友谊英文专八英美文学常识

2021年1月20日发(作者：rowdy)
英美文学

1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.
A. Far From the Modeling Crowd








B. Sound and Fury
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls













D. Scarlet Letter
1. Robert Frost is a famous ______.
A. novelist





























B. playwright
C. poet
































D. literary critic
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ______
A. Jack London





















B. Charles Dickens
C. Samuel Coleridge
















DEmest Hemingway
4. Which of the following poets is different from the others?
A. John Donne.


























B. John Keats.
C. Lord Byron.


























D. Percy Bysshe Shelley.
5. Which of the following is not written by William Shakespeare?
A. Othello.



















B. The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus.
C. Romeo and Juliet.












D. The Twelfth Night.
6. Beowulf narrates a story taking place in ______.
A. the Mediterranean

















B. Northern Europe
C. England


























D. Scandinavia
7. ______ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
A. Allegory


























B. Conflict
C. Irony





























D. Flashback
8. William Wordsworth is an English _____.
A. poet































B. novelist
C. playwright


























D. critic
9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is ______.
A. Nature




























B. Walden
C. Experience

























D. Essays
10. James Joyce is the author of all the following novels EXCEPT ______.
A. Dubliners















B. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C. Jude the Obscure










D. Ulysses
11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT ______.
A. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall









B. Jane Eyre
C. Wuthering Heights















D. Agnes Grey
12. In which novel can
A. John Bunyan' s Pilgrim' s Progress.
B. Edmund Spencer' s The Faerie Queen.
C. Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
D. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones.
13.
The
Victorian
Age
was
largely
an
age
of
______,
eminently
represented
by
Dickens
and
Thackeray.
A. pessimism



























B. naturalism
C. modernism


























D. critical realism
14.
Mark
Twain
shaped
the
world'
s
view
of
America
and
made
a
combination
of
______
and
serious literature.
A. American folk humor















B. funny jokes
C. English folklore






















D. American values
15.
Who
was
the
first
American
to
achieve
an
international
literary
reputation
after
the
Revolutionary War?
A. Fennimore Cooper.












B. Nathaniel Hawthorn.
C. Walt Whitman.
















D. Washington Irving.
16. Paradise Lost is a masterpiece by ______.
A. Christopher Marlow













B. John Milton
C. William Shakespeare













D. Ben Jonson
17. Have a Dream is addressed by ______.
A. Abraham Lincoln
















B. John F. Kennedy
C. Martin Luther King










D. Ralph Waldo Emerson
18. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
A. This is my letter to the world.




B. heard a fly buzz
—
when I died.
C. This is just to say.













D. Because I could not stop/or death.
19. Eugene 0' Neil is an American ______.
A. novelist
























B. playwright
C. poet



























D. essayist
20. The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of ______.
A. Jane Austin
























B. Walter Scott
C. Samuel Taylor Coleridge













D. William Wordsworth
21. In the works of such aesthetics as ______ and Walter Pater, the theory of
advocated.
A. Oscar Wilde
























B. Mrs. Gaskell
C. Alexander Pope




















D. Charles Lamb
22. Works by ______ are characterized by stream-of-consciousness.
A. George Eliot





















B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Bronte





















D. Virginia Woolf
23. Who of the followings is a playwright of the
A. John Osbom.























B. Wystan Hugh Auden.
C. Bernard Shaw.






















D. Samuel Beckett.
24. The period from 1865
—
1914 has been referred to as the ______ in the literary history of the
United States.
A. Age of Realism






















B. Age of Classicalism
C. Age of Romanticism

















D. Age of Renaissance
25. With
A. Ezra Pond



















B. e. e. cummings
C. Robert Frost

















D. William Cullen Bryant
26. ______ belongs to the second period in Shakespeare' s three stages of writing career.
A. The Merchant of Venice








B. Love' s Labor Lost
C. Hamlet






















D. The Tempest
27. Grass is a poem written by ______.
A. Walt Whitman

















B. Carl Sandburg
C. Langston Hughes















D. Alien Ginsberg
28. William Makepeace Thackeray' s most famous work is ______.
A. The School for Scandal











B. Past and Present
C. Major Barbara


















D. Vanity Fair
29. Dover Beach is written by ______.
A. Robert Browning















B. Alfred Tennyson
C. Mathew Arnold
















D. Dylan Thomas
30. The period of Old English literature refers to ______.
A. about 450
—
1066









B. 14th century
—
mid-17th century
C. 14th century
—
mid-ISA century D. 16th century
—
mid-18th century
31. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.
A. Jack London



















B. Herman Melville
C. Sinclair Lewis


















D. Ralph Ellison
32. 0. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.
A. novels





























B. poems
C. short stories
























D. dramas
33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. The Importance of Being Earnest
C. The New Atlantic
D. The Learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses
34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
A. Tender Is the Night













B. Anna Christie
C. The Beautiful and Dammed







D. The Great Gatsby
35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event of
A. the expatriate movement









B. the Great Depression
C. the First World War











D. the Second World War
36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of Desiref
A. The Titan.




























B. The Financier.
C. The
























D. The Stoic.
37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.
A. Oliver Twist



















B. Moll Flanders
C. Great Expectations














D. Bleak House
38. It is generally regarded that Keats' s most important and mature poems are in the form of
A. ode






























B. elegy
C. epic






























D. sonnet
39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______ for his
of modem narration
A. William Faulkner




















B. John Steinbeck
C. Saul Bellow
























D. Ernest Hemingway
40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.
A. romantic






























B. classic
C. neo-classic




























D. naturalistic
41. Who is the father of English poetry?
A. Shakespeare.























B. Edmund Spencer.
C. John Milton.
























D. Geoffrey Chaucer.
42. The Octopus is written by ______.
A. Frank Norris
























B. Sherwood Anderson
C. Willa Gather
























D. Stephen Crane
43. James Baldwin' s most famous short story is ______.
A. A Rose/or Emily





















B. The Story of an How
C. Sonny's Blues





















D. A Clean, Well-lighted Place
44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price for his work ______.
A. Ulysses






























B. Hard. Times
C. The Forsyte Saga




















D. Jude the Obscure
45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?
A. She Walks in Beauty.
















B. The Solitary Reaper.
C. When We Two Parted.














D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
46.______wrote several novels with the name of
A. Arthur Miller






















B. Thomas Pynchon
C. John Updike























D. Wallace Stevens
47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.
A. Robert Frost























B. Longfellow
C. Ezra Pond


























D. Carl Sandburg
48.
A. Franklin





























B. Freneau
C. Jefferson





























D. Paine
49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru/rock
B. A Boy's Will
C. The Waste Land
D. The Golden Bough
50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true
A. John Banyan























B. Henry Fielding
C. Samuel Richardson


















D. Daniel Defoe
51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.
A. Henry James





















B. Mark Twain
C. Dreiser






























D. Stowe
52. Hester is a character in ______.
?


A. Cone with the Wind








B. The Fall of the House of Usher
C. Babbitt






















D. Scarlet Letter
53. Jack London' s ______ is his patently autobiographical novel.
A. The Call of the Wild











B. The Sea Wolf
C. Martin Eden

















D. The Iron Heel
54. William Golding' s first and most well-known novel is ______.
A. Coral Island

















B. Lord of the Flies
C. Treasure Island














D. The Brass Butterfly
55.