ton’s masterpiece and the greatest English epic is . a. Paradise Lost b. Paradise Regained c. Samson Agonistes d. The Faerie Queene 3. has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel." a. Swift b. Defoe c. Sheridan d. Milton
东南大学 2004 年攻读硕士学位研究生入学考试试题 课程编号 492 试题名称：英美文学与翻译 English and American Literature Part: (90%) Ⅰ. Identify the authorship and genre of the following works: (20%) 1. Of Mice and Man 2. Moby Dick 3. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? 4, Desire Under the Elms 5. The Importance of Being Earnest 6. Howl 7. Pygmalion 8. Finnegans Wake 9. The White Peacock 10. Where Angels Fear to Tread Ⅱ. Name two works by each of the following authors: (I0%) I. Charles Dickens 2. Doris Lessing 3. Virginia Woolf 4. Toni Morrison 5. Ernest Hemingway 6. T. S. Eliot 7. William Wordsworth 8. Robert Frost 9. William Faulkner 10. Jane Austen Ⅲ. Choose from the given choices the one that best suits the statement: (1% × 15=15%) 1. In the early stage of the Renaissance, literary forms. a. biography b. fiction c. essay d. poetry and poetic drama were the most outstanding
5. Which of the following is not a novel by Jane Austen? a. Pride and Prejudice b. Sense and Sensibility c. Northanger Abbey d. Jane Eyre 6. “She stiffened a little on the kerb, waiting for Durtnall’s van to pass. A Charming woman, Scrope Purvis thought her (knowing her as one does know people who live next door to one in Westminster); a touch of the bird about her, of the jay, blue-green, light, vivacious, though she was over fifty, and grown very white since her illness. There she perched, never seeing him, waiting to cross, very, upright.” The above paragraph may be taken from a. Sons and Lovers b. Bliss c. Ulysses d. Mrs. Dalloway 7. Which of the following is not a novel by Mark Twain? a. The Gilded Age b. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer c. The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn d. The Leaning Tower 8. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” The above two lines a re most probably taken from a poem by a. Ezra Pound b. Robert Frost c. Sylvia Plath d. Walt Whitman 9. “Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral!” The above lines are most probably taken from . a. Ode on a Grecian Urn b. Ode to the West Wind c. Ode to Liberty d. Ode to Nightingale 10. “Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams” Who does the poet refer to by saying "his summer dreams" in the first line? a. The poet himself b. The west wind c. The Mediterranean d. England 11. is a typical feature of Swift’s writings. a. Bitter satire b. Elegant style c. Casual narration d. Psycho-analysis
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, Byron’s masterpiece, is a poem based on a traditional Spanish legend of a great lover and seducer of women. a. Cain b. Oriented Tales c. Don Juan d. The Prisoner of Chillon