美国文学选择题
美国文学
I.The Colonial Period（Puritanism）
Multiple Choice
1.The Puritan dominating values were ____________.
A. hard work
B. thrift
C. piety
D. sobriety
2. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true?
A. He was a great Puritan historian.
B. He was an inexhaustible writer.
C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian.
D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.
3. Jonathan Edwards’ best and most representative sermon was_________.
A. A True Sight of Sin
B. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God
C. A Model of Christian Charity
D. God’s Determinations
4. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the ___________.
A. Revolutionism
B. Reason
C. Individualism
D. rationalism
5. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she
became known as the “__________” who appeared in America.
A. Ninth Muse
B. Tenth Muse
C. Best Muse
D. First Muse
II. Period around The War of Independence (Enlightenment)
1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment. ____________was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
2.Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?
A. The American Crisis.
B. The Federalist
C. Declaration of Independence
D. The Age of Reason
3.“These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to
Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
4.Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wigglesworth
D. Philip Freneau
5.At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the
European movement called the __________.
A. Charitist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
D. Modernist Movement
III. Period of Romanticism
I. Multiple Choice
1. In Walt Whitman’s “There was a Child Went Forth,” the child refers to _________.
A. the poet himself as a child
B. any American Child
C. the young America
D. one of the poet’s neighbor
2. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes _______________.
A. the Microcosm of human society
B. a search for truth
C. the unknown world
D. nature
3. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ____________.
A. nature
B. transcendentalist ideas
C. human beings
D. celestial beings
4. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ___________
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Washington Irving
C. Nathaniel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
5. _____________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people living in a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.
A. Twice-Told Tales
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. The House of the Seven Gables
D. The Marble Faun
6. _____________ is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature
B. The Scarlet Letter
C. Walden
D. Moby-Dick
7. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story,_____________.
A. The Legend of Sleep Hollow
B. Rip V an Winkle
C. The Custom-house
D. The Birthmark
8. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT___________.
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. power of the Great Nature
D. evil of the world
9. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ____________.
A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales
B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle
10. As a philosophical and literary movement, _____________flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. modernism
B. rationalism
C. sentimentalism
D. transcendentalism
11. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for_________.
A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
12. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as __________.
A. the Naturalist Period
B. the modern Period
C. the Romantic Period
D. the Realistic Period
13. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Haw home except___________.
A. The House of the Seven Gables
B. White jacket
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithe dale Romance
14. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?
A. The Sketch Book.
B. Leaves of Grass.
C. Leather stocking Tales
D. Adventures of huckleberry Finn.
15. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____________.
A. religion
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
16. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except _________.
A. brevity
B. directness
C. plainest words
D. obscure
17. It is on his ___________that Washington Irving’s fame mainly rested.
A. tales about America
B. early poetry
C. childhood recollections
D. sketches about his European tours
18. ____________ is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Walt Whitman
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Mark Twain
19. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of new England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature
B. Self-Reliance
C. The American Scholar
D. The Over-Soul
20. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _____________
a) the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.
b) The thought that designates man as a social animal.
c) The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common.
d) The modes of thinking.
21. In the poem “Some of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of ___________.
A. the theory of universality.
B. singularity and equality of beings in value
C. both A and B.
D. none above
22. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?
A. lyrical and well-structured
B. free-flowing
C. simple and rather crude
D. conversational and casual
23. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A. Nature
B. essays
C. The Over-Soul
D. Of Studies
IV. Period of Realism
I. Multiple Choice
1. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ______________ to _______________.
A. 1861... 1914 B. 1863...1918 C. 1865...1914 D. 1865 (1918)
2. _____________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Financier
D. The Titan
3. _____________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. The Europeans
C. Daisy Miller
D. The portrait of a Lady
4. _____________ is described by mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. Jim
D. Tony
5. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?
A. Freud
B. Darwin
C. W.
D. Howellls D. Emerson
6. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______________.
