17. ―The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero18. ―To wage by force or guile eternal war,
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.（John Milton, ‖Paradise lost)
’s origin.‖ This novel is most probably Henry FieldingTom Jones’s .
By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?--By corrupting man and woman created by God. 19. ―When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherized upon a table.
‖(T. s. Eliot,
―The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock
‖）
What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?-- Inactivity.
21.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except [A]normal contemporary speech patterns [B]humble and rustic life as subject matter [C]elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
[D]intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
23.The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around 1850. 24.The subject matter of Robert Frost
’s Poems focuses on ordinary country people and scenes.
.
25.Which groupof writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of American literature? [A]Mark Twain and Henry James.
[C]Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
[B]Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving. [D]Jack London and O
’Henry.
No ‖ wonder the characters in his books are often
26.To Theodore Dreiser, life is ―so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so inexplicable.
subject to the control of the natural forces, especially those of environment and heredity. 27.Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as the evil in man
’s heart in his fiction.
28.Darwin’s theory of evolution provides the main source of influence on American naturalism. 29.In Mark Twain
’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the
letter up. This fact reveals that there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck. 30. Fragmentation and alienation can best describe the modernists
’ concern of the human situation in their fiction?
.
31.Whitman’poems are characterized by all the following features except s [A]a strict poetic form
[C]a free and natural rhythmic pattern
[B]a simple and conversational language [D]an easy flow of feelings
32.All his novels reveal that, as time went on, Mark Twain became increasingly pessimistic.
33.The poem ―I like to see it lap the Miles－‖ is an interesting poem written by Emily Dickinson. What does train
36. Emily Dickinson
’s ―I like to see it lap the milesdescribes a train running through the mountain area.‖,
l feature of Henry James
’s writing style?
―it‖ in the poem stand The
34.Which of the following is NOT a typica[A] exquisite and elaborate language [C]lengthy psychological analyses
[B]minute and detailed descriptions [D]American colloquialism
35.In the beginning paragraph of Chapter 3, The Great Gatsby,Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that like moths.
‖ The author most likely indicates thatsuch life does not have real meaning.
―men and girls came and w
36.In Hemingway’s ―Indian Camp,‖ Nick, the main character, witnesses terrible scenes of birth and death37.Which oneof the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner? [A]He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative. [B]His writing is often complex and difficult to understand. [C]He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago. [D]He represents a new group of Southern writers. 38.American
―Transcendentalists most typically believe that man is divine in nature
23. To the transcendentalists such as Emerson and Thoreau, man is divine in nature; but to Hawthorne and Melville, everybody is potentially as sinner.
39.By the end of Sister Carrie,Dreiser writes,
―It was forever to the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the
world.‖ Dreiser implies that there is no end to man’s desire. 40.We can perhaps describe Emily Grierson in Faulkner
’s short story
―A Rose for Emily
‖ in all the following ways except that.
[A]she is psychologically deformed [C]she is a symbol of the Old South
[B]she is wicked and morally corrupted [D]she is a prisoner and victim of the past
1.In the field of literature, the Enlightenment Movement brought about a revival of interest in the old classical works. This tendency is known as
neoclassicism
.
2.Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose. He is almost unsurpassed in the writing of simple, direct, precise prose. He defined a good style as proper words in proper place.―‖
3.Wordsworth is regarded as a worshipper of nature_―＿_.‖He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature. 5.In his long dramatic career, Shaw wrote more than ___50_ plays.
6.James Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist, concentrating on the revealing in his novels the psychic being of the characters.
8.Structurally and thematically, Shaw followed the great tradition of realism. 9.Most of Faulkner
’s works are about people from a small region in Northern Mississippi, Yoknapatawpha County.
18
10.In Our Times is the first book to present a Hemingway hero—Nick Adams.
5.As a novelist Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere, the provincial life of the late 187.Hawthorne’s view of man and human history originates, to a great extent ,in Puritanism
10.According to Faulkner,The Sound and the Furyis a story of lost innocence―‖, which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.
2.The English Renaissance period was an age of poetry and drama4.In Shakespearelost.
5. Which of the following statements best illustrates the theme of Shakespeare’Sonnet s 18?The speaker praises the power of artistic creation.
6. In English poetry, a four-line stanza is called quatrain. 22. ―The Vanity Fair
th
-century England.
Merchant of Venice’s , Antonio could not pay back the money he borrowed from Shylock, because his ships had all been
‖ is a well-known part in The Pilgrim’s Progress, which Thackeray later adopted it as the title of a novel.
9. The 18 century witnessed a new literary form－the modern English novel, which, contrary to the medieval romance, gives a ______ presentation of life of the common people. A. romantic
B. realistic
C. prophetic
D. idealistic
10. As a whole, ______is one of the most effective and devastating criticisms and satires of all aspects in the then English and European life— socially, politically, religiously, philosophically, scientifically, and morally. A. Moll FlandersC. Pilgrims Progress’
B. Gullivers Travels’
D. The School for Scandal
11. An honest, kind-hearted young man, who is full of animal spirit and lacks prudence, is expelled from the paradise and has to go through hard experience to gain knowledge of himself and finally to have been accepted both by a virtuous lady and a rich relative . sentence may well sum up the theme of Fielding
Tom Jones’s work .
th
The above
13. Which of the following works best represents the national spirit of the 18A. Robinson CrusoeC. Jonathan Wild the Great14. Shelley
-century England?
