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1. ________is not a play written by Tennessee Williams.A. Cat on Hot Tin RoofB. The Glass MenagerieC. Death of a SalesmanD. A Streetcar Named Desire2. From ______ in the 1920s, Black(or African- American) literature started one upsurge after another.A. The Harlem RenaissanceB. The Beat MovementC. The Lost GenerationD. The worker’s movement3. Which of the following is not said about Ezra Pound?A. For he was politically, controversial and notorious for what he did in the wartime, his literary achievement and influence are somewhat reduced.B. His artistic talents are on full display in the history of the imagist movement.C. From his analysis of Chinese ideogram Pound learned to another his poetic language in concrete, perceptual reality and to organize images into large patterns through juxtaposition.D. His language is usually oblique yet marvelously compressed and his poetry is dense with personal literary and historical allusions.4. In A Farewell to Arms, Hemingway_______.A. emphasizes his belief that man is trapped both physically and mentally and suggests that m an is doomed to be entrapped.B. Wrote the epitaph to a decade and to the whole generation in the 1930sC. Favored the idea of nature as an expression of either god’s design or his beneficence.D. Tells a story about the tragic love affair of a wounded American soldier with a French nurse5. Eugene O’neill is remembered for his tragic view of life, and most of his plays are about_____.A. The root, the truth of human desires and human frustrationsB. The moral nature of the modern mankindC. The relationship between man and nature as well as an and womanD. The inner contradiction of men before the red world6. Which of the following does not describe the strikingly successful artistic techniques in Catch-22？A. BurlesqueB. black humorC. anti-heroD.simple plot7. In his poems, Robert Frost combined traditional verse to forms with________.A. A simple spoken language the speech of New England farmersB. The pastoral language of the southern areaC. The difficult and highly ornamental languageD. Both A and B8. The literary characters of the America type in early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following Features except that they_______.A. Speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemanC..are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savage (red and white) untainted by society9. The Raven was written in 1844 by_______.A. Philip FreneauB. Edgar Allan PoeC. Henry Wadsworth LongfellowD. Emily Dickinson10. The main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism and generally philosophically concerning______.A. The cold, rigid rationalism of UnitarianismB. The relationship between man and womenC. He development of Romanticism in AmericaD. Nature man and the universe11. ______ can be broadly defined as“the faithful representation of reality”or “verisimilitude”it includes the period of time from the civil war to the turn of the century.A. American Realism C.American SentimentalismB. American Transcendentalism D. American Romanticism12. Which of the following works is not be Ernest Hemingway?A. The Old Man and SeaB. A Farewell to ArmsC.Sound and FuryD. For whom to Bell Tolls13. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by________.A. Jack LondonB. Sinclair LewisC. William FaulknerD. Ernest Hemingway14. 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 storiesB. Their characteristic setting is an isolated townC. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations or inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forcesD. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions15. As a great innovator in American literature, Walt Whitman wrote his poetry in an unconventional style which is now called_______, that is_________.A. Hymn, poetry with chanting refrains.B. Blank verse, poetry without rhymes at the end of the lines but with a fixed beat.C. Free verse, poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.D. Ode, poetry in an irregular metric form and expressing noble feeling.16. By the end of he 19th century, the realists had rejected the portrayal of idealized characters and event, instead, sought to______.A. Describe the wide range of American experienceB. Present the subtleties of human personalityC. Show animal nature of human beingsD. Both A and B17. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser set himself to project the _____American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is no one character whose status is not determined economically.A. PuritansB. MaterialisticC. PsychologicalD. Religions18. _______was poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by Eastern culture.A. T.S.EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD. Walt Whitman19. Which of the following is not a typical feature of Henry James’s writing style?A. Exquisite and elaborateB. minute and detailed descriptionsB. lengthy psychological analyses D. American colloquialism20. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. rationalismC. DevolutionD. Evolution21. About the novel The Scarlet Letter, which of the following statement is not right?A. It is a love story and a story of sinB. It is a highly symbolic story as the author is a master of symbolismC. It is mainly about the moral emotional and psychological effects of the sin upon the main characters and the people in generalD. In it the letter A takes the same symbolic meaning throughout the novel22. American Colonial literature is longer than any other literary and sermons, which started when the first settlers kept diaries and sermons and developed till________.A. The mid of 18th centuryB. early 17th centuryB. the end of 17th century D. the end of 18th century23. Which of the following works concerns most concentrated the Calvinistic view of original sin?A. The WastelandB. The Scarlet LetterC. Leaves of GrassD. As I Lay Dying24. Whitman’s poem are characterized by all the following features except______.A. Strict poetic formB. a simple and conversationallanguageB. a free and natural rhythmic pattern D. an easy flow of feelings25.Which of the following is not written by Faulkner? A. The Sound and Fury B.A Rose for EmilyD. Tender is the night26._______ is considered to be a spokesman for the alienated youth in the post-war era and his The Catcher in the Rye is regarded as a students’classic.A. Allen SalingerB.E.E. CummingsC.J.D. Salinger D. Henry James27.Which one of the following statement is NOT True of William Faulkner?A. He is master of stream of consciousness narrativeB. His writing is often complex and difficult to understandC. He represents a new group pf Southern writers28.As a spokesman of the“Roaring 20s’”. Scott Fitzgerald portrayed ______.A. the problems of the human heart in conflict with itselfB. the psychological journey of the modern man and his helplessness in the modern worldC. the primitive struggle of individuals in the context of irresistible natural forcesD. the hollowness of the American worship of riches and the unending American dream of fulfillment29.In the beginning paragraph of chapter 3. The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald describes a big party by saying that “men and girls came and went like moths”. The author most likely indicates that______.A. there was a crowd of party goersB. these people were light -heartedC. these were crazy and ignorant charactersD. such life does not have red meaning30.______ is generally regarded as the forerunner of the 20th century “stream -of consciousness ”novels and the founder of psychological realism.A. Theodore DreiserB. William Faulkner D. His often depicts slum life in New York and ChicagoC. Light in AugustC. Henry JamesD. Mark Twain31.As the leader of the Harlem writers who created the Black Renaissance ______ as known as the“Poet Laureate of Harlem”.A. Ralph EllisonB. Langston HughesC. Richard WrightD. Alice Walker32.Hemingway once described Mark Twain’s novel ________ the one book from which“all modern American literature comes”.A. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnB. The Adventure of Tom SawyerC. The Gilded AgeD. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg33.Romantics put emphasis on the following Expect _______.A. common senseB. imaginationC. intuitionD. individualism34.In the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called ________.A. the English RenaissanceB. the American RenaissanceC. the Second RenaissanceD. the Salem Renaissance35.The main theme of The Art of Fiction written by ______ clearly indicates that the aim of the novel is to present life.A. Henry JamesB. Mark TwainC. Theodore DreiserD. Ernest Hemingway36.In the line“We slowly drove-He knew on haste/ And I had put away /My labor and my leisure too. /For his Civility -”, the word“civility”means______.A. abilityB. politenessC. kindnessD. pleasure37.Which one is not the characterized of modernism?A. Modernism in literature is characterized by experimentation, anti-realism, individualism and a stress on the cerebral rather than emotive aspects.B. Modernism is greatly influenced by the two world wars.C. The work of Mary and Freud had mounted an assault against orthodox religious faith that lasted into the twentieth century.D. Modernists believe that human nature is kind38.Which of the following plays by O’Neill can be read autobiographicall y?A. The Hairy ApeB. The Emperor TonesC. The Iceman ComethD. Long Day’s Tourney Into Night39.The Civil War had transformed America from _____ to _____.A.an agrarian community, a society of freedom and equalityB.an agrarian community, an industrialized and commercialized societyC.an industrialized and commercialized society, a highly -developed societyD. a poor and backward society, an industrialized and commercial society40.Robert Frost combined traditional verse from -sonnet, rhyming couplet, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ______ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. southernB. westernC. New EnglandD. New Hampshire41.The realistic period is referred to as“the Gilded Age”by______.42.Realism was a reaction against ______ or a move away from the bias towards romance and self-creating flections and paved the way to Modernism.A. RationalismB. RomanticismC. NeoclassicismD. Enlightenment43.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. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism44.Anna Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poem made such a stir in England that she become known as the“_______”who appeared in America.45.Apart from The Autobiography, Franklin is perhaps best remembered in print for his _______.A. The Way to WealthB. The Sketch BookC. The Biography Christopher ColumbusD. Poor Richard’s Almanac46.Moby Dick is usually considered ______.A. a symbolic voyage of the mind in quest of the truth and knowledge of the universeB. a spiritual exploration into man’s deep reality and psychologyC. a simple whaling tale or sea adventure47.The image of the famous“henpecked husband”is created by _______.D. both A and BTenth Muse Mark Twain A. B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First MuseA. B. Henry James C. Emily Dickinson D. Theodore DreiserA. Washington IrvingB. Fennimore CooperC. William Dean HowellsD.Mark Twain48.As a philosophical and literary moment, _______ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. ModernismB. RationalismC. SentimentalismD. Transcendentalism。

I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the fouritems. (10 x 1’= 10’)1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant.2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named ____.3.Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __ attitude of its author.5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by ___.6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literaryadvocates in ___ and Thoreau.7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of IntellectualIndependence”?8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.9.___ isnot among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironicand more ___.11.______ is the father of American Literature.12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside themain stream of life.13._____ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’slanguage?From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. WaldenB. NatureC. Civil DisobedienceD. Common Sense16.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ____.20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____, the narrator, MobyDick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story butwhose name in unknown to us.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains2.The main conflict of the play is the protagonist’s false value offine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape Day’s Journey into Night d. Death of Salesman3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based onthe playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries4.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accidentand how the society is responsible for the murder.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains5._________ is one of the best works in American literature about theSecond World War.Farewell to Arms Catcher in the Rye Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.Farewell to Arms Sun Also RisesOld Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead7.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahomaand travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.a.The Grapes of Wrathb. . A.d. The Adventures of Augie March8.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money,with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.9.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique andwhose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the FuryFarewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced andhow she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide.American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist tellingus the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a.Sister Carrie Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Portrait of a Ladynovel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War.American Tragedy b. Sister CarrieRed Badge of Courage d. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme ofthe universality and equality in value of all people and all things.b. The Ravenc. Song of Myself14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship killa great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with theconflict between man and his fate.Octopus b. Moby-Dick c. The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introductionmainly concerned with the four uses of nature.a. Waldenb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. The American ScholarI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____________.a. The Pilgrimsb. Mayflowerc. Americad. Titanicis father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.a. Tennessee Williamsb. Eugene O’Neillc. Arthur Millerd. Elmer Ricewas the first American writer to write entirely American literature.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Washington Irvingc. Mark Twaind. Ernest Hemingway4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreauthe greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buck Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitmanis father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan PoeDean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ______ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. Henry James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language anddeep thoughts. He is______.a. Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha Countyin the deep south. He is ______.a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the AmericanJews are major characters.a. Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salingeris often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. .d. Emily Dickinson is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literaturein 1936.a. John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write a book about black lifewith great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.Who is he?a.Richard Wrightb. