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《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案
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I Of the four
alternative answer, choose the one that would best
complete the statement:
1.
Benjamin Franklin was born in the
family of a small _____________.
A. Landlord B. merchant C. lawyer
D. clergyman
2.
Ralph Waldo Emerson’s
le
ading reputation began with the
publication of_____________.
A.
Essays
B.
Nature
C.
Oversoul
D.
Self-Relience
3.
Ellen Poe was both a poet and a
_____________________.
A.
dramatist B. essayist C actor D.
fiction writer.
4.
Nathaniel
Haw
thorne’s view of man and human
history originates in
__________________.
A.
Puritanism B. Socialism C. Transcendentalism
D. naturalism
5.
Walt Whitman was born and brought up in
a family of a ______________.
A. Peasant B. carpenter C.
captain D. printer
6.
Mark Twain’s
first successful literary work is
_____________________________.
A.
The Celebrated Jumping
Frog of Calaveras County
B
. Life on the Mississippi
C.
The Adventure of Tom
Sawyer
D.
The
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
7.
Closely
r
elated
to
Emily
Dickinson’s
religious
poetry
are
her
poems
concerning
_______________.
A. Childhood and happiness C. loneliness D.
death and immortality
8.
Among the
works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese
readers is _________________.
A.
An American Tragedy
B.
Sister Carrie
C.
Th Financier
D.
The Titan
9.
Robert Frost’s
works mainly focus on the landscape and people in
_________________.
A. the
West B. American South C. New England D.
Mississippi
10.
Most of the plays Eugene
O’Neill wrote
are
_______________________.
A.
comedies B. . romances C. historical plays
D tragedies
Fitzgerald is
often acclaimed literary spokesman of the
______________________.
A.
modern time B. young Americans C. Jazz Age
D. Guilded Age
12.
___
____________________________
is
Hemingway’s
masterpiece,
which
is
about
the
old
fisherman Santiago and
his losing battle with a giant marlin.
A.
Farewell to Arms
B.
For whom the Bell
Tolls
C.
The
Sun Also Rises
D.
The Old Man and The Sea
13. As a great fiction writer, William
Faulker devotes most of his works to the
description
of the life and the people
in the __________________________.
A. American West B.
New England in America
C.
American South D. American
North
he was young,
Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a
__________________.
A. printing house B. store C.
Tailor’s shop D. factory
Emerson was born in a family of a
_____________________.
A.
merchant B. businessman C. clergyman D.
writer
Poe
began his literary career by writing
___________________;
A.
short stories B. plays C. essays
D. poems
ing
to
Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
there
is
_________
in
every
hearer,
which
may
remain
latent,
perhaps, through the
whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to
activity.
A. evil
B. virtue C. kindness D.
tragedy
n is
radically innovative in term of form of his
poetry. What he prefers for his new
subjects and new feelings is
_____________.
A. blank
verse B. free verse C. heroic
couplet D. sonnet
19.
Mark
Twain
shaped
the
world’s
view
of
America
and
made
a
combination
of
serious
literature
and _______.
A.
American folk humor B. English
folklore
C. American
traditional values D. funny
jokes
ther,
Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only
severn had appeared during
her
lifetime.
A. 1145
B. 1775 C. 897 D. 785
21.
Theodore
Dreiser
is
generally
acknowledged
as
one
of
America’s
literary
________________.
A. realists B. naturalists
C. romantists D. modernists
22.
In Frost’s
poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn
from _________________.
A.
the simple country life B. the urban
life
C. the life on the sea
D. the adventures and trips
Fitzgerald never spared
an
intimate touch
in his
fiction
to deal with
the
bankruptcy
of the
_______________________________.
A. American Dream B. ruling
classes B. American Capitalists
bourgeoisie
24.
Eugene O’Neill is
regarded as the founder of American
_____________________.
A.
poetry B. drama C. fiction D.
literature
25.___________________
is
H
emingway’s
masterpiece,
which
tells
a
story
about
the
tragic
love
of a wounded American
soldier with a British nurse.
A.
A Farewell to Arms
B.
The Sun Also
Rises
C
. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D
. In Our Time
m Faulkner was born in a
family of a _______________________.
