21. Shakespeare’s ______ is generally regarded as the most popular play on the stage, for it has the qualities of a “blood-and-thunder” thriller and a philosophical exploitation of life and death.( )
A. Hamlet B. Othello
C. King Lear D. Macbeth
22. T. S. Eliot’s most striking early achievement ______ is in a form of dramatic monologue.
( )
A. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” B. “Gerontion”
C. The Waste Land D. The Hollow Men
23. For Whom the Bell Tolls clearly represents a new beginning in Ernest Hemingway’ s career as a writer, which concerns a volunteer American guerrilla Robert Jordan fighting in ______.( )
A. the Spanish Civil War B. the American Civil War
C. World War I D. World War II
24. According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, “There is ______ in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.”
A. evil B. homesickness
C. libido D. competiveness
25. The Snows of Kilimanjaro by ______ tells a brilliant short story about a mortally wounded American writer who attempts to redeem his imagination from the corrosions of wealth and domestic strife. ( )
A. Ernest Hemingway B. Henry James
C. William Faulkner D. Herman Melville
