英美文学知识问题版

II、英美文学知识练习150题

1.William Faulkner is the author of

A.Far 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

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 Spenser’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

A.novelist

B.playwright

C.poet

D.essayist

20.The Romantic Age in England came to an end with the death of

A.Jane Austen

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

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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.Dover 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

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 Beauty

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 and 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

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 Saga

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 Parted

D.Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

46.wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”.

A.Arthur Miller

B.Thaomas 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.Spenser

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

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 Lost, 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.Kind Lear

B.Hamlet

C.Julius Caesar

D.Romeo and Juliet

56.Mr. Allwrothy is a kind-hearted gentleman in

A. A Tale of Two Cities

B.Great Expectations

C.Sons and Lovers

D.The History of Tom 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?

A.Women in Love

B.Sons and Lovers

C.The Rainbow

D.The French Lieutenant’s Woman

60.Generally, the English 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

A.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 in August

D. A Streetcar Named Desire

63.Robert Burns is a poet from

A.England

B.New England

C.Ireland

D.Scotland

64.The Zoo Story is a play written by

A.John Osborne

B.Samuel Beckett

C.Edward Albee

D.Eugene O’Neil

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

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.is known as “the poet’s poet”.

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 complier of A Dictionary of the English Language is

A.Joseph Addison

B.Richard Steele

C.Samuel Johnson

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75.The main themes of Emily Dickinson’s works are the following EXCEPT

A.friendship

B.love and marriage

C.life and death

D.war and peace

76.American fiction in the 1960s was 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.Don Juan

B.Kubla Khan

C.To Autumn

D.Ode to the West Wind

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 and Odyssey in American 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 Also 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 Byzantium

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

A.The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

B.Pamela

C.Moll Flanders

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 INCORRECT 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 Beats

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?

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 Johnson

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 are plays inspired by social criticism.

A.Richard Sheridan

B.Oliver Goldsmith

C.Oscar Wilde

D.Bernard Shaw

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

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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

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.war

C.love

D.brotherhood

110.Which of the following statements is INCORRECT 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 Bryant

C.Henry Wadswroth 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.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 Shakespeare

B.Edmund Spender

C.John Milton

D.John Donne

122.Which of the following is NOT Virginia Woolf’s novel?

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 Allen 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 Spenser

B.John Dryden

C.John Donne

D.George Herbert

128.Which of the following is NOT Jane Austen’s works?

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.Nathaniel 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

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 in Love

C.Rainbow

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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 had the following contributions to English literature EXCEPT that

A.their writings provided a new code of social morality for the rising bourgeoisie

B.they gave a true picture of social life of England in the 18th century

C.the English essay completely 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 had exerted deep influence on many writers and poets EXCEPT

A.William Morris

B.Walter Scott

C.Oscar Wilde

D.Bernard Shaw

139.Whitman’s has been praised as “Democratic Bible” and as American Epic.

A.Leaves of Grass

B.Song of Myself

C.In a Metro Station

D.Evangeline

140.killed himself with a gun, just as his father died.

A.Jack London

B.Earnest Hemingway

C.Fitzgerald

D.Mark Twain

141.called himself “the trumpeter of a new age”. He was England’s first essayist.

A.Richard Steele

B.Joseph Addison

C.Francis Bacon

D.Alexander Pope

142.Don Juan is the masterpiece of

A.Byron

B.Robert Frost

C.Wordsworth

D.Longfellow

143.Which of the following is INCORRECT for Ralph Waldo Emerson?

A. A great thinker

B. A famous novelist

C. A well-known essayist

D. A poet

144.was the first English woman novelist.

A.Charlotte Bronte

B.Virginia Woolf

C.Jane Austen

D.George Eliot

145.On the Road is the masterpiece of