2010-2011年英美文学史考试题型及范围一、考试题型Part One: Multiple Choice (1’x 30)Part Two: Define the Literary Terms (3’x5)Part Three: Identification 15’（根据作品判定作者或作品类别即genre）Part Four: General Questions (15’)Part Five: Critical Analysis (25’)二、范围I．Multiple Choice （见下面）II．Definition1．Humanism2．Naturalism3．Imagism4．Romanticism5．Transcendentalism6．The Lost Generation7．Modernism8．Local ColorismIII．Identification1. 部分的选择题改编2. 作品分析及大问题作家的代表作品。

（书中例子）Identify Following Works by its Author or Genre1. Beowulf is a(n) __________ of the Anglo-Saxon and the English people.2. The Faerie Queen is an__________ written by_____________.IV. General Questions （state the significance of the following writers in the history of English and American literature and provide specific examples from their works to illustrate your views）1.Thomas Hardy2.Ernest Hemingway3.T. S. Eliot4.William ShakespeareV. Critical Analysis（复习要点：主要代表作内容，Thematic Concern；作品分类，体裁及定义等。

具体考法是给某个作家一代表作部分内容，根据作品回答相关问题）(选文来自书中例子，分析课本中例子上面一段，下面一段文的分析，其余来自作家相关代表作品)1.Tennyson （PP.337-338 Break，Break，Break的主题及选文）2.William Blake （P. 197页的选文，以及198第一段的选文）3.Christopher Marlowe （PP. 52-53的选文及其分析，浮士德的主题）4.W. B. Yeats （P. 398 The Second Coming 选文及分析）5.Ralph Waldo Emerson （PP. 60-61的选文，Nature中的主要观点，The American Scholar的意义，主题）6.Robert Frost （PP. 198-199 The Road Not Taken的主题及选文）7.Herman Melville (Moby Dick中的象征意义及主题关怀P. 83最后一段+P. 86第二段)8. F. Scott Fitzgerald （The Great Gatsby的主题关怀和叙述视角P. 224）Poetry Appreciation 样题Critical AnalysisRead the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English.In a Station of the MetroThe apparition of these faces in the crowd;Petals on a wet, black bough.*Apparition: 幽灵, 突然景象Petal: 花瓣Questions:A. Identify the poet of this poem. (1’)B. What kind of form is adopted in this verse? (1’)C. Why is this verse interpreted as a typical example of the Imagist ideas? (3’)选择题:共100题(全部标为红色的不需要)1.____________, a typical example of Old English poetry, is regarded as thenational epic of the Anglo-SaxonsA. The Wife’s ComplaintB. BeowulfC. The Dream of the RoodD. The Seafarer2.___________ presented for the first time in English literature acomprehensive realistic picture of the English society.A. The Canterbury TalesB. The Legend of Good WomenC. The Romaunt of the RoseD. Troilus and Criseyde3.The Elizabethan ______________, in its totality, is the real mainstream ofthe English RenaissanceA. PoetryB. novelC. humanismD. drama4.______________ Dr. Faustus is a play based on the German legend of amagician aspiring for knowledge and finally meeting his tragic end as a result of selling his soul to the devil.A. Christopher MarlowB. Ben JohnsonC. William ShakespeareD.Sheridan5.Shakespeare’s most read historical play is the first and second part of____________.A. Henry VB. Richard IIC. Henry IVD. Richard III6.The most important and popular comedy written by Shakespeare is__________.A. Romeo and JulietB. Twelfth NightC. The Merchant of VeniceD. As Youlike It.7.______________, the first of the great tragedies, is generally regarded asShakespeare’s most popular play on the stage.A. MacbethB. King LearC. Julius CaesarD. Hamlet8.________________, the best of his final romances, is a typical example ofShakespeare’s pessimistic view toward human life and society in his lateyears.A. The TempestB. King LearC. CymbelineD. Pericles9._____________ is the leading figure of the metaphysical school.A. John MiltonB. John DonneC. John BunyanD. John Keats10._____________ is indeed the only generally acknowledged epic in Englishliterature since Beowulf.A. Paradise RegainedB. Paradise LostC. Samson AgonistesD. The Faerie Queence11.____________________ is the most successful religious allegory in theEnglish language.A. Genesis AB. ExodusC. The Pilgrim’s ProgressD. The Holy War12.___________had perfected the heroic couplet and __________ hadsuccessfully used it in his plays.A. Alexander Pope, DrydenB. Dryden, Alexander PopeC. Shakespeare, Alexander PopeD. Edmund Spencer, Dryden13.____________ has been regarded as “Father of the English novel” for hiscontribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel.A. John BunyanB. Henry FieldingC. Daniel DefoeD. Jonathan Swift14.