当前位置:文档之家› 美国文学选择题

美国文学选择题

美国文学选择题
美国文学选择题

1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ____ Enlightenment Movement ____.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

2. Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? __ He was a pious puritan __

A. He was born in a poor family.

B. He was a pious puritan.

C. He was phrased as “Jack of all trades”.

D. He was a master of diplomacy.

3. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT __ American Dream ____.

A. Lost Generation

B. Iceberg theory

C. American Dream

D. Code Heroes

4. Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? __ Captain Ahab __

A. Hester Prynne

B. Roger Chillingworth

C. Captain Ahab

D. Pearl

5. Jack London?s semi-biographical novel _Martin Eden__well presents the disillusionment of American Dream.

A. The American Tragedy

B. The Call of the Wild

C. Martin Eden

D. The Grapes of Wrath

1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ___Ishmael ______, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Ahab

B. Ishmael

C. Stubb

D. Starbuck

2. Naturalism is evolved from realis m when the author?s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more____ pessimistic _________. A. rational B. humorous

C. optimistic

D. pessimistic

3. Dreiser?s Trilogy of Desire in cludes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and__ The Stoic ___ .

A. The Genius

B. The Tycoon

C. The Stoic

D. The Giant

4. The 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____ naturalism _______ .

A. local colorism

B. vernacularism

C. modernism

D. naturalism

5. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank

verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of New England _farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern

B. Western

C. New Hampshire

D. New England

6. As an autobiographical play, O?Neill?s _Long Day?s Journey Into Night(1956) 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. The Iceman Cometh

B. Long Day?s Journey Into Night

C. The Hairy Ape

D. Desire Under the Elms

7. Apart from the dislocation of time and the modern stream-of-consciousness, the other narrative techniques Faulkner used to construct his stories include ___multiple points of view __, symbolism and mythological and biblical allusions.

A. impressionism

B. expressionism

C. multiple points of view

D. first person point of view

8. Stylistically, Henry James? fiction is characterized by _highly refined language

A. short, clear sentences

B. abundance of local images

C. ordinary American speech

D. highly refined language

9. One of the characteristics that have made Mark Twain a major literary figure in the 19th century America is his use of____ vernacular ______

A. vernacular

B. interior monologue

C. point of view

D. photographic description

10. It is on his__ tales about America __ that Washington Irving?s fame mainly rested.

A. childhood recollections

B. sketches about his European tours

C. early poetry

D. tales about America

11. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “the American Renaissance”.

A. the English Renaissance

B. the Second Renaissance

C. the American Renaissance

D. the Salem Renaissance

12. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning _ nature, man and the universe _.

A. nature, man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

13. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statements is NOT right?

A. It?s very hard to say that it is a love story or a story of sin.

B. It?s a highly symbolic story and the author is a master of symbolism.

C. It?s mainly about the moral, emotional and psychological effects of the sin

upon the main characters and the people in general.

D. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel.

14. The great sea adventure story Moby-Dick is usually considered____________.

A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universe.

B. an adventurous exploration into man?s relationship with nature

C. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure

D. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the artistic truth and beauty

15. In his poems, Walt Whitman is innovative in the terms of the form of his poetry, which is called “____________________.”

A. free verse

B. blank verse

C. alliteration

D. end rhyming

16. After the Civil War America was transformed from ______ to _________.

A. an agrarian community …an industrialized and commercialized society

B. an agrarian community …a society of freedom and equality

C. a poor and backward society …an industrialized and commercialized society

D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society

17. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?

A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.

B. Their characteristic setting is usually an isolated town.

C. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing harsh

environment.

D.Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited

attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.

18. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain?s style of language?

A. His sentence structures are long, ungrammatical and difficult to read.

B. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.

C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration,

repetition and anti-climax.

D. His style of language had exerted rather deep influence on the contemporary writers.

19. The impact of Darwin?s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to another school of realism: American ______.

A. Romanticism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Realism

D. Naturalism

20. Which of the following is not written by Henry James?

A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans.

B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors.

C. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians.

D.The Genius and The Gilded Age.

21. More than five hundred poems Dickinson wrote are about nature, in which her

general Skepticism about the relationship between ______ is well-expressed.

A. man and man

B. men and women

C. man and nature

D. men and God

22. Which of the following is right about Emily Dickinson?s poems about nature?

A. In them, she expressed her general affirmation about the relationship between

man and nature.

B. Some of them showed her disbelief that there existed a mythical bond

between man and nature.

C. Her poems reflected her feeling that nature is restorative to human beings.

D. Many of them showed her feeling of nature?s inscrutability and indifference to

the life and interests of human beings.

23. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an

unconventional style which is now called free verse, that is _________.

A. lyrical poetry with chanting refrains

B. poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme

C. poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat

D. poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feelings

24. In the first part of the 20th century,apart from Darwinism, there were two thinkers

-______,whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.

A. the German Karl Marx and the Austrian Sigmund Freud

B. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud

C. the Swiss Carl Jung and the American William James

D. the Austrian Karl Marx and the German Sigmund Freud

25. Which of the following can be said about Eugene O?Neill plays?

A. Most of his plays are concerned about the root, the truth of human desires and

human frustrations.

B. His tragic view of life is reflected in many of his works.

C. His plays are concerned about the relationship between man and nature as

well as man and woman.

D. Both A and B.

26. Most of O?Neill?s plays are concerned about the following except______.

A. success and failure in man?s literary career

B. life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality

C. alienation and communication, self and society, desire and frustration

D. the basic issues of human existence and predicament

27. Which of the following can be said about a typical modern literary work?

A. It is a record of sequence and coherence of the history and the world.

B. It is a juxtaposition of the past and present, of the history and the memory.

C. It is a book of integrity drawn from diverse areas of experience.

D. Its perspective is shifted from the internal to the external, from the private to the public.

28. As to the great American poet Ezra Pound, which of the following is not right?

A. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is

dense with personal, literary, and historical allusions.

B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the Imagist Movement.

C. From his analysis of the Chinese ideogram Pound learned to anchor his poetic

language in concrete, perceptual reality, and to organize images into larger

patterns through juxtaposition.

D.For he was politically controversial and notorious for what he did in the

wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.

29. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic

expression.

A. England

B. New England

C. Plymouth

D. Boston

30. Which of the following statements is right about Robert Frost?s poetry?

A. He combined traditional verse forms with the difficult and highly ornamental language.

B. He combined traditional verse forms with the pastoral language of the Southern area.

C. He combined traditional verse forms with a simple spoken language-the speech of

New England farmers.