A. international theme
B. waste-land imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
7. In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of
______________.
A. the force of convention
B. the free spirit of the New World
C. the decline of aristocracy
D. the corruption of the newly rich
8. The Literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they _____________.
A. speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society
9. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.
A. sentimentalism 2. romanticism 3. realism D. naturalism
10. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ______________.
A. transcendentalism
B. idealism
C. pessimists
D.impressionists
11. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ______________ language.
A. grand D. pompous C. simple D. vernacular
12. Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being ______________.
A. nothingness
B. disillusionment
C. international theme
D. relationship between men and women
13. Theodore Dr eiser is generally regarded as one of America’s ______________.
A. naturalists
B. realists
C. modernists
D. romanticists
14. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier. The Titan and ____________.
A. The Stoic
B. The Giant
C. The Tycoon
D. The Genius
15. The book from which “ all modern American literature comes” refers to _____________.
A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. Moby-Dick
16. T he impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ___________.
A. modernism
B. naturalism
C. vernacularism
D. local colorism
17. Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”?
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. The Gilded Age
D. Life on the Mississippi
18. The main theme of ______________ 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 Dean Howells
C. Mark Twain’s
D. Jack London’s
V. Period of Modernism
I. Multiple Choice
1. In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
C. To Have and Have Not
D. Death in the Afternoon
2. _______________ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. William Faulkner
D. Ezra Pound
3. _______________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. In Our Time
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. Fitzgerald’s fictional world i s the best embodiment of the spirit of ___________.
A. the Jazz Age
B. the Romantic Period
C. the Renaissance period
D. the Neoclassical Period
5. In a tragic sense, ____________ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. In Our Time
C. The Old Man and the Sea
D. A Farewell to Arms
6. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ___________ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A. southern
B. western
C. New Hampshire
D. New England
7. Who, one of the most important poets in his t ime, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?
A. J. D. Salinger.
B. Ezra Pound
C. Richard Wright
D. Ralph Ellison
8. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors. It is always referred to as “____________”.
A. Imagism
B. black humour
C. new fiction
D. the Beat Generation
9. As an autobiographical play, O’ Neill’s _____________(1951) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A. Long Day’s Journey Into Night
B. The Hairy Ape
C. Desire Under the Elms
D. The Iceman Cometh
10. Tender Is the Night is a ______________ by Fitzgerald.
A. Short story
B. novella
C. poem
D. novel
11. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______________.
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee William
C. Robert Frost
D. Eugene O’Nill
12. ______________ is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Eugene O’Neill
C. Arthur Miller
D. Tennessee Williams
13. ________________ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.
A. Go Down, Moses
B. Light in August
C. The Sound and the Fury
D. Absalom
14. ________________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and the unknown.
A. Mending the wall
B. Home Burial
C. The Road Not Taken
D. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
15. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences ______________.
A. in his childhood
B. in the war
C. in America
D. in Africa
16. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________.
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
17. _____________ is not considered to be one of the masters in the field of American fiction in the modernistic period.
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Arthur Miller
D. William Faulkner
18. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…”
In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s The Road not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______________.
A. a travel experience
B. a marriage decision
C. a middle-age crisis
D. one’s course of life
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 _____________.
A. poverty
B. bleakness
C. important social movements
D. a new social consciousness
E. all of the above
20. _____________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D.
E. E. Cummings
21. Ezra Pound’s long poem _____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.
A. The Waste land
B. The Cantos
C. Don Juan
D. Queen Mab
22. In 1954, _____________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
A. T. S Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
23. ____________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who laboured for both of them.
A. Faulkner
B. Fitzgerald
C. Hemingway
D. Steinbeck
24. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ____________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. Stream of consciousness
B. imagism
C. symbolism
D. naturalism
25. Most of the writers in the modern period were able to probe into the inner world of human reality on the base of _____________.