A. merchant B. colonel
C. manager D. doctor
27. In his essays, ______ put forward
his philosophy of the over soul, the important of
the
Individual and Nature.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne B. Washington
Irving C. Mark Twain D. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
chief spokesman of
New England Transcendentalism is
__________
A. Nathaniel
Hawthorne B. Ralph Waldo Emerson
C. Henry David Thoreau
D. Washington Irving
29.______ literary world turns out to
be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical
one,
which has much to do with his
“
black
”
vision of life and human beings.
A. Herman
Melville
’
s B.
Washington Irving
’
s
C. Nathaniel
Hawthorne
’
s D. Walt
Whitman
’
s
of the poems in _____ sing of the
“
en-
masse
”
and the self as
well.
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Drum Taps C. North of Boston D. The
Cantos
_____, Whitman airs
his sorrow at President
Lincoln
’
s death.
A.
“
Cavalry
Crossing a Ford
”
B.
“
A
Pact
”
C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard
Bloom
’
d D. There was a
Child Went Forth
”
_____,
Whitman’s
own early experience may well be identified with
the childhood of a
young growing
America.
A.
“
A
Pact
”
B.
“
Song of
Myself
”
C.
“
There was a
Child Went Forth
”
D.
“
Cavalry Crossing a
Ford
”
______,
Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone
possesses some evil secret.
A.
“
The Custom-
House
”
B.
“
Young Goodman
Brown
”
C.
“
Rappaccini
’
s
Daughter
”
D.
“
The Birthmark
is called by Hemingway the one from
which
“
all modern American
literature comes.
”
A.
The adventures of
Huckleberry Fin
n B.
The
Adventures of Tom S
awyer
C.
The Gilded Age
D.
Life on the Mississippi
re Dreiser
’
s
forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine
in ______ also draws
heavily upon the
naturalistic understanding of
sexuality.
A
McTeague
B.
An American
Tragedy
C.
Sister
Carri
e D.
The
Genius
36._______ is a great
giant of American, whom considers
“
the true father of our
national
literature.
”
A. Henry James B. Washington Irving
C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser
37._______
is
usually
regarded
as
a
classic
book
written
for
boys
about
their
particular
horrors
and joys.
A.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B.
The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn
C.
Innocents Abroad
D.
Life on the Mississippi
38._______
is
described
by
Mark
Twain
as
a
boy
with
“
a
sound
heart
and
a
deformed
conscience.
”
A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry
Finn C. Jim
39._________ is considered to be
Theodore Dreiser
’
s greatest
work.
A.
An
American Tragedy
B.
Sister Carrie
C.
The Financier
D.
The Titan
leading
playwright
of
the
modern
period
in
American
literature,
if
not
the
most
successful in all his
experiments, is _______
A.
Arthur Miller B. Tennessee William C. George
Bernard Shaw D. Eugene
O
’
Neil
41.
The
well-
known soliloquy by Hamlet “To be ,
or not to be’ shows his
A.
hatred for his uncle B. love for
life
C. resolution of
revenge D. inner- strife
42.________ is a play that concerns the
problem of modern man
’
s
identity.
A.
The
Hairy Ape
B.
Long Day
’
s
Journey Into Night
C.
The Iceman Cometh
D.
The Emperor
Jones
a tragic
sense, _______ is a
representation of
life as a struggle against unconquerable
forces in which only a partial victory
is possible.
A.
For Whom the Bell Tolls
B.
In Our Time
C.
The Old Man and the Sea
D.
A Farewell to Arms
er once said that ________
is a story of
“
lost
innocence,
’
which proves
itself
to be and intensification of the
theme of imprisonment in the past.
A.
The Sound and the
Fury
B.
Light in
August
C.
Go Down,
Moses
D.
Absalom,
Absalom
!
A Rose for Emily
, Faulkner
makes best use of the _______ devices in
narration.
A. Romantic
B. Realistic C. Gothic D.
Modernist
46._______
is
Hemingway
’
s
first
true
novel
in
which
he
depicts
a
vivid
portrait
of
“
The
lost
Generation.
”
A.
The Sun Also
Rises
B.
A Farewell to
Arms
C.
In Our
Time
D.
For Whom the Bell
Tolls
only dramatist ever
to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.
A. Bernard Shaw B. Eugene
O
’
Neil C. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan D. William Shakespeare
means
of
“
free
verse,
”
_______
believes
that
he
has
turned
the
poem
into
an
open
field,
an area of vital
possibility where the reader can allow his own
imagination to play.
A.
