美国文学习题
1．In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of Enlightenment. _____________was the dominant spirit.
A.Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
2. “God helps them that help themselves.”is found in ____________work.
A. Paine?s
B. Franklin?s
C. Freneau?s
D. Jefferson?s
3. Which statement about Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.
B. He was a scientist.
C. He was a master of diplomacy.
D. He was a Puritan.
4. 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.
5. Which is connected with Thomas Paine?
A. Common Sense
B. American Crisis.
C. The Right of Man
D. The Autobiography.
6. “These are the times that try men?s souls”, these words were once read to Washington?s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?
A. Benjamin Franklin
B. Thomas Paine
C. Thomas Jefferson
D. George Washington
7. Which statement about Freneau is true?
A. He was a scientist
B. He was a pamphleteer
C. He was a poet
D. He was a bitter polemicist
8. Which work is written by Freneau?
A. The Right of Man
B. The Wild honey Suckle
C. Poor Richard?s Almanac
D. The Day of Doom
9. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Edward Taylor
C. Michael Wiggleworth
D. Philip Freneau
10. At the Reason and Revolution Period, American were influenced by the European movement called _____________.
A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
D. Modernist Movement
11.Stetement ____________ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.
A. Hawthorne is a realist writer.
B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.
C. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism.
D. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.
12. In Walt Whitman?s “There was a Child Went Forth”, the child refers to ___________.
A. the poet himself as a child
B. any American child
C. the young America
D. one of the poet?s neighbor
13. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________.
A. the microcosm of human society
B. the search for truth
C. the unknown world
D. nature
14.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
15. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________-.
A. Henry David Thoreau
B. Washington Irving
C. Nathanel Hawthorne
D. Walt Whitman
16. _____________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
17. ___________is regarded as the first American prose epic.
A. Nature
B. The Scarlet letter
C. Walden
D. Moby Dick
18. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving?s ___________ and ended with Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.
A. The Sketch Book
B. Tales of a Traveler
C. The Alhambra
D. A History of New Y ork
19. Washington Irving?s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed to some extent, in his famous story_____________.
A. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
B. Rip V an Winckle
C. The Custom-House
D. The Birthmark
20. Which of the following comments on the writings by Herman Merville is not true?
A. Bartleby, the Scrivener is a short story.
B. Benito Cereno is a novella.
C. The Confidence-Man has something to do with the sea and sailors.
D. Moby Dick is regarded as the first American Prose epic.
21. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all except______________.
A. mystery of the universe
B. sin of the whale
C. power of the Great Nature
D. evil of the world
22. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ___________________.
A. Cooper?s Leatherstocking Tales
B. Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter.
C. Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.
D. Irving?s Rip V an Winkle.
23. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.
A. modernism
B. rationalism
C. sentimentalism
D. transcendentalism
24. In Hawthorne?s The Scarlet Letter, “A”may stands for ______________.
A. Adultery
B. Angel
C. Amiable
D. All the above
25. ______is not the member of Transcendental Club.
A. Emerson
B. Thoreau
C. Whitman
D. Fuller
26. Poe?s first collection of short stories is _______________.
A. Tales of a Traveller
B. Leatherstocking Tales
C. Canterbury Tales
D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque
27. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Starbuck
B. Stubb
C. Ishmael
D. Arab
28. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter?
A. Hester Prynne
B. Arthur Dimmesdale
C. Roger Chillingworth
D. Pearl
29. __________was a romanticized account of Melville?s stay among the
Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville become known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.
A. Moby Dick
B. Typee
C. Omoo
D. Billy Budd
30. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as _________.
A. The naturalist Period
B. The Modern Period
C. The Romantic Period
D. the Realistic period
31. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.
A. The House of Seven Gables
B. White Jacket
C. The Marble Faun
D. The Blithdale Romance
32. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?
A. The Sketch Book
B. Leaves of Grass
C. Leatherstocking TAles..
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
33. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.
A. religion
B. love and marriage
C. life and death
D. war and peace
34. Emily Dickinson?s poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.
A. brevity
B. directness
C. plainest
D. obscure
35. “There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent,
perhaps, trough the whole life, but circumstances may rouse it to activity.” Which of the following writings is the thought reflected in?
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne?s Y oung Goodman Brown.
B. Mark Twain?s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
C. Walt Whitman?s Leaves of Grass.
D. Herman Melville?s Moby Dick.
36. It is his _________that Washington Irving?s fame mainly rested.
A. tales about America
B. early poetry
C. childhood recollections
D. sketches about his European tours
37. ________is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.
