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 \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

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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 \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 \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 \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

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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 \ 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 \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?

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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 \

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. \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 \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. \

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