东北师范大学《英美文学》期末考试必备题集

奥鹏期末考核

24819–东北师范大学《英美文学》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）Of all the eighteenth-century novelists , who was the first to set out, both in theory and practice , to write specially a “comic epic in prose”, the first to give the modern novel its structure and style ?
A.Thomas Gray
B.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
C.Johathan Swift
D.Henry Fielding
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（3）Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature?
A.Friedrich Nietzche’s assertions: "God is dead"
B.Arther Schopenharuer’s and Henry Bergson’s philosophical ideas of
irrationality.
C.Oscar Wilde’s idea of "Art for Art’s Sake".
D.Freudian-Jungian psycho-analysis
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（4）It is alone who , for the first time in English literature, presented to us a comprehensive realistic picture of the English society of his time and created a whole gallery of vivid characters from all walks of life.
A.Geoffrey Chaucer
B.Martin Luther
C.William Langland
D.John Gower
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（5）The Renaissance is actually a movement stimulated by a series of historical events, which one of the following is NOT such an event ?
A.The rediscovery of ancient Roman and Greek culture.
B.England’s domestic rest.
C.New discovery in geography and astrology.
D.The religious reformation and the economic expansion.
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（6）The term tone in literature means__________.
A.sound effect such as rhyme and metrical device
B.the pitch of a word used to determine its meaning in the given context
C.the manner of expression to indicate the speaker’s attitude towards the
subject
D.a shade of colour to reflect the change of the light
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（7）Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of a magician aspiring for
and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the Devil.
A.immortality
B.political
C.money
D.knowledge
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（8）The Romantic Period, one of the most important periods in the history of American literature, stretches from the end of ______________ to the outbreak of ____________.
A.the 17th century … the American War of Independence
B.the 18th century … the American Civil War
C.the 17th century … the American Civil War
D.the 18th century … the U.S. – Mexican War
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（9）The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT .
A.mystery of the universe
B.sin of the whale
C.power of the Great Nature
D.evil of the world
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（10）______________ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American Literature ever produced”.
A.Edgar Ellen Poe
B.Walt Whitman
C.Henry David Thoreau
D.Washington Irving
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（11）Tess of the D’Urbervilles, one of Thomas Hardy’s best known novels, portrays
man as ________.
A.being hereditarily either good or bad
B.being self-sufficient
C.having no control over his own fate
D.still retaining his own faith in a world of confusion
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（12）Among the representatives of the Enlightenment, who was the first to introduce rationalism to England ?
A.John Bunyan
B.Daniel Defoe
C.Alexander Pope
D.Jonathan Swift
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（13）In his masterpieces ______ , Pound traces the rise and fall of eastern and western empires and
the moral and social chaos of the modern world .
A.Make It New
B.The Cantos
C.Polite Essays
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（14）The lines, "It was a miracle of rare device,/ A sunny pleasure dome with
caves of ice," are found in __________.
A.Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s "Kubla Khan"
B.William Wordsworth’s "Lines Written in Early Spring"
C.John Keats’s "Ode to Autumn"
D.Percy Bysshe Shelly’s "ode to the West Wind"
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（15）Of the following writers , who wrote the critical essay On Poetry and Poets ?
A.Pound
B.Eliot
C.Frost
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（16）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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（17）Each of the professions listed below is correctly paired with Dickens except
A.novelist
B.clerk
C.reporter
D.dramatist
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（18）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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（19）The novelist who was born in Poland wrote
A.The portrait of A Lady
B.A Passage to India
C.The Heart of Darkness
D.Dubliners
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（20）Dreiser‘s language style includes the following aspects except ______ .
A.being polished and graceful
B.lack of concision
C.massive detailed description
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（21）Dreiser‘s Trilogy of Desire includes 3 novels : The Financier , The Titan and ______ .
A.The Tycoon
B.The Giant
C.The Stoic
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（22）_______ believe that nature is ennobling and that the individual is important .
A.Puritans
B.realists
C.Transcendentalists
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（23）The character that appears in The Red Badge of Courage is ______.
A.Hurstwood
B.Drouet
C.Fleming
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（24）The pair not correctly associated is
A.Blake-engraver
B.Goldsmith-poem
C.Fielding-playwright
D.Richardson-essayist
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（25）In Chapter III of Oliver Twist, Oliver is punished for that “impious and profane offence of asking for more” . What did Oliver ask for more?