A. Nathaniel Hawthorne
B. Walt Whitman
C. Ralph Waldo Emerson
D. Mark Twain
38. In Hawthorne?s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear as __________________.
A. saviors
B. villains
C. commentators
D. observers
39. Washington Irving?s Rip V an Winckle is famous for__________________.
A. Rip?s escape into a mysterious place
B. The story?s German legendary source material
C. Rip?s seeking for happiness
D. Rip?s 20-year sleep
40. 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
41. Which of the following is not a work of Emily Dickinson?s?
A. This is my letter to the world
B. I heard a Fly buzz-when I died
C. The Road Not Taken
D. I like to see it lap the Miles
42. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _________.
A. the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience
B. the orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common
C. the modes of thinking
D. the thought that designates man as a social animal
43. Which three novels drew from Melville?s adventures among the people of the South Pacific island?
A. Typee
B. Omoo
C. Mardi
D. Redburn
44. In the poem “Song of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of ______________.
A. the theory of universality
B. singularity and equality of all beings in value
C. both A and B
D. none above
45. Most of the poems in Whitman?s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ___________as well.
A. nature
B. life
C. self
D. self-reliance
46. Emily Dickinson?s poems(441) “This is my letter to the World”expresses the poet?s _____________about her communication with the outside world.
A. indignation
B. joy
C. anxiety
D. indifference
47. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?
A. lyrical and well-structured.
B. free-flowing.
C. simple and rather crude
D. conversational and casual
48. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A. Nature
B. Essays
C. The Over-Soul
D. Of Studies
49. In “I heard a Fly buzz-when I died”, Emily Dickinson describes the moment of death______________.
A. passionately
B. pessimistically
C. in despair
D. peacefully
50. Which book is not written by Emerson?
A. Representative Men
B. English Traits.
C. Nature
D. The Phodora.
51.The Age of Realism in the literary history of the America refers to the period from ____to ___________.
A. 1861-1914
B. 1863-1918
C. 1865-1914
D. 1865-1918
52. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States.
A. Henry James
B. Emily Dickinson
C.William Dean Howells
D. Mark Twain
53. ___________explores the scrupulous individualism in a world of fantastic speculation and unstable values, and gives its name to the get-rich-quick years of the post Civil War era.
A. Innocents Abroad
B. The Gilded Age
C. Roughing It
D. The Middle Y ears
54. _________is considered to be Theodore Dreiser?s greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy
B. Sister Carrie
C. The Financier
D. The Titan
55. ___________is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the writer in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.
A. The American
B. The Europeans
C. Daisy Miller
D. The Portrait of a Lady
56. Stylistically, Henry James?s fiction is characterized by ___________--.
A. highly refined language
B. ordinary American speech
C. short, clear sentences
D. abundance of local images
57. _________- is described by Mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.”
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. Jim
D. Tony
58. ___________-- is not a novel by Henry James dealing with the international theme.
A. What Maisie Knows
B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Ambassadors
D. The Golden Bowl
59. The setting of __________is America, where some Europeans, who are actually expatriated Americans, learn with difficulty to adapt themselves to the American life.
A. Middlemarch
B. The Europeans
C. Daisy Miller
D. The Portrait of a Lady
60. Mark Twain?s ___________shows the disastrous effects of slavery on the victimizer and the victim alike.
A. The Mysterious Stranger
B. Tragedy of Puff?nhead Wilson
C. The Gilded Age
D. Roughing It
61. 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
62. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19 th century American writers, is well known for his _________________.
A. international theme
B. wasteland imagery
C. local color
D. symbolism
63. In Henry James?s Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an ambodiment 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
64. The literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they __________--.
A. speak local dialects
B. are polite and elegant gentlemen
C. are simple and crude farmers
D. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society
65. With Howells, James and Mark Twain active on the literary scene,_________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.
A. sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. naturalism
66. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _________________.
A. transcendentalists
B. idealists
C. pessimists
D. impressionists
67.Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ___________language.
A. grand
B. pompous
C. simple
D. vernacular
68. Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being___________.
A. nothingness
B. disillusionment
C. international theme
D. relationship between men and women
69. Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America?s_____________.
A. naturalists
B. realists
C. modernists
D. romanticists
70. Dreiser?s Trilogy of /Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and __________________.
A. The Stoic
B. The Giant
C. The Tycoon
D. The Genius
71. The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to __________.
A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Sun Also Rises
C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
D. Moby Dick
72. 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 yet another school of realism: American ___________-.
A. modernism
B. naturalism
C. vernacularism
D. local colorism
73. Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”?