A. William James’ “stream of consciousness”
B. Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious”and “archetypal symbol”
C. Sigmund Freud’s “interpretation of dreams”
D. All of the above
26. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were ____________.
A. a lost Generation
B. a Beat Generation
C. a Jazz Generation
D. none of the above
27. Who is the author of the work: “The Grapes of Wrath”?
A. John Steinbeck
B. Eugene O’Neil
C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
D. Theodore Dreiser
28. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in ____________.
A. Main Street
B. An American Tragedy
C. Winesburg, Ohio
D. Sister Carrie
Keys (答案)：
I. The Colonial Period:
I) 1. ABCD 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. B
II. Period around War of the Independence:
I). 1. B 2. C 3. B 9. D 10. C
III. Period of Romanticism:
I). 1.C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. B 8. B 9. D 10. D 11. D
12. C 13. B 14.A 15. D 16.D 17.A 18. A 19. A 20. C 21. C 22.A 23. D
IV. Period of Realism
I) 1. D 2. A 3. C 4. B 5.B 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. C
10. C 11. D 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. C 16. B 17.B 18. A
V. Period of Modernism:
I) 1.D 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. C 9. A 10. D
11. D 12. B 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. E 20. A 21. B 22. B 23. A 24. A 25.D 26. A 27.A 28. A
补充练习
一、现实主义
1. In the late 19th century, a host of new writers appeared, among them were _____.
A. Bret Harte
B. William Dean Howells
C. Hamlin Garland
D. Mark Twain
2. Influenced by such Europeans as___________ , America's most noteworthy new authors established a literature of realism.
A. Zola
B. Flaubert
C. Balzac
D. Tolstoy
3. William Dean Howells defined realism as "nothing more and nothing less than the truthful treatment of material" , and he best exemplified his theories in three novels. Choose them from the following.
A. The Modem Instance
B. The Rise of Silas Laphan
C. A Hazard of New Fortunes
D. The Prince and the Pauper
4. Mark Twain created, in____________ , a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
A. Huckleberry Finn
B. Tom Sawyer
C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
D. The Gilded Age
5. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers
as___________ .
A. Stephen Crane
B. Benjamin Frank Norris
C. Jack London
D. Henry James
E. Theodore Dreiser
6. Although realism and naturalism were products of the nineteenth century, their final triumph came in the twentieth century, with the popular and critical successes of such writers as___________ .
A. Edwin Arlington Robinson
B. Willa Cather
C. Sherwood Anderson
D. Robert Frost
E. William Faulkner
7. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher
8. Choose the works written by Mark Twain.
A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
B. Innocents Abroad
C. Life on the Mississippi
D. The Tragedy of Pudd' nhead Wilson
E. The Prince and the Pauper
9. The publication of the novel____________ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried on a great war.
A. My Bondage and My Freedom
B. Stanzas on Freedom
C. Voices of Freedom
D. Uncle Tom' s Cabin
10. Mark Twain had led an active life in the very center of the American experience. He had been a____________ .
A. printer, pilot, soldier
B. silver-minor, gold-washer
C. lecturer, traveler, businessman
D. novelist, autobiographer
11. Which statements about O. Henry are right?
A. He wrote about the poor people.
B. His stories are usually short and humorous.
C. The plots of his stories are exceedingly clever and interesting.
D. The ends of his stories are always surprising.
E. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.
12. Where Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, __________ was an admirer.
A. O. Henry
B. Henry James
C. Walt Whitman
D. Jack London
13. Choose the well-known short stories written by William Sidney Porter.
A. The Gift of the Magi
B. An Unfinished Story
C. The Furnished Room
D. The Voice of the City
E. The Cop and the Anthem
14. Choose the novels written by Henry James.
A. The American
B. Daisy Miller
C. The Portrait of a Lady
D. The Tragic Muse
E. The Golden Bowl
15. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.
