I Mulitple choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）

　　1. which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance ？

　　A. Exaltation of the man's pursuit of happiness in this life .

　　B. Cultivation of the genuine flavor of ancient culture .

　　C. Tolerance of human foibles

　　D. Praise of man's efforts in having his soul delivered .

　　2. The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was __________ .

　　A. the Reformation

　　B. humanism

　　C. the Italian revival

　　D. geographical explorations

　　3.What is the relationship between Claudius and Hamlet ？

　　A. Cousins

　　B. Uncle and nephew .

　　C. Father-in-law and son-in-law .

　　D. Father and son .

　　4. Which of the following plays does not belong to Shakespeare's great tragedies ？

　　A. Romeo and Juliet

　　B. King Lear

　　C. Hamlet

　　D. Macbeth

　　5. Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not ture ？

　　A. It is the age of translation .

　　B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution .

　　C. It is the age of exploration .

　　D. It is the age of the protestant reformation .

　　6.Una in The Faerie Queene stands for _______ .

　　A. chastity

　　B. holiness

　　C. truth

　　D. error

　　7. In Hamlet's soliloquy ， when he says ， “ To sleep ， perchance to dream ： ——ay， there's the rub . ” What is the primarily thinking about ？

　　A.The bad dreams that have recently been troubling him .

　　B. The fact that if dying is like going to sleep ， then perhaps after death we have bad dreams .

　　C. The sinful behavior of Gertrude ， whose guilty dreams he would like to know .

　　D. His desire to sleep so that he will not have to take vengeful action .

　　8. __________ first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama .

　　A. Shakespeare

　　B. Wyatt

　　C. Sidney

　　D. Marlowe

　　9. “ the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ” is an example of ______ .

　　A. allegory

　　B. simile

　　C. metaphor

　　D. irony

　　10. In “ Not on thy sole ， but on thy soul ， harsh Jew ， / Thou mak'st thy knife keen ” ， Gratiano （ a character in The Merchant of Venice ） uses a rhetorical device called ____.

　　A. hyperbole

　　B. homonym

　　C. paradox

　　D. pun

　　11. In The Faerie Queene Spenser impresses us with his skillful blending of religious and historical ________ with chivalric _________ .

　　A. symbolism …… lyricism

　　B. allegory …… romance

　　C. elegy …… narrative

　　D. personification …… irony

　　12. Milton's paradise Lost took its material from ______ .

　　A. the Bible

　　B. Greek myth

　　C. Roman myth

　　D. French romance

　　13. Christopher Marlowe wrote all the following plays except _______ .

　　A. Tamburlaine the Great

　　B. The Jew or Malta

　　C. Cymbeline

　　D. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus

　　14. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy ？

　　A. The Merchant of Venice

　　B. A Midsummer Night's Dream

　　C. As you like It

　　D. Romeo and Juliet

　　15. _______ is the most common foot in English poetry .

　　A. The iamb

　　B. The anapest

　　C. The trochee

　　D. The dactyl

　　16. “ In a dream vision ， Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana ， and upon awakening resolves to seek her . ” The two literary figures “ Arthur ” and “ Gloriana ” are from ____ .

　　A. The Fairie Queene

　　B. Romeo and Juliet

　　C. Dr. Faustus

　　D. Paradise Lost

　　17. In “ Sonnet 18 ” ， William Shakespeare _______ .

　　A. meditates on man's mortality

　　B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation

　　C. satirizes human vanity

　　D. presents a dream vision

　　18. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties ____， which were satirized by Swift in his “ Gulliver's Travels . ”

　　A. the whigs and Tories

　　B. the Senate and the House of Representative

　　C. the upper House and lower House

　　D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons

　　19 . __________ compiled the “ the Dictionary of the English language ” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries .

　　A. Ben Johnson

　　B. Samuel Johnson

　　C. Alexander Pope

　　D. John Dryden

　　20. The publication of “___________” marked the beginning of Romantic Age .

　　A. Don Juan

　　B. the Rime of the Ancient Mariner

　　C. The Lyrical Ballads

　　D. Queen Mab

　　21. In 1850 ， Wordsworth completed a long autobiographical poem entitled “________” .

　　A. Biographic literaria

　　B. The Prelude

　　C. Lucy poems

　　D. The Lyrical Ballads

　　22. Which is Shelley's masterpiece ？

　　A. Queen Mab

　　B. Prometheus Unbound

　　C. Prometheus Bound

　　D. The Revolt of Isiam

　　23. Which is Shelley's work of literary criticism ？

　　A. An Essay on criticism

　　B. A Defence of Poetry

　　C. On the Necessity of Atheism

　　D. Of Studies

　　24. In the 19th century English literature ， a new literary trend _____ appeared And it flourished in the forties and in the early fifties .

　　A.romantism

　　B. naturalism

　　C. realism

　　D. critical realism

　　25. The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____ ， who criticized the bourgeois civilization and showed the misery of the common people .

　　A. william Makepeace Thackeray

　　B. Charles Dickens

　　C. charlotte Bronte

　　D. Emily Dickinson

　　26. ______ was a critical realist and also a severe exposer of contemporary society . His novels ， such as “ Vanity Fair ” ， are mainly a satirical portrayal of the upper strata of society .

　　A. George Eliot

　　B. Elizabeth Gaskell

　　C. William Makepeace Thackeray

　　D. John Bunyan

　　27. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “_______” .

　　A. A Tale of Two Cities

　　B. Great Expectations

　　C. Hard Times

　　D. David Copperfield

　　28. “________ ” is often regarded as the semiautobiography of the author Dickens in which the early life of the hero is largely based on the author's early life .

　　A. Tom Jones

　　B. David Copperfiels

　　C. Oliver Twist

　　D. Great Expectation

　　29. Which is Thackeray's masterpiece ？

　　A. The virginians

　　B. Vanity Fair

　　C. The Books of Snobs

　　D. The Newcomes

　　30.The title of the novel “ Vanity Fair” was taken from Bunyan's masterpiece “_________”。

　　A. The Dilgrim's Progress

　　B. Child Harold's Pilgrimage

　　C. Gulliver's Travels

　　D. The Canterbury Tales

　　31. Of all the following issues ， ______ is definitely NOT the focus of the Romantic writers in the American literary history .

　　A. Puritan morality

　　B. human bestiality

　　C. noble savages

　　D. divinity of man

　　32. Henry David Thoreau's work ， ______ ， has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement .

　　A. Walden

　　B. The pioneers

　　C. Nature

　　D. “ Song of Myself ”

　　33. “ Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind ” is a famous quote from ______'s writings .

　　A. Walt Whitman

　　B. Henry David Thoreau

　　C. Herman Melville

　　D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　34. The famous 20 -year sleep in “ Rip Van Winkle ” helps to construct the story in such a way that we are greatly affected by Irving's _______ .

　　A. involvement with the passage of time

　　B. transient beauty

　　C. laziness and corruptibility of human beings .

　　D. supernatural manipulation of man's life

　　35. According to Emerson ， man's capacity is _______ .

　　A. ambiguous

　　B. limited

　　C. infinite

　　D. subsidiary to god

　　36. Moby Dick ， the big white whale ， is possibly read as symbolic of all the following EXCEPT _________ .

　　A. malignancy

　　B. beauty

　　C.adultery

　　D. God

　　37.According to Nathaniel Hawthorne ， romance should be _______ .

　　A. both imaginative and creative

　　B. full of adventures

　　C. a true record of human life

　　D. a mixture of facts and fancy

　　38. Which of the following is NOT emphasized by the New England Transcendentalism ？

　　A. Nature is not purely of matter ， but alive with God's overwhelming presence .

　　B. Individual human beings are depraved ， hence they should be improved .

　　C. Material economy is good for spiritual wealth .

　　D. In every single human being there dwells the divine spirit .

　　39. The pink ribbon appears three times in respectively three places in “ Young Goodman Brown”， which might possibly suggest that ______ .

　　A. Goodman Brown's night trial in the forest might be an illusion .

　　B. Faith is seen to be there with Brown at the witch meeting .

　　C. Hawthorne uses it as an indication of Brown's physical pressence in the forest .

　　D. the pink ribbon is not Faith's

　　40. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry . His innovation first of all lies in his use of _____ ， poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme .

　　A. blank verse

　　B. heroic couplet

　　C. free verse

　　D. iambic pentameter