I Multiple Choice （ 40 points in all ， 1 for each ）

　　1. The Renaissance was _______ in reaching England not only because of England ''s separation from the Continent ， but also because of its domestic unrest .

　　A. quick

　　B. slow

　　C. speedy

　　D. deep

　　2. Geoffrey Chaucer introduced from France the rhymed stanzas of various types to English poetry to replace the Old English ______ verse .

　　A. rhymed

　　B. alliterative

　　C. romantic

　　D. visionary

　　3. In the history play Henry IV ， William Shakespeare present the _____ spirit for the integrity of England .

　　A. pessimistic

　　B. optimistic

　　C. patriotic

　　D. active

　　4. In the 18th century English literature ， teh representative writer of new -classicism is ________.

　　A. Swift

　　B. Defoe

　　C. Milton

　　D. Pope

　　5. A number of poems from Songs of Innocence find a counterpart in Songs of Experience .Infant Joy is matched with Infant Sorrow ， and the pure Lambis paired with the flaming ________ .

　　A. The Chimney Sweeper

　　B. London

　　C. Sheep

　　D. Tyger

　　6. The unifying principle in _____ written by G.G. Byron is the basic ironic theme of appearance and reality .

　　A. Child Harold ''s Pilgrimage

　　B. Cain

　　C. Don Juan

　　D. Hours of Idleness

　　7. Jane Austen ''s main literary concern is about human beings in their ______ relationships . Because of this ， her novels have a universal significance .

　　A. personal

　　B. natural

　　c. satisfied

　　D. hostile

　　8. Among the famous novelists of the Victorian period were the critical realists like _____， William Makepeace Thackery ， Charlotte Bronte ， Emily Bronte ， Mrs . Gaskell and Anthony Trollope ， etc .

　　A. Thomas Hardy

　　B. Charles Dickens

　　C. Robert Browning

　　D. Jane Austen

　　9. The short lyric Break ，Break ， Break ， is written in memory of ______ ''s best friend ， Arthur Hallam ， whose death has a lifelong influence on the poet .

　　A. Afred Tennyson

　　B. Robert Browning

　　C. Emily Bronte

　　D. Charlotte Bronte

　　10. Reading _____ ''s Crossing the Bar ， we can feel his fearlessness towards death ， his faith in God and afterlife .

　　A. Afred Tennyson

　　B. Robert Browning

　　C. John Keats

　　D. Emily Dickins

　　11. Generally speaking ， _________ is the best of T.S. Eliot''s plays in the sense that it contains the best poetry and the most coherent drama .

　　A.Murder in the Cathedral

　　B. The Cocktail Party

　　C. Hamlet

　　D. The Family Reunion

　　12. With his conversion to ______ in 1927 ， T.S. Eliot characterized his Four Quartes by a philosophical and emotional calm quite in contrast to the despair and suffering of his early works .

　　A. Catholicism

　　B. Protestantism

　　C. Anglicanism

　　D. Enlightenment

　　13. In his novel Ulysses ， James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole _____ by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind ， and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day .

　　A. animal kingdom

　　B. human life

　　C. Ireland

　　D. Britain

　　14. In his Finnegan''s Wake ， an encycleopedic work ， James Joyce ambitiously attempted to pack the whole history of mankind into _______ .

　　A. one man''s mind

　　B. one night''s dream

　　C. one story

　　D. one lyric poem

　　15. Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “ highest power of the soul ”。

　　A. intuition

　　B. Thoreau

　　C. Mark Twain

　　D. Dreiser

　　17. Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times ， ________ was an admirer .

　　A. O.Henry

　　B. Henry James

　　C. Walt Whitman

　　D. Jack London

　　18. “ The Way of the Beaten ： A Harp in the Wind ，” this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'' s novel _______ .

　　A. An American Tragedy

　　B. Sister Carrie

　　C. Dreiser Looks at Russia

　　D. Jannie Gerhardt

　　19. The American “ Thirties ” ， lasted from the crash ， through the ensuing Great Depression ， until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939 . This was a period of _____ .

