专业八级英美文学知识

1.

William Faulkner is the author of _________.

a. For From the Madding Crowd

b. The Sound and Fury

c. For Whom the Bell Tolls

d. The Scarlet Letter

2. 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

Coleridge

d. Ernest 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

ack

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

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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

P

ilgrim’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

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 Johnson

17.

I 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 a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. Song of Myself.

B. The Raven.

C. A Red Red Rose

d. Because I Could Not Stop for

Death.

19. Eugene O’Neil is an American ________

__.

a. novelist

b. playwright

c. poet

d. essayist

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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 aesthetism,

the theory of “art for art’s sake” is advocated by ________.

a. Oscar Wilde

b. Mrs. Gaskell

c. Alexander Pope

d. Charles Lamb

22. Whose works are characterized by stream-of-consciousness?

a. George Eliot.

b. Jane Austen.

c. Emily Bronte

d. James Joyce.

23. The most famous work by Chaucer is ________.

a. Beowulf

b. The Canterbury Tale

c. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

d. The Christ

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. ________ has been given 18 honorary degrees?

a. Ezra Pond

b. E.E. Cummings

c. Robert Frost

d. William Cullen Bryant

26. Which of th

e following is NOT Shakespeare’s tragedies?

a. The Merchant of Venice

b. King Lear

c. Hamlet

d. The Tempest

27.

Leaves of Grass

is written by ________.

Whitman

b. Carl Sandburg

c. Langston Hughes

d. Allen Ginsberg

28. William Make

peace Thackeray’s most famous work is _________.

a. The School for Scandal

b. Past and Present

c. Major Barbara

d. Vanity Fair

29.

Daver 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. 449---1066

b. 14

th

century

—

mid 17

th

century

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c. 14

th

century

—

mid 18

th

century

d. 16th century---mid 18

th

century

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. Moby Dick

is the most important work by _________.

a. Jack London

b. Herman Melville

c. Sinclair Lewis

d. Ralph Ellison

32. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his _________.

a. novels

b. poems

c. short stories

d. dramas

33. Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon’s essay?

a. Of Studies.

B. Of Travel.

C. Of Wisdom.

D. Of Love.

34. ________ is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald?

a. Tender Is the Night

b. This Side of Paradise

c. The Beautiful and Dammed

d. The Great Gatsby

35.

“Morte

d’Arthur”

is a famous work by __________.

a. John Milton

b. Venerable Bede

c. Thomas Malory

d. Alfred the Great

36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire?

a. The titan

b. The Financier.

c. The Genius

d. The Stoic.

37. The followings are all Dickens’ works EXCEPT _________.

a. Oliver Twist

b. The Vicar of Wakefield

c. Great Expectations

d. A Tale of Two Cities

38. It is generally regarded that Keats’s most important ant 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 __________.

a. William Faulkner

b. John Steinbeck

c. Saul

Bellow

d. Ernest Hemingway

40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _________ work.

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a. romantic

b. classic

c. neo-classic

d. naturalistic

41. Who is the father of English poetry?

a. Shakespeare.

b. Edmund Spencer.

c. John Milton

d. Geoffrey Chaucer.

42.

The Red Badge of Courage

is written by ________.

a. Frank Norris

b. Sherwood Anderson

c. Willa Cather

d. Stephen Crane

43. The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is _________.

a. drama

b. prose

c. novel

d. poetry

44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work _________.

a. Ulysses

b. Hard Times

c. The Forsyte Sage

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 Parte.

d. Childe Haro

ld’s Pilgrimage.

46. _______ wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.

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. It is _______ who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama.

a. Marlowe

b. Shakespeare

c. Spencer

d. Henry Howard

49. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is __________.

a. I Wande

red Lonely as a Cloud

b. A Boy’s Will

c. The Waste Land

d. The Golden Bough

50. Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel?

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a. John Banyan

b. Henry Fielding.

c. Samuel Richardson

d. Daniel Defoe

51.

The Portrait of a Lady

is a great work by __________.

a. Henry James

b. Mark Twain

c. Dreiser

d. Stowe

52. Hester is a character in _________.

a.

