英美文学题库英美文学期末复习题

I. Choose the one that would best complete the statement below. (30 points, 2 points each)

1. ______ is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.

A. Beowulf

B. The Canterbury Tales

C. Don Juan

D. Paradise Lost

2. John Dryden called ______ the father of English poetry.

A. Geoffrey Chaucer

B. Edmund Spencer

C. John Milton

D. John Donne

3. The Merchant of Venice is a ________.

A. tragedy

B. comedy

C. history play

D. tragicomedy

4. Hamlet faces the dilemma between ______.

A. action and mind

B. dream and reality

C. money and power

D. hate and love

5. John Milton’s masterpiece is his ______.

A. Paradise Lost

B. Paradise Regained

C. Samson Agonistes

D. Areopagitica

6. Robert Frost is a regional poet in the sense that his poems depict mostly ______.

A. the frontier life

B. The sea adventures

C. the Puritan community

D. New England landscape

7. The novel ________ is not written by Henry James.

A. The Ambassadors

B. The Wings of the Dove

C. The Bostonians

D. The Mysterious Stranger

8. In the 1920s decade, O’Neill established an international reputation with such plays as ______.

A. The Emperor Jones

B. Anna Christie

C. The Hairy Ape

D. all of the above

9. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the Jazz Age, in which he shows a particular interest in ______ society.

A. the middle-class

B. the upper-class

C. the lower-middle-class

D. the working-class

10. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ______, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. impressionism

B. expressionism

C. multiple points of view

D. first person point of view

11. The following are Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies except __________.

A. Hamlet

B. Othello

C. Twelfth Night

D. King Lear

12. __________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.

A. The American

B. The Europeans

C. Daisy Miller

D. The Portrait of A lady

13. John Donne is the leading figure of ________.

A. Lake Poets

B. Graveyard School

C. Satanic Poets

D. Metaphysical School

14. In Jane Austen’s novels, life and human nature are exposed __________________.

A. at moments of crisis

B. during the battles

C. in the most trivial incidents of everyday

D. through the traveling

15. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________.

A. William Faulkner

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. John Steinbeck

D. Ernest Hemingway

II. Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase. (30 points, 2points each)