D. He combined traditional verse forms with the experimental.

31. Which of the following statements can be said about the works of Scott Fitzgerald,

a spokesman of the “Roaring 20s”?

A. Many of them portrayed the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the

unending American dream of fulfillment.

B. They are symbolic of the psychological journey of the modern man and his

helplessness in the modern world.

C. They show the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forces.

D. They penetrate into the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself.

32. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century?

A. The Sun Also Rises.

B. The Old Man and the Sea.

C. Mosses From the Old Manse.

D. The Green Hills of Africa.

33. Which of the following statements is right about the novel A Farewell to Arms?

A. The author favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god?s design

or his beneficence.

B. The author attempted to write the epitaph to a decade and to the whole

generation in the 1930s.

C.The author emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and

mentally and suggests that man is doomed to be entrapped.

D. It tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with

an Italian nurse.

34. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner?s novels?

A. Cambridge.

B. Oxford.

C. Mississippi.

D. Y oknapatawpha.

35. To Faulkner, the primary duty of a writer was to explore and represent the infinite possibilities inherent in human life. Therefore a writer should ______.

A. observe with no judgment whatsoever.

B. reduce authorial intrusion to the lowest minimum.

C. observe at a great distance and sometimes participate in the events.

D. both A and B.

36. Which of the following is right about American fiction from 1945 onwards?

A. A group of new writers who survived the war wrote about their ideals within

the artistic field.

B. There appeared a significant group of Jewish-American writers whose works

were set against the Jewish experience and tradition.

C. Black fiction began to attract critical attention during the 1950s.

D. American fiction in the 1950s and 1960s proves to be a harvest which derived

from its predecessors.

37. Which of the following is not a work of Nathaniel Hawthorne?s?

A. The House of the Seven Gables.

B. The Blithedale Romance.

C. The Marble Faun.

D.White Jacket.

38. In Hawthorne?s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ______________.

A. commentators

B. observers

C. villains

D. saviors

39. Besides sketches, tales and essays, Washington Irving also published a book on ______, which is also considered an important part of his creative writing.

A. poetic theory

B. French art

C. history of New Y ork

D. life of George Washington

40. In Fitzgerald?s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties. The purpose of such descriptions is so show _______.

A. emptiness of life

B. the corruption of the upper class

C. contrast of the rich and the poor

D. the happy days of the Jazz Age

41. In American literature, escaping from the society and returning to nature is a common subject. The following titles are all related, in one way or another, to the subject except _________.

A. Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Dreiser?s Sister Carrie

C. Copper?s Leather-Stocking Tales

D. Thoreau?s Walden

42. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the

school of literary modernism?

A. The Sound and the Fury

B. Uncle Tom?s Cabin.

C. Daisy Miller.

D. The Gilded Age.

43. Emily Dickinson wrote many short 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.

44. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as "Our intellectual Declaration of Independence."

A. "Nature"

B. "Self-Reliance"

C. "Divinity School Address"

D. "The American Scholar"

45. Which of the following statements about writers in 1920s is true?

A. Mark Twain published his last and most important novel.

B. F. Scott Fitzgerald received the Nobel Prize.

C. Freudian psychology influenced many modern writers.

D. Most writers were politically radical.

46. In American literature the first important writer who earned an international fame

on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean is_______________.

A. Washington Irving

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

D. Walt Whitman

47. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is known for his“black vision.”The

Term “black vision” refers to______________.

A. Hawthorne's observation that every man faces a black Wall

B. Hawthorne's belief that all men are by nature evil

C. that Hawthorne employed a dream vision to tell his story

D. that Puritans of Hawthorne's time usually wore black clothes

48. Theodore Dreiser was once criticized for his____________ in Style,but as a true artist his strength just lies in that his style is very serious and well calculated to achieve the thematic ends he sought.

A. crudeness

B. elegance

C. conciseness

D. subtlety

49. Almost all Faulkner?s heroes turned out to be tragic because_____________.

A. all enjoyed living in the declining American South

B. none of them was conditioned by the civilization and Social institutions

C. most of them were prisoners of the past

D. none were successful in their attempt to explain the inexplicable

50. Y ank, the protagonist of Eugene O?Neill?s play The Hairy Ape,talked to the gorilla and set it free because____.

A. he was mad,mistaking a beast for a human

B. he was told by the white young lady that he was like a beast and he wanted to

see how closely he resembled the gorilla

C. he was caged with the gorilla after he insulted an aristocratic stroller

D. he could feel the kinship only with the beast

51. In__________, Robert Frost compares life to a journey, and he is doubtful whether he will regret his choice or not when he is old, because the choice has made all the difference.

A. “After Apple-Picking”

B. “The Road NOt Taken”

C. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”

D. “Fire and Ice”

52. Though Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson were romantic poets in theme and technique, they differ from each other in a variety of ways. For one thing, whereas Whitman likes to keep his eye on human Society at large, Dickinson often addresses such issues as_______, immortality, religion, love and nature.

A. progress

B. freedom

C. beauty

D. death

53. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT

the_______

in the American literary history.

A. individual feeling

B. survival of the fittest

C. strong imagination

D. return to nature

54. Generally speaking,all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality

tend to be_____________.

A. transcendentalists

B. optimists

C. pessimists

D. idealists

55. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ______became

the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

A. Sentimentalism

B. Romanticism

C. Realism

D. Naturalism

56. 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 Y oung Men

57. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.

A. The House of the Seven Gables

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The Portrait of a Lady

D. The pioneers

58. In his realistic fiction, Henry James's primary concern is to present the_________.

A. inner life of human beings

B. American Civil War and its effects

C. life on the Mississippi River

D. Calvinistic view of original Sin

59. Which of the following statements about E. Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner's

Story “A Rose for Emily,” is NOT true?

A. She has a distorted personality.

B. She is physically deformed and paralyzed.

C. She is the symbol of the old values of the South.

D. She is the victim of the past glory.

60. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?

