专业八级英美文学知识

1 1 William Faulkner is the author of a For From the Madding Crowd b The Sound and Fury c For Whom the Bell Tolls d The Scarlet Letter 2 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 d Ernest 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 2 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 Yahoo be found 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 Johnson 17 I 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 a poem by Emily Dickinson a Song of Myself B The Raven C A Red Red Rose d Because I Could Not Stop for Death 19 Eugene O Neil is an American 3 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 aesthetism the theory of art for art s sake is advocated by a Oscar Wilde b Mrs Gaskell c Alexander Pope d Charles Lamb 22 Whose works are characterized by stream of consciousness a George Eliot b Jane Austen c Emily Bronte d James Joyce 23 The most famous work by Chaucer is a Beowulf b The Canterbury Tale c Sir Gawain and the Green Knight d The Christ 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 has been given 18 honorary degrees a Ezra Pond b E E Cummings c Robert Frost d William Cullen Bryant 26 Which of the following is NOT Shakespeare s tragedies a The Merchant of Venice b King Lear c Hamlet d The Tempest 27 Leaves of Grass is written by a Walt Whitman b Carl Sandburg c Langston Hughes d Allen 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 Daver 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 4 a 449 1066 b 14th century mid 17th century c 14th century mid 18th 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 O Henry earned his fame mainly for his a novels b poems c short stories d dramas 33 Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacon s essay a Of Studies B Of Travel C Of Wisdom D Of Love 34 is the most famous novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald a Tender Is the Night b This Side of Paradise c The Beautiful and Dammed d The Great Gatsby 35 Morte d Arthur is a famous work by a John Milton b Venerable Bede c Thomas Malory d Alfred the Great 36 Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser s Trilogy of Desire a The titan b The Financier c The Genius d The Stoic 37 The followings are all Dickens works EXCEPT a Oliver Twist b The Vicar of Wakefield c Great Expectations d A Tale of Two Cities 38 It is generally regarded that Keats s most important ant 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 a William Faulkner b John Steinbeck c Saul Bellow d Ernest Hemingway 5 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 Red Badge of Courage is written by a Frank Norris b Sherwood Anderson c Willa Cather d Stephen Crane 43 The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is a drama b prose c novel d poetry 44 John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work a Ulysses b Hard Times c The Forsyte Sage 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 Parte d Childe Harold s Pilgrimage 46 wrote several novels with the name of Rabbit 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 It is who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama a Marlowe b Shakespeare c Spencer d Henry Howard 49 T S Eliot s most famous long poem is a I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud b A Boy s Will c The Waste Land d The Golden Bough 6 50 Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel a John Banyan b Henry Fielding c Samuel Richardson d Daniel Defoe 51 The Portrait of a Lady is a great work by a Henry James b Mark Twain c Dreiser d Stowe 52 Hester is a character in a Gone with the Wind b The Fall of the House of Usher c Babbitt d The Scarlet Letter 53 In Paradise Last the real hero created by Milton is a God b Adam c Eve d Satan 54 The island of Lilliput can be found in a Robinson Crusoe b Gulliver s Travels c Adventures of Tom Sawyer d Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 55 To be or not to be is quoted from a King lear b Hamlet c Julius Caesar d Romeo and Juliet 56 Mr Allworthy is a kind hearted gentleman in a A Tale of Two Cities b Great Expectations c Sons and lovers d The History of Torn Jones a Foundling 57 The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain s a The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c Life on the Mississippi d The Prince and the Pauper 58 The Catcher in the Rye is written by a J D Salinger b Jack London c Flannery O Connor d Saul Bellow 59 Which of the following works is NOT written by D H Lawrence 7 a Women in Love b Sons and Lovers c The Rainbow d The French Lieutenant s Woman 60 Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between centuries a 14th and mid 17th b 14th and mid 18th c 16th and mid 18th d 16th and mid 17th 61 The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of John Steinbeck b John Cheever c John Updike d John Dos Passos 62 is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams a Cat on a Hot Tin Roof b The Glass Menagerie c Light is August d A Streetear Named Desire 63 Robert Burns is a poet from a England b New England c Ireland d Seotland 64 The Zoo Story is a play written by a Romance b Novel c Sonnet