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd.Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas________ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgeraldthe Best Answer for Each of the Following (1×15 %):2.The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the ______and the______.a. N, Sb. Revolutionaries, Reactionariesc. Union, Confederacyd. Slavery, Anti-Slaverypraised by the British as the “Tenth Muse in America”.a.Anne Bradstreetb. Edward Taylorc. Thomas Pained. Philip FreneauTwain was a representative of ________ in American literature.a. transcendentalismb. naturalismc. local colorismd. imagism4. _______ was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emersond. Henry David Thoreaugreatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____________.a. Washington Irving Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinsonis father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irvingb. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitmand. Edgar Allan PoeJames is concerned with the upper class life; ______ writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Craneb. Frank Norrisc. Theodore Dreiserd. William Dean Howells8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. William Dean Howellsb. Mark Twainc. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser9. ________’s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.a. Ernest Hemingwayb. William Faulknerc. F. Scott Fitzgeraldd. Mark Twain10. ______ wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, YoknapatwaphaCounty in the deep south. .a. William Faulknerb. John Steinbeckc. Ernest Hemingwayd. Mark Twain11. ________is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the AmericanJews are major characters.a. Sinclair Lewisb. Saul Bellowc. Norman Mailerd. Jerome David Salingeris often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreetb. Robert Frostc. .d. Emily Dickinson is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeckb. William Faulknerc. Eugene O’Neilld. Arthur Miller14. _______ was the first black American to write a book about blacklife with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and hismasterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans.b.Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughesd. Ralph Ellison15. ________ first used the “Jazz age” as the title of a collectionof short storiesa. F. Scott Fitzgeraldb. William Faulknerc. John Steinbeckd.Ernest HemingwayII. Identify Works as Described Below (1×15 %):6.The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is notrecognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a. The Hairy Apeb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. Long Day’s Journey into Nightd. The Glass Menageries7.The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape Day’s Journey intoNightGlass Menageries8.The hero of this novel tells about his own story to us but his nameis unknown.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains 4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day’s Journey into Nightb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries5.The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accidentand how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.Son Tom’s Cabin Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains6._________ is one of the best works in American literature about theSecond World War.Farewell to Arms Catcher in the Rye Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.Farewell to Arms Sun Also RisesOld Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead10.The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahomaand travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.b.The Grapes of Wrath b. . A.d. The Adventures of Augie March11.It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money,with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.12.It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique andwhose title is taken from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom!b. The Sound and the FuryFarewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced andelopes with Hurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide.American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group ofpeople on a whaling ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killed by the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.b.Sister Carrie Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. Moby Dickd. The Portrait of a Ladynovel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War, in which wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.American Tragedy b. Sister CarrieRed Badge of Courage d. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme ofthe universality and equality in value of all people and all things.b. The Ravenc. Song of Myself14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and socially butwho rises morally because he gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.Octopus b. The Rise of Silas Lapham c. Moby-Dick d. Leaves of Grass15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailedas the “declaration of intellectual independence” in America.a. The American Scholarb. Naturec. The Scarlet Letterd. WaldenII. Match the following (1×20%)A. Match Works with Their AuthorsSelwyn Mauberly3. Autobiography4. The Scarlet Letterof GrassRaven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9. Long Day’s Journey into Night10. The Old Man and the SeaTwain b . Ernest Hemingwayc. Eugene O’Neilld. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Benjamin FranklinDavid Thoreau j. Ezra PoundJefferson l. . EliotB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1.Hester Prynne . TouchettHenry CompsonJoads Edward CummingsCaulfield ThomasPortrait of a Lady b. The Scarlet Letterc. The Hairy Aped. A Farewell to ArmsSound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Rye i. Native Son j. Death of a SalesmanManIII. Match the following (1’×20=20’)A. Match works with their authorsVan Winkle3. Nature4. The Scarlet Letterof GrassRaven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Cantos10. The Old Man and the SeaPound b. Ernest Hemingwayc. Mark Twaind. William Dean Howellse. Edgar Allan Poef. Walt Whitmang. Nathaniel Hawthorne h. Ralph Waldo Emerson Irving j. Waldo EmersonB. Match characters with the works in which they appear.2.Captain Ahab and Starbuck ArcherHenry and Catherine CompsonJoads Edward CummingsCaulfield ThomasTyrones LomanPortrait of a Lady b. Moby-Dickc. Death of a Salesmand. A Farewell to ArmsSound and the Fury f. The Grapes of Wrathg. The Naked and the Dead h. The Catcher in the Ryei. Native Son j. Long Day’s Journey into Night , Absalom l. The Old Man and the SeaV. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: [1]Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.1.T o the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments onEmerson’s Nature2.C omment on any American poet you like.3.A nalyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or playsyou have read.V. Essay Questions (30%; c hoose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: [1]Youressay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.[2] You may give a title to your essay, but you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. [3]You are not to write on a topic of your own.)4.M ake comments on an American novel we have discussed in thiscourse.5.C omment on an American poet.6.D escribe how your knowledge of American literature is improvedafter taking this course..IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)1.Why do people think Franklin is the embodiment of American dream?2.What is “Lost Generation”?V. Discussion. (1 x 20’ = 20’)State your own interpretations of Hemingway’s iceberg theory of writing?IV. Please answer the following questions briefly. (2 x 10’ = 20’)3.What is Hawthorne’s style? Explain the style with examples.4.At the end of the 19th century, there were three fighters for Realism.Who are they? What are their differences?________True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.2. Thomas Jefferson was the only American to sign the 4 documents that created the US.3. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil.4. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about human psychology.5. Hurstwood is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.6. Faulkner’s region was the Deep North, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.7. Placed in historical perspective, Howells is found lacking inqualities and depth. But anyhow he is a literary figure worthy of notice.8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.10. Emily Dickinson expresses her deep love in the poem “Annabel Lee”. II. Decide whether the statements are True or False. (10 x 2’= 20’)1. Early in the 17th century, the English settlements in Virginia and began the main stream of what we recognize as the American national history.2. American Romantic writers avoided writing about nature, medieval legends and with supernatural elements.3. As a moral philosophy, transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical.4. “Young Goodman Brown” wants to prove everyone possesses kindnessin heart.5. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Twain or Howells.6. The American realists sought to describe the wide range of American experience and to present the subtleties of human personality.7. Frost’s concern with nature reflected his deep moral uncertainties.8. Faulkner’s works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha Saga, “one connected story”.9. Roger Chillingworth is a character in Dreiser’s An American Tragedy.10. After the Civil War, the Frontier was closing. Disillusionment and frustration were widely felt. What had been expected to be a “Golden Age” turned to be a “Gilded” one.。

美国文学部分练习（全，并带全部答案）美国文学部分大作业大作业Exercises for Chapter One of American Literature(第一章) 1. 选择题1. Which of the following statements is NOT a famous concept of Transcendentalism?[A]Nature is ennobling[B] The individual is divine and self-reliant.[C] Man is capable of knowing truth by intuition[D] Man is corrupted in nature.2. Which of the following works began to make Irving internationally known?[A] The Sketch Book[B] A History of New York to the End of the Dutch Dynasty[C] Bracebridge Hall[D] Tales of Traveler3. Which of the following is NOT true concerning Irving?[A] He is the father of the American short stories.[B] He is the American Goldsmith.[C] He is the first American writer[D] He is the first writer to declare the independence of American literature.4. The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne is mainly concerned with ___________.:[A] the corruption of the society[B] the consequence of sin and guilt[C] the wrong doing of one generation that lives in,, successive ones[D] "overreaching intellect"5. Rip Van Winkle has taken from ________.[A] Spanish stories [B] A German Legend[C] English tales [D] Italian folktales6. "But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands, from some passing traveler. " What is the rhetorical device used in this sentence?[A] Hyperbole. [B] Metaphor. [C] Irony. [D] Paradox.7. Which of the following statements about Emerson is NOT true?[A] He was generally known as an essayist.[B] He was the chief spokesman of Transcendentalism.[C] He practiced the theory by living a simple life.[D] For him, nature is symbolic.8. For Emerson, nature could symbolize the following except ________.[A] God [B] Spirit [C] Oversoul [D] the whole universe9. What is Hawthorne's attitude toward Puritanism?[Al Negative. [B] Affirmative. [C] Indifferent. [D] Mixed.10. One typical feature of Irving's writing is _________.[A] always preaching [B] his best classic style[C] short and difficult to [D] symbolic11. " I celebrate myself, and sing myself,And what I assume you shall assume,For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. "Who could have written these lines?[A] Edgar Allen Poe. [B] Walt Whitman.[C] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [D] Henry David Thoreau.12. Which of the following is NOT true with Transcendentalism?[A] It inherited much from American Puritanism and European realism.[B] It focused on the intuitive knowledge.[C] Nature is its unofficial manifesto.[D] It is related in some way with the German idealism.13. 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.14. Which of the following has influenced Melville's: EXCEPT________.[A] Shakespearean tragic vision [B] Emersonian Transcendentalism[C] Hawthorne's black vision of life [D] Irving's writing15. Which of the following writers is NOT optimistic about human nature?[A] Ralph Waldo Emerson. [B] Nathaniel Hawthorne [C] Walt Whitman. [D] Henry David Thoreau16. Which of the following cannot poetry?[A] Elegant and gentle. [B] Simple and open. [C] Unconventional. [D] Colloquial.17. When Emerson states in the introduction to his Nature: "Our age is retrospective. " Which of the following is closest to its understanding?[A] We are conservative.[B] We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.[C] We usually look back upon the good old days.[D] We write a lot of books about the past.18. Which of the following novels does not represent the theme return to nature?[A] Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.[B] Thoreau's Walden .[C] Cooper's Leather-Stocking Tales.[D] Melville's Moby Dick .19. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of the American Romantic writings?[A] Expression of the artist's imaginations, emotions, impressions, or beliefs.[B] Emphasis on rules of order, reason, logic, restrained emotion, good taste and decorum.[C] Love for the remote, supernatural, mysterious, exotic and illogical quality of things.[D] To see nature as a source of mental cleanness and spiritual understanding.20. The statement that a man's journey to the dark forest and his encounter with the devil are symbolic of man's life journey from innocence to knowledge, from good to evil may well sum up one of the major themes of ________.[A] Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Edgar Allen Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher"[C] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"[D] O. Henry's "The Cop and the Anthem"21. Here is a short passage from a story: "He recognized on the sign, however, the ruby face of King George, under which he had smoked so many a peaceful pipe, …and underneath was painted in large characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON. " The story must be ________.[A] Cooper's "Leather-stocking Tales"[B] Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown"[C] Irving's "Rip Van Winkle"[D] Hemingway's "Indian Camp"22. "The universe is composed of Nature and the soul . . present everywhere. " This is the voice of the book _______ which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase of New England Transcendentalism.[A] Walden by Thoreau [B] The Scarlet Lette r by Hawthorne[C] Moby Dick by Melville [D] Nature byEmerson23. In Whitman's giant work, Leaves of Grass, and, above all, ________.are all that concerned him.[A] individualism [B] divine love[C] sympathy [D] the power of blackness24. Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Hawthorn "Young Goodman Brown"?[A] Allegory. [B] Ambiguity.[C] Interior monologue. [D] Symbolism.25. In Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" all the drastic changes lapsed 20 years displeased Rip EXCEPT that ________.[A] he has got his neck out of the yoke of matrimony[B] the country has finally got its independence from the yoke of the British colonial rule[C] there comes now the scramble for powers between parties.[D] past glories and a tranquil life of the small village are gone.B. 阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. "In like manner, nature is already, in its forms and describing its own design. Let us interrogate apparition, that shines so peacefully around us. Let to what end is nature?"Questions :A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is "the great apparition"?C. What is the writing style?2.... Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep in the forest, and only dreamed a wild dream of witch-meeting?Be it so, if you will. But, alas! It was a dream of evil omen for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a sad, a darkly meditative, a distrustful, if not a desperate man, did he become; from the night of that fearful dream. "Questions:A. Identity the work and the author.B. What is the general idea of this passage?C. Did the author tell for sure whether it was only a dream or not?3. "I loafe and invite my soul,I learn and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass."Questions:A. Identify the poem and the poet.B. What is the meaning of the phrase "a spear of summer grass" ?C. What is the implied meaning of the two lines?4. "Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf;a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled 5, 000 years ago.Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What is the basic tone of this passage?C. What is the meaning of the underlined part?5. "God knows, ... I'm not myself-I'm somebody else-. . . I'm changed, and I can't tell what's my name, or who I am. Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. The speaker says he is changed. Do you think changed, or the social environment changed?C. What idea does the quoted sentence express?6. "Standing on the bare ground, -my head bathed by the blitl air and uplifted into infinite space, -all mean egotism vanishI become a transparent eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. Tl currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am pa or particle of God. "Questions:A. Identify the work and the author.B. What does the word "blithe" mean here?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?C. 回答题(Questions and answers)1. Nature is a philosophic work, in which Emerson gives an explicit discussion on his idea of the Oversoul. What is your understanding of Emersonian " Oversoul " and its relationship with "a transparent eyeball"?2. One of the most distinctive features of Hawthorne's writing is his art of ambiguity. Exemplify it with his story, "Young Goodman Brown".3. Like Hawthorne, Melville is fond of symbolism in his writings. The white whale, Moby-Dick, is the most importantsymbol in the novel. What symbolic meaning does Moby Dick stand for?4. Whitman is one of the most important figures in American poetic history. He has carried on a sort of experiment on the form of poetry by choosing free verse as his medium of expression. What are the characteristics of Whitman's free verse?5. Literary critics have seen Rip Van Winkle as a symbol of several aspects of America. What are the aspects that the story and its hero symbolize?D. 论述题(Topic discussion)1 . Melville's Moby Dick is more than a great whale story that reflects the American whale industry in 19th century; it is capable of multiple interpretations. Discuss the themes you can find in the fiction.2. In his whole life, Hawthorne is preoccupied with sin and evil in man; and in almost every novel he wrote, Hawthorne discussed sin and evil. Then what makes Hawthorne obsessed with all this sin and evil?Exercises for Chapter One of American Literature(第二章)A．多项选择(Multiple choice questions)1: Who is generally considered to be the one “with but a deformed conscience" in MarkTwain's works ？[A] Tom Sawyer.[B] Huckleberry Finn. [C] Hank Morgan. [D] Widow Douglas2. Which of the following is Twain's language?[A] Vernacular. [B] Colloquial.[C] Elegant. [D] Humorous.3. Which of the following writers is famous for his"international theme"?[A] Henry James. [B] William James.[C] Mark Twain. [D] Theodore Dreise4. Winterbourne is used as a narrator of the events in HenryJames __________.[A ] Daisy Miller[B] The American[C] The Turn of the Screw[D] The Wing of theDove5.Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson istrue?[A] Since she scarcely goes out of her house, she pays littleattention to the outsideworld.[B] She prefers to explore the inner life of herself rather thatthe social one.[C] She is strongly influenced by Calvinism and has a firm:belief in after-life.[D] She is not interested in love because she herself never getsmarried.6. Which of the following does NOT belong to TheodoreDreiser's Trilogy of Desire? "[A] The Financier'.[B] The American [C] The Titan. [D] The Stoic.7. Which' of the following is a correct match between thewriter¬ and his work? , .[A] Mark Twain: The Financier[B] Theodore Dreiser:Daisy Miller[C] Henry James; The Turn of the Screw[D] Emily Dickinson: The Wing of the Dove8. " Her Message is committed/To hands I can not see---" Theabove two lines are taken from ________.[A] Whitman's: "Song of Myself"[B] Dickinson's "This is my letter to the World"[C] Pound's: "A Pact"[D] Frost's: "The Road Not Taken"9. Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of "An AmericanTragedy" mostlybecause__________.[A] he tries to give an ironical meaning to the story.[B] he attempts-,to reproduce an authentic trial fictionally[C] it is the typical thing that can happen to an American in thepursuit of riches[D] he is surprised that such tragedy should happen inAmerica.10.Isabel, the heroine in The Portrait of a Lady, returns to herunhappy home in Rome at theend of the novel because__________.[A] she is still naive and immature[B] she wants to be responsible to her husband[C] she- wants to be responsible to her own choice[D] she has nowhere else to go11.. Which of the following statements is NOT true?[A] Mark Twain became doubtful about the' idea ofdevelop¬ment and skeptical of thegoodness of human nature in his later years.[B] Henry James; who never: criticizes his fellowmen, is thespokesman for the wealthy andleisured class in America.[C] From Emily Dickinson's poetry, one can hardly find anytraces of political movement inthe society of her time.[D] To Theodore Dreiser, communism is a likely meansimproving the social organizationof man. , :12. During the period after the Civil War, the American societyentered in what Mark Twain,referred to as __________.[A] the Golden Age [B] the Puritan Age[C] the Gilded Age [D] the Modern Age13. Local colorism is a unique variation, of American literaryrealism, the representatives ofwhich does NOT include __________.[A] Sarah Orne Jewett [B] Bret Harte[C] Hamlin Garland [D] Stephen Crane ,14. "I was letting on to give up sin, but away. inside of me; Iwas holding on to the biggest one of all. " The sentence, which taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is written: in a(n) __________ tone.[A] ironic, [B] regretful[C] sincere [D] delightful15. Henry James' idea of realism differs from that of the realistwriters because his emphasisis on man's__________.[A] language [B] inner world[C] surroundings [D] real actions16. As a naturalist writer, Theodore Dreiser was greatlyinfluenced by __________.[A] Mark Twain [B] Charles Darwin[C] Henry James [DI Ralph Wa1do Emerson17. However, innocence, the keynote of Daisy Miller'scharacter, turns out to be an admiring but a dangerous quality and her __________ of social taboos in the Old World finally brings her to a disaster in the clash between two different cultures.[A] admiration [B] sympathy,[C] disgusting [D] defiance18. Which of the following statements about EmilyDickinson's verse is true?[A] It exposes the evils of the society.[B] It paves the way for the following generation of free versepoets; .[C] It shares the same poetic conventions with Walt Whitman.[D] It exhibits a sensitiveness to the symbolic implications ofher experience oflove, death, and immortality.19. Compared with the writings of Mark Twain's, HenryJames's fiction is noted for their __________.[A] frontier vernacular [B] richcolloquialism[C] refined elegant language [D] vulgarlydescriptive words20. By the end of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes; "It was foreverto be the pursuit of that radiance of delight which tints the distant hilltops of the world. " Dreiser implies that__________.[A] there is a bright future lying ahead[B] one can never fulfill one's desire[C] one should 'always :have forward looking[D] happiness is found in the end21. Emily Dickinson wrote many short' poems .an various'aspects of life. Which of the following is NOT a usual subject of her poetic expression? .[A] Religion and immortality [B] Life and death.[C] War and peace. [D] Nature and society22. In Daisy Miller, James chose the Castle of Chillon as thesetting of the story clearly because of its status-as a shrine to ___________, consecrated by Byron in his association with Daisy whose American habits of free social intercourse runs up the elaborately regulated code of manners in Europe.[A] integrity [B] freedom[C] constancy . [D] autocracy23. The sentence "only the fittest can survive in a completiveamoral society" may be regarded as an appropriate summary of _________.[A] Jack London's Martin Eden [B] `Hemingway'sFor Whom. the bell Tolls[C] Drsiser's Sister Carrie[D] Melville’s MobyDick24. Here is a passage from, a novel: "The man gave him a lastpush and closed the door. As he did so, Hurstwood slipped and fell in the snow: It hurt him, and some vaguesense of shame returned. He began to cry and swear -foolishly. " The novel must be_________.[A] Dreiser's Sister Carrie[B] Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath[C] London's Martin Eden[D] Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer25. Here are a few lines from a poem: " WithBlue-uncertain stumbling Buzz─/Between the light ─and me─/And the Windows failed─and then/I could not see .to see─." The poem must be _______.[A] Emily Dickenson's “I Heard a Fly buzz-when I died─"[B] Edgar Allen Poe's "Annabel Lee"[C] Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" .[D] Robert Frost's. "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"B.阅读理解题(Reading comprehension)1. “I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, and thensays to myself: `All right, then;: I'll go, to hell' -,─and tore it up."Questions:A. Identify the novel and the writer.B. Why do "I" decide to go to hell?C. How do you understand this decision of going to hell?2. "Tell All the Truth, but Tell it Slant. "Questions:A. Identify the poet.B. What special feature can you draw from the form-of thisline?C. What idea does this statement convey?3. "And neigh like boanerges─Then─prompter than a StarStop─docile and omnipotentAt its own stable door, ─(Emily Dickinson: “I like to see it lag the:Miles”)Questions:A. What is being described *in, this, poem?B. What rhetoric devices are used in this stanza?C. What is the poet's attitude toward this object beingdescribed?4. "In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall youlong, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your, window, shall y dream such happiness as you may never feel.”(Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie)Questions:A. Who does "you" in the quotation refer to?B. What mood; do you think, was the narrator in, judging fromthis quotation?C. What idea can you draw from the "rocking-chair"?5 . "'Terrible-! ' said, that little lady, joining her, “ I hope itsnows enough to go sleigh riding. “ “ Oh, dear,”said Carrie, with whom the sufferings of Father Goriot were still keen. “That's all you think of.Aren't you sorry for the people who haven’t anything tonight?"”(Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie )Questions:A. What does snow mean to the little lady?B. What kind of mood, do you think, was Carrie in, judo fromthe above dialogue?C. What idea does the quoted passage express?C. 回答题(Questions and answers)1. "Poor Winterbourne was amused, perplexed-above all he' acharmed. He has never yet heard a young girl express herself just this fashion; ... Certainly she was very charming, but how extraordinarily communicative and how tremendously easy(Daisy Miller by Henry James)Question: What kind of narrative point of view is employed 114 What does this quotation reveal of the character of the young (Daisy Miller)?2. "Since then─'tis Centuries─:.and yet Feels shorter thanthe DayI first surmised the Horses 's Heads Were toward Eternity─" ("Because I could not stop for Death-" by Emily Dickinson. Question: What kind of meaning, can you get from the first two lines in the above quotation? What is Dickinson's understanding of death?3. Mark Twain and Henry James are both; considered to begreat realistic writers. What are the differences ,between ;them in the aspects of theme and language?4; What literary group does Theodore Dreiser belong t©?What are the characteristics of this group? Name two more American representatives that belong to this group.5. "The only thing I don't like, she proceeded, is, the. society. " (Daisy Miller by Henry James)Question: What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why?D论述题(Topic discussions)1. Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn:. can beinterpreted in many, ways and, has- won its :lasting, place in the American canon. Discuss the image ©f Huck Finn,and the social significance bf this character.2. Henry James is regarded as an -international messenger whobridges the New-America with the Old Europe: His characters are inevitably encountered with cultural conflicts. Take -Daisy Miller as an example to analyze the two characters; Daisy Miller and Winterbourne and the cultural conflicts they undergo.综合美国文学第三章综合练习(Exercises)A. 多项选择(Multiple choice questions)1. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I havepromises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go beforeI sleep. ”The above four lines are taken from_______.[A] Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"[B] Dickinson's "I heard a Fly buzz-when I died-"[C] Frost's "After Apple-Picking"[D] Dickinson's “Because I could not stop for Death”2. In writing the poem “The River-Merchant's Wife: ALetter”Pound took its material from the ancient _______ poetry:[A] French [B] Italian[C] Chinese [D] Japanese3. In "After Apple-Picking", Robert Frost wrote: "For Ihave too much/Of apple-picking: I am overtired/Of the great harvest I myself desired. " From theselines we can conclude that the speaker is ________.[A] happy about the harvest[B] wearing out the freshness of apple-picking[C] still desired of apple-picking when seeing theharvest[D] indifferent of what once desired4. In The Emperor Jones and The Hairy Ape, O'Neilladopted ______ to portray the helpless situation of human beings in a hostile universe.[A] expressionist techniques [B] surrealistic approach [C] romantic approach [D] dramatic monologues5. In " petals on a wet, black bough", the figure of speechused here is______.[A] metaphor [B] hyperbole[C] pun [D] simile6. "My little horse must think it queer/To stop without afarm house near."The above two lines are taken from Frost’s "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", a beautifullystructured poem which follows______.[A] iambic tetrameter [B] iambic pentameter [C] trochaic tetrameter [D] trochaic pentameter7. Here are four lines from a short poem: "I feel theladder sway as the boughs bend. /And I keep hearing from the cellar bin/The rumbling sound/Of load on load of apples coming in. " The poem must be______.[A] Frost's "After Apple-Picking"[B] Dickenson's "Because I could not stop for Death"[C] Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"[D] Whitman's "There Was a Child Went Forth"8. Eugine O'Neill's play, The Hairy Ape, is often said tobe concerned with______.[A] the wretched situation of working people[B] the problem of modern man's identity[C] the conflict between illusion and reality[D] the inevitability of man's final salvation9. Which of the following statements is NOT a typicalfeature of Frost's poetry?[A] It is usually presented in the dramatic monologue.[B] It is rich in images, metaphors and symbols.[C] Nature is one of the most important thematicconcerns in his poetry.[D] Most of his poems are written in the form of freeverse.10.Which of the following plays is regarded as asemi-autobiographic play by O'Neill?[A] Beyond the Horizon. [B] he Emperor Jones.[C] Long Day's Journey Into Night. [D] The IcemanCometh.11.Nick Carraway is both a character and a narrator inthe novel: entitled[A] This Side of Paradise [B] The Sun Also Rises [C] Tender is the Night [D] The Great Gatsby12，Who is the person that used the term "The Lost Generation" fc - the first time. to refer to writers like Hemingway?