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信阳师范学院-美国文学作品选读
One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a rallying song of the British Communist Party. A.Men of England B.Men of England C.Ode to Liberty D.Ode to the West Wind
In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English education system and destroys young hearts and minds. A.Hard times B.Oliver Twist C.David Copperfield D.Bleak House
The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and passion and return to their former destructive way of life. A.Tess B.The Return of the Native C.The Greenlanders D.Jude the Obscure
As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people. A.Yeats B.Oscar Wild C.Bernard Shaw D.Milton
Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s ________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces. A.Women in Love B.Sons and Lovers C.Lady Chatteley.s Lover D.Farewell to Arms
______ is regarded as a “worshipper of nature” because he can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of nature. A.Wordsworth B.Blake C.Byron D.Coleridge
In Spenser’s “The Faerie Queene”, _______ is the play role in each of the 12 major adventures. A.Arthur B.Redcrosse C.Una D.Archimago
_______ was regarded as “Father of the English novel”, for his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel. A.Daniel Defoe B.Jonathan Swift C.Jane Austen D.Henry Fielding
“They rose when she entered—a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt, leaning on an ebony cane with a tarnished gold head. Her skeleton was small and spare…” these sentences are taken from ___ A.Charlotte Bronte’s The Professor B.William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily C.Charles Dickens’ Dombey and Son D. H. Lawrence’s Sons and Lovers
_____ by Henry James tells a story about a young and innocent American confronting the complexity of the European life. A.The American B.The Europeans C.Daisy Miller D.The Portrait of a Lady
Don Juan is a long poem based on a traditional ______ legend of a great lover and seducer of women. A.Spanish B.Dutch C.English D.Russian
______ by Melville is a novella about a ship whose black slave cargo mutiny holds their captain a terrorized hostage. A.“Bartleby, the Scrivener” B.Benito Cereno C.The Confidence-Man D.Billy Bud
In _____, James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole human life 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.A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man B.Dubliners C.Ulysses D.Finnegans Wake
Which of the following accounts is NOT true for Ralph Waldo Emerson? A.He is the chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. B.Emerson is generally known as a dramatist. C.His works were usually derived from his journals or lectures he had already given. D.In Nature, he employed “a transparent eyeball” to illustrate his philosophical discussi
William Wordsworth, Coleridge and _______ are known as the “Lake Poets”. A.George Gordon Byron B.Robert Southey C.Percy Bysshe Shelley D.John Keats