Emily Dickinson B. Walt Whitman C. Robert
Frost D. Ezra Pound
eccentric woman who refuses to accept the passage
of time, or the inevitable change and
loss that accompanies it may probably
refer to _______.
A. Irene
in The Man of Property B. Emily in A Rose for
Emily
C. Catherine in
Wuthering Heights D. the widow Douglas in
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
source of evil that Nathaniel
Hawthorne is concerned most is overreaching
intellect.
Which of the following
stories is one of this kind
A.
Rappaccini
’
s
Daughter
B.
Young Goodman Brown
C.
The
Minister
’
s Black
Veil
D.
The
Birthmark
51.
“
In your rocking-chair, by
your window, shall you dream such happiness as you
may never
feel.
”
This is the last sentence of _______ .
A.
Sister Carrie
B.
An American Tragedy
C.
The Genius
D.
Jane Eyre
Walt
Whitman
’
s
“
There was a Child Went
Forth,
”
the child refers to
________.
A. the poet
himself as a child B. any American child
C. the young America
D. one of the poet
’
s
neighbor
_______
techniques
are
used
in
some
of
Eugene
O
’
Neil
’
s
plays
to
highlight
the
theatrical effect of the rupture
between the two sides of an individual human
being, the
private and the
public.
A. naturalistic
B. expressionistic C. stream-of-consciousness
D. metaphysical
of the
following is true as far as Emily
Dickinson
’
s poetry is
concerned
A. She seldom uses
dashes. B. All her poems are about death or
immorality.
C.
Her
poems
are
very
personal
and
meditative D.
Her
poems
usually
have
well-chosen
titles.
his
poems, Whitman tends to use ______.
A. oral English B. the
King
’
s English C.
American English D. old English
far
as
Nathaniel
Hawthorne
’
s
art
is
concerned,
which
of
the
following
statement
is
true
A. His
The Scarlet
Letter
tells a love story.
B. His art is deeply influenced by
Puritanism because he was a puritan
himself.
C.
Young
Goodman Brown
is a story about
superstition.
D. Ambiguity
is one of the salient characteristics of his
art.
57.
“
I like to see
it lap the Miles
—
And lick the Valleys up
—
And stop to
feed itself at Tanks
—
And then
—…”
(Emily Dickinson,
“
I like to
see it lap the
Miles
—“
)
Here
“
it
”
refers to ______ .
A. love
B. death C. a fly D. the
train
of the following
statements concerning Theodore
Dreiser
’
s style is
correct
A.
Dreiser
’
s Cowperwood trilogy
includes
The Financier
,
The Titan
and
The
Genius
B. His novels have
little detail descriptions of characters and
events.
C. His novels are
written in refined language.
D. His style is not polished but very
serious.
59.______ has long
been well known as a poet who can hardly be
classified with the old or the
new.
A. Ezra
Pound B. Robert Lee Frost C. T. S. Eliot
D. Emily Dickinson
60.F.
Scott Fitzgerald skillfully employs the device of
having events observe by _______ to
his
great advantage.
A.
a
“
central
consciousness
”
B.
his
double
vision
C.
more
than
one
witness
D.
the
protagonists
61. Shakespeare wrote
___________sonnets.
A.
125 B. 154 C. 245 D.
138
62. Francis Bacon is not
only a great ____________, but also the founder of
modern science.
A. poet
B. essayist C. dramatist D.
novelist
63. John Milton
became blind mainly because
of_______________.
A.
reading B. disease C. hard work
D. accident
64. Paradise
lost is a great __________ consisting of 12
books.
A. epic
B. story C. lyric poem D.
narrative poem
most important representative work by
Jonathan Swift is
“___________________”.
A.
A Tale of a Tub B. The Battle of
the Books
C. A Modest
Proposal D.
Gulliver’s
Travels
66. The first comedy
Sheridan wrote is __________________.
A. The School for Scandal B.
The Critic
C. A Trip to
Scarborough D. The Rivals
67
.”____________________”
is
the
cooperative
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
Samuel
Coleridge.
A. Tintern Abbey B.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
C. Lyrical Ballads
D. Prelude
68
.“The Isles of Greece” is
a part of Byron’s masterpiece
“___________________”
A.
Don Juan B.
Childe
Harold’s Prigrimage
C.
Oriental Tales D. Manfred
Shelly’s
greatest achievement is his four
-
act poetic drama
“_____________”.
