专八人文知识(文学常识)

英美文学知识练习1．Beowulf is considered as the greatest epic in ________.
A.Anglo-Saxon times
B.The Roman Occupation
C.The Middle Ages
D.The renaissance
2. _______ is considered as “the Father of English Poetry”.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton
D. Edmund Spenser
3. Which of the following is Not an author of the English Renaissance?
A. Sir Thomas More
B. Christopher Marlowe
C. Francis Bacon
D. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Which of the following is Not considered as one of Shakespeare’s four greatest tragedies?
A. Hamlet
B. Romeo and Juliet
C. King Lear
D. Macbeth
5. Portia is the famous character in Shakespeare’s play_______.
A. Hamlet
B. Merchant of Venice
C. The Tempest
D. Othello 6．John Milton’s works included all the following except_________.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. The Pilgrim’s Progress
7. During 1711-1712 Richard Steele
collaborated with ____ in publishing the daily paper The Spectator.
A. Joseph Addison
B. Alexander Pope
C. Samuel Johnson
D. John Dryden
8. Which of the following is not
considered as a so-called sentimentalist
of 18th century?
A. Thomas Gray
B. John Keats
C. Oliver Goldsmith
D. Laurence Sterne
9. _____ is considered as the first
English psycho-analytical novel.
A. Pamela by Samuel Richardson
B. The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver
Goldsmith
C. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe
D. Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
10. Which of the following is not a novel
by Henry Fielding?
A. Jonathan Wild
B. Tom Jones
C. Joseph Andrews
D. Don Quixote
11. ‘To be or not to be, that is a question’
is a famous line from the soliloquy of __________.
A. Hamlet
B. King Lear
C. Macbeth
D. Shylock
12. Songs of Innocence is a collection of
lyric poems composed by __________.
A. Robert Frost
B. Mrs. Browning
C. William Blake
D. Charles Swinburne
13. The poem Auld Lang Syne, now the
universal parting-song of the English-speaking peoples, was occupied by _________.
A. Alfred Tennyson
B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth
D. Robert Burns
14. The preface to the “Lyrical Ballads”
served as the manifesto of the English ________ Movement in poetry.
A. Romantic
B. Classic
C. Realistic
D. Modernistic
15. The following poets except _____ have
often been mentioned as the “Lake Poets”.
A. William Wordsworth
B. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C. Robert Southey
D. Percy Bysshe Shelley
16. Don Juan is the masterpiece of
_________.
A. Percy Bysshe Shelley
B. George Gordon Byron
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. John Milton
17. “If winter comes, can Spring be far
behind?” is a world-famous line from “Ode to the West Wind” composed by _________.
A. George Gordon Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. John Keats
D. Emily Dickinson
18. “Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”is a
famous line from “Ode on a Grecian Urn” by_________.
A. George Gordon Byron
B. Percy Bysshe Shelley
C. John Keats
D. William Wordsworth
19. 《萨克逊劫后英雄略》is a Chinese
translation of the English novel ______.
A. Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe
B. Daniel Defoe’s Robinson, Crusoe
C. Jonathon Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
D. Charles Di ckens’s The Pickwick
Papers
20. Which of the following novels is not
written by Charles Dickens?
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Oliver Twist
C. David Copperfield
D. Rob Roy
21．Vanity Fair is the great masterpiece of ___________.
A. Charles Dickens
B. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
C. William Makepeace Thackeray
D. George Eliot
22. Which of the following novels is not
written by Jane Austin?
A. Sense and Sensibility
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Mansfield Park
D. The Mill on the Floss
23. Wuthering Heights is the masterpiece
of the English woman writer_________.
A. Charlotte Bront.
B. Emily Bront
C. Anne Bront
D. George Eliot
24. The Seven Lamps of Architecture is
one of the major works concerning art criticism written by the famous prose-writer of Victorian England _____.
A. Matthew Arnold
B. Thomas Carlyle
C. John Ruskin
D. Thomas Babington Macaulay
25. School for Scandal is the masterpiece
of the most important 18th century English dramatist_______.
A. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
B. Charles Lamb
C. William Shakespeare
D. Oscar Wilde
26. Treasure Island is a romance written
by_________.
A. Rudyard Kipling
B. Robert Louis Stevenson
C. Joseph Conrad
D. Herbert George Wells
27. William Butler Yeats is a well-known
Irish _________.
A. Novelist
B. Poet
C. Playwright
D. Essayist
28. “Art for Art’s sake” is a theory
advanced by _____.
A. Henry James
B. Oscar Wild
C. Samuel Butler
D. George Mereditn
29. Thomas Hardy wrote the following
novels except_________.
A. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
B. Jude the Obscure
C. Far from the Madding Crowd
D. The Way of All Flesh
30. The Forsyte Saga, the first triology of
the 20th century English critical realist John Galsworthy, consists of the following except________.
A. The Man of Property
B. In Chancery
C. To Let
D. The White Monkey
31. Which of the following plays is not
written by Bernard Shaw?
A. Major Barbara
B. Mrs. Warren’s Profession
C. The Silver Box
D. Heartbreak House
32. The Waste Land is the masterpiece of the poet_______.
A.Thomas Stearns Eliot
B.Hilda Doolittle
C.William Butler Yeats
D.Walt Whitman
33. The founder of the ‘Stream of consciousness’school of novel writing James Joyce’s major works contains the following except_____-.
A.Ulysses
B.Finnegans Wake
C.Mrs Dalloway
D.Four Quartets
34. Lady Chatterley’s Lover is a famous novel written by _______.
A.David Herbert Lawrence
B.Virginia Woolf
C.William Somerset Maugham
D.Katherine Mansfield
35. Thomas Paine was one of these political pamphleteers and the most
persuasive rhetorician for the cause of independence. He wrote the following woks except______.
mon Sense
B.The Rights of Man
C.The Age of Reason
D.Poor Richard’s Almanac
36. The Song of Hiawatha, the first American epic in Blank verse about the American Indians is composed by _____.
A.William Cullen Bryant
B.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
C.William Wordsworth
D.Washington Irving
37. The author of The Leatherstocking Tales is ______.
A.James Fenimore Cooper
B.Edgar Allan Poe
C.Jack London
D.Nathaniel Hawthorne
38. Rip Van Winkle and the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow are the most outstanding of
the stories that _____ wrote.
A.Washington Irving
B.James Fenimore Cooper
wrence Sterne
D.Oliver Goldsmith
39. Nature,which has been called “the manifesto of American transcendentalism”was written by ____.
A.Thomas Paine
B.Henry David Thoreau
C.Nathaniel Hawthorne
D.Ralph Waldo Emerson
40. Walden; or, Life in the Woods is a recording of life and meditation of ___ when living alone in Walden Pond.
A.Ralph Waldo Emerson
B.Nathaniel Hawthorne
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. William Wordsworth
41. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque was written by___, who has been regarded as the father of modern short story.
A.Henry David Thoreau
B.Nathaniel Hawthorne
C.Edgar Allan Poe
D.Washington Irving
42. Leaves of Grass, which ran nine editions with more than 400 poems all written in fee verse form, is the great masterpiece of ____.
A.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
B.Walt Whitman
C.William Butler Yeats
D.Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
44. The most important book written by Herman Melville is ____.
A.Typee
B.Moby Dick
C.Pierre
D.The Prairies
45. Known as O. Henry, ___ was one of the most prolific modern American short story writers and wrote about 300 short stories, including the famous “The Cop
and the Anthem”, The Four Million, and so on.
A. William Sidney Porter
B. Katherine Anne Porter
C. William Dean Howells
D. Sherwood Anderson
46. ______ has been called the first of the “Modern psychological novelists,”and “a realist of the inner life”. And he wrote such great novels as The Ambassadors, The Turn of the Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The Golden Bowl, and The Portrait of a Lady.
A. Earnest Hemingway
B. William Guthbert Faulkner
C. William James
D. Henry James
47. Mark Twain is the penname of ______.
A. Samuel Langhorne Clemens
B. William Sidney Porter
C. Sherwood Anderson
D. Sarah Orne Jewtt
48.Which of the following is not written by Mark Twain?
