1. Morrison’s novel won the Pulitzer Prize.
A) Paradise
B) Beloved C) Sula
D) Tar Baby
2. Toni Morrison’s works include some African traditional elements EXCEPT________.
A) myth
B) music
C) legend
D) clothes 3. Walt Whitman was a pioneering 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
4. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.
A) free verse B) strict verse
C) regular rhyming D) standardized rhyming
5. The themes of Walt Whitman’s poems include the following EXCEPT ________.
A) the democracy
B) the culture
C) the land
D) the race 6. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism. A) Hamlet B) Othello C ) King Lear
D) Macbeth
7. The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s ________.
A) comedies
B) tragedies
C) sonnets
D) histories
8. The Father of American detective story is _______.
A) Herman Melville
B) Edgar Allan Poe C) Mark Twain
D) Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Pip, Estella, Miss Havisham and Joe Gargery are most likely the names of the characters in
___.
A) Great Expectations B) Wuthering Heights C) Jane Eyre D)Pride and Prejudice 10. In The Scarlet letter of Nathaniel Hawthorne, The letter A has several symbolic meanings
except _______. A) Adultery
B) Avenge
C) Awake D) Angel
11. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in ___.
A) The Scarlet Letter B) The House of the Seven Gables C) The Portrait of a Lady D) The pioneers
12. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.
A) Anne Bradstreet B) Jane Austen C) Emily Dickinson D) T. S. Eliot
13. Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is
NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A）Defeat and pain. B）Nature and death. C）Love and passion. D）War and peace.
14. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the
shortest poem written by _____.
A) Ezra Pound B) Robert Frost C) T. S. Eliot D) Emily Dickinson 15. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.
A) Ezra Pound B) Ralph Waldo Emerson C) Robert Frost D) Emily Dickinson 16. _______is one of the representatives of imagism.
A) Emily Dickinson C) Ezra Pound
B) Langston Hughes D) Allen Ginsberg
17. The most significant idea of the Renaissance is _______.
A) naturalism
B) humanism
C) realism
D) skepticism
18. William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all the following EXCEPT ___.
A) the use of everyday language spoken by the common people B) the expression of the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings C) the use of humble and rustic life as subject matter D) the use of elegant wording and inflated figures of speech 19. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature
EXCEPT________.
A) “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B) “An Evening Walk”
C) “Tintern Abbey” D) “The Solitary Reaper”
20. English Romanticism began in 1798 with the publication of _________ written by
Wordsworth and Coleridge. A) Songs of Innocence
B) Lyrical Ballads D) Popular Ballads
C) The Rime of Ancient Mariner A) Sense and Sensibility C) Northanger Abbey
21. Jane Austen’s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love affairs.
B) Pride and Prejudice D) Mansfield Park
22. “What is his name?” “Bingley.” “Is he married or single?” “Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” The above dialogue must be taken from _______. A) Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice B) Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights C) John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga D) George Eliot’s Middlemarch
23. After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______.
A) simple character and quick wit B) simple character and poor understanding C) intricate character and quick wit D) intricate character and poor understanding
24. John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf. A) Areopagitica
B) Paradise Lost C) Lycidas D) Samson Agonistes
25. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English. A. Samson Agonistes
B. Paradise Lost C. Paradise Regained D. Areopagitica
26. John Milton’s paradise Lost took its material from ______.
A) The Bible
B) Greek myth
C) Roman myth D)French romance
27. Paradise Lost is written in the Form of______.
A） blank verse B）heroic couplet C） free verse D）iambic pentameter 28. _____ is the most common foot in English poetry
A) The iamb
B) The anapest
C) The trochee D) The dactyl
29. The greatest poet of the Middle English period is ______, the father of English poetry.
A) William Langland
B) John Lyly
D) John Milton
C) Geoffrey Chaucer
30. Frederic Henry and Catherine Barckley are most likely the names of the characters in ___.
A) The Scarlet Letter B) The House of the Seven Gables C) The Portrait of a Lady
D) A Farewell to Arms
31. The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __. A) masculinity B) pessimistic view of life C) war experiences D) indestructible spirit
32. In William Blake's poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ . A) benevolence B) admiration C) love D) tyranny 33. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” is an epigrammatic line written by_______.
A) John Keats
B) William Blake D) William Wordsworth
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. Which is Shelley’s masterpiece?
A) Queen Mab
B) The Revolt of Islam D) Prometheus Unbound
C) Prometheus Bound
35. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ________.
A) the vernacular and large vocabulary B) his humor and wit C) pictures of pathos D) character-portrayal 36. The greatest English critical realist novelist was _____, who criticized the bourgeois
civilization and showed the misery of the common people. A) William Makepeace Thackeray C) charlotte Bronte
B) Charles Dickens
D) Emily Dickinson
37. After The adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain gives a literary independence to Tom's buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.
