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1. William Faulkner is the author of _.a. For From the Madding Crowd b. The Sound and Furyc. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. The Scarlet Letter2. Robert Frost is a famous _. a. novelist b. Playwright c. poet d. literary critic3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by _. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c.Samuel Coleridge d. Ernest Hemingway4. Which of the following poets is different from the others? a. John Donne. b. John Keats. c. Lord Byron. d. Percy Bysshe Shelley5. 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 palce in _. a. the Mediterranean b. Northern Europe c. England d. Scandinavia7. _ refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory b. Conflict c. Irony d.Flashback8. William Wordsworth is an English _. a. poet b. novelist c. playwright d. critic9. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is _. a. Nature b. Walden c. Experience d. Essays10. 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. Ulysses11. The Bronte Sisters published the following famous novels EXCEPT _. a. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall b. Jane Eyre c. Wuthering Heights d. Agnes Grey12. In which novel can “Yahoo” be found? a. John Bunyans Pilgrims Progress. b. Edmund Spencers The Faerie Queen. c. Jonathan Swifts Gullivers Travels. d. Henry Fieldings 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 realism14. Mark Twain shaped the worlds view of America and made a combination of _ and serious literature. a. American folk humor b. funny jokes c. English folklore d. American values15. 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 Johnson17. I Have a Dream is addressed by _. a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson18. 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 ONeil is an American _. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. essayist20. 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 Wordsworth21. In the works of aesthetism, the theory of “art for arts sake” is advocated by _. a. Oscar Wilde b. Mrs. Gaskell c. Alexander Pope d. Charles Lamb22. 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 Christ24. 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 Renaissance25. _ has been given 18 honorary degrees? a. Ezra Pond b. E.E. Cummings c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant26. Which of the following is NOT Shakespeares tragedies? a. The Merchant of Venice b. King Lear c. Hamlet d. The Tempest27. Leaves of Grass is written by _. a.Walt Whitman b. Carl Sandburg c. Langston Hughes d. Allen Ginsberg28. William Makepeace Thackerays most famous work is _. a. The School for Scandal b. Past and Present c. Major Barbara d. Vanity Fair29. Daver Beach is written by _. a. Robert Browning b. Alfred Tennyson c. Mathew Arnold d. Dylan Thomas30. The period of Old English literature refers to _. a. 449-1066 b. 14th centurymid 17th century c. 14th centurymid 18th century d. 16th century-mid 18th century31. Moby Dick is the most important work by _. a. Jack London b. Herman Melville c. Sinclair Lewis d. Ralph Ellison32. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his _. a. novels b. poems c. short stories d. dramas33. Which of the following is NOT Francis Bacons 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 Gatsby35. “Morte dArthur” is a famous work by _. a. John Milton b. Venerable Bede c. Thomas Malory d. Alfred the Great36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreisers 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 Cities38. It is generally regarded that Keatss most important ant mature poems are in the form of _. a. ode b. elegy c. epic d. sonnet39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to _. a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Saul Bellow d. Ernest Hemingway40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _ work. a. romantic b. classic c. neo-classic d. naturalistic41. 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 Crane43. The most distinctive achievement of Elizabethan literature is _. a. drama b. prose c. novel d. poetry44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Prize for his work _. a. Ulysses b. Hard Times c. The Forsyte Sage d. Jude the Obscure45. 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 Harolds Pilgrimage.46. _ wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”. a. Arthur Miller b. Thomas Pynchon c. John Updike d. Wallace Stevens47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by _. a. Robert Frost b. Longfellow c. Ezra Pond d. Carl Sandburg48. It is _ who first made blank verse the principle instrument of English drama. a. Marlowe b. Shakespeare c. Spencer d. Henry Howard49. T. S. Eliots most famous long poem is _. a. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud b. A Boys Will c. The Waste Land d. The Golden Bough50. Who has been regarded as the discoverer of the modern novel? a. John Banyan b. Henry Fielding. c. Samuel Richardson d. Daniel Defoe51. The Portrait of a Lady is a great work by _. a. Henry James b. Mark Twain c. Dreiser d. Stowe52. Hester is a character in _. a. Gone with the Wind b. The Fall of the House of Usher c. Babbitt d. The Scarlet Letter53. In Paradise Last, the real hero created by Milton is _. a. God b. Adam c. Eve d. Satan54. The island of Lilliput can be found in _. a. Robinson Crusoe b. Gullivers Travels c. Adventures of Tom Sawyer d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn55. “To be, or not to be” is quoted from _. a. King lear b. Hamlet c. Julius Caesar d. Romeo and Juliet56. 