英美文学知识问题版

英美文学知识问题版
II、英美文学知识练习150题
1.William Faulkner is the author of
A.Far From the Madding Crowd
B.The Sound and Fury
C.For Whom the Bell Tolls
D.The Scarlet Letter
2.Robert Frost is a famous
A.novelist
B.playwright
C.poet
D.literary critic
3.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by
A.Jack London
B.Charles Dickens
C.Samuel Coleridge
D.Ernest Hemingway
4.Which of the following poets is different from the others?
A.John Donne
B.John Keats
C.Lord Byron
D.Percy Bysshe Shelley
5.Which of the following is NOT written by William Shakespeare?
A.Othello
B.The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
C.Romeo and Juliet
D.The Twelfth Night
6.Beowulf narrates a story taking place in
A.the Mediterranean
B.Northern Europe
C.England
D.Scandinavia
7.refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
A.Allegory
B.Conflict
C.Irony
D.Flashback
8.William Wordsworth is an English
A.poet
B.novelist
C.playwright
D.critic
9.The great Transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is
A.Nature
B.Walden
C.Experience
D.Essays
10.James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT
A.Dubliners
B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C.Jude the Obscure
D.Ulysses
11.The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT
A.The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Agnes Grey
12.In which novel can “Yahoo” be found?
A.John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
B.Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queen
C.Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Trave ls
D.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
13.The Victorian Age was largely an age of , eminently represented by Dickens and
Thackeray.
A.Pessimism
B.Naturalism
C.Modernism
D.Critical Realism
14.Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of and
serious literature.
A.American folk humor
B.funny jokes
C.English folklore
D.American values
15.Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the
Revolutionary War?
A.Fennimore Cooper
B.Nathaniel Hawthorn
C.Walt Whitman
D.Washington Irving
16.Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by
A.Christopher Marlow
B.John Milton
C.William Shakespeare
D.Ben Johnson
17.I Have a Dream is addressed by
A.Abraham Lincoln
B.John F. Kennedy
C.Martin Luther King
D.Ralph Waldo Emerson
18.Which of the following is a poem by Emily Dickinson?
A.Song of Myself
B.The Raven
C. A Red Red Rose
D.Because I Could Not Stop for Death
19.Eugene O’Neil is an American
A.novelist
B.playwright
C.poet
D.essayist
20.The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of
A.Jane Austen
B.Walter Scott
C.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D.William Wordsworth
21.In the works of Aesthetism, the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by
A.Oscar Wilde
B.Mrs. Gaskell
C.Alexander Pope
D.Charles Lamb
22.Whose works are characterized by Stream-of-Consciousness?
A.George Eliot
B.Jane Austen
C.Emily Bronte
D.James Joyce
23.The most famous work by Chaucer is
A.Beowulf
B.The Canterbury T ale
C.Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
D.The Christ
24.The period from 1865-1914 has been referred to as the in the literary history of the
United States.
A.Age of Realism
B.Age of Classicalism
C.Age of Romanticism
D.Age of Renaissance
25.has been given 18 honorary degrees.
A.Ezra Pond
B. E. E. Cummings
C.Robert Frost
D.William Cullen Bryant
26.Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?
A.The Merchant of Venice
B.King Lear
C.Hamlet
D.The Tempest
27.Leaves of Grass is written by
A.Walt Whitman
B.Carl Sandburg
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D.Allen Ginsberg
28.Will iam Makepeace Thackeray’s most famous work is
A.The School for Scandal
B.Past and Present
C.Major Barbara
D.Vanity Fair
29.Dover Beach is written by
A.Robert Browning
B.Alfred Tennyson
C.Mathew Arnold
D.Dylan Thomas
30.The period of Old English literature refers to
A.449-1066
B.14th century --- mid 17th century
C.14th century --- mid 18th century
D.16th century --- mid 18th century
31.Moby Dick is the most important work by
A.Jack London
B.Herman Melville
C.Sinclair Lewis
D.Ralph Ellison
32.O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his
A.novels
B.poems
C.short stories
D.dramas
33.Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon’s essay?
A.Of Studies
B.Of Beauty
C.Of Wisdom
D.Of Love
34.is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
A.Tender Is the Night
B.This Side of Paradise
C.The Beautiful and Dammed
D.The Great Gatsby
35.“Morte d’Arthur” is a famous work by
A.John Milton
B.Venerable Bede
C.Thomas Malory
D.Alfred the Great
36.Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?
