I. Multiple Choice (40 items,1 point for each, 40 in all)
Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the
question or completes the statement. Write down your choice A, B, C or D in
the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
1. In reading Shakespeare, you must have come across the line "To be or not
to be _______ that is the question" by _______.
A. Iago in Othello
B. Lear in King Lear
C. Shylock in The Merchant of Venice
D. Hamlet in Hamlet
2. "He has a servant called Friday." "He" in the quoted sentence is a
character in ______.
A. Henry Fielding's Tom Jones
B. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
C. Richard Brinsley Sheridan's The School for Scandal
D. Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe
3. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress is a (n) ___________.
A. allegory
B. romance
C. comedy of manners
D. realistic novel
4. Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" is composed in the form of a (n)
__________.
A. dramatic monologue
B. extended metaphor
C. syllogistic argument
D. dialogue
5. "Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for
granted" is one of the epigrams found in ______.
A. Bacon's "Of Studies"
B. Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
C. Fielding's Tom Jones
D. Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language
6. "Wherefore, Bees of England, forge / Many a weapon, chain, and scourge,
/ That these stingless drones may spoil / The forced produce of your toil?"
("A Song: Men of England") / In the above stanza, Shelley employs a (n)
_________.
A. simile
B. metaphor
C. oxymoron
D. synecdoche
7. "… and then how they met I hardly saw, but Catherine made a spring, and
he caught her, and they were locked in an embrace." (Wuthering Heights) In
the quoted passage, Emily Bronte tells the story in ______ point of view.
A. the third person
B. the first person
C. the second person
D. the omnipresent
8. "Oliver remained a close prisoner in the dark and solitary room to which
he had been consigned by the wisdom and mercy of the board." (Oliver Twist)
In the above passage, Dickens uses the words "wisdom" and
"mercy"__________.
A. nonchalantly
B. carelessly
C. ironically
D. impartially
9. Which of the following is NOT found in comedy of manners with Sheridan's
The School for Scandal as the best representative work? ________.
A. Wit
B. Mistaken identity
C. Sentimentalism
D. Dialogue
10. "To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand
Foe." (Milton, Paradise Lost) Who is the "grand Foe" the speaker is
referring to? _________.
A. Satan
B. God
C. The Serpent
D. Adam
11. In the line "So long lives this, and this gives life to thee" of Sonnet
18, Shakespeare ________.
A. meditates on man's mortality
B. eulogizes the power of artistic creation
C. satirizes human vanity
D. presents a dream vision
12. "Now that I have obtained what I desire / I'll live in speculation of
this art / Till Mephistophilis return again." (Christopher Marlowe, Dr.
Faustus) / The "art" here refers to _______.
A. the art of pure poetry
B. the power of religion
C. the art of verse drama
D. the supernatural power
13. In the lines "With gold and jewels cover every part, / And hide with
ornaments their want of art" (An Essay on Criticism), Pope rejects
________.
A. the "Follow Nature" fallacy
B. artificiality
C. good taste
D. aesthetic order
14. The Romantic Period in English literature began with the publication of
________.
A. William Blake's Songs of Innocence
B. Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
C. Wordsworth's and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
D. Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
15. Which of the following is taken from John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian
Urn"
A. "If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"
B. "For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love."
C. "Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter."
D. "The Child is father of the Man."
16. The title of Alfred Tennyson's poem "Ulysses" reminds the reader of the
following except ______.
A. the Trojan War
B. Homer
C. Quest
D. Christ
17. Thomas Hardy wrote novels of ________.
A. character and environment
B. pure romance
C. "stream of consciousness"
D. psychoanalysis
18. Here is a scene in John Galsworthy's novel The Man of Property: In the
carriage, James urged Irene to give Soames, Irene's husband, more
affection. Then the novel reads, "Irene flushed, and said in a low voice:
'I can not show what I haven't got.'" What didn't Irene get from Soames?
_______.
A. The fur coat she liked so much
B. An expensive painting Soames promised to buy for her.
C. The love and respect she deserved.
D. The turtle soup she ordered.
19. In "the Lake Isle of Innisfree" William Butler Yeats expresses his
________.
A. desire to escape from the materialistic society
B. fear caused by the impending war
C. interest in the Irish legends
D. love for Maud Gonne, a beautiful Irish actress
20. As a literary figure, Stephen Dedalus appears in two novels by
___________.
A. D. H. Lawrence
B. John Galsworthy
C. George Eliot
D. James Joyce
21. In " The Waste Land," T. S. Eliot describes the 20th century as
___________.
A. "A pool among the rock"
B. "A heap of broken images"
C. "The brown fog of a winter noon"
D. "The broken fingernails of dirty hands"
22. The novel starts with "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a
single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
This novel is Jane Austen's _________.
A. Emma
B. Persuasion
C. Sense and Sensibility
D. Pride and Prejudice
23. As a poet, Ezra Pound is best known for his active involvement in
________.
A. the Beat Generation movement
B. the radical political protests
C. the poetic revolution
D. the school of Naturalism
24. Most of Emily Dickinson's poems were published __________.
A. when she was young
B. after her failed love affair
C. in her old age
D. after her death
25. Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth" is a poem about _________.
A. a soldier going to the battlefield
B. the birth of a new life
C. a tragic boyhood experience
D. the growth of a child
26. F. Scott Fitzgerald shows an interest in the spiritual predicament of
______ in his fiction.
A. the working - class people
B. the upper - class society
C. the exiles in Paris
D. intellectuals and artists
27. Which of the following is NOT written by Theodore Dreiser? __________.
A. The Genius
B. The Titan
C. Light in August
D. Jennie Gerhardt
28. Which of Hemingway's novels describes the drifting life of American
exiles in Europe? _______.
