Part I Multiple Choice
1. Naturalism evolved from realism when the author?s tone in writing became less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____.
A. optimistic
B. pessimistic
C. humorous
D. rational
2. Among the following, Jack London wrote all the other three but .
A. The Call of the Wild
B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Sea Wolf
D. Martin Eden
3. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over .
A. Whitman
B. Ezra Pound
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about .
A. men and women
B. man and society
C. man and nature
D. man and machine
5. , which one American critic described as “an outrage to American girlhood”,
brought Henry James his first international fame.
A. The American
B. The Portrait of a Lady
C. Daisy Miller
D. The Ambassadors
6. Edgar Allan Poe?s works don?t include .
A. The Raven
B. To Helen
C. “The Fall of the House of Usher”
D. To His Coy Mistress
7. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended
with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the .
A. World War Ⅰ
B. War of Independence
C. Civil War
D. World War Ⅱ
8. was John Steinbeck?s most clearly “proletarian” novel of class struggle,
depicting the lives of migrants workers and their resistance to exploitation by the entrenched forest of society.
A. The Grapes of Wrath
B. Tortilla Fla t
C. Of Mice and Men
D. In Dubious Battle
9. Early in the 1920s the most prominent of the new American playwrights, established an international reputation with such plays as The Emperor, Anna Christie and The Hairy Ape.
A. Eugene O?Neill
B. James Joyce
C. E. E. Cummings
D. Langston Hughes
10. America?s literary dismissed the validity of comforting moral truths. They attempted to achieve extreme objectivity and frankness, presenting characters of low social and economic classes who were dominated by their environment and heredity.
A. naturalists
B. realists
C. romanticists
D. modernists
11. Who is different from others according to the division of writing period?
A. Washington Irving
B.William Cullen Bryant
C. Captain John Smith
D. James Fenimore Cooper
12. What dominated the Puritan phase of American writing?
A. theology
B. literature
C. esthetics
D. revolution
13. At the initial period of the spread of ideas of the Enlightenment was largely due to ____.
A. typography
B. journalism
C. revolution
D. the development of paper-making industry
14. Who has been called the “Father of American Literature”?
A. Walt Scott
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Washington Irving
D. Philip Freneau
15. Who is the first American prose stylist that acquired international fame?
A. Captain John Smith
B. Washington Irving
C. Benjamin Franklin
D.
E. A. Poe
16. Who is the writer of To a Waterfowl?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Thomas Hardy
C. William Cullen Bryant
D. Walt Whitman
17. Thomas Paine is a ____?
A. novelist
B. dramatist
C. poet
D. pamphleteer
18. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes ____
A. short stories
B. literary critic theories
C. poems
D. dramas
19. About Washington Irving, Father of American short stories, which of the following statement is right?( )
A. As a writer, he remained democratic and always exalted a disappearing past.
B. He preferred the Old World to the New in his writing.
C. Many of his writings are focused on American subjects, landscapes, particularly the
legends of the Hudson River region of the fresh young land.
D. He is well-known for his international theme across the Atlantic.
20. Despite strong foreign influences, American romantic writings are typically American which can be revealed in the following ______.( )
