大学《英美文学》期末考试题库及答案

1.WilliamFaulkneristheauthorof.

A.FarfromtheMaddingCrowd

B.TheSoundandtheFury

C.ForWhomtheBellTolls

D.TheScarletLetter

2.ElegyWritteninaCountryChurchyardisapoemwrittenby

A.OliverGoldsmith

B.JamesThomson

C.ThomasGrey

D.AlexanderPope

3.WhichofthefollowingisNOTwrittenbyWilliamShakespeare?

A.Othello

B.TheTragicalHistoryofDr.Faustus

C.RomeoandJuliet

D.TheTwelfthNight

4.fieowu/fnarratesastorytakingplacein.

A.TheMediterranean

B.NorthernEurope

C.England

D.Scandinavia

5.WilliamWordsworthisanEnglish.

A.Poet

B.Novelist

C.Playwright

D.critic

6.ThegreattranscendentalworkbyHenryDavidThoreauis.

A.Nature

B.Walden

C.Experience

D.Essays

7.TheBrontesisterspublishedthefollowingfamousnovelsEXCEPT.

A.Emma

B.JaneEyre

C.WutheringHeight

D.AgnesGrey

8.Inwhichnovelcan"Yahoo"befound?

A.JohnBunyan'sPilgrim/sProgress

B.EdmundSpencer'sTheFaerieQueen.

C.JonathanSwift'sGulliver/sTravels.

D.HenryFielding'sTomJones.

9.MarkTwainshapedtheworld'sviewofAmericanandmadeacombinationof

andseriousliterature.

A.Americanfolkhumor

B.Funnyjokes

C.Englishfolklore

D.Americanvalues

10.WhowasthefirstAmericantoachieveaninternationalliteraryreputation

aftertheRevolutionaryWar?

A.FennimoreCopper.

B.NathanielHawthorne

C.WaltWhitman

D.WashingtonIrving

11.ParadiseLostisamasterpieceby.

A.ChristopherMarlow

B.JohnMilton

C.WilliamShakespeare

D.BenJohnson

12.Intheworksofaesthetism,thetheoryof“artforart'ssake"isadvocatedby

A.OscarWilde

B.Mrs.Gaskell

C.AlexanderPope

D.CharlesLamb

13.Whoseworksarecharacterizedbystream-of-consciousness?

A.GeorgeEliot

B.JaneAusten

C.EmilyBronte

D.JamesJoyce

14.Theperiodfrom1865-1914hasbeenreferredtoastheintheliterary

historyoftheUnitedStates.

A.AgeofRealism

B.AgeofClassicalism

C.AgeofRomanticism

D.AgeofRenaissance

15.“IfWintercomes,canspringbefarbehind?”isanepigrammaticlineby

A.J.Keats

B.B.W.Blake

C.P.B.Shelly

D.W.Wordsworth

16.LeavesofGrassiswrittenby.

A.WaltWhitman

B.CarlSandburg

C.LangstonHughes

D.AllenGinsberg

17.TheperiodofOldEnglishliteraturerefersto.

A.449-1066

B.14thcentury-mid17thcentury

C.14thcentury-mid18thcentury

D.16thcentury-mid18thcentury

18.SisterCarrieisamasterpieceofwork.

A.Romantic

B.Classic

C.Neo-classic

D.Naturalistic

19.WhoisthefatherofEnglishpoetry

A.WilliamShakespeare

B.EdmundSpencer

C.JohnMilton

D.GeoffreyChaucer

20.TheRedBadgeofCourageiswrittenby.

A.FrankNoris

B.SherwoodAnderson

C.WillaCather

D.StephenCrane

21.WhichofthefollowingpoemisNOTwrittenbyGeorgeGordonByron?

A.SheWalksinBeauty

B.TheSolitaryReaper

C.WhenWeTwoparted

D.ChildeHarold'sPilgrimage.

22.Hesterisacharacterin.

A.GonewiththeWind

B.ThefalloftheHouseofUsher

C.Babbitt

D.TheScarletLetter

23.AnimalFarmisthemasterpieceof.

A.GeorgeOrwell

B.VirginiaWoolf

C.ThomasHardy

D.E.M.Forster

24.TheCatcherintheRyeiswrittenby.

