英美文学选读Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) 2002-2012 4月真题集 31. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, _ did not break up with the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.
A. Walt Whitman B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D.T. S. Eliot
32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans, ________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.
A. William Howells B. Henry James C. Bret Harte D. Hamlin Garland
33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy in 1961. A. Robert Frost B. Walt Whitman C. Ezra Pound D.T. S. Eliot
34. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best. A. Typee B. Redburn C. Moby – Dick D. Omoo
35. Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held strongly by ________. A. Robert Frost B. Theodore Dreiser C. Henry James D. Hamlin Garland
36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism. A. Sister Carrie B. The Titan C. An American Tragedy D. The Stoic
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________’s transcendentalist theory and struck up a very intimate relationship with him. A. H. W. Longfellow B. Walt Whitman C. R. W. Emerson D. Washington Irving
38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th -century “stream - of - consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological realism.
A. T. S. Eliot B. James Joyce C. William Faulkner D. Henry James
39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of President ______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’ d. ”
A. Washington B. Lincoln C. Franklin D. Kennedy
40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about the dark aberrations of the human spirit.
A. France B. Spain C. England D. Italy
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01-05:DDADA 06-10:BBDCB 11-15:BACDA 16-20:CACAD 21-25:BDADC 26-30:BCCBA 31-35:AADCA 36-40:BACCD 1. T. S. Eliot’ s ______ bearing a strong thematic resemblance to The Waste Land, is generally regarded as the darkest of Eliot’ s poems.
A. “Gerontion” B. “Prufrock” C. Murder in the Cathedral D. The Hollow Men
2. Shelley’ s political lyrics ______ is not only a war cry calling upon all working people to rise up against their political oppressors, but an address to them pointing out the intolerable injustice of economic exploitation. A. “Ode to Liberty” B. “Ode to Naples” C. “Ode to the West Wind” D. “Men of England”
3. Charlotte’ s works are famous for the depiction of the life of ______ working women, particularly governesses. A. the middle - class B. the lower – class C. the upper - middle - class D. the upper - class
4. All of the following works are known as Hardy’ s “novels of character and environment” EXCEPT ______.
A. The Return of the Native B. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles C. Jude the Obscure D. Far from the Madding Crowd 5. Jane Austen’ s practical idealism is that love should be justified by ______ and disciplined by self-control. A. reason B. sense C. rationality D. sensibility
6. Shakespeare’ s ______, an elaborate and fantastic story, is known as the best of his final romances. A. The Winter’s Tale B. The Tempest C. The Taming of the Shrew D. Love’ s Labour’ s Lost
7. “Where intelligence was fallible, limited, the Imagination was our hope of contact with eternal forces, with the whole spiritual world.” was said by ______.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge D. John Keats
8. “To be, or not to be - that is the question;/Whether’ tis nobler in the mind to suffer / The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,/Or to take arms against a sea of troubles ,/And by opposing end then?” These lines are taken from ______.
A. King Lear B. Romeo and Juliet C. Othello D. Hamlet
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英美文学选读Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) 2002-2012 4月真题集 9. John Milton’ s most powerful dramatic poem on the Greek model is ______. A. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Lycidas
10. Because of her sensitivity to universal pattens of human behavior, ___ has brought the English novel, as an art of form, to its maturity.
A. Charlotte Bronte B. Jane Austen C. Emily Bronte D. Henry Fielding 11. Daniel Defoe’s ______ is universally considered as his masterpiece.
A. Colonel Jack B. Robinson Crusoe C. Captain Singleton D. A Journal of the Plague Year
12. Poetry is defined by __ as “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.
A. William Wordsworth B. William Blake C. Percy Bysshe Shelley D. Robert Southey
13. Jonathan Swift’ s ______ is generally regarded as the best model of satire, not only of the period but also in the whole English literary history.
A. Gulliver’s Travels B. The Battle of the Books C. “A Modest Proposal” D. A Tale of a Tub 14. All of the following statements about the Victorian period is true EXCEPT ______. A. England was the “workshop of the world”.
