英美文学史
招生专业：英语语言文学考试科目：英美文学史
I Choose the best answer for the following blanks (30 Points)
1 Beowulf, created around A.D.700, unfolds a picture of an early ___ society, of its public life, its customs, rituals and cultural activities.
a. Danish
b. German
c. Wales
d. Scotland
2 The Canterbury Tales is collection of stories told by a group of ____ on the way to Canterbury.
a. Pilgrims
b. monks
c. peasants
d. merchants
3 The author of Samson Agonisters is ____
a. John Donne
b. Alexander Pope
c. John Milton
d. Edmund Spenser
4 In ____ , Shakespeare intended to portrait an ideal king of responsible attitude towards the duties of kingship, and to celebrate heroic actions under a heroic king
a. King John
b. Henry IV, Part I and II
c. Henry V
d. Richard II
5 King Alfred’s ___ compiled around 882, is a great prose work in old English.
a. Le Morte D’Arthur
b. Anglo Saxon Chronicles
c. Euphues and His England d Books of Martyrs
6 In ___, Defoe pictures a heroine who is unfortunate and finally becomes a normal woman after living a full life of crime.
a. Robert Crusoe
b. Moll Flanders
c. Captain Singleton
d. Colonel Tack
7 Richardson’s ___ tells the story of how a woman’s virtue, beauty and kindness conquer a man’s passion, evil and irresponsibility.
a. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
b. Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady
c. The History of Sir Charles Grandison
d. The Journal to Stella
8 The life of Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great, written by ___, is based on the life of a notorious thief, Jonathan Wild.
a Tobias Smollett b. Laurence Sterne
c Jonathan Swift d. Henry Fielding
9 Jane Austen’s ___ relates the story of two sisters and their lov e affaires.
a Proud and Prejudice b. Emma
c Sense an
d Sensibility d. Th
e Watsons
10 Mary Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, publisher in 1818 her first and must important novel __
a Valperga
b the Last Man
c Lodore
d Frankenstein
11 In ___, Mathew Arnold expressed his understanding of the social function of an artist in the Victorian Age.
A Culture and Anarchy b The Stones of Venice
C Chartism d Essays in Criticism
12 Robert Stevenson’s ____ deals with the theme of dual personality
a Treasure Island
b Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
c Kidnappe
d d Th
e Jungle Book
13 Arnold Bennett is best known for his ____.
a The old wives’ tale
b The time machine
c The forsyte saga
d Th
e secret agent
14 Both Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty—Four express ____’s fear of the disastrous consequences of dictatorship.
a William Maugham
b Graham Greene
c Joseph Conar
d d Georg
e Orwell
15 Doris Lessing’s ___ begins the children of Violence Series in which the heroine struggles against the authority of her parents, the conformity of her social class, and the racial prejudice of white colonialists in Africa.
a Martha Quest
b The Grass is Singing
c Going Home
d th
e Golden Notebook
16 The Last of Mohicans was written by ____
a John Cotton
b Cotton Mather
c Anne Dudley Bradstreet
d James Fennimor
e Cooper
17 The Tenth Muse lately sprung up in America is a collection of poem written by ____
a Cotton Mather
b Edward Taylor
c Roger Williams
d Ann
e Dudley Bradstreet
18 ____ was probably the last great voice to re-assert Calvinism in America.
a Thomas Paine
b Jonathan Edwards
c Washington Irving
d Noah Webster
19 In 1845, ____ published his anthology The Poets and Poetry of Europe, which brought home to the ordinary reader the rich variety of European literature.
A Henry W. Longfellow b Washington Irving
C William C. Bryant d Thomas Paine
20 ____ has been called “American’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence” because it called on American writers to write about America in an American way instead of imitating things foreign.
