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美国文学试题2
美国文学试题2

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at

Jamestown, Virginia in 1607 .

2. John Smith became the first American writer.

3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much

of the early American writing.

4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of Reason and Revolution.

5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece The Autobiography .

6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famo us pamphlet appeared.

7. The signing of symbolized the birth of an independent American nation.

8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was .

9. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.

10. is the summit of American Romanticism.

11. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836,American Romanticism reached its summit.

12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel .

13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is .

14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence.

15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .

16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by .

17. The term The Gilded Age is given by to describe the post-civil war years.

18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is .

19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is .

20. is the spokesman for Lost Generation.

1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .

A. Bret Harte

B. Mark Twain

C. Henry James

D. William Dean Howells

2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?

A. The Gilded Age

B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. Jumping Frog

3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?

A. Mark Twain

B. Jack London

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Frank Norris

4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in and

Thoreau.

A. Jefferson

B. Emerson

C. Freneau

D. Oversoul

5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?

A. The Financier

B. The Titan

C. The Stoic

D. An American Tragedy

6. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?

A. Hester Prynne

B. Mr. Hooper

C. Ahab

D. Pearl

7. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.

A. The Golden Bowl

B. The American

C. The Tragic Muse

D. Daisy Miller

8. “”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola.

A. realism

B. naturalism

C. transcendentalism

D. veritism

9. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.

A. The Sea Wolf

B. To Build a Fire

C. The Call of the Wild

D. Martin Eden

10. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .

A. O. Henry

B. Henry James

C. Jack London

D. Mark Twain

11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’s Wife: A

Letter written by .

A. T. S. Eliot

B.Robert Frost

C.Ezra Pound

D. Carl Sandburg

12. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are , direct treatment and economy of expression.

A. blank verse

B. rhythm

C. free verse

D. common speech

13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Ezra Pound

C. F. S. Fitzgerald

D. Emily Dickinson

14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Ezra Pound

C. John Steinbeck

D. F. S. Fitzgerald

15. The first writings that we call American were the narratives and of the early settlements.

A. journals

B. poetry

C. drama

D. folklores

16. An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1828 by .

A. Samuel Johnson

B. Noah Webster

C. Daniel Webster

D. Daniel Defoe

17. Walden is written by .

A. Emerson

B. Thoreau

C. Poe

D. Hawthorne

18. is famous for psychological realism.

A. Mark Twain

B. William Dean Howells

C. Henry James

D. Walt Whitman

19. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. On Beauty

D. Self-Reliance

20. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

A. The American Scholar

B. English Traits

C. The Conduct of Life

D. Nature

21. Santiago is the character in Hemingway’s novel .

A. In Our Time

B. The Old Man and the Sea

C. For Whom the Bell Tolls

D. The Sun Also Rises

22. Which of the following is a much harsher realism?

A. local colorism

B. naturalism

C. romanticism

D. imagism

23. Who is the arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America?

A. Mark Twain

B. Bret Harte

C. William Dean Howells

D. Henry James

24. F. S. Fitzgerald is NOT the author of .

A. The Great Gatsby

B. Tender is the Night

C. A Farewell to the Arms

D. This Side of Paradise

25. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers

as .

A. Mark Twain

B. F. S. Fitzgerald

C. Walt Whitman

D. Stephen Crane

26. Charles Drouet is a character in the novel of______.

A. The American

B. The Portrait of a Lady

C. Sister Carrie

D. The Gift of the Magi

27. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. She was .

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harriet Beecher

28. read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F. Kennedy.

A. Robert Frost

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Carl Sandburg

D. Ezra Pound

29. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the scene, became the major trend in the 70s and 80s

of the 19th century.

A. sentimentalism

B. romanticism

C. realism

D. naturalism

30. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough”. This is the shortest poem

written by .

A. T. S. Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C.Ezra Pound

D. Wallace Stevens

答案

1. 1607

2. John Smith

3. Puritan

4. Reason

5. The Autobiography

6. Common Sense

7. The Declaration of Independence

8. Philip Freneau 9. Sketch Book 10. Transcendentalism

11. Nature 12. The Scarlet Letter 13. international theme 14. The civil war

15. free verse 16. Emily Dickinson 17. Mark Twain

18. Sister Carrie 19. Ezra Pound 20. Ernest Hemingway

II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)

1 --- 5: A C A B D 6 --- 10: C D B C A

11 ---15:C B D C A 16 --- 20: B B C A A

21 ---25: B B C C D 26 --- 30: C C A C C

1. In 1817, the stately poem called “Thanatopsis” introduced the best poet, ______, to appear in America up to that time.

2. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensely popular stories: the sea adventure and

______.

3. Ralph Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leader of ______ movement, yet he never

applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.

4. Herman Melville’s novel ______ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a

seemingly supernatural white whale.

5. In the early 19th century, Washington Irving wrote ______ which became the first work by an

American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic.

6. In 1845, Henry David Thoreau began a two-year residence at ______ Pond.

7. After his death, ______ became the only American to be ho nored with a bust in the Poet’s Corner of

Westminster Abbey.

8. The American Romantic period stretches from the end of the 18th century through the outburst of the

______.

9. The arbiter of 19th century literary realism in America was ______.

10. The poetic style Walt Whitman devised is now called ______, which is poetry without a fixed beat or

regular rhyme scheme.

11. ______ is considered the founder of psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the

impressions made by life on the spectator.

12. ______ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself.

13. O. Henry’s ______ is a very moving story of a young couple who sell their best possessions in order to

get money for a Christmas present for each other.

14. ______ was t he leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “Imagist” movement.

15. In 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald completed his best novel ______. It is the story of an idealist who was

destroyed by the influence of the wealthy, pleasure-seeking people around him.