[A] Gertrude Stein [B] T. S. Eliot[C] Sherwood Anderson [D] Ezra Pound13. “Grace under pressure” is a major feature of______'s novels.[A] William Faulkner[B] Henry James[C]Theodore Dreiser[D] Ernest Hemingway14.Hemingway won his Nobel Prize for the bookentitled______.[A] The Sun Also Rises[B] The Old Man and the Sea[C] A Fare-veil to arms[D] For Whom the Bell Tolls16. William Faulkner was worldly famous not only forhis ingenuous mastery of the streams of consciousness technique, but also for imaginative creation of a mythic kingdom called______.[A] The Mississippi River[B] Yoknapatawpha County[C] Oxford County[D] The Town of Jeffeson17. Which of the following works by Faulkner involvesShakespearean allusion in its title?[A] The Sound and the Fury. [B] Light inAugust.[C] Absalom , Absalom [D] Go Down,Moses.18. "A week later the mayor wrote her himself, offeringto call or to send his carfor her, and received in reply a note on paper of an archaic shape, in a thin, flowingcalligraphy in faded ink, to the effect that she no longer went out at all. The tax noticewas also enclosed, without comment. " The above two sentences must be takenfrom______.[A] Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily"[C] Hemingway's story "Indian Camp"[D] James's story "Daisy Miller"19. The statement that a poor young man from the Westtrying make his fortune in the East but disillusioned in the quest of idealized dream may well sum up the theme of______. .[A] The Hairy Ape[B] For Whom the Bell Tolls [C] The Great Gatsby [D] Go Down , Moses20. "In a Station of the Metro" is a typical imagist poemthat fully displays Pound's definition of image, which is______. .[A] to present an intellectual and emotional instant oftime[B] to reveal a poet's instantaneous experience of life[C] to bring out a natural outburst of the poet's emotions689[D] to retell a poet's past moment of experience21. That profound ideas are delivered under the disguiseof the plain language and the simple form may be a very appropriate statement to describe ______'s[A] T.S. Eliot [B] Ezra Pound[C] Robert Frost [DI Emily Dickenson22. "Later when he started to operate Uncle George andthree Indian men held the woman still. She bit Uncle George on the arm and Uncle George said, 'Damn squaw bitch! ' and the young Indian who had rowed Uncle George over laughed at him.” The above two sentences must be taken from______.[A] Irving's story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"[B] Faulkner's story "A Rose for Emily"[C] James's story "Daisy Miller"[D] Hemingway's story "Indian Camp"23. Which of the following statements is NOT a typicalfeature imagism?[A] To use the language of common speech, but toemploy always the exact word.[B] To create new rhythms, as the expressions of a newmood[C] To recommend heroic couplet as a preferable verse。

美国文学作业 Prepared on 22 November 2020美国文学作作业1．第9题A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by_______.JamesTwainLondonDreiser答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：2．第10题“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment madeby james russell lowell on the female characters in novels writtenby______.IrvingFenimore CooperFreneauWashington答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：3．第11题Among the following novels, only one was not written by HermanMelville. It is _____________.Confidence-ManPIlotDick答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：4．第12题Sister Carrie is a noel written by ___.DreiserCranceC. Frank Norris答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：5．第13题The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.ArcherBumpo答案:B您的答案：C题目分数：此题得分：6．第14题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.CraneNorrisLondonWhitman答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：7．第15题In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.Millerａnd wardWings of the DovePortrait of a Lady答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：8．第16题Hawthorne’s ____ deals with the effects of a curse.Scarlet LetterHouse of Seven GablesFace答案:B您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：9．第17题"The Apparition of these faces in the crowd" is a line in a famous short poem written by ---.PoundB. Carl SandburgWhitman答案:A您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：10．第18题The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by _____________.JeffersonPaineFranklin答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：11．第19题the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________.CraneDreiserFaulkner答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：12．第20题the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________.RavenHelenLee答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：13．第21题The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________. JamesHemingwayFaulkner答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：14．第22题Among the four novels written by Henry James, the one written first in chronological order is _________.Portrait of a LadyGolden BowlAmbassadorsD. The Wing of the Dove答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：15．第23题Billy Budd was a short novel written by the American novelist ---.A. Nathaniel HawthorneMelvilleWhitman答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：16．第24题A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：17．第25题“ we hold these truths to be elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, ａnd the pursuit o f happiness.” this sentence is taken ｆrom ___.SenseDeclaration of IndependenceAutobiographyAmerican Crisis答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：18．第26题___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy.PaineFranklinWashington答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：19．第27题“Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poem written by Robert Frost entitled __________.Road Not TakenWallYellow RoadsApple Picking答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：20．第28题The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.David ThoreauWaldo EmersonJames答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：21．第30题The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the Brook Farm experiment written by __________.JamesHawthorneFenimore Cooper答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：22．第31题Among the following short stories, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is _________.Goodman BrownBirthmarkpit ａnd the pendulum答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：23．第32题The last finished novel written by Fitzgerald is __________.Side of Paradisethe Sad Young MenGreat GatsbyIs the Night答案:D您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：24．第33题Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.JamesFaulknerHemingway答案:C您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：25．第34题Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________.in AugustsI Lay DyingGolden BowlDown, Moses答案:C您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：26．第35题Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin’s Uncle Ton’s Cabin’s The Portrait of a Lady.’s A Farewell to Arms ？’s The Scarlet Letter.答案:D您的答案：C题目分数：此题得分：27．第36题“ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________.WilliamsEliotBradstreetIrving答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：此题得分：28．第37题Among the following 3 authors the one who later became a naturalized British citizen was ---.TwainB. FitzgeraldJames答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：此题得分：29．第38题Nathaniel Hawthorne gave a definition to the term "romance" in his Preface to the novel ---.House of the Seven GablesScarlet LetterMarble Faun答案:A您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：30．第39题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneMelvilleEllan Poe答案:C您的答案：A题目分数：此题得分：31．第41题The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---.A. Ezra PoundB. Sylvia PlathC. T. S. Eliot答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：此题得分：32．第42题Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is__________.Last of the MohicansPrairiePathfinderDick答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：33．第43题The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of the American novelist _____________.LondonHemingwayTwain答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：34．第44题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.. S. EliotStevensFrost答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：此题得分：35．第45题“by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________.答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：36．第46题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.HawthorneAllan Poe答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：37．第47题Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.valuesideas of social statusａnd eccentricityａnd integrity答案:D您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：38．第48题The School Room Poets did not include _____.答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：39．第49题Among the following 3 authors the one who did not win a Nobel Prize is ---.FaulknerB. F. S. FitzgeraldC. John Steinbeck答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：此题得分：40．第50题Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.Scarlet LetterBlithedale RomanceMarble FaunFall of the House of Usher答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：此题得分：41．第1题Henry James’s greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：42．第2题The Puritan style of writing is characterized by simplicity, which left an indelible imprint on American writings.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：43．第3题Emerson’s prose style was sometimes as highly individualistic as his dramas.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：44．第4题Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：45．第5题Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：46．第6题John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic with the working class people.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：47．第7题The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：48．第8题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：49．第29题A Shakespearean Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed ababcdcdefefgg.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：50．第40题The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：51．第51题The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry.答案:正确您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：52．第52题Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：53．第53题Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：54．第54题benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the romantic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance.答案:错误您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：55．第55题As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced byPuritanism.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：56．第56题An Italian Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed abbaabbacdecde.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：57．第57题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：58．第58题The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：59．第59题thoreau was an active transcendentalist who was an escapist ｏr a recluse detached ｆrom the life of his day.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：此题得分：60．第60题Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：此题得分：作业总得分：作业总批注：。

1. “God helps them that help themselves.” is found in ____________work.A. Paine’sB. Franklin’sC. Freneau’sD. Jefferson’s2. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?A. The American Crisis.B. The Federalist.C. Declaration of Independence.D. The Age of Reason.3. “These are the times that try men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington4. Which work is written by Freneau?A. The Right of ManB. The Wild honey SuckleC. Poor Richard’s AlmanacD. The Day of Doom5. Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Anne BradstreetB. Edward TaylorC. Michael WiggleworthD. Philip Freneau6. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes ___________.A. the microcosm of human societyB. the search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature7.Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with _________________.A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings8. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ____________-.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathanel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman9. ___________is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet letterC. WaldenD. Moby Dick10. 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 BookB. Tales of a TravelerC. The AlhambraD. A History of New York11. 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 TalesB. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle.12. As a philosophical and literary movement, _________ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism13. For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. StarbuckB. StubbC. IshmaelD. Arab14. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.A. The House of Seven GablesB. White JacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithdale Romance15. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch BookB. Leaves of GrassC. Leatherstocking Tales..D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn16. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace17. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.A. brevityB. directnessC. plainestD. obscure18. “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 Yo ung Goodman Brown.B. Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.C. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.D. Herman Melville’s Moby Dick.19. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over Soul20. Most of the poems in Whitman’s leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the ___________as well.A. natureB. lifeC. selfD. self-relianceII. Fill into the blanks with suitable phrase or term. (2x10=20%)1.The American of Scholar is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”.2.In 1620, a number of Puritans who tried to purify or reform the church of Englandstepped on the New England shore at Plymouth in the ship named Mayflower3.Among all the settlers in the New Continent, English settlers were the mostinfluential.4.In American Literature, the eighteenth century was an Age of Reason andRevolution.5.In Franklin’s Autobiography he talks first of all about how he studied language.6.Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as Rip Van Winklewhich is about a good-natured lazy husband who falls into a 20-year sleep. 7．Published in 1823, The Pioneers was the first of the Leatherstocking Tales, in their order.8．Philip Freneau was considered as the “poet of the American Revolution” and the “Father of American Poetry.”9．A superb book Walden came out of Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden pond. 10．As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain , the pen name of Samuel Langhorne. Clemens, usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experiences.III. Match the writer in Column A with the works in Column B (1X10=10%)Column A Column Ba.Franklinb.John Smithc.William Cullen Bryantd.James Fennimore Coopere.Philip Freneauf.Washington Irvingg.Nathaniel Hawthorneh.Edgar Allan Poei.Ralph Waldo Emersonj.Walt Whitman1.( b) A Description of New England2.( h) The Raven3.( g) The Scarlet Letter4.( a) Autobiography5.( e) The Wild Honey Suckle6.( c) To a Waterfowl7.( d) The Deerslayer8 ( j)Leaves of Grass9.( f) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow10.( i ) Nature。

