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课程考试试题（A卷）

Faerie Queene is written by _______ .

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A. William Shakespeare B. Marlowe

（2007 —— 2008学年度第 一学期）

C. Edmund Spenser D. John Milton

7_______ has established his giant position in world literature.

课程名称：《英国文学选读》 English Literature a) John Milton B. Francis Bacon

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试卷类型：（A、B） 考试专业、英语本科05级 C. John Donne D. William Shakespeare

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8______ is the leading figure of the “metaphysical school”. He acquires a great reputation as an

impressive deliverer of insightful sermons.

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A. John Donne B. Jonathan Swift

C. William Blake D. Francis Bacon

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9. Paradise Lost is written by _______ .

A. William Shakespeare B. Marlowe

C. Edmund Spenser D. John Milton

Final Exam for English Majors

10._______ has established his position in writing concise proses.

Dec., 2007

A. John Milton B. Francis Bacon

Time Limit: 120 MIN.

C. John Donne D. William Shakespeare

11.______ is exposing the exploitation of Scottish by English people in his prose “The Modest

1. Multiple Choice (60%, 1.5 points each)

Proposal”.

A. John Donne B. Jonathan Swift

Directions: Choose among the four answers marked A, B, C, and D the one

C. William Blake D. Francis Bacon

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12 James Joyce was born into a Catholic family in _______.

that correctly answers the question or completes the statement.

A .Dublin B. London C. Paris D. New York

13. The Victorian period, ______ became the most vital and challenging expression of progressive

1. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral

thought.

_____ , exposing all kinds of social evils.

A. the poem B. the novel C. the essay D. above of all

A. revolutionaries B. idealists C. critics D. defenders

Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of

2. The works of ________ are the first literary works devoted to the problems of ordinary and

__________ .

lower-class people.

A. ballad B. sonnet C. heroic couplet

A. Alexander Pope B. Daniel Defoe

D. Spenserian stanza

C. John Bunyan D. Jonathan Swift

15. She smiled, no doubt,/ Whene’er I passed her…/… This grew; I gave commands;/ Then all smiles

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The Waste Land is a poem concerned with the spiritual _____ of a modern civilization in human

stopped together. The last line of the above quoted passage implies that she ___________

life which has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

A. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at everybody, including the duke

B. obeyed his order and stopped smiling at anybody except the duke

A. breakup B. conform

C. refused to obey the order and never smiled again

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C. happiness D. disappointment

D. was murdered at the order of the duke

4. Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the ______ and ______ centuries.

16． “To wage by force or guile eternal war,/ Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”

(Milton, Paradise

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B. 14

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Lost) Who is the “grand Foe” the speaker is referring to?

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D. 15

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A. Adam B. Satan C. God D. The Serpent

5._______ is the essence of Renaissance in English.

the medieval period in English literature, it is Chaucer alone who, for the first time in English

A. Realism B. Communism

literature, presented to us a comprehensive ________ picture of the English society of his time and

C. Humanism D. Socialism

created a whole gallery of vivid _______ from all walks of life in his masterpiece “The Canterbury

Tales”.

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A. romantic/men B. visionary/women

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Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18

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-century England?

C. realistic/characters D. natural/figures

18. Geoffrey Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry A. Robinson Crusoe B. Gulliver’s Travels C. Jonathan Wild the Great

to replace the Old English ________ verse. D. A Sentimental Journey

A. rhymed B. alliterative C. romantic D. visionary 30. The novel “Pride and Prejudice” mainly deals with the five Bennet sisters and their search for

19. The Renaissance, in essence, is a historical period in which the European _______ thinkers and scholars made

suitable husbands, centering on the love story between ________and __________.

attempts to get rid of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe, to introduce new ideas that expressed the

A. Jane/Bingley B. Lydia/Wickham

interests of the rising bourgeoisie. A. Greek and Roman B. humanist C. religious D. secular

C. Elizabeth/Darcy D. Elizabeth/Arthur

20. In the early stage of the English Renaissance, poetry and ___________were the most outstanding statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all her affection to

forms and they were carried on especially by Ben John. her sons” sums up the main story of D. H. Lawrence’s

