19. Shakespeare’s authentic non-dramatic poetry consists of two long narrative poems: Venus and Adonis and____________.
A. Julius Caesar
B. The Winter’s Tale
C. The Rape of Lucrece
D. The Two gentlemen of Verona
20. John Milton’s ____________ is probably his most memorable prose work, which is a great
plea for freedom of the press.
A. Paradise Lost
B. Paradise regained
C. Areopagitica
D. Lycidas
21.D. H. Lawrence’s novels ____________ are generally regarded as his masterpieces.
A. The Rainbow; Women in Love
B. The Rainbow; Sons and Lovers
C. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. Women in Love; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
22. The best representatives of the English humanists are Thomas More, Christopher Mar-lowe and____________.
A. William Shakespeare
B. John Milton
C. Henry Fielding
D. Jonathan Swift
23. Mark Twain’s particular concern about the local character of a region came about as “l(fā)ocal colorism,” a unique variation of American literary____________.
A. romanticism
B. nationalism
C. modernism
D. realism
24. As a poet with a strong sense of mission, Walt Whitman devoted all his life to the creation of the “single” poem,____________.
A. Drum Taps
B. North of Boston
C. A Boy’s Will
D. Leaves of Grass
25. William Faulkner creates his own mythical kingdom that mirrors not only the decline of the ____________ society of America but also the spiritual wasteland of the whole American society.
A. Eastern
B. Western
C. Southern
D. Northern
26. In his final years, Herman Melville turned again to prose fiction and wrote what is probably his second famous work, ____________ , which was published after his death.
A. Billy Budd
B. Redburn
C. Moby - Dick
D. Typee
27. The Sun Also Rise casts light on a whole generation after ____________ and the effects of the war by way of a vivid portrait of “the Lost Generation. ”
A. the Spanish Civil War
B. the American- Mexican War
C. WWI
D. WWII
28. Herman Melville went to the South Seas on a whaling ship in 1841, where he gained the first -hand information about whaling that he used later in____________.
A. Typee
B. Redburn
C. Moby - Dick
D. Omoo