A.More time to play
B.More food to eat
C.More books to read
D.More money to spend
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（26）______ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age .
A.Hemingway
B.Fitzgerald
C.Steinbeck
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（27）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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（28）Who is the writer that wrote about frontier adventures ?
A.Irving
B.Cooper
C.Melville
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（29）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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（30）“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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（31）The statement"Studies serve for delight，for ornament，and for ability”opens one of well-known essays by____.
A.Francis Bacon
B.Samuel Johnson
C.Alexander Pope
D.Jonathan Swift
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（32）In Hawthorne‘s "Young Goodman Brown," a satanic figure leads the credulous
protagonist to a witches‘ Sabbath in the woods. There he recognizes many pillars
of Salem‘s Puritan society as well as his wife, Faith. The story illustrates
Hawthorne‘s allegorical theme of human evil or what Melville called the "power
of _______ ."
A.blackness
B.whiteness
C.terror
D.hypocrisy
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（33）“Drive my dead thought over the universe
Like withered leaves to quicken a new birth.”
(Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”)
What rhetorical device does the poet use in the quoted lines?
A.Synecdoche.
B.Metaphor.
C.Simile.
D.Onomatopoeia.
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（34）It is on his _______ that Washington Irving‘s fame mainly rested.
A.childhood recollections
B.sketches about his European tours
C.early poetry
D.tales about America
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（35）The sentence “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day ?” is the beginning line of one of Shakespeare’s .
A.comedies
B.tragedies
C.histories
D.sonnets
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（36）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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（37）" ’Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his
seat. ’Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d
expire with a blessing in my lips.’" The novel from which the passage is taken
must be _________.
A.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
B.Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop
C.Samuel Richardson’s Pamela
D.Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
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（38）Emily Dickinson‘s poem（441）"This is my letter to the World" expresses the
poet‘s _______ about her
communication with the outside world.
A.indifference
B.joy
C.anxiety
D.indignation
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（39）“Justice was done ; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from
A.The Forsyte Saga
B.Jude the Obscure
C.The picture of Dorian Gray
D.Tess of D’ Urbervilles
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（40）“For a week after the commission of the impious and profane offence of asking
for more, Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room
…”(Dickens, Oliver Twist) What did Oliver ask for?
A.More time to play.
B.More food to eat.
C.More book to read.
D.More money to spend.
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（41）Mark Twain‘s first novel _______ , written in collaboration with Charles D.
Warner and published in 1873,though not an artistic success, gives its name to
the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to
satirize.
A.The Gilded Age
B.The Age of Innocence
C.The Roughing Time
D.The Jazz Age
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（42）The one of the following not known as a dramatist is _______ .
A.Miller
B.Pound
C.O‘Neill
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（43）A typical Forsyte，according to John Galsworthy,is a man with a strong sense of ____，who never pays any attention to human feelings．
A.morality
B.justice
C.property
D.humor
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（44）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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（45）“Come to me－come to me entirely now,” said he ; and added, in his deepest
tone, speaking in my ear as his cheek was laid on mine, “Make my happiness－I
will make yours.”
The above passage presents a scene in .
A.Emily Bronte’s Withering Heights
B.Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre
C.John Galsworthy′s The Forsyte Saga
D.Thomas Hardy′s Tess of the D′Urbervilles
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（46）Chinese–American Literature can be defined as literature by and about ______ in America .
A.Chinese immigrants
B.Chinese students
C.Asian immigrants
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（47）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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（48）The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as the _______
period .
A.modern
B.naturalist
C.romantic
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（49）Most recognizable literary movement that gave rise to the twentieth-century
American literature, or we may say, the second American Renaissance, is the
_______ movement.
A.transcendental
B.leftist
C.expatriate
D.expressionistic
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（50）Daisy Miller is written by ________.
A.Hawthorne
B.Twain
C.Melville
D.James
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（51）Richardson was noted as story-telling , letter writer and a
A.critic
B.moralizer
C.poet
D.playwright
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（52）The publication of _______ established Emerson as the spokesman of Transcendentalism .
A.Nature
B.Self—reliance
C.The American Scholar
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（53）Most of ______ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects
and consciousness .
A.Hemingway‘s
B.Fitzgerald‘s
C.Faulkner‘s
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（54）Dickinson’s poems include poems of _________.
