1. Stetement ____________ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A. Hawthorne is a realist writer.
B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.
C. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism.
D. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.
2. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _________________.
A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings
3. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________-.
A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman
4. _____________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
A. Twice-Told Tales B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The House of the Seven Gables D. The Marble Faun
5. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's ___________ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book B. Tales of a Traveler C. The Alhambra D. A History of New York
6. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. modernism B. rationalism C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism
7. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ______________.
A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above
8. Poe's first collection of short stories is _______________.
A. Tales of a Traveller B. Leatherstocking Tales
C. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
9. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.
A. The House of Seven Gables B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun D. The Blithdale Romance
10. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.
A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace
11. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.
A. brevity B. directness C. plainest D. obscure
12. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the America refers to the period from ____to ___________.
A. 1861-1914 B. 1863-1918 C. 1865-1914 D. 1865-1918
13. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.
A. Henry James B. Emily Dickinson C.William Dean Howells D. Mark Twain
14. _________is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Titan
15. ___________is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the writer in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.
A. The American B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portrait of a Lady
16. Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by ___________--.
A. highly refined language B. ordinary American speech
C. short, clear sentences D. abundance of local images
17. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _________________.
A. international theme B. wasteland imagery C. local color D. symbolism
18. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.
A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism
19. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________________.
A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists
20. 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 women
21. Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's_____________.
A. naturalists B. realists C. modernists D. romanticists
22. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to __________.
A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Moby Dick
23. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ___________-.
A. modernism B. naturalism C. vernacularism D. local colorism
24. ___________-is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Ernest Hemingway B. F.Scott Fitzgerald C. William /Faulkner D. Ezra Pound
25. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is . A. Nature B. Walden C. Experience D. Essays
26. 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
27. is not a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
A. Tender is the night B. Anna Christie
C. The Beautiful and the Dammed D. The Great Gatsby
28. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of work.
A. romantic B. classic C. neo-classic D.
naturalistic
29. \"God help them that help themselves\" is found in 's work.
A. Franklin B. Freneau C. Jefferson D. Paine
30. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of . A. Walt Whitman B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Abraham Lincoln D. Martin Luther King
31. ___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A. Self-reliance B. Nature C. The American Scholar D. The Bells
1._____，a typical example of old English poetry ,is regarded today as the national epic of the Anglo-Saxons.
A. The Canterbury Tales B. The Ballad of Robin Hood
C. The Song of Beowulf D. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
2. _____is the most common foot in English poetry.
A. The anapest B. The trochee
C. The iamb D. The dactyl
3. Which does not belong to Geoffrey Chaucer’s contribution to English contribution?
A. the introduction of the Heroic Couplet
B. the first poet who write in Middle English
C. the founder of English materialism
D. making London dialect the foundation of modern English
4. “So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, /So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets18)What does“this”refer to ?
A. Lover. B. Time.
C. Summer. D. Poetry.
5. “Yahoos” from the novel_____ written by Jonathan Swift are described to be very much similar to human beings in outward appearance and their unworthy actions as well.
A. Gulliver’s Travels B. Robinson Crusoe
C. The Canterbury Tales D. Paradise Lost
6. The term “metaphysical poetry” is commonly used to name the works of the 17th-century writers who wrote under the influence of ____.
A. John Milton B. John Donne C. John Keats D. John Bunyan
7. Which of the following is not among Shakespeare’s four great tragedies?
A. Hamlet B. Romeo and Juliet
C. Macbeth D. King Lear 8. ____is the first important English essayist and the founder of modern science in England.
A. Francis Bacon B. Edmund Spenser
C. Alexander Pope D. Sidney
9. What flourished in Elizabethan age more than any other form of literature?
A. novel B. drama C. essay D. Poetry
10. Paradise Lost is the masterpiece of_______.
A. William Shakespeare B. Robert Buns
C. John Milton D. William Blake
11. “To be or not to be” has become a universal question puzzling every intellectual mind. This is a quotation from______.
A. King Lear B. Hamlet
C. Romeo and Juliet D. Othello
12. “Poetry is the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feeling” was put forward by_______.
A. Robert Buns B. William Blake
C. William Wordsworth D. Charles Lamb
13. Which of the following writings can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of Romantic literature?
A. Don Juan B. Ulysses
C. Jane Eyre D. Sons and Lovers 14. Which of the following writers is NOT the winner of Nobel Prize for
literature?
A. George Bernard Shaw B. W. B. Yeats
C. T. S. Eliot D. Virginia Woolf
15. is regarded as “the father of English fiction”.
A. John Milton B. Francis Bacon
C. Daniel Defoe D. Charles Dickens
16. “Art for art’s sake” was put forth by ______.
A. aestheticism B. naturalism C. realism D. neo-romanticism
17. A typical feature of the English __________literature is that the writers became social and moral critics, exposing all kinds of social evils.
A. Renaissance B. Romantic C. Victorian D. Medieval
18. The following works are all of Charles Dickens except ___________.
A. Oliver Twist B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations D. Vanity Fair
19. In terms of Pride and Prejudice, which is not true?
A. Pride and Prejudice is the most popular of Jane Austen’s novels.
B. Pride and Prejudice is originally drafted as “First Impressions”.
C. Pride and Prejudice is a tragic novel.
D. In this novel, the author explores the relationship between great love and realistic benefits.
20. Which of the following poet does not belong to Victorian age?
A. Matthew Arnold B. Robert Browning
C. William Blake D. Alfred Tennyson
Match the literary work with the author.
1. Geoffrey Chaucer A. A Red, Red Rose
2. Thomas Hardy B. Ode to the West Wind
3. John Milton C. Heart of Darkness
4. Charlotte Bronte D. Sense and Sensibility
5. Robert Burns E. The Canterbury Tales
6. Joseph Conrad F. Paradise Lost
7. Jane Austen G. Sons and Lovers
8. Charles Dickens 9. D.H. Lawrence 10. Percy Bysshe Shelley H. Jane Eyre
I. David Copperfield
J. Tess of the D’Urbervilles
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