2022年自考英美文学选读选择题.doc

1. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare's sonnets .
2. The major concern of D.H.Lawrence's 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.
3. Daniel Defoe describes Robinson Crusoe as a typical English Middle-class man of the eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer colonist.
4. "She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!"
The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth's poem "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to her lover .
5. Bitter satire is a typical feature of Swift's writings.
6. The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme in Dickens's Oliver Twist.
7. "Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you."
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre.
8. G.B.Shaw's play Mrs.Warren's Profession is a realistic exposure of the economic exploitation of women in the English society.
9. In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of tyranny .
10. "'I believe you are made of stone,'he said, clenching his fingers so hard that he broke the fragile cup. …'You seem to forget,' she said,'that cup is not!'"
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman's tone is very _______ .
A.sarcastic
B.amusing
C.sentimental
D.facetious
11. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of simple character and poor understanding.

12. Of all the eighteenth-century novelists, Henry Fielding was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a "comic epic in prose," and the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
13. "Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak'st thy knife keen."
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a pun .
14. In Hardy's Wessex novels, there is an apparent nostalgic touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
15. "O prince, O chief of many throned powers,"
That led th' embattled seraphim to war
Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds
Fearless, endangered Heaven's perpetual King."
In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton's Paradise Lost, the phrase "thy conduct" refers to Satan's conduct.
16. We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley's poem "Ode to the West Wind" with all the following terms except _______ .
A.tamed B.swift C.proud D.wild
17. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."
A."Nature"
B."Self-Reliance"
C."Divinity School Address"
D."The American Scholar"
18. .In Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous protagonist to a witches' Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars of Salem's Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates Hawthorne's allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power of blackness."
19. For Melville, as well as for the reader and Ishmael , the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
20. Most of the poems in Whitman's Leaves of Grass sing of the "en-mass" and the self as well.
21. Emily Dickinson's poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" expresses the poet's anxiety about her communication with the outside world.
22. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?
A.Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.
B.F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.
C.Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.
D.Most writers were politically radical.
23. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more pessimistic .
24. Mark Twain's first novel The Gilded Age , written in collaboration with Charles D. Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.
25. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and The Stoic.
26. Daisy Miller's tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of the American youth Winterbourne .
27. Daisy Miller:
Frederick Winterbourne, the narrator of the story, is an American expatriate
With the publication of Daisy Miller, Henry James reputation was firmly established on both sides of the Altantic.
With the publication of Daisy Miller, Daisy Miller has ever since become the American Girl in Europe, a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.Daisy Miller’s defiance of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to disaster in the clash between the two different cultures.
28.The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century
French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American naturalism
35."If honest labor be unremunerative and difficult to endure; if it be the long, long road which never reaches
beauty, but wearies the feet and the heart; if the drag to follow beauty be such that one abandons the admired way, taking rather the despised path leading to her dreams quickly, who shall cast the first stone?"
Where is the underlined phrase taken from? The Bible.
36.Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the expatriate movement.
31. The second American Renaissance refers to the 20 th century American literature.
37.Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms - the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse - with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of New England farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
39.Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include multiple points of view , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
40.Stylistically, Henry James' fiction is characterized by highly refined language
1. The work that presented , for the first time in English literature, a comprehensive realistic picture of the medieval English society and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life is most likely Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales.
4. Literature of Neoclassicism is different from that of Romanticism in that the former celebrates reason, rationality , order and instruction while the latter sees literature as an expression of an individual’s feeling and experiences
6. You may have meet the term "Yahoo" on internet, but you may also have met it in English literature .It is found in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
9. The first line of William Blake’s well-known poem "The Tyger" reads, "Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright".The repeated word "tiger" (tiger) with an exclamation mark suggests fear.
10. What does Wordsworth’s poem "The Solitary Reaper" tell us about Romanticist? --To romanticists, poetry is an expression of an individual’s feelings and experiences no matter how fragmentary and momentary these feelings and experiences are.
12. Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man.
16. Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays man as having no control over his own fate.
17. Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A. Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B. Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C. Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D. Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
18. The term tone in literature means the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the subject.
19. Which of the following best describes the speaker of T.S.Eliot’s " The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock"?
--He is a man of inactivity
21. "He was afraid of her -the small, severe woman with greying hair suddenly bursting out in such frenzy. The postman came running back, afraid something had happened. /they saw his tripped cap over the short curtains. Mrs Morel rushes to the door." The above passage id taken from D.H.Lawrence ’s Sons and Lovers.
23. The Scarlet Letter concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?
24. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by conversational and crude/ wimple and rather crude/ free-flowing
25. Darwin exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
26. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his local color.
27. At the beginning of Faulkner’s A Rose For Emily, there is a detailed description of Emily’s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living in it is a prisoner of the past.
28. The period before the American Civil War is commonly referred to as the Romantic Period.
29. Most of Herman Melville’s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?
A. Typee. B. Moby-Dick. C. Omoo. D. The Confidence-Man
30. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of the free spirit of the New World.
31. "Two roads diverged in a yellow wood /And sorry I could not travel both ..."
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to one’s course of life.
32. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is divine.
33. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s?
A. The House of the Seven Gables. B. The Blithedale Romance. C. The Marble Falun. D. White Jacket.
34. In Heminway’s short story Indian Camp, through a story of a woman giving birth, the protagonist, Nick Adams, receives an education of birth and violent death.
35. In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as villains.
37. In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show emptiness of life.
38. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _______.
A. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Dreiser’s Sister Carrie
C. Copper’s Leather-Stocking Tales D. Thoreau’s Walden
39. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism?
A. The Sound and the Fury B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. C. Daisy Miller. D. The Gilded Age.
40. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Her usual subject of her poetic expression: Religion, Life and death, Love and marriage.
1.Romance,which uses narrative verse or prose to tell stories of knightly adventures or other heroic deeds, is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
2.Among the great Middle English poets, Geoffrey Chaucer is known for his production of The Canterbury Tales.
3.Which of the following historical events does not directly help to stimulate the rising of the Renaisssance 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. The speaker praises the power of artistic creation best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare's Sonnet 18?
A.The speaker eulogizes the power of Nature.
9.The Houyhnhnms depicted by Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels are horses that are endowed with reason.
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
14.“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind!” is an epigrammatic line by P.B.Shelley
18.The Victorian Age was largely an age of prose,eminently represented by Dickens and Thackeray.
19. Jane Eyre is the first important governess novel in the English literary history.
21. Bernard Shaw is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
22.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A.To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B.To put the stress on traditional values.
C.To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.
D.To advocate a conscious break with the past.
23.The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary histrory.
A.individual feelings B.idea of survival of the fittest C.strong imagination D.return to nature
24.Henry David Thoreau's work, Walden,has always been regarded as a masterpiece of New England Transcendentalism.
26.Walt Whitman was a pioneering figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
27.The literary characters of the American type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features EXCEPT that they ___.
A.speak local dialects
B.are polite and elegant gentlemen
C.are simple and crude farmers
D.are noble savages( red and white) untainted by society
28.Hester Pryme, Dimmsdale,Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in The Scarlet Letter.
30.With Howells,