______________brings Henry Fielding the name of the “Prose Homer”.A. The Pilgrim’s ProgressB. Tom JonesC. Robinson CrusoeD. ColonelJack15._____________ was the only important dramatist of the 18th century.A. Alexander PopeB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. Samuel JohnsonD. George Bernard Shaw16.The Rivals and ____________ are generally regards as important linksbetween the masterpieces of Shakespeare and those of Bernard Shaw.A. T he School of ScandalB. The DuennaC. Widowers’ HousesD. TheDoctor’s Dilemma17._________ is a sharp satire on the moral degeneracy of thearistocratic-bourgeois society in the 18th century England.A. The RivalsB. Gulliver’s TravelC. Tom JonesD. The School for Scandal18.Thomas Gray’s “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” is regarded as themost representative work of______________.A. the Metaphysical SchoolB. The Graveyard SchoolC. the Gothic SchoolD. the Romantic School19.Pope was one of the first to introduce________ to England during theEnlightenment Movement.A. rationalismB. criticismC. romanticismD. realism20.English Romanticism is generally said to have begun in 1798 with thepublication of a joint volume of poetry, Lyrical Ballads written by Wordsworth and _________.A. KeatsB. ColeridgeC. SoutheyD. Byron21.__________ defines the poet a s “a man speaking to men” and poetry as “thespontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, which originates in emotion recollected in tranquility”.A. William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. ColeridgeD. John Keats22.The two major novelists of the English Romantic Period are _________ andWalter Scott.A. Washington IrvingB. Jane AustenC. Herman MelvilleD. CharlesDickens23.The principle elements of ________ novel are violence, horror, and thesupernatural, which strongly appeal to the reader’s emotion.A. GothicB. RomanticC. SentimentalD. Realistic24.Literarily_________was the first important Romantic poet in English history.A.William WordsworthB. William BlakeC. Robert BurnsD. Coleridge25.____________is central to Blake’s concern in Songs of Innocence and Songsof Experience.A.PovertyB. Life in LondonC. ChildhoodD. Nature26._____________is the leading figure of the English Romantic poetry, thefocal poetic voice of the period.A.William BlakeB. William WordsworthC. ByronD. Shelley27.Byron’s ______________ is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend ofa great lover and seducer of women.A. AdonaisB. Don JuanC. Prometheus UnboundD. The Revolt of Islam28.Shelley’s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama, __________.A. Antony and CleopatraB. Measure for MeasureC. Too True to Be GoodD. Prometheus Unbound29._____________is the most delightful of Jane Austen’s works.A. Sense and SensibilityB.Pride and PrejudiceC. EmmaD. MansfieldPark30.The most distinguishing features of Charles Dickens’ works lies in hisA. social criticismB. optimismC. character-portrayalD. social setting31.____________ is one that introduces to the English novel the first governessheroine.A. Jane EyreB. Wuthering HeightsC. MiddlemarchD. Agnes Grey32._____________ is an elaborate and powerful expression of AlfredTennyson’s philosophical and religious thoughts.A. Idylls of the KingB. “Ulysses”C. Poems, Chiefly LyricalD. InMemoriam33.____________ is based on the Celtic legends of King Arthur and his knightsof the Round TableA. In MemoriamB. “Ulysses”C. Idylls of the KingD. The Princess34.______________ is Robert Browning’s best-known dramatic monologue.A. “My Last Duchess”B. “Meeting at Night”C. “Parting at Morning”D.“Pippa Passes’35._____________ initiates a nw type of realism and sets into motion a varietyof developments, leading in the direction of both the naturalistic and psychological novel.A. Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Charlotte BronteD. Thomas Hardy36.Most of Hardy’s novels are set in ________, the fictional primitive and cruderegion which is really the home place he both loves and hates.A. LondonB. YoknaptawphaC. WessexD. Paris37.____________ works are known as “novels of characters and environment”.A. Charles Dickens’sB.Thomas Hardy’sC. Jane AustensD. GeorgeEliot’s38.____________ could be classified to be both a naturalistic and a criticalrealistic writer.A.Charles DickensB. George EliotC. Thomas HardyD. T. S. Eliot39.____________ belie ves that man’s fate is pre-determinedly tragic, driven bya combined force of nature, both inside and outside.A. Charles DickensB. Thomas HardyC. Bernard ShawD. T. S. Eliot.40.The three trilogies of______ Forsyte novels are masterpieces of criticalrealism in the early 20th century.A. D. H. LawrenceB. John Galsworthy’sC. James JoyceD. ThomasHardy’s41.___________- is the most outstanding stream-of-consciousness novelist.A. James JoyceB. John GalsworthyC.D. H. Lawrence D. George BernardShaw42.The most celebrated dramatists in the last decade of 19th century were_____- and George Bernard Shaw.A. T. S. EliotB. Richard Brinsley SheridanC. James JoyceD. Oscar Wilde43.