A.nature
B.love
C.death
D.all the above
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（55）All of the following are written by Hemingway except _______ .
A.The Sun Also Rises
B.For Whom the Bell Tolls
C.Sartoris
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（56）John Bunyan‘s pilgrim`s progress is often regarded as a typical example of____.
A.allegory
B.romance
C.epic in prose
D.fable
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（57）(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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（58）Irving‘s Rip Van Winkle is famous for ______ .
A.Rip‘s escape into the mountain
B.Rip‘s seeking for happiness
C.Rip‘s 20–year sleep
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（59）Whose writings almost always use youth as major characters ?
A.Singer‘s
B.Salinger‘s
C.Vonnegut‘s
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（60）“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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（61）______ deals with a limited range of characters in quite similar circumstances and measures
them against an unvarying code , known as ‘‘ grace under pressure ‘‘ .
A.Eliot
B.Lewis
C.Hemingway
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（62）Metaphysical Poetry is characterized by fantastical
A.mysticism
B.romanticism
C.lyricism
D.decadence
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（63）Irving was regarded as ______ .
A.father of American drama
B.father of American poetry
C.father of American Literature
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（64）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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（65）Which is the movement that was popular in 1970s?
A.Women‘s Liberation Movement
B.Civil Rights Movement
C.McCarthy Era
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（66）Frost took a ______ style in his poetry .
A.simple
B.complicated
C.modern
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（67）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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（68）All the qualities can be contributed to Portia except
A.nosy
B.cultured
C.courteous
D.kind-hearted
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（69）The three trilogies of _______ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of critical realism in the early 20th century.
A.D.H. Lawrence’s
B.John Galsworthy’s
C.James Joyce’s
D.Thomas Hardy’s
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（70）Willam Wordsworth，a romantic poet，advocated all the following except____.
A.the using of everyday language Spoken by the common people
B.the expression of the Spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings
C.the humble and rustic life as subject matter
D.elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
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（71）For Melville, as well as for the reader and _______ , the narrator, Moby Dick
is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A.Ahab
B.Ishmael
C.Stubb
D.Starbuck
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（72）_______ 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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（73）Alexander Pope strongly advocated neoclassicism，emphasizing that literary works should be judged by____rules of order,reason，logic，restrained emotion，good
taste and decorum．
A.Classical
B.romantic
C.sentimental
D.allegorical
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（74）"She lived unknown, and few could know
When Lucy ceased to be;
But she is in her grave, and, oh,
The difference to me!"
The word "me" in the last line of the above stanza quoted from Wordsworth‘s poem
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways" may possibly refer to _______ .
A.the poet
B.the reader
C.her lover
D.everybody
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（75）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 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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（76）“The Forsyte Saga” is a trilogy by _______.
A.John Galsworthy
B.Thomas Hardy
C.Charles Dickens
D.H. Lawrence
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（77）Which terms can best describe the modernists’ concern of the human situation
in their fiction?
A.Fragmentation and alienation.
B.Courage and honor.
C.Tradition and faith.
D.Poverty and desperation.
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（78）Dryen’s contribution to England literature lies in the following except
A.he established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms
B.he clarified the English prose
C.he raised the English literary criticism to a new level
D.he raised English comedy to a higher level
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（79）The one who translated Homer’s epics into English is
A.Shakespeare
B.Marlowe
C.Chapman
D.Sidney
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（80）Gothic novels are mostly stories of , which take place in some haunted or dilapidated Middle Age castles .
A.love and marriage
B.sea adventures
C.mystery and horror
D.saints and martyrs
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（81）Romanticism extended from 1798 when Lyrical Ballads was published and in 1832 when
A.Austen died
B.Wordsworth died
C.Scott died
D.Shelley died
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（82）The theme of Austen’ s novels can be expressed by the following except
A.marriage
B.love
C.domestic duty
D.personal growth
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（83）The “mighty line” refers to
A.the poems of Spenser
B.the blank verse of Marlowe
C.the poem of Milton
D.the blank verse of Shakespeare
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（84）_______ 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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（85）_______is the essence of the Renaissance.
A.Individualism
B.Reason
C.Irrationalism
D.Humanism
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（86）The one who tempts Eve to eat an apple from the forbidden tree is
A.God
B.Satan
C.Adam
D.Raphael
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（87）“Rip Van Winkle” reveals the theme of _______ the past.