A. Temperance

B. Humanity (Humility)

C. Frugality

D. Immoderation

61. American Romanticism stretches from the end of the ________ century through the outbreak of ______.

A. 18th, the Civil War

B. 18th, the War of Independence

C. 19th, WWI

D. 19th, WWII

62. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.”A. Walt Whitman B. Edgar Allen Poe

C. Anne Bradstreet

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

63. In Emily Dickinson?s Because I Could Not Stop for Death, ______________.

A. death is personified as a devil

B. death is described as the tragic end of a person?s life

C. death is a stage of life and it leads people to the Heaven of immortality

D. death is described as a beautiful girl who couldn?t find her final destination

64. Which is generally regarded as the manifesto and the Bible of American Transcendentalism?

A. Thoreau?s Walden

B.Emerson?s Nature

C. Poe?s Poetic Princ iple

D. Thoreau?s Nature

65. Henry David Thoreau?s work, ________, has always been regarded as a

masterpiece of the New England Transcendental Movement.

A. Walden

B. The Pioneers

C. Nature

D. "Song of Myself"

66. …Leaves of Grass? commands great attention because of its uniquely poetic

embodiment of________, which are written in the founding documents of both the Revolutionary War and the American Civil War.

A. the democratic ideals

B. the romantic ideals

C. the self-reliance spirits

D. the religious ideals

67. ________is the author of the work “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.

A. Washington Irving

B. James Joyce

C. Walt Whitman

D. William Butler Y eats

68. After "The Adventure of Tom Sawyer", Twain gives a literary independence to Tom?s buddy Huck in a book called_________, and the book from which "all modern American literature comes".

A. Life on the Mississippi River

B. The Gilded Age

C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. The Sun Also Rises

69. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.

A. Sister Carrie

B. An American Tragedy

C. The Financier

D. The Titan

70. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitman?s poems are characterized by all the following features except that they are _______________.

A. conversational and crude

B. lyrical and well-structured

C. simple and rather crude

D. free-flowing

71. 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. Howells. D. Emerson

72. 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

73. At the beginning of Faulkner?s A Rose For E mily, there is a detailed description of Emily?s old house. The purpose of such description is to imply that the person living

in it ____________.

A. is a wealth lady

B. has good taste

C. is a prisoner of the past

D. is a conservative aristocrat

74. Most of Herman Melville?s novels are based on sea voyages and sea adventures. Which of the following is not the case?

A. Typee.

B. Moby-Dick.

C. Omoo.

D. The Confidence-Man

75. 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

76. "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

77. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____________.

A. insignificant

B. vicious by nature

C. divine

D. forward-looking

78. 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

79. In Robert Frost?s famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", there are four lines like these: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep,/ And miles to go before I sleep”. The second sleep refers to______.

A. die

B. calm down

C. fall into sleep

D. stop walking

th

Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author?s tone in writing becomes less serious and

1-5,BBACD 6-10 BADCD

I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)

From Thoreau?s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no ma n should violate his conscience at the command of a government.

A. Walden

B. Nature

C. Civil Disobedience

D. Common Sense

Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author?s tone in writing becomes less serious and

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

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

II. Identify Works as Described Below (1?×15 =15?):

1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to

us.

a.Native Son

b.Uncle Tom?s Cabin

c.Invisible Man

d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist?s false value of fine appearance and popularity

with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.

a.A Street Car Named Desire

b. The Hairy Ape

c.Long Day?s Journey into Night

d. Death of Salesman

3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.

a. Long Day?s Journey into Night

b. Henderson the Rain King

c. The Hairy Ape

d. The Glass Menageries

4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is

responsible for the murder.

a.Native Son

b.Uncle Tom?s Cabin

c.Invisible Man

d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

5._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.The Catcher in the Rye

c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. The Naked and the Dead

6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.The Sun Also Rises

c.The Old Man and the Sea

d. The Naked and the Dead

7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to

California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.

a.The Grapes of Wrath

b. U.S. A.

c.Babbitt

d. The Adventures of Augie March

8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as

biographies, newsreels and camera eye.

a.Babbitt

b. Light in August

c. U.S.A.

d. The Grapes of Wrath

9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from

Shakespeare?s Macbeth.

a. Absolom, Absolom!

b. The Sound and the Fury

c.A Farewell to Arms

d. The Great Gatsby

10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous

actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c. McTeague

d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect.

It is a representative work of local colorism.

a.Sister Carrie

b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

d.The Portrait of a Lady

12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)?s reactions in the Civil War.

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. McTeague

13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality

in value of all people and all things.

a.Cantos

b. The Raven

c. Song of Myself

d.Chicago

14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves

are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.

a.The Octopus

b. Moby-Dick

c. The Rise of Silas Lapham

d. Leaves of Grass

15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four

uses of nature.

a. Walden

b. Nature

c. The Scarlet Letter

d. The American Scholar

1-5.cdaad 6-10.aacbb https://www.doczj.com/doc/0e2048968.html,cbb

I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1?×15=15?):

1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.

a. The Pilgrims

b. Mayflower

c. America

d. Titanic

2._________ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.

a. Tennessee Williams

b. Eugene O?Neill

c. Arthur Miller

d. Elmer Rice

3._________ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.

a. Anne Bradstreet

b. Washington Irving

c. Mark Twain

d. Ernest Hemingway

4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.

a. Benjamin Franklin

b. Washington Irving

c. Ralph Waldo Emerson

d. Henry David Thoreau

5._______was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short

lyric poems in her life time.

a. Pearl S. Buck

b.Harriet Bicher Stowe

c. Emily Dickenson

d. Walter Whitman

6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Walt Whitman

d. Edgar Allan Poe

7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.

a. Stephen Crane

b. Frank Norris

c. Theodore Dreiser

d. Henry James

8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?

a. William Dean Howells

b. Mark Twain

c. Ernest Hemingway

d.Theodore Dreiser

9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is______.

a. Ernest Hemingway

b. William Faulkner

c. F. Scott Fitzgerald

d. Mark Twain

10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Y oknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is

______.

a. William Faulkner

b. John Steinbeck

c. Ernest Hemingway

d. Mark Twain

11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major

characters.

a. Sinclair Lewis

b. Saul Bellow

c. Norman Mailer

d. Jerome David Salinger

12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.

a. Anne Bradstreet

b. Robert Frost

c. H.D.

d. Emily Dickinson

13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.

a. John Steinbeck

b. William Faulkner

c. Eugene O?Neill

d. Arthur Miller

14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the

consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?

a.Richard Wright

b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Langston Hughes

d. Ralph Ellison

15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas ________ wrote about the

Jazz age, life in American society.

a.William Carlos Williams

b. William Faulkner

c. John Steinbeck

d. F. Scott Fitzgerald

1-5 bbccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcad

I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):

2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.

a. N, S

b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries

c. Union, Confederacy

d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery

2._____________was praised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.