B. The early years was a time of rapid economic development as well as serious social problems.
C. Towards the mid -century, England had reached its highest point of development as a world power.
D. Capitalism came into its monopoly stage, the gap between the rich and the poor was further deepened. 15. George Bernard Shaw’ s ______ is a grotesquely realistic exposure of slum landlordism.
A. Widower’ s House B. Mrs. Warren’ s Profession C. The Apple Cart D. Getting Married 16. Dickens’ s first child hero is ______.
A. Little Nell B. David Copperfield C. Oliver Twist D. Little Dorrit
17. Of all the eighteenth - century novelists ______ was the first to set out, both in theory and practice, to write specifically a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style. A. Henry Fielding B. Daniel Defoe C. Jonathan Swift D. Laurence Sterne
18. D. H. Lawrence’ s ______ is a remarkable novel in which the individual consciousness is subtly revealed and strands of themes are intricately wound up.
A. Sons and Lovers B. The Rainbow C. Women in Love D. Lady Chatterley’ s Love
19. Dickens attacks the Utilitarian principle that rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds in ___.
A. Hand Times B. Great Expectations C. Our Mutual Friend D. Bleak House
20. The belief of the eighteenth - century neoclassicists in England led them to seek the following EXCEPT ______. A. proportion B. unity C. harmony D. spirit
21. The Renaissance marks a transition from ______ to the modern world. A. the old English B. the medieval C. the feudalist D. the capitalist
22. The great political and social events in the English society of neoclassical period were the following EXCEPT ______. A. the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 B. the Great Plague of 1665 C. the Great London Fire in 1666 D. the Wars of Roses in 1689
23. With the scarlet letter A as the biggest symbol of all, ______ proves himself to be one of the best symbolists. A. Hawthorne B. Dreiser C. James D. Faulkner
24. The author of Leaves of Grass, a giant of American letters, is ______. A. Faulkner B. Dreiser C. James D. Whitman
25. In Tender is the Night, ______ traces the decline of a young American psychiatrist whose marriage to a beautiful and wealthy patient drains his personal energies and corrodes his professional career. A. Dreiser B. Faulkner C. Fitzgerald D. Jack London
26. Melville is best - known as the author of his mighty book, _____, which is one of the world’ s greatest masterpieces. A. Song of Myself B. Moby – Dick C. The Marble Faun D. Mosses from an Old Manse
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英美文学选读Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) 2002-2012 4月真题集 27. The theme of Henry James’ essay “______” clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life, so it is not surprising to find in his writings human experiences explored in every possible form. A. The American B. The Europeans C. The Art of Fiction D. The Golden Bowl
28. During WWI, ______ served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps and in 1918 was severely wounded in both legs.
A. Anderson B. Faulkner C. Hemingway D. Dreiser
29. In order to protest against America’ s failure to join England in WWI, ___ became a naturalized British citizen in 1915. A. William Faulkner B. Henry James C. Earnest Hemingway D. Ezra Pound
30. Robert Frost described as “a book of people,” which shows a brilliant insight into New England character and the background that formed it.
A. North of Boston B. A Boy’s Will C. A Witness Tree D. A Further Range
31. We can easily find in Dreiser’ s fiction a world of jungle, and ______ found expression in almost every book he wrote. A. naturalism B. romanticism C. transcendentalism D. cubism
32. As an active participant of his age, Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______. A. Jazz Age B. Age of Reason C. Lost Generation D. Beat Generation
33. From the first novel Sister Carrie on, Dreiser set himself to project the American values for what he had found them to be: ____ to the core.
A. altruistic B. political C. religious D. materialistic
34. The 20th -century stream- of- consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully used by ______ to emphasize the
reactions and inner musings of the narrator.
A. Hemingway B. Frost C. Faulkner D. Whitman
35. With the help of his friends Phil Stone and Sherwood Anderson, ______ published a volume of poetry The Marble Faun and his first novel Soldiers’ Pay.
A. Faulkner B. Hemingway C. Ezra Pound D. Fitzgerald
36. The Sun Also Rises casts light on a whole generation after WWI and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “_ _.”