A.nostalgia for
B.rejection to
C.detachment from
D.nothing related to
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（88）As a literary figure, Belinda appears in Alexander Pope’s .
A.“The Dunciad”
B.“An Essay on Man”
C.“An Essay on Criticism”
D.“The Rape of the lock”
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（89）“…This grew: I gave commands;
Then all smiles stopped altogether….”
(Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”)
The above lines imply that .
A.the Duchess was killed by her husband
B.the Duchess stopped smiling at her husband’s order
C.the Duchess died of laughing too much
D.the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
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（90）"Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless
and heartless?…And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I
should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave
you."
The above quoted passage is most probably taken from _______ .
A.Pride and Prejudice
B.Jane Eyre
C.Wuthering Heights
D.Great Expectations
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（91）We can perhaps describe the west wind in Shelley‘s poem "Ode to the West
Wind" with all the following terms except
_______ .
A.tamed
B.swift
C.proud
D.wild
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（92）“The novel is structured around the discovery of the hero’s origin.” This
novel is most probably .
A.Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield
B.James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C.Thomas Hardy’s Far from the Madding Growd
D.Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones
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（93）"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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（94）The following are all Steinbeck‘s works except ______ .
A.Winesburg , Ohio
B.Of Mice and Men
C.Grapes of Wrath
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（95）Most of Bernard Shaw’s plays are concerned with_______.
A.political problems
B.religious problems
C.moral problems
D.all the above
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（96）After WWⅠ, many disillusioned American writers and artists left for Paris and formed a small community . They were ______ .
A.emigrants
B.expatriates
C.immigrants
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（97）G.B.Shaw‘s play Mrs.Warren‘s Profession is a realistic exposure of the
_______ in the English society.
A.slum landlordism
B.inequality between men and women
C.political corruption
D.economic exploitation of women
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（98）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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（99）_______ pen name was Mark Twain .
A.Samuel Langhorne Clemens‘
B.Henry James‘
C.William Dean Howells‘
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（100）As an autobiographical play, O‘Neill‘s _______ （1956）has gained its status as
a world classic and
simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of
American drama.
A.The Iceman Cometh
B.Long Day‘s Journey Into Night
C.The Hairy Ape
D.Desire Under the Elms
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（101）The subject matter of Robert Frost’s Poems focuses on .
A.ordinary country people and scenes
B.battle scenes of ancient Greek and Roman legends
C.struggling masses and crowded urban quarters
D.fantasies and mythical happenings
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（102）The major concern of _______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological
development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing
effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature.
A.Charles Dickens‘s
B.D.H.Lawrence‘s
C.Thomas Hardy‘s
D.John Galsworthy‘s
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（103）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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（104）_______ first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque .
A.Irving‘s
B.Cooper‘s
C.Poe‘s
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（105）Backbite，Sneerwell，and Lady Teazle are characters in the play the School for
Scandal by____.
A.Christopher Marlowe
B.Ben Jonson
C.Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D.George Bernard Shaw
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（106）Howells , Henry James and Mark Twain are representatives of American ______ .
A.romanticism
B.realism
C.naturalism
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（107）Macbeth is Shakespeare’s_______.
A.sonnet
B.comedy
C.history play
D.tragedy
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（108）“What is his name?”
“Bingley．”
“Is he married or Single?”
“Oh! Single，my dear, to be sure! A Single man of large fortune；four or five
thousand a year．What a fine thing for our girls!”

The above dialogue must be taken from____.
A.Jane Austen‘s pride and prejudice
B.Emily Bronte‘s Wuthering Heights
C.John Galsworthy‘s The Forsyte Saga
D.George Eliot‘s Middlemarch
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（109）The lake poets include all the following members except the author of the following work
A.The Prelude
B.Don Juan
C.The Ancient Mariner
D.Joan of Arc
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（110）____ 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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（111）"And where are they? And where art thou,"
My country? On thy voiceless shore
The heroic lay is tuneless now-
The heroic bosom beats no more!"（George Gordon Byron, Don Juan）
In the above stanza, "art thou" literally means _______ .
A."are you"
B."art though"
C."are though"
D."art you"
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（112）"O prince, O chief of many throned powers,"
That led th‘ embattled seraphim to war
Under thy conduct, and in dreadful deeds
Fearless, endangered Heaven‘s perpetual King."