a.Anne Bradstreet

b. Edward Taylor

c. Thomas Paine

d. Philip Freneau

3.Mark Twain was a representative of ________ in American literature.

a. transcendentalism

b. naturalism

c. local colorism

d. imagism

4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.

a. Benjamin Franklin

b. Washington Irving

c. Ralph Waldo Emerson

d. Henry David Thoreau

5.The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.

a. Washington Irving

b.Ezra Pound

c. Walt Whitman

d. Emily Dickinson

6._________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Walt Whitman

d. Edgar Allan Poe

7.Henry James is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.

a. Stephen Crane

b. Frank Norris

c. Theodore Dreiser

d. William Dean Howells

8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?

a. William Dean Howells

b. Mark Twain

c. Ernest Hemingway

d.Theodore Dreiser

9. ________?s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.

a. Ernest Hemingway

b. William Faulkner

c. F. Scott Fitzgerald

d. Mark Twain

10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Y oknapatwapha County in the deep

south. .

a. William Faulkner

b. John Steinbeck

c. Ernest Hemingway

d. Mark Twain

11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major

characters.

a. Sinclair Lewis

b. Saul Bellow

c. Norman Mailer

d. Jerome David Salinger

12._________ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.

a. Anne Bradstreet

b. Robert Frost

c. H.D.

d. Emily Dickinson

13.________ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.

a. John Steinbeck

b. William Faulkner

c. Eugene O?Neill

d. Arthur Miller

14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the

consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.

b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Langston Hughes

d. Ralph Ellison

15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collection of short stories

a. F. Scott Fitzgerald

b. William Faulkner

c. John Steinbeck

d. Ernest Hemingway

1-5.caccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcba

II. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):

6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellow

human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.

a. The Hairy Ape

b. Henderson the Rain King

c. Long Day?s Journey into Night

d. The Glass Menageries

7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.

a.A Street Car Named Desire

b. The Hairy Ape

c.Long Day?s Journey into Night

d.The Glass Menageries

8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his name is unknown.

a.Native Son

b.Uncle Tom?s Cabin

c.Invisible Man

d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.

a. Long Day?s Journey into Night

b. Henderson the Rain King

c. The Hairy Ape

d. The Glass Menageries

5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how he is finally

arrested and tried and sentenced to death.

a.Native Son

b.Uncle Tom?s Cabin

c.Invisible Man

d. Go Tell It on the Mountains

6._________ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.The Catcher in the Rye

c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. The Naked and the Dead

6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.

a.A Farewell to Arms

b.The Sun Also Rises

c.The Old Man and the Sea

d. The Naked and the Dead

10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to

California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.

b.The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.

c.Babbitt

d. The Adventures of Augie March

11.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as

biographies, newsreels and camera eye.

b.Babbitt b. Light in August

c. U.S.A.

d. The Grapes of Wrath

12.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from

Shakespeare?s Macbeth.

a. Absolom, Absolom!

b. The Sound and the Fury

c.A Farewell to Arms

d. The Great Gatsby

10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and elopes with Hurstwood and

how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c. McTeague

d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a whaling ship kill a

great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.

b.Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c. Moby Dick

d. The Portrait of a Lady

12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)?s reactions in the Civil War, in

which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. McTeague

13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality

in value of all people and all things.

a.Cantos

b. The Raven

c. Song of Myself

d.Chicago

14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially but who rises morally because

he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.

a.The Octopus

b. The Rise of Silas Lapham

c. Moby-Dick

d. Leaves of Grass

15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the “declaration of

intellectual independence” in America.

a. The American Scholar

b. Nature

c. The Scarlet Letter

d. Walden

1-5.adcad 6-10.aacbb https://www.doczj.com/doc/0e2048968.html,cba

II. Match the following (1×20%)

A. Match Works with Their Authors

1.Hugh Selwyn Mauberly

2.Walden

3. Autobiography

4. The Scarlet Letter

5.Leaves of Grass

6.The Raven

7. The Rise of Silas Lapham

8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

9. Long Day?s Journey into Night

10. The Old Man and the Sea

a.Mark Twain b . Ernest Hemingway

c. Eugene O?Neill

d. William Dean Howells

e. Edgar Allan Poe

f. Walt Whitman

g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin Franklin

i.Henry David Thoreau j. Ezra Pound

k.Thomas Jefferson l. T.S. Eliot

B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.

1.Hester Prynne

2.Mrs. Touchett

3.Frederick Henry

4.Benjy Compson

5.the Joads

6.General Edward Cummings

7.Holden Caulfield 7.Bigger Thomas

8.Y ank 9.Happy

a.The Portrait of a Lady

b. The Scarlet Letter

c. The Hairy Ape

d. A Farewell to Arms

e.The Sound and the Fury

f. The Grapes of Wrath

g. The Naked and the Dead

h. The Catcher in the Rye

i. Native Son

j. Death of a Salesman

k.Invisible Man

l.Catch-22

A. Match Works with Their Authors

1-5.jihgf 6-10.edccb

B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear. 1-5.badef 6-10.ghicj

III. Match the following (1?×20=20?)

A. Match works with their authors

1.Nature

2.Rip V an Winkle

3. Nature

4. The Scarlet Letter

5.Leaves of Grass

6.The Raven

7. The Rise of Silas Lapham

8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

9. Cantos

10. The Old Man and the Sea

a.Ezra Pound

b. Ernest Hemingway

c. Mark Twain

d. William Dean Howells

e. Edgar Allan Poe

f. Walt Whitman

g. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson

i.Washington Irving j. Waldo Emerson

k.T.S. Eliot l. Robert Frost

B. Match characters with the works in which they appear.

2.Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer

3.Frederic Henry and Catherine

4.Benjy Compson

5.the Joads

6.General Edward Cummings

7.Holden Caulfield 8.Bigger Thomas

9.The Tyrones 10.Willy Loman

a.The Portrait of a Lady

b. Moby-Dick

c. Death of a Salesman

d. A Farewell to Arms

e.The Sound and the Fury

f. The Grapes of Wrath

g. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye

i. Native Son j. Long Day?s Journey into Night

k.Absalom, Absalom l. The Old Man and the Sea

A. Match Works with Their Authors

1-5.jihgf 6-10.edcab

B. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.

1-5.badef 6-10.edcab

1.C______was the first colony in American history.