美国文学综合练习1附标答第一篇：美国文学综合练习1附标答Test One(Chapter1-2 with answers)I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.____, whose unfinished Autobiography has become a classic of world literature.A.IrvingB.FranklinC.CooperD.Bryant2.The Declaration of Independence was drafted by ___.A.PaineB.WashingtonC.FranklinD.Jefferson3.The American literature is aboutyears old.A.200B.300C.400D.5004.Diaries, histories, journals, letters, commonplace book, travel books occupy a major position in the literature of the ____ period.A.classicalB.romanticC.realisticD.colonial5.To what rights does the Declaration of Independence say all men are entitled?A.Life, liberty and pursuit of happinessB.Freedom of Speech and pressC.Freedom of Thought and educationD.Abolishing all evil forms6.____ was the only American to sign the four documents that created the United StatesA.FranklinB.JeffersonC.EmersonD.Washington7.The Pilgrims, a small religious group which left their mother country on the ship “Mayflower”, A.1492B.1628C.1620D.16038.Which does not belong to the official documents that created the United States?A.A.the Declaration of IndependenceB.the ConstitutionC.the CrisisD.the treaty of alliance with France9.As an explorer and leader,was been known as a national hero in America.A.Christopher ColumbusB.Captain John SmithC.William BradfordD.Edward Taylor10.Amid the tumult of the American Revolution, the political philosopher Thomas Paine, whose ____ awakened American enthusiasm for independence?mon SenseB.AutobiographyC.WaldenD.History of the Dividing Line11.“Government is a necessary evil, but its purpose was the benefit of the individual, not his exploitation.” is ____ point of view.A.Paine’sB.Jefferson’sC.Cooper’sD.Emerson’s12.The American Puritanism had been a healthy legacy to the Americans.The rhetoric is plain, with a touch of nobility traceable to the direct influence of ____A.the ConstitutionB.the BibleC.French symbolismD.Shakespeare13.The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ____.A.FranklinB.EmersonC.JeffersonD.Hawthorne14.Whose writing style is fresh, simple and direct while therhetoric is plain and honest?.A.RomanticistsB.TranscendentalistsC.American PuritansD.British settlers15.“Nothing can settle our affairs so expeditiously as an open and ditermined De claration for Independence” is from ____.A.JeffersonB.PaineC.CooperD.Emerson16.Of the Puritan values, which one of the following is not included?A.hard workB.thriftC.pietyD.predestination17.____ is the only good American author before the Revolutionary War.A.FranklinB.JeffersonC.EmersonD.John Smith18.The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America was passed on July 4, ___A.1775B.1777C.1778D.177619.____was a Puritan and he was also one of the pilgriims who were on the Mayflower a nd signed the “Mayflower Conpact”.A.William FradfordB.Captain John SmithC.John CalvinD.Edward Taylor20.Which line is from Jefferson?A.He has refused his Assent to Laws the most wholesome and necessaryfor the public good.B.To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadnessin it.Then there is a kind of contempt of the landscape felt by him.C.There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at theconviction the envy is ignorance.D.Let him not quit his belief that a popgun is a popgun, though the ancientand honorable of the earth affirm it to be the crack of doom.II.Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false.Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.Franklin was already a successful businessman when Washington, Jefferson, and other founders of the nation were born.()2.American Puritanism was one of the most enduring shaping influences in American thought and American literature.()3.The book “Of Plymouth Plantation” by William Bradford was not the earliest and most reliable record of the hardships and triumphs of the Pilgrims.()4.Franklin helped establish a tradition in American writing of complex, utilitarian style.()5.Captain John Smith’s writings helped set the form of the exploration and travel narratives that inspired men to move westward to America and across the continent.()6.The American Puritans, like their brothers back in England, were not idealists.()7.Jefferson thought that natural rights of man must be secured by law and government is not necessary.()8.Franklin hoped that some form of reconciliation with Great Britain could be worked out.Pain, on the other hand, welcomed the idea of separation.()9.The Way to Wealth shows how a child discovers through purchase of a toy that one may pay more for something than it is worth.()10.In the formal, largely factual presentation of the Declaration there was no place for the metahpors and allusions upon which Paine relied so frequently.()11.Thomas Paine’s attitude toward separation fromEnglanddiffer from the attitude of most Americans including Franklin.()12.William Bradford was an adventurer, while Captain John Smith was a Puritan.()III.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1.When in the Course of human events, if becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, …2.And if a string do slip, by chance, they soonDo screw it up again: wherebyThey set it in a more melodious tuneAnd a diviner harmony.For in Christ’s coach they sweetly sing.As they to glory ride therein.3.Six or seven weeks those barbarians kept him prisoner, many strange triumphs and conjurations they made of him, yet he so demeaned himself amongst them, and he not only diverted them from surprising the fort, butprocured his own liberty, and got himself and his company such estimation amongst them, that those savages admired him more than their own Quiyouckosucks.The manner how they used and delivered him is as follows.4.After these things he returned to his place called Sowans, some 40 miles from this place, but Squanto continued with them, and was their interpreter, and was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation, he directed them how to set their corn, where to take fish, and to procure other commodities, and was also their pilot to bring them to unknown places for their profit, and neverleft them till he died.5.From a Child I was fond of Reading, and all the little Money that came into my Hands was ever laid out in Books.Pleas’d with a Pilgrim’s Progress, my first Collection was of John Bunyan’s Works, in separate little Volumes.Key to Chapter 1-2 练习答案I.Each of the statements below is followed by four alternative answers.Choose the one that would best complete the statement and put the letter in the brackets.1.B2.D3.C4.D5.A6.A7.C8.C9.B10.A11.B12.B13.A14.C15.B16.D17.A18.D19.A20.AII.Read the following statements and decide whether they are true or false.Write a “T” for true and “F” for false.1.T2.T3.F4.F5.T6.F7.F8.T9.F10.T11.T12.FIII.For each of the quotations listed below please give the name of the author and the title of the literary works from which it is taken.1.Jefferson’s the Declaration of Independence2.Edward Taylor’s The Joy of Church Fellowship Rightly Attended3.Captain John Smith’s The Gene rall Historie4.William Bradford’s The Pilgrims Meet the Indians5.Franklin’s The Autobiography第二篇：文学概论综合练习文学概论综合练习题题型及分数分布一、填空题，共15空，每空2分，共30分二、列举题，共3题，每题10分，共30分三、简答题，共1题，15分四、论述题，共1题，25分填空题1、中国的第一部诗歌总集是________________，其中的作品大部分是四言一句，称为_____________。

美国文学作业作业1．第9题A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by _______.A.Henry JamesB.Mark TwainC.Jack LondonD.Theodore Dreiser答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.02．第10题“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______.A.Washington IrvingB.James Fenimore CooperC.Philip FreneauD.George Washington答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.03．第11题Among the following novels, only one was not written by Herman Melville. It is _____________.A.The Confidence-ManB.The PIlotC.Moby Dick答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.04．第12题Sister Carrie is a noel written by ___.A.Theodore DreiserB.Stephen CranceC. Frank Norris答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.05．第13题The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel series The Leatherstocking Tales is ______________.A.Isabelle ArcherB.Natty BumpoC.Ishmael答案:B您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.06．第14题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.A.Stephen CraneB.Frank NorrisC.Jack LondonD.Walt Whitman答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.07．第15题In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.A.Daisy MillerB.watch ａnd wardC.The Wings of the DoveD.The Portrait of a Lady答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.08．第16题Hawthorne’s ____ deals with the effects of a curse.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The House of Seven GablesC.Stone FaceD.Salem答案:B您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.09．第17题"The Apparition of these faces in the crowd" is a line in a famous short poem written by ---.A.Ezra PoundB. Carl SandburgC.Walt Whitman答案:A您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.010．第18题The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by_____________.A.Thomas JeffersonB.Thomas PaineC.Benjamine Franklin答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.011．第19题the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________.A.Stephen CraneB.Theodore DreiserC.MacbethD.William Faulkner答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.012．第20题the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________.A.The RavenB.To HelenC.Annabel Lee答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.013．第21题The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________.A.Henry JamesB.FitzgeraldC.Ernest HemingwayD.William Faulkner答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.014．第22题Among the four novels written by Henry James, the one written first in chronological order is _________.A.The Portrait of a LadyB.The Golden BowlC.The AmbassadorsD. The Wing of the Dove答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.015．第23题Billy Budd was a short novel written by the American novelist ---.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB.Herman MelvilleC.Walt Whitman答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.016．第24题A poetic line of two feet is called ___________.A.monometerB.dimeterC.trimeterD.tetrameter答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.017．第25题“ we hold these truths to be elf-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, ａnd the pursuit of happiness.” this sentence is taken ｆrom ___.mon SenseB.The Declaration of IndependenceC.The AutobiographyD.The American Crisis答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.018．第26题___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy.A.Thomas PaineB.Benjamin FranklinC.George WashingtonD.Jefferson答案:A您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.019．第27题“Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poem written by Robert Frost entitled __________.A.The Road Not TakenB.Mending WallC.Two Yellow RoadsD.After Apple Picking答案:A您的答案：A此题得分：2.020．第28题The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.A.Henry David ThoreauB.Ralph Waldo EmersonC.Henry James答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.021．第30题The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the Brook Farm experiment written by __________.A.Henry JamesB.Nathaniel HawthorneC.James Fenimore Cooper答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.022．第31题Among the following short stories, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is _________.A.Young Goodman BrownB.WakefieldC.The BirthmarkD.the pit ａnd the pendulum答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.023．第32题The last finished novel written by Fitzgerald is __________.A.This Side of ParadiseB.All the Sad Young MenC.The Great GatsbyD.Tender Is the Night答案:D您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.024．第33题Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---.A.Henry JamesB.William FaulknerC.Ernest Hemingway答案:C您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.025．第34题Among the following novels, only one is not written by William Faulkner. It is _____________.A.Light in AugustsB.As I Lay DyingC.The Golden BowlD.Go Down, Moses答案:C您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.026．第35题Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin?A.Stowe’s Uncle Ton’s CabinB.James’s The P ortrait of a Lady.C.Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms ？D.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.答案:D您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.027．第36题“ I heard the merry grasshopper then sing,/The black-clad cricket bear a second part” These lines written by ____________.A.Roger WilliamsB.John EliotC.Anne BradstreetD.Washington Irving答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.028．第37题Among the following 3 authors the one who later became a naturalized British citizen was ---.A.Mark TwainB. FitzgeraldC.Henry James答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.029．第38题Nathaniel Hawthorne gave a definition to the term "romance" in his Preface to the novel ---.A.The House of the Seven GablesB.The Scarlet LetterC.The Marble Faun答案:A您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.030．第39题The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literary work should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB.Herman MelvilleC.Edgar Ellan Poe答案:C您的答案：A题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.031．第41题The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---.A. Ezra PoundB. Sylvia PlathC. T. S. Eliot答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.032．第42题Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It is__________.A.The Last of the MohicansB.The PrairieC.The PathfinderD.Moby Dick答案:D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.033．第43题The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of the American novelist _____________.A.Jack LondonB.Ernest HemingwayC.Mark Twain答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.034．第44题"Two roads diverged in a yellow woods" is a line in a poem written by ---.A.T. S. EliotB.Wallace StevensC.Robert Frost答案:C您的答案：C题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.035．第45题“by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgar eye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________.A.abababB.ababccC.aabbcc答案:B您的答案：B此题得分：2.036．第46题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.A.Nathaniel HawthorneB.Edgar Allan PoeC.MelvilleD.Longfellow答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.037．第47题Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Ro se for Emily, can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.A.old valuesB.rigid ideas of social statusC.bigotry ａnd eccentricityD.harmony ａnd integrity答案:D您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：0.038．第48题The School Room Poets did not include _____.A.LongfellowB.LowellC.HolmesD.Poe答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.039．第49题Among the following 3 authors the one who did not win a Nobel Prize is ---.A.William FaulknerB. F. S. FitzgeraldC. John Steinbeck答案:B您的答案：B题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.040．第50题Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.A.The Scarlet LetterB.The Blithedale RomanceC.The Marble FaunD.The Fall of the House of Usher答案:D您的答案：D题目分数：2.0此题得分：2.041．第1题Henry James’s greatest influence was exerted not on his own age but on the one that followed.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.042．第2题The Puritan style of writing is characterized by simplicity, which left an indelible imprint on American writings.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.043．第3题Emerson’s prose style was sometimes as highly individualistic as his dramas.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.044．第4题Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact t hat he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.045．第5题Hemingway's novel For Whom the Bell Tolls was about the Spanish Civil War.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.046．第6题John Stwinbeck didn't win a Nobel Prize because he was sympathetic with the working class people.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.047．第7题The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.048．第8题"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.049．第29题A Shakespearean Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed ababcdcdefefgg.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.050．第40题The first American poet to be translated into Chinese is Walt Whitman.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.051．第51题The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry.答案:正确您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.052．第52题Poe was a predecessor of the later British detective writer Conan Doyle.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.053．第53题Jack London was usually considered as a romanticist for his portrayal of superman heroes.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.054．第54题benjamin franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the romantic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity ａnd balance.答案:错误您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：0.055．第55题As a novelist, Nathaniel Hawthorne was deeply influenced by Puritanism.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.056．第56题An Italian Sonnet is a short poem with fourteen iambic pentameter lines rhymed abbaabbacdecde.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.057．第57题Besides Moby Dick, Melville also wrote some other sea novels.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.058．第58题The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.059．第59题thoreau was an active transcendentalist who was an escapist ｏr a recluse detached ｆrom the life of his day.答案:错误您的答案：错误题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.060．第60题Ralph Waldo Emerson was a representative figure of the American Transcendentalism.答案:正确您的答案：正确题目分数：1.0此题得分：1.0作业总得分：78.0作业总批注：。

