英语欧美文化期末练习题

英语欧美文化期末练习题

英语欧美文化期末练习题

2006-2007学年第一学期欧美文化期末练习题

班级_________ 姓名__________ I.Multiple choices (80%)

1.Which of the following works described the war led by Agamemnon against

the city of Troy?

A. Odyssey

B. Iliad C Agamemnon D. Trojan Women

th2.In the 20 century, the Irish writer James Joyce?s Ulysses is a parallel to Homer?s epic_______.

A. Odyssey

B. Iliad C Agamemnon D. Trojan Women 3.Which of the following is not written by Aeschylus?

A. Prometheus Bound

B. Antigone

C. Persians D Agamenon

4.The Austrian psych iatrist Siugmund Freud …s term “the Oedipus complex”

was derived from ________?s play Oedipus the King.

A. Aeschylus

B. Euripdes

C. Sophocles

D. Aristophane

5.Among ancient Greek dramatist, ______may be called the first writer of

“problem plays”.

A. Aeschylus

B. Euripdes

C. Sophocles

D. Aristophane

6.In which comic play did Aristophanes attack Socrates?

A. Wasps

B. Birds

C. Clouds

D. Frogs

7.Who initiated the concept of point, line, surface, bpdy, etc. and was regarded

as the founder of scientific mathematics?

A. Aristotle

B. Archimedes

C. Pythagoras

D. Democritus

8.Socrates …s teaching method is well known as the _________.

A.dialectic method

B. dialogues

C.Cartesian doubt

D. doubting method

9.Which is Plato?s belief?

A. Men have knowledge because of the existence of certain general

“ideas”.

B. Men have knowledge because of experience.

C. Mind and matter are completely apart from each other

D. The world is matter and acrivity.

10.Among the Greek philosophers, who believed that form and together

made up concrete individual realities?

A. Aristotle

matter

B. Plato

C. Socrates

D. Epicurus

11.Among Greek scientists, who dicovered the principle of the lever and once

claimed that “Give me a place to stand, and I will move the world.”?

A. Euclid

B.Archimedes

C. Democritus

D. Pythagoras 12.________ is one of the finest representatives of ancient Greek sculpture.

A. Venus de Milo

B. Constantine the Great

C. She-wolf

D. Moses

13. Ancient Roman writer _____ was noted for his oratory and fine writing

style and had an enormous influence on the development of European prose.

A. Lucretius

B.Cicero

C. Caesar

D. Virgil

14. ____ is the greatest Latin poet, who wrote the great epic Aeneid.

A. Lucretius

B.Cicero

C. Caesar

D. Virgil 15. ______ is the best preserved Roman temple.

A. Parthenon

B.Pantheon

C. the Colosseum

D. the temple in jerusalem

16.________ is a statue which illustrates the legend of creation of Rome.

A. Venus de Milo

B. Constantine the Great

C. She-wolf

D. Moses

17. Both Judaism and Christianity originated in ___________. It was

the

_________tradition that gave birth to Christianity.

A. Egypt; Jewish

B. Turkey; Islamic

C. Palestine; Jewish

D. Israel; Islamic

18.The Old Testament consists of ___books, while the New Testament consists

of ___books.

A. 39; 27

B. 27; 39

C. 30; 27

D. 5; 34

19.The first five books of the Old Testament is called_____.

A. Pentateuch

B. Genesis

C. Deuteronomy

D. Exodus

20.According to the Old Testament, when the wandering Hebrew tribes

left the

desert and entered the mountainous Sinai, _______ climbed to the top of the

mountain to receive from God message, which came to be known as Ten Commandments.

A. David

B. Solomon

C. Saul

D. Moses 21. By 305 the Roman emperor stopped the persecution of Christians. And in

313, ______issued the Edict of Milan and made Christianity.

A. Constantine

B. Nero

C. Diocletian

D. Theodosius.

22. In _____, the Roman Emperor Theodosius made Christianity the official

religion of the empire.

A. 305

B. 313

C. 392

D. 476

23. At the age of 30, Jesus Cxhrist received the baptism at the hands of _____.

A. Joseph

B. St. Paul

C. John Baptist

D. St. Peter

24. The four accounts of Jesus? birth, teaching, death and resurrection were believed to have been written by

A. Matthew , Mark, Luke and John

B. Paul, Peter, Luke and John

C. Joseph, Mark, Paul and Peter

D. Matthew , Mark, Peter and Joseph

25.The most important and influential of English Bible is _________.

