专八英美文学常识

英美文学
1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.
A. Far From the Modeling Crowd
B. Sound and Fury
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D. Scarlet Letter
1. 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 DEmest 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 Spencer' 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 Jonson
17. 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 NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
A. This is my letter to the world.
B. heard a fly buzz — when I died.
C. This is just to say.
D. Because I could not stop/or death.
19. Eugene 0' 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 Austin
B. Walter Scott
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
D. William Wordsworth
21. In the works of such aesthetics as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of "art for art's sake" is advocated.
A. Oscar Wilde
B. Mrs. Gaskell
C. Alexander Pope
D. Charles Lamb
22. Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.
A. George Eliot
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte
D. Virginia Woolf
23. Who of the followings is a playwright of the "theater of absurd" ?
A. John Osbom.
B. Wystan Hugh Auden.
C. Bernard Shaw.
D. Samuel Beckett.
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. With "Collected Poems" , ______won the second Pulitzer Prize.
A. Ezra Pond
B. e. e. cummings
C. Robert Frost
D. William Cullen Bryant
26. ______ belongs to the second period in Shakespeare' s three stages of writing career.
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. Love' s Labor Lost
C. Hamlet
D. The Tempest
27. Grass is a poem written by ______.
A. Walt Whitman
B. Carl Sandburg
C. Langston Hughes
D. Alien Ginsberg
28. William 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. about 450 — 1066
B. 14th century — mid-17th century
C. 14th century — mid-ISA 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. 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.
A. novels
B. poems
C. short stories
D. dramas
33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. The Importance of Being Earnest
C. The New Atlantic
D. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses
34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
A. Tender Is the Night
B. Anna Christie
C. The Beautiful and Dammed
D. The Great Gatsby
35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event of
A. the expatriate movement
B. the Great Depression
C. the First World War
D. the Second World War
36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of Desiref
A. The Titan.
B. The Financier.
C. The "Genius".
D. The Stoic.
37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.
A. Oliver Twist
B. Moll Flanders
C. Great Expectations
D. Bleak House
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 ______ for his "mastery of the art
of modem narration".
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 Octopus is written by ______.
A. Frank Norris
B. Sherwood Anderson
C. Willa Gather
D. Stephen Crane
43. James Baldwin' s most famous short story is ______.
A. A Rose/or Emily
B. The Story of an How
C. Sonny's Blues
D. A Clean, Well-lighted Place
44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price 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. Thomas Pynchon
C. John Updike
D. Wallace Stevens
47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.
A. Robert Frost
B. Longfellow
C. Ezra Pond
D. Carl Sandburg
48. "God help them that help themselves" is found in ______' s work.
A. Franklin
B. Freneau
C. Jefferson
D. Paine
49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru/rock
B. A Boy's Will
C. The Waste Land
D. The Golden Bough
50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true " novel of incident".
A. John Banyan
B. Henry Fielding
C. Samuel Richardson
D. Daniel Defoe
51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.
A. Henry James
B. Mark Twain
C. Dreiser
D. Stowe
52. Hester is a character in ______.
• A. Cone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of Usher
C. Babbitt
D. Scarlet Letter
53. Jack London' s ______ is his patently autobiographical novel.
A. The Call of the Wild
B. The Sea Wolf
C. Martin Eden
D. The Iron Heel
54. William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.
A. Coral Island
B. Lord of the Flies
C. Treasure Island
D. The Brass Butterfly
55. "To be, or not to be" is quoted from ______.
A. King Lear BHamlet
C. Julius Caesar
D. Romeo and Juliet
56. The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.
A. Exodus
B. Numbers
C. Leviticus
D. Genesis
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. 0 Captain} My Captain\ was written in memory of ______.
A. Walt Whitman
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Martin Luther King
59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?
A. Women in Love.
B. Sores and Lovers.
C. The Rainbow.
D. The French Lieutenant' s Woman.
60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.
A. 14th/mid-17th
B. 14th/mid-18th
C. 16th/mid-18th
D. 16th/mid-17th
61. The Crapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.
A. John Steinbeck
B. John Cheever
C. John Updike
D. John DOS Passes
62. _____ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.
A. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
B. The Class Menagerie
C. Light in August
D. A Streetcar Named Desire
63. Robert Bums is a poet from ______.
A. England
B. New England
C. Ireland
D. Scotland
64. Look Back in Anger is a play written by ______.
A. John Osbome
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. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______.
