信阳师范学院英国文学史

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In ________, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret.(本题1.0分) A、 The Custom House B、 Young Goodman Brown C、 Rappaccini’s Daughter D、 The Birthmark

The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their _________. (本题1.0分) A、 indestructible spirit B、 pessimistic view of life C、 war experiences D、 masculinity

American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ______. (本题1.0分) A、 Jane Austen B、 Emily Dickinson C、 Anne Bradstreet D、 Harriet Beecher

In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.(本题1.0分) A、 For Whom the Bell Tolls B、 In Our Time C、 The Old Man and the Sea D、 A Farewell to Arms

As a philosophical and literary movement, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. (本题1.0分) A、 romanticism B、 rationalism C、 transcendentalism D、 sentimentalism

After The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Twain gives a literary independence to Tom’s buddy Huck in a book entitled ___.(本题1.0分) A、 Life on the Mississippi B、 The Gilded Age C、 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D、 A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court

Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work?(本题1.0分) A、 It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world. B、 It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory. C、 It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience. D、 Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.

___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.(本题1.0分) A、 Romanticism B、 Realism C、 Naturalism D、 Modernism

Which is not work by T. S. Eliot? _____. (本题1.0分) A、 The Waste Land B、 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock C、 After Apple-Picking D、 The Four Quartets

The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______. (本题1.0分) A、 The Jazz Age B、 The Gilded Age C、 The Roaring Age D、 The Beat Age

Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include_________, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.(本题1.0分) A、 impressionism B、 expressionism C、 multiple points of view D、 first person point of view

One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ . (本题1.0分) A、 vernacular B、 interior monologue C、 point of view D、 photographic description

The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is ____. (本题1.0分) A、 Nathaniel Hawthorne B、 Ralph Waldo Emerson C、 Henry David Thoreau D、 Washington Irving

Which of the following fiction writers wanted to always live an active, masculine life and committed suicide in 1961, when he was too old to do so any more?(本题1.0分) A、 Mark Twain B、 Ernest Hemingway C、 Stephen Crane D、 Stephen Crane

More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.(本题1.0分) A、 man and man B、 men and women C、 man and nature D、 men and God

Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald, a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?(本题1.0分) A、 Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment. B、 They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern world. C、 They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces. D、 They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itsel

Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?(本题1.0分) A、 The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence. B、 The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930s. C、 The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped. D、 It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with an Italian nurse.

In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.(本题1.0分) A、 Gertrude Stein B、 Ezra Pound C、 Thomas Stearns Eliot D、 all of the above

The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is ____. (本题1.0分) A、 Nathaniel Hawthorne B、 Ralph Waldo Emerson C、 Henry David Thoreau D、 Washington Irving

Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson’s poems about nature?(本题1.0分) A、 In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between man and nature. B、 Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond between man and nature. C、 Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings. D、 Many of them showed her feeling of nature’s inscrutability and indifference to the life and interests of human beings.

_________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.(本题1.0分) A、 William Faulkner B、 F. Scott Fitzgerald C、 Ernest Hemingway D、 John Steinbeck

_____is called by Hemingway the one from which “all modern American literature comes”. (本题1.0分) A、 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn B、 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer C、 The Gilded Age D、 Life on the Mississippi

The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _______.(本题1.0分) A、 The Jazz Age B、 The Gilded Age C、 The Roaring Age D、 The Beat Age

The Hemingway Code heroes are best remembered for their __.(本题1.0分) A、 indestructible spirit B、 pessimistic view of life C、 war experiences D、 masculinity

Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?(本题1.0分) A、 Cambridge. B、 Oxford. C、 Mississippi. D、 Yoknapatawpha.

The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except ______.(本题1.0分) A、 religion B、 love and marriage C、 life and death D、 war and peace

One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____________ .(本题1.0分) A、 vernacular B、 interior monologue C、 point of view D、 photographic description

The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .(本题1.0分) A、 local colorism B、 vernacularism C、 modernism D、 naturalism

As a philosophical and literary movement, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.(本题1.0分) A、 romanticism B、 rationalism C、 transcendentalism D、 sentimentalism

Which is not work by T. S. Eliot? _____.(本题1.0分) A、 The Waste Land B、 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock C、 After Apple-Picking D、 The Four Quartets

In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the _____ devices in narration.(本题1.0分) A、 Gothic B、 Romantic C、 Realistic D、 Modernist

Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?(本题1.0分) A、 Ezra Pound B、 Amy Lowell C、 Edgar Allan Poe D、 Robert Frost

The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except ______. (本题1.0分) A、 religion B、 love and marriage C、 life and death D、 war and peace

After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.(本题1.0分) A、 an agrarian community … an industrialized and commercialized society B、 an agrarian community … a society of freedom and equality C、 a poor and backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society D、 an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society

With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __--___ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19thcentury.(本题1.0分) A、 sentimentalism B、 romanticism C、 realism D、 naturalism

Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _______.(本题1.0分) A、 nature B、 transcendentalist ideas C、 human beings D、 celestrial beings

As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right?(本题1.0分) A、 His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions. B、 His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement C、 From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger patterns through juxtaposition. D、 For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.

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.(本题1.0分) A、 blank verse B、 heroic couple C、 free verse D、 iambic pentameter

Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ______. (本题1.0分) A、 transcendentalists B、 idealists C、 pessimists D、 impressionists

The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William Dean Howells, Mark Twain and _______. (本题1.0分) A、 Emily Dickinson B、 Henry James C、 Theodore Dreiser D、 Ezra Pound

In the first part of the 20th century ， apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers ______ ， whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.(本题1.0分) A、 the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud B、 the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud C、 the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James D、 the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud

______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.(本题1.0分) A、 Ernest Hemingway B、 F. Scott Fitzgerald C、 William Faulkner D、 Ezra Pound

As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ____________________.(本题1.0分) A、 nature, man and the universe B、 the relationship between man and woman C、 the development of Romanticism in American literature D、 the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain’s style of language?(本题1.0分) A、 His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read. B、 His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect. C、 His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration， repetition and anti-climax. D、 His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.

Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote _______ poems, of which only seven had appeared during her lifetime.(本题1.0分) A、 1775 B、 1765 C、 1575 D、 1876

In ________, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evil secret. (本题1.0分) A、 The Custom House B、 Young Goodman Brown C、 Rappaccini’s Daughter D、 The Birthmark

Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?(本题1.0分) A、 They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories. B、 Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town. C、 Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh environment. D、 Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.

The period since the end of the Civil War was also referred to as “The Gilded Age” by _____. (本题1.0分) A、 Henry James B、 Theodore Dreiser C、 Mark Twain D、 William Dean Howells