A. The Great Bible

B. the Good News Bible

C. the “authorized” or King James’ version

D. the Vulgate 26. The most ancient extant Latin version of the whole Bible is the _____ edition.

A. the Septuagint

B. the Vulgate

C. The Great Bible

D. the Good News Bible

27. What is the Middle Ages also called for?________________

A. “Age of Reason”

B. “Age of Art”

C. “Age of Faith”

D. “Age of science” 28. When did the Western Roman Empire fall and the Middle Ages began?

A. In A. D. 476

B. In A. D. 27

C. In B.C. 27

D.In B. C. 476

29. To become a knight, a noble began his education as a ____ at 7, then he

became a ___ to a knight at about 14. If he proved to be a good fighter, he

could be made a knight at the ceremony of dubbing.

A. squire, page

B. page, squire

C. soldier, page

D. assistant, protector 30. ________, ruler of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Wessex, made Wessex the

Anglo-Saxon cultural centre and contributed greatly to the medieval European

culture.

A. Charlemagne

B. Carolus

C. Alfred the Great

D. Henry VIII

31. _______, the writer of Opus Maius, was one the earliest adovocates of scientific research.

A. Francis Bacon

B. Roger Bacon

C. Thomas Aquinas

D. Dante 32.

_________ is an Anglo-Saxon epic telling about how the hero fighted

against the monster Grendel and the fire dragon.

A. Song of Roland

B. Beowulf

C. Africa

D. Canzoniers

33.__________is the soul of Renaissance.

A. New sciences

B. Humanism

C. New literature

D. the interest in ancient Greek and Roman art

34. _____ is the birthplace of Renaissance.

A. England

B. Italy

C. Spain

D. France

35. Of the four major artists in High Renaissance, ___was best known for his

Madonnas.

A. da Vinci

B. Michelangelo

C. Raphael

D. Titian.

36. ________ established the pictorial tradition in western art by using oil color

on canvas and was ranked the father of the modern mode of painting.

A. da Vinci

B. Michelangelo

C. Raphael

D. Titian.

37.Da Vinci, _____ and Raphael are the best representatives of high

Renaissance in Florence.

A. Giotto

B. Giorgione

C. Michelangelo

D. David

38. _________ …s open protest agains t the indulgence in 1517 started the

Reformation movement in Europe.it challenged the absolute authority of the the

Church and replaced it with the absolute authority of the ______.

A. Martin Luther; Bible

B. John Calvin; the God

C. Jan Hus; Bible

D. John Wycliffe; the God

39. Which is John Calvin?s belief?

A. Men are redeemed by faith and not by the purchase of indulgences.

B. The bible should be translated into vernacular so that the Bible can be

accessible to evbery man.

C. All believers are priests and all occupations are holy and thus equal.

D. Any form of sinfulness is a likely sign of damnatiom whereas ceaseless

work could be sign of salvation.

40. From which of Shakespear?s plays comes the sentence:”To be, or not to be,

that is the quest ion.”

A. Othello

B. King Lear

C.Macbeth

D.Hamlet 41. With the great progess in science, in the

___century Europe advanced from

the Middle ages to the Modern times.

A. 15thththth

B. 16

C. 17

D. 18

42. “I think therefore I am” is ________?s motto. A. So crates B. Descartes C. Locke D. Kant

th43. The major literary form of neoclassicism in france in the 17 century was

_________.

A. novel

B. prose

C. drama

D. poetry 44. __________ rejected the traditional deductive method and founded the

inductive method.

A. John Locke

B. Thomas Hobbs

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Milton

45. ______said:”Knowledge is power.” A. Plato B. Locke

C. Bacon

D. Kant

46. There were two leaders in the English revolution,Cromwell was the man of

action and ___the man of thought.

A. John Locke

B. Thomas Hobbs

C. Francis Bacon

D. John Milton 47. Phaedra is one of the masterpeices of ________________.

A. Pierre Corneille

B. Jean Racine

C. Moliere

D. Lessing 48. The Enlightenment is also called ___________.

A. “Age of Reason”

B. “Age of Art”

thC. “Age of Faith” D. “Age of science”

49. The most important forerunners of the Enlightenment were two

17Englishmen________.

A. Francis Bacon and John Milton

B. John Locke and Isaac Newton

C. Thomas Hobbs and John Locke

D. Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes

50. In art and literature, what coincided with the Age of Reason was

a period

called_________.