A.The Titan
B.The Financier
C.The Genius
D.The Stoic
37.The followings are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT
A.Oliver Twist
B.The Vicar of Wakefield
C.Great Expectations
D. A Tale of Two Cities
38.It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important and mature poems are in the form of
A.ode
B.elegy
C.epic
D.sonnet
39.The 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to
A.William Faulkner
B.John Steinbeck
C.Saul Bellow
D.Ernest Hemingway
40.Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of work.
A.Romantic
B.Classic
C.Neo-Classic
D.Naturalistic
41.Who is “the father of English poetry”?
A.Shakespeare
B.Edmund Spencer
C.John Milton
D.Geoffrey Chaucer
42.The Red Badge of Courage is written by
A.Frank Norris
B.Sherwood Anderson
C.Willa Cather
D.Stephen Crane
43.The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is
A.drama
B.prose
C.novel
D.poetry
44.John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work
A.Ulysses
B.Hard Times
C.The Forsyte Saga
D.Jude the Obscure
45.Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?
A.She Walks in Beauty
B.The Solitary Reaper
C.When We Two Parted
D.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
46.wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.
A.Arthur Miller
B.Thaomas Pynchon
C.John Updike
D.Wallace Stevens
47.The Road Not T aken is a poem written by
A.Robert Frost
B.Longfellow
C.Ezra Pond
D.Carl Sandburg
48.It is who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.
A.Marlowe
B.Shakespeare
C.Spenser
D.Henry Howard
49.T.S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is
A.I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
B. A Boy’s Will
C.The Waste Land
D.The Golden Bough
50.Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel?
A.John Banyan
B.Henry Fielding
C.Samuel Richardson
D.Daniel Defoe
51.The Portrait of a Lady is a great work by
A.Henry James
B.Mark Twain
C.Dreiser
D.Stowe
52.Hester is a character in
A.Gone with the Wind
B.The Fall of the House of Usher
C.Babbitt
D.The Scarlet Letter
53.In Paradise Lost, the real hero created by Milton is
A.God
B.Adam
C.Eve
D.Satan
54.The island of Lilliput can be found in
A.Robinson Crusoe
B.Gulliver’s Travels
C.Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D.Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
55.“To be, or not to be” is quoted from
A.Kind Lear
B.Hamlet
C.Julius Caesar
D.Romeo and Juliet
56.Mr. Allwrothy is a kind-hearted gentleman in
A. A Tale of Two Cities
B.Great Expectations
C.Sons and Lovers
D.The History of T om Jones, a Foundling
57.The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s
A.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C.Life on the Mississippi
D.The Prince and the Pauper
58.The Catcher in the Rye is written by
A.J.D. Salinger
B.Jack London
C.Flannery O’Connor
D.Saul Bellow
59.Which of the following works is NOT written by D.H Lawrence?
A.Women in Love
B.Sons and Lovers
C.The Rainbow
D.The French Lieutenant’s Woman
60.Generally, the English Renaissance refers to the period between centuries.
A.14th and mid-17th
B.14th and mid-18th
C.16th and mid-18th
D.16th and mid-17th
61.The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of
A.John Steinbeck
B.John Cheever
C.John Updike
D.John Dos Passos
62.is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.
A.Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
B.The Glass Menagerie
C.Light in August
D. A Streetcar Named Desire
63.Robert Burns is a poet from
A.England
B.New England
C.Ireland
D.Scotland
64.The Zoo Story is a play written by
A.John Osborne
B.Samuel Beckett
C.Edward Albee
D.Eugene O’Neil
65.is a popular literary form in the medieval period.
A.Romance
B.Novel
C.Sonnet
D.Drama
66.The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in
the century.
A.18th
B.19th
C.17th
D.20th
67.is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.
A.William Blake
B.Robert Burns
C.Byron
D.Keats
68.William Blake’s The Tiger is collected in
A.Songs of Innocence
B.Songs of Experience
C.Marriage of Heaven and Hell
D.Poetical Sketches
69.The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by
A.Washington Irving
B.Fennimore Cooper
C.Edith Wharton
D.William Dean Howells
70.is known as “the poet’s poet”.
A.Shakespeare
B.Marlowe
C.Spenser
D.Donne
71.The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be
A.O’Neil
B.Pound
C.Robert Frost
D.Scott Fitzgerald
72.was the most important person of the Transcendental club.