A. Massachusetts

B. New Jersey

C. Virginia

D.Georgia

2. _B_____ was the only good American author before the Revolutionary War. One

of his fellow Americans said, “His shadow lies heavier than any other man?s on this young nation.”

A. John Smith

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Thomas Jefferson

D.Thomas Paine

3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.

A. common sense

B. imagination

C. intuition

D. individualism

4. The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______

A. Philip Freneau

B. Edgar Allan Poe

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Emily Dickinson

5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66

days to beat

its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at

Plymouth, Massachusetts.

A. Sunflower

B. Armada

C. Mayflower

D. Titanic

6. Melville?s novel __D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling

voyage in

pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

A. Typee

B. Omoo

C. White Jacket

D. Moby Dick

7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in

New England

from the 1830s to the Civil War.

A.Modernism

B.Rationalism

C.Sentimentalism

D.Transcendentalism

8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.

A. The Scarlet Letter

B. Sister Carrie

C. The Great Gatsby

D. The Old Man and Sea

9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___

American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character

whose status is

not determined economically.

A. Puritan

B. materialistic

C. psychological

D. religious

10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias

towards romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to

Modernism.

A. Rationalism

B. Romanticism

C. Neoclassicism

D.

Enlightenment

11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply

influence by eastern culture.

A. T. S Eliot

B. Robert Frost

C. Ezra Pound

D. Walt Whitman

12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson is NOT true?D

A. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing

close friends.

B. She once felt a deep affection for Charles Wadsworth, a married aged minister,

but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.

C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.

D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.

13. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by __A_____.

A. Mark Twain

B. Henry James

C. Emily Dickinson

D. Theodore Dreiser

14. Which of the following works is NOT by Ernest Hemingway?C

A. The Old Man and Sea

B. A Farewell to Arms

C. Sound and Fury

D. For Whom the Bell Tolls

15. Which one is NOT the characteristic of modernism?D

A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism,

individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.

B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.

C. The work of Marx, and Freud, had mounted an assault against orthodox religious

faith that lasted into the twentieth century.

D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind.

I.Match the Column A with Column B (1’×10=10’)

Column A Column B

( c ) 1. Dimmesdale a. Robert Frost

( e) 2. Ahab b. Mark Twain

( i ) 3. Drouet c. The Scarlet Letter ( a ) 4. Pulitzer Prizer d. Thomas Jefferson

( h ) 5. Reclusive poet e. Moby Dick

(b ) 6. humorist and satirist f. Ernest Heminway

( d) 7. The Decalration of Indepenence g. Henry David Thoreau

( g ) 8. transcendentalist h. Emily Dickinson

( j) 9. The Great Gatsby i. Sister Carrie

( f ) 10. The Lost Generation j. F. Scott Fitzgerald

1.The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____.

美国文学练习题

5. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of ________ which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. A. romantic stories B. symbolic stories C. gothic stories D. humorous stories 7. Romanticism appeared as a literary trend against _____. A. rationality B. imagination C. intuition D. individualism 12. _____ held a “black”vision of life and human beings. A. Ralph Waldo Emerson B. Nathaniel Hawthorne C. Edgar Allan Poe D. James Fenimore Cooper 16. Born of one common cultural heritage, the American Romanticists shared some common features..._______, with the English Romanticists. A. an increasing emphasis on the free expression of emotions B. an increasing attention to the psychic states of their characters C. an increasing emphasis on the desire to return to nature D. both A and B 17. _______ was the first great American writer to earn international fame. A. Irving B. Cooper C. Emerson D. Whitman 21. Pearl is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel _________ . A. Moses from an Old Manse B. Twice-Told Tales C. The Scarlet Letter D. The Blithedale Romance 7. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth, ang Pearl are most likely the names of the characters in __________. A.The Scarlet Letter B. The House of the Seven Gables C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The Pioneers 24. Being a period of the flowering of American literature, the Romantic period is also called “_____”. A. the American Renaissance B. the English Renaissance C. the Harlem Renaissance D. the Second Renaissance 5. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “_______” f inally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 13. F. Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ____________.

陶洁版美国文学选读_第三版_课后习题答案解析

美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案洁(部分) Unit 1 Benjamin Franklin Questions 1.Why did Franklin write his Autobiography? Franklin says that because his son may wish to know about his life, he is taking his one week vacation in the English countryside to record his past. He also says that he has enjoyed his life and would like to repeat it 2.What made Franklin decide to leave the brother to whom he had been apprenticed? His brother was passionate, and had often beaten him. The aversion to arbitrary power that has stuck to him through his whole life .After a brush with the law, Franklin left his brother. 3.How did he arrive in Philadephia? First he set out in a boat for Amboy, the boat dropped him off about 50 miles from Burlington, the next day he reached Burlington on foot, in Burlington he found a boat which was going towards Philadelphia, he arrived there about eight

美国文学选读期末考试重点

1、The Colonial Period(1607-1765) American Puritanism ( in the early 17th century through the end of the 18th) 北美第一位女诗人Anne Bradstreet(宗教气息,夫妻恩爱) Edward Taylor 都受英国玄学派影响(metaphysical) 2、The Enlightenment and Revolution Period Benjamin Franklin:Poor Richard's Almanac The Autobiography---“美国梦”的根源 3、American Romanticism(end of 18th to the civil war) American writers emphasis upon the imaginative and emotional qualities of literature. 早期浪漫主义Washington Irving father of American Literature 短篇小说 James Fenimore Cooper 历史,冒险,边疆小说《The Leather-stocking Tales>文明发展对大 自然的摧残与破坏 William Cullen Bryant 美国第一个浪漫主义诗人《To a Waterfowl>美国 山水,讴歌大自然,歌颂美国生活现实 Edgar Allan Poe ---(48 poems,70 short stories) He greatly influenced the devotees of “Art for art’s sake.” He was father of psychoanalytic criticism , and the detective story. Ralph Waldo Emerson---The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism American Transcendentalism (also known as “American Renaissance”) It is the high tide of American romanticism Transcendentalists spoke for the cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. 《Nature》---the Bible of Transcendentalism by Emerson 《Self-Reliance》表达他的超验主义观点Henry David Thoreau------ Walden he regarded nature as a symbol of spirit.Thoreau was very critical of modern civilization. 小说家:Hawthorne-赞成超验He is a master of symbolism The Scarlet Letter《红字》 Melville 怀疑,悲观,sailing experiences Moby Dick百科全书式性质/海洋作品/动物史诗 诗人Longfellow《I Shot an Arrow...》《A Psalm of Life》第一首被完整地介绍到中国的美国诗歌Whitman (Free Verse---without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme ) 《Leaves of Grass》《One's Self I Sing》《O Captain! My Captain!》song Dickinson inner life of the individual ---died for beauty 4、The Age of Realism James upper reaches of American society. <一位女士的肖像》inner world of man Howells, concerned himself chiefly with middle class life. Twain the lower strata of society. humor and local colorism American Naturalism 自然主义(新型现实) Stephen Crane;《Maggie: A Girl of the Streets》《The Red Badge of Courage》pessimistic Theodore Dreiser;Sister Carrie;Jennie Gerhardt;An American Tragedy(Trilogy of Desire) O.Henry (William Sydney Porter):The Gift of the Magi;The Cop and the anthem Jack London:The Call of the Wild;Martin Eden 5、The Modern Period The 1920s-1930s ( the second renaissance of American literature) The Roaring Twenties ,The Jazz Age ,“lost”(Gertrude Stein) and “waste land”(T.S.Eliot) 现代主义小说家 F. Scott Fitzgerald:《The Great Gatsby》被视为美国文学“爵士时代”的象征,以美国梦American Dream 为主线。

