专八英美文学常识

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 SawyerB. 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 \A. Washington Irving B. Fennimore Cooper C. Edith Wharton D William Dean Howells

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70. ______ is known as \

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 \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. \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

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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 \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. \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

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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 \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 \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

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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. 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.

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