A. Tom Sawyer
B. Huckleberry Finn
C. The Gilded Age
D. Life on
the Mississippi
74. Mark Twain had led an active life in the very center of the American experience. He had been a ____________.
A. printer, pilot, soldier
B. silver-minor, gold washer
C. lecturer, traveler, businessman
D. novelist, autobiographer
75. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel________________.
A.The Call of the Wild
B. The Sea Wolf
C. Martin Eden
D. The Iron Heel
76. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named ____________-.
A. The Son of the Wolf
B. The Sea Wolf
C. The Law of life
D. White Fang
77. The main theme of ___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.
A. Henry James?
B. William Dean Howells?
C. Mark Twain?s
D. Jack London?s
78. Stephen Crane?s best stories include __________, _________ and _______________________, all reinforcing the basic Crane motif environment and heredity over-whelming man.
A. Open Boat
B. An Experiment
C. The Blue Hotel
D. The Red Badge of Courage
79. Mark Twain stood on the side of China in its struggle against foreign invasions. His _______ and ________- are two notable examples of his vigorous attacks on the imperialist behaviour of the United States and other foreign countries in China.
A. The Treaty with China
B. To the Person Sitting in Darkness
C. Disgracefull Persecution of a Boy
D. Golddsmith?s Friend Abroad Again
80. Dreiser was left-oriented in his views. He visited Russia and wrote _______- and _____________to express his new faith, and shortly before his death, he joined the Communist Party.
A. Dreiser Look at Russia
B. Tragic America
C. An American Tragedy
D. The Titan
81.In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. The Green Hills of Africa
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro
C. To Have and Have Not
D. Death in the Afternoon
82. ___________-is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.
A. Ernest Hemingway
B. F.Scott Fitzgerald
C. William /Faulkner
D. Ezra Pound
83. _________is Hemingway?s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.
A. The Sun Also Rises
B. A Farewell to Arms
C. In Our Time
D.For Whom the Bell Tolls
84.Fitzgerald?s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of __________________.
A. the Jazz Age
B. the Romantic period
C. The Renaissance Period
D. the Neoclassical Period
85. Which of the following figures does not belong to “The Lost Generation”?
A. Ezra Pound
B. William Carlos Williams
C. Robert Frost
D. Theodore Dreiser
86. In a tragic sense, _________is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible. A. For Whom the Bell Tolls B. In Our Time
C. The Farewell to Arms
D. The Old Man and the Sea
87. Faulkner once said that __________is a story of “lost innocence,”which proves itself to be an intensification of the theme of imprisonment in the past.
A. The Sound and the Fury
B. Light in August
C. Go Down, Moses
D. Absalom, Absalom
88. Robert Frost combined traditional verse form---the sonnet, rhyming
couplets, blank verse---with a clear American local speech rhyme, the speech of ____________farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.
A. southern
B. western
C. New Hampshire
D. New England
89. In which of the following poem by Ezra pound did you find the allusion to Vishang?
A. In a Station of the Metro.
B. The River-merchant?s Wife: A Letter
C. A Pact
D. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley
90. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?
A. J.D. Salinger
B. Ezra Pound
C. Righard Wright
D. Ralph Ellison
91. Sinclair Lewis? Babbit presents a documentary picture of the narrow and limited ___________-.
A. up-class mind
B. middle-class mind
C. proletarian
D. ordinary people
92. Y ank?s sense of belonging nowhere, hence homeless and rootless. The Hairy Ape is thus a play that concerns the problem of modern man?s ___________.
A. love
B. homey relations
C. identity
D. development
93. In A Rose For Emily, Faulkner makes best use of ___________devices in narration.
A. romantic
B. realistic
C. gothic
D. modernist
94. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different fro its
predecessors. It is always referred to as “_____________”.
A. Imagism
B. black humour
C. new fiction
D. the beat Generation
95. As an autobiographical play, O?Neill?s ______________(1915) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.
A. Long Day?s Journey Into Night
B. The Hairy Ape
C. Desire Under the Elms
D. The Iceman Cometh
96. Tender is the Night is a _____________by Fitzgerald.
A. short story
B. novella
C. poem
D. novel
97. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _____________.
A. Arthur Miller
B. Tennessee William
C. Robert Frost
D. Eugene O?Neill
98. From Eugene O?Neill?s works, we can see he is _____________.
A. a man of optimism
B. a man of pessimism
C. a man of apathy
D. a man of inactivity
99. ____________-is Hemingway?s first true novel, which portrays “The Lost Generation”.
A. For Whom the Bell Tolls
B. The Old Man and the Sea
C. The Sun Also /Rises
D. A Farewell to Arms
100. _______________is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.