B. Gullivers Travels’D. A Sentimental Journey
’s masterpiece, Prometheus Unbound, is a verse drama, which borrows the basic story from a Greek play.
15. In the first part of the novel Pride and prejudice, Mr. Darcy has a high opinion of the Bennet family .
17. Mr. Micawber in David Copperfieldand Sam Well in Pickwick Papersare perhaps the best ______ characters created by Charles Dickens. A. comic
B.tragic
C. round
D.sophisticated
18. A typical feature of the English Victorian literature is that writers became social and moral critics, exposing all kinds of social evils. 15. The three trilogies of Galsworthy’s Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20 century. 21. ―He was silent with conceit of his son. Mrs. Morel sniffed, as if it were nothing.quotation, we can see that Mrs. Morel
Sons and Lovers by D.H.Lawrence)From the above ‖（
th
’s attitude to her husband is merely contemptuous.
22. A boy makes a quest of his idealized childish love through painful experience up to the point of losing his innocence and coming to see
the drabness and harshness of the adult world.
The above sentence may well sum up the major theme of ______. A. Eliot
’s poem The love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. Bernard shaw
’s play Mrs. Warrens Profes’sion
C. Joyce’s story Araby D. Lawrence’s story The Horse Dealers Daughter’
’s fiction is noted for his refined elegant language.
23. Linguistically, compared with the writings of Mark Twain, Henry James
26. Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT ______ . A. the strict poetic form C. the easy flow of feelings
B. the free and natural rhythm
D. the simple and conversational language
27. ―Then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolledon as it rolled five thousand years ago.‖ In the quoted sentence, the author
might imply that man’s desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction. 29. Hawthorne’The Scarlet Letters best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?
31. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the materialistic American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically.
32. In Daisy Miller,Henry James reveals DaisyAmericanness by showing her relatively unreserved manners. ’s
33. The raft with which Huck and Jim make their voyage down the Mississippi River may symbolize all the following EXCEPT ______. A. a return to nature
B. an escape from evils, injustices, and corruption of the civilized society C. the American society in the early 19th century
D. a small world where people of different colors can live friendly and happily
34. Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’story s ―A Rose for Emily,‖ can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities EXCEPT______. A. old values
B. rigid ideas of social status
C. bigotry and eccentricity
D. harmony and integrity
36. The statement that a boy’s night journey to an Indian village to witness the violence of both birth and death provides all the possibilities
of a learning experience may well sum up the major theme of Hemingway’s story
―Indian Camp . ‖
38. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about Scott Fitzgerald’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.39.After his experiences in the forest, Young Goodman Brown returns to Salem desperate and gloomy. 40. According to Mark Twain, in river towns up and down the Mississippi, it was every boy’s dream to some day grow up to be a riverboat
pilot.
1. Christopher Marlowe
’s greatest achievement lies in that he perfected the blank verse and made it the principal medium of English drama.
4. In 1798, william Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published a joint volume of poetry entitled
Lyrical Ballads, which becomes a landmark in English poetry.
5. With violence, horror, and the supernatural as its major elements, Gothic novel is a type of romantic fiction that predominated in the late
18th century.
6. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors and is always referred to as newfiction.
‖
7. Robert Browning is the most representative Victorian poet. His poetry voices the doubt and the faith, the grief and the joy of the English
people in an age of fast social changes.
8. Moby-Dick is regarded as the first American prose epic. Although it is presented in the form of a novel, at times it seems like
a prose
poem.
9. As a most representative figure of the 1920s, F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote much of his own experience into the novel This Side of Paradise. 1. Geoffrey Chaucer employed the heroic couplet with true ease and charm for the first time in the history of English Literature. 2. Which of the following is William Shakespeare’s history play?
A. Macbeth
B. Henry IV C. Romeo and Juliet
D. King Lear
5. Jane Austen wrote within a very narrow sphere. The subject matter, the social setting, and plots are all restricted to the provincial life of the
late 18th -century. A. late 19th -century
B. 17th -century
―
C. 20th -century D.
6. Usually basing on her own experiences, Emily Dickinson addresses issues that concern the whole human beings. Which of the following is
NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?-- Life and Death, Religion, Love and Nature7. Walden is a Transcendentalist work.8. Henry James
’ realism is different from others, because he pays more attention to the inner world of human beings.
’s greatest achievement.
9. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finnis considered Mark Twain11. ________ is NOT a Nobel Prize winner.
A. Eugene O’Neill
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
’s language?
D. William Faulkner
12. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark TwainA. Vernacular B. Elegant C. Colloquial
D. Humorous
14. As the representative of the Enlightenment, Pope was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England. 16. The Victorian Age is most famous for its ____????____.