美国文学练习题答案10

I. Multiple Choices (40%) 1-5 DCADA 6-10 ADDAD 11-15DBCBA 16-20 DBCCC 21-25 DCDAC 26-30 ACDBC 31-35CAACD 36-40 DDCAB II. Choose the relevant match from column B for each item in column A. (10%) 1-5 CABDE 6-10CDEAB III. Interpreting the following texts. (15%) Passage 1 1.Ezra Pound(2’) 2.This short poem is one of the most famous representative works of Imagist school. In the poem, “the object” to be treated is the faces in that dim and dam context. The impression is brought out most vividly by the single, dominant image of flower petals on a wet, black bough, which serves as the most. (5’) Passage 2 1. Theodore Dreiser. Sister Carrie(2’) 2. (1)The world is cold and harsh to Sister Carrie. Alone and helpless, she moves along like a mechanism driven by desire and catches blindly at any opportunity for a better existence. A feather in the wind, she is totally at the mercy of forces she cannot comprehend, still less to say control. She does not seem to possess what may be called a mora l fiber in her. (4’) (2) Spencer’s influence is seen at its most powerful as to Hustwood’s tragedy. Dreiser’s portrait is an authentic one of the impotent modern man unfit to survive. He cannot help himself in his relationship with Sister Carrie. No respectable job, no handsome income, no genteel family, nothing could overcome his biological need and stop him from returning to savage, atavistic unreason. He thus hovers between being a man and beast in his behavior. He must die. (6’) IV. Explain the following terms(15%) 1. Local Colorism or Regionalism as a trend first came to prominence in the late 19th century in America. The local colorists were devoted to capturing the unique customs, manners, speech, folklore, and other qualities of a particular regional community, usually in humorous short stories. (3分) The most famous of the local colorists was Mark Twain, with his masterpiece The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. (2分) 2. Transcendentalism is the summit of the Romantic Movement in the history of American literature in the 19th century. (1分)Transcendentalism has been defined philosophically as “the recognition in man of the capacity of knowing truth intuitively”. (1分)Transcendentalists place emphasis on the importance of the Over-soul, the individual and Nature. (2分)The most important representatives are Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. (1分) 3. It defines a sense of moral loss or aimlessness. The WWI destroyed the in ocent ideas, many good young men went to the war and died, or returned damaged, both physically and mentally; their moral faith were no longer valid--- they were “Lost.”(2分). So in a broad Sense: it refers to the entire post -WWI American young generation. In a narrow sense: The Lost Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who were rebelling against what America had become by the 1900’s, including Heming way, F.S.Fitzgerald, etc. Who left

外国文学史选择题

外国文学史选择题

单项选择1.古希腊戏剧起源于()。 A英雄崇拜B祖先崇拜C 酒神祭祀 2.维吉尔除《埃涅阿斯纪》之外的重要诗作是( )。 A《工作与时日》B《农事诗》C《酒神颂》 3.《贝奥武甫》是下列哪种文学类型的代表作?() A骑士文学B英雄史诗C城市文学 4.杜尔西纳娅是下列哪部作品中的人物?()

A《堂吉诃德》B《巨人传》C《十日谈》 5.“返回自然”是下列哪位作家提出的口号?() A卢梭B拜伦C华兹华斯6.下列哪个国家的现实主义文学较多地表现了劳资矛盾以及“小人物”的悲惨命运和苦难生活,人道主义和改良主义色彩特别浓()。 A法国B英国C俄国 7.诗句“我相信一片草叶不亚于星球的运转”的作者是美国诗人()。 A惠特曼B朗费罗C 爱默生

8.陀思妥耶夫斯基在他的最后一部长篇小说《卡拉玛佐夫兄弟》中,塑造了一个最阴险、狡诈、虚伪的人物是()。 A斯麦尔佳科夫B老卡拉玛佐夫C德米特里 9英国浪漫主义文学的理论宣言是()。A《抒情歌谣集》序言B《克伦威尔》序言C《拉辛与莎士比亚》 10.巴扎罗夫是屠格涅夫笔下的()形象。 A小人物B新人C多余人11.古希腊戏剧的起源与庆祭()的活动有关。 A狄俄尼索斯B宙斯

C普罗米修斯 12.由《阿伽门农》、《奠酒人》、《报仇女神》组成的()成为流传至今的唯一一部完整的古希腊三连剧。 A《俄狄浦斯王》B《祈援人》C《俄瑞斯忒亚》 13.《驴的遗嘱》是下列哪种文学类型的代表作?() A骑士文学B英雄史诗C城市文学 14.苔丝狄蒙娜是下列哪部作品中的人物?() A《奥赛罗》B《巨人传》C《十日谈》15. 卢梭的书信体小说()被誉为18世纪最重要的小说。

美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习题(有答案版)

美国文学复习提纲 第一部分连线题(1*10=10’) 1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain 3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog 4. Robert Frost Mending Wall 5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 6. Carl Sandburg Chicago 7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March 8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women 9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath 10. Jack London The Call of the Wild 11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit 12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find 13. O. Henry The Last Leaf 14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury 第二部分单项选择(1.5*20=30’) 1. 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. Tenth Muse B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse 2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit. A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution 3. 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 4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 5. 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 6. ________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

2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题

2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题 Multiple choice; 1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil. A.Emerson’s B. Hawthorne’s C. Thoreau’s D. Allan Poe’s 2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends. A.B ritish B. German C. Italian D. French 3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past. A. nostalgia for B. rejectionn to C. detachment from D. dislike for 4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________. A. Angel B. Adultery C. Able D.all the above 4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts. A. adultery B. arrogance C. accomplishment D. agony 5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style? A. Fresh B. Simple C. Grand D. Direct 6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.