A. a desire for an escape from civilized society and a return to the ennobling nature
B. the American national experience of “pioneering into the west”
C. American type of characters speaking local dialects appeared in the fiction
D. all of the above
21. In the well-known story Rip Van Winkle, Rip is asleep for 20 years, during which ______ takes place.( )
A. World War I
B. the Civil War
C. World War II
D. the Revolutionary War
22. According to Emerson, which of the following is not mentioned as the special terms in his Nature? ( )
A. “unity of Nature”
B. “Over-Soul”
C. “supernature”
D. “a transparent eyeball”
23. Ralph Waldo Emerson hates ______.( )
A. Unitarianism
B. Puritanism
C. Protestanism
D. Transcendentalism
24. Whi ch of the following statements is said about most of the poems in Whitman?s Leaves of Grass?( )
A. They identify his ego with the conservative America.
B. They sing of the “en-masse” and the self as well.
C. They celebrate the self and ignore sexuality.
D. They reject the pursuit of love and happiness of individuals.
25. Realism was a reaction against Romanticism and paved the way to ______. ( )
A. Puritanism
B. Modernism
C. Postmodernism
D. Materialism
26. ______ is considered “the true father of American national literature.”( )
A. Mark Twain
B. Washington Irving
C. Ralph Emerson
D. Walt Whitman
27. Henry James? most distinguished literary technique is his ______. ( )
A. narrative point of view
B. author?s participation in narrating
C. first person narrative
D. technique of stream of consciousness
28. The subjects of Emily Dickinson?s poems are mainly about the following except______.( )
A. religion
B. death and immortality
C. man and morality
D. love and nature
29. Mark Twain created in ______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.( )
A. Leaves of Grass
B. Tom Sawyer
C. Huckleberry Finn
D. The Gilded Age
30. Henry James, the great American realist, treated with great care ______ in the first period.( )
A. ancient European civilization which is satirized severely in his writings
B. the emotional and moral problems of Americans in Europe, or Europeans in America
C. the clashes between two different cultures, European and American
D. both B and C
31. Which of the following statements can be said about the novel Sister Carrie? ( )
A. Its heroine is a Southern aristocratic woman, who refuses to come to terms with the present.
B. Its heroine is a country girl, who strives to gain her material rise in big cities but soon gets tired of her success.
C. The heroine is a young vain girl, who indulges herself in grand parties and luxurious trips but soon becomes penniless.
D. It tells about a young sailor, who struggles to reach the upper society but soon gets disillusioned.
32. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthorne?s symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in ______.( )
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Young Goodman Brown
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Ambitious Guest
33. During the first part of the 20th century, with a series of wars the whole world had undergone a dramatic social change, a transformation ______.( )
A. from order to disorder
B. from disorder to order
C. from disorder to chaos
D. from chaos to disorder
34. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended
with the prosperity and turmoil brought by ______.( )
A. World War I
B. World War II
C. the Civil War
D. the War of Independence
35. As to the American realists, which of the following statements is right?( )
A. They tried to explore the harsh realities of life as well as the illusion of heroism.
B. Their attention was directed to the great events of the contemporary time.
C. They aimed at the interpretation of the actualities of any aspect of life, free from subjective prejudice, idealism, or romantic color.
D. all of the above.
36. In the 1960s and 1970s, there appeared the writers of the “new fiction” in America, who shared almost the same belief that ______.( )
A. human beings are living in a prosperous and lively world
B. human beings are trapped in a meaningless world
C. neither God nor man can make sense of the human condition
D. both B and C
37. In the 1920s, O?Neill established an internati onal reputation with the play or plays______. ( )
A. The Emperor Jones
B. Anna Christle
C. The Hairy Ape
D. all of the above
38. In 1954, ______ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration.”( )
A. T. S. Eliot
B. John Steinbeck
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. William Faulkner
39. Which of following is not right about the thematic concerns of Robert Frost? ( )
A. His sense of failure and meaninglessness about human life.
B. The terror and tragedy in nature, as well as its beauty.
C. The loneliness and poverty of the isolated human being.
D. His love of life and his belief in a serenity coming from working.
40. Typical of the “iceberg” analogy is ______ writing style.( )
A. Eugene O? Neill?s
B. Ernest Hemingwa y?s
C. William Faulkner?s
D. Scott Fitzgerald?s
41. The Jazz Age of the 1920s characterized by frivolity and carelessness is brought vividly to life in ______ works.( )
A. Eugene O? Neill?s
B. Ernest Hemingway?s
C. William Faulkner?s
D. Scott Fitzgera ld?s
42. The modern stream-of-consciousness technique was frequently and skillfully exploited by ______ to emphasize the reactions and inner musings of the narrator. He captured the dialects of the Mississippi characters, including Negroes and the redneck, as well as more refined and educated narrators like Quentin.( )
A. Faulkner
B. Fitzgerald
C. Hemingway
D. Steinbeck
43. ______ won the Pulitzer Prize four times and was the only dramatist ever to win a Nobel Prize. He is widely acclaimed “founder of the American drama,” and recognized even more as a major figure in world literature.( )
A. Miller
B. William
C. Heller
D. O?Neill
44. The author of Death of a Salesman is _______.
A. Eudora Welty
B. Arthur Miller
C. Tennessee Williams
D. Carson McCullers
45. The author of Woman Warrior is_____.
A. Amt Tan
B.
C.Y. Lee
C. Maxine Hong Kingston
D. Pearl Buck
46. The first symbol of self-made American man is_____.
A. George Washington
B. Washington Irving
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. Benjamin Franklin
47. American Renaissance started from______.
A. Pragmatism
B. Utilitarian
C. New England Transcendentalism
D. the age of Realism
48. The most influential novelist in Romantic period is_______.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Fennimore Cooper
49. ________divided the 19th century into the age of Romanticism and Realism in American literature.
