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Generally the Renaissance refers to the period between the 14th and mid-17th centuries. It first started in Italy, with the flowering of painting, sculpture and literature. From ______ the movement went to embrace the rest of Europe.

All of the following statements can correctly describe the Enlightenment Movement except ______.

A. The movement flourished in France.
B. The movement was a furtherance of the Renaissance.
C. The purpose of the movement was to enlighten the whole world.
D. The purpose of the movement was to enhance the religious education.

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______ was written by Defoe and it brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory.

A. The Shortest Way with the Dissenters
B. The True-born Englishman
C. Colonel Jack
D. A Journal of the Plague Year

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In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems ______ and The Rape of Lucrece.

A. The Faerie Queen
B. Venus and Adonis
C. Measure for Measure
D. Sonnet 18

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In ______ of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.

A. the first voyage to Lilliput
B. the second voyage to Brobdingnag
C. the third voyage to the Flying Island
D. the fourth voyage to Houyhnhnm land

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You may have met the term "Yahoo" on Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ______.

A. John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
B. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes
C. Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels
D. Henry Fielding’s Tom Jones

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______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise Regained
C. Samson Agonistes
D. Beowulf

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For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel".

A. Henry Fielding
B. Daniel Defoe
C. John Bunyan
D. James Joyce

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The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work ______.

A. Leaves of Grass
B. The Cantos
C. Nature
D. Lyrical Ballads

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The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization.

A. positive
B. negative
C. neutral
D. indifferent

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In the Romantic Age, ______ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.

A. Byron
B. Jane Austen
C. William Hazlitt
D. William Blake

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In his poem "Tyger, Tyger", William Blake expresses his perception of the "fearful symmetry" of the big cat. The phrase "fearful symmetry" suggests ______.

A. the tiger’s two eyes which are dazzlingly bright and symmetrically set
B. the poet’s fear of the predator
C. the analogy of the hammer and the anvil
D. the harmony of the two opposite aspects of God’s creation

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P.B. Shelley’s greatest political lyrics is ______.

A. Men of England
B. An Essay on Criticism
C. The Prelude
D. A De fence of Poetry

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Wordsworth thought that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.

A. nation
B. past experience
C. common life
D. nature

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Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for ______.

A. planning a revolt to dethrone God
B. misinterpreting God’s decree to reconcile man and nature
C. prophesying the arrival of spring in a winter season
D. stealing the fire from heaven and giving it to man

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The major themes of Jane Austen’s novels are the stories of ______.

A. love and money
B. money and social status
C. social status and marriage
D. love and marriage

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In the Victorian period, ______, that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.

A. Charles Dickens
B. William Makepeace Thackeray
C. Thomas Hardy
D. Charlotte Bronte

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In the following writings, which is not the work by Charles Dickens______

A. Oliver Twist.
B. David Copper field.
C. A Tale of Two Cities.
D. The Ring and the Book.

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Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of ______.

A. the Romantic Period
B. the Renaissance Period
C. the Neoclassical Period
D. the Victorian Period

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______ is a master story-teller. With his first sentence, he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end.

A. Charles Dickens
B. Emily Bronte
C. Thomas Hardy
D. George Eliot

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Charlotte
first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one, ______, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels.

A. Wuthering Heights
B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Jane Eyre
D. Agnes Grey

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Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is ______.

A. The Return of the Native
B. Far from the Madding Crowd
C. Under the Greenwood Tree
D. The Woodlanders

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Mrs. Warren’s Profession, written by ______, is a play about the economic oppression of women.

A. George Bernard Shaw
B. John Galsworthy
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
D. William Butler Yeats

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T.S. Eliot’s most popular verse play is ______.

A. Murder in the Cathedral
B. The Cocktail Party
C. The Family Reunion
D. The Waste Land

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The frank discussion of ______ in his novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the chief reason why D.H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing.

A. hell
B. death
C. sex
D. love

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Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses ______.

A. love and hatred
B. sin and evil
C. frustration and self-denial
D. balance and self-discipline

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______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.

A. Leaves of Grass
B. Nature
C. In a Station of the Metro
D. After Apple Picking

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Beside symbolism, all the following qualities except ______ are used to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic.

A. narrative power
B. psychological analysis
C. speculative agility
D. optimistic view of life

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Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ______.

A. Cynicism
B. Modernism
C. Transcendentalism
D. Neoclassicalism

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The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ______.

A. modernism
B. colloquialism
C. naturalism
D. humanism

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Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______ the one book from which "all modern American literature comes".

