(单选题)1: 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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(单选题)2: ____ 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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(单选题)3: Best known for his novels about the adventure is
A: Dickens
B: Goldsmith
C: Defoe
D: Scott
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(单选题)4: 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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(单选题)5: “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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(单选题)6: 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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(单选题)7: “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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(单选题)8: 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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(单选题)9: 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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(单选题)10: Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness,
the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include
_______ , symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A: impressionism
B: expressionism
C: multiple points of view
D: first person point of view
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(单选题)11: Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by
A: Chaucer
B: Langland
C: Bede
D: None of the above
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(单选题)12: _______ 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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(单选题)13: _______ pen name was Mark Twain .
A: Samuel Langhorne Clemens‘
B: Henry James‘
C: William Dean Howells‘
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(单选题)14: “...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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(单选题)15: 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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(单选题)16: “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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(单选题)17: In 1704, ___________founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A: Swift
B: Blake
C: Milton
D: Defoe
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(单选题)18: 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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(单选题)19: Dickens’ works are characterized by a mingling of ______________ and pathos.
A: humor
B: satire
C: passion
D: metaphor
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(单选题)20: "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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(判断题)21: As a Jewish writer , Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)22: The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)23: The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)24: The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)25: Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)26: Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)27: Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)28: The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)29: Mr. Bennet’s favorite daughter is Jane.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)30: Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)31: Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)32: Thoreau , Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)33: Fitzgerald shows an interest both in upper–class society & lower–class society .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)34: The Rape of the Lock gives an account of an anecdote of the court.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)35: A ballad is written in 4-line stanza with the first and third lines rhymes.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)36: Mark Twain made dialect an accepted form of art .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)37: According to Emerson , man is divine in nature .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)38: In her works , Amy Tan wrote beautifully about the contrast between Chinese and American cultures .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)39: Blake is often regarded as a symbolist and mystic.
A: 错误
B: 正确
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(判断题)40: The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution .
A: 错误
B: 正确
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