A. The Spanish-American war
B. The Civil War
C. WWI
D. WWII
50. William Howells explores the life of _______Americans.
A. lower-class
B. upper-class
C. working-class
D. middle-class
51. _______addressed Ernest Hemingway and his peers as “the Lost Generation” which entitled a generation in the 1930s.
A. Gertrude Stein
B. William Dean Howells
C. Sherwood Anderson
D. Henry James
52. Catch 22 is a novel with outstanding____.
A. euphemism
B. Black humor
C. allusion
D. stream of consciousness
53. In______. Captain Ahab is obsessed with the revenge on a whale which sheared off his leg on
a previous voyage, and his crazy chasing of it eventually brings death to all on board the whaler except Ishmael, who survives to tell the tale.
A. Typee
B. White Jacket
C. Moby Dick
D. Billy Budd
54. Which of the following novels is not written by Henry James?
A. Daisy Miller
B. The Golden Bowl
C. What Maisie Knew
D. The Rise of Silas Lapham
55. The first settlers who became the founding fathers of the American nation were quite a few of the______.
A. Quakers
B. Anglicans
C. Catholics
D. Puritans
56. It is a critical commonplace now that American literature is based on a myth, that is______.
A the ancient Greek myth of Zeus B.the British myth of the Saint Grail
C. the Biblical myth of the Garden of Eden
D.the legend of the Sleepy Hollow
57. Romanticism in American literature stretches from_____to the break forth of American Civil War.
A. early 17th C
B. early 19th C
C. early 18th C
D. Spanish-American War
58. Ralph Waldo Emerson?s________is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Indepe ndence”.
A. Nature
B. The Conduct of Life
C. Representative Men
D. The American Scholar
59. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of____.
A. blank verse
B. free verse
C. sonnet
D. quatrain
60. William Faulkner is NOT the writer of_____.
A. Herzog
B. A Rose for Emily
C. As I Lay Dying
D. Go Down, Moses
61. James Fennimore Cooper?s novel_____is the first to reveal the west and Native Americans? life in a passionate way.
A. Do Down, Moses
B. The Last of the Mohicans
C. Winesburg, Ohio
D. O’Pioneers!
62. “The Lost Generation” refers to the writers who relocated to Paris in the post WWI years to reject the values of American materialism. All the following but____are involved in this group.
A. F.S Fitzgerald
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Theodore Dreiser
D. John dos Passos
63. Realism in American literature stretches from _____to the end of 19th.C.
A. early 17th C.
B. early 18th
C.
C. American Civil War
D. Spanish-American War
64. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ____.
A. Jack London
B. Charles Dickens
C. Samuel Coleridge
D. Ernest Hemingway
65. The Catcher in the Rye is written by ____.
A. J. D. Salinger
B. Jack London
C. Flannery O'Connor
D. Saul Bellow
66. The image of the famous "henpecked husband" is created by____
A. Washington Irving
B. Fennimore Cooper
C. Edith Wharton
D. William Dean Howells
67. The literary spokesman of the Jazz Age is often thought to be ____.
A. Eugene O'Neill
B. Ezra Pound
C. Robert Frost
D. Scott Fitzgerald
68. ____ is the most important person of the transcendentalist club.
A. Hawthorn
B. Whitman
C. Emerson
D. Hemingway
69. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____.
A. friendship
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
70. Robert Frost is a famous ____
A. novelist
B. playwright
C. poet
D. literary critic
71. 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 Classism
C. Age of Romanticism
D. Age of Renaissance
72. Irving?s Rip Van Winkle got ideas from______legends.
A. British
B. Italian
C. German
D. French
73. Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as______.
A. Rip Van Winkle and Moby Dick
B. Life of Goldsmith Brown and Rip V an Winkle
C. Rip V an Winkle and Legend of Sleepy Hollow
D. Young Goodman Brown and Rip Van Winkle
74. Strong affinity to the Chinese and Oriental literature can be found in the works of____.
A. Mark Twain
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Arthur Miller
D. Ezra Pound
75. In Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for____.
A. Angel
B. Adultery
C. Able
D. all the above
76. 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
77. In a Station of the Metro is regarded by critics as a classic specimen of____.
A. the romantic poetry
B. the imagist poetry
C. the absurd poetry
D. the transcendental poetry
78. 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
79. Dreiser?s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ .
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C.The Stoic
D. The Giant
80. 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
81. 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
82. 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
83. 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
84. Stylistically, Henry James? fiction is characterized by____________.
A. short, clear sentences
B. abundance of local images
C. ordinary American speech
D. highly refined language
85. 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
86. 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
87. 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
88. 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
89. 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 mo ral, 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.