d Drama 65 is a popular literary form in the medieval period a Romance b Novel c Sonnet d Drama 66 The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the century a 18th b 19th c 17th d 20th 67 is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland a William Blake b Robert Burns c Byron d Keats 68 William Blake s The Tiger is collected in 8 a Songs of Innocence b Songs of Experience c Marriage of Heaven and Hell d Poetical Sketches 69 The image of the famous henpecked husband is created by a Washington Irving b Fennimore Cooper c Edith Wharton d William Dean Howells 70 was the most important person of the transcendental club a Shakespeare b Marlowe c Spenser d Donne 71 The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be a O Neil b Pound c Robert Frost d Scott Fitzgerald 72 was the most important person of the transcendental club a Hawthorn b Whitman c Emerson d Hemingway 73 Shylock is a character in a The Merchant of Venice b The Twelfth Night c The Winter s Tale d Macbeth 74 The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is a Joseph Addison b Richard Steele c Samuel Johnson d Laurence Stern 75 The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT a friendship b love and marriage c life and death d war and peace 76 American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as a imagism b black humor c new fiction d the Beat Generation 77 James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown a London b Dublin c New York d Edinburgh 78 This line If winter comes can spring be far behind is quoted from a Dan Juan b Kubla Khan c To Autumn d Ode to the West Wind 9 79 Stephen Crane is famous for a An American Tragedy b The Ambassadors c Main Street d The Red Badge of Courage 80 translated Homer s Iliad 伊利亚特 and Odyssey 奥德赛 in Ameriean literary history a William Cullen Bryant b Philip Freneau c Edwin Arlington Robinson d Walt Whitman 81 The emotional effect and social significance made the first well known sociological novel in American literature a The Sun Alson Rises b Uncle Tom s Cabin c The Old Man and The Sea d Sister Carrie 82 has been entitled the Father of American Poetry a Philip Freneau b Ralph Waldo Emerson c William Cullen Bryant d Walt Whitman 83 Which of the following poems is written by William Butler Yeats a Sailing to Brzantium b To an Athlete Dying Young c Musee des Beaux Arts d Church Going 84 Mary Barton is a masterpiece of a George Eliot b Samuel Butler c Mrs Gaskell d Flannery O Connor 85 Among the following poets which is NOT a lake poet a William Wordsworth b Samuel Taylor Coleridge c Robert Southey d William Collins 86 Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel 10 a The History of Tom Jones a Foundling b Pamela c Moll Flander d The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy 87 Tess is a character created by a D H Lawrence b James Joyce c Thomas Hardy d Dylan Thomas 88 Which of the following is NOT true for Benjamin Franklin a He was a famous writer b He was a member to draft The Declaration of Independence c He was a great scientist d He was once elected American President 89 Gold Rush was vividly depicted in novels a Hemingway s b Mark Twain s c Henry James s d Faulkner s 90 is a nineteenth century European literary movement that sought to portray familiar characters situations and settings in a realistic manner a Realism b Modernism c Naturalism d Romanticism 91 Utopia is work a Thomas More s b Francis Bacon s c John Dryden s d George Herbert s 92 Mr Rochester is a figure in a Wuthering Heights b Jane Eyre c Vanity Fair d Uncle Tom s Cabin 93 Beauty is truth truth beauty is an epigrammatic line by a John Keats b William Blake c William Wordsworth d Percy Bysshe Shelley 94 Whitman s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT a a strict poetic form b a simple and conversational language c a free and natural rhythmic pattern d an easy flow of feelings 95 Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation 11 a Hemingway b Fitzgerald c Gertrude Stein d William Faulkner 96 My Last Duchess is a monologue poem written by a William Shakespeare b Robert Browning c Ben Jonson d Robert Herrick 97 The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around a 1820 b 1850 c 1880 d 1920 98 The title of Alfred Tennyson s poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT a the Trojan War b Homer s Odyssey c adventures over the sea d religious quest 99 As a literary figure Heathcliff appears in a Jane Eyre b Oliver Twist c Wuthering Heights d Middlemarch 100 The publication of established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism a Nature b Self Reliance c The Over Soul d The American Scholar 101 is considered to be the best known English dramatist since Shakespeare and his representative works and plays inspired by social criticism a Richard Sheridan b Oliver Goldsmith c Oscar Wilde d The American Scholar 102 Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend a Coleridge b Bryon c Keats d Shelly 103 The success of Jane Eyre is partly due to its introduction to the English novel the first heroine a explorer b peasant c worker d governess 104 is the