In the third line of the above passage quoted from Milton‘s Paradise Lost, the
phrase "thy conduct" refers to _______
conduct.
A.Satan‘s
B.God‘s
C.Adam‘s
D.Eve‘s
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（113）Of all the 18th century novelists Henry Fielding was the first to set out，both in theory and practice，to write specifically a“____in prose,”the first to give the modern novel its structure and style.
A.tragic epic
B.comic epic
C.romance
D.lyric epic
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（114）“Ode to the West Wind” is the representative work of_______ .
A.P.B. Shelley’s
B.John Keats’s
C.Samuel Coleridge’s
D.Lord Byron’s
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（115）Romanticism shares the following common features except
A.imagination
B.intuition
C.restraint
D.natural sentiment
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（116）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
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（117）One of the following events played an important part in Chaucer’s writing:
A.his marriage with a girl of noble family
B.his visit to Italy
C.his duty as a controller of the Customs
D.his participation in the Hundred Years’ War
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（118）Here is a passage from Middlemarch, a novel by George Eliot: "Her blooming
full-pulsed youth stood there in a moral imprisonment which made itself one with
the chill, colourless, narrowed landscape, with the shrunken furniture, the
never-read books, and the ghostly stag in pale fanatic world that seemed to be
vanishing from the daylight," Who is the lady mentioned in the quoted passage?
A.Dorothea
B.Emma
C.Molly
D.Irene
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（119）The following poets are all Poet Laureate except_____
A.Ben Jonson
B.Thomas Gray
C.Robert Southey
D.William Wordsworth
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（120）Shakespeare‘s tragedies include all the fOllowing except____.
A.Hamlet and King lear
B.Antony and Cleopatra and Macbeth
C.julius Caesar and Othello
D.the Merchant of Venice and A Midsummer Night`s Dream
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（121）“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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（122）"‘I believe you are made of stone,‘he said, clenching his fingers so hard
that he broke the fragile cup. …‘You seem to forget,‘ she said,‘that cup is
not!‘"
From the above quoted passage, we can find the woman‘s tone is very _______ .
A.sarcastic
B.amusing
C.sentimental
D.facetious
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（123）Walt Whitman, whose ______________ established him as the most popular American poet of the 19th century.
A.Leaves of Grass
B.Go Down, Moses
C.The Marble Faun
D.As I Lay Dying
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（124）Maxine Hong Kingston‘s first novel is _______ .
A.The Woman Warrior
B.China Men
C.The Joy Luck Club
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（125）“When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table.”
(T. s. Eliot, “The Love song of J. Alfred Prufrock”)
What does the image in the quoted lines suggest?
A.Violence.
B.Horror.
C.Inactivity.
D.Indifference.
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（126）The ______ Movement appeared in the thirties of the 19th century. It showed the English workers were able to appear as an independent political force and were already realizing the fact that the industrial bourgeoisie was their principal enemy.
A.Enlightenment
B.Renaissance
C.Chartist
D.Romanticist
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（127）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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（128）American romanticism started with the publication of _______ and ended with Leaves of Grass .
A.The Sketch Book
B.Nature
C.Leatherstocking Tales
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（129）“Beauty is truth, truth beauty” is an epigrammatic line by .
A.John Keats
B.William Blake
C.William Wordsworth
D.Percy Bysshe Shelley
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（130）Dubliners is writing of
A.realism
B.modernism
C.stream of consciousness
D.none of the above
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（131）The one who propose the story-telling in the Canterbury tales is
A.the poet
B.the knight
C.the boss
D.the pardoner
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（132）Which group of writers are among those who may be called early pioneers of
American literature?
A.Mark Twain and Henry James.
B.Fenimore Cooper and Washington lrving.
C.C Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner
D.Jack London and O’Henry.
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（133）"To be so distinguished is an honor, which, being very little accustomed to
favors from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to
acknowledge."
The above quoted sentence is presented by Samuel Johnson with a（n） _______ tone.
A.delightful
B.jealous
C.ironic
D.humorous
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（134）Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.
A.the evil in man’s heart
B.the material pursuit
C.the racial conflict
D.the social inequality
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（135）Tennyson’s“Ulysses” is a _______.
A.English sonnet
B.Thomas
C.Italian sonnet
D.Free verse
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（136）______ was written by James Joyce.
