英美文学作品选读考试4

英美文学作品选读考试4

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英美文学作品选读试题 4

I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 2 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter in the blanks.

1. Romance, which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of ___ adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

A. Christian

B. knightly

C. Greek

D. primitive

2. Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of ___.

A. Piers Plowman

B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C. Confessio Amantis

D. The Canterbury Tales

3. Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaissance Movement?

A. The rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman culture.

B. The new discoveries in geography and astrology.

C. The Glorious revolution.

D. The religious reformation and the economic expansion.

4. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?

A. The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.

B. The speaker satirizes human vanity.

C. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.

D. The speaker meditates on man's salvation.

5. “And we will sit upon the rocks,/Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks, /By

shallow rivers to whose falls /Melodious birds sing madrig als.” The above lines are probably taken from __.

A. Spenser's The Faerie Queene

B. John Donne's “The Sun Rising”

C. Shakespeare's “Sonnet 18”

D. Marlowe's “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

6. “Bassanio: Antonio ,I am married to a wife

Which is as dear to me as life itself;

But life itself, My wife, and all the world.

Are not with me esteem' d above thy life;

I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all,

Here to the devil, to deliver you.

Portia: Your wife would give you little thanks for that,

If she were by to hear you make the offer.”

The above is a quotation taken from Shakespeare's comedy The Merchant of Venice. The quoted part can be regarded as a good example to illustrate ____.

A. dramatic irony

B. personification

C. allegory

D. symbolism

7. The true subject of John Donne's poem, “The Sun Rising,” is to ___.

A. attack the sun as an unruly servant

B. give compliments to the mistress and her power of beauty

C. criticize the sun's intrusion into the lover's private life

D. lecture the sun on where true royalty and riches lie

8. Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “___ in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.

A. tragic epic

B. comic epic

C. romance

D. lyric epic

9. The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are ___.

A. horses that are endowed with reason

B. pigmies that are endowed with admirable qualities

C. giants that are superior in wisdom

D. hairy, wild, low and despicable creatures, who resemble human beings not only in appearance but also in some other ways.

10. Here are four lines from a literary work: “Others for language all their care express,/And value books, as women men, for dress.” The work is ___.

A. Thomas Gray's “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”

B. John Milton's Paradise Lost

C. Alexander Pope's Essay on Criticism

D. Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream

11. The phrase “to urge people to abide by Christian doctrines and to seek salvation

through constant struggles with their own weaknesses and all kinds of social evils” may well sum up the implied meaning of ___.

A. Gulliver's Travels

B. The Rape of the Lock

C. Robinson Crusoe

D. The pilgrim's Progress

12. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.

A. the use of everyday language spoken by the common people

B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings

C. the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter

D. the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech

13. Which of the following is taken from John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn”?

A. “I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!”

B. “They are both gone up to the church to pary.”

C. “Earth has not anything to show more fair.”

D. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”.

14. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigra mmatic line by __.

A. J. Keats

B. W. Blake

C. W. Wordsworth

D. P. B. Shelley

15. “Ode o na Grecian Urn”shows the contrast between the ___ of art and the ___ of

human passion.

A. glory …ugliness

B.permanence…transience

C. transience…sordidness

D. glory…permanence

16.In the statement“—oh, God! would you like to live with your soul in the grave?”

the term“soul” apparently refers to ___.

A. Heathcliff himself

B. Catherine

C. one's spiritual life

D. one's ghost

17.The typical feature of Robet Browning' s poetry is the ___.

A.bitter satire

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/20995117.html,rger-than-life caricature

https://www.sodocs.net/doc/20995117.html,tinized diction

D.dramatic monologue

18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of ____,eminently represented by Dickens

and Thackeray.

A.poetry

B.drama

C.prose

D.epic prose

19. ___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.

A. Jane Eyre

B. Emma

C. Wuthering Heights

D. Middlemarch

20. The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological

development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A. D. H. Lawrence's

B. J. Galsworthy's

C. W. Thackeray’s

D. T. Hardy’s

II. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 5 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

1. “Her eyes met his and he looked away. He neither believed nor disbelieved her, but

he knew that he had made a mistake in asking; he never had known, never would know, what she was thinking. The sight of her inscrutable face, the thought of all the hundreds of evenings he had seen her sitting there like that, soft and passive, but so unrea dable, unknown, enraged him beyond measure.”

Questions:

A. Identify the writer and the work.

B. What does the phrase “inscrutable face” mean?

C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

2. “ And when I am formulated, sprawling on a pin,

When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall.