A. Sinclair Lewis
B. Eugene O?Neille
C. Arthur Miller
D. Tennessee Williams
101. ___________is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.
A. Go Down, Moses
B. Light in August
C. The Sound and the Fury D Absalom, Absalom
102. _____________stems from the ambiguity of the speaker?s choice between safety and the unknown.
A. Mending the Wall
B. Home …Burial
C. The Road Not Taken
D. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
103. Hemingway?s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences_________________-.
A. in his childhood
B. in the war
C. in America
D. in Africa
104. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except________________.
A. William Faulkner
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald
C. John Steinbeck
D. Ernest Hemingway
105. __________fuses symbolism, poetry, and the affirmation of a pagan idealism to show how materialistic civilization denies the life---giving impulses and destroys the genuine artist.
A.Desire Under the Elms
B. the Emperor Jones
C. Lazarus Laughed
D. The Great God Brown
106. Most of Eugnen O?Neille?s plays are tragedies, dealing with ______________-.
A. class conflicts
B. human existence and predicament
C. racial discrimination
D. domestic affairs
107. __________is not considered to be one of the masters in the field of American fiction in the modernistic period.
A. F.Scott Fitzgerald
B. Ernest Hemingway
C. Arthur Miller
D. William Faulkner
108. “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
109. The American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period _____________-.
A. poverty
B. bleakness
C. important social movements
D. a new social consciousness
110. ____________showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T.S. Eliot
D.
E.E. Cummings
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)。
第9章地方色彩小说?马克?吐温 9.1复习笔记 I.Local Colorism（地方色彩主义） The vogue of local color fiction was the outgrowth of historical and aesthetic forces that had been gathering energy since early19th century.Local colorism as a literary trend first made its presence felt in the late1860s and early seventies.It is a variation of American literary realism. Local colorists were consciously nostalgic historians of a vanishing way of life,recorders of a present that faded before their eyes.They concerned themselves with presenting and interpreting the local character of their regions.They tended to idealize and glorify,but they never forgot to keep an eye on the truthful color of local life.Major local colorists are Bret Harte,Hanlin Garland, Harriet Beecher Stowe,Kate Chopin and Mark Twain. 地方色彩小说的流行是自19世纪早期以来历史和艺术力量凝聚的产物。作为一种文学潮流，地方色彩主义在19世纪60年代晚期和70年代早期初展头角。它是美国现实主义文学的一个分支。 地方色彩主义作家是怀念正在消逝的生活方式的历史家，他们记录了在他们眼前逝去的现在。他们致力于展示描述自己地方的特色，倾向于赞颂地方生活并将其理想化，但是他们又注意不失地方生活的真实色彩。主要的地方色彩主义作家包括布莱特·哈特、汉林·加兰德、哈里耶特·比彻·斯托、凯特·肖邦及马克·吐温等。 II.Mark Twain(1835-1910)（马克·吐温） 1.Life（生平） Mark Twain,pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens,is a great literary giant of America. He was brought up in the small town of Hannibal,Missouri,on the Mississippi River.He was twelve when his father died and he had to leave school.He was successively a printer’s apprentice,a tramp printer,a silver miner,a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi,and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California.This knocking about gave him wide knowledge of humanity. With the publication of his frontier tale,he became nationally famous.His first novel The Gilded Age was an artistic failure,but it gave its name to the American of the post-bellum period.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was his masterwork.Mark Twain was essentially an affirmative writer.But toward the latter part of his life,due to some tragic events,he changed to an almost
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
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 “____________________”.
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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
《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/c416014432.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.\
美国文学作者作品 Edwards: 爱德华兹 The Freedom of the Will 《论意志自由》 Great Doctrine of Original Sin Defended 《论原罪》 The Nature of True Virtue 《论真实德行的本原》 名篇：Personal Narrative 《自述》 Sinners in the hands of an Angry God 《愤怒上帝手中之罪》 Benjamin Franklin:本杰明·富兰克林 Poor Richard’s Almanac《穷理查德年历》Autobiography 《自传》 Washington Irving:华盛顿·欧文 A History of New York《纽约外传》The Sketch Book 《见文札记》名篇：Rip Van Winkle《瑞普·温·凡克尔》 The Legend of Sleepy Hollow 《睡谷传奇》 James Fenimore Cooper:詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏Leatherstocking Tales 《皮袜子故事集》 The Pioneer 《拓荒者》The Prairie 《大草原》 The Last of Mohicans《最后的莫希干人》 The Pathfinder《探路人》The Deerslayer 《猎鹿者》
Ralph Waldo Emerson:拉尔夫·沃尔多·爱默生 Nature 《论自然》Self-Reliance 《论自立》Essays 《随笔集》名篇：The American Scholar 《美国学者》（has been regarded as “American Declaration of Intellectual Independence”被誉为美国思想的独立宣言） The Poet Henry David Thoreau:亨利·戴维·梭罗 Walden 《瓦尔登湖》 Nathaniel Hawthorne:纳撒尼尔·霍桑 The Scarlet Letter《红字》 The House of the Seven Gables 《七个尖角阁的房子》 Mosses from an Old Manse《古厦青苔》 The Blithedale Romance《福谷传奇》 The Marble Faun 《玉石神像》 Ethan Brand 《伊桑布兰德》 Young Goodman Brown 《好小伙子布朗》 Dr. Heidggeger’s Experiment 《海德格博士的体验》 The Ambitions Guest 《野心勃勃的客人》 The Greast Stone Face 《巨石脸》
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 _______.