英语文学文化及影视赏析

《英语文学文化及影视赏析》课程教学大纲 一、课程说明 1、课程名称(中英文):英语文学文化及影视赏析/English Literature and Culture & Appreciation of English movies 2、学时学分:75学时理论教学,2学分 3、适用专业:非英语专业研究生 4、开课学院:外国语学院 5、课程负责人:姜萌萌 二、课程描述: 本课程拟对英语经典文学与相关文化概况进行简要介绍,并遴选英美国家的经典作家和作品,对其文学特色、文化背景进行分析。课程重视文学作品与时代背景、西方历史文化的联系,在教学中将理论与实践相结合,做到寓教于乐。在课内,不仅有作家作品、相关文化背景和信息的介绍、经典作品片段的解读,并通过课堂讨论以及影视作品的欣赏帮助学生最直观地理解西方文化与文学作品的文本意义。在课外,学生需要查阅相关资料,完成相关问题的回答与读书报告,以一种轻松愉悦并且多方面切入的方式学习、了解和体验英语文学文化。该课程目的在于通过英语文学文化的学习,提高学生对英语语言的掌握能力、增强对英语文学经典的理解力和对西方文化的审美能力,进一步养成对英语的敏感性,培养人文素质和文学涵养。 三、教材: 王守仁主编,《英国文学选读》,北京:高等教育出版社。 陶洁主编,《美国文学选读》,北京:高等教育出版社。 秦秀白,《英美国家概况》,北京:高等教育出版社。 王佐良,《欧洲文化入门》,北京:外语教学与研究出版社。 自编讲义 四、教学方式: 理论与实践相结合。 五、考核方式: 提交一篇与所学课程相关的课程论文,用英语完成。 总成绩=期末考试成绩70%+平时成绩30%(考勤占10%)

外国文学史选择题

外国文学单项选择(100题) 1、《埃涅阿斯纪》是欧洲文学史上最早由文人创作的:② ①诗歌②史诗③神话④戏剧 2、欧洲文学史上第一部文人史诗是:③ ①《伊利亚特》②《奥德赛》③《埃涅阿斯纪》④《神谱》 3、“不和的金苹果”最终被巴里斯判给了哪位女神?③ ①赫拉②雅典娜③阿佛洛狄忒④阿耳忒弥斯 4、下面哪一位神是宙斯的兄弟?③ ①阿波罗②赫淮斯托斯③波赛东④阿瑞斯 5、谁称萨福为“第十位文艺女神”?② ①亚里斯多德②柏拉图③贺拉斯④马克思 6、木马计的设计者是:③ ①阿伽门农②阿基琉斯③奥德修斯④赫克托尔 7、古希腊戏剧的起源与庆祭哪一位神有关?② ①阿波罗②狄俄尼索斯③得墨特耳④赫淮提亚 8、被亚里士多德尊为悲剧典范的是:③ ①《被缚的普罗米修斯》②《安提戈涅》③《俄底浦斯王》④《美狄亚》 9、古希腊悲剧中,于无知中犯了杀父娶母罪行的英雄是:② ①伊阿宋②俄狄浦斯③赫拉克勒斯④赫克托尔 10、《美狄亚》的作者是:③ ①埃斯库罗斯②索福克勒斯③欧里庇得斯④阿里斯托芬 11、阿里斯托芬在哪部作品中描绘了一个理想的社会:② ①《云》②《鸟》③《马蜂》④《和平》 12、阿里斯托芬在《鸟》中描绘的理想社会是:④ ①理想国②黄金国③乌托邦④云中鹁鸪国 13、在欧洲中世纪文学中,占有突出地位的文学是:② ①骑士文学②教会文学③英雄史诗④城市文学 14、流传迄今的欧洲最完整的一部史诗是:③ ①《埃达》②《希尔德布兰特之歌》③《贝奥武甫》④《英雄国》 15、《罗兰之歌》是哪国的英雄史诗:② ①英国②法国③西班牙④古罗斯 16、《罗兰之歌》中的罗兰是:② ①氏族部落的英雄形象②爱国忠君的英雄形象 ③新兴城市的平民形象④锄强扶弱的骑士形象 17、中世纪特有的一种文学现象是:② ①教会文学②骑士文学③史诗与谣曲④城市市民文学 18、骑士抒情诗的中心地是法国的:④ ①北部②东部③西部④南部 19、骑士传奇兴旺于法国的:① ①北部②东部③西部④南部 20、欧洲中古后期史诗中最有代表性的作品是:④ ①《伊戈尔远征记》②《尼伯龙根之歌》 ③《裴欧沃夫》④《罗兰之歌》

美国文学试题

Exercises One I.Write the names of the authors.(10%) ( ) 1. The Fall of the House of the Usher ( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables ( ) 3. Song of Myself ( ) 4. I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce ( ) 5. The Prince and the Pauper () 6. The Catcher in the Rye ( ) 7. Catch-22 ( ) 8. The Naked and the Dead ( ) 9. The Victim ( ) 10. On the Road ( ) 11. Twice Told Tales ( ) 12. The Voice of the City ( ) 13. Life on the Mississippi ( ) 14. Annabel Lee ( ) 15. The Turn of the Screw ( ) 16. The Mysterious Stranger ( ) 17. them ( ) 18. Portnoy's Complaint ( ) 19. Howl ( ) 20. Life Studies II. Write the names of the novels or poems according to the give n passage. (10%) ( ) 1. There was the great city, bound more closely by ?th ese ?very ?trains which came up daily. Colu mbia City was not so very far away, even once she was in Chicago. ( ) 2. The carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality ( ) 3. " I will go home with you," said Mr. Dimmes

美国文学选读试题

美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一 ) '×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history. C1. D.Georgia C. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey War. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was the

One “His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith 3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____. D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common sense The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4. B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip Freneau D. Emily Dickinson C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 5. The ship __C____ carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts. D. Titanic C. Mayflower B. Armada A. Sunflower D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale. Moby Dick D. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo 7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism 8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______. B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet Letter The Old Man and Sea D. C. The Great Gatsby 9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is not determined economically. 页1 第 A. Puritan B. materialistic C. psychological D. religious 10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards

