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信阳师范学院美国文学作品选读
Emily Dickinson wrote many short poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is not a usual subject of her poetic expression?
A.religion
B.life and death
C.love
D.war
] Which writer does not belong to the group of American Romantic writers? A.William C. Bryant B.Henry W. Longfellow C.Edgar Allan Poe D.Ann Bradstreet
Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn international fame and was regarded as _____. A.father of American drama B.father of American poetry C.father of American literature D.father of short stories
________ is not a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter. A.Hester B.Arthur Dimmesdale C.Roger Chillingworth D.Ishmael
The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is__________. A.insignificant B.evil C.divine D.silly
The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.John Galsworthy’s B.Thomas Hardy’s C.D．H．Lawrence’s D.Charles Dickens’
We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are ________. A.conversational and crude B.lyrical and well-structured C.simple and rather crude D.free-flowing
The most original playwright of the Theatre of Absurd was __________. A.Bernard Shaw B.John Osborne C.Samuel Beckett D.W. B. Yeats
Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? A.Oscar Wilde’s idea of “Art for Art’s Sake”. B.Friedrich Nietzche’s assertion: “God is dead”. C.Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophical ideas of irrationality. D.Freudian-Jungian psychoanalysis.
Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? A.a man of action. B.a man of apathy. C.a man of inactivity. D.a man of passion
Galsworthy was a ______ writer, who inherited the fine tradition of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray. A.naturalistic B.romantic C.realisitc D.conventional
“ ‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’” The novel from which the passage is taken is _______. A.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice B.Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop C.Samuel Richardson’s Pamela D.Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A.The Sound and the Fury B.Ulysses C.Mrs. Dalloway D.Jude the Obscure
In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. A.humorous B.romantic C.nostalgic D.sarcastic
The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______. A.Wordsworth B.Coleridge C.Shelley D.Blake
] Which writer does not belong to the group of American Romantic writers? A.William C. Bryant B.Henry W. Longfellow C.Edgar Allan Poe D.Ann Bradstreet
Washington Irving was one of the first American writers to earn international fame and was regarded as _____. A.father of American drama B.father of American poetry C.father of American literature D.father of short stories
________ is not a fictional character in The Scarlet Letter. A.Hester B.Arthur Dimmesdale C.Roger Chillingworth D.Ishmael
The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is__________. A.insignificant B.evil C.divine D.silly
The major concern of ______ fiction lies in the tracing of the psychological development of his characters and in his energetic criticism of the dehumanizing effect of the capitalist industrialization on human nature. A.John Galsworthy’s B.Thomas Hardy’s C.D．H．Lawrence’s D.Charles Dickens’
We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are ________. A.conversational and crude B.lyrical and well-structured C.simple and rather crude D.free-flowing
The most original playwright of the Theatre of Absurd was __________. A.Bernard Shaw B.John Osborne C.Samuel Beckett D.W. B. Yeats
Which of the following brings LITTLE impact on the development of 20th century literature? A.Oscar Wilde’s idea of “Art for Art’s Sake”. B.Friedrich Nietzche’s assertion: “God is dead”. C.Arthur Schopenhauer’s philosophical ideas of irrationality. D.Freudian-Jungian psychoanalysis.
Which of the following best describes the speaker of T. S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”? A.a man of action. B.a man of apathy. C.a man of inactivity. D.a man of passion
Galsworthy was a ______ writer, who inherited the fine tradition of the great Victorian novelists of the critical realism such as Dickens and Thackeray. A.naturalistic B.romantic C.realisitc D.conventional
“ ‘Damn the fool! There he is’, cried Heathcliff, sinking back into his seat, ‘Hush, my darling! Hush, hush, Catherine! I’ll stay. If he shot me so, I’d expire with a blessing in my lips.’” The novel from which the passage is taken is _______. A.Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice B.Charles Dickens’s The Old Curiosity Shop C.Samuel Richardson’s Pamela D.Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights
All of the following are stream –of- consciousness novels EXCEPT________. A.The Sound and the Fury B.Ulysses C.Mrs. Dalloway D.Jude the Obscure
In Hardy’s Wessex novels, there is an apparent ______ touch in his description of the simple and beautiful though primitive rural life. A.humorous B.romantic C.nostalgic D.sarcastic
The assertion that poetry originates from “emotion recollected in tranquility” belongs to ______. A.Wordsworth B.Coleridge C.Shelley D.Blake