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 Foundling57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twains _. a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi d. The Prince and the Pauper58. The Catcher in the Rye is written by _. a. J. D. Salinger b. Jack London c. Flannery OConnor d. Saul Bellow59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence? a. Women in Love b. Sons and Lovers. c. The Rainbow d. The French Lieutenants 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-17th61. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of _. John Steinbeck b. John Cheever c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos62. _ 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 Desire63. Robert Burns is a poet from _. a. England b. New England c. Ireland d. Seotland64. The Zoo Story is a play written by _. a. Romance b. Novel c. Sonnet d. Drama65. _ is a popular literary form in the medieval period. a. Romance b. Novel c. Sonnet d. Drama66. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the _ century. a. 18th b. 19th c. 17th d. 20th67. _ is the greatest songwriter in the world and the national poet of Scotland. a. William Blake b. Robert Burns c. Byron d. Keats68. William Blakes The Tiger is collected in _. a. Songs of Innocence b. Songs of Experience c. Marriage of Heaven and Hell d. Poetical Sketches69. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by _. a. Washington Irving b. Fennimore Cooper c. Edith Wharton d. William Dean Howells70. _ was the most important person of the transcendental club. a. Shakespeare b. Marlowe c. Spenser d. Donne71. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be _. a. ONeil b. Pound c. Robert Frost d. Scott Fitzgerald72. _ was the most important person of the transcendental club. a. Hawthorn b. Whitman c. Emerson d. Hemingway73. Shylock is a character in _. a. The Merchant of Venice b. The Twelfth Night c. The Winters Tale d. Macbeth74. The compiler of A Dictionary of the English Language is _. a. Joseph Addison b. Richard Steele c. Samuel Johnson d. Laurence Stern75. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT _. a. friendship b. love and marriage c. life and death d. war and peace76. American fiction in the 1960s is referred to as _. a. imagism b. black humor c. new fiction d. the Beat Generation77. James Joyce mostly wrote about his hometown _. a. London b. Dublin c. New York d. Edinburgh78. 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 Wind79. Stephen Crane is famous for _. a. An American Tragedy b. The Ambassadors c. Main Street d. The Red Badge of Courage80. _ translated Homers 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 Whitman81. The emotional effect and social significance made _ the first well-known sociological novel in American literature. a. The Sun Alson Rises b. Uncle Toms Cabin c. The Old Man and The Sea d. Sister Carrie82. _ has been entitled the “Father of American Poetry”. a. Philip Freneau b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. William Cullen Bryant d. Walt Whitman83. 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 OConnor85. 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 _. a. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling b. Pamela c. Moll Flander d. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy87. Tess is a character created by _. a. D. H. Lawrence b. James Joyce c. Thomas Hardy d. Dylan Thomas88. 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.Hemingways b. Mark Twains c. Henry Jamess d. Faulkners90. _ 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. Romanticism91. Utopia is _ work. a. Thomas Mores b. Francis Bacons c. John Drydens d. George Herberts92. Mr. Rochester is a figure in _. a. Wuthering Heights b. Jane Eyre c. Vanity Fair d. Uncle Toms Cabin93. “Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by _. a. John Keats b. William Blake c. William Wordsworth d. Percy Bysshe Shelley94. Whitmans 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 feelings95. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation? 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 Herrick97. The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around _. a. 1820 b. 1850 c. 1880 d. 192098. The title of Alfred Tennysons poem Ulysses reminds the reader of the following EXCEPT _. a. the Trojan War b. Homers Odyssey c. adventures over the sea d. religious quest99. As a literary figure, Heathcliff appears in _. a. Jane Eyre b. Oliver Twist c. Wuthering Heights d. Middlemarch100. 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 Scholar101. _ 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 Scholar102. Lyrical Ballads is the joint work between Wordsworth and his friend _. a. Coleridge b. Bryon c. Keats d. Shelly103. 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. governess104. _ 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 Rises105. Invisible Man is a famous work by _. a. Tennessee Williams b. Arthur Miller c. Ralph Ellison d. John Updike106. _ 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. Archetype107 The title of Thackerays Vanity Fair is taken from _. a. The Holy Bible b. The Faerie Queen c. The Pilgrims Progress d. Paradise Lost108. _ 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 Frost109. The theme of A Tale of Two Cities is _. a. revolution b. was c. love d. brotherhood110. 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. c. Edith Wharton. d. Catharine Anne Porter.113. Waiting for Godot is a _. a. poem b. play c. short story d. novel114. 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 Celia116. Arthur Miller is an American _. a. novelist b. poet c. playwri