[Chongqing Guangdong education] selected reading reference materials of British and American literature of Nanyang Normal University

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- Selected readings of British and American Literature - Chapter materials, examination materials - Nanyang Normal University 【】
In class testing
1、【 Single topic selection 】 is the oldest surviving poem in the English language, and is generally regarded as the national epic of the English people.
A、Ecclesiastical History of the English People
B、Beowulf
C、The Death of Arthur
D、The Canterbury Tales
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2、【 Single topic selection 】Romance was characteristic of the early feudal age, as it reflected the spirit of , i.e., the quality and ideal of knightly conduct.
A、chivalry
B、bravery
C、conquest
D、courtesy
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3、【 Single topic selection 】English Renaissance Period was an age of .
A、prose and novel
B、poetry and drama
C、essays and journals
D、ballads and songs
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4、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following is NOT regarded as one of the characteristics of Renaissance?
A、Exaltation of man’s pursuit of happiness in this life.
B、Cultivation of the genuine flavour of ancient culture.
C、Tolerance of human foibles.
D、Praise of man’s efforts in having his soul delivered.
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5、【 Single topic selection 】The most significant intellectual movement of the Renaissance was .
A、the Reformation
B、humanism
C、the Italian revival
D、geographical exploration
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6、【 Single topic selection 】Christopher Marlowe, the most prominent of the University Wits, wrote two plays: ______ representing the Renaissance desire for infinite power and authority, and ______ reflecting the Renaissance desire for infinite knowledge.
A、The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; The Jew of Malta
B、The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus; Tamburlaine the Great
C、The Jew of Malta; Tamburlaine the Great
D、Tamburlaine the Great; The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
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7、【 Single topic selection 】The Canterbury Tales has a general prologue and four tales that are connected by “links”.
A、12
B、15
C、24
D、120
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】In Spenser’s masterpiece The Faerie Queene, he speaks of _____ virtues of the private gentleman.
A、12
B、15
C、10
D、11
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2、【 Single topic selection 】Edmund Spenser acclaimed his masterpiece The Faerie Queen to be “a continued___” and the theme is to “fashion a gentleman or noble person in virtuous and gentle discipline”.
A、romance
B、epic
C、ballad
D、allegory
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3、【 Single topic selection 】Spenser’s first important work is , a pastoral poem in 12 parts, one for each month of the year.
A、The Shepheardes Calender
B、Amoretti
C、“Epithalamion”
D、Sonnet 75
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4、【 Single topic selection 】Spenser’s masterpiece, The Faerie Queene, is dedicated to Queen .
A、 Victoria II
B、Elizabeth I
C、Elizabeth II
D、Victoria‍
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5、【 Single topic selection 】The Spenserian stanza: a verse form consisting of 8 iambic pentameter lines followed by a ninth line of 6 iambic feet with the rhyme scheme .
A、abab bcbc c
B、abba abba c
C、abab cdcd e
D、aabb ccdd e
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6、【 Single topic selection 】The Redcross in Book I of the The Faerie Queene stands for the true religion of the church.
A、Protestant
B、Anglican
C、Catholic
D、Lutheran
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7、【 Single topic selection 】The rhyme scheme of Spenserian sonnet is abab bcbc cdcd ee, which is very distinctive from that of Shakespearean sonnet: .
A、abab cdcd efef gg
B、abba abba cdcd cd
C、abba abba cde cde
D、abab cdcd efef aa
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson?
A、Importance of the individual.
B、Faith in Christianity.
C、The Over-Soul.
D、Self-Reliance.
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2、【 Single topic selection 】Emerson is the chief spokesman of ().
A、New England Transcendentalism
B、Naturalism
C、Realism
D、Existentialism
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3、【 Single topic selection 】() is not the member of Transcendental Club.
A、Fuller
B、Emerson
C、Thoreau
D、Whitman
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4、【 Single topic selection 】Emerson’s speech entitled () at Harvard in 1837 was hailed by Oliver Holmes as Intellectual Declaration of Independence.
A、The American Scholar
B、Nature
C、Divinity School Address
D、Self-Reliance
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5、【 Single topic selection 】As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism fourished in New England from the 1830s to the ().
A、Civil War
B、Revolutionary War
C、First World War
D、Second World War
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following works is not writen by Edgar Allan Poe?
A、As I Lay Dying
B、“The Tell-tale Heart”
C、“The Raven”
D、“The Fall of the House of Usher”
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2、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following settings is not a typical gothic setting?
A、a joyful party
B、a medieval castle
C、a haunted house
D、a gloomy graveyard
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3、【 Single topic selection 】The main characters in The Cask of Amontillado are and .
A、Fortunato, Monstresor
B、Hester, Dimmesdale
C、Jason, Benjy
D、Nick Carraway, Tom Buchanan
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4、【 Single topic selection 】In The Cask of Amontillado, the murder took place in the .
A、carnival season
B、Christmas Eve
C、Thanksgiving Day
D、Independent Day
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5、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following statements about Edgar Allan Poe is not True?
A、Poe lived a long and successful life.
B、Poe lived a short but turbulent life.
C、Poe is a famous American poet, short-story writer, editor and literary critic.