A. the Beat Generation B. the Lost Generation C. the Babybooming Age D. the Jazz Age
37. Within her little lyrics Dickinson addresses those issues that concern ______, which include religion, death,
immorality, love and nature.
A. the whole human beings B. the frontiers C. the African Americans D. her relatives 38. H. L. Mencken, a famous American critic, considered ______ “the true father of our national literature. ” A. Hamlin Garland B. Joseph Kirkland C. Mark Twain D. Henry James 39. In his poetry, Whitman shows concern for ______ and the burgeoning life of cities.
A. the colonists B. the capitalists C. the whole hard -working people D. the intellectuals 40. In 1837, ______ published Twice - Told Tales, a collection of short stories which attracted critical attention. A. Emerson B. Melville C. Whitman D. Hawthorne
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1. In Renaissance, the European humanist thinkers and scholars made attempts to do the following EXCEPT ______. A. getting rid of those old feudalist ideas
B. getting control of the parliament and government
C. introducing new ideas that expressed the interests of the rising bourgeoisie
D. recovering the purity of the early church, from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church 2. The Petrarchan sonnet was first introduced into England by ______. A. Surrey B. Wyatt C. Sidney D. Shakespeare
3. As the best of Shakespeare's final romances,______ is a typical example of his pessimistic view towards human life and society in his late years.
A. The Tempest B. The Winter's Tale C. Cymbeline D. The Rape of Lucrece
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英美文学选读Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) 2002-2012 4月真题集 4. John Milton's greatest poetical work ______ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literarure since Beowulf.
A. Areopagitica B. Paradise Lost C. Lycidas D. Samson Agonistes
5. The British bourgeois or middle class believed in the following notions EXCEPT ______. A. self - esteem B. self – reliance C. self - restraint D. hard work
6. “Graveyard School”writers are the following sentimentalists EXCEPT ______. A. James Thomson B. William Collins C. William Cowper D. Thomas Jackson
7. The best model of satire in the whole English literary history is Jonathan Swift's ______.
A. A Modest Proposal B. A Tale of a Tub C. Gulliver's Travels D. The Battle of the Books
8. As a representative of the Enlightenment,______ was one of the first to introduce rationalism to England. A. John Bunyan B. Daniel DefoeC. Alexander Pope D. Jonathan Swift
9. For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, __ has been regarded by some as “Father of the English Novel”.
A. Daniel Defoe B. Henry Fielding C. Jonathan Swift D. Samuel Richardson 10. Which of the following descriptions of Gothic Novels is NOT correct? A. It predominated in the early eighteenth century. B. It was one phase of the Romantic movement.
C. Its principal elements are violence, horror and the supernatural.
D. Works like The Mysteries of Udolpho and Frankenstein are typical Gothic romance. 11. “Byronic hero”is a figure of the following traits EXCEPT ______.
A.being proud B. being of humble origin C.being rebellious D. being mysterious 12. Robert Browning created ______ by adopting the novelistic presentation of characters. A. the verse novel B. the blank verse C. the heroic couplet D. the dramatic poetry
13. Charles Dickens' novel ______ is famous for its vivid descriptions of the workhouse and life of the underworld in the
nineteenth- century London.
A. The Pickwick Paper B. Oliver Twist C. David Copperfield D. Nicholas Nickleby
14. Charlotte Bronte's works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards _____, about some lonely
and neglected young women with a fierce longing for love, understanding and a full, happy life. A. self - reliance B. self – realization C. self - esteem D. self - consciousness
15. The symbolic meaning of “Book” in Robert Browning's long poem The Ring and the Book is _____. A. the common sense B. the hard truth C. the comprehensive knowledge D. the dead truth
16. Thomas Hardy's pessimistic view of life predominated most of his later works and earns him a reputation as a ___
writer.
A. realistic B. naturalistic C. romantic D. stylistic
17. After the First World War, there appeared the following literary trends of modernism EXCEPT ______. A. expressionism B. surrealism C. stream of consciousness D. black humour
18. The masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century are the three trilogies of ______novels.
A. Galsworthy's Forsyte B. Hardy' s Wessex C. Greene's Catholic D. Woolf's stream-of-consciousness 19. In the mid 1950s and early 1960s, there appeared “_____” who demonstrated a particular disillusion over the
depressing situation in Britain and launched a bitter protest. against the outmoded social and political values in their society.