90. 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
91. 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
92. 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 commercial ized society
D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society
93. 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.
94. 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.
95. 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
96. 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.
97. 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
98. 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.
99. 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
100. 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
101. 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.
102. 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
103. 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. 104. 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.
105. In his poetry, Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression.
A. England
B. New England
C. Plymouth
D. Boston
106. 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.
107. 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.
108. 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.
109. 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.
110. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner?s novels?
A. Cambridge.
B. Oxford.
C. Mississippi.
D. Yoknapatawpha.
111. 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.
112. 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.
113. Which of the following is not a work of Nath aniel Hawthorne?s?
A. The House of the Seven Gables.
B. The Blithedale Romance.
C. The Marble Faun.
D. White Jacket.
114. In Hawthorne?s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as ______________.
A. commentators
B. observers
C. villains
D. saviors
115. 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
116. 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
117. 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
118. 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.
119. 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.
120. 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"
121. 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.
122. 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
123. The American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne is kno wn 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
124. 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
125. 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
126. 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
127. 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”
128. 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
129.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
130. Generally speaking，all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be_____________.
A. transcendentalists
B. optimists
C.pessimists
D. idealists
131. 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
132. 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
133. 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
134.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
135. 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.
136. Which of the following is NOT the virtue that Franklin enumerated in his The Autobiography?
A. Temperance
B. Humanity (Humility)
C. Frugality
D. Immoderation
137. 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
138. _________ believes that the chief aim of literary creation is beauty, and “the death o f 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
139. 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
140. 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
141. 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"
142. …Leaves of Grass? commands great attention be cause 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
143. ________is the author of the work “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”.
A.Washington Irving
B. James Joyce
C. Walt Whitman
D. William Butler Yeats
144. 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
145. The greatest work written by Theodore Dreiser is__________.
A. Sister Carrie
B. An American Tragedy
C. The Financier
D. The Titan
146. We can perhaps summarize that Walt Whitm an?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
147. 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
148. 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
149. At the beginning of Faulkner?s A Rose f or 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
150. Most of Herman Melville?s novels ar e 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
151. 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
152. "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
153. The Transcendentalists believe that, first, nature is ennobling, and second, the individual is ____________.
A. insignificant
B. vicious by nature
C. divine
D. forward-looking
154. 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
155. 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
156. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving?s ______ and ended with Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book
B. Tales of a Traveler
C. A History of New York
D. The Scarlet Letter
157. In 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
158. 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
159. In the history of American literature，______ is usually agreed to be the summit of the American Romanticism.
A. the Harlem Renaissance
B. England Transcendentalism
C. New England Transcendentalism
D. New Transcendentalism
160. 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 high ly 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.
170. 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
171. 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
172. 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 an d backward society … an industrialized and commercialized society
D. an industrialized and commercialized society … a highly developed society
173. 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.
174. 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. 175. 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
176. 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
177. 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
178. Which of the followin g 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.
179. 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
180. By the end of the 19th century，the American realists sought to ______and therefore rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and events in their writings.
A. describe the wide range of American experience
B. show animal nature of human beings
C. present the subtleties of human personality
D. both A and C
181. 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
182. 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.
183. 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
184. 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. 185. 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.
186. In his poetry，Robert Frost made the colloquial ______ speech into a poetic expression.
A. England
B. New England
C. Plymouth
D. Boston
187. 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.
188. 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.
189. As Fitzgerald?s writing style is concerned，which of the following is right？
A. The author dropped off the device of having events observed by a “central consciousness”.
B. His intervening passages of narration leaves the tedious process of transition to the author?s imagination.
C. The scenic method is employed，each of which consists of one or more dramatic scenes.
D. His diction and metaphors are partially original and details accurate.
190. 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
191. 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.
192. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner?s novels？
A. Cambridge.
B. Oxford.
C. Mississippi.
D. Yoknapatawpha.
193. 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
194. 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.