representative work of the Jazz Age a The Great Gatsby b On the Road c Look Back in Anger d The Sun Also Rises 12 105 Invisible Man is a famous work by a Tennessee Williams b Arthur Miller c Ralph Ellison d John Updike 106 is commonly used to describe an original pattern or model from which all other things of the same kind are made a Allusion b Alliteration c Allegory d Archetype 107 The title of Thackeray s Vanity Fair is taken from a The Holy Bible b The Faerie Queen c The Pilgrim s Progress d Paradise Lost 108 was a southerner from Mississippi who produced 18 novels and 3 volumes of short stories in his life a William Faulkner b Earnest Hemingway c Mark Twain d Robert Frost 109 The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is a revolution b was c love d brotherhood 110 Which of the following statements is NOT true for the Lost Generation a Those young people were cut off from old values b They wondered pointlessly and restlessly c They were aware that the world was crazy and meaningless d They boasted that people should return to nature 111 Who is considered the Poet of the American Revolution a Philip Freneau b William Cullen Bryand c Henry Wadsworth Longfellow d Henry David Thoreau 112 In America there is a little woman started a great war Who is she a Anne Bradstreet b Harriet Beecher Stowe 13 c Edith Wharton d Catharine Anne Porter 113 Waiting for Godot is a a poem b play c short story d novel 114 Which of the following writers has once won the Nobel Prize a William Butler Yeats b Thomas Hardy c Wystan Hugh Auden d Dylan Thomas 115 is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe a The Raven b Annabel Lee c The Fall of the House of Usher d Song to Celia 116 Arthur Miller is an American a novelist b poet c playwright d essayist 117 Mr Darcy is a character in a Tess of the D Urbervilles b Pride and Prejudice c Happy Prince d The Mill on the Floss 118 Besides The Great Gatsby Scott Fitzgerald wrote another famous novel which was his second masterpiece a As I Lay Dying b a Good Man Is Hard to Find c Tender Is the Night d The Dangling Man 119 Among Shakespeare s tragedies is the most complex in plot and most painful a King Lear b Hamlet c Romeo and Juliet d Othello 120 created the style of euphuism a Sir Philip Sidney b John Lyly c Henry Howard d Thomas Wyatt 121 A Voldielion Forbiding Mouming is the masterpiece of a William Shakaspeare b Edrnund spencer c John Milton d John Donne 122 Which of the following is not Virginia Woolf s greatest writers 14 a To the Lighthouse b Mrs Dalloway c The Waves d Modern Painters 123 Theodore Dreiser was one of America s greatest writers a naturalistic b realistic c modernistic d romantic 124 is the first American professional writer and the first writer of detective story in the world a Ezra Pound b Washington Irving c Nathaniel Hawthorne d Edgar Allan Poe 125 Pygmalion is a famous play written by a William Shakespeare b Tobias George Smollett c Charles Lamb d Bernard Shaw 126 The Renaissance was a European Phenomenon which originated in a France b Britain c Italy d Spain 127 was the greatest poet between Milton and Pope and was poet laureate for 20 years a Edmund Spencer b John Dryden c John Donne d George Herbert 128 Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen s work a Pride and Prejudice b Sense and Sensibility c Emma d Sister Carrie 129 Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a famous a poet b novelist c dramatist d essayist 130 The major representatives of America s transcendentalist group are a Emerson and Henry David Thoreau b Washington Irving and Emerson c Ralph Waldo Emerson and Irving d Natheaniel Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau 131 Among the following novels is Thomas Hardy s best known novel a The Return of the Native b Far From the Madding Crowd 15 c The Mayor of Casterbridge d Tess of the D Urbervilles 132 was recognized as the greatest poet of Victorian England a Tennyson b Robert Browning c Mrs Browning d Robert Burns 133 is D H Lawrence s semi autographical novel a Sons and Lovers b Women is Love c Rainbow d Lady Chatterley s lover 134 was once in the same class with Franklin Pierce America s 14th President a Henry James b Jack London c Edwin Arlington Robinson d Nathaniel Hawthorne 135 Richard Steele and Joseph Addison has the following contributions to English literature EXCEPT that a their writings provide a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisie b they give a true picture of social life of England in the 18th century c the English essay completed established itself as a literary genre in their hands d they were representatives of the realistic tradition in English literature 136 is the representative among the writers of aestheticism and decadence a Stevenson b George Gissing c Oscar Wilde d Ralph Fox 137 The Characters of Shakespeare s Plays is the work by a William Hazlitt b Charles Lamb c Leigh Hunt d De Quincy 138 Ruskin s social and economic thoughts have exerted deep influence on many writers and poet except a William Morris b Waliter Scott c Oscar Wilde d Bernard Shaw 139 Whitman s has been praised as Democratic Bible and