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. For Whom the Bell Tolls
D. The Old Man and the Sea.
29. Which of the following is NOT one of the main ideas advocated by
Emerson, the chief spokesman of American Romanticism? _________.
A. Importance of the Individual
B. Faith in Christianity
C. The Over - Soul
D. Self - Reliance
30. Which may NOT be one of the causes for the rise of American romantic
movement? _______.
A. The westward territorial expansion
B. The great increase in population.
C. The victory of the settlers in the Indian war.
D. The rapid economic transformation
31. What is the analogy that Emily Dickinson uses in her poem "Because I
could not stop for Death"? _______.
A. Horse and carriage
B. Stage and performance
C. Cloud and Shade
D. Ship and harbor
32. The two lines "It was you that broke the new wood, / Now is a time for
carving" in Ezra Pound's poem "A Pact" show that Pound believed that
_______.
A. Whitman lacked refinement in poetic art
B. Whitman had made contribution to American poetry
C. it was time to give Whitman a fair judgement
D. it was time to have a real understanding of Whitman
33. Henry James is mostly concerned with ______ in his fiction.
A. the inner life of human beings
B. violent events in history
C. small - town life in backward regions
D. sufferings of the aged
34. Which statement about Eugene O'Neill is NOT true? __________.
A. He was awarded the Nobel Prize
B. He experimented with expressionism
C. He has produced over 40 plays in his lifetime
D. His later works are generally inferior in quality.
35. In Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" the drastic political changes in the
lapsed 20 years are suggested by all the following except __________.
A. the flag of the United States
B. the portrait of George Washington
C. the graves of the dead Union soldiers
D. the mention of election and Congress
36. In "I heard a fly buzz ---- when I died" and "Because I could not stop
for Death," Emily Dickinson's attitude toward death is that of ________.
A. eager embrace
B. helpless anxiety
C. peaceful acceptance
D. terrified despair
37. In Moby - Dick after the whaling ship The Pequad sinks, Melville
writes: "…. then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on
as it rolled five thousand years ago." The author might imply that _______.
A. nothing changes in the 5,000 years of human history
B. man's desire to conquer nature can only end in his own destruction
C. nature is evil as it was 5,000 years ago
D. nature has the ultimate creative power
38. After the night in the forest in Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown,"
Brown dreaded that the church roof might "thunder down" while the priest
was giving his eloquent sermon. The reason for such dread is perhaps that
_________.
A. the church was badly in need of repair
B. too large a crowd had gathered to listen
C. the minister had betrayed himself as a big liar
D. Brown had committed a sinful act
39. In Henry James' Daisy Miller, the "Americanness" in Daisy is revealed
by her _________.
A. vulgarity in language and taste
B. expensive jewels and clothes
C. lack of grace and patience
D. relatively unreserved manners
40. The raft on which Huck and Jim float along the river in Mark Twain's
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn may symbolize all the following except
________.
A. spiritual freedom
B. escape from different sorts of social oppression
C. mobility and instability
D. a small society where people of different colors can live like brothers
PART TWO SUBJECTIVE TEST
II. Reading Comprehension (4 items, 4 points for each, 16 in all)
Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions in English. Write
your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
41. "Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women
men, for dress. Their praise is still - the style is excellent; The sense
they humbly take upon content."
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the work from which this passage is
taken.
B. What does the phrase "take upon content" mean?
C. What is the author's main concern in this passage?
42. "I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed! A heavy weight of hours has
chained and bowed One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud."
Questions:
A. Identify the author and the title of the poem from which this passage is
taken.
B. What does the word "thee" in the third line refer to?
C. What implied meanings can you think of when you read the phrase "a heavy
weight of hours?"
43. "All right, then, I'll go to hell' --- and tore it up."
The above sentence is taken from Chapter 31 of Mark Twain's The Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn.
Questions:
A. Under what circumstances did Huck Finn say this?
B. What did he mean by saying he'd go to hell?
C. And what did he teat up?
44."I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."
Questions:
A. Identify the author of the above two lines.
B. From which poem and which collection of the poet are these lines taken?
C. What does the underlined part mean?
III. Questions and Answers (4 items, 6 points for each, 24 in all)
Give brief answers to each of the following questions in English. Write
your answers in the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
45. The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement in 18th -
century Europe. List at least three leading enlighteners in England. What
are the important things those enlighteners celebrated in this movement?
46. While in a very depressed state of mind, Tess, the heroine in Hardy's
novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles, said something like this: "Once a thief,
always a thief." What does Tess mean by uttering this proverb?
47. How did "The Lost Generation" come into existence in the literary
history of the United States? Who were the leading figures of this literary
movement? (Give at least two.) What does the term "Lost Generation" mean?
48. "Young Goodman Brown" is regarded as on of Hawthorne's most profound
tales. What is the theme of the story? Give examples from the story to show
Hawthorne's masterful use of symbolism.
IV. Topic Discussion (2 items, 10 points for each, 20 in all)
Write no less than 150 words on each of the following topics in English in
the corresponding space on the answer sheet.
49. Jane Eyre, a character created by Charlotte Bronte, is a strong -
willed, fiery passioned, independent - minded woman who fights bravely for
her own rights as an individual human being. Discuss her strong qualities
with examples from the novel Jane Eyre.
50. Chapter 3 of Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is a vivid description of
one of Gatsby's fabulous parties, which are characteristic of the roaring
twenties in the United States. Discuss the spirit of the Jazz Age with
examples from the chapter. |