A. Men
of England B. Prometheus
Unbound
C. Ode to the
West Wind D. The Revolt of
Islam
the age of fifteen,
Keats became an apprentice to a
______________.
A.
landlord B. apothecary C. stable keeper
D. doctor
Austen was the
daughter of a ____________________.
A. landlord B. merchant C.
lawyer D. rector
novel
Pride
and
prejudice
by
Austen
mainly
centres
round
the
relationship
between
__________.
A.
and B. Darcy and Elizabeth
C. Bingley and Jane D.
Sir William and Luccas
73.
Bronte Sisters are all outstanding
________________.
A.
essayists B. playwrights C. poets D.
novelists
of
Hardy’s later works show his ___________ view of
life.
A. optimistic
B. pessimistic C. practical D.
ironical
75.
Structurally and thematically Bernad Shaw followed
the great traditions of _________
A. realism B. romanticism. C.
modernism D. classicism
is one of the greatest playwrights and
_________________________ the world has ever
known.
A. poets B.
novelists C. essayists D. critics
greatest plays Shakespeare creates
are________________.
A.
histories B. comedies C. tragedies D.
tragicomedies
78. Bacon is
not only a essayist and philosopher, but also a
_________________.
A.
lawyer B. scientist C. historian
D. dramatist
Milton is a
great poet in the _____________________
PeoriD.
A. Renaissance
B. Neoclassical C. Romantic D.
Realist
story of
Paradise lost
is taken from
__________________.
A. a
legend B. Bible C. an epic D. a
folklore
1689 Jonathan
Swift became the __________________of Sir
William.
A. House-keeper
B. servant C. private secretary D.
steward
82
. The
representative play Sheridan wrote is “
__________________”.
A.
The School for Scandal B. The Critic C. A
Trip to Scarborough D. The
Rivals
83.
Lyrical Ballads
is the
cooperative work of William Wordsworth and
_________________.
A.
Samuel Coleridge B. Robert Southey C. John
Keats D. Percy Bysshe
Shelley
84.
The Isles of Greece
of Byron is taken from
“_______________________”.
A. Hours of Idleness B. Don Juan C.
Childe Harold Pilgrimage D. Cain
85. The first long serious work of
Shelly is ________________________.
A. The Necessity of Atheism B.
Queen Mab
Spirit of
Solitude D. Ode to the West Wind
86
. Keats’ father was a
______________.
A.
landlord B. apothecary C. stable keeper
D. doctor
87. Jane Austen
was the daughter of a
____________________.
A.
landlord B.
merchant C. lawyer D. rector
88. As a novelist, Emily Bronte was
also good at writing________________.
A. essays B. plays C. poems D.
stories
89
．
The first
novel written
by Thomas Hardy is
“__________________”.
A.
Desperate Remedies B. Under the
Greenwood
c.
The Return of the Native D. The
Mayor of Casterbridge
was
the son of a _________________________.
A. clerk B. landlord C. trader
D. lawyer
91
.”_______________” is NOT
one of the four great tragedies of
Shakespeare.
A. Othello
B. King Lear C. Romeo and Juliet D.
Macbeth
total number of the
essays published by Bacon
is_________________.
.26 C D. 58
Milton became blind at the age of
48,mainly because of_______________.
A. reading B. desease C.
hard work D. accident
se
lost is a great epic consisting _____________
books.
A. 8 B. 10
C. 12 D. 14
1689
Jonathan Swift became the __________________of Sir
William.
A. House-keeper
B. servant
C. private
secretary D. steward
96
. The first comedy
Sheridan wrote is “
__________________”.
A.
The School for Scandal B. The
Critic
C. A Trip to
Scarborough D. The Rivals
97
.”____________________”
is
the
cooperative
work
of
William
Wordsworth
and
S
amuel
Coleridge.
A.
Tintern Abbey B. The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner
C.
Lyrical Ballads D. Prelude
98
. The first volume of
poems of Byron is
“_______________________”.
A. Hours of Idleness B. Don Juan C.
Childe Harold Pilgrimage D. Cain
99
. Percy Shelly was
expelled from Oxford University because he wrote a
pamphlet “ On the
Necessity of
_____________”.
A.
Atheism B. Aesthetics C. Athletics
D. Ethics
100. Keats was
born in the family of a ______________.
A. landlord B. apothecary
C. stable keeper D. doctor
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Ⅱ
. Decide whether the
following statements are true or false and write
your answers in the
brackets.
( )
1.
