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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
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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 \Declaration of Intellectual Independence\It called on American writers to write about America in a 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.
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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.
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A James Joyce, Ulysses B. . Foster, A Passage to India C. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and lovers D. Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
32. Which of the following comments on Charles Dickens is wrong? A. Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of the Modern Period
B. His serious intention is to expose and criticize all the poverty, injustice, hypocrisy and
corruptness he sees all around him.
C. The later works show the development of Dickens towards a highly conscious artist of the
modern type.
D. A Tale of Two Cities is one of his late works. 33. _____was known as “the poets’ poet”.
A. William Shakespeare B. Edmund Spenser C. John Donne D. John Milton
34. Which of the following poet belongs to the active Romantic poet? A. Keats B. Southey C. Wordsworth D. Coleridge 35. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons. A. Beowulf B. The Canterbury Tales C. Don Juan D. Paradise Lost 36. ___________ is the first modern American novel. A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. The Sketch Book D. The Leatherstocking Tales
37. Which of the following statements is NOT true of American Transcendentalism? A. It can be clearly defined as a part of American Romantic literary movement.
B. It can be defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth
intuitively”.
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson was the chief advocate of this spiritual movement. D. It sprang from South America in the late l9th century.
38. The theme of Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is _________.
A. the conflict of human psyche B. the fight against racial discrimination C. the familial conflict D. the nostalgia for the unrecoverable past
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39. The Nobel Prize Committee highly praised ________ for “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art” of creating modern diction.
A. Ezra Pound B. Ernest Hemingway C. Robert Frost D. Theodore Dreiser
40. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism?
A. Emerson B. Jack London C. Theodore Dreiser D. Darwin 41. ________ is NOT true in describing American naturalists. A. they were deeply influenced by Darwinism
B. they were identified with French novelist and theorist Emile Zola C. they chose their subjects for the lower ranks or society
D. they used more serious and more sympathetic tone in writing than realists 42. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________. A. international theme B. national theme C. European theme D. regional theme
IV. Explain the following literary items.(4x 5’=20’)
43. Spenserian Stanza 44. Lake Poets 45. Humanism 46. Ballad
V. Questions. (3x 10’=30’)
47. “Robinson Crusoe” is usually considered as Daniel Defoe’s masterpiece. Discuss why it became so successful when it was published?
48. What is \
49. Mark Twain and Henry James are two representatives of the realistic writers in American
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