A.Hawthorn
B.Whitman
C.Emerson
D.Hemingway
73.Shylock is a character in
A.The Merchant of Venice
B.The Twelfth Night
C.The Winter’s Tale
D.Macbeth
74.The complier of A Dictionary of the English Language is
A.Joseph Addison
B.Richard Steele
C.Samuel Johnson
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75.The main themes of Emily Dickinson’s works are the following EXCEPT
A.friendship
B.love and marriage
C.life and death
D.war and peace
76.American fiction in the 1960s was referred to as
A.Imagism
B.Black Humor
C.New Fiction
D.The Beat Generation
77.James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown
A.London
B.Dublin
C.New York
D.Edinburgh
78.This line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted from
A.Don Juan
B.Kubla Khan
C.To Autumn
D.Ode to the West Wind
79.Stephen Crane is famous for
A.An American Tragedy
B.The Ambassadors
C.Main Street
D.The Red Badge of Courage
80.translated Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey in American literary history.
A.William Cullen Bryant
B.Philip Freneau
C.Edwin Arlington Robinson
D.Walt Whitman
81.The emotional effect and social significance made the first well-known sociological
novel in American literature.
A.The Sun Also Rises
B.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
C.The Old Man and the Sea
D.Sister Carrie
82.has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”.
A.Philip Freneau
B.Ralph Waldo Emerson
C.William Cullen Bryant
D.Walt Whitman
83.Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats?
A.Sailing to Byzantium
B.To an Athlete Dying Young
C.Musee des Beaux Arts
D.Church Going
84.Mary Barton is a masterpiece of
A.George Eliot
B.Samuel Butler
C.Mrs. Gaskell
D.Flannery O’Connor
85.Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?
A.William Wordsworth
B.Samuel Taylor Coleridge
C.Robert Southey
D.William Collins
86.Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel
A.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
B.Pamela
C.Moll Flanders
D.The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy
87.Tess is a character created by
A. D.H. Lawrence
B.James Joyce
C.Thomas Hardy
D.Dylan Thomas
88.Which of the following is INCORRECT for Benjamin Franklin?
A.He was a famous writer.
B.He was a member to draft The Declaration of Independence.
C.He was a great scientist.
D.He was once elected American President.
89.“Gold Rush” was vividly depicted in novels.
A.Hemingway’s
B.Mark Twain’s
C.Henry James’s
D.Faulkner’s
90.is a nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portray familiar
characters, situations, and settings in a realistic manner.
A.Realism
B.Modernism
C.Naturalism
D.Romanticism
91.Utopia is work.
A.Thomas More’s
B.Francis Bacon’s
C.John D ryden’s
D.George Herbert’s
92.Mr. Rochester is a figure in .
A.Wuthering Heights
B.Jane Eyre
C.Vanity Fair
D.Uncle T om’s Cabin
93.“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by
A.John Beats
B.William Blake
C.William Wordsworth
D.Percy Bysshe Shelley
94.Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT
A. a strict poetic form
B. a simple and conversational language
C. a free and natural rhythmic pattern
D.an easy flow of feelings
95.Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation?
A.Hemingway
B.Fitzgerald
C.Gertrude Stein
D.William Faulkner
96.My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by
A.William Shakespeare
B.Robert Browning
C.Ben Johnson
D.Robert Herrick
97.The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around
A.1820
B.1850
C.1880
D.1920
98.The title of Alfred Tennyson’s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT
A.the Trojan War
B.Homer’s Odyssey
C.Adventures over the sea
D.Religious quest
99.As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in
A.Jane Eyre
B.Oliver Twist
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Middlemarch
100.The publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.
A.Nature
B.Self-Reliance
C.The Over Soul
D.The American Scholar
101.is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare, and his representative works are plays inspired by social criticism.
A.Richard Sheridan
B.Oliver Goldsmith
C.Oscar Wilde
D.Bernard Shaw
102.Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend
A.Coleridge
B.Bryon
C.Keats
D.Shelly
103.The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first Heroine.
A.explorer
B.peasant
C.worker
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104.is the representative work of the Jazz Age.
A.The Great Gatsby
B.On the Road
C.Look Back in Anger
D.The Sun Also Rises
105.Invisible Man is a famous work by
A.Tennessee Williams
B.Arthur Miller
C.Ralph Ellison
D.John Updike
106.is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made.
A.Allusion
B.Alliteration
C.Allegory
D.Archetype
107.The title of Thackeray’s Vanity Fair is taken from
A.The Holy Bible
B.The Faerie Queen
C.The Pilgrim’s Progress
D.Paradise Lost
108.was a southerner from Mississippi who produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his life.