A. fiction B. dramatic monologue A. Sons and Lovers B. The Rainbow

C. metaphysical poetry D. drama C. Women in Love D. Lady Chatterley’s Lover

21. One of the major results of the Reformation in England was the fact that the__________in 32. Charles Dickens’s best-depicted characters are those innocent, virtuous,

persecuted,

English as placed in every church. helpless__________ characters such as Oliver Twist, Little Nell, David Copperfield and Little

A. Canterbury Tales B. Bible C. Ballad D. Elegy Dorrit.

22. Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism, emphasizing that literary

works should be

A. Girl B. woman C. child D. man

judged by ______ rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum. statement that a sensitive young man is at first shaped by excessively

powerful and

A. classical B. romantic oppressive forces of his environment but gradually realized the pressure and rebels against it and tries

C. sentimental D. allegorical to find his own identity may well sum up the major theme of

23. A typical Forsyte, according to John Galsworthy, is a man with a strong sense of ______ , who A. Conrad’s Heart of Darkness B. Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway

never pays any attention to human feelings. C. Lawrence’s Women in Love

A. morality B. justice D. Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

C. property D. humor 34. In “Sonnet 18”,Shakespeare has a profound meditation on the destructive power of ________and

24. George Bernard Shaw’s play, Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the the eternal_______brought forth by poetry to the one he loves.

_______ . A. death/life B. death/love

A. slum landlordism B. political corruption in England C. time/beauty D. love/eternity

C. economic oppression of women 35. _________was the greatest dramatist in the 18

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century.

D. religious corruption in England A. Goldsmith B. Sheridan C. Sterne D. Fielding

25. The poems such as “The Chimney Sweeper” are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of 36. In a sense, we can say that Romanticism designates a literary and philosophical theory, which

Experience by ______. tends to see the ________ as the very center of all life and all experience.

A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake A. society B. individual C. family D. country life

C. John Keats D. Lord Gorden Byron 37.”_________” is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature, and one that takes us to

D. The Rime of the Ancient Mariners the core of the poetic beliefs of William Wordsworth as a “worshipper of nature.”

26. A typical feature of the English __________ literature is that writers became social and moral A. The Solitary Reaper B. The Sailor’s Mother

critics, exposing all kinds of social evils. C. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud D. Ode to the West Wind

A. Renaissance B. Victorian C. Medieval D. Romantic 38. The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem “Ulysses” will probably remind the reader of the following

27. Emily Bronte wrote only one novel which is entitled ________. except __________.

A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane Eyre C. Emma A. the Trojan War B. Homer’s Odyssey

D. Pride and Prejudice C. adventures over the sea D. religious quest

28“My Last Duchess” is a ________.

A. Novel B. dramatic monologue

C.

short lyric D. metaphysical poem

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39. In “My Last Duchess”, the ________, as he talks about the portrait of his last Duchess, reveals bit

by bit his cruelty and possessiveness.

40. The theory of psychoanalysis put forward first by __________ exerts great

influence over modern

English literature.

A. Sigmund Freud B. Carl Jung

IV. Essay Question (10 points)

Robinson Crusoe is universally considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Robinson, apparently, is

cast as a typical 18

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-century pioneer colonist. Give a brief comment on Robinson Crusoe.

C.

Jacques Lacan D. William James.

II. Literary Terms (20%, 5 points each )

Directions : Explain the following terms briefly.

1. heroic couplet 2. alliteration

3. epic 4. stream of consciousness

III. Short-answer Questions (10%,5 points each)

Directions: There are a few passages followed by a number of questions. Read each passage as

closely as possible and answer each question in clear and simple words.

O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn’s being,

Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead

Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing,

Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red.

1) These lines are taken from the poem “__________”.

2) The author is _________.

2. Paul was dissatisfied with himself and with everything. The deepest of his love belonged to his

mother. When he felt he had hurt her, or wounded his love for her, he could not bear it, Now it was

spring and there was battle between him and Miriam. This year he had a good deal against her. She

was vaguely aware of it. The old feeling that she was to be a sacrifice to this love, which she had had

when

she prayed, was mingled in all her emotions. She did not at the bottom believe she ever would

have him.

1) This novel is written by _________.

2).The title of the novel is _________?

3).What is the theme of the novel?

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