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 Travels

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?