英美文学选读期末练习题.doc

《英美文学选读》期末考试练习 搭配题 判断题 ( F ) Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. (T ) The Elizabethan Drama is the real mainstream of the English Renaissance. ( T) Paradise Lost is a long epic divided into 12 books. ( F) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. ( T) Jonathan Swift defined a good style as “proper words in proper places.” ( T ) Henry Fielding has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel.” ( F) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge are regarded as the “Lake Poets.” ( T ) The British Romantic period is an age of prose. ( T ) The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is love and marriage. ( T ) The Victoria period has been generally regarded as one of the most glorious in the English history. ( F ) Far from the Madding Crowd is Thomas Hardy’s first novel. ( T ) Modernism rose out of skepticism and disillusion of capitalism. ( T ) The major themes of the modernist literature are the distorted, alienated and ill relationships between man and nature, man and society, man and man, and man and himself. ( T) The early poems of Pound and Eliot and Yeats’s matured poetry marked rise of “modern poetry.” ( T ) Shaw’s plays have one passion, and one only, that is, indignation. ( F) Romeo and Juliet is one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies. ( T ) The first period of the English Renaissance was one of imitation and assimilation. ( T ) Paradise Lost is John Milton’s masterpiece. ( F ) Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, Colonel Jack, and A Journal of the Plague Year are the first literary works devoted to the study of problems of the lower-class people. ( T ) In Jonathan Swift’s opinion, human nature is seriously and permanently flawed. ( T) Henry Fielding was the first to write specifically a “comic in prose.” ( F ) William Blake, William Wordsworth, and Samu