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外国现当代文学(双语)基础知识练习

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Multiple-choice questions with only one correct answer.

Directions: Choose the best answer marked A, B, C or D to each question or incomplete statement, and put the letter in the corresponding bracket.

( )1. Nietzsche said “God is dead” in his book ______.

A. The Will to Life B. Thus Spoke Zarathustra C. Time and Free Will D. Being and Nothingness

( )2. Whose novel Jean-Christophe is composed of a series of independent

narratives.

A. Romain Rolland B. N. Ostrovsky

C. Bertolt Brecht D. Georg Kaiser

( )3. The representative work of Thomas Mann is ———.

A. Little Herr Friedemann B. Buddenbrooks

C. The Unbearable Lightness of Being D. The Magic Mountain

( ) 4. The writer of A Kiss For The Leper is ———

A. Schopenhauer B. F. Mauriac C. Nietzsche D. Roman Roland

( ) 5.The Rainbow was written by ———.

A. William Faulkner B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. David Herbert Lawrence D. Walt Whitman

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( ) 6.The Lost Generation writers include ———

A. Ernest Hemingway B. Marcel Proust C. Romain Rolland D. Nathalie Sarraute

( ) 7. The hero of the novel A Farewell to Arms is—— A. Frederic Henry B. Catherine

C. Jake Barnes D. Nick Adams

( ) 8. The author of Gone with the Wind is ______.

A. Margaret Mitchell B. Gertrude Stein C. Jane Austen D. Charlotte Bronte

( ) 9.The novel Buddenbrooks was written by ———.

A. Gorge Bernard Shaw B. Thomas Mann C. Elizabeth C. Gaskell D. Jane Austen.

( )10. From 1904 to 1912 Romain Rolland published his great novel ———,

which won him the 1915 Nobel Prize for literature.

A. Remembrance of Things Past B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. The Rainbow D. Jean-Christophe

( ) 11. The representative work of F. Scott Fitzgerald is ———.

A. This Side of Paradise B. The Beautiful and Damned C. The Great Gatsby D. Tender Is the Night

( ) 12.In Death in the Afternoon,——— put forward the famous “Iceberg

Theory”.

A. Ernest Hemingway B. Henry James C. Jean-Paul Sartre D. Thomas Mann

( ) 13. Quiet Flows the Don is an epic novel in four volumes by Russian

writer ——.

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A. Mikhail Sholokhov. B. N. Ostrovsky C. A. A. Fadeyev D. M. Gorky

( ) 14. The representative work of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn is ———.

A. The First Circle B . August 1914 C. The Gulag Archipelago D. Cancer Ward

( ) 15.Charles Baudelaire is the precursor of _________

A. Symbolism B. Futurism C. Naturalism D. Realism

( ) 16._____ can be considered an Irish symbolist poet in that he used

allusive imagery

and symbolic structures.

A. P. Valery B. E. Pound C. R. M. Rilke D. W. B. Yeats

( )17. According to Thomas Stearns Eliot, The best way to project the

fragmentary nature of modern human experience is through —— A. characterization B. literary tradition C. imitation of the Metaphysical Poets D. the objective correlative

( ) 18 —— is an expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill about a brutish, unthinking

laborer known as Yank as he searches for a sense of belonging in a

world

controlled by the rich.

A. The Hairy Ape B. Emperor Jones C. From Morn to Midnight D. Side by Side

( ) 19.From Morn to Midnight was written by German expressionist playwright

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