英美文学试卷A
I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)
1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as
well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales contains 26 stories.
2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.
3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an
urban life.
4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big
influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.
5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce
longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.
6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy,
John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.
7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.
8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist
literature.
9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and
American consciousness.
10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and
reached its greatest heights.
II. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1’=20’)
11. The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was ___________.
12. The War of Independence lasted eight years till__________.
13. Ralph Waldo Emerson's essay__________ has been regarded as \of Intellectual Independence\way peculiarly American.
14. The American ___________ writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were ____________, ____________, ____________, ____________, etc. 15. No period in American history is more eventful than that between the two world wars. The literary features of the time can be seen in the writings of those ________ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Generation as ___________.
16. Two features of English Renaissance are the curiosity for ___________ and the interest in the activities of _____________________.
17. Shakespeare’s earliest great success in tragedy is ____________, a play of youth and love, with the famous balcony scene.
18. There are three types of poets in 17th century English literature. They are Puritan poets, ___________ poets and ______________ poets.
19. Pope’s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ___________________. 20. ___________ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel” for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.
21. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _______________. 22. Lawrence’s most controversial novel is ___________, the best probably _________. III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1’=20’)
23. Among the three major works by John Milton ________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. A. Paradise Regained B. Samson Agonistes
C. Lycidas D. Paradise Lost
24. Francis Bacon’s essays are famous for their brevity, compactness and __________. A. complicity B. complexity C. powerfulness D. mildness 25. As one of the greatest masters of English prose, _______ defined a good style as “proper words in proper places”.
A. Henry Fielding B. Jonathan Swift C. Samuel Johnson D. Alexander Pope
26. The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan is often said to be concerned with the search for _________.
A. material wealth B. spiritual salvation C. universal truth D. self-fulfillment
27. “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” The quoted part is taken from _________. A. Jane Eyre B. Wuthering Heights C. Pride and Prejudice D. Sense and Sensibility 28. Which of the following poems is a landmark in English poetry? A. Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth C. “Remorse” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
29. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is his _________. A. simple vocabulary B. bitter and sharp criticism C. character-portrayal D. pictures of happiness
30. “My Last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ________. A. sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language B. excellent choice of words
C. mastering of the metrical devices D. use of the dramatic monologue
31. ________ is the most outstanding stream of consciousness novelist, with ______as his encyclopedia-like masterpiece. A James Joyce, Ulysses
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