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PAGE  PAGE 7 全国2009年7月自考英美文学选读试题 全国2009年7月自考英美文学选读试题 I．Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each) Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Write your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet. 1. The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____. A. The Enclosure Movement B. The Protestant Reformation C. The Enlightenment Movement D. The Chartist Movement 2. Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____. A. Moll Flanders B. A Tale of a Tub C. A Journal of the Plague Year D. Colonel Jack 3. “Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of _____. A. John Donne B. Alexander Pope C. Christopher Marlowe D. John Milton 4. The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____. A. A Midsummer Night’s Dream B. The Merchant of Venice C. As You Like It D. Twelfth Night 5. The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Areopagitica 6. Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? A. It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France. B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic ideas. D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education. 7. Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____. A. being precise B. being direct C. being flexible D. being satiric 8. A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_____. A. John Milton B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D.T.S. Eliot 9. The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is___