《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
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(American Literature) 美国文学的历史不长，它几乎是和美国自由资本主义同时出现，较少受到封建贵族文化的束缚。美国早期人口稀少，有大片未开发的土地，为个人理想的实现提供了很大的可能性。美国人民富于民主自由精神，个人主义、个性解放的观念较为强烈，这在文学中有突出的反映。美国又是一个多民族的国家，移民不断涌入，各自带来了本民族的文化，这决定了美国文学风格的多样性和庞杂性。美国文学发展的过程就是不断吸取、融化各民族文学特点的过程。许多美国作家来自社会下层，这使得美国文学生活气息和平民色彩都比较浓厚，总的特点是开朗、豪放。内容庞杂与色彩鲜明是美国文学的另一特点。个性自由与自我克制、清教主义与实用主义、激进与反动、反叛和顺从、高雅与庸俗、高级趣味与低级趣味、深刻与肤浅、积极进取与玩世不恭、明快与晦涩、犀利的讽刺与阴郁的幽默、精心雕琢与粗制滥造、对人类命运的思考和探索与对性爱的病态追求等倾向，不仅可以同时并存，而且形成强烈的对照。从来没有一种潮流或倾向能够在一个时期内一统美国文学的天下。美国作家敏感、好奇，往往是一个浪潮未落，另一浪潮又起。作家们永远处在探索和试验的过程之中。20世纪以来，许多文学潮流起源于美国，给世界文学同时带来积极的与消极的影响。 殖民地时期 印第安人的文化欧洲人发现新大陆的时候，北美洲的土著居民印第安人处于原始公社制度各种不同的阶段。印第安人在向大自然的斗争中创造了自己的文化，主要是民间口头创作，包括神话传说和英雄传说。由于他们没有文字，这些传说后来才得以整理问世，启发了后世美国作家的灵感。 早期移民的文化移民刚到新大陆时忙于生存斗争，所以开始时文学发展比较缓慢。最早发表的关于北美的作品是游记、日记之类的文字。作者都是英国人。英国殖民地建立之后，统治者利用宗教，主要是清教主义作为控制殖民地思想意识的主要手段，因此许多出版物是关于神学的研究。著名的作家有科顿·马瑟(1663-1728)和乔纳森。爱德华兹(1703-1758)等。随着工业、贸易和民族意识的增涨，宗教自由的呼声提高，清教主义的神权统治走向衰亡，为人本主义与自由民主等民族独立的意识所代替。 诗歌创作：北美出版的第一部诗集《海湾圣诗》是以民歌形式写成的圣诗。迈克尔·威格尔斯沃思的诗全是解释加尔文教的教义，成了宗教性的普及读物。女诗人安妮·布拉兹特里特写的也是宗教生活，不过多少以世俗的笔调抒写妇女的心情。生前只发表过挽诗的牧师爱德华·泰勒反映了严格的清教主义的衰落。在这些诗人身上，英国的影响也是明显的，布拉兹特里特得益于斯宾塞，泰勒的诗里看得出约翰·多思和乔治·赫伯特的影响。 独立革命至南北战争时期 美国民族文学形成于独立革命时期。这场斗争产生大量的革命诗歌，并且造就了美国头一批重要的散文家和诗人。政治上的独立促进文化上的独立。战争结束之后，美国作家的作品陆续增多，逐渐摆脱英国文学的垄断局面。年轻的民主共和国使人们满怀信心，并吸引着旧世界更多的人们奔向新的大陆。这样的社会条件促使19世纪上半叶的文学创作具有浪漫主义的色彩。作家们吸取欧洲浪漫派文学的精神，对美国的历史、传说和现实生活进行描绘，