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 "Yahoo" be found?
A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.
B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.
C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.steele
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 ______ a
nd 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 "art for art's sake" is 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 "theater of absurd" ?
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.

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