A. The Ambassadors
B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Bostonians
D. The Princess Casamassima
E. The Mysterious Stranger
16. Jack London' s sincere intellectual and personal involvement in the socialist movement is recorded in such novels and polemical works as_____________ .
A. The People of the Abyss
B. The Iron Heel
C. Revolution
D. The War of the Classes
17. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel___________ .
A. The Call of the Wild
B. The Sea Wolf
C. Martin Eden
D. The Iron Heel
18. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named___________
A. The Son of the Wolf
B. The Sea Wolf
C. The Law of Life
D. White Fang
19.Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. Find them from the following.
A. The Financier
B. The Titan
C. The Genius
D. The Stoic
E. Jannie Gerhardt
20. "The Lure of the Spirit; The Flesh in Pursuit" 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
21. The main theme of___________ 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 Dean Howells'
C. Mark Twain's
D. O. Henry's
22. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.
A. sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism
23. Choose the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism.
A. Mark Twain
B. Henry James
C. William Dean Howells
D. Jack London
24. Choose the works which contain bitter attacks on the human race.
A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
B. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
C. The Mysterious Stranger
D. The Autobiography
25. Mark Twain was a great social critic and a friend of the Chinese. His Disgraceful Percecution of a Boy is a scathing piece of criticism directed against the per secution of the___________ immigrants in California.
A. Quakers
B. Chinese
C. French
D. Japanese
26. Mark Twain stood on the side of China in its struggle against foreign invasions. His___________
and___________ are two notable examples of his vigorous at tacks on the imperialist behavior of the United States.
A. The Treaty with China
B. To the Person Sitting in Darkness
C. Disgraceful Persecution of a Boy
D. Goldsmith' s Friend Abroad Again
27. Stephen Crane's best short stories include _________, _________,
_________, all reinforcing the basic Crane motif of environment and heredity overwhelming man.
A. Open Boat
B. The Blue Hotel
C. An Experiment in Misery
D. The Red Badge of Courage
28. Which writers have naturalist tendency?
A. Stephen Crane
B. Benjamin Frank Norris
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. Edwin Arlington Robinson
29. Theodore Dreiser was left-oriented in his views. He visited Russia and wrote and _________ to express his new faith, and shortly before his death, he joined the Communist Party.
A. Dreiser Looks at Russia
B. Tragic America
C. An American Tragedy
D. The Titan
30. Choose Jack London' s works from the following.
A. The Call of the Wild
B. White Fang
C. The Sea Wolf
D. Martin Eden
III. Make multiple choice?
1．ABCD 2. ABCD 3. ABC 4. A 5. ABCDE 6. ABCDE 7. C 8. ABCDE
9.D 10. ABCD 11. ABCDE 12. B 13. ABCDE 14. ABCDE 15. E
16. ABCD 17.C 18. A 19. ABD 20. B 21. A 22. C 23. ABC
24. ABCD 25. B 26. AB 27. ABC 28. ABCD 29. AB 30. ABCD
现代主义
I Make multiple choices.
1. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .
A. traveling books
B. commercial books
C. historical romances
D. news reports
2. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.
A. Ezra Pound
B. T. S. Eliot
C. Robert Frost
D. Both A and B
3. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ .
A. First World War
B. Second World War
C. Civil War
D. War of Independence
4. 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. bleakness
C. important social movements
D. a new social consciousness
E. all of the above
5. In the pre-war period, such writers as______________ , pointed out the contradictions between what American preached and they practiced.
A. Mark Twain
B. Jack London
C. Stephen Crane
D. Theodore Dreiser
E. all of the above
6. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compassionately about common people, workers and farmers.
A. Emily Dickinson
B. Ezra Pound
C. Robert Frost
D. Langston Hughes
7.The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are _________ .
A. direct treatment
B. economy of expression
C. clear rhythm
D. blank verse
8. "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. " This is the shortest poem written
by____________ .
