1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, 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 re alism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.
A. rational
B. humorous
C. optimistic
D. pessimistic
3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes th ree novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ .
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___________ .
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 _______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 ___________(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_________, 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____________.
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____________ .
A. vernacular
B. interior monologue
C. point of view
D. photographic description
10. It is on his____________ 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 “____________________”.
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 ____________________.
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. Yoknapatawpha.
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 York
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 Si ster 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. Yank, 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 Young 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. _________ be lieves 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 Principle
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 Yeats
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 Emily, 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
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 ____________.
美国文学试题库 注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。 1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic 2.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___________ . A. local colorism B. vernacularism C. modernism D. naturalism 3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth. A. Calvinists B. Puritans C. Romanticists D. Transcendentalists 4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____. A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices
第17单元20世纪美国诗人（1） I.Fill in the blanks. 1.Author_____Title_____（南京大学2007研） The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet,black bough. 【答案】Author:Ezra Pound；Title:“In a Station of the Metro” 【解析】题目节选自庞德的《在一个地铁车站》，该诗是以一个意象作为叙述语言的典型范例。 2.Ezra Pound’s lifelong endeavor had been devoted to the writing of_____,which contains_____poems.（国际关系学院2007研） 【答案】The Cantos;117 【解析】庞德把毕生精力都投入到写作《诗章》当中，《诗章》共包括117首诗。 3.Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the“_____”movement. 【答案】imagism 【解析】庞德是意象主义运动的领军人物。 4._____was successful in two fields of activity which did not seem compatible with
one another:he was a very successful businessman and a very remarkable contemporary poet at the same time.（人大2006研） 【答案】Wallace Stevens 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯(Wallace Stevens)是美国20世纪的著名诗人。他集企业家和诗人于一身。 5.Winner of the National Book Award in1950and the Pulitzer Prize in1963,______ is the author of the five-volume epic Paterson which is a lucid statement of the author’s aesthetics. 【答案】William Carlos Williams 【解析】威廉·卡洛斯·威廉斯的代表作是《佩特森》，它清晰地表达了诗人的美学观点。 6.At the age of44,Wallace Stevens was finally persuaded to publish a book of poems,entitled_____. 【答案】Harmonium 【解析】1923年，44岁的华莱士-史蒂文斯出版了他的第一部诗集《风琴》（Harmonium）。 7.After his death,Wallace Stevens’s previously uncollected works appeared under the title_____. 【答案】Opus Posthumous 【解析】华莱士·史蒂文斯死后，其之前未收集的诗作集合成册于1957年发表，名为《遗作》(Opus Posthumous)。
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
I、Write the Names of the Authors、 1、Poor Richard’s Almanac 2、Common Sense 3、The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4、A Streetcar Named Desire 5、The Waste Land 6、Sister Carrie 7、The House of the Seven Gables 8、The Great Gatsby 9、The Bluest Eye 10、 A Farewell to Arms 11、R ip Van Winkle 12、Raven 13、The Call of the Wild 14、The Marble Faun 15、Moby Dick 16、The Wing of the Dove 17、Of Mice and Men 18、The Bluest Eye 19、The Great Gatsby 20、The Bluest Eye 21、The Sound and the Fury II、Multiple Choices(Choose the best answer from the four choices)、 1、From 1622 until his death, , one of the greatest of colonial American, was reelected thirty times as governor、 A、Anne Bradstreet B、William Bradford C、Edward Taylor D、Thomas Pain 2、carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people、It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution、 A、Common Sense B、The American Crisis C、Declaration of Independence D、Defense of the English People 3、usually was regarded as the first American writer、 A、William Bradford B、Anne Bradstreet C、Emily Dickinson D、Captain John Smith 4、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 5、_____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club、 A、Henry David Thoreau B、Ralph Waldo Emerson C、Nathanial Hawthorne D、Walt Whitman
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
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
1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, 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 re alism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________. A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic 3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes th ree novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ . 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___________ . 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 _______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 ___________(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_________, 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____________. 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____________ . A. vernacular B. interior monologue C. point of view D. photographic description 10. It is on his____________ 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 “____________________”.
《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷） 1.Poor Richard’s Almanac ( ) 2.The House of the Seven Gables ( ) 3.“Raven”( ) 4.My Antonia ( ) 5.Babbitt ( ) 6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( ) 7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( ) 8.A Farewell to Arms ( ) 9.The Call of the Wild ( ) 10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( ) https://www.doczj.com/doc/163501894.html,mon Sense ( ) 12. “Rip Van Winkle”( ) 13. Walden( ) 14. The Song of Hiawatha( ) 15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( ) 16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( ) 17.Sister Carrie( ) 18.The Waste Land( ) 19. A Farewell to Arms( ) 20.The Great Gatsby( ) 1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty. 2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two fathoms. 3.Ezra Pound initiated a campaign for , which emphasized the direct treatment of an object or situation. He also advocated the language of common speech, but always the exact word. 4.Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel _________. 5.is the first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters. 6.The first of American literature was not written by an American, but by ___________________, a British captain, who thus became the first American writer. 7._________________ has been considered the “Father of modern American Poetry.\
美国文学选择题及答案 1. William Faulkner is the author of ______. a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter 2. Robert Frost is a famous_______. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. literary critic 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway 4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory b. Conflict c. Irony d. Flashback 5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______. a. Nature b. Walden c. Experience d. Essays 6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of _____and serious literature. a. American folk humor b. funny jokes c. English folklore d. American values 7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War? a. Fennimore Cooper. b. Nathaniel Hawthorn. c. Walt Whitman. d. Washington Irving. 8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____. a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson? a. This is my letter to the world b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died c. This is just to say d. Because I could not stop for death 10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______. a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. essayist 11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States. a. Age of Realism b. Age of Classicalism c. Age of Romanticism d. Age of Renaissance 12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize. a. Ezra Pond b. e. e. cummings c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant 13. Grass is a poem written by _______.