美国文学作业选择：1．The scarlet letter “A” in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first standsfor _____________.2．Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.PurloinedLetter3．The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by_____________. Paine4．the sound ａnd the fury is a novel written by __________. Faulkner 5．The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---. C. T. S. Eliot 6．the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________. Helen7．Among the following titles, only one is not among the Leather-Stoking Tales series. It Dick8．“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currentsof the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay __________. 9．The short poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” was written by _________. Carlos Williams10．The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---. A. O.Henry11．“by nature’s self in white arrayed\ she bade thee shun the vulgareye,\ ａnd planted here the guarding shade,\ ａnd sent soft waters murmuring by; \ thus quietly thy summer goes,\ thy days declining to repose.” the rhyme scheme of the lines above is ______________.12．In Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the major female character Madeline is the titular hero Usher’s _____________. 13．Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---. A. John Steinbeck 14．The central character’s name in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel seriesThe Leatherstocking Tales is ______________. Bumpo15．Puritans emphasized a ____God.16． In 1881, Henry James published his novel____, which is generally considered as his masterpiece.Portraitof a Lady17．_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”Larsen18．___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga. 19．The School Room Poets did not include _____.20．According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen Bryantwas the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The title of thepoem is __________. B.“To a Waterfowl”21．“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________. David Thoreau22．The first American writer to win an international fame is ___. Irving23．A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court was written by _______. Twain24．Among the following writers, only one does not belong to the naturalistic school. He is___. James25．The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civilright leader Martin Luther King is ___.David Thoreau26．“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment madeby james russell lowell on the female characters in novels writtenby______. Fenimore Cooper27．Among the following short stories, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is _________.pit ａnd the pendulum 28．Among the following works written by T. S. Eliot, only one is nota poem. It is in the Cathedral29．Billy Budd was a short novel written by the American novelist ---. Melville30．Martin Eden was an autobiographical novel written by ---. London 31．In Hawthorne’s novel The Scarlet Letter, the central character Hester Prynne had a secret affair with _____________.32．Sister Carrie is a noel written by ___. Dreiser33．robert frost once said that a poem should begin with delight ａnd end in__________.34．Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---. old man ａnd the sea35．among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___. Dickinson 36． Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.Fall of the House of Usher37．___ wrote Rights of Man in 1792 to suggest the overthrow of the British monarchy. Paine38．Hawthorne’s ____ deals with the effects of a curse. House of Seven Gables39．The sentence “whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist” is quoted ｆrom Emerson’s essay _________.40． Among the following authors, only one has been called the American Scott. He is _______.Fenimore Cooper41．William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________. ’ Henry42．Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily,can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______.ａnd integrity43．Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic viewof original sin’s The Scarlet Letter.44．“Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poemwritten by Robert Frost entitled __________. Road Not Taken45．The novel Sister Carrie opens with a description of Carrie on a traintrip to the city of _______ looking for a factory job.1．According to Mathew Arnold, one poem written by William Cullen Bryantwas the “most perfect brief poem in the language”. The title of thepoem is __________. B.“To a Waterfowl”2．"The American Scholar" is an essay written by the famous philosopher---. C. Ralph Waldo Emerson3．Among the following, only one can not be a possible theme of the novelThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. It is _________. emptiness4．Among the following 3 authors the one who later became a naturalizedBritish citizen was ---. James5．Ernest Hemingway's Last important literary work is ---. old manａnd the sea6．The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________. Waldo Emerson7．The “green light”in The Great Gatsby symbolizes __________. American dream8．the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur thatwas rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________. Helen9．The short novel The Turn of the Screw was written by ________. James10．The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---. A.O. Henry11．Henry David Thoreau built his cabin beside the lake of Walden in theyear ___.12．The first American writer who propounded that a piece of literarywork should focus on the production of a single emotional effect is ___. Ellan Poe13．Among the following 3 poets the one who was once imprisoned for political reasons is ---. Pound14．Among the following authors the one who once visited China was ---. Hemingway15．Emily Grierson, the protagonist in Faulkner’s story A Rose for Emily,can be regarded as a symbol for all the following qualities except______. ａnd integrity16．william faulkner once declared that ___ was the first truly american writer from whom we are descended.Twain17．____ was considered to be the first American writer. Smith 18．William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________. ’ Henry 19．The poem “The Indian Burying Ground” was written by the Americanpoet ---. Freneau20．___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. D. The Bells21．__was the only American of his generation who could chide the Britishwith humor. Irving22．Among the following philosophers, only one did not have an influenceover the writings of Jack London. He is________.23．The Waste Land was dedicated to another poet who was __________. Pound24． Among the four novels written by Henry James, the one written firstin chronological order is _________.Portrait of a Lady25．The most popular novel to do with the abolition movement written byHarriet Beecher Stowe is ________.Tom’s Cabin26．The most famous sea story written by Jack London is _______. Sea Wolf27．the village near boston in which both emerson ａnd thoreau lived was called _________.28．Martin Eden was an autobiographical novel written by ---. London 29．The writer who once said that all american literature came ｆrom Mark Twain’s Huck Finn is ___.Hemingway30．“The Black Cat” written by Poe is a _________. Story 31．Benjy is a central character in Faulkner's novel ---. sound ａnd the fury32．Among the following fictions written by John Steinbeck, only one is about the Second World War. It is ______________. C. “The Moon Is Down”33．among the following three american writers, only one has never been married in his ｏr her life. the person is ___. Dickinson 34．The famous pamphlet Common Sense appearing in 1776 was written by __________. Paine35． Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.36．“Ishmale” is the name of the narrator in the novel ___. A. Moby Dick37．The American writer whose one essay greatly influenced later civil right leader Martin Luther King is ___.David Thoreau38．“I become a transparent eye-ball. i am nothing. i see all. the currents of the universal being circulate through me; i am part ｏr particle of god.” the passage above is quoted ｆrom emerson’s essay _____. 39．The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of the American novelist ____.Hemingway40．____ Bryant’s best-known poem, was written when he was only sixteen years old.41．After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.42．Jack London did not write ______. Ambassadors43．. the jazz age, characterized by frivolity ａnd carelessness, refers to ________.44．_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”Larsen45．___ is not a name to refer to Natty Bumppo in Cooper’s frontier saga. 判断：46． american naturalism, like romanticism, had come ｆrom germany. 答案:错误47．Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable. 答案:正确48．Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. 答案:正确49．The 19th century female poet Emily Dickinson was a forerunner of the modern Imagist poetry. 答案:正确50．The short story writer was once put into prison because he was a Nazi. 答案:错误51．Though Emily Dickinson married twice in her life, love had never beena major theme in her poetry.答案:错误52．"In a Station of the Metro" is a short poem written by Ezra Pound. 答案:正确53．Henry David Thoreau once built a cabin beside the lake of Walden onthe land of his neighbor Ralph Waldo Emerson. 答案:正确46． emerson always applied the term transcendentalist to himself ｏrto his beliefs, fｏr he was the acknowledged leader of the movement. 答案:错误47．The famous philosopher Williams James was the novelist Henry James' brother. 答案:正确48．Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable. 答案:正确49． The Second World War led the American intellectuals to a bitter disillusionment, breeding what is called modernism. 答案:错误50．The foundation of American national literature was laid by the early American romanticists. 答案:正确51．Cooper’s claim to greatness in American literature lies in the fact that he created a myth about the formative period of the American nation. 答案:正确52． Hawthorne, who seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin ａnd veil, never showed a positive part of the life.答案:错误53．“The Premature Burial” is a detective story written by Poe. 答案:错误填空：54．The iceberg style refers to the writing style of the American writer__________. 答案:Ernest Hemingway55．Isabel Archer is the heroine of the novel ___, Henry James’s masterpiece. 答案:The Portrait of a Lady56．Ezra pound’s major work of poetry is a long poem called ____. 答案:The Cantos57．the title of the novel the sound ａnd the fury comes ｆrom a play written by ____.答案:William Shakespeare58．The first edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass was publishedin the year______. 答案:185559．The short novel The Mysterious Stranger was written by __________. 答案:Mark Twain60．“The Young Housewife” is a poem written by __________. 答案:William Carlos Williams61．The poet who won Nobel Prize in 1948 was _________. 答案: T. S. Eliot62．The novelist Henry James had a brother who was famous for his studyin psychology. The brother’s name is _______. 答案:William James 63．The poem “The Slave’s Dream” was written by ___________. 答案:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow64．One of Edwin Arlington Robinson’s early books, Captain Craig, came to the attention of president _____, who then offered him a clerk’s jobin a customhouse. 答案:Theodore Roosevelt65．Sister Carrie traces the material rise of carrie meeber ａnd the tragic decline of _____.答案:G. W. Hurstwood66．in the 1920s, faulkner wrote a novel the first part of which was narrated ｆrom the view point of an idiot. the novel is _________. 答案:the sound ａnd the fury67．The American author who was a direct predecessor of Conan Doyle was_________.答案:Edgar Allan Poe68．Ezra Pound’s most famous short poem “In the Station of the Metro”has only ______ lines. 答案:two54．The first permanent English settlement in North was established at____ , Virginia. 答案:Jamestown55． _____ is the novel into which Jack London put most of himself. 答案:Martin Eden56．The iceberg style refers to the writing style of the American writer__________. 答案:Ernest Hemingway57．According to the Chinese scholar 钱钟书, the first English poem tobe translated into Chinese was _____________. 答案:A Psalm of Life 58．"Out of the Cradle, Endlessly Rocking” is a poem written by __________. 答案:Walt Whitman59．The novel written by Nathaniel Hawthorne that bears a direct allusionto the notorious Salem witchcraft trials is ________________. 答案:The House of the Seven Gables60．The first line in the poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”is _________.答案:Whose woods these are I think I know61． After his publication of ____, Whitman was praised by Emerson, who saw some transcendentalist trace in the poet. 答案:Leaves of Grass 62． At the inauguration of John F. Kennedy, ____ was invited to read his poetry when he was eighty-seven.答案:Robert Frost 63. The novelist Henry James had a brother who was famous for his study in psychology. The brother’s name is _______. 答案:William James 64．“he was a gentleman ｆrom sole to crown,/ clean favored, ａnd imperially slim” are lines quoted ｆrom edwin arlington robinson’s poem _______. 答案:Richard Cory65．The American writer who won Nobel Prize for literature in 1962 was _______. 答案:Ernest Hemingway66．In Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, the image of the “School” in the third stanza stands for _____________. 答案:youth67．The second line in Pound’s poem “In a Station of the Metro” is _____.答案:Petals on a wet, black bough.68．The famous poem “The British Prison Ship”was written by_______________.答案:Philip Freneau阅读理解题第69题 during the whole of a dull, dark, ａnd soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, i had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; ａnd at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy house of usher. i know not how it was --but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.is the title of the work ｆrom which this passage is taken 答案 The Fall of the House of Usher2．Who was the author 答案 Edgar Allan Poe3 What is the author's writing style as indicated by this passage答案 All the words should work for a single aim of effect. 第70题i celebrate myself, ａnd sing myself,ａnd what i assume you shall assume, The Fall of the House of Usher for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.i loafe ａnd invite my soul,i lean ａnd loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.my tongue, every atom of my blood, form'd ｆrom this soil, this air, born here of parents born here ｆrom parents the same, ａnd theirparents the same,i, now thirty-seven years old in perfect health begin,hoping to cease not till death.分 who is the poet who wrote these lines Walt Whitman2．