东北师范大学《英美文学（高起本）》期末考试必备题集

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69648–东北师范大学《英美文学（高起本）》奥鹏期末考试题库合集

单选题：
（1）Mrs. Warren’s Profession is one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays. What is Mrs. Warren’s profession then ?
A.Real estate.
B.Prostitution.
C.House-keeping.
D.Farming.
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（2）Generally , the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries, its essence is .
A.science
B.philosophy
C.arts
D.humanism
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（3）The unquenchable spirit of Robinson Crusoe struggling to maintain a substantial existence on a lonely island reflects .
A.man’s desire to return to nature
B.the author’s criticism of the colonization
C.the ideal of the rising bourgeoisie
D.the aristocrats’ disillusionment of the harsh social reality
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（4）One of the earliest spokeswomen in English for the Chinese immigrant community is _____.
A.Lin Yutang
B.Sui Sin Far
C.Maxine Hong Kingston
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（5）Le More D’ Arthur is an important landmark in the development of English prose for its
A.lucid style
B.verbose style
C.complicate style
D.ornate style
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（6）The statement “A demanding mother turns away from her husband and gives all
her affection to her sons” sums up the main plot of D. H. Lawrence′s .
A.Lady Chatterley’s Lover
B.Women in love
C.Sons and Lovers
D.The Plumed Serpent
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（7）“You and the girls may go ,or you may send them by themselves , which perhaps will be still better , for as you are as handsome as any of them , Mr. Bingley might like you the best of the party.” What figure of speech is used in the underlined part ?
A.Paradox
B.Simile
C.Irony
D.Antithesis
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（8）______ makes the climax of O‘Neill‘s literary career and the coming of age of American
drama .
A.The Hairy Ape
B.Long Day‘s Journey into Night
C.The Iceman Cometh
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（9）the Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a poem written in the form of .
A.ballad
B.sonnet
C.heroic couplet
D.Spenserian stanza
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（10）Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ?
A.Irving
B.Cooper
C.Melville
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（11）If Winter comes，can Spring be far behind?”is an epigrammatic line by____.
A.J．Keats
B.W．Blake
C.W. Wordsworth
D.P.B．Shelley
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（12）“My last Duchess” is a poem that best exemplifies Robert Browning’s ______________.
A.sensitive ear for the sounds of the English language
B.excellent choice of words
C.mastering of the metrical devices
D.use of the dramatic monologue
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（13）Toni Morrison is the first and the only American black writer to become ______ .
A.poet laureate
B.Nobel Prize winner
C.Pulitzer Prize winner
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（14）In which of the following poems by William Butler Yeats did you find the
allusion to Helen and the TrojanWar?
A."Sailing to Byzantium"
B." Leda and the Swan"
C."The Lake Isle if Innisfree".
D." Sown by the Sally Garden"
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（15）Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according
to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the
vulture’s feeding on his liver for_________.
A.planning a revolt to dethrone God
B.misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C.prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D.stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man
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（16）The typical feature of Robert Browning`s poetry is the_____.
A.bitter satire
B.larger-than-life caricature
C.Latinized diction
D.dramatic monologue
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（17）The first novel of Thomas Pynchon is ______ .
A.V.
B.The Crying of Lot 49
C.Entropy
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（18）For quite sometime after its appearance , Catch–22 was seen as a structural ______ despite its
narrative power .
A.success
B.failure
C.miracle
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（19）In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which
was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of
Independence."
A."Nature"
B."Self-Reliance"
C."Divinity School Address"
D."The American Scholar"
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（20）The impact of Darwin‘s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the
influence of the nineteenth-century
French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school
of realism: American ________ .
A.local colorism
B.vernacularism
C.modernism
D.naturalism
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（21）(The)____was a progressive intellecrual movement throughout Western Europe in the 18th century．
A.Romandcism
B.Humanism
C.Enlightenment
D.Sentimentalism
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（22）Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?
A.Singer‘s
B.Salinger‘s
C.Vonnegut‘s
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（23）“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book
A.Heroes and Hero-worship
B.The French Revolution
C.A Modern Comedy
D.Life of Schiller
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（24）______ saw a new upsurge of Black American Literature in what has come to be known as
the Harlem Renaissance .
A.1900s
B.1910s
C.1920s
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（25）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
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（26）The poems such as，“The Chimney Sweeper”are found in both Songs of lnnocence and SongS of Experience by____.
A.William Wordsworth
B.William Blake
C.John Keats
D.Lord Gordon Byron
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（27）_______ has been regarded as the “founder of the American Drama”.
A.Tennessee Williams
B.Eugene O’Neill
C.Arthur Miller
D.Hendrik Ibser
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（28）_______ was the first and the only American playwright to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature .
A.Arthur Miller
B.Eugene O‘Neill
C.Tennessee Williams
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（29）"So much the worse for me, that I an strong. Do I want to live? What kind of
living will it be when you-oh, God!
Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?"
In the above passage quoted from Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights, the word
"soul" apparently refers to _______ .