195. What kind of narrative point of view is adopted in Moby Dick?
A. The First person
B. The second person
C. The third person limited
D. The third person omniscient
196. In “petals on a wet, black bough”, the figure of speech used here is_____.
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
C. pun
D. simile
197. In a Station of the Metro is a well-known instance of the Japanese_____.
A.Haiku
B. folk songs
C. narrative poems
D. lyrical poems
Part II. Matching: Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A. (10 points, 1 for each)
Group 1
Column A Column B
( )1. Ralph Waldo Emerson a. The Hairy Ape
( )2. William Faulkner b. Daisy Miller
( )3. Henry James c. Nature
( )4. Eugene O?Neil d. A Farewell to Arms
( )5. Ernest Hemingway e. A Rose for Emily
Group 2
Column A Column B
( )6. Emily Grierson a. The Scarlet Letter
( )7. Hester b. The Old Man and the Sea
( )8. Ishmael c. Martin Eden
( )9. Santiago d. A Rose for Emily
( )10. Ruth e. Moby Dick
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
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
湖州师范学院外国语学院2008— 2009学年第二学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A卷）答案暨评分标准 I. Write the names of the authors. (10%) ①Walt Whitman ②Edgar Allen Poe ③Wallace Stevens ④Franklin Norris ⑤Stephen Crane ⑥William Faulkner ⑦Sinclair Lewis ⑧John Steinbeck ⑨Langston Hughes ⑩Tennessee Williams II. Fill in the following blanks with appropriate information.（10%） ①New England ②Regionalism or Local color writing ③semi-autobiographical ④anti-realism ⑤Imagist ⑥Santiago ⑦multiple narrations or points of view ⑧1930 ⑨Harlem Renaissance ⑩Eugene O’Neill III. Choose only one answer form the four choices as the most appropriate answer. （20%） 1－5. A D C B B 6－10. D B E B A IV. Identify the author and the title of the work from which each of the following excerpts is taken. And then answer the question after each excerpt. (20%) Passage 1 the author: Walt Whitman (1%) the title of the work : Songs of Myself (1%) Question: What is the poet celebrating? (2%) The poet is celebrating individualism and nationalism, singing of all those people who form the American nationality.
仅作参考，最主要还是要自己消化，整理 Chapter 1 Colonial Period 1. Puritanism: American puritans accepted the doctrine of predestination, original sin and total depravity, and limited atonement through a special infusion of grace from God. 2. Influence (1) A group of good qualities – hard work, thrift, piety, sobriety (serious and thoughtful) influenced American literature. (2) It led to the everlasting myth. All literature is based on a myth – garden of Eden. (3) Symbolism: the American puritan’s metaphorical mode of perception was chi efly instrumental in calling into being a literary symbolism which is distinctly American. (4) With regard to their writing, the style is fresh, simple and direct; the rhetoric is plain and honest, not without a touch of nobility often traceable to the direct influence of the Bible. II. Overview of the literature 1. types of writing diaries, histories, journals, letters, travel books, autobiographies/biographies, sermons 2. writers of colonial period (1) Anne Bradstreet (2) Edward Taylor III. Benjamin Franklin 1. life 2. works (1) Poor Richard’s Almanac (2) Autobiography 3. contribution (1) He helped found the Pennsylvania Hospital and the American Philosophical Society. (2) He was called “the new Prometheus who had stolen fire (electricity in this case) from heaven”. (3) Everything seems to meet in this one man –“Jack of all trades”. Herman Melville thus described him “master of each and mastered by none”. Chapter 2 American Romanticism Section 1 Early Romantic Period I. American Romanticism 1. Background (1) Political background and economic development (2) Romantic movement in European countries Derivative – foreign influence 2. features (1) American romanticism was in essence the expression of “a real new experience and contained “an alien quality” for the simple reason that “the spirit of the place” was radically new and alien. (2) There is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider. American romantic authors tended more to moralize. Many American romantic writings intended to edify more than they entertained. (3) The “newness” of Americans as a nation is in connection with Am erican Romanticism. (4) As a logical result of the foreign and native factors at work, American romanticism was both imitative and independent. II. Washington Irving: Father of American Literature 1. several names attached to Irving (1) first American writer (2) the messenger sent from the new world to the old world (3) father of American literature 2. life 3. works (1) A History of New York from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty (2) The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. (He won a measure of international recognition with the publication of this.) (3) The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (4) A Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada (5) The Alhambra 4. Literary career: two parts (1) 1809~1832
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》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%）
