A: the 17th century … the American War of Independence
B: the 18th century … the American Civil War
C: the 17th century … the American Civil War
D: the 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War
(单选题)2: The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is
A: Shakespeare
B: Marlowe
C: Chapman
D: Sidney
(单选题)3: “The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by _______.
A: John Galsworthy
B: Thomas Hardy
C: Charles Dickens
D: H. Lawrence
(单选题)4: Fielding has been regarded by some as “_______________”,for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel .
A: Best writer of the English novel
B: Father of the English novel
C: the most gifted writer of the English novel
D: conventional writer of English novel
(单选题)5: “In dream vision Arthur witnessed the loveliness of Gloriana, and upon awaking resolves to seek her.” The two literary figures Arthur and Gloriana are form .
A: Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene
B: William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet
C: Christopher Marlowe’s “The Passionate Shepherd to His love”
D: John Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”
(单选题)6: Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A: Simile．
B: Metonymy．
C: Pun．
D: Synecdoche．
(单选题)7: Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A: Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B: Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of irrationality.
C: Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D: Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
(单选题)8: “Drive my dead thought over the universe Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.” (Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”) What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?
A: Synecdoche.
B: Metaphor.
C: Simile.
D: Onomatopoeia.
(单选题)9: Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its narration from the point of view of _______ .
A: the author Henry James
B: the Italian youth Giovanelli
C: the American youth Winterbourne
D: her mother Mrs. Miller
(单选题)10: Le Mort D’ Arthur deals with the following story except
A: search for Cup
B: life of King Arthur
C: fight against Roman invasion
D: illicit love
(单选题)11: the most significant idea of the Renaissance is____.
A: humanism
B: realism
C: naturalism
D: skepticism
(单选题)12: G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the _______ in the English society.
A: slum landlordism
B: inequality between men and women
C: political corruption
D: economic exploitation of women
(单选题)13: One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:
A: his marriage with a girl of noble family
B: his visit to Italy
C: his duty as a controller of the Customs
D: his participation in the Hundred Years’ War
(单选题)14: Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?
A: Singer‘s
B: Salinger‘s
C: Vonnegut‘s
(单选题)15: provides the main source of influence on American naturalism.
A: The puritan heritage
B: Howells’ ideas of realism
C: Darwin’s theory of evolution
D: The pioneer spirit of the wild west
(单选题)16: The novelist who was born in Poland wrote
A: The portrait of A Lady
B: A Passage to India
C: The Heart of Darkness
D: Dubliners
(单选题)17: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .
A: John Keats
B: William Blake
C: William Wordsworth
D: Percy Bysshe Shelley
(单选题)18: Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical
A: mysticism
B: romanticism
C: lyricism
D: decadence
(单选题)19: _______is the essence of the Renaissance.
A: Individualism
B: Reason
C: Irrationalism
D: Humanism
(单选题)20: In Mark Twain’s The Adventures of huckleberry Finn, Huck writes a letter to inform against Jim, the escaped slave, and then he tears the letter up. This fact reveals that .
A: Huck has a mixed feeling of love and hate
B: there is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C: Huck is always an indecisive person
D: Huck has very little education
(判断题)21: Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)22: Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)23: As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)24: On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)25: Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)26: The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)27: Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)28: Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)29: The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)30: The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)31: Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle .
A: 错误
B: 正确
正确答案: B
(判断题)32: According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .
A: 错误
B: 正确
正确答案: B
(判断题)33: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)34: One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)35: The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)36: The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)37: Essays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)38: All My Sons is the masterpiece of Arthur Miller .
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)39: Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
A: 错误
B: 正确
(判断题)40: The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.
A: 错误
B: 正确
正确答案: A