(完整word版)《美国文学选读》课程标准

《美国文学选读》课程标准 一、课程性质与任务 美国文学选读是英语专业高年级的选修课。它与英美文学史密切结合,使学生在接触到浩繁的文学作品的同时,可以对繁杂的文学现象加以整理和梳理,并形成自己阅读文学作品的习惯,开阔视野,在学习过程中把握正确的理解文学作品的方法。美国文学选读通过向学生介绍文学作品及其作品创作的历史文化背景,培养学生阅读文学作品的兴趣,增强语感,增进学生对美国社会、历史、文化以及生活习俗的了解,提高他们对西方文学的欣赏能力及批评能力。 二、课程教学目标 1.知识目标 1)文学知识:通过本课程的学习,学生应深入、直观地理解各个时期的美国文学作品,把握其思想、语言及创作技巧上的特点;另外,还应对美国的文学评论流变具备相对清晰的认识。 2)语言知识:本课程是通过介绍不同文体的文学作品,深化学生对英语语言的认知、理解和应用的能力。并通过对不同时期英语原文资料的阅读和解析,以一种更加直观的方式了解这门语言的发展。 2.能力目标 1)文学作品鉴赏能力:通过作者作品的讲解,学生可以对作品的社会历史价值和艺术价值进行评价,培养并提高自我的鉴赏能力; 2)语言表达能力:通过课堂和课下阅读及评价任务的完成,学生的口头和书面表达能力能够得到全面的提高; 3)思辩能力:课上小组讨论环节和presentation环节能够激发学生的思辩能力,助其开拓思路,同时也为以后对英语的有效使用打下基础。 3.素质目标 1)文学文化修养:本课程作为英语专业高年级学生的素养课,旨在培养学生对美国文学及文化的理解,可以使学生以直观的方式全面接触这种语言和文化,并形成独立的开放的文化观,进一步强化其跨文化意识; 2)基本的研究素质:本课程通过对文学评论的介绍和讲解向学生传授文学鉴赏的不同视角,可使其具备基本的文学研究素质; 3)文学翻译的基础:本课程通过对文学作品的细读向学生介绍文字背后的人文、历史、政治、哲学及美学等因素,可为文学翻译课程提供较好的材料,并做好前期准备。 三、课程基本信息和内容要求

外国文学选择题答案

1.古希腊神话中的月神是( D ) a 阿佛罗狄忒 b 雅典娜 c缪斯 d 阿尔忒弥斯 2.表现古罗马祖先的光荣业绩的史诗是( A ) a《埃涅阿斯纪》 b《伊里昂纪》 c《埃达》 d《尤利西斯》 3.《罗兰之歌》是( A ) a中世纪法国民族英雄史诗 b中世纪晚期西班牙骑士文学 c中世纪早期基督教圣徒传说 d 中世纪北欧体系英雄传说 4.但丁《新生》的歌咏对象是( B )a劳拉 b 贝阿特丽采 c玛甘泪 d 弗兰采斯加 5.彼得拉克的《歌集》的主要诗体形式是( D )a颂诗体诗 b哀歌体诗 c牧歌体诗 d十四行诗 6.大学才子派是指( A ) a英国文艺复兴时期的一批戏剧家 b法国贵族派人文主义集团 c德国浪漫主义文学团体 d意大利中世纪后期诗歌流派 7.创造了卡冈都亚与庞固埃父子两代形象的是( D ) a斯威夫特 b屠格涅夫 c 伏尔泰 d拉伯雷 8.塞万提斯自己说创作《堂吉诃德》的目的是( A )a嘲笑骑士文学 b表现侠义精神 c揭发教会腐败 d歌颂自由平等 9.17世纪法国文学成就最高的是( C ) a贵族沙龙文学 b 巴洛克文学 c古典主义戏剧 d 感伤主义小说 10.超验主义思想最集中体现在谁的创作中( D ) a华盛顿欧文 b库柏 c惠特曼 d 爱默生 11.狂飙突进运动的理论家和精神领袖是( C ) a歌德 b席勒 c 赫尔德尔 d克琳格尔 12.湖畔诗人是指( D ) a华兹华斯、柯勒律治、济慈 b 雪莱、骚塞、华兹华斯 c拜伦、华兹华斯、柯勒律治 d 华兹华斯、柯勒律治、骚塞 13.哪个流派鼓吹“为艺术而艺术”( B )

a荒诞派 b唯美主义 c浪漫主义 d 古典主义 【依旧不是很确定】 14.马克土温的《败坏了哈德莱堡的人》主要批判了美国的( C )a 资本主义剥削 b种族压迫 c 拜金主义 d 虚伪的民主制度 15.海明威因为哪部作品获得诺贝尔文学奖( D ) a 《太阳照样升起》 b《丧钟为谁而鸣》 c 《永别了,武器》 d《老人与海》 16.哪一位作家的作品被称为“威塞克斯”小说( A )a 哈代 b 托尔斯泰 c 华盛顿欧文 d 乔治爱略特 17.肖洛霍夫反映普通劳动者在卫国战争中的经历的小说是( B )a《静静的顿河》 b《一个人的遭遇》 c《被开垦的处女地》 d《看瓜田的人》 18.在人物形象塑造时,主张以生物学分析代替社会学分析的文学流派是( D )a 象征主义 b 唯美主义 c 现实主义 d 自然主义 19.《复活》男主人公是( C )a“小人物”典型 b“多余人”形象 c 忏悔的贵族 d 专制官僚 20.《猎人笔记》在屠格涅夫的创作中属于( D )a浪漫主义的散文随笔集 b 批判现实主义的长篇小说 c感伤主义的旅行笔记 d 现实主义的短篇小说集 21.劳伦斯以自己的家庭生活为原型创作的小说是( A ) a《儿子与情人》 b《虹》 c《恋爱中的女人》 d《查泰莱夫人的情人》 22.提出“间离效果”的戏剧家是( B )a梅特林克 b布来希特 c 豪普特曼 d 斯坦尼斯拉夫斯基 23.《琼斯皇》是奥尼尔以为主要倾向的剧作。( C )a自然主义 b 象征主义 c 表现主义 d 现实主义 【依旧不是很确定,因ABCD都有被选。。】 24.托马斯曼以象征作为总体结构的小说是( C )

相关主题
相关文档 最新文档