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The Renaissance marks a transition from the______to the modern world.

A．medieval
B．romantic
C．Anglo-Saxon
D．Victorian

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Which of the following plays is NOT among William Shakespeare’ s four great tragedies

A．Hamlet.
B．Twelfth Night.
C．Othello.
D．King Lear.

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After the restoration of______, Milton was imprisoned for a short time and then retired to private life.

A．Charles I
B．Charles II
C．James I
D．James II

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It was not until the reign of______that the Renaissance really began to show its effect in England.

A．Henry VII
B．Henry VIII
C．Charles I
D．Charles II

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The island of Lilliput can be found in______.

A．Robinson Crusoe
B．Gulliver’s Travels
C．The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
D．The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

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The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement throughout Western Europe in the ______century.

A．17th
B．18th
C．19th
D．20th

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Henry Fielding is the author of the great 18th century English novel______.

A．Tom Jones
B．Pamela
C．Moll Fenders
D．The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

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In Paradise Lost, the real hero created by Milton is______.

A．God
B．Adam
C．Eve
D．Satan

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The publication of The Lyrical Ballads, written by ______, marked the break with the conventional poetical tradition of the 18th century.

A．William Wordsworth and Robert Burns
B．William Blake and Coleridge
C．Wordsworth and Percy Bysshe Shelly
D．Wordsworth and Coleridge

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Generally, William Shakespeare’ s dramatic career can be divided into______periods.

A．3
B．4
C．5
D．6

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" It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. " The quoted part is taken from______.

A．Pride and Prejudice
B．Wuthering Heights
C．Jane Eyre
D．Sense and Sensibility

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William Wordsworth is regarded as a "worshipper of nature". He can penetrate to the heart of things and give the reader the very life of______.

A．beauty
B．peace
C．nature
D．interest

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Jane Austen is an English woman novelist of the______century.

A．16th
B．17th
C．18th
D．19th

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Daniel Defoe started as a(n)______and all his life underwent many ups and downs.

A．lawyer
B．engineer
C．worker
D．merchant

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The writer who lived at the turn of century was______.

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

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English Romanticism, as a historical phase of literature, is generally said to have begun in______.

A．1786
B．1788
C．1796
D．1798

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"Leaves of Grass" has always been considered a monumental work which commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic embodiment of American______.

A．culture
B．democratic ideals
C．realistic ideals
D．dream

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Melville’ s writings can be well divided into two groups, each with something in common in the light of______and imaginative focus.

A．individualism
B．the thematic concern
C．evils
D．American value

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Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America, whom______considered "the true father of our national literature".

A．O. Henry
B．H. L. Mencken
C．James Michener
D．Emily Dickinson

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In American literature ______, was the first American writer to conceive his career in international terms.

A．Henry James
B．Hawthorne
C．Tom Pett
D．Poe

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Miss Emily Dickinson was born into______of Amherst, Massachusetts.

A．a Calvinist family
B．a poor family
C．a farmer’ s family
D．a teacher’ s family

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In American literature______, possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters.

A．Theodore Dreiser
B．Jack London
C．Faulkner
D．Pound

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In any list of important poets in the twentieth century, regardless of nationality ______, commands a place.

A．Robert Lee Frost
B．Jack London
C．Faulkner
D．Pound

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Ernest Hemingway’ s style, the particular type of hero in his______, and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated.

A．poems
B．plays
C．science fictions
D．novels

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The Blithedale Romance is a novel Hawthorne wrote to reveal his own experiences______.

A．in London
B．in New York
C．on the Jocken Farm
D．on the Brook Farm

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In"Leaves of Grass" , Walt Whitman is concerned with openness, freedom, and above all, ______.

A．individualism
B．war
C．evils
D．sins

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Redburn is a semi-autobiographical novel by Melville, concerning the sufferings of a genteel youth among brutal______.

A．sailors
B．workers
C．policemen
D．soldiers

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Mark Twain, pen name of______was born on November 30, 1835, in Missouri.

A．Samuel Langhorne Clemens
B．Jason Black
C．Tom Pett
D．Gerard Gibson

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Today with the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the Freudian approach, Henry James’ s importance as a______ and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.

A．playwright
B．novelist
C．poet
D．politician

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Dickinson’s poetry, despite its ostensible formal simplicity, is remarkable for its______, subtlety and richness.

A．freshness
B．variety
C．humor
D．beauty

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Apart from school education, Dreiser read voraciously by himself. His true literary influences were from______, Charles Darwin and Herbert Spencer.

A．Russell Ash
B．Balzac
C．Vincent Alsop
D．Zola

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Robert Lee Frost was the Pulitzer Prize winner on______occasions; the United States Senate passed resolutions honoring his birthday.

A．3
B．4
C．2
D．5

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During World War I______served as an honorable junior officer in the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps.

A．Emily Dickinson
B．Jack London
C．Ernest Hemingway
D．Poe

Mark Twain is a great literary giant of America, whom______considered "the true father of our national literature".

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In American literature______, possessed none of the usual aids to a writer’ s career: no money, no friend in power, no formal education worthy of mention, no family tradition in letters.

In any list of important poets in the twentieth century, regardless of nationality ______, commands a place.

Ernest Hemingway’ s style, the particular type of hero in his______, and his life attitudes have been widely recognized and imitated.

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In"Leaves of Grass" , Walt Whitman is concerned with openness, freedom, and above all, ______.

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Today with the development of the modern novel and the common acceptance of the Freudian approach, Henry James’ s importance as a______ and critic, has been all the more conspicuous.

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