Then how should begin

To spit out all the butt-ends of my days and ways.”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the phrase “butt-ends” mean?

C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

3. “God knows, I'm not myself—I'm somebody else—…and I’m changed, and I can't

tell what's my name, or who I am.”

Questions:

A. Identify the work and the author.

B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think he is changed, or the social

environment has changed?

C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?

4. “I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by,

And that has made a ll the difference.”

Questions:

A. Identify the poem and the poet.

B. What does the phrase “ages and ages hence” mean?

C. What idea does the quoted passage express?

III. Questions and Answers (20 points in all, 5 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.

1. As a rule, an allegory is story in verse or prose with a double meaning: a surface

meaning, and an implied meaning. List two works as examples of allegory. What is an allegory usually concerned with by its implied meaning?

2. Inspiration for the romantic approach initially came from two great shapers of

thought. Who are the two? And what ideas they expressed inspire the romantic writers?

3. The white whale, Moby Dick, is the most important symbol in Melville's novel.

What symbolic meaning can you draw from it?

4. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his

idea of the oversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian “Oversoul”?

IV. Topic Discussion (20 points in all, 10 for each)

Write no less than 50 words on each of the following topics in English.

1. How is Romanticism different from Neoclassicism? Provide brief evidence from

the literary works you know best.

2. Summarize the story of Mark twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in about 50 words, and comment on the theme of the novel.

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I. Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 2 for each)

Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement and write the letter in the blanks.

1. B

2. D

3. C

4. C

5. D

6. A

7. B

8. B

9. A 10. C

11. D 12. D 13. D 14. D 15. B

16. B 17. D 18. C 19. A 20. A

II. Reading Comprehension (20 points, 5 for each)

Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.

1. A. John Galasworthy:The Man of Property.

B. A face does not show any emotion or reaction so that it is impossible to know how that person is feeling or what he is thinking about.

C. It presents the inner mind of Soames in face of his wife's coldness. He can never know what is on his wife's mind because the makeup of his and her mentality is different. His wife Irene, whose mind is romantically inclined, is disgusted with her husband's possessiveness. Being unable to read his wife's mind is as good as saying that he really can't regard her as his property- this is the very reason why he is enraged beyond measure.

2. A. T. S. Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufro ck.”

B. The ends of cigarettes, meaning trivial things here.

C. Here, Prufrock's inability to do anything against the society he is in is made strikingly clear by using a sharp comparison .Prufrock imagines himself as a kind of insect pinned on the wall and struggling in vain to get free.This image vividly shows Prufrock's current predicament.

3. A. Washington Irving: “Rip Van Winkle”.

B. The social environment is changed.

C. When Rip is back home after a period of 20 years, he finds that everything has changed. All those old values are gone, and he can hardly feel at home in a changed

society. One of the functions that Rip serves in the story is to provide a measuring stick for change. It is through him that Irving drives home the theme that a desire for change, improvement, and progress could subvert stable society.

4. A. Robert Frost: “The Road Not Taken”.

B. Many many years later.

C. The speaker is telling his experience of making the choice of the roads. But he is conscious of the fact that his choice will have made all the difference in his life. He seems to be giving a suggestion to the reader. “Make good choice of your life.”

III. Questions and Answers (20 points in all, 5 for each)

Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English.

1. It is usually concerned with moral, religious, political, symbolic or mythical ideas. Buyan's Pilgrim's Progress and Spenser's The Faerie Queene are examples.

2. It is Rousseau who established the cult of the individual and championed the freedom of the human spirit; his famous announcement was “I felt before I thought.”Goethe and his compatriots extolled the romantic spirit. The French philosopher, Jean Jacques Rousseau and the German writer Johna Wolfgan von Goethe.

3. To Ahab, the whale is either an evil creature itself or the agent of an evil force that controls the universe, or perhaps both.

To Ishmale, the whale is an astonishing force, an immense power, which defies rational explanation due to a sense of mystery it carries. It is beautiful, but malignant at the same time. It also represents the tremendous organic vitality of the universe, for it has a life force that surges onward irresistibly, impervious to the desires or wills of men.

As to the reader, the whale can be viewed as a symbol of the physical limits that life imposes upon man. It may also be regarded as a symbol of nature, or an instrument of God's vengeance upon evil man. In general, the multiplicity and ambivalence of the symbolic meaning of the whale is such that it becomes a source of intense speculation, an object or profound curiosity for the reader.

4. A. The Oversoul is believed to be an all-pervading power for goodness, omnipresent and omnipotent from which all things come and of which all are a part. It

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