___________, with its purely dramatic power, remains the most popular of T.S. Eliot’s verse plays.A. Murder in the CathedralB. The Lady’s Not for BurningC. Juno and PaycockD. The Family Renuion44.The most original playwright of the Theater of Absurd is Samuel Beckett andhis first play, _____, is regarded as the most famous and influential play of the Theater of Absurd.A. Waiting for GodotB. Murder in the CathedralC. Too True to be GoodD. Mr.s. Warren’s Profession45.In his famous poem, _____ Yeats explores the problem of death, love, oldage and art.A. “ and the Swan”B. “No Second Troy”C. “September 1913”D. “Sailing to Byzantium”46.________, which bears a strong thematic resemblance to T. S. Eliot’s WasteLand, is generally regarded as the darkest of T. S. Eliot’s poemsA. “Gerontion”B. The Hollow MenC. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prurock”D. “The Cocktail Party”47.___________is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a moderncivilization in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.A. UlyssesB. The Waste LandC. The Confidential ClerkD. Dubliners48.The Rainbow and ___________ are generally regarded as D. H. Lawrence’smasterpieces.A. Women in LoveB. Sons and LoversC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. The Plumed Serpent49.Structurally and thematically, George Bernard Shaw follows the greattradition of ____.A. modernismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism50.D. H. Lawrence’s autobiographical novel is entitled___________.A. Women in LoveB. Sons and LoversC. Lady Chatterley’s LoverD. The Plumed Serpent51.The Romantic period of American literature started with the publication ofWashington Irving’s __________ and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.A. The Sketch BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A History ofNew York52.Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary preference for the past isrevealed, to some extent, in his famous story, ____________.A.“The Legend of Sleepy Hallow”B.“Rip Van Winkle”C.“The Custom House”D.“The Birthmark”53.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is___________.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. Washington Irving54.In his essays, _________________ put forward his philosophy of theoversoul, the importance of the Individual and Nature.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. Mark Twain55.________________ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed andtormented one, which has much to do with his black vision of life and human beings.A. Herman MelvilleB. Washington IrvingC. HawthorneD. Walt Whitman56.Most of the poems in _____ sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of BostonD. The Cantos57.In_____________, Whitman airs his sorrow at Presid ent Lincoln’s death.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. A PactC. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’dD. There was a Child WentForth58.In __, Whitman’s own early experience may well be identified with thechildhood of a young growing America.A. Cavalry Crossing a FordB. Leaves of GrassC. A PactD. There was a Child Went Forth59._______________is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick60.The three dominant figures of the American Realistic Period are William DeanHowells , Mark Twain, and _________.A.Emily DickinsonB. Henry JamesC. Theodore DreiserD. Ezra Pound61.___________ is called by Hemingway the one from which all modernAmerican literature comes.A. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinB. The Adventures of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi62.Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in______also draws heavily on the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.A. McTeagueB. An American TragedyC. Sister CarrieD. The Genius63.__________________ is a great giant of American, whom H. L. Menckenconsiders the true father of our natural literature.A. Henry JamesB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD. TheodoreDreiser64.______________--- is an account of American tourists in Europe which pokefun at the pretentious, decadent and undemocratic Old World in a satirical tone.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. A Connecticut Yankee in KingArthur’s Cou rtC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi65.______________-- was the first American writer to conceive his career ininternational terms.A. Washington IrvingB. T. S. EliotC. Ezra PoundD. Henry James66.