I. Multiple Choice(40 points in all, 1 for each)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or

completes the statement. Write the corresponding letter A, B, C or D on the answer sheet.
1. One of Shelley’ s greatest political lyrics is ________, which was later to become a

rallying song of the British Communist Party.
A. “Ode to Liberty”  B. “Ode to Naples”
C. “Sonnet: England in 1819”  D. “Men of England”
2. In Charles Dickens’ work ________, the Utilitarian principle rules over the English

education system and destroys young hearts and minds.
A. Little Dorrit  B. Hard Times
C. Great Expectations  D. Bleak House
3. The tragic sense turns into despair in Thomas Hardy’s ________, where cornered by the

traditional social morality, the hero and the heroine have to kill their own will and

passion and return to their former destructive way of life.
A. The Return of the Native  B. The Mayor of Casterbridge
C. Tess of the D’ Urbervilles  D. Jude the Obscure
4. The typical representatives of G. B. Shaw’ s early plays are ________.
A. Man and Superman; The Apple Cart
B. Widowers’ House; Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
C. Candida; Mrs. Warren’ s Profession
D. The Apple Cart; Widowers’ House
5. As a critic of music and drama, ________ held that art should serve social purposes by

reflecting human life, revealing social contradictions and educating the common people.
A. T. S. Eliot  B. Oscar Wilde
C. George Bernard Shaw  D.W. B. Yeats

6. Symbolism and complex narrative are employed more richly in D. H. Lawrence’s

________, which are generally regarded as his masterpieces.
A. Women in Love; Sons and Lovers
B. The Rainbow; Women in Love
C. Sons and Lovers; Lady Chatterley’s Lover
D. Lady Chatterley’ s Lover; The Rainbow
7. T. S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize of Literature in ________.
A. 1945  B. 1948
C. 1952  D. 1956
8. Thomas Hardy’s pessimistic view of life predominates most of his later works and

earns him a reputation as a ________ writer.
A. realistic  B. naturalistic
C. romantic  D. stylistic
9. “Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain, and little, I am soulless and

heartless? ... And if God had gifted me with some beauty, and much wealth, I should have

made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you. ” The quoted

lines are most probably taken from ________.
A. Great Expectations  B. Wuthering Heights
C. Jane Eyre  D. Pride and Prejudice
10. The most distinguishing feature of Charles Dickens’ works is ________.
A. the vernacular and large vocabulary  B. his humor and wit
C. character-portrayal  D. pictures of pathos
11. G. B. Shaw’ s play ________ established his position as the leading playwright of

his time.
A. Widowers’ Houses  B. Too True to Be Good
C. Mrs. Warren’ s Profession  D. Candida
12. Jane Austen’ s first novel ________ tells a story about two sisters and their love

affairs.
A. Sense and Sensibility  B. Pride and Prejudice
C. Northanger Abbey  D. Mansfield Park
13. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” the quoted line comes from ________.
A. Shelley’s “Ode to the West Wind”  B. Walt Whitman’ s Leaves of Grass
C. John Milton’s Paradise Lost  D. John Keats’“ Ode on a Grecian Urn”
14. All of the following poems by William Wordsworth are masterpieces on nature EXCEPT
________.
A. “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”  B. “An Evening Walk”
C. “Tinter Abbey”  D. “The Solitary Reaper”
15. William Blake’s ________ marks his entry into maturity.
A. Poetical Sketches  B. Songs of Innocence
C. Marriage of Heaven and Hell D. Songs of Experience
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 “lost 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
31. Unlike his contemporaries in the early 20th century, ________ did not break up with

the poetic tradition nor made any experiment on form.
A. Walt Whitman  B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound  D.T. S. Eliot
32. While Mark Twain seemed to have paid more attention to the “life” of the Americans,

________ had apparently laid a greater emphasis on the “inner world” of man.
A. William Howells  B. Henry James
C. Bret Harte  D. Hamlin Garland
33. At the age of eighty -seven, ________ read his poetry at the inauguration of

President John F. Kennedy in 1961.
A. Robert Frost  B. Walt Whitman
C. Ezra Pound  D.T. S. Eliot
34. Of all Herman Melville’s sea adventure stories, ________ proves to be the best.
A. Typee  B. Redburn
C. Moby – Dick D. Omoo
35. Man is a “victim of forces over which he has no control. ” This is a notion held

strongly by ________.
A. Robert Frost  B. Theodore Dreiser
C. Henry James  D. Hamlin Garland
36. With the publication of ________, Theodore Dreiser was launching himself upon a long

career that would ultimately make him one of the most significant American writers of the

school later known as literary naturalism.
A. Sister Carrie  B. The Titan
C. An American Tragedy  D. The Stoic
37. Nathaniel Hawthorne was affected by ________’s transcendentalist theory and struck

up a very intimate relationship with him.
A. H. W. Longfellow  B. Walt Whitman
C. R. W. Emerson  D. Washington Irving
38. Among the following writers ________ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the

20th -century “stream - of - consciousness” novels and the founder of psychological

realism.
A. T. S. Eliot  B. James Joyce
C. William Faulkner  D. Henry James
39. Walt Whitman wrote down a great many poems to air his sorrow for the death of

President ______, and one of the famous is “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’ d.

”
A. Washington  B. Lincoln
C. Franklin  D. Kennedy
40. The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a romance set in______, is concerned about

the dark aberrations of the human spirit.
A. France  B. Spain
C. England  D. Italy
II. Reading Comprehension ( 16 points in all, 4 for each)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write your answers

in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41.“Shah I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date:”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?
B. What figure of speech is employed in the poem?
C. What is the theme of the poem?
42. “When the stars threw down their spears,
And water’ d heaven with their tears,
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the Lamb make thee ?”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?
B. Whom does the “he” refer to?
C. What does the “Lamb” symbolize?
43. “My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’ d from this soil, this air,
Born here of parents born here from parents the same, and their parents the same,
I, now thirty- seven years old in perfect health begin,
Hoping to cease not till death”
Questions:
A. Who’s the poet of the quoted stanza, and what’s the title of the poem?
B. What do “soil” and “air” represent in the first line?
C. What does the poet try to say in the above quoted lines?
44. “ ‘Is dying hard, Daddy?’
‘No, I think it’s pretty easy, Nick. It all depends. ’”
Questions:
A. Who’s the author of the quoted part, and what’s the title of the work?
B. What was Nick preoccupied with when he asked the question?
C. Why did the father add “It all depends” after he answered his son’s question?
III. Questions and Answers (24 points in all, 6 for each)
Give a brief answer to each of the following questions in English. Write your answers in

the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45. What’s the theme of Emily Bronte’ s Wuthering Heights?
46. It is said that B. Shaw’ s play Mrs. Warren’ s Profession, has a strong realistic

theme, which fully reflects the dramatist’s Fabianist idea. What’s the theme of the

work?
47. What’s the theme of Nathaniel Hawthorne’ s Young Goodman Brown?
48. Daisy Miller brought Henry James international fame for the first time. What’s the

character of Daisy Miller, the protagonist?
IV. Topic Discussion(20 points in all, 10 for each)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in the

corresponding space on the answer sheet.
49. Make a comment on the character of Jane Eyre, the heroine of the novel by Charlotte

Bronte.
50. Why are naturalists inevitably pessimistic in their view?
 

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