1、Here are two lines taken from The Merchant of venice：“Not on thy Sole，but on they soul，harsh Jew/thou makst thy knife keen”What kind of figurative device is used in the above lines?
A.Synecdoche
B.Simile
C.Pun
D.Metonymy
本题答案：
C
2、____ believes that mans fate is predeterminedly tragic, driven by a combined force of “nature”, both inside and outside.
A.Thomas Hardy
B.George Eliot
C.Charles Dickens
D.Bernard Shaw
本题答案：
A
3、Best known for his novels about the adventure is ____.
A.Scott
B.Goldsmith
C.Dickens
D.Defoe
本题答案：
D
4、Most of ____ works are set in the American South, with emphasis on the southern subjects and consciousness.
A.Hemingway's
B.Fitzgerald's
C.Faulkner's
本题答案：
C
5、“Justice was done; and the president of the Immortals had ended his sport” is a part of the quotation from ____.
A.The picture of Dorian Gray
B.The Forsyte Saga
C.Tess of D Urbervilles
D.Jude the Obscure
本题答案：
C
6、Irvings Rip Van Winkle is famous for ____.
A.Rips seeking for happiness
B.Rips escape into the mountain
C.Rips 20 year sleep
本题答案：
C
7、“The novel is structured around the discovery of the heros origin.” This novel is most probably.
A.Thomas Hardys Far from the Madding Growd
B.James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
C.Henry Fieldings Tom Jones
D.Charles Dickenss David Copperfield
本题答案：
C
8、Most of Bernard Shaws plays are concerned with ____.
A.religious problems
B.political problems
C.moral problems
D.all the above
本题答案：
D
9、ChineseAmerican Literature can be defined as literature by and about ____ in America.
A.Chinese students
B.Chinese immigrants
C.Asian immigrants
本题答案：
B
10、Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ____, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.
A.multiple points of view
B.impressionism
C.first person point of view
D.expressionism
本题答案：
A
11、Sir Gawain and Green Knight was created by ____.
A.None of the above
B.Langland
C.Chaucer
D.Bede
本题答案：
A
12、____ first collection of short stories is Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque.
A.Poes
B.Irvings
C.Coopers
本题答案：
A
13、____ pen name was Mark Twain.
A.William Dean Howells
B.Samuel Langhorne Clemens
C.Henry James
本题答案：
B
14、“This grew: I gave commands; Then all smiles stopped altogether.” (Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”) The above lines imply that ____.
A.the Duchess was killed by her husband
B.the Duchess stopped smiling at her husbands order
C.the Duchess died of laughing too much
D.the Duchess did not want to smile as much as her husband requested
本题答案：
A
15、Mark Twains first novel ____, written in collaboration with Charles.D.Warner and published in 1873, though not an artistic success, gives it's name to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.
A.The Roughing Time
B.The Jazz Age
C.The Gilded Age
D.The Age of Innocence
本题答案：
C
16、“The history of the world is the biography of the great men” can sum up the book.
A.The French Revolution
B.Life of Schiller
C.Heroes and Hero-worship
D.A Modern Comedy
本题答案：
C
17、In 1704, ____ founded the periodicals “the Review”.
A.Swift
B.Milton
C.Defoe
D.Blake
本题答案：
C
18、Hawthorne generally concerns himself with such issues as in his fiction.
A.the social inequality
B.the racial conflict
C.the material pursuit
D.the evil in mans heart
本题答案：
D
19、Dickens works are characterized by a mingling of ____ and pathos.
A.satire
B.passion
C.metaphor
D.humor
本题答案：
D
20、Not on thy sole but on thy soul, harsh Jew, /Thou makst thy knife keen. In the above quotation taken form. The Merchant of Venice, Shakespeare employs a(n) ____ .
A.synecdoche
B.simile
C.pun
D.oxymoron
本题答案：
C
21、As a Jewish writer, Salinger concerns himself only with Jewish subject.()
A.正确
B.错误
本题答案：
B
22、The imaginary place of Yoknapatawpha functions as an allegory of the American South.()
A.正确
B.错误
本题答案：
A
23、The main technique applied to the novel Ulysses by Joyce is symbolism.()
A.正确
B.错误
本题答案：
B
24、The poetry of Sentimentalism is characterized by sympathy for the French Revolution.()
A.正确
B.错误
本题答案：
B
25、Monks tried hard to trap Oliver Twist.()
A.正确
B.错误
本题答案：
A
26、Shakespeare was born in April 1564 and died in 1616.()
A.正确
B.错误
27、Morality play presents the conflict of good and evil with allegorical characters.()
A.正确
B.错误
28、The Jazz Age characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in The Great Gatsby.()
A.正确
B.错误
29、Mr.Bennets favorite daughter is Jane.()
A.正确
B.错误
30、Neo-classicism saw its decline in Dryden.()
A.正确
B.错误
31、Wilder demanded his audience to accept the fact that they were watching actors on the stage.()
A.正确
B.错误
32、Thoreau, Whitman and Hawthorne are considered the three great Transcendental figures in the 19th century.()
A.正确
B.错误
