南京信息工程大学试卷
2011－2012学年 第 1 学期 《英美文学史》课程试卷（A）
本试卷共 5 页；考试时间 120 分钟；任课教师  赵 亚 珉  ；出卷时间  2011  年  12 月
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(You are required to write down your answers on the Answer Sheet)
Task One: Multiple-choice questions (1 point for each, 30 points)
1. Shakespeare’s four great tragedies are _________
A. Anthony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, King Lear, Timon of Athens
B. Twelfth Night, Cynbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest
C. Hamlet, Othello, King John, and Macbeth
D. Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth
2. Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift consists of ______ voyages.
A. one      B. two    C. three    D. four
3. _____ was called Father of English poetry and the English Homer for the Renaissance.
A. Geoffrey Chaucer                B. William Shakespeare
C. Francis Bacon                    D. John Milton
4. Who is the greatest of the Metaphysical school of poetry? _________.
A. Ben Johnson    B. John Milton    C. John Donne      D. John Bunyan
5. “The Lamb” is included in William Blake’s ________.
A. Poetical Sketches                  B. The Songs of Innocence
C. The Songs of Experience            D. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
6. “Almost all his novels present man's struggle against an indifferent cosmic force that inflicts suffering upon him” best illustrates the work of ________.
A. Arnold Bennett                    B. H. G. Wells   
C. John Galsworthy                  D. Thomas Hardy
7. John Keats wrote the following except ______.
A. "Ode to the West Wind"              B. "On the Grasshopper and Cricket "
C. "Ode to a Nightingale"                D. "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
8. Lyrical Ballads (1798) was a collection of poems by ________.
A. James Thomson and William Collins
B. Thomas Gray and Robert Burns
C. Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Byron
D. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
9. The modernist writers such as James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are mainly concerned with the ______.
A. social activities of human beings      B. public life of an individual
C. inner life of an individual              D. external world
10. The following are frequently referred to as the Victorian realist novelists except ______.
A. Charles Dickens                B. Charlotte Bronte   
C. George Eliot                    D. T. S. Eliot
11. _______ was usually regarded as the first American writer.
A. William Bradford                B. Anne Bradstreet 
C. Emily Dickinson                D. Captain John Smith
12. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the ______.
A. Revolutionism  B. Reason  C. Individualism    D. Rationalism
13. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were _______.
    A. a Lost Generation                B. a Beat Generation
    C. a Jazz Generation                D. the Angry Young Men
14. Henry David Thoreau’s work, ______, has always been regarded as a masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.
A. Walden      B. The Pioneers        C. Nature       D. “Song of Myself”
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15. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, romance should be _______.
A. both imaginative and creative      B. full of adventures
C. a true record of human life          D. a mixture of facts and fancy
16. Walt Whitman was a founding figure of American poetry. His innovation first of all lies in his use of _______, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
A. blank verse    B. heroic couplet    C. free verse  D. iambic pentameter
17. In ______, Washington Irving agrees with the protagonist on the preferability of the past to the present, of a dream-like world to the real world.
A. “Young Goodman Brown”          B. “Rip Van Winkle” 
C. Daisy Miller                      D. The confidence-Man
18. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.
A. Anne Bradstreet                  B. Jane Austen   
C. Emily Dickinson                  D. Harriet Beecher
19. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.
A. sentimentalism    B. romanticism      C. realism        D. naturalism
20. Whitman is noted for his use of _______ language, which has a lot to do with his early career as a newspaperman.

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