英语专业英美文学试卷及答案 期末.docx

英 美 文 学 试 卷 A Mark the following statements as true (T) or false (F). (10 x 1 ’=10’) ( ) Chaucer is the first English short-story teller and the founder of English poetry as well as the founder of English realism. His masterpiece The Canterbury talescontains 26 stories. ( ) English Renaissance is an age of essay and drama. ( ) The rise of the modern novel is closely related to the rise of the middle class and an urban life. ( ) The French Revolution and the American War of Independence were two big influences that brought about the English Romantic Movement. ( ) Charlotte’s novels are all about lonely and neglected young women with a fierce longing for life and love. Her novels are more orless based on her own experience and feelings and the life as she sees around. ( ) The leading figures of the naturalism at the turn of 19thcentury are Thomas Hardy, John Galsworthy and Bernard Shaw. ( ) Emily Dickinson is remembered as the “All American Writer”. ( )The Civil War divides the American literature into romantic literature and realist literature. ( ) Mark Twain is the first American writer to discover an American language and American consciousness. ( ) In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights. Fill in the blanks. (20 x 1 ’=20’) The most enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was . The War of Independence lasted eight years till . Ralph Waldo Emersons essay has been regarded as Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence.?? It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American. The American writers paid a great interest in the realities of life and described the integrity of human character reacting under various circumstances and pictured the pioneers of the Far West, the new immigrants and the struggles of the working class. The leading figures were , , , , etc. No period in American history is more eventful than that betwee