________________is consid ered as Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan67._______________, disregarding grammar and punctuation, always used “i”instead of “I’ to refer to himself as a protest against self importa nce.A. Wallace StevensB. e. e. cummingsC. Robert FrostD. William CarlosWilliams68.Sherwood Anderson explores the motivations and frustrations of his fictionalcharacters in terms of Freud’s theory of psychology, particularly in one book____________.A. Winesburg, OhioB. BabbitC. The Grapes of WrathD. The Catcher inthe Rye69.The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not themost successful in all his experiments, is _______.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD.Eugene O’ Neil70.As he is a leading spokesman of the Imagist Movement, ________ famousone-image poem “In a Station of the Metro” would serve as a typical example of the imagist ideas.A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra P oundD. Wallace Stevens’s71.In his masterpiece, _____________Pound traces the rise and all of easternand western empires, the moral and social chaos of the modern world, especially the corruption of American after the heroic time of Jefferson.A. Make it NewB. The CantosC. ConfuciusD. Polite Essays72.Robert Frost is generally considered a regional poet in the sense that hissubject matters mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________.A. New EnglandB. New YorkC. Southern AmericaD. the West73.____________-stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice betweensafety and the unknown.A. “Mending the Wall”B. “Home Burial”C. “The Road Not Taken’D. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’74.______________marks the climax of Eugene O’Neil’s literary career and thecoming of the age of American drama.A. The Hairy ApeB.Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones75._______________is a play that concerns the problem of modern man’sidentity.A. The Hairy ApeB.Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. Desire Under the ElmD. The Emperor Jones76._____________ fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a paganidealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the life-giving impulses and destroys the genuine artist.A. Desire Under the ElmB. The Emperor JonesC. Lazarus LaughedD. The Great God Brown77._______________is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A.Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. EzraPound78._______________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vividportrait of the “the lost generation’.A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimesD. For Whom the Bell Tolls79.In a tragic sense, ___ is a representation of life as a struggle againstunconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimesC. The Old Man and SeaD. A Farewell to Arms.80.Faulkner once said that __________ is a story of “lost innocence”, whichproves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.A.The Sound and FuryB.Light in AugustC. Do Down, MosesD.Absalom, Absalom!1-10 BADAC CDABB11-20 CABBB ADBAB21-30 BBABC BBDBC31-40 ADCAB CBCBB41-50 ADAAD BBACB51-60 ABBBC ACDDB61-70 ACCCD ABADC71-80 BADBA DBACA1.“ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" is a poem by an New EnglandPoet______________.A. Wallace StevensB. Robert FrostC. William Carols WilliamsD.Langston Hughes2. Harriet Beecher Stowe is most known for her _________ that speaks forblacks.A. Voice of FreedomB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. ClotelD. The Grapes of Wrath3. It is generally understood that the recurrent theme in many of ThomasHardy’s novels is _________.A. man against natureB. love and marriageC. social criticismD. fateand destiny4. The Romantic period in English literature began with the publicationof____________.A. William Blake’s Song of InnocenceB. Jane Austen’s Pride and PrejudiceC. Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical BalladsD. Sir Water Scott’sIvanhoe5. The first novel published by the black is _____________’ Clotel.A. Harriet Beecher StoweB. Harriet WilsonC. Williams Wells BrownD.John Brown.6. ________ wrote a tetralogy of “Rabbit” the third of which makes him win thePulitzer Prize.A. John UpdikeB. John SteinbeckC. John BathD. John Donne7. The Magic Barrel is written by_______.A. Saul BellowB. Bernad MalamaudC. Philip RothD. J. D. Salinger8. Which of the following can not be used to describe John Dryden?A. poetB. playwrightC. essayistD. novelist9. Small World is a novel written by _________.A. John BathB. Daphne Du MaurierC. Donald BarthelmeD. David Lodge10. Their Eyes Were Watching at God is a novel by ___________.A. Alice WalkerB. Toni MorrisonC. Zora Neale HurstonD. Maya Angelou11. Rip Van Winkle is a short story written by _____.A James Fenimore CooperB Washington IrvingC Edgar Allan PoeD MarkTwain12. The Legend of Sleeping Hollow is a short story written by ____.A James Fenimore CooperB Washington IrvingC Edgar Allan PoeD Mark T wain13.The Romantic Period in American Literary history started with the publication of ____.A Washington Irving’s The Sketch BookB Washington Irving’s Tales of A Tra velerC Whitman’s Leaves of GrassD James Fenimore Cooper’s Leather Stocking Tales14.The American Renaissance” is the period of ____in the history of America n literature.A Local ColorismB RomanticismC New England TranscendentalismD Colonialism15.Edgar Allan Poe is known as a poet and critic but most famous as the firstmaster of the form of ______.A poemB dramaC short storyD essay16.The Poetic Principle was written by ____who also wrote The Philosophy of Co mposition.A Edgar Allan PoeB Walt WhitmanC Ralph Waldo EmersonD Henry David Thoreau17. In “A Rose for Emily”, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ device in narration.A. RomanticB. RealisticC. GothicD. Modernist18. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination ofserious literature and _______.A. American folk humorB. English folkloreC. American traditional valuesD. funny jokes19.Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary________________.A. realistsB. naturalistsC. romantistsD. modernists20.In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from_________________.A. the simple country lifeB. the urban lifeC. the life on the seaD. the adventures and trips21.Scott Fitzgerald never spared an intimate touch in his fiction to deal with thebankruptcy of the _______________________________.A. American DreamB. ruling classesB. American Capitalists D.American bourgeoisie22.Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the founder of American_____________________.A. poetryB. dramaC. fictionD. literature23.___________________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which tells a storyabout the tragic love of a wounded American soldier with a British nurse. A. A Farewell to Arms B.The Sun Also RisesC. For Whom the Bell TollsD. In Our Time24. In his essays, ______ put forward his philosophy of the over soul, the important of the Individual and Nature.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Washington IrvingC. Mark TwainD.Ralph Waldo Emerson25.The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Henry David ThoreauD. Washington Irving26.______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented andproblematical one, which has much to do with his “black” vision of life and human beings.A. Herman Melville’sB. Washington Irving’sC.Nathaniel Hawthorne’sD. Walt Whitman’s27.Most of the poems in _____ sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.A. Leaves of GrassB. Drum TapsC. North of BostonD. The Cantos28.In _____, Whitman airs his sorrow at President Lincoln’s death.A. “Cavalry Crossing a Ford”B. “A Pact”C. When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’dD. There was a Child Went Forth”29.In ______, Hawthorne sets out to prove that everyone possesses some evilsecret.A. “The Custom-House”B. “Young Goodman Brown”C. “Rapp accini’s Daughter”D. “The Birthmark"30.Theodore Dreiser’s forgiving treatment of the career of his heroine in ______ also draws heavily upon the naturalistic understanding of sexuality.A McTeague B. An American Tragedy C. Sister Carri e D. The Genius31._______ is usually regarded as a classic book written for boys about theirparticular horrors and joys.A.The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnC. Innocents AbroadD. Life on the Mississippi32.The only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize was ___________.A. Bernard ShawB. Eugene O’NeilC. Richard Brinsley SheridanD. William Shakespeare33._________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan34.The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not themost successful in all his experiments, is _______A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. George Bernard ShawD. Eugene O’Neil35.________ is a play that concerns the problem of modern man’s identity.A. The Hairy ApeB. Long Day’s Journey Into NightC. The Iceman ComethD. The Emperor Jones1-10 BBDCCABDDC 11-20 BBABCACABA 21-30 ABADBCACBC 31-35 ABADA。