A.J.D.Salinger

B.JackLondon

C.FlanneryO'Connor

D.SaulBellow

25.Hemingwayoncedescribedtheonebookfromwhich“allmodern

Americanliteraturecomes”.

A.Moby-Dick

B.TheSunAlsoRises

C.TheAdventuresofHuckleberryFinn

D.TheGreatGatsby

26.TheliteraryspokesmanofJazzisoftenthoughtobe.

A.O'Neil

B.Pound

C.RobertFrost

D.ScottFitzgerald

27.WhichofthefollowingpoemiswrittenbyWilliamButlerYeats?

A.SailingtoByzantium

B.ToanAthleteDyingYoung

C.MuseedesBeauxArts.

D.ChurchGoing

28.Amongthefollowingpoets,whichisnotalakepoet?

A.WilliamWordsworth

B.SamuelTaylorColeridge

C.RobertSouthey

D.WilliamCollins

29.WhichofthefollowingisNOTtrueforBenjaminFranklin?

A.Hewasafamouswriter.

B.HewasamembertodrafttheDeclarationofIndependence.

C.Hewasagreatscientist.

D.HewasonceelectedAmericanPresident.

30.Utopiaiswork.

A.ThomasMore's

B.FrancisBacon's

C.JohnDryden's

D.GeorgeHerberts

31.TheAmericanasaculturalheritageexertedgreatinfluencesover

AmericanMoralValuesintheAmericanRomanticPeriod.

A.Puritanism

B.Atheism

C.Deism

D.Cynicism

32.ThetitleofAlfredTennyson'spoemUlyssesremindsthereaderofthefollowing

EXCEPT.

A.TheTrojanWar

B.Homer'sOdyssey

C.Adventuresoverthesea

D.Religiousquest

33.LyricalBalladsisthejointworkbetweenWordsworthandhisfriend.

A.Coleridge

B.Byron

C.Keats

D.Shelly

34.ThetitleofThackeray'sVanityFairistakenfrom.

A.TheHolyBible

B.TheFaerieQueen

C.ThePilgrim/sProgress

D.ParadiseLost

35.ThethemeofATaleofTwoCitiesis.

A.Revolution

B.War

C.Love

D.Brotherhood

36.InAmerica,thereis“alittleladywhostartedagreatwar”.Whoisshe?

A.AnneBradstreet

B.HarrietBeecherStowe

C.EdithWharton

D.KatherineAnnePorter

37.WaitingforGodotisa.

A.Poem

B.Play

C.Shortstory

D.Novel

38.Mr.Darcyisacharacterin.

A.TessofD'Urbervilles

B.PrideandPrejudice

C.HappyPrince

D.TheMilloftheFloss

39.WhichofthefollowingisNOTVirginiaWoolf'snovel?

A.TotheLighthouse

B.Mrs.Dalloway

C.TheWaves

D.ModernPainters.

40.isthefirstAmericanprofessionalwriterandthefirstwriterofdetective

storyintheworld.

A.EzraPound

B.WashingtonIrving

C.NathanielHawthorne

D.EdgarAllanPoe

41.TheRenaissancewasaEuropeanculturalmovement,whichoriginatedin

A.France

B.Britain

C.Italy

D.Spain

42.Amongthefollowingnovels,isThomasHardy'sbest-knownnovel.

A.TheReturnoftheNative

B.FarFromtheMaddingCrowd

C.TheMayorofCasterbridge

D.TessoftheDVrbervilles

43.calledhimselfz/thetrumpeterofanewage”.HewasEngland'sfirst

essayist.

A.RichardSteele

B.JosephAddison

C.FrancisBacon

D.AlexanderPope

44.OntheRoadisthemasterpieceof..

A.ArthurMiller

B.J.D.Salinger

C.AllenGinsberg

D.JackKerouac

45.LanguagespokenbytheAnglo-Saxonsiscalledthe,whichisthe

foundationofEnglishlanguageandliterature.

A.ModernEnglish

B.OldEnglish

C.AncientEnglish

D.MedievalEnglish

46.RobinsonCrusoeiswrittenby.

A.HenryFielding

B.Samuel