　　A. poverty

　　B. important social movement

　　C. a new social consciousness

　　D. all of the above

　　20. In the pre-war period ， such writers as _______ ， pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced .

　　A. Mark Twain

　　B. Stephen Grane

　　C. Theodore Dreise

　　D. all of the above

　　21. The period of the old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066 ， the year of the ______ of England .

　　A. religious Reformation

　　B. Norman Conquest

　　C. Roman Invasion

　　D. the centralization of power

　　22. The ______ movement in the eighteenth century Europe was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .

　　A. Enlightenment

　　B. Renaissance

　　C. Sentimental

　　D. Transcendental

　　23. As a lexicographer ， Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English _______ by an Englishman .

　　A. novel

　　B. drama

　　C. poetry

　　D. dictionary

　　24. The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens'' first ______ hero .

　　A. female

　　B. male

　　C. child

　　D. imaginary

　　25. _______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare .

　　A. George Bernard Shaw

　　B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

　　C. Christopher Marlowe

　　D. John Donne

　　26. T.S. Eliot ''s classic expression of the temper of his age is ________ .

　　A. The Waste Land

　　B. Ash Wednesday

　　C. Four Quartets

　　D. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

　　27. The short story ________ is taken from Irving ''s work named The Sketch Book .

　　A. Young Goodman Brown

　　B. The legend of sleepy Hollow

　　C. Rip Van Wrinkle

　　D. Nature

　　28. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne ''s novel _______________ .

　　A. The House of the Seven Gables

　　B. The Scarlet Letter

　　C. Moby Dick

　　D. Daisy Milly

　　29. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “_______________” .

　　A. Lost Generation

　　B. Broken Generation

　　C. Optimist

　　D. Pessimist

　　30. Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _______ .

　　A. This Side of Paradise

　　B. Tender Is the Night

　　C. The American Dream

　　D. The Great Gatsby

　　31. _________ ， the first important English essayist ， is best known for his essays which greatly influenced the development of this literary form .

　　A. John Donne

　　B. John Milton

　　C. Francis Bacon

　　D. Edmund Spenser

　　32. Pope''s An Essay on Criticism is a didactic poem written in ________ .

　　A. blank verse

　　B. heroic couplets

　　C. free verse

　　D. dramatic monologue

　　33. According to Edmund Spenser''s own explanation ， his The Faerie Queene is a “________” ， but it is also an allegory .

　　A. imaginary poem

　　B. historical poem

　　C. romantic poem

　　D. poetic drama

　　34. Sheridan''s plays ， especially The Rivals and The school for Scandal ， are generally regarded as important links between the masterpiece of Shakespeare and those of ________.

　　A. Christopher Marlow

　　B. John Galsworthy

　　C. Bernard Shaw

　　D. James Joyce

　　35. Shelley''s greatest achievement is his four-act poetic drama —— __________ .

　　A. Promethus Unbound

　　B. Ode to the West Wind

　　C. Adonais

　　D. In Defense of Poetry

　　36. Charlotte Bronte''s works are all about the struggle of an individual consciousness towards self-realization ， about some lonely and neglected _______ .

　　A. young man

　　B. young woman

　　C. children

　　D. old people

　　37. In general ， Browning ''s _______ are not meant to entertain the readers with the usual acoustic and visual pleasures ， but they are supposed to keep them alert ， thoughtful and enlightened .

　　A. novels

　　B. essays

　　C. plays

　　D. poems

　　38. ________ novels are all Victorian in date . Most of them are set in Wessex ， the fictional primitive and crude rural region which is really the home place he both loves and hates .

　　A. Hardy''s

　　B. Bronte''s

　　C. Lawrence''s

　　D. Joyce''s

　　39. In his essay ， _______ clearly expresses the main principles of his Transcnedentalist pursuit and his love for nature .

　　A. Francis Bacon

　　B. Walt Whitman

　　C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

　　D. Ezra Pound

　　40. In ______ ， Hawthorne discusses sin and evil and sets out to prove that everyone posesses some evil secret .

　　A. The Scarlet Letter

　　B. Young Goodman Brown

　　C. Sister Carrie

　　D. Daisy Milly