云南师范大学美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一 学院:外语学院专业:英语年级：________ 班次: 学号：姓名： 考试方式(闭卷)：考试时量：150 分钟试卷编号(卷) I. ( ) 1. Franklin’s autobiography, published after his death, has become one of the classics of the genre. ( ) 2. In Catch-22, Yossarian devises multiple strategies to fly combat missions, but the military bureaucracy is always able to find a way to make him stay. ( ) 3. Eben kills the infant in Desire under the Elm and confesses his crime in the end of the play. ( ) 4. “Dreams” has the meaning to encourage other black people not to give up hope or lose their ideal of a better world, for without hope, life is unbearable. ( ) 5. The Scarlet Letter, published in 1850, is an American novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and is generally considered to be his representative work. ( ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, poet, and leader of the Imagist movement in the early 19th century. ( ) 7. “The Fall of the House of Usher” is one of Poe’s poems. ( ) 8. Saul Bellow’s perceptions center around the black people, the big city, and the spirit of American life in the second half of the 20th century. ( ) 9. In The Scarlet Letter, Pear is Hester’s illegitimate daughter. ( ) 10. Some present-day critics consider Pound’s Cantos the best long poem in modern literature. ( ) 11. In 1895, Stephen Crane published Maggie: A Girl of Street, which exerted great influence on Theodore Dreiser’s realism. ( ) 12. The setting of The Flowering Judas is the Mexican Revolution is the 1920s. ( ) 13. Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of the romantic period. ( ) 14. William Faulkner’s woks mainly concerned the decay in economy and moral in the American North. ( ) 15. In Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called imagism, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.
. ... .. . 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
美国文学史及选读期末复习重点考试题型: 1. 名词解释（20分）5个*4=20分 2?选择题（20分） 3?连线题（10分） 4?判断题（10分） 5?片段赏析（20分）一个10分2个一个小说一个诗歌6. 论述题（20分）一个10分2个一个小说一个诗歌 The Outli ne of America n Literature Realists: Henry James and his psychological realism William Dean Howells and his moral realism Local Colorism/Regio nalism: Mark Twain Naturalists: Stephen Crane /Dreiser The Modern Period 1914-1945 Moder n Poetry: Imagism:Ezra Pound W.C.Williams Lyrical Poet : Robert Frost Carl San dburg Wallace Steve ns Moder n Novelists: Represe ntatives of the Lost Gen erati on: （Jazz Age）F.Scott Fitzgerald/Ernest Hemi ngway/T.S.Eliot
Epitome of the Souther n Ren aissa nee: William Faulk ner The Leftist Novelists: Joh n Dos Passos/Joh n Stein beck The Jewish American Novelists in this period: Eugene O Neill Part I Term Defin iti on 1. American Naturalism:美国自然主义 1. Naturalism is a more deliberate kind of realism and this term describes a type of literature that attempts 2. Naturalism is a literary movement that used detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity, and environment had in escapable force in shap ing huma n character. 3.Although n aturalist described the world with sometimes brutal realism, it sometimes also aimed at bettering the world through social reform.4.It accepted the in terpretati on of Darwin leadi ng figure of this school.5.The represe ntative figure is Stephe n Crane and his Sister Carrie. Key words : Darwin ' Evolutionary Theory;environment and heredity; objectivity and detachment Theodore Dreiser; Sister Carrie, Stephe n Crane, etc. 2. American Realism:美国现实主义 1. 时间：In America n literature, the Civil War brought the Roman tic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existe nee. 内战将浪漫主义结束，开启现实主义。 2.It came as a reacti on aga inst the lie of roman ticism and sen time ntalism. 反对浪漫主义和感伤主义 3. Realism turned from an emphasis on the stra nge toward a faithful of the ordin ary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for commo nplace and the low, and it offers an objective rather tha n an idealistic view of the huma n n ature and huma n experie nee. 现实主义从对奇异的强调转向对平凡的忠 禾口人类经验。 4.A realistic writer is more objective than subjective ，more descriptive than symbolism. 5.The represe ntative figures are Mark Twain, Henry James and Howells. Key words : Mark Twain, Henry James and Howells ；reality; the depressed; to apply scie ntific prin ciples of objectivity （客观）and detachme nt （冷静）to its study of huma n beings. 'evoluti onary theory and Dreiser is a literature