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 En glish short-story teller and the foun der of En glish poetry as well as

the foun der of En glish realism. His masterpieceThe Can terbury talesc ontains 26

stories.

2. ( ) En glish Ren aissa nee 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 Revoluti on and the America n War of In depe ndence were two big in flue nces

that brought about the En glish Roma ntic Moveme nt.

5. ( ) Charlotte 'no vels are all about Ion ely and n eglected young wome n with a fierce longing

for life and love. Her no vels are more or less based on her own experie nee and feeli ngs and the life as she sees around.

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6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19 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.

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con scious ness.

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 en duri ng shap ing in flue nee in America n thought and America n literature was

12. The War of In depe ndence lasted eight years till ________ .

13. Ralph Waldo Emerso n's essay ________ has bee n regarded as "America's Declarati on of Intellectual Independence". It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly America n.

14. The America n __________ w riters paid a great in terest in the realities of life and described

the in tegrity of huma n character react ing un der various circumsta nces and pictured the pion eers 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 see n in the writi ngs of those _______ writers as Ezra Pound, and the writers of the Lost Gen eratio n as _________ .

16. Two features of En glish Ren aissa nee are the curiosity for ________ and the in terest in the activities of ____________________ .

17. Shakespear'earliest great success in tragedy is _____________ , a play of youth and love, with

the famous balc ony sce ne.

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18. There are three types of poets in 17 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 aiFather 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. Lawre nee's most con troversial no vel is _________ , the best probably _________ .

III. Multiple choice. (20 x 1 '20)

23. Among the three major works by Joh n Milto n ___________ i s in deed the only gen erally

ack no wledged epic in En glish literature sin ceBeowulf.

A. Paradise Rega ined

B. Sams on Agon istes