专八人文知识模拟试题 (3)
“Ode to the west wind” was written by the author of ___.A “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
B “Kubla Khan”
C “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
D “As Defense of Poetry”
2. Which of the following poets does not belong to the school of romantic poets?
A William Wordsworth
B Percy Bysshe Shelley
C George Gordon Byron
D John Donne
3. Charles Dickens wrote all of the following except ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Heart of Darkness
4. “A Red, Red Rose” was written by ___.
A Alexandra Pop
B Robert Burns
C William Blake
D John Keats
5. Pip is the character of Charles Dickens’ novel ___.
A Oliver Twist
B David Copperfield
C A Tale of Two Cities
D Great Expectations
6. Sense and Sensibility is a ___ by ___.
A play… Jane Austen
B novel… Jane Austen
C play… Emily Bronte
D novel… Anne Bronte
7. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line “To be or not to be-that is the question” by___.
A Iago in Othello
B Lear in King Lear
C Shylock in the Merchant of Venice
D Hamlet in Hamlet
8. Robert Browning’s “My last Duchess” is composed in the form of a(n) ___.
A dramatic monologue
B extended metaphor
C syllogistic argument
D dialogue
9. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of __.
A character and environment
B pure romance
C “stream of consciousness”
D psychoanalysis
10. “Wessex novels” refers to the novels written by ___.
A Charles Dickens
B D.H. Lawrence
C James Joyce
D Thomas Hardy
11. The sentence “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s_____.
A comedies
B tragedies
C sonnets
D histories
12. The three dialects spoken by____ _____and _____mixed into a single language called Anglo-Saxon, or old English.
A Anglos, Saxons jutes
B Anglos, Saxons, Irish
C Anglos, Saxons, Scottish
D Anglos, Saxons, welsh
13. contribution to English lies chiefly in the fact that he introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types, especially the rhymed couplet of 5 accents in iambic meter-the heroic couplet to English poetry.
A William Shakespeare’s
B Geoffrey Chaucer’s
C Thomas more’s
D Edmund Spenser’s
14. Spenserian stanza is a form of poetry first employed by Edmund Spenser in his long poetry_____.
A the faerie queene
B the shepherd’s calendar
C epithalamion
D amoretti
15. Francis bacon is a ____.
A poet
B playwright
C essayist
D novelist
16. We can perhaps describe the west wind in shelly’s poem “ode to the west wind” with all the following terms except_____.
A tamed
B swift
C proud
D wild
17. The novel starts with “it is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune ,must be in want of a wife.” The novel is Jane Austen’____.
A Emma
B persuasion
C sense and sensibility
D pride and prejudice
18. The major concern of ____ 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.
A Charles dickens’s
B D.H .Lawrence’s
C Thomas hardy’s
D john Galsworthy’s
19. “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 Is quoted from_______.
A pride and prejudice
B Jane Eyre
C Wuthering heights
D great expectations
20. Which of the following is not one of the Bronte sisters?
A charlotte Bronte
B Anne Bronte
C jenny Bronte
D Emily Bronte