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 \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.
A. Paradise Regained C. Lycidas
B. Samson AgonistesD. 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 C. Samuel Johnson
B. Jonathan Swift 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 ColeridgeD. 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
B. E.M. Foster, A Passage to IndiaC. D. H. Lawrence, Sons and loversD. 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 C. John Donne
B. Edmund Spenser 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 C. Don Juan
B. The Canterbury TalesD. Paradise Lost
36. ___________ is the first modern American novel.A. Tom Sawyer C. The Sketch Book
B. Huckleberry FinnD. The Leatherstocking Tales
37. Which of the following statements is NOT
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