A. Flannery 0'Conner
B. Saul Bellow
C. Ralph Ellison
D. Sherwood Anderson
67. ______ is NOT among the postwar poets in modem American literature.
A. Robert Lowell
B. Gary Synder
C. Alien Ginsberg
D. e. e. cummings
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. Thoreau
73. Shylock is a character in ______.
A. The Merchant of Venice
B. The Twelfth Night
C. The Winter's Tale
D. Macbeth
74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is ______.
A. Joseph Addison
B. Richard Steele
C. Samuel Johnson
D. Laurence Stem
75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT
A. religion
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
76. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.
A. imagism
B. black humor
C. new fiction
D. the Beat Generation
77. Together with Lawrence and Joyce, ______ is considered one of the three giants ot the modem English novel and a master of English prose.
A. Henry James
B. Joseph Conrad
C. E. M. Forster
D. Aldous Huxley
78. This line "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?" is quoted from ______.
A. Don Juan C Kubia 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. "Belinda smiled, and all the world was gay". What is the figure oi this speech?
A. Hyperbole.
B. Simile.
C. Metaphor.
D. Synecdoche.
81. ______ has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and Nobel Prize.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. John Steinbeck
C. Eugene 0' Neil
D. William Faulkner
82. Golden Notebook is a feminist novel written by ______.
A. Amy Tan
B. Doris Lessing
C. Flannery 0' Connor
D. Kate Chopin
83. Which of the following poems is written by W. H. Auden?
A. Sailing to Byzantium
B. To an Athlete Dying Young
C. Musee des Beaux Arts
D. Church Going
84. Beloved is the masterpiece of ______.
A. Tony Morrison
B. Ralph Ellison
C. John DOS Passes
D. Willa Gather
85.______, the author of The Interpretation of Dreams has great impact on literary creation and criticism.
A. Carl Jung
B. Jean-Paul Sartre
C. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
D. Sigmund Freud
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. The sentence "Shall I compare thee to a summer' s day" is quoted from Shakespe-
A. comedies
B. tragedies
C. histories
D. sonnets
89. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism?
A. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being.
B. To put the stress on traditional values.
C. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.
D. To advocate a conscious break with the past.
90. In A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, John Donne compares the lovers ' souls to ______.
A. two roses
B. two circles
C. sun and moon
D. twin compasses
91. Utopia is ______' s work.
A. Thomas More
B. Francis Bacon
C. John Dryden
D. George Herbert
92. One of the Prime Ministers of Britain has won the Nobel Prize for literature, and that is ______.
A. Margaret Thatcher
B. Tony Blair
C. Winston Churchill
D. John Major
93. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" is an epigrammatic line by ______.
A. John Keats
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 Jonson
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. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ______.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Robert Frost
D. Emily Dickinson
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
D. governess
104. ______ is the representative work of the Beat Generation.
A. The Great Catshy
B. On the Road
C. Look Back in Anger
D. The Sun Also Rises
105. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by ______.
A. Willa Gather
B. Doris Lessing
C. William Faulkner
D. Nathaniel Hawthorn
106. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is ______.
A. humanism
B. realism
C. naturalism
D. skepticism
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. Mr. Micawber in David Coppeifield and Sam Well in Pickwick Papers are perhaps I best ______ characters created bv Charles Dickens.
A. comic
B. tragic
C. round
D. sophisticated
109. Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as ______ writer.
A. classical
B. transcendental
C. postmodernist D realistic
110. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard is written by ______.
A. Ben Jonson
B. Thomas Gray
C. William Wordsworth
D. William Blake
111. Who is considered the father of American poetrv?
A. Philip Freneau.
B. William Cullen Bryant.
C. Henry Wadsworth 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/or Godot is a ______.
A. poem
B. play
C. short story
D. novel
114. Which of the following poets 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. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by ______.
A. Jack London
B. Sinclair Lewis
C. William Faulkner
D. Ernest Hemingway
119. ______ is featured by black humor.
A. Caricature
B. Catch-22
C. The Catcher in the Rye C. Death of a Salesman
120. Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize?
A. Pearl Buck.
B. Virginia Woolf.
C. Tony Morrison.
D. Katharine Mansfield.。