Gone

with

the

Wind

b.

The

Fall

of

the

House

of

Usher

c.

Babbitt

d.

The

Scarlet

Letter

53.

In Paradise Last,

the real hero created by Milton is __________.

a. God

b. Adam

c. Eve

d. Satan

54. The island of Lilliput can be found in _________.

a. Robinson Crusoe

b. Gulliver’s Travels

c. Adventures of Tom Sawyer

d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

55. “To be, or not to be” is quoted from __________.

a. King lear

b. Hamlet

c. Julius Caesar

d. Romeo and Juliet

56. Mr. Allworthy is a kind-hearted gentleman in __________.

a. A Tale of Two Cities

b. Great

Expectations

c. Sons and lovers

d. The History of Torn Jones, a Foundling

57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s __________.

a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

c. Life on the Mississippi

d. The Prince and the Pauper

58.

The Catcher in the Rye

is written by __________.

a. J. D. Salinger

b. Jack London

c. Flannery O’Connor

d. Saul Bellow

59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?

a.

Women

in

Love

b.

Sons

and

Lovers.

c

.

The

Rainbow

d.

The

French

Lieutenant’s

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Woman.

60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between _________ centuries.

a. 14

th

and mid-17

th

b. 14

th

and mid-18

th

c. 16

th

and mid-18

th

d. 16

th

and mid-17

th

61.

The Grapes of Wrath

is the masterpiece of ___________.

John Steinbeck

b. John Cheever

c. John Updike

d. John Dos Passos

62. _________ is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.

a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

b. The Glass Menagerie

c. Light is August

d. A Streetear Named Desire

63. Robert Burns is a poet from __________.

a. England

b. New England

c. Ireland

d. Seotland

64.

The Zoo Story

is a play written by _________.

a. Romance

b. Novel

c. Sonnet

d. Drama

65. _________ is a popular literary form in the medieval period.

a. Romance

b. Novel

c. Sonnet

d. Drama

66. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in

the _______ century.

a. 18

th

b. 19

th

c. 17

th

d. 20

th

67. _______ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland.

a. William Blake

b. Robert Burns

c. Byron

d. Keats

68. William Blake’s

The Tiger

is collected in __________.

a. Songs of Innocence

b. Songs of Experience

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c. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

d. Poetical Sketches

69. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by _________.

a. Washington Irving

b. Fennimore Cooper

c. Edith Wharton

d. William Dean Howells

70. __________ was the most important person of the transcendental club.

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. Hemingway

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 Stern

75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT __________.

a. friendship

b. love and marriage

c. life and death

d. war and peace

76. American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as ________.

a. imagism

b. black humor

c. new fiction

d. the Beat Generation

77. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown ________.

a. London

b. Dublin

c. New York

d. Edinburgh

78. This line “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” is quoted from _________.

a. Dan Juan

b. Kubla 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

8

Courage

80.

_______

translated

Homer’s

Iliad

(

伊利亚特

)and

Odyssey

(

奥德赛

)

in

Ameriean

literary

history.

a. William Cullen Bryant

b. Philip Freneau

c. Edwin Arlington Robinson

d. Walt Whitman

81.

The

emotional

effect

and

social

significance

made

_________

the

first

well-known

sociological novel in American literature.

a.

The

Sun

Alson

Rises

b.

Uncle

Tom’s

Cabin

c.

The

Old

Man

and

The

Sea

d.

Sister

Carrie

82. _______ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”.

a. Philip Freneau

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. William Cullen Bryant

d. Walt Whitman

83. Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats?

a. Sailing to Brzantium.

b. To an Athlete Dying Young

c. Musee des Beaux Arts.

d. Church Going.

84.

Mary Barton

is a masterpiece of ________.

e Eliot

b. Samuel Butler

c. Mrs. Gaskell

d. Flannery O’Connor

85. Among the following poets, which is NOT a lake poet?

a. William Wordsworth

b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

c. Robert Southey

d. William Collins.

86. Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18

th

century English novel _________.

a. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

b. Pamela

c. Moll Flander

d. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

87. Tess is a character created by _________.

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