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.
10. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its
greatest heights.。