英国文学知识120题(9)

英国文学常识,备考专八用。

81. “The Graveyard Poets” got the name because _____.

A. they chose to live near graveyards

B. they often wrote about death and melancholy

C. they always wrote about dead people.

D. they often use “graveyard” as the title.

82. It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of Thomas Hardy’s novel is _____.

A. man against nature B. love and marriage

C. social criticism D. fate and destiny

83. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of _____.

A. William Blake’s Songs of Innocence

B. Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

C. Wordsworth’s and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads

D. Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe

84. It is generally regarded that Keats’ most important and mature poems are in the form of _____.

A. ode B. elegy C. epic D. sonnet

85. G..B. Shaw’s play Mrs. Warren’s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _____ in the English society.

A. slum landlordism

B. inequality between men and women

C. political corruption

D. economic exploitation of women

86. The Preface to Shakespeare and Lives of the Poets are the works of critic ______.

A. G.B. Shaw B. Samuel Johnson C. Ben Johnson D. E.M. Foster

87. The Ring and the Book is a masterpiece of _____.

A. Alfred Tennyson B. Robert Browning

C. Thomas Hardy D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

88. Matthew Arnold is the writer of _____.

A. Dover Beach B. My last Duchess

C. Break, Break, Break D. The Eagle

89. The writer of Heart of Darkness is also the one of _____.

A. Time of Machine B. Jim

C. Lord Jim D. A Passage to India

90. Of Human Bondage is a novel by _____.

A. Herbert George Wells B. Arnold Bennett

C. William Somerset Maugham D. John Galsworthy

81-90: B D C A D B B A C C