A.Heathcliff
B.Catherine
C.ghost
D.one‘s spiritual lift
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（30）In Hardy’s Tess of D’urbervilles , the heroine’s tragic ending is due to .
A.her weak character
B.her ambition
C.Angel Clare’s selfishness
D.a hostile society
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（31）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
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（32）Crusoe is the hero in The life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson
Grusoe, of York, Mariner (also known as Robinson Crusoe)by .
A.Jonathan Swift
B.Daniel Defoe
C.George Eliot
D.D.H.Lawrence
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（33）Ode to The West Wind was written by _______
A.T.S Eliot
B.George Eliot
C.Ezra Pound
D.Shelley
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（34）____ believes that man’s fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A.Charles Dickens
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Bernard Shaw
D.George Eliot
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（35）In Samuel Taylor Coleridge′s “Kubla Khan,” “A sunny pleasure dome with caves
of ice” .
A.refers to the palace where Kubla Khan once lived
B.vividly describes a building of poor quality
C.is the gift given to a beautiful girl called Abyssinian
D.symbolizes the reconciliation of the conscious and the unconscious
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（36）“To wage by force or guile eternal war,
Irreconcilable to our grand Foe.”（John Milton, Paradise lost)
By what means were Satan and his followers to wage this war against God?
A.By planting a tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden.
B.By turning into poisonous snakes to threaten man’s life.
C.By removing God from His throne.
D.By corrupting man and woman created by God.
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（37）The hightide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around .
A.1820
B.1850
C.1880
D.1920
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（38）In Hardy‘s Wessex novels, there is an apparent _______ touch in his
description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life.
A.humorous
B.romantic
C.nostalgic
D.sarcastic
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（39）The statement "It reveals the dehumanizing workhouse system and the dark,
criminal underworld life" may well sum up the main theme if Dickens‘s _______ .
A.David Copperfield
B.Bleak House
C.Great Expectations
D.Oliver Twist
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（40）In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A.Swift
B.Blake
C.Milton
D.Defoe
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（41）The 18th century is called Age of ______
A.Chaucer
B.Shakespeare
C.Pope
D.Reason
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（42）_______ is a typical feature of Swift‘s writings.
A.Bitter satire
B.Elegant style
C.Casual narration
D.Complicated sentence structure
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（43）Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms – the sonnet, rhyming couplets,
blank verse – with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______
farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A.Southern
B.Western
C.New Hampshire
D.New England
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（44）After reading the first chapter of Pride and Prejudice, we may come to know
that Mrs. Bennet is a woman of _______ .
A.simple character and quick wit
B.simple character and poor understanding
C.intricate character and quick wit
D.intricate character and poor understanding
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（45）All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except
A.Clara
B.Gertrude
C.Miriam
D.Sue
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（46）Of the below poets, has not been awarded Poet Laureate.
A.William Wordsworth
B.Thomas Gray
C.Alfred Tennyson
D.Ben Jon son
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（47）In his poem“Tyger,Tyger，”William Blake expresses his perception of the“fearful
Symmetry”of the big cat．The phrase“fearful Symmetry”Suggests____.
A.the tiger‘s two eyes Which are dazzlingly bright and Symmetrically set
B.the poet‘s fear of the predator
C.the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D.the harmony of the two opposte aspects of God’s creation
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（48）American Literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
A.Jane Austen
B.Watt Whitman
C.Emily Dickinson
D.Harriet Beccher Stowe
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（49）Stylistically, Henry James‘ fiction is characterized by _______ .
A.short, clear sentences
B.abundance of local images
C.ordinary American speech
D.highly refined language
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（50）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 奥鹏期末考核is a conflict between society and conscience in Huck
C.Huck is always an indecisive person
D.Huck has very little education
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判断题：
（1）Pardoner in The Canterbury Tales sold the relics of the dead saints to exempt the sins from the buyers
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（2）Fitzgerald shows an interest both in upper–class society & lower–class society .
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（3）Pynchon‘s novel Gravity‘s Rainbow won the Faulkner Foundation Award .
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（4）The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.
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（5）Beowulf was brought by Anglo-Saxon people from the Continent to England.
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（6）One of the most important features in Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice is the use of dramatic languages.
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（7）Black Humor is defined as modern humor caused by anger .
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（8）Human goodness is one of the most familiar themes in American naturalism .
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（9）The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .
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（10）As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
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（11）Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
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（12）The most striking similarities between Milton and Samson Agonistes are their blindness and unhappy marriage.
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（13）Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .
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（14）The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .
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（15）Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
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（16）Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
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（17）Marlowe mainly wrote tragedies .
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（18）Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
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（19）The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
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（20）Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
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（21）Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .
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（22）Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.
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（23）On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.
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（24）The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
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（25）Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .
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（26）According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .
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（27）Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
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（28）The short story “The Rocking Horse Winner” was written by Lawrence.
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（29）It was Maud Gonne who helped Yeats establish Abbey Theatre.
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