16. Henry Fielding’ s ________ brings him the name of “Prose Homer”.

A. The History of Jonathan Wild the Great

B. The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling

C. The History of Amelia

D. The History of Joseph Andrews

17. Among the three major poetical works by John Milton, ________ is the most perfect example of verse drama after the Greek style in English.

A. Samson Agonistes                                         B. Paradise Lost

C. Paradise Regained                                       D. Areopagitica

18. T.S. Eliot’ s ________ not only presents a panorama of physical disorder and spiritual desolation in the modern Western world, but also reflects the prevalent mood of disillusionment and despair of a whole post- war generation.

A. The Hollow Men                                          B. The Waste Land

C. Murder in the Cathedral                                D. Ash Wednesday

19. In ________, Shakespeare has not only made a profound analysis of the social crisis in which the evils can be seen everywhere, but also criticized the bourgeois egoism.

A. Hamlet                                                        B. Othello

C. King Lear                                                    D. Macbeth

20. John Milton’s greatest poetical work ________ is the only generally acknowledged epic in English literature since Beowulf.

A. Areopagitica                                                B. Paradise Lost

C. Lycidas                                                       D. Samson Agonistes

21. The work ________ by William Blake is a lovely volume of poems, presenting a happy world, though not without its evils and sufferings.

A. Songs of Innocence                                       B. Songs of Experience

C. Poetical Sketches                                         D. Lyrical Ballads

22. The plays known as “the Lawrence trilogy” are all the following EXCEPT ________.

A. A Collier’ s Friday Night                               B. Lady Chatterley’ s Lover

C. The Daughter - in - Law                               D. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyed

23. Greatly and permanently affected by the ________ experiences, Hemingway formed his own writing style, together with his theme and hero.

A. mining                                                         B. farming

C. war                                                             D. sailing

24. “The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one -eighth of it being above water. ” This “iceberg” analogy about prose style was put forward by ________.

A. William Faulkner                                           B. Henry James

C. Ernest Hemingway                                       D. F·Scott Fitzgerald

25. In Go Down, Moses, ________ illuminates the problem of black and white in Southern society as a close- knit destiny of blood brotherhood.

A. William Faulkner                                           B. Jack London

C. Herman Melville                                           D. Nathaniel Hawthorne

26. In Death in the Afternoon ________ presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bullfight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy.

A. William Faulkner                                           B. Jack London

C. Ernest Hemingway                                       D. Mark Twain

27. William Faulkner once said that ________ is a story of “l(fā)ost innocence,” which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.

A. The Great Gatsby                                         B. The Sound and the Fury

C. Absalom, Absalom!                                      D. Go Down, Moses

28. Walt Whitman believed, by means of “________,” he has turned poetry into an open field, an area of vital possibility where the reader can allow his own imagination to play.

A. free verse                                                    B. strict verse

C. regular rhyming                                            D. standardized rhyming

29. Herman Melville’s second famous work, ________, was not published until 1924, 33 years after his death.

A. Pierre                                                          B. Redburn

C. Moby-Dick                                                  D. Billy Budd

30. In 1920, ________ published his first novel This Side of Paradise which was, to some extent, his own story.

A. F·Scott Fitzgerald                                      B. Ernest Hemingway

C. William Faulkner                                           D. Emily Dickinson