A. classicism

B. neoclassicism c. romanticism D. realism

51.Which book discussed the spearation of the legislative, executive and judical

powers?

A. The Spirit of the Laws

B. Lettres Anglaise

C. The Origin of Human Inequality

D.Rameau’s Nephew

52. In Rousseau?s opinion, _____ was the origin of social inequality.

A. human nature

B. absoute monarchy

C. vices in th esociety

D. private property

53. Rousseau?s __________ is an important work on education; and his

autobiography __________ foreshadows the trend of Romanticism.

A. New Heloise; Emile

B.Emile; The Confessions

C. On Education; Poetry and Truth

D. Philosophical Thoughts; Persian Letters

54. Who represented the rationalistic neoclassical tendency in

English literature

and has often been called the spokesman in verse of the Age of Reaon? One of

his masterpieces is The Rape of the Lock.

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Henry Fielding

C. Alexander Pope

D. William Blake

55. In ______, Swift bitterly criticized theBritish government by suggesting

that the children be fattened and eaten.

A. Essay on Criticism

B. A Modest Proposal c. Essay on Man

D.Gulliver?s Travels 56._________ is often called the founder of English domestic

novel, or

epistolary novel. One of his masterpieces is Pamela. A. Samuel Johnson B. Henry Fielding

C. Walter Scott

D. Samuel Richardson

57.Goethe? epistolary novel _________played an enormous role in the spread

of Romanticism.

A. The Sorrows of Young Werther

B. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship

C. Nathan the Wise

D. Poetry and Truth

58. _______ , written by Goethe, is the greatest work of German literature.

A. The Sorrows of Young Werther

B. Wilhelm Meister’s Apprentices hip

C. Faust

D. Poetry and Truth

59. _______ is the key figure of the German philosophy and sometimes called

the “waterhead of Modern philosophy”.

A.Martin luther

B. Hegel

C. Lessing

D. Kant 60. Romanticism devoped in the late _____ and early ___centuryies.

thththththththth A. 18; 19 B. 17; 18 C. 16; 17 D. 19; 20 61.

______________ is not a Lake poet.

A. Southey

B. Keats

C. Wordsworth

D. Coleridge

62 “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is from the ending of _____. A. Ode on a Grecian Urn B. Ode to the West Wind

C. Don Juan

D. Ode to a Nightingale

63. Which of the following writers is a female writer and tried hard to prove

herself equal to the challenge of a woman?

A. Victor Hugo

B. John Keats

C. George Sand

D. Mikhail Y. Lemontov

64. The preface of the play ________, written by ________ is a veritable

manifesto of French Romanticism in Literature.

A. Cromwell; Hugo

B.Hernati; Hugo

C. Atala; Chateaubriand

D. Rene; Chateaubriand 65. Wordsworth and Colerridge were well known for their collective work,

__________, the preface of which marked the beginning of romanticism in

English literature.

A. Ballads and Romances

B. Lyrical Ballads

C. Ballads

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67. _______ was generally considered Byron?s masterpiece. A.Cain B. Manfred

C. Child e Harold’s Pilgrimage

D. Don Juan 69. In_________,

_________ created the first “superfluous man” in Russian literature.

A. Eugene Onegin; Pushkin

B. A Hero of Our Times; Mikhail Y. Lemontov

C. The Betrothed; Manzoni

D. To Sylvia; Leopardi 70. John Keats, a telented English poet, is best known for his beautiful poems, such as ________.

A.To a Skylark

B. To Italy

C. Odes to a Nightingale

D. The Lady of the Lake

II. Connect the names of the writers to their respective masterpieces

20%

Chauccer Gargantua and Pantagruel

Fielding Utopia Boccaccio The New Method Petrach Paradise Lost Rabelais Les

Miserables

Thomas More The Canterbury Tales Hugo Le Cid

Milton Decameron

Bacon Don Quixote

Corneille Canzoniers

Cervantes The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

Wordsworth Divine Comedy

Dante Aeneid

Schiller Cabal and Love

Moliere Robinson Crusoe Pushikin Faust

Virgil Lyrical Ballads

Defoe Eugene Onegin Goethe Tartuffe

Shelley Prometheus Unbound

Giotto Mona Lisa

Titian Sleeping Venus Michalangelo The Sistine Madonna Raphael Flight into Egypt Giorgione David

Da Vinci Sacred and Profane Love