A. plays
B. novels
C. poems
D. essays
17. the famous Bronte Sisters: Charlotte Bronte. Emily Bronte. Anne Bronte
19. In his novel, Robinson Crusoe, Defoe eulogizes the hero of the hard-working people20. Which of the following works does not belong to John Milton?
A. Paradise LostB. Paradise Regained C. Adonais1. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is humanism2.Shakespeare’s tragedies include all the following except（
A. Hamlet and King Lear C. Julius Caesar and Othello
）.
D. Lycidas
B. Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
D. The Merchant ofVenice and A Midsummer Nights’Dream
7.In his poem ―Tyger, Tyger,‖William Blake expresses his perception of the―fearful symmetry‖of the big cat. The phrase―fearful symmetry‖suggeststhe harmony of the two opposite aspects of God8.―What is his name?
‖―Bingley.
‖―Is he married or single?
’s creation‖
―Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!The above dialogue must be taken from Jane Austen’Pride and Prejudice s
10.William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following except（A. the using of everyday language spoken by the common people B. the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C. the humble and rustic life as subject matter D. elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
）.
11.Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of Venice:―Not on thy sole, but on thy soul, harshJew/Thou mak’st thy knife keen.kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?- Pun.13.The poems such as
―The Chimney Sweeper‖are found in both Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience byWilliam Blake
‖What
17.―For I have known them all already, known them all—/Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons,/I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
‖The above lines are taken fromEliot’s―The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
th
‖
18.The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18 century. 21.George Bernard Shaw
’s play, Mrs. Warrens Profession is a grotesquely realistic exposure of the economic oppression of women ’
’s parents Walter Morel and Mrs. Morel must be D. H. Lawrence
―black vision.
’s Sons and Lovers
22.The story starting with the marriage of Paul
24.The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for hismen are by nature evil
‖The term―black visionHawthorne’s belief that all ‖refers to
25.Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his crudeness in style, but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.
26.―He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of his personal Grail; his failure
magnifies to a great extent the end of the American Dream.‖The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby ’s
’s heroes turned out to be tragic because most of them were prisoners of the past.
27.Almost all Faulkner
29.In―The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is ‖old, because the choice has made all the difference.
30.Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues asdeath, immortality, religion, love and nature.
31.The Romantic Writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the（A. individual feeling
B. survival of the fittest
）in the American literary history.
D. return to nature
.
C. strong imagination
32.Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be pessimists
33.With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, Realism became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19 century.
34.American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)Lost Generation―,‖devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization.
36.Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely characters in The Scarlet Letter.
37.Like Nathaniel Hawthorne,Herman Melvillealso manages to achieve the effect of ambiguity through symbolism and allegory in his narratives.
38.In his realistic fiction, Henry James
’s primary concern is to present the inner life of human beings.
’s writing style?（）
D. Richness of irony and humor.
―A Rose for Emily,
‖is NOT true?（）
th
39.Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Mark TwainA. Simple vernacular.
B. Local color.
C. Lengthy psychological analyses.
40.Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s storyA. She has a distorted personality.
C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South. 1.With classical culture and the Italian3.―Metaphysical conceit
B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed. D. She is the victim of the past glory.
humanistic ideas coming into England, the English Renaissance began flourishing.
（
’）s poetry. It is.
‖is a strategy characteristic of John Donne
A. a confession that avoids questions of moral accountability B. the linking of images from very different ranges of experience C. self-definition through images based on the four primal elements D. the chaining of images representing solid and gaseous elements
4.―So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, /So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.‖ShakespeareSonnet 18 includes ’s three stanzas according to the content with these last two lines as a（A. prelude
B. couplet ？？？C. epigraph
D. exposition
th
）, which completes the sense of the above lines.
6.Jonathan Swift is a master satirist in English literature. His A Tale of a Tub is an attack on the church 7.Chaucer was the first English writer to adopt heroic couplet in his writhing of poems. In the early 18heroic couplet was Alexander Pope
9.Which of the following statements about Neo-Classicism and Enlightenment Movement is true?（A. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the 17
th
century, the chief proponent of the
）. century.
B. Neo-Classicism found its artistic models in the classical literature of the ancient Greek and Roman writers like Homer, Virgil, Horace, Ovid, etc. and in the contemporary French writers such as Voltaire and Diderot.
C. Neo-Classicism put the stress on the classical artistic ideals of order, logic, proportion, spontaneous emotion, and passion.
D. Satire was much used in writing in the neo-classic works. English literature of this age produced a distinguished satirist Daniel Defoe. 10.A poet asserted that poetry originated form
―emotion recollected in tranquillity
‖. He maintained that the scenes and events
life and the speech of ordinary people were the raw material of which poetry could and should be made. Who is that poet?William Wordsworth.
12.Romanticism was a literary trend prevailing in English during the period from 1798 to 1832. The Romantic writersA. paid great attention to the spiritual and emotional life of man
B. were discontent with the development of industrialism and capitalism, and presented the social evils minutely in their works
（
）.
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