文学英语赏析自测试题(文学基础知识)
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文学英语赏析自测试题（文学基础知识）
Section 1.Match the writers with their works
Works
1. Hills like White Elephants
2. I Have a Dream
3. An Inspector Calls
4. The Importance of Being Earnest
5. The Pearl
6. The Crucible
7. A Christmas Carol
8. The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
9. Eveline
10. Of Studies
11. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
12. Jane Eyre
13. The Dumb Waiter
14. Great Expectations
15. Gettysburg Address
16. The Old Man and the Sea
17. Lord of the Flies
18. The Mayor of Casterbridge
19. The Heart of Darkness
20. Leaves of Grass
Writers
A. Abraham Lincoln
B. Arthur Miller
C. JB Priestley
D. Walt Whitman
E. Charles Dickens
F. Charlotte Bront?
G. Ernest Hemingway
H. Francis Bacon
I. John Steinbeck
J. Harold Pinter
K. James Joyce
L. Oscar Wilde
M. Martin Luther King
N. Robert Louis Stevenson O. Samuel Taylor Coleridge P. Thomas Hardy
Q. William Golding
R. Joseph Conrad
Section2Decide whether the following statements are True (T) or False (F)
1. Hamlet, Othello and King Lear are well-known tragedies by William Shakespeare, together with Macbeth.
2. Lady Bracknell is a comic character created by Oscar Wilde in his play The Importance of Being Earnest.
3. The Importance of Being Ernest is a mystery play written by Oscar Wilde.
4. AnInspector Calls belongs to a class of drama known as theatre of Social Commentary.
5. The play The Inspector Calls is aimed at exposing the hypocrisy of the British property-owning class.
6. The play The Crucible is set in New England at the end of the 17th Century.
7. Mr Hyde is an evil character created by Robert Louis Stevenson in his novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
8. Scrooge is a character created by Oscar Wilde in his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
9. The novel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens charts the growing up of the character Pip.
10. The novel Heart of Darkness is a kind of moral fable addressing questions of social justice in the USA before the Civil Rights Movement.
11. The novel Heart of Darkness exposes the corruption, cruelty and greed of the colonial system in Africa.
12. The Old Man and the Sea is a novel about the strength, endurance and cunning intelligence of one man pitted against the forces of nature.
13. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a narrative poem.
14. The poem “Wild Nights! Wild Nights”is a protest poem.
15. What has been termed free verse is widely associated with American poet Walt Whitman.
16. Walt Whitman is a well-known American poet known for his collection Leaves of Grass.
17. In the poem “Futility”, the speaker feels distressed at the loss of his comrade-in-arms and bewildered at the futility of the war.