A) Life on the Mississippi B) The Gilded Age
C) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 38. Mark Twain’s celebrated humor is typically ________. A) American B) European C) British
D) Irish
39. Mark Twain’s first novel, ___ , was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the post-bellum period.
A) Life on the Mississippi B) The Gilded Age C) The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D) A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 40. ___ , in Ulysses, experimented with stream of consciousness and the underlying
psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. A) Virginia Woolf C) James Joyce
B) William Faulkner D) William Wordsworth
41. In the poem ___ , William Butler Yeats uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and second coming as allegory to describe the atmosphere in post-war Europe. A) When You are Old
B) The Second Coming C) Paradise Lost D) Prometheus Unbound
42. William Wordsworth’s poem describes a scene of joyful daffodils recollected in memory.
A) “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B) “An Evening Walk” C) “Tintern Abbey”
D) “The Solitary Reaper”
43. In Lord Byron portrays a beautiful lady vividly.
A) “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” B) “When You are Old” C) “She Walks in Beauty”
D) “The Solitary Reaper”
44. My Heart’s in the Highlands is written by the great Scottish poet .
A) Robert Burns
B) William Blake D) William Wordsworth
C) Percy Bysshe Shelley
45. Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by , one of the greatest modern American writer. It tells that an American and the girl with him are talking about an
operation--abortion, which is implied in the passage. A) William Faulkner C) Mark Twain
B) D. H. Lawrence
D) Ernest Miller Hemingway 46. ___is the first important governess novel in the English literary history. A. Jane Eyre B. Emma
C. Wuthering Heights D. Middlemarch
47. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the ___ in the American literary history.
A. individual feelings B. idea of survival of the fittest C. strong imagination D. return to nature
48. Mark Twain created, in _____, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature. A. Huckleberry Finn B. Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age D. The Mysterious Stranger
49. Which of the following plays by Shakespeare is NOT a comedy? A. The Merchant of Venice
B. A Midsummer Night’s Dream 仲夏之夜 C. As You like It皆大欢喜
D. The dactyl 是古代希腊的著名的悲剧 (恰恰是'史诗的诗歌')，英文名字是\"The Odyssey\". Homer写的,800-600 BC左右
50. The 18th century witnessed that in England there appeared two political parties, _____, which were satirized by Swift in his “Gulliver’s Travels.” A. the Whigs and Tories
B. the Senate and the House of Representative C. the upper House and lower House
D. the House of Lords and the House of Commons
51. Dickens takes the French Revolution as the background of the novel “______”. A. A Tale of Two Cities
B. Great Expectations C. Hard Times D. David Copperfield
52. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and heartless?...” The above quoted passage is most probably taken from . A Great Expectations B Wuthering Heights C Jane Eyre D Pride and Prejudice
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre Victorian period
53. “And now he stared at her so earnestly that I thought the very intensity of is gaze would bring tears into his eyes; but they burned with anguish, they did not melt” are found in . A. Wuthering Heights B. Jane Eyre C. Gulliver’s Travels D. Paradise Lost
Emily Bronte---Victorian Period
54. William Blake’s ________ marks his entry into maturity. A. Poetical Sketches B. Songs of Innocence
C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. Songs of Experience
55. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings. A. Songs of Innocence B. Songs of Experience C. Poetical Sketches
D. Lyrical Ballads
56. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________. A. William Faulkner
B. Henry James
C. Ernest Hemingway D. F·Scott Fitzgerald
57.Which statement about the Elizabethan age is not true? A. It is the age of translation.
B. It is the age of bourgeois revolution C. It is the age of exploration
D. It is the age of the protestant reformation. 新教改革
58._____ compiled the “The Dictionary of the English language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries. A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden
Part III. True or false statements
Directions: For questions 41-50, mark A (for T) if the statement is true; B (for F) if the statement is false.
1. Mark Twain's real name is Mark Clemens. F
2. Mark Twain’s first short story is The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. T 3. David Copperfield is Charles Dickens’ auto-biographical novel. T
4. Defoe was one of the first to write stories about believable characters in realistic situations using simple prose. T
5. Along with Samuel Richardson, Defoe is considered the founder of the English novel. T 6. Humanism is the key-note of the Enlightenment. F
7. “To be, or not to be: that is the question” is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. F
8. Shakespeare’s 4 great comedies are: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. T
9. William Wordsworth’s poem I wandered Lonely as a Cloud describes a scene of joyful daffodils recollected in memory. T
10. The great Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote My Heart’s in the Highlands. T 11. In She Walks in Beauty, Percy Bysshe Shelley portrays a beautiful lady vividly. F
12. D. H. Lawrence’s The Sound and the Fury gets the name from Shakespeare’s Macbeth: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. F
13. O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman is created to memorize American President Abraham Lincoln. T
14. Emily Dickinson in I Died for Beauty, shares Keats’ belief that beauty and truth are closely related: they are one. “Beauty and truth are two things.” F
15. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience are William Blake’s masterpieces. T 16. The Sound and the Fury is Ernest Hemingway’s most famous novel. F 17. Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is a novel about dreams and disillusions. T 18. Robinson Crusoe is Jonathan Swift’s most celebrated novel. F 19. In Jane Eyre, Jane Austen tells us a story about a governess. F
20. Virginia Woolf, in Ulysses, experimented with stream of consciousness and the underlying psychological as well as emotional motives of characters. F 21. Geoffrey Chaucer’s masterpiece is The Canterbury Tales. T
22. William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is one of his four great tragedies. F
23. In the poem The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and second coming as allegory to describe the atmosphere in post-war Europe. T 24. The Nobel Prize winner William Faulkner wrote The Old Man and the Sea. F 25. A Farewell to Arms is the Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway’s work. T
26. In his short story A Rose for Emily, William Faulkner displays the conflict between the two different value systems and two social orders. T
27. Hills Like White Elephants is a short story written by Mark Twain, one of the greatest modern American writer. It tells that an American and the girl with him are talking about an operation--abortion, which is implied in the passage. F
28. Charles Dickens wrote a lot of great novels, like Oliver Twist and David Copperfield. T 29. John Milton’s Paradise Lost is a great epic. T
30. Mark Twain’s first novel, The Gilded Age, was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the post-bellum period. T
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