大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题： 1.选择/对错60分（40道选择，20个对错） 2.名词解释10分（5个） 3.选段配对10分（5个） 4.问答20分（10/2） 1．历史：Father / poetess… 2. 名作家：Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson 3．作品：The W asteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter 1.a)选择题（40个，40分） 1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________. A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement 2. Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? ________ 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 ________. A. Lost Generation B. Iceberg theory C. American Dream D. Code Heroes 4. Which character is NOT from The Scarlet Letter? ________ A. Hester Prynne B. Roger Chillingworth C. Captain Ahab D. Pearl 5. Jack London’s semi-biographical novel ________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 b)判断对错题（20个，20分） 1. Poe’s masterpiece “To Helen” is written to memorize his deceased wife. (F) 2. The tone of “Annabel Lee” is optimistic and hopeful. (F) 3. Mark Twain's novel Jumping Frog was an artistic failure, but it gave its name to the America of the postbellum period which it attempts to satirize. (F) 4. Sister Carrie ended up in tragedy because she could not control her fate. (F)
i.T h e C o l o n i a l P e r i o d 1.关键词: America Puritanism 2.Calvinism特点: total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, Perseverance of the saints 3.Anne Bradstreet( P17 ): a Puritan poet be known as “The Muse” 4.Thomas Paine: one of continual, unswerving fight for the rights of man. 5.works: “Common Sense”“American Crisis”“The Rights of Man”“The Age of Reason”理性时代 6.Phillip Freneau(P22): 美国文学史上的重要人物 7.dawning nationalism 代表人物 Poems: The Wild Honeysuckle野生的金银花 first modern American & the last medieval man 8.Jonathan Edwards( Calvinism ) 9. a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening 10.works: “The Freedom of the Will”《自由意志论》“The Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended”《伟哉原罪论辩》“The Nature of True Virtue” “American Dream”“Self-made” 11.Benjamin Franklin(puritanism) 12.“Poor Richard’s Almance”“autobiography”新文学形式 13.“18th century enlightenment” ii.Romanticism 1.Washington Irving（1783-1859） 2.①titles: “the father of American literature” 3.“the American Goldsmith” 4.②works: The Sketch Book (marked the beginning of American Romanticism and the beginning of short stories as a genre in American literature) 5.Rip Van Winkle (P47—P48) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 6.James Fenimore Cooper（1789-1851） 7.①One of the first writer to write American Westward movement 8.②“The Leatherstocking Tales” (novel) 9.first is “The Pioneers” 10.---Plot: ---theme conflict between Natty Bumppo and Judge Temple- ---character: Natty Bumppo---innocent, simple, honest and generous, for freedom, against civilization, wilderness is good Judge Temple---just, reasonable, for civilization and law ③Writing style: intriguing plot majestic landscape descriptions rich imagination
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
《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
美国文学期末考试复习必备（精） 1. What’s Puritanism? A religious and political movement which appeals to the right of the individual to political & religious independence. It includes three parts: a code of values, a point of view & a philosophy of life 2. What are the basic Puritan beliefs? 1). Total Depravity 2). Unconditional Election 3). Limited Atonement 4). Irresistible Grace 5). Perseverance of the "saints" 3. What are American Puritan values? Sobriety thrift, Self-reliance Diligence, Struggle, simple tastes 4. What are the features of American literature in the Colonial Period? A. Humble origins: diaries, journals, histories, letters. Its various forms, occupy a major position in the literature of the early colonial period. B. in content: serving either god or colonial expansion or both C. in form: imitating English literary traditions. D. in style: tight and logic structure, precise and compact expression, avoidance of rhetorical decoration, adoption of homely imagery and simplicity of diction. E. Symbolism formed in this period ------To the pious Puritan, the physical, phenomenal world was nothing but a symbol of God. F. Simple, fresh and direct style
1.Captain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”. 5.Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.
has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.In Washington I rving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature. 8.Cooper’s enduring fame rests on his William Cullen Bryant’s wok. is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”. 10.Emerson believed above all in
美国文学选读第三版课后习题答案陶洁(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
1.C aptain John Smith became the first American writer. 2.T he puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people. collection of proverbs written by Benjamin Franklin. 4.T homas Paine’s famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.
5.T homas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston. has been called the “Father of American Poetry”. 7.I n Washington Irving’s appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature.
8.C ooper’s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant’s wok. “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.