A.William Faulkner
B.Earnest Hemingway
C.Mark Twain
D.Robert Frost
109.The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is
A.revolution
B.war
C.love
D.brotherhood
110.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT for the Lost Generation?
A.Those young people were cut off from old values.
B.They wondered pointlessly and restlessly.
C.They were aware that the world was crazy and meaningless.
D.They boasted that people should return to nature.
111.Who is considered the “Poet of the American Revolution”?
A.Philip Freneau
B.William Cullen Bryant
C.Henry Wadswroth Longfellow
D.Henry David Thoreau
112.In America, there is “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she?
A.Anne Bradstreet
B.Harriet Beecher Stowe
C.Edith Wharton
D.Catharine Anne Porter
113.Waiting for Godot is a
A.poem
B.play
C.short story
D.novel
114.Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize?
A.William Butler Yeats
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Wystan Hugh Auden
D.Dylan Thomas
115.is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.
A.The Raven
B.Annabel Lee
C.The Fall of the House of Usher
D.Song to Celia
116.Arthur Miller is an American
A.novelist
B.poet
C.playwright
D.essayist
117.Mr. Darcy is a character in
A.Tess of the D’Urbervilles
B.Pride and Prejudice
C.Happy Prince
D.The Mill on the Floss
118.Besides The Great Gatsby, Scott Fitzgerald wrote another famous novel , which was his second masterpiece.
A.AS I Lay Dying
B. A Good Man Is Hard to Find
C.Tender Is the Night
D.The Dangling Man
119.Among Shakespeare’s tragedies, is the most complex in plot and most painful.
A.King Lear
B.Hamlet
C.Romeo and Juliet
D.Othello
120.created the style of euphuism.
A.Sir Philip Sidney
B.John Lyly
C.Henry Howard
D.Thomas Wyatt
121.A Voldielion: Forbiding Mouming is the masterpiece of
A.William Shakespeare
B.Edmund Spender
C.John Milton
D.John Donne
122.Which of the following is NOT Virginia Woolf’s novel?
A.To the Lighthouse
B.Mrs. Dalloway
C.The Waves
D.Modern Painters
123.Theodore Dreiser was one of America’s greatest writers.
A.Naturalistic
B.Realistic
C.Modernistic
D.Romantic
124.is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world.
A.Ezra Pound
B.Washington Irving
C.Nathaniel Hawthorne
D.Edgar Allen Poe
125.Pygmalion is a famous play written by
A.William Shakespeare
B.Tobias George Smollett
C.Charles Lamb
D.Bernard Shaw
126.The Renaissance was a European phenomenon, which originated in
A.France
B.Britain
C.Italy
D.Spain
127.was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was poet laureate for 20 years.
A.Edmund Spenser
B.John Dryden
C.John Donne
D.George Herbert
128.Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen’s works?
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Sense and Sensibility
C.Emma
D.Sister Carrie
129.Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a famous
A.poet
B.novelist
C.dramatist
D.essayist
130.The major representatives of America’s Transcendentalist group are
A.Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
B.Washington Irving and Emerson
C.Ralph Waldo Emerson and Irving
D.Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau
131.Among the following novels, is Thomas Hardy’s best-known novel.
A.The Return of the Native
B.Far From the Madding Crowd
C.The Mayor of Casterbridge
D.Tess of the D’Urbervilles
132.was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England.
A.Tennyson
B.Robert Browning
C.Mrs. Browning
D.Robert Burns
133.is D.H. Lawrence’s semi-autographical novel.
A.Sons and Lovers
B.Women in Love
C.Rainbow
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134.was once in the same class with Franklin Pierce, America’s 14th President.
A.Henry James
B.Jack London
C.Edwin Arlington Robinson
D.Nathaniel Hawthorne
135.Richard Steele and Joseph Addison had the following contributions to English literature EXCEPT that
A.their writings provided a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisie
B.they gave a true picture of social life of England in the 18th century
C.the English essay completely established itself as a literary genre in their hands
D.they were representatives of the realistic tradition in English literature
136.is the representative among the writers of Aestheticism and Decadence.
A.Stevenson
B.George Gissing
C.Oscar Wilde
D.Ralph Fox
137.The Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays is the work by
A.William Hazlitt
B.Charles Lamb
C.Leigh Hunt
D.De Quincy。