31. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.
A. Jack London B. Herman Melville
C. Sinclair Lewis D. Ralph Ellison
32. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.
A. novels B. poems
C. short stories D. dramas
33. Francis Bacon' s ______ is a great essay on education.
A. The Advancement of Learning
B. The Importance of Being Earnest
C. The New Atlantic.
D. The learned Reading upon the Statute of Uses
34. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
A. Tender Is the Night B. Anna Christie
C. The Beautiful and Dammed D. The Great Gatsby
35. The American literature in modem period is divided into two parts by the event of ______.
A. the expatriate movement B. the Great Depression
C. the First World War D. the Second World War
36. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser' s Trilogy of Desire?
A. The Titan. B. The Financier.
C. The "Genius". D. The Stoic.
37. The followings are all Dickens' works EXCEPT______.
A. Oliver Twist B. Moll Flanders
C. Great Expectations D. Bleak House
38. It is generally regarded that Keats's most important and mature poems are in the form of_______.
A. ode B. elegy
C. epic D. sonnet
39. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his "mastery of the art
of modern narration ".
A. William Faulkner B. John Steinbeck
C. Saul Bellow D. Ernest Hemingway
40. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of ______ work.
A. romantic B. classic
C. neo-classic D. naturalistic
41. Who is the father of English poetry?
A. Shakespeare. B. Edmund Spencer.
C. John Milton. D. Geoffrey Chaucer.
42. The Octopus is written by ______.
A. Frank Norris B. Sherwood Anderson
C. Willa Gather D. Stephen Crane
43. James Baldwin's most famous short story is ______.
A. A Rose for Emily B. The Story of an Hour
C. Sonny's Blues D. A Clean, Well-lighted Place
44. John Galsworthy won the 1932 Nobel Price for his work ______.
A. Ulysses B. Hard Times
C. The Forsyte Saga D. Jude the Obscure
45. Which of the following poems is NOT written by George Gordon Byron?
A. She Walks in Beauty. B. The Solitary Reaper.
C. When We Two Parted. D. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage.
46. ______ wrote several novels with the name of "Rabbit".
A. Arthur Miller B. Thomas Pynchon
C. John Updike D. Wallace Stevens
47. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______.
A. Robert Frost B. Longfellow
C. Ezra Pond D. Carl Sandburg
48. "God help them that help themselves" is found in ______'s work.
A. Franklin B. Freneau
C. Jefferson D. Paine
49. T. S. Eliot' s most famous long poem is ______.
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. A Boy's Will
C. The Waste Land
D. The Golden Bough
50. ______ is often credited with writing the first true "novel of incident".
A. John Banyan B. Henry Fielding
C. Samuel Richardson D. Daniel Defoe
51. Daisy Miller is a great work by ______.
A. Henry James B. Mark Twain
C. Dreiser D. Stowe
52. Hester is a character in ______.
A. Gone with the Wind B. The Fall of the House of Usher
C. Babbitt D. Scarlet letter
53. Jack London's ______is his patently autobiographical novel.
A. The Call of the Wild B. The Sea Wolf
C. Martin Eden D. The Iron Heel
54. William Gelding's first and most well-known novel is ______.
A. Coral island B. Lord of the Flies
C. Treasure Island D. The Brass Butterfly
55. "To be, or not to be" is quoted from ______.
A. King Lear B. Hamlet
C. Julius Caesar D. Romeo and Juliet
56. The first book of the Old Testament is called ______.
A. Exodus B. Numbers
C. Leviticus D. Genesis
57. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain' s ______.
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. Life on the Mississippi D. The Prince and the Pauper
58. O Captain ! My Captain! was written in memory of ______.
A. Walt Whitman B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Abraham Lincoln D. Martin Luther King
59. Which of the following works is NOT written by D. H. Lawrence?
A. Women in Love. B. Sons and Lovers.
C. The Rainbow. D. The French Lieutenant's Woman.
60. Generally, the Renaissance refers to the period between ______ and ______ centuries.
A. 14th/mid-17th B. 14th/mid-18th
C. 16th/mid-18th D. 16th/mid-17th