17. Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times ， ________ was an admirer .
A. O.Henry
B. Henry James
C. Walt Whitman
D. Jack London
18. “ The Way of the Beaten ： A Harp in the Wind ，” this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'' s novel _______ .
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. Dreiser Looks at Russia
D. Jannie Gerhardt
19. The American “ Thirties ” ， lasted from the crash ， through the ensuing Great Depression ， until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939 . This was a period of _____ .
A. poverty
B. important social movement
C. a new social consciousness
D. all of the above
20. In the pre-war period ， such writers as _______ ， pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced .
A. Mark Twain
B. Stephen Grane
C. Theodore Dreise
D. all of the above
21. The period of the old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066 ， the year of the ______ of England .
A. religious Reformation
B. Norman Conquest
C. Roman Invasion
D. the centralization of power
22. The ______ movement in the eighteenth century Europe was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .
A. Enlightenment
B. Renaissance
C. Sentimental
D. Transcendental
23. As a lexicographer ， Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English _______ by an Englishman .
A. novel
B. drama
C. poetry
D. dictionary
24. The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens'' first ______ hero .
A. female
B. male
C. child
D. imaginary
25. _______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare .
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. John Donne
26. T.S. Eliot ''s classic expression of the temper of his age is ________ .
A. The Waste Land
B. Ash Wednesday
C. Four Quartets
D. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
27. The short story ________ is taken from Irving ''s work named The Sketch Book .
A. Young Goodman Brown
B. The legend of sleepy Hollow
C. Rip Van Wrinkle
D. Nature
28. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne ''s novel _______________ .
A. The House of the Seven Gables
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Moby Dick
D. Daisy Milly
29. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “_______________” .
A. Lost Generation
B. Broken Generation
C. Optimist
D. Pessimist
30. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _______ .
A. This Side of Paradise
B. Tender Is the Night
C. The American Dream
D. The Great Gatsby
31. _________ ， the first important English essayist ， is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form .
A. John Donne
B. John Milton
C. Francis Bacon
D. Edmund Spenser
32. Pope''s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ________ .
A. blank verse
B. heroic couplets
C. free verse
D. dramatic monologue
33. According to Edmund Spenser''s own explanation ， his The Faerie
Queene is a “________” ， but it is also an allegory .
A. imaginary poem
B. historical poem
C. romantic poem
D. poetic drama
34. Sheridan''s plays ， especially The Rivals and The school for Scandal ， are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those of ________.
A. Christopher Marlow
B. John Galsworthy
C. Bernard Shaw
D. James Joyce
35. Shelley''s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama —— __________ .
A. Promethus Unbound
B. Ode to the West Wind
C. Adonais
D. In Defense of Poetry
36. Charlotte Bronte''s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization ， about some lonely and neglected _______ .
A. young man
B. young woman
C. children
D. old people