D、Poe is considered the forefather of detective fiction.
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following works is not writen by Henry James?
A、The Great Gatsby
B、Daisy Miller
C、The Ambassadors
D、The Portrait of a Lady
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2、【 Single topic selection 】The main theme of Henry James’ works is .
A、the International theme
B、grace under pressure
C、human’s sin
D、nature’s influnce on people
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3、【 Single topic selection 】Henry James is an important writer in American .
A、Realism
B、Romanticism
C、Naturalism
D、Post-Modernism
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4、【 Single topic selection 】In The Jolly Corner, Brydon has house properties in New York.
A、two
B、three
C、four
D、five
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5、【 Single topic selection 】In The Jolly Corner, Alice Staverton is Brydon’s .
A、old lover
B、mother
C、sister
D、teacher
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】Of the following writers, ( ) is not influenced by naturalistic writing.
A、Isaac Singer
B、Frank Norris
C、Stephen Crane
D、Theodore Dreiser
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2、【 Single topic selection 】All of Stephen Crane’s charaters are controlled by ( ). This is what makes him a naturalist.
A、environment
B、family
C、heredity
D、nature
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3、【 Single topic selection 】In ( ), Stephen Crane’s materpiece, the accident of war makes a young man seem to be a hero. War changes men into animals. In the view of author, good and bad, hero and coward, are merely matters of chance.
A、Red Badge of Courage
B、Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
C、Catch-22
D、For Whom the Bell Tolls
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4、【 Single topic selection 】Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ( ).
A、pessimistic
B、rational
C、optimistic
D、humorous
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5、【 Single topic selection 】Who exerts the most important influence on literary naturalism?
A、Sigmund Freud
B、Charles Darwin
C、Ralph Emerson
D、William James
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The first 20 Chapter “The Red Wheelbarrow”
1、【 Single topic selection 】The poet William Carlos Williams was a New Jersey ____.
A、physician
B、professor
C、physicist
D、resident
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2、【 Single topic selection 】The imagist poets followed three principles, they are ____, direct treatment and economy of expression.
A、blank verse
B、musical rhythm
C、free verse
D、common speech
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3、【 Single topic selection 】“So much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glazed with rainwater beside the white chickens.” This is a poem written by ____.
A、Ezra Pound
B、Robert Frost
C、Wallace Stevens
D、William Carlos Williams
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4、【 Single topic selection 】“The Red Wheelbarrow” is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of ____.
A、the romantic poetry
B、the absurd poetry
C、the imagist poetry
D、the transcendental poetry
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5、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following is NOT a theme of the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”?
A、A. the cruelty of the war
B、individual and national responsibility
C、courage
D、confidence
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】William Faulkner is considered a great representative writer of .
A、American Southern Renaissance
B、Romanticism
C、Naturalism
D、Gothic Novel
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2、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following works is not written by William Faulkner?
A、The Sound and the Fury
B、Go Down, Moses
C、As I Lay Dying
D、The Great Gatsby
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3、【 Single topic selection 】 In his novel, William Faulkner has invented a county named _____
A、Yoknapatawpha
B、Jackson
C、Oxford
D、East Egg
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4、【 Single topic selection 】In “Barn Burning”, Abner Snopes tried to burn 's barn as a revenge for the latter’s unfair treatment to him.
A、Major de Spain
B、Major Sartoris
C、Mr. Compson
D、Mr. Sutpen
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5、【 Single topic selection 】The Compsons, the Sartorises, and the Sutpens are representative southern aristocratic families in William Faulkner’s novels, and they are all portrayed as prisoners of the past, who cannot reconcile with the fall of the south after ______.
A、the Civil War
B、American Revolution
C、WWI
D、WWII
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In class quiz
1、【 Single topic selection 】In 1954, ____ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of art of modern narration.”
A、T. S. Eliot
B、Ernest Hemingway
C、John Steinbeck
D、William Faulkner
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2、【 Single topic selection 】In which of the works of Hemingway does the character Santiago occur?
A、In Our Times
B、The Old Man and the Sea
C、For Whom the Bell Tolls
D、The Sun Also Rises
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3、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following statements concerning Ernest Hemingway is NOT true?
A、Hemingway identified the rapid change in women’s status after WWI and the general blurring of sex roles that accompanied the new sexual freedom.
B、His work is preoccupied with the cultural and psychological meanings of feminity.
C、As Hemingway aged, his interest in exclusively masculine forms of self-assertion and self-definition became more pronounced.
D、War, hunting, human dignity and triumph have been recurring motifs in Hemingway’s works.
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4、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following statements concerning the role of the sea in Hemingway’s novella The Old Man and the Sea is NOT correct?
A、His strength, resolve and pride are measured in terms of how far out into the gulf he sails.
B、The sea symbolizes the benevolent side of nature.
C、Through the protagonist’s interactions with the sea, his character emerges.
D、The sea provides glimpses of the depth of the protagonist’s knowledge.
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5、【 Single topic selection 】Which of the following is Hemingway’s Spanish Civil War novel?
A、The Old Man and the Sea
B、The Sun Also Rises
C、For Whom the Bell Tolls
D、A Farewell to Arms
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