Leaves of Grass
established Walt Whitman as the most popular
American poet of the
19
th
century.
( ) 2. The
poem
“
Song of
Myself
”
got this title from
the first edition.
( )
3. Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great
effects on Hawthorne
’
s
writing.
( ) 4.
According to Emerson, man is divine in nature and
therefore forever perfectible.
( ) 5. Walt Whitman is granted the
honor of being
“
the American
Goldsmith
”
for his
literary craftsmanship.
( ) 6. Emersonian
Transcendentalism inspired a whole generation of
famous authors like
Whitman, Dickinson
and Mark Twain.
( ) 7.
As a Puritan, Hawthorne embraced the Puritanical
doctrines and expresses them in
his
novels.
( ) 8. In
The Scarlet Letter
,
Hawthorne intends to tell a love story and a story
of sin.
( ) 9.
Hawthorne is a master of symbolism, which he took
from the Puritan tradition and
bequeathed to American literature in a
revivified form.
( )
10.
Walt
Whitman
follows
only
one
theme
in
his
Leaves
of
Grass
,
that
is,
the
burgeoning
life in
cities.
( ) 11. Most
of the poems in
Leaves of
Grass
are written in heroic
couplet.
( ) 12.
Life
on
the
Mississippi
tells
a
story
of
Henry
James
’
s
boyhood
ambition
to
become
a
riverboat pilot up and down the
Mississippi.
( ) 13.
Emily Dickinson
’
s poems are
usually based on her own experiences, her sorrows
and joys.
(
) 14. Theodore Dreiser is greatly influenced by
Darwinism and it is not surprising
to
find in his fiction a world of jungle, where
“
kill or to be
killed
”
is the
law.
( ) 15. In
“
This is my letter to the
World
”
Dickinson expressed
her reluctance to
communicate with the
outside world.
( ) 16.
Each of Emily Dickinson
’
s
poems has a well-chosen title.
( ) 17.
Emily
Dickinson
’
s
poetry
is
unique
and
unconventional
in
its
own
way,
covering
love, death and nature.
( ) 18. In Robert Lee
Frost
’
s poems, profound
ideas are delivered under the disguise
of the plain language and the simple
form.
( ) 19. Robert
Lee Frost has long been well known as a poet who
belongs to the new.
( )
20. Robert Frost wrote most of his poems in free
verse.
( ) 21. Eugene
O
’
Neil, Arthur Miller and
Tennessee Williams are together called
“
founders of the American
drama.
”
( )
22. Fitzgerald shows an interest both in the
upper-class society and in the
lower-
class society.
( ) 23.
Hemingway develops the style of colloquialism
initiated by Mark Twain.
(
) 24. In his novels, William Faulkner exploits
the modern steam-of
–
consciousness
technique to emphasize the reactions
and inner musings of the narrator.
( ) 25.
Benjamin
Franklin
is
a
early
feminist,
because
he
thinks
that
women
should
receive
education.
(
) 26. Emerson
’
s lasting
reputation was established by his masterpiece
Essays.
( ) 27.
Ellen
Poe
wrote
many
poems,
so
he
has
a
very
important
position
as
poet;
he
wrote
about 70
short stories and is regarded as a pioneer of the
detective fiction and the horror
fiction in the west.
( ) 28.
In
style,
her
poems
are
characterized
by
their
brevity,
directness
and
plainness
( )
29. Philosophically, the naturalists believe that
the real and true is always
completely
hidden from the understanding of the individual or
beyond his control.
( )
30. The defining formal characteristics of the
modernistic works are discontinuity
and
fragmentation.
( )
critical realism found its expression chiefly in
the form of drama.
( )
greatest English playwright of the 18th century
was Goldsmith, whose best play is
( ) 33. In
1805, Southey completed a long autobiographical
poem entiled
( )
34.
The
Romantic
Age
began
in
1789
when
Wordsworth
and
Coleridge
published
their
joint
work
( ) 35. Paradise Lost
is
Milton's
masterpiece; the
story is taken
from the Old
Testament:
Satan and other
angels rebel against God.
(
) 36. George Bernard Shaw was born in Dublin,
Scotland.
( ) 37.
Byron's masterpiece is Tom Jones.
( ) 38. Novel writing made a big
advance in the 18th century. the main characters
in the
novels were no longer common
people, but the kings and nobles.
( ) 39. Shakespeare'a prime
creating period lies in his third period when his
greatest
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