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12. With his conversion to ______ in 1927 ， T.S. Eliot characterized his Four Quartes by a philosophical and emotional calm quite in contrast to the despair and suffering of his early works .

A. Catholicism

B. Protestantism

C. Anglicanism

D. Enlightenment

13. In his novel Ulysses ， James Joyce intends to present a microcosm of the whole _____ by providing an instance of how a single event contains all the events of its kind ， and how history is recapitulated in the happenings of one day .

A. animal kingdom

B. human life

C. Ireland

D. Britain

14. In his Finnegan''s Wake ， an encycleopedic work ， James Joyce ambitiously attempted to pack the whole history of mankind into _______ .

A. one man''s mind

B. one night''s dream

C. one story

D. one lyric poem

15. Transcendentalists recognized _____ as the “ highest power of the soul ”。

A. intuition

B. Thoreau

C. Mark Twain

D. Dreiser

17. Where Mark Twain satirized European manners at times ， ________ was an admirer .

A. O.Henry

B. Henry James

C. Walt Whitman

D. Jack London

18. “ The Way of the Beaten ： A Harp in the Wind ，” this is the title of one chapter in Dreiser'' s novel _______ .

A. An American Tragedy

B. Sister Carrie

C. Dreiser Looks at Russia

D. Jannie Gerhardt

19. The American “ Thirties ” ， lasted from the crash ， through the ensuing Great Depression ， until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939 . This was a period of _____ .

A. poverty

B. important social movement

C. a new social consciousness

D. all of the above

20. In the pre-war period ， such writers as _______ ， pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced .

A. Mark Twain

B. Stephen Grane

C. Theodore Dreise

D. all of the above

21. The period of the old English literature extends from about 450 to 1066 ， the year of the ______ of England .

A. religious Reformation

B. Norman Conquest

C. Roman Invasion

D. the centralization of power

22. The ______ movement in the eighteenth century Europe was a furtherance of the Renaissance of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .

A. Enlightenment

B. Renaissance

C. Sentimental

D. Transcendental

23. As a lexicographer ， Samuel Johnson distinguished himself as the author of the first English _______ by an Englishman .

A. novel

B. drama

C. poetry

D. dictionary

24. The novel Oliver Twist presents Oliver Twist as Charles Dickens'' first ______ hero .

A. female

B. male

C. child

D. imaginary

25. _______ is considered to be the best-known English dramatist since William Shakespeare .

A. George Bernard Shaw

B. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

C. Christopher Marlowe

D. John Donne

26. T.S. Eliot ''s classic expression of the temper of his age is ________ .

A. The Waste Land

B. Ash Wednesday

C. Four Quartets

D. The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock

27. The short story ________ is taken from Irving ''s work named The Sketch Book .

A. Young Goodman Brown

B. The legend of sleepy Hollow

C. Rip Van Wrinkle

D. Nature

28. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne ''s novel _______________ .

A. The House of the Seven Gables

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. Moby Dick

D. Daisy Milly