英语专业 英美文学试卷及答案 期末

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 "America's 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

B. Samson Agonistes

C. Lycidas

D. 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