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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
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