A “The American Scholar” b Common Sense
C The Age of Reason d The American Crisis
21 Uncas is a character in ____
a Washington Irving’s “The Sketch Book”
b James Fennimore Cooper’s “The Last of the Mohicans”
c James Fennimore Cooper’s “The Pilot”
d Philip Freneau’s “Th
e Power o
f Fancy”
22 The title of William Cullen Bryant’s poem “Thanatopsis” literally means ___
a view of happiness
b view of death
c notion of purity
d notion of independence
23 Freud used dreams as a way to interpret the human psyche.____, eight years before Freud, was also emphasizing dreams in his writing.
a W.C. Bryant
b E.A. Poe
c Philip Freneau
d J.F. Cooper
24 N. Hawthorne’s The House of the Seven Gables deals with ___
a the effects of horror
b the effects of curse
c the effects of brutality
d th
e view o
f history
25 Old Ben in Will iam Faulkner’s “Go Down, Moses” refers to ___
a the name of a dog
b the name of a bear
c the name of a lion
d a friend of Issac
26 Leaves of Grass ran nine editions with more than ___ poems all written in free verse form, that is, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.
a. 400
b. 600
c. 800
d.500
27 Soapy is the main character in O. Henry’s Short Story ___
a. After Twenty Years b The Four Million
c The Cop an
d th
e Anthem d Heart o
f the West
28 Mark Twain is ____ pen name.
a Samuel Langhorne Clemens’
b Francis Bret Harte’s
c Hamlin Garland’s
d Stephen Crane’s
29 In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck portrayed ____
a the migration of the “okies” from the “Dust Bowels” to California
b the friendship of two itinerant workers who yearn for a permanent home they will never find.
c the corruption in American Government
d th
e miserable life o
f the poor farmers in “Dust Bowel”
30 Scott Fitzgerald is generally regarded as the ___ of the 1920s, the peculiar decade that combined the postwar economic boom and the sense of spiritual disorientation.
a storyteller
b spokesman
c critic
d essayist
II Define the following terms (30 Points)
1 The morality play
2 The stream of consciousness
3 Angry young men
4 Walden
5 Lost Generation
6 Black Humor
III Identify the authors and the titles of the following quotations (30)
1. It seems that upon the first moment I was discovered sleeping on the ground after my landing, the Emperor (of Lilliput) had early notice of it by an express, and determined in council that I should be tied in the manner I have related (which was done in the night while I slept), that plenty of meat and drink should be sent me, and a machine prepared to carry me to the capital city.
The passage is taken from _____________, written by __________.
2 Elizabeth felt herself more angry every moment; yet she tried to the utmost to speak with composure when she said, “You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared me the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentleman-like manner.
The passage is taken from ____________,written by __________.
3 I was awakened by somebody saying “Here he is!” and un covering my hot head. My mother and Peggothy had come to look for me英美文学考研真题, and it was one of them who had done it, “Davy,” said my mother, “What’s the matter?”
The passage is taken from ____________, written by __________.
4 The clubbists tittered, except the girl called Tess… in whom a slow heat seemed to rise at the sense that her father was making himself foolish in their eyes. “He’s tired, that’s all,” She said hastily, “and he has got a lift home, because our own horse has to rest today.”
The passage is taken from ____________, written by __________.
5 “I am afraid, Watson,that I shall have to go英美文学考研真题,” said Holmes as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
“Go, where to?”
“To Dartmoor--- to King’s Pyland.”
The passage is taken from ____________, written by __________.
6 Hester Prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. Her prison—door was thrown open, and she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick and morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet on her breast.
The passage is taken from ____________,written by __________.
7 What is your address?” he began again英美文学考研真题, fixing his pencil to write. She looked his hand.“Carrie Meeber,” She said slowly, “Three hundred and fifty—four West Van Buren Street, care S.C. Hanson.
The passage is taken from ____________, written by ___________.
8 Tom Sawyer stepped forward with conceited confidence and soared into the unquenchable and indestructible. “Give me liberty or give me death” speech, with fine fury and frantic gesticulation, and broke down in the middle of it.
The passage is taken from _____________, written by __________.
9 “You have such a scar on your neck, Mr. Eden,” the girl was saying. “How did it happen? I am sure it must have been some adventure.”
A Mexican with a knife, Miss,” he answered, moistening his parched lips and clearing his throat, “It was just a fight, after I got the knife away, he tried to bite off my nose.”
The passage is taken from _____________, written by __________.
10 One morning I awoke about th ree O’clock hearing Catherine stirring in the bed.
“Are you all right, Cat?”
“I’ve been having some pains,darling.”
“Regularly?”
“No英美文学考研真题, not very.”
“If you have them at all regularly, we’ll go to the hospital.”
VI Answering the following questions (60 Points)
1 Discuss briefly the character of Clarissa by Samuel Richardson.
2 How does Wuthering Heights embody the tradition of Gothic Novels?
3 Make a comment on Earnest Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing.
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