A. Thomas Stearns Eliot
B. Robert Frost
C. Ezra Pound
D.
E. E. Cummings
9. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D.
E. E. Cummings
10. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.
A. The Waste Land
B. The Cantos
C. Don Juan
D. Queen Mab
11. "Richard Cory" and "Miniver Cheevy" are good examples of Edwin Arlington Robinson' s ______ attitude.
A. romantic
B. fantastic
C. realistic
D. materialistic
12. "Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford", this poem was written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is a brilliant commentary on _____________'s character.
A. Ben Jonson
B. William Shakespeare
C. John Milton
D. Samuel Johnson
13. In his long works Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote the most extensive poems based on_____________ since Tennyson.
A. the Arthurian Legends
B. the Biblical Stories
C. the Greek Mythologies
D. Indian Legends
14. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President__________ .
A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Theodore Roosevelt
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. John F. Kennedy
15. Choose the books written by Robert Frost.
A. Mountain Interval
B. New Hampshire
C. West-Running Brook
D. A Further Range
16. Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost?
A. "Tilbury Town"
B. "A Witness Tree"
C. "Steeple Bush"
D. "In the Clearing"
17. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poems was not written by Robert Frost?
A. "Birches"
B. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
C. "After Apple-Picking"
D. "The Road Not Taken"
E. "Richard Cory"
18. The poems that made Carl Sandburg famous appeared in four volumes. Choose them from the following.
A. Chicago Poems
B. Comhuskers
C. Smoke and Steel
D. Slabs of the Sunburn West
E. Design
19. As a poet, Carl Sandburg was associated with the, Imagists and wrote well-known Imagist poems such as
A. "Fog"
B. "Lost"
C. "Monotone"
D. "The Harbor"
E. all of the above
20. Carl Sandburg had also taken interest in folk songs which he tried to collect and sing during his travels. These folk songs appeared eventually in print in his well-known___________ .
A. Good Morning, America
B. The People, Yes
C. In Reckless Ecstasy
D. The American Songbag
21. Thomas Sutpen is a character in William Faulkner's novel _______________ .
A. Absalom, Absalom!
B. Light in August
C. Go Down, Moses
D. The Sound and the Fury
22. Wallace Stevens' s poetry is primarily motivated by the belief that true ideas correspond with an innate order in nature. Many of his good poems derive their emotional power from reasoned revelation. This philosophical intention is supported by the titles Wallace Stevens gave to his volumes such as_____________ .
A. Harmonium
B. Ideas of Order
C. Parts of a World
D. all of the above
23. The two areas on which the modem American writers concentrated their criticism were___________ .
A. the failure of communication among Americans
B. the failures of American society
C. the extreme prosperity of America
D. the paradise of New Land
24. Choose the poems written by Wallace Stevens.
A. "Anecdote of the Jar"
B. "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"
C. "Peter Quince at the Clavier"
D. "Departmental"
25. __________ , one of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of Thomas Stearns Eliot' s aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.
A. "Sweeny Agonistes"
B. "Tradition and the Individual Talent"
C. " A Primer of Modern Heresy"
D. "Gerontion"
26. Thomas Stearns Eliot used a form, that is, the orchestration of related themes in successive movements, in such works as __________ .
A. The Waste Land
B. the Hollow Men
C. Ash-Wednesday
D. Four Quartets
27. Thomas Stearns Eliot' s second volume of criticism_____________ (1914) was much admired for its critical method.
A. The Function of Criticism
B. The Metaphysical Poets
C. Homage to John Dryden
D. The Sacred Wood
28. __________ , a poetic tragedy on the betrayal of Thomas Becket, is a drama of impressive spiritual power.
A. "The Confidential Clerk"
B. "The Cocktail Party"
C. "The Family Reunion"
D. "Murder in the Cathedral"
29. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name
was_________________ .