A. The Beat Generation B. The Lost Generation C. The Angry Young Men D. Black Mountain Poets 20.The following are English stream-of-consciousness novels EXCEPT ______. A.Pilgrimage B. Ulysses C. Mrs.Dalloway D. A Passage to Inida
21. The leader of the Irish National Theater Movement in the early 20th century was ______. A. W.B.Yeats B. Lady Gregory C. J.M.Synge D. John Galworthy 22. T.S.Eliot's most popular verse play is ______.
A. Murder in the Cathedral B. The Cocktail Party C. The Family Reunion D. The Waste Land
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英美文学选读Multiple Choice (40 points in all, 1 for each) 2002-2012 4月真题集 23. The American writer ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for the anti-racist In- truder in the Dust in 1950.
A. Ernest Hemingway B. Gertrude Stein C. William Faulkner D.T.S. Eliot
24. Hemingway's second big success is ______ , which wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the
1920s, in order to tell us a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse. A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. A Farewell to Arms C. The Sun Also Rises D. The Old Man and the Sea
25. With the publication of ______ , Dreiser was launching himself upon a long career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the school later known as literary naturalism. A. Sister Carrie B. The Titan C. The Genius D. The Stoic
26. Henry James is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream-of-consciousness” novels and the founder
of
A. neoclassicism B. psychological realism C. psychoanalytical criticism D. surrealism
27. In 1849, Herman Melville published ______ ,a semi-autobiographical novel, con- cerning the sufferings of a genteel
youth among brutal sailors.
A. Omoo B. Mardi C. Redburn D. Typee
28. As a sequel to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,______ marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary activity.
A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B. Life on the Mississippi C. The Gilded Age D. Roughing It
29. Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self- creating fictions, and
paved the way to Modernism.
A. Romanticism B. Rationalism C. Post-modernism D. Cynicism
30. When World War II broke out,______ began working for the Italian government, engaged in some radio broadcasts of
anti- Semitism and pro- Fascism.
A. Ezra Pound B.T.S. Eliot C. Henry James D. Robert Frost
31. In 1915 __ became a naturalized British citizen, largely in protest against America's failure to join England in the First World War.
A. Henry James B.T.S.Eliot C. W.D.Howells D. Ezra Pound
32. What Whitman prefers for his new subject and new poetic feelings is “______ ,” that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme. A. blank verse B. free rhythm C. balanced structure D. free verse
33. The American woman poet ______ wanted to live simply as a complete independent being, and so she did, as a
spinster.
A. Emily Shaw B. Anna Dickinson C. Emily Dickinson D. Anne Bret
34. The Birthmark drives home symbolically ______ point that evil is a man's birthmark, something he was born with.
A. Whitman's B. Melville's C. Hawthorne's D. Emerson's
35. The Financier ,The Titan and The Stoic written by ______ are called his “Trilogy of Desire”.
A. Henry James B. Theodore Dreiser C. Mark Twain D. Herman Melville
36. Disregarding grammar and punctuation,______ always used “i” instead of “I” in his poems to show his protest against
self-importance.
A. Wallace Stevens B. Ezra Pound C. Robert Frost D. E.E.Cummings
37. Though Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet whose subject matters mainly focus on the landscape and
people in ______ , he wrote many poems that investigate the basic themes of man's life in his long poetic career. A. the west B. the south C. New England D. Alaska
38. Most critics have agreed that Fitzgerald is both an insider and an outsider of ______ with a double vision.
A. the Gilded Age B. the Rational Age C. the Jazz Age D. the Magic Age
39. In the American Romantic writings,______ came to function almost as a dramatic character that symbolized moral
law.
A. fire B. water C. trees D. wilderness
40. The desire for an escape from society and a return to _____ became a permanent convention of the American literature.
A. the family life B. nature C. the ancient time D. fantasy of love
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