英语专业-英美文学试卷及答案-期末
英美文学试卷A
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I. Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1’=10’)
1. ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as
well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury tales
contains 26 stories.
2. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama.
3. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an
urban life.
4. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big
influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement.
5. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce
longing for life and love. Her novels are more or less based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around.
6. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19th century are Thomas Hardy,
John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw.
7. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”.
8. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist
literature.
9. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and
American consciousness.。