A.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
B.Portrait of a Lady
C.Picture of Dorian Gray
D.To the Lighthouse
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（137）"Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew,/Thou mak‘st thy knife keen."
In the above quotation taken form The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs
a（n）_______ .
A.oxymoron
B.pun
C.simile
D.synecdoche
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（138）In William Blake‘s poetry, the father（and any other in whom he saw the image
of the father such as God, priest, and king）was usually a figure of _______ .
A.benevolence
B.admiration
C.love
D.tyranny
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（139）To Theodore Dreiser, life is “so sad, so strange, so mysterious and so
inexplicable.” No wonder the characters in his books are often subject to the
control of the natural forces, especially those of and heredity.
A.fate
B.morality
C.social conventions
D.environment
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（140）In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A.Swift
B.Blake
C.Milton
D.Defoe
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（141）It is generally regarded that Keats‘s most important and mature poems are in
the form of _______ .
A.ode
B.elegy
C.epic
D.sonnet
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（142）________ was written by Mark Twain in collaboration with Warner .
A.Jumping Frog
B.The Gilded Age
C.Roughing It
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（143）The realists of the 18th century and those of the 19th century have the following in common except both of them
A.use the form of novel fully
B.present social and political events in details
C.indicate the broad social conflicts
D.describe the fate of individuals and of social classes
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（144）Milton was nicknamed “the lady of Christ’s” because he was
A.a lady
B.as serious as a lady
C.as handsome as a lady
D.as gentle as a lady
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（145）John Milton wrote his masterpieces after blindness expect ___
A.Paradise Lost
B.Paradise Regained
C.Samson Agonistes
D.Areopagitica
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（146）Shakespeare‘s comedies are composed of ______
A.ordinary people and clowns
B.knights and nobles
C.witches and prophets
D.shrews and princes
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（147）Daisy Miller‘s tragedy of indiscretion is intensified and enlarged by its
narration from the point of view of
_______ .
A.the author Henry James
B.the Italian youth Giovanelli
C.the American youth Winterbourne
D.her mother Mrs. Miller
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（148）Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“NOt on thy Sole，but on thy soul，harsh Jew /thou mak‘st thy knife keen．”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A.Simile．
B.Metonymy．
C.Pun．
D.Synecdoche．
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（149）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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（150）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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（151）Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.
A.humor
B.satire
C.passion
D.metaphor
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（152）All the characters appear in Sons and Lovers except
A.Clara
B.Gertrude
C.Miriam
D.Sue
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（153）William Wordsworth, a romantic poet, advocated all of the following except .
A.normal contemporary speech patterns
B.humble and rustic life as subject matter
C.elegant wording and inflated figures of speech
D.intensely subjective feeling toward individual experience
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（154）"My Last Duchess" is a poem that best exemplifier 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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（155）Here are four lines from a long poem: “Others for language all their care express, / And value books, as women men , for dress.” The poem must be
A.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
B.John Milton’s Paradise Lost
C.Alexander Pope’s Essay on Criticism
D.Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
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（156）“ So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, / So long lives this , and this gives life to thee.”(Shakespeare, Sonnets 18) What does “this” refer to ?
A.Lover
B.Time
C.Summer
D.Poetry
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（157）The Idylls of the King is written by
A.Browning
B.Tennyson
C.George Eliot
D.Carlyle
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（158）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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（159）The English novelist_______ has been regarded as the “Prose Homer”.
A.Daniel Defoe
B.Jonathan Swift
C.Henry Fielding
D.Samuel Richardson
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（160）In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for _______.
A.Adultery
B.Angel
C.Amiable
D.All the above
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（161）________ is famous for his international theme .
A.Howells
B.Mark Twain
C.Henry James
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（162）Beowulf is a national epic of
A.Germany
B.England
C.Scandinavia
D.France
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（163）Hardy started as a poet and ended as a
A.playwright
B.novelist
C.poet
D.critic
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（164）The Elizabethan literature____________
A.had a marked unity and the feeling of patriotism and devotion to the queen.
B.witnessed a decline of degeneration
C.expressed age and sadness, even the brightest hours were followed by gloom and pessimism.
D.was not romantic.
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（165）Daniel Defoe describes _______ as a typical English Middle-class man of the
eighteenth century, the very prototype of the empire builder or the pioneer
colonist.
