《英美文学选读》模拟试题(1)

《英美文学选读》模拟试题（一）

一、单项选择题cadaa

1.The excerpt from Chapter 10 of Sons and Lovers ends with the conflict between Paul and his mother. The conflict is possibly caused by Paul and his mother’s different views towards _____.

A. Paul’s father

B. art

C. life

D. Paul’s brother

2.The _____ can be regarded as one of the themes of Joyce’s story “Araby”.

A. loss of innocence

B. childish love

C. awareness of harsh life

D. false sentimentality

3.After reading “Araby”, one more feel the story has a _____ tone.

A. joyous

B. harsh

C. solemn

D. painful

4.In “Araby”, Joyce’s diction evokes a sort of _____ quality that characterizes the boy on this otherwise altogether ordinary shopping trip.

A. religious

B. moral

C. sentimental

D. vulgar

5.The major concern of _____ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.

A. D. H. Lawre nce’s

B. J. Galsworthy’s

C. W. Thackeray’s

D. T. Hardy’s

6.The mission of _____ drama was to reveal the moral, political and economic truth from a radical reformist point of view.

A. T. S. Eliot’s

B. J. Galsworthy’s

C. B. Shaw’s

D. W. B. Yeats’

7.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as _____.

A. Rip Van Winkle

B. Young Goodman Brown

C. Life of Goldsmith

D. Life of Washington

8.Melville’s _____ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, p hilosophy, religion, etc.

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. Moby–Dick

C. White Jacket

D. Billy Budd

9.Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.

A. Huckleberry Finn

B. Tom Sowyer

C. The Gilded Age

D. The Mysterious Stranger

10.American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.

A. Anne Bradsteet

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson

D. T. S. Eliot

11.The main theme of _____The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.

A. Henry James’

B. Mark Twain’s

C. Theodore Dreiser’s

D. William Howells’

12.In the 1920s, O’Neill established an international reputation with the plays ______.

A. The Emperor Jones

B. Anna Christle

C. The Hairy Ape

D. all of the above

13.In 1954, _____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the ar t of modern narration.”

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. John Steinbeck

D. William Faulkner

14.“The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _____.

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Ezra Pound

D. Emily Dickinson

15.In Robert Frost’s famous poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, /But I have promises to keep, /And miles to go befor e I sleep, /And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to _____.

A. die

B. calm down

C. fall into sleep

D. stop walking

16.Of the following American poets, whose work was first recognized in England and then in America?

A. Robert Frost

B. Walt Whitman

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Wallace Stevens

17.“For I have had too much / Of apple-picking: I am overtired / Of the great harvest I myself desired”. From these lines we can conclude that the speaker _____.