出自:信阳师范学院-美国文学作品选读

The first mass movement of the English working class and the early sign of the awakening of the poor, oppressed people is_____. A.the Chartist movement B.enlightenment C.Renaissance D.enclosure
Daniel Defoe’s works are all the following EXCEPT_____. A.Moll Flander B.Macbeth C.Hamlet D.Ulysses
“Metaphysical Poetry” refers to the works of the 17th - century writers who wrote under the influence of _____. A.Milton B.John Donne C.Johnson D.Fielding
The most important play among Shakespeare’s comedies is _____. A.Hamlet B.The Twelfth Night C.The Merchat of Venice D.The Merchant of Venice
The most perfect example of the verse drama after Greek style in English is Milton’s _____. A.paradise Regained B.Paradise Lost C.Ode to the West Wind D.Ulysses
Which of the following descriptions of Enlightenment Movement is NOT true? A.It was a progressive intellectual movement that flourished in France. B. It was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the 15th and 16th centuries. C. The purpose was to enlighten the whole world with moderu philosophical and artistic id D. The Enlighteners advocate individual education.
Neoclassicists had some fixed laws and rules for prose EXCEPT_____. A.precison B.directness C.flexibility D.satire
A good style of prose“ proper works in proper places” was defined by_____. A.Milton B.Fielding C.Swift D.John Donne
The major theme of Jane Austen’s novels is_____. A.money B.power C.murder D.love and marriage
Wordsworth’s_____ is perhaps the most anthologized poem in English literature. A.she dwelt among untrodden ways B.I wandered lonely as a cloud C.The Solitary reaper D.Ulysses
William Blake.s work ______ is about childhood. A.Marriage of Heaven and Hell B.songs of innocence C.tiger, tiger D.paradise lost
Best of all the Romantic well- known lyric pieces is Shelley’s_____. A.the cloud B.To the skylark C.Ode to the west wind D.Ode tothe nightingale
In the Victorian Period _____ became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought. A.prose B.novel C.drama D.poetry
In Charles Dickens’early novels, he attacks one or more specific social evils, _____is a good example of describing the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark, criminal underworld life. A.Oliver Twist B.Bleak house C.David Copperfield D.Great Expectations
Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is_____. A.Tess B.Under the greenwood tree C.The return of the native D.Far from the madding crowd
One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party. A.Men of England B.Men of England C.Ode to Liberty D.Ode to the West Wind
In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds. A.Hard times B.Oliver Twist C.David Copperfield D.Bleak House
The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life. A.Tess B.The Return of the Native C.The Greenlanders D.Jude the Obscure
As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people. A.Yeats B.Oscar Wild C.Bernard Shaw D.Milton
Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A.Women in Love B.Sons and Lovers C.Lady Chatteley.s Lover D.Farewell to Arms
______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature” because he can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature. A.Wordsworth B.Blake C.Byron D.Coleridge
In Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”, _______ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures. A.Arthur B.Redcrosse C.Una D.Archimago
_______ was regarded as “Father of the English novel”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. A.Daniel Defoe B.Jonathan Swift C.Jane Austen D.Henry Fielding
“They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare…” these sentences are taken from ___ A.Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor B.William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily C.Charles Dickens’ Dombey and Son D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
_____ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life. A.The American B.The Europeans C.Daisy Miller D.The Portrait of a Lady
Don Juan is a long poem based on a traditional ______ legend of a great lover and seducer of women. A.Spanish B.Dutch C.English D.Russian
______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage. A.“Bartleby, the Scrivener” B.Benito Cereno C.The Confidence-Man D.Billy Bud
In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind, and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day. A.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B.Dubliners C.Ulysses D.Finnegans Wake
Which of the following accounts is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson? A.He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. B.Emerson is generally known as a dramatist. C.His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given. D.In Nature, he employed “a transparent eyeball” to illustrate his philosophical discussi
William Wordsworth, Coleridge and _______ are known as the “Lake Poets”. A.George Gordon Byron B.Robert Southey C.Percy Bysshe Shelley D.John Keats
_____ is NOT a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama in the modernistic period. A.Sinclair Lewis B.Eugene O’Neill C.Arthur Miller D.Tenessee Williams
Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ____ drew heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality. A.Sister Carrie B.The Financier C.The Titan D.The American Tragedy
_____ tells a very simple but very moving story in which four people living in a Puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways. A.The Scarlet Letter B.Twice-told Tales C.The House of the Seven Gables D.The Marble Faun
Which of the following is NOT true according to James Joyce? A.Ulysses has become a prime example of modernism in literature. B.Joyce is regarded as the most prominent stream-of-consciousness novelist. C.Joyce is a realistic writer in English literature history. D.His novel “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” is a naturalistic account of the he
____ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan Drama, and English poetry. A.Charles Lamb B.Jane Austen C.Walter Scott D.William Hazlitt
____ is Hemingway’s firt true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”. A.For Whom the Bell Tolls B.The Old Man and the Sea C.The Sun Also Rises D.A Farewell to Arms
George Bernard Shaw’s career as a dramatist began in 1892, when his first play ____ was put on by the Independent Theatre Society. A.Candida B.Widower’s Houses C.Mrs. Warren’s Profession D.The Apple Cart
In Milton’s works, “____” is the greatest, indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since “Beowulf”. A.Paradise Lost B.Paradise Regained C.Samson Agonistes D.Lycidas
The Advancement of Learning is a great tract on _____. A.history B.literature C.policy D.education
Rousseau published two books that electrified Europe—Du contrat Social and ____ in which he explored new ideas about nature, society and education. A.Emile B.Declaration of Rights of Man C.Life of Napoleon D.The Advancement of Learning
Modernism rejects rationalism, which is the theoretical base of _____. A.classicism B.neo-classicism C.romanticism D.realism
The most important characteristics in Ulysses by Alfred Tennyson is ____. A.mastering of language B.excellent choice of words C.use of the dramatic monologue D.excellent metaphor
Nigger Jeff, Old Rogaum and His Theresa are all _____ by Dreiser. A.novels B.novellas C.plays D.short stories
The statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is quoted from _____. A.“Ode on Melancholy” B.“To Autumn” C.“Ode to Psyche” D.“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Which of the following masterpieces doesn’t belong to the tragedies of Shakespeare? A.Romeo and Juliet B.The Merry Wives of Windsor C.Julius Caesar D.King Lear
In 1892, Yeats wrote his first play, ____, which is an Irish myth about a noblewoman who sells her soul to the devil in order to save starving peasants. A.The Land of Heart’s Desire B.The Shadowy Waters C.The Countess Cathleen D.Purgatory
_____, the pioneering woman who, according to D. H. Lawrence, was the first novelist that “started putting all the actions inside”. A.George Eliot B.Jane Austen C.Mrs. Gaskell D.Charlotte Bronte
Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest masters of English prose, and his best prose work is ______. A.“A Modest Proposal” B.“Of Studies” C.“Areopagitica” D.“Tradition and Individual Talent”
The period of Old English literature refers to ______. A.from the year of 450 to the year of 1066 B.from 14th to mid-17th C.from 14th to mid-18th D.from 16th to mid-18
Much of ____ drama is constructed around the inversion of a conventional theatrical situation. A.Yeats B.Gregory’s C.Galsworthy D.Shaw’s
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