16. Ernest Hemingway’s stature as a writer was confirmed with the publication of his novel ______ in 1929.

The novel portrayed a farewell both to war and to love.

17. ______ was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s.

18. W illiam Faulkner considered __________ to be “the first truly American writer”.

19. As a genre, naturalism emphasized heredity and ______ as important deterministic forces shaping

individualized characters that were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

20. A series of sixteen pamphlets by Thomas Paine was entitled ______.

1. Moby Dick was dedicated to ____.

A. Ralph Emerson

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Henry Thoreau

D. Henry Longfellow

2. ____ was Mark Twain’s masterpiece from which, as Hemingway noted, “all modern American

literature comes.”

A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

C. Life on the Mississippi

D. The Gilded Age

3. ____ usually was regarded as the first American writer.

A. Emily Bradford

B. Ann Bradstreet

C. Emily Dickinson

D. John Smith

4. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ____.

A. American Enlightenment

B. Sugar Act

C. Chartist movement

D. Romanticist

5. Thomas Jefferson’s attitude, that is, a firm belief in progress, and the pursuit of happiness, is typical of

the period we now call ____.

A. Age of Evolution

B. Age of Reason

C. Age of Romanticism

D. Age of Regionalism

6. As a literary and philosophical movement, ____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil

War.

A. modernism

B. rationalism

C. sentimentalism

D. transcendentalism

7. ____ is NOT written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A. The American Scholar

B. Self-Reliance

C. The Divinity School Address

D. Civil Disobedience

8. There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ____ on the Puritan

soil.

A. Romanticism

B. Symbolism

C. Mysticism

D. Rationalism

9. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was ____.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austen

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Harriet Beecher

10. Which of the following statements about O. Henry is NOT right?

A. He wrote about the poor people.

B. The ends of his stories are always surprising.

C. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.

D. The plots are usually clumsy.

11. The main theme of ____’s The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should

be the main object of the novel.

A. Henry James

B. William Howells

C. Mark Twain

D. O. Henry

12. Which of the following does NOT have a naturalist tendency?

A. Stephan Crane

B. Frank Norris

C. Jack London

D. Walt Whitman

13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _____, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an

ultimately mystery of the universe.

A. Stubb

B. Ishmael

C. Ahab

D. Starbuck

14. Which of the following is NOT optimistic about human nature?

A. Ralph Emerson

B. Walt Whitman

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Henry Thoreau

15. Emily Dickinson wrote many of her poems on various aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a

usual subject of her poetic expression?

A. Religion

B. Life and death

C. Love and marriage

D. War and peace

16. Of the following American writers, _____ had won the Nobel Prize for Literature.

A. Mark Twain

B. Ernest Hemingway

C. Henry James

D. F. S. Fitzgerald

17. In 1862, President Lincoln e xclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this

great war!” The book refers to ____.

A. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Beloved

B. Pride and Prejudice D. Uncle Tom’s Cabin

18. The works of _____ reveals the misery of the migrant workers because of the American Depression.

A. F. S. Fitzgerald

B. John Steinbeck

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. William Howells

19. In Leaves of Grass, _____ is all that concerned Whitman.

A. individualism

B. freedom

C. democracy

D. all the above

20. It is not surprising to fi nd in _____’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law.

A. Mark Twain

B. Emily Dickinson

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Henry James

21. During the period after the Civil War, the American society entered in what Mark Twain referred to as

____.

A. the Golden Age

B. the Modern Age

C. the Gilded Age

D. the Puritan Age

22. “The Custom-House” is an introductory note to _____.

A. Moby-Dick

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Blithedale Romance

23. When we say that a poor young man from the West tried to make his fortune in the East but was

disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.

A. Henry James

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

24. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were (a) “____”, devoid of

faith and alienated from the Western civilization.

A. Lost Generation

B. Beat Generation

C. Sons of Liberty

D. Angry Young Men

25. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner?

A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.

B. His writing is often complex and difficult to understand.

C. He often depicts slum life in New York and Chicago.

D. He represents a new group of Southern writers

26. The setting of the novel The Scarlet Letter is in ____.

A. England during World War I

B. Paris during the French Revolution

C. Puritan America

D. America after the Revolutionary War

27. Which statement is NOT true of the American naturalist?

A. They ventured the forbidden subjects such as sex, death, and violence.

B. They stressed the possible triumph of human will.

C. They wrote in a daring, open, and direct manner.

D. They see human beings no more than a physical object.

28. ____ is often acclaimed as the literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald

C. William Faulkner

D. John Steinbeck

29. ____, one of America’s greatest p laywrights, won the Nobel Prize in 1936, the first American

playwright to receive the honor. Some of his most famous works include The Hairy Ape, Long Day’s Journey into Night.

A. Arthur Miller

B. Tennessee Williams

C. Bernard Malamud

D. Eugene O’Neill

30. Edgar Allan Poe occupies an important position in American literature as a poet and a ____.

A. short story writer

B. novelist

C. dramatist

D. translator

I: Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases. (20%, 1 point for each) 1. Bryant 2. frontier saga 3. transcendentalist

4. Moby Dick

5. Sketch Book

6. Walden

7. Longfellow

8. Civil War

9. Howells 10. free verse

11. Henry James 12. Martin Eden 13. The Gift of Magi

14. Pound 15. The Great Gatsby 16. A Farewell to Arms

17. Steinbeck 18. Mark Twain

19. Environment 20. American Crisis

II: Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case. (30%, 1 point for each)

1 --- 5: B B D A B 6 --- 10: D D A C D

11 ---15: A D B C D 16 --- 20: B D B D C

21 --- 25: C B B A C 26 --- 30: C B B D A

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