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Thomas Stearns Eliot
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
30. Thomas Stearns Eliot was a _____.
A. poet
B. playwright
C. literary critic
D. novelist
31. Thomas Stearns Eliot's first major poem____________ (1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.
A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
B. The Waste Land
C. Four Quartets
D. Preludes
32. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scoot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as ______.
A. The Roaring Twenties
B. The Jazz Age
C. The Dollar Decade
D. all of the above
33. Choose the collections of short stories written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A. Flappers and Philosophers
B. Tales of the Jazz Age
C. All the Sad Young Men
D. Taps at Reveille
34. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
A. The Great Gatsby
B. Tender Is the Night
C. This Side of Paradise
D. The Beautiful and the Damned
35. Point out the three poets who opened the way to Modern poetry.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Thomas Stearns Eliot
C. E. E. Cummings
D. Robert Frost
36. In Paris, Ernest Hemingway, along with _____________, accomplished a revolution in literary style and language.
A. Gertrude Stein
B. Ezra Pound
C. Thomas Stearns Eliot
D. James Joyce
E. all of the above
37. In 1954,___________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his "mastery of the art of modern narration".
A. Thomas Stearns Eliot
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. John Steinbeck
D. William Faulkner
38. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel__________ .
A. The Old Man and the Sea
B. For Whom the Bell Tolls
C. The Sun Also Rises
D. A Farewell to Arms
39. During the Depression, Ernest Hemingway first went to Spain and then , to the American West and to Africa on hunting expeditions. In the novels written in this period such as___________ , he wrote about bullfighting, hunting and his personal anecdote.
A. Death in the Afternoon
B. The Green Hills of Africa
C. Men without Women
D. The Old Man and the Sea
40. Which authors committed suicide?
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. Jack London
C. Robert Frost
D. Mrs. Stowe
41. __________ tells the Joad family' s life from the time they were evicted from their farm in Oklahoma until their first winter in California.
A. Of Mice and Men
B. The Grapes of Wrath
C. The Great Gatsby
D. For Whom the Bell Tolls
42. wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which re
presented different social forces; the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the "poor Whites"; and the Negroes who labored for both of them.
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. John Steinbeck
43. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called_____________ , in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
A. stream of consciousness
B. imagism
C. symbolism
D. naturalism
44. William Faulkner's novel___________ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, toid from four different points of view.
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Startoris
C. The Unvanquished
D. The Town
45. William Faulkner's novel___________ is about a poor white family' s journey through fire and flood to bury the mother in her hometown, Yoknapatawpha.
A. Intruder in the Dust
B. As I Lay Dying
C. Absalom, Absalom!
D. Light in August
46. William Faulkner wrote altogether 18 novels and three volumes of short stories. Of these three novels,
___________ , _________ and ___________ are master pieces by any literary standards.
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Absalom, Absalom
C. Go Down, Moses
D. The Wrath of the Grapes
47. William Faulkner wrote about the histories of a number of Southern aristocratic families such as
the___________ , the___________ , the __________ and the McCaslins, and traces them back to the very beginning when Chickasaw Indians were still lawful owners of the land.
A. Compsons
B. Sartorises
C. Sutpens
D. Joads
48. Most of the important twentieth-century American poets were related with Imagist movement,
including___________ .
A. Ezra Pound
B. Wallace Stevens
C. E. E. Cummings
D. Carl Sandburg
E. Thomas Stearns Eliot
1. C
2. D
3. B
4. E
5. E
6. C
7. ABC
8. C
9. A 10. B 11. C 12. B 13. A 14. D 15. ABCD 16. A 17. E
18. ABCD 19. E 20. D 21. A 22. D 23. AB 24. ABC 25. B 26. ABCD 27. C 28. D 29. A 30. ABC 31. A 32. D 33. ABCD 34. ABCD 35. ABC 36. E 37. B 38. D 39. ABC 40. AB 41. B 42. A 43. A 44. A 45. B 46. ABC 47. ABC 48. ABCDE
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