A.Tom Jones
B.Gulliver
C.Moll Flanders
D.Robinson Crusoe
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（166）D.H.Lawrence’s works are modern because of their_______ .
A.modern skill in writing
B.modern publishing time
C.modern themes
D.modern appearance
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（167）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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（168）Author of Gulliver’s Ttravels also wrote
A.A Modest Proposal
B.Robinson Crusoe
C.Henry V
D.The Tyger
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（169）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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（170）In his essay“of Studies，”Bacon Said：“Some books are to be tasted，others to be swallowed，and some few to be chewed and____.
A.Skimmed
B.perfected
C.imitated
D.digested
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（171）In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman.
A.individualism
B.the spirit of democracy
C.freedom
D.all the above
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（172）Mr. Spectator stands for the ideas of
A.the 16th century
B.17th century
C.the 18th century
D.the19th century
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（173）“Humor” according to Ben Jonson means
A.fun
B.comedy
C.thought
D.temperament
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（174）Chaucer is called the founder of English realism because he portrays all the classes of English feudal society except_______
A.businessmen and scholars
B.nobles and serfs
C.plowmen and priests
D.knights and franklins
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（175）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 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 th奥鹏期末考核e relics of the dead saints to exempt the sins from the buyers
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（2）Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
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（3）In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .
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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）The Joy Luck Club is a group of separate stories happening in men‘s club located in San Francisco Chinatown .
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（7）Pynchon‘s fascination with popular culture is overwhelmingly evident in the novel V.
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（8）The protagonist of Catch–22 is called Herzog .
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（9）The Celestial City in the Pilgrim’s Progress stands for an ideal happy society.
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（10）Dreiser‘s novels usually have little detailed descriptions of characters and events .
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（11）Irving was best known for his short stories such as Rip Van Winkle .
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（12）The Lost Generation was first named by Hemingway .
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（13）The style of Lambs essays is characterized by its humor, familiarity and archaism.
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（14）As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
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（15）Native Son was considered the best book after WWⅡ in 1965 .
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（16）Scott’s literary career marked the transition from romanticism to realism.
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（17）The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn reflects the moral growth of Tom Sawyer .
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（18）A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.
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（19）The story of Catch–22 develops chronologically in a traditional structure .
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（20）Wordsworth’s best poems are description of mountains, rivers, flowers, birds .
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（21）Morrison is the first black writer to win the Nobel Prize .
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（22）Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
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（23）The Neo-classicism saw its decline in Johnson.
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（24）Puritanism and Calvinistic doctrine have great effects on the writing of Hawthorne .
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（25）The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .
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（26）Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
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（27）Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
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（28）The pasture is the setting for the work of Dr. Faustus.
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（29）Auld Lang Syne was composed by Burns.
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（30）Wuthering Heights deals with a story of love and violence.
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（31）Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
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（32）The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .
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（33）Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .
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（34）Beowulf was created in England.
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（35）Romanticism rose and grew under the impetus of the French Revolution.
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（36）Hardy had written and published many poems before he achieved a reputation with his novels.
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（37）King Lear distributed his territory among his three daughters.
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（38）Pope established the heroic couplet as one of the principal English verse forms.
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（39）Whitman is granted the honor of being ‘‘ the American Goldsmith ‘‘ for his literary craftsmanship .
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（40）On one hand Byron is a violent reformer and on the other hand he is a wanderer.
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（41）The “dark comedy” refers to those written by Jonson in his third period of dramatic career.
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（42）The most gifted of the University Wits was Shakespeare.
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（43）Stephen Crane was also a poet who influenced Imagist poetry .
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（44）Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .
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（45）Most of Saul Bellow‘s heroes are Jewish intellectuals or writers who try to discover the queerness of existence .
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（46）Faulkner‘s artistic techniques include the exploration of reality , the nature of time and the relation of the past to the present .
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（47）The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.
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（48）With Bellow and Singer as Nobel Prize winners , the status of Jewish Literature as an important part of American Literature has been firmly established .
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（49）According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .
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（50）Essays of Elia was written by Mary Lame when she worked in East India House.
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（51）Both Hawthorne and Shakespeare influenced Melville‘s writing of Moby Dick .
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（52）Bellow‘s themes are concerned with the struggle of city dwellers to define their roles and responsibility in modern world .
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（53）In Shakespeare’s comedies the heroes and heroines attained their victory without much struggle.
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