A． Robinson Crusoe B．Captain Singleton C．Moll Flanders D．Colonel Jack
二、True or False
1. English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama. 2. Ode to the West Wind is Bysshe Shelley’s work. 3. Jane Austin is the author of Pride and Prejudice. 4. Oliver Twist is written by Charles Dickens.
5. The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy, John Ga
lsworthy and Bernard Shaw.
6. If Winters comes, can Spring be far behind? is from Ozymandias. 7. Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.
8. The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature. 9. Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American
consciousness.
10. In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its gre
atest heights. 三、
1.Enlightenment 2.Humanism 3.Renaissance 4.Allusion 5. Byronic Hero
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