A. Innocents Abroad
B. The Gilded Age
C. Tom Sawyer
D. The American
49. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Sketches is the best collection of tales written by ______.
A. Hemingway
B. Hanmlin Garland
C. Francis Bret Harte
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
50. Uncle Tom’s Cabin is a great masterpiece written by which of the following women writers___?
A. Kate Chopin
B. Mary E. Wilkings Freem
C. Alice Brown
D. Harriet Beecher Sowe
51. The most famous book written by Stephen Crane about the American Civil
War is ____.
A. The Red Badge of Courage
B. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets
C. George’s Mother
D. The Third Violet
52. “The Trilogy of Desire”by Theodors Dreiser includes the following except___.
A. The Financier
B. The Stoic
C. The Titan
D. Sister Carrie
53. The trilogy “Epic of the Wheat”written by Frank Norris includes the following but________.
A. The Octopus
B. The Pit
C. The Wolf
D. Mcteague
54. Jack London wrote the following works except ___.
A. The People of the Abyss
B. The Sea Wolf
C. The American Tragedy
D. Martin Eden
55. Cathay, a collection of translation of Chinese poems, was done by the American poet_______.
A. Ezra Pond
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Wallace Stevens
D.
E.R. Robinson
56. Which of the following is not a work of T. S. Eliot?
A. The Waste Land
B. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
C. Murder in the Cathedral
D. Don Juan
57. Which of the following is not a representative of the so-called Chicago poets in the 1920s and 1930s America? A. Vachel Lindsay
B．Edgar Lee Masters
C. Carl Sandburg
D. Kenneth Koch
58. In the later 1950s and the whole 1960s Beat Poet ______ made his voice heard as
the poet laureate of the Beat Generation.
A. Allan Ginsberg
B. Robert Penn Warren
C. Robert Lowell
D. Charles Olson
59. Earnest Hemingway, generally regarded as spokesman for the Lost Generation, wrote the following novels except____.
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. The old man and the sea.
D. This Side of Paradise
60. Francis Scott Fitzgerald, known as the “Roaring 20s”, and “Jazz Age”, wrote the following but____.
A. For whom the Bell Tolls
B. The Beautiful and Damned
C. The Great Gatsby
D. Tender Is the Night
61. ____, the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize for literature, is the
author of Babbit and Main Street.
A. Earnest Hemingway
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. John Steinbeck
D. Gertrude Stein
62. ____ is usually considered as the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.
A. The Grapes of Wrath
B. The Pearl
C. East of Eden
D. Moon is Down
63. The Catcher in the Rye is the first and only novel written by_____.
A. Truman Capote
B. Jerome David Salinger
C. James Thurber
D. John Updike
64. The Female Man, a significant feministic achievement in literature, was written by woman writer____.
A. Joyce Carol Oates
B. Katherine Anne Poeter
C. Joanna Russ
D. Alice Walker
65. ____ is the first important Jewish American novelist to begin publishing in the mid—1940s, and he received the 1976 Nobel Prize for Literatue.
A. Saul Bellow
B. Issac Bashevis Singer
C. Bernard Malamud
D. Philip Roth
66. _____ is the author of the novel Native Son.
A. James Baldwin
B. Richard Wright
C. Langston Hughes
D. Toni Morrison
67. Invisible Man is the masterpiece of the famous black writer__.
A. Ralph Ellison
B. Langston Hughes
C. Richard Wright
D. James Baldwin
68. William Guthbert Gaulkner, the foremost southern writer of the 20th century, were the following stories except___.
A. The Sound and Fury
B. The Apple Cart
C. Absalom, Absalom!
D. Go Down, Moses
69. The Greatest American dramatist of the first half of the 20th century ____ wrote such great works as the Iceman Cometh, Long Day’s Journey into Night.
A. Eugene O’Neill
B. Maxwell Anderson
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Edward Albee
70. Death of a Salesman is the masterpiece of playwright_____.
A. Arthur Miller
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Sam Shepard。