A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C. The Gilded Age
D. Roughing It

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______’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.

A. Mark Twain
B. Theodore Dreiser
C. Henry James
D. Ernest Hemingway

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As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

A. theological doctrines
B. heredity and environment
C. education and hard work
D. various opportunities and economic success

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Among the following writers, almost all of whose works have tragic endings______

A. Mark Twain.
B. Henry James.
C. Emily Dickinson.
D. Theodore Dreiser.

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North of Boston is described by the author, Robert Frost, as "a book of people", which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it.

A. the cowboy
B. New England
C. Ivy League
D. ivory tower

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A masterpiece in American literature, ______ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.

A. This Side of Paradise
B. Tender Is the Night
C. The American Dream
D. The Great Gatsby

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In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.

A. The Sun Also Rises
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Old Man and the Sea
D. In Our Time

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Typical of the "iceberg" analogy is ______’s style.

A. T.S. Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner

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In ______, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

A. Go Down, Moses
B. Light in August
C. The Marble Faun
D. As I Lay Dying

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In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ devices in narration.

A. Romantic
B. Realistic
C. Gothic
D. Post-Modernist

Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses ______.

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______ was written by Defoe and it brought him into jail and made him go through public exposure in the pillory.

In 1593 and 1594, Shakespeare published two narrative poems ______ and The Rape of Lucrece.

In ______ of Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift satirizes the western civilization including false illusions about science, philosophy, history and even immortality.

You may have met the term "Yahoo" on Internet, but you may also have met it in English literature. It is found in ______.

______ shows how mankind, in the person of Christ, withstands the tempter and is established once more in the divine favor.

For his contribution to the establishment of the form of the modern novel, ______ has been regarded as "Father of the English Novel".

The Romantic Age began in 1798 when Wordsworth and Coleridge published their joint work ______.

The Romantic Movement expressed a more or less ______ attitude toward the existing social and political conditions that came with industrialization.

In the Romantic Age, ______ is a great critic on Shakespeare, Elizabethan drama, and English poetry.

In his poem "Tyger, Tyger", William Blake expresses his perception of the "fearful symmetry" of the big cat. The phrase "fearful symmetry" suggests ______.

P.B. Shelley’s greatest political lyrics is ______.

Wordsworth thought that ______ is the only subject of literary interest.

Prometheus Unbound is Shelley’s greatest achievement. Prometheus, according to the Greek mythology, was chained by Zeus on Mount Caucasus and suffered the vulture’s feeding on his liver for ______.

The major themes of Jane Austen’s novels are the stories of ______.

In the Victorian period, ______, that Wessex man, not only continued to expose and criticize all sorts of social iniquities, but finally came to question and attack the Victorian conventions and morals.

In the following writings, which is not the work by Charles Dickens______

Charles Dickens is one of the greatest critical realist writers of ______.

______ is a master story-teller. With his first sentence, he engages the reader’s attention and holds it to the end.

Charlotte first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one, ______, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels.

Thomas Hardy’s most cheerful and idyllic work is ______.

Mrs. Warren’s Profession, written by ______, is a play about the economic oppression of women.

T.S. Eliot’s most popular verse play is ______.

The frank discussion of ______ in his novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the chief reason why D.H. Lawrence had been accused of pornographic writing.

Nathaniel Hawthorne held an unceasing interest in the "interior of the heart" of man’s being. So in almost every book he wrote, Hawthorne discusses ______.

______ has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American democratic ideals.

Beside symbolism, all the following qualities except ______ are used to make Melville’s Moby-Dick a world classic.

Realism was a reaction against Romanticism or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to ______.

The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ______.

Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ______ the one book from which "all modern American literature comes".

______’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with the international theme.

As a genre, naturalism emphasized ______ as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

Among the following writers, almost all of whose works have tragic endings______

North of Boston is described by the author, Robert Frost, as "a book of people", which shows a brilliant insight into ______ character and the background that formed it.

A masterpiece in American literature, ______ evokes a haunting mood of a glamorous, wild time that seemingly will never come again.

In a tragic sense, ______ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.

Typical of the "iceberg" analogy is ______’s style.

In ______, William Faulkner illuminates the problem of black and white in the American Southern society as a close knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

In A Rose for Emily, Faulkner makes best use of the ______ devices in narration.

Charlotte
first novel The Professor was rejected by the publisher, but her second one, ______, won immediate success and today it remains one of the most popular novels.