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Multiple Choices (40%, 2 points each)1. Today is acclaimed not only as “the father of English poetry” but also as “the father of English fiction”. We are indebted to him for the most vivid contemporary description of fourteenth century England.A. Langland B. Chaucer C. Gower D. Wyclif2. Chaucers masterpiece is .A. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight B. The Story of BeowulfC. Piers the Plowman D. The Canterbury Tales3. The real mainstream of the English Renaissance is .A. the Elizabethan drama B. the Elizabethan proseC. ancient poem D. romantic novel4. Which play is not a comedy written by Shakespeare?A. A Midsummer Nights Dream B. The Merchant of VeniceC. Romeo and Juliet D. As You Like It5. “To be, or not to bethat is the question: whethert is nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?” Who said these words?A. King Lear B. Romeo C. Antonio D. Hamlet6. compiled the “The Dictionary of the English Language” which became the foundation of all the subsequent English dictionaries.A. Ben Johnson B. Samuel Johnson C. Alexander Pope D. John Dryden7. Which of the following writings is not written by John MiltonA. Paradise Lost B. Paradise Regained C. Samson Agonistes D. Ulysses8. In the following figures, who is Dickenss first child hero?A. Fagin B. Mr. BrownlowC. Oliver Twist D. Bill Sikes9. Which of the following writings is not written by Thomas HardyA. The Mayor of Casterbridge B. Tess of the DUrbervillesC. Jude the Obscure D. The Mill on the Floss10.Sons and Lovers is s autobiographical novel.A. T.S. Eliot B. Wystan Hugh Auden C. David Herbert Lawrence D. George Orwell11 Robinsoe Crusoe is written by .A. Daniel Defoe B.Charles Dickenson C. Jonathan Swift D. Ralph Fox12. Mrs. Dalloway is written by .A. James Joyce B. Virginia Woolf C. Robert Tressell D. Ralph Fox13. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American Republic?A. The American Crisis B. The FederalistC. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason14. Which work is written by Freneau?A. The Rights of Man B. The Wild Honey SuckleC. Poor Richards Almanac D. The Day of Doom15. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and .A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman16. The Publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over Soul17. Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being .A. nothingness B. disillusionment C. international theme D. relationship between men and women18. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?A. J.D. Salinger B. Ezra Pound C. Richard Wright D. Ralph Waldo Emerson19. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not he most successful in all his experiments, is .A. Arthur Miller B. Tennessee William C. Robert Frost D. Eugene ONeil20. Which of the following is not Earnest Hemingways masterpiece?A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises C. The Old Man and the Sea D. A Farewell to Arms Blank Filling (20%, 2 points each)1. can be justly termed Englands national epic.2. is a group of lines in a poem, seen as a unit, which often function like paragraphs in prose and state or develop one main idea.3. Thomas More, wrote his famous prose work “ ”, which may be thought of as the first literary masterpiece of the English Renaissance. 4. The Bronte sisters are Charlotte Bronte, and Anne Bronte.5. Charlotte Brontes masterpiece is .6. William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey are called in English literature because they lived for a time in the lake district in the north-western part of England and they often described the beautiful scenes and the country people of that area.7. was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”.8. was regarded as “Father of the American short stories”.9. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “the lost generation”.10. “In a Station of the Metro, The apparition of these faces in the crowd. Petals on a wet, black bough.” is written by . Read the following poems and answer the questions in English (40%, 20 points each )Passage 1Sonnet 18Shall I compare thee to a summers day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,And summers lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,And often is his gold complexion dimmd; And every fair from fair sometime declines,By chance or natures changing course untrimmd;But thy eternal summer shall not fadeNor lose possession of that fair thou owest;Nor shall Death brag thou wanderst in his shade,When in eternal lines to time thou growest: So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,So long lives this and this gives life to thee. Questions:1. Who is the author of this poem?2. How do you appreciate this poem?Passage 2The Road Not TakenTwo Roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both,And be one traveler, long I stoodAnd looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth;Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing thereHad worn them really about the same,And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!Yet knowing how way lead