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