分 what is the title of the poem ｆrom which the quoted lines are taken Song of Myself3．分 What’s the poet’s style as these lines manifest free and passionate第71题分When Caroline Meeber boarded the afternoon train for chicago, her total outfit consisted of a small trunk, a cheap imitation alligator-skin satchel, a small lunch in a paper box, ａnd a yellow leather snap purse, containing her ticket, a scrap of paper with her sister's address in van buren street, ａnd four dollars in money. it was in august, 1889. she was eighteen years of age, bright, timid, ａnd full of the illusions of ignorance ａnd youth. caroline, ｏr sister carrie, as she had been half affectionately termed by the family, was possessed of a mind rudimentary in its power of observation ａnd analysis. self-interest with her was high, but not strong. it was, nevertheless, her guiding characteristic. warm with the fancies of youth, pretty with the insipid prettiness of the fｏrmative period, possessed of a figure promising eventual shapeliness ａnd an eye alight with certain native intelligence, she wasa fair example of the middle american class—two generations removed ｆrom the emigrant.1．分 who was the author of the work ｆrom which the words are taken Theodore Dreiser2．分what is the title of the story ｆrom which the words are taken Sister Carrie3．分 What is the meaning of the underlined word “sister” a way to address a girl4．分 What does this quoted passage indicate Sister Carrie was a country girl full of dreams for life.第72题分isabel archer was a young person of many theories; her imagination was remarkably active. it had been her fortune to possess a finer mind than most of the persons among whom her lot was cast; to have a larger perception of surrounding facts ａnd to care for knowledge that was tinged with the unfamiliar. it is true that among her contemporaries she passed for a young woman of extraordinary profundity; for these excellent people never withheld their admiration ｆrom a reach of intellect of which they themselves were not conscious, ａnd spoke of isabel as a prodigy of learning, a creature reported to have read the classic authors--in translations. her paternal aunt, mrs. varian, once spread the rumor that isabel was writing a book--mrs. varian having a reverencefor books, ａnd averred that the girl would distinguish herself in print. mrs. varian thought highly of literature, for which she entertained that esteem that is connected with a sense of privation.1．分 who was the author of the work ｆrom which the words are taken Henry James2．分 what is the title of the story ｆrom which the words are taken The Portrait of a Lady3. What does this quoted passage indicate Isabel Archer was a talented woman ignorant of social vices.第73题分hester prynne’s term of confinement was now at an end. her prison–door was thrown open, ａnd she came forth into the sunshine, which, falling on all alike, seemed, to her sick ａnd morbid heart, as if meant for no other purpose than to reveal the scarlet letter on her breast. perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps ｆrom the threshold of the prison than even in the procession ａnd spectacle that have been described, ｗhere she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger. then, she was supported by an unnatural tension of the nerves, ａnd by all the combative energy of her character, which enabled her to convert the scene into a kind of lurid triumph. it was, moreover, a separate ａnd insulated event, to occur but once in her lifetime, ａnd to meet which, therefore, recklessof economy, she might call up the vital strength that would have sufficed for many quiet years. the very law that condemned her—a giant of stem featured but with vigor to support, as well as to annihilate, in his iron arm—had held her up through the terrible ｏrdeal of her ignominy. but now, with this unattended walk ｆrom her prison door, began the daily custom; ａnd she must either sustain ａnd carry it forward by the ｏrdinary resources of her nature, ｏr sink beneath it.1．分 Who wrote the passage quoted here Nathniel Hawthorne 2．分 what is the title of the story ｆrom which the quoted passage is taken The Scarlet Letter3．分 What is the theme of the story sinning ａnd redemption 作业1．第1题Puritans emphasized a ____God.答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：2．第2题After the success of ____, Herman Melville became known as a man who lived among cannibals.JacketDick答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：3．第3题_______ does not belong to the school of naturalism in history.CraneNorrisLondonWhitman答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：4．第4题The best of Cooper’s sea romances was ____.prairiePilotPoineerspathfinder答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：5．第5题______ is not a character in the novel The Scarlet Letter. DimmesdaleChillingworthBrown答案:C标准答案：C您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：6．第6题“Civil Disobedience” is a famous essay written by ___________.Waldo EmersonDavid Thoreau. B. White答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：7．第7题Poe invented the detective story, however he was also a first rate poet, ａnd his most important poem is ___.RavenFall of the House of ArthurHellen答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：8．第8题“Two roads diverged in a yellow woods” is the first line in a poem written by Robert Frost entitled __________.Road Not TakenWallYellow RoadsApple Picking答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：9．第9题Among the following stories written by Poe, only one belongs to the category of the detective story. It is ___.Purloined LetterB. LigeiaTell-tale Heart答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：10．第10题Tales of a Traveller was written by the American author__________.Fenimore CooperIrvingHawthorne答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：11．第11题Among the following fictions, only one is not written by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It is ___________.Scarlet LetterBlithedale RomanceMarble FaunFall of the House of Usher答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：12．第12题The first American writer to win an international fame is ___.A. Henry JamesFenimore CooperIrving答案:C标准答案：C您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：13．第13题Among the following, only one is not a representative feature of O Henry’s short stories. It is _________.A. conversational openingcoincidenceendingpoints of view答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：14．第14题The Wasteland is a long modern poem written by ---.A. Ezra PoundB. Sylvia PlathC. T. S. Eliot答案:C标准答案：C您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：15．第15题the lines “to the glory that was greece, ／ａnd the grａndeur that was rome” were quoted ｆrom poe’s poem __________.RavenHelenLee答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：16．第16题Among the following writers, only one does not belong to the naturalistic school. He is___.JamesCraneDreiser答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：17．第17题The Iceberg style is most thoroughly reflected in the writings of the American novelist _____________.LondonHemingwayTwain答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：18．第18题The Author of the short story "A Gift for Maggie" is ---.A. O. HenryB. Mark TwainLondon答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：19．第19题Of Mice ａnd Men is a novel written by ---.A. John SteinbeckAndersonLewis答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：20．第20题the village near boston in which both emerson ａnd thoreau lived was called _________.答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：21．第21题In Poe’s tale “The Fall of the House of Usher”, the major female character Madeline is the titular hero Usher’s _____________.答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：22．第35题The arbiter of nineteen-century literary realism in America was ______. TwainJames’HenryDean Howells答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：23．第36题The Fall of the House of Usher was a horror story by ______.HawthorneAllan Poe答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：24．第46题Which of the following works best illustrates the Calvinistic view of original sin’s Uncle Ton’s Cabin’s The Portrait of a Lady.’s A Farewell to Arms’s The Scarlet Letter.答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：25．第47题when we say that a poor young man ｆrom the west tried to make his fortune in the east but was disillusioned in the quest of an idealized dream, we are probably discussing about ______’s thematic concern in his fiction writing.JamesFitzgeraldFaulkner答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：26．第48题_____was the only American of his generation who could chide the British with humor.IrvingAllan Poe答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：27．第49题________ was the first writer of local color to achieve wide popularity. TwainStoweHarteJames答案:C标准答案：C您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：28．第50题William Sidney Porter was the real name of ________.Twain’ HenryLondonDean Howells答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：29．第51题_______, the ruthless, amoral protagonist of the The Sea Wolf, best realizes the ideal of the “Superman.”Larsen答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：30．第52题The School Room Poets did not include _____.答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：31．第53题Benjy is a central character in Faulkner's novel ---.A. As I Lay DyingB. A Rose For Emilysound ａnd the fury答案:C标准答案：C您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：32．第54题in 1836, a small book was published in the united states ａnd has hence been called the manifesto of the american transcendentalism. its author was ___.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Walt WhitmanWaldo Emerson答案:C标准答案：C您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：33．第55题Pound’s poem “the river-merchant’s wife” was translated ｆrom a poem by the chinese poet __________.A.李白B.杜甫C.白居易D.王安石答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：34．第56题The leader of the American Transcendentalism is _________.David ThoreauWaldo EmersonJames答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：35．第57题In terms of subject matter, “The Turn of the Screw” is a ___. storyfictiontale答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：36．第58题The scarlet letter “A” in the novel The Scarlet Letter at first stands for _____________.答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：37．第59题“Ishmale” is the name of the narrator in the novel ___.A. Moby DickScarlet LetterBlithdale Romance答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：38．第60题Among the following novelists, the only one who had the working experience as a seal hunter is__________.JamesB. Mark TwainLondon答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：39．第61题The Blithedale Romance is a novel about the Brook Farm experiment written by __________.JamesHawthorneFenimore Cooper答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：40．第62题“all sappy as maples ａnd flat as the prairie” is a comment made by james russell lowell on the female characters in novels written by______. IrvingFenimore CooperFreneauWashington答案:B标准答案：B您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：41．第63题Among the following, only one is not a feature of Mark Twain’s style. It is __________.ｕｓｅ of vernacular languagecolorinfluence of the Tall Tale答案:D标准答案：D您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：42．第64题The salesman whom Sister Carrie met with on her way to Chicago was named _____________.DrouetCraneNorris答案:A标准答案：A您的答案：题目分数：此题得分：43．第65题The real name of the author Mark Twain is ___.。

Chapter 1 Literature of Colonial AmericaDecide whether the statements are true or false.F 1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.T 2. American poetry of the 18th century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th centuryChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( C ) 1. The Puritan philosophy known as is the most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature.A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. American PuritanismD. Rationalism( B ) 2. 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 MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First Muse( B ) 3. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of .A. Thomas HoodB. Benjamin FranklinC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington(B)4. Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet “” is often regarded as the gre atest of the Revolutionary pamphlets. The argument is characteristic of plainness. A. The Rights of Man B. Common Sense C. The American Crisis D. Declaration of IndependenceChapter 2 Early Romantics；Chapter 3 Transcendentalism；Chapter 4 High RomanticsChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( A ) 1. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of soul”.A.intuitionB. logicC. data of the sensesD. Thinking(B C D) 2. Choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe from the following.A. “To Helen”B. The RavenC. “Annabel Lee”D. “The Bells”(A B C D) 3. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter.A. Hester PrynneB. Arthur DimmesdaleC. Roger ChillingworthD. Pearl( A B ) 4. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as “” and “”.A. Rip Van Winkle B The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington(B) 5. Herman Melville’s is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy, religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. The Old Man and the SeaB. Moby DickC. White JacketD. Billy Budd( A ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay has been regarded as “America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.A. The American ScholarB. NatureC. The Rights of ManD. Self-Reliance( B ) 7. A superb book entitled came out of Henry David Thoreau’s two-year experiment at Walden Pond.A. The American ScholarB. WaldenC. The Rights of ManD. Self-Reliance( C )8. From Henry David Thoreau’s Concord jail experience came his famous essay “”.A. The Rights of ManB. Common SenseC. Civil DisobedienceD. Declaration of Independence( B ) 9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is , who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.A. NatureB. Natty BumppoC. DeerD. sailor( A) 10. was the first to develop the short story as a distinctive art form and to elaborate criteria by which it can be judged. Therefore he was often regarded as the father of the modern short story.A. Washington IrvingB. Philip FreneauC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allan Poe( C ) 11. The Scarlet Letter was written by , who tended to write about the , and believed that evil was at the core of human life. He was proclaimed as the first American romancer.A. Washington Irving; pastB. Philip Freneau; futureC. Nathaniel Hawthorne; pastD. Edgar Allan Poe; future( A ) 12. Dickinson’s poems demonstrate and .A. inconsistency; indirectionB. consistency; indirectionC. inconsistency; directionD. consistency; direction( D ) 13. The poetic style Walt Whitman applied is now called , that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. balladB. blank verseC. sonnetD. free verse( A ) 14. Dickinson’s greatest lyrics are on the theme of , personified as a monarch, a lord, or a kind but irresistible lover.A. deathB. friendshipC. politicsD. artChapter 5 Realism；Chapter 6 Local Colorism；Chapter 7 NaturalismChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( ABCD ) 1. Choose the works written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. The Gilded AgeD. The Tragedy of Pudd’nhead Wilson( B ) 2. Whereas Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, was an admirer.A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Walt WhitmanD. Jack London( ABCD ) 3. Choose the novels written by Henry James.A. Daisy MillerB. The Portrait of a LadyC. The Wings of the DoveD. The Ambassadors(ABCD) 4. Choose Jack London’s works from the following.A. The Call of the WildB. White FangC. The Sea WolfD. Martin Eden( A ) 5. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry James’s .A. Daisy MillerB. The Portrait of a LadyC. The Wings of the DoveD. The Ambassadors( B ) 6. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s masterpiece is , which is considered to be the greatest of all anti-slavery literature, and help bring the North to fight the slave-holding South in the Civil War.A. Daisy MillerB. Uncle Tom’s CabinC. “The Gift of the Magi”D. The Color Purple( C ) 7. Hemingway once wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by called Huckleberry Finn...”A. Henry JamesB. William Dean HowellsC. Mark TwainD. O. Henry( D ) 8. Regionalism, or Local Colorism is a subordinate order of .A. ColonialismB. PuritanismC. RomanticismD. Realism( C ) 9. Naturalists held that humans are controlled by laws of and .A. heredity; PuritanismB. Puritanism; totalityC. heredity; environmentD. truth; beauty( A ) 10. Theodore Dreiser neither condemned nor praised the protagonist of .A. Sister CarrieB. White FangC. The Red Badge of CourageD. Martin EdenAnswer the following question in your own words.What are the differences between American romantic writers, realist writers and naturalist writers in their attitudes toward human beings in their literary creation?Romanticists place the individual at the center of art and make literature most valuable as an expression of his or her unique feelings and particular attitudes and make its accuracy a portraying the individual’s expriencesRealists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. They not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes, but also showed profound sympathy for the common people. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils and did not realize the necessity of changing the bourgeois society.According to the theory of naturalism, literature must be true to life and exactly reproduce real life, including all its details without any selection. Naturalist writers usually write about the lives of the poor and oppressed, or the slum life, but by giving all the details of life without discrimination, they can only represent the extend appearance instead of the inner essence of real life.Chapter 8 PoetryDecide whether the statements are true or false.T 1. When the other modernist poets were obscure and difficult to understand, Robert Frost could be understood by the average person.T 2. Unlike Wallace Stevens, who experimented in his language, the New England poets E. A. Robinson and Robert Frost were modern in their themes about the wasted, blighted, or impoverished lives, but NOT modern in their techniques and verse forms. They used traditional verse forms and made their poems of modernist themes more easily understood by the public.T 3. Robert Frost wrote about the universal matters of life and death, good and evil, with the deceptive, rustic simplicity.F 4. Robert Frost did write pastoral poetry as a way to escape from modern life.F 5. In the decade of 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.(ABC ) 1. The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are .A. direct treatmentB. economy of expressionC. clear rhythmD. blank verse(C ) 2. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is written by .A. T. S. EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.E. E. Cummings(A ) 3. showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings(B ) 4. Ezra Pound’s long poem contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab(C ) 5. “Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy” are good examples of E. A. Robinson’s attitude.A. romanticB. futurismC. realisticD. materialistic(B ) 6. In 1922 Thomas Stearns Eliot published his great work The Waste Land, which catches precisely the state of culture and society after the Second World War and graphically illustrates the spiritual poverty of the of the time. It has been regarded as a central text of modernism.A. EastB. WestC. NorthD. South(D ) 7. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poem was not written by Robert Frost?A. “The Road Not Taken”B. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”C. “After Apple-Picking”D. “Richard Cory”(B) 8. , oe of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of T. S. Eliot’s aesthetic s, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism.A. “Sweeny Agonistes”B. “Tradition and the Individual Talent”C. “A Primer of Modern Heresy”D. “Gerontion”( ABCD) 9. was/were written by T. S. Eliot.A. The Waste LandB. The Hollow MenC. Ash WednesdayD. Four Quartets( ABC) 10. T. S. Eliot was a .A. poetB. playwrightC. literary criticD. novelist(C ) 11.The Waste Land reads like the manifesto of the “Lost Generation.” It consists of segments.A. threeB. fourC. fiveD. six(B ) 12. The essence of , which began in Germany in the 1890s, and ended in the early 1940s, was a break with the past, and it also fostered a belief in art and literature as an avenue to self-fulfillment.A. RealismB. ModernismC. NaturalismD. Sentimentalism( D) 13. dramatized discontinuity and imminent severance from the past while making determined efforts to use the past, its values and artistic forms by incorporating them in new literary production.A. SentimentalismB. RealismC. NaturalismD. Modernism( A) 14. Modernists had a sense of fragmentation in social communities and the fragmentation within the individual himself. Hence became a common theme in modernist writing.A. fragmentationB. orderC. reasoningD. ethics( D) 15. An is a person who the modernist writers used in presenting their theme, and he is the person who is the main focus of the work as a hero should be. However, he is weak, ineffective, inapt, not like the romantic hero who is strong, brave, and courageous. He achieves success through bungling, through not being as effective as he would think that he could be.A. heroB. antagonistC. orderD. anti-hero(C ) 16. Unlike Victorian poetry which was characteristic of moralizing tendencies, overpadding of extra-poetic matter, and traditional iambic pentameter, imagist poetry stressed free choice of subject matters (often dealing with single, concentrated moments of experience), concreteness of imagery, musical phrases, economy of expression, and the use of a dominant , or a quick succession of related images. It aimed at instantaneous effect, visual and concise.A. toneB. speakerC. imageD. persona(D ) 17. earned a reputation as a pessimist poet because of his fascination with the interior drama of human defeat in his “Tilbury town” poems. A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. A. Robinson( D) 18. E. A. Robinson had much examination of failure, loneliness, isolation, defeat, frustration, sorrow, endurance, despair, emptiness and alienation. He had been called the poet laureate of .A. pastoralB. classicalC. imageD. failure(A ) 19. The most significant American poem of the 20th century was by T. S. Eliot. Its publication helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab( D) 20. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the movement.A. SentimentalismB. RealismC. NaturalismD. ImagismChapter 9 Modern Fiction before 1945Decide whether the statements are true or false.T 1. To Hemingway, man’s greatest achievement is to show “grace under pressure.”T 2. Hemingway’s iceberg theory is famous. His sentences only gave one small bit of the meaning. The rest is implied. One must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing.F 3. Hemingway did have some realistic techniques, but on the whole he was not like the realistic writers because he was more interested in conveying his personal emotion. And this is the goal of many modernist writers – create proper feelings of the situation or experience in the reader, arouse an involuntary subjective response.F 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote symbolically about poor, oppressed California farmers, migrants, laborers, and the unemployed, making their lives and sorrows very understandable to his readers.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( ABCD ) 1. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald.A. The Great GatsbyB. Tender is the NightC. This Side of ParadiseD. The Beautiful and the Damned( ABCD ) 2. Ernest Hemingway wrote .A. The Old Man and the SeaB. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms( B ) 3. , a saga of a family of Olahoma farmers named Joad, who are driven by fearful draught and the Great Depression to migrate to California, and are scornfully called “Okies” and suffer mistreatment and exploitation, is generally regarded as John Steinbeck’s masterp iece.A. This Side of ParadiseB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to Arms( ABD ) 4. This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald reflects the new norms of the 1920s which was also known as the , and .A. roaring 20sB. Jazz AgeC. Great DepressionD. Dollar Decade( A ) 5. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, a novel about the disillusionment of the lost generation, became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”.A. Ernest HemingwayB. FitzgeraldC. Allan PoeD. Gertrude Stein( B ) 6. is generally regarded as the spokesman of the Dollar Decade, the peculiar decade that combined the postwar economic boom and the sense of spiritual disorientation.A. Ernest HemingwayB. Francis Scott FitzgeraldC. Allan PoeD. Gertrude Stein( C ) 7. The Great Gatsby deals symbolically with the frustration and despair resulting from the failure of the , which means that in America one might hope to satisfy every material desire and thereby achieve happiness.A. OceanB. lawC. American dreamD. East( D ) 8. There is a particular term, the , who is with stoic courage and lives by a pattern which gives life meaning and value for Hemingway’s character.A. anti-heroB. antagonistC. heroD. code hero( A ) 9. Hemingway had only a single theme – how man face in a world stripped of all values, except that of intensity.A. code heroB. tragedyC. successD. hero( A ) 10. is regarded as the foremost writer of the Great Depression during the 1930s. He was a great spokesman for the oppressed, writing about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.A. John SteinbeckB. Francis Scott FitzgeraldC. Allan PoeD. Hemingway( A ) 11. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “Generation”, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.A. LostB. BeatC. Great DepressionD. Dollar Decade( A ) 12. Francis Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experiences and attitudes of the 1920s decade in his masterpiece novel .A. The Great GatsbyB. The Grapes of WrathC. The Sun Also RisesD. A Farewell to ArmsChapter 10 Postwar Realism in FictionDecide whether the statements are true or false.F 1. Postwar realists revolt against the obscurities of literary modernism and call for a return to faithful treatment of material.T 2. Postwar realism combines the time-honored realism with the effective achievements of various literary trends, including modernism.T 3. Postwar realism has brought a new moral emphasis to fiction, a hunger to overcome despair, nihilism, and brutality through applying moral energy to culture.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( D ) 1. The title of J. D. Salinger’s novel The Catcher in the Rye comes from the poem “If a body catch a body coming from the rye” by .A. William BlackB. William WordsworthC. Alfred TennysonD. Robert Burns( ABCD ) 2. John Updike is best known for his “Rabbit” pentalogy, namely .A. Rabbit, RunB. Rabbit RedeuxC. Rabbit Is RichD. Rabbit at RestE. Licks of Love( B ) 3. American modernist fiction declined during and after the World War.A. FirstB. SecondC. CivilD. Spanish( C ) 4. John Cheever’s second collection of short stories established his place in American short fiction.A. The Triumph of the EggB. The RavenC. The Enormous Radio and Other StoriesD. The Golden Bowl( D ) 5. Truman Capote is generally regarded as the pioneer of the genre in the postwar era.A. fictionB. realismC. modernismD. non-fiction( A ) 6. Salinger’s literary significance lies in his crea tion of two kinds of character: vulgarian and outsider in .A. The Catcher in the RyeB. Rabbit RedeuxC. A Farewell to Arms D The Golden Bough。

第一部分殖民地时期的美国文学What are the characteristics of Colonial America?All of the works written during this period are utilitarian , polemical , or didactic .The purpose of literature for these Puritans was first of all usefulness . It should teach some kond of lesson . In content , the literature of the colonial settlement served either God or colonial expansion or both . The literary style of the earliest American writers , in fact seems to have been determined by a practical consideration of the sort of impression each writer wanted to make upon a selected group of readers . Puritans’metaphorical mode of perception helped to develop literary symbolism as they saw the physical world a symbol of God . Hence symbolism as a technique was a common practice in writing . The Piritans placed unusual stress upon plainness in writing because they were unusually interested in influencing the simp;e-minded people . Bearing the direct influence fo the Christian Biblical poetics , the Puritan writings are fresh , simp;e ,direct , and with a touch of nobility . As it faithfully imitated and transplanted European forms to the new experience , early American literature was as much a product of continuities as an indigenous creation.第二部分理性文学和革命文学1 As we have seen , theology dominated the Puritan phase of American writing . Politics was the next great subject to command the attention of the best minds.2 From 1732 to 1758 , Franklin wrote and published his famous Poor Richard’s Alman ac , an annual collection of proverbs .3 EnlightementThe eighteenth –century England is also , and better , known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age fo Reason . The Enlightenment was a progressive intellectual movement going on throughout Europe at the time , with France in the vanguard . The Enlightenment celebrated reason (rationality) , equality , science and human beings’ ability to perfect themselves and their society . The movement was based on the basic theories provided by the philosophers of the age , which ranged from John Locke’s materialism , Lord Shaftsbury’s deism , and George Berkeley’s immaterialism to David Hume’s skepticism . Whatever philosophical beliefs they might have , they held the eommom faith in human rationality and the possibility of human perfection through education . They believed that when reason served as the yardstick for the measurement of all human activities and social relations , superstition , injustice , privilege and oppression were to yield place to “eternal truth” ,”eternal justice” , and “natural equality” or inalienable rights of men . Everything was put under scrutiny , to be measured by reason . No authorities , political or religious or otherwise , were acepted unchallenged while almost allthe old societies and governments and all the traditional concepts , including Christianity , were examined and criticized . The belief provided theory for the French Revolution in 1789 and the American War of Independence in 1776 .Alexander Pope (1688~1744) , Joseph Addison (1672~1719) , Richard Steele (1672~1792) , Jonathan Swift (1667~1745) , Daniel Defoe (1660~1731) , Henry Fielding (1707~1754) , Richard B. Sheridan (1751~1816) , Oliver Goldsmith (1730~1774) , Edward Gibbon (1737~1794) , and Samuel Johnson (1709~1784) were among the famous enlighteners in England . As England had already gone through its bourgeois revolution , what the English enlighteners were lege to do was to strive the bring the revolution to and end by clearing away the feudal remnants and rep;ace them with bourgeois ideology .第三部分美国的浪漫主义文学1 In 1828 the election of the frontier hero Andrew Jackson as the seventh President of the United States had brought an effective end to the “Virginia Dynasty” of American Presidents .2 Wsahington Irvi ng’s Skwtch Book bacame the first work by an American writer to win financial success on both sides of the Atlantic .3 Washington Irving was the first great prose stylist of American romanticism , and his familiar style was destined to outlive the formal prose of such eontemporaries as Acott and Cooper ,and to provide a model for the prevailing prose narrative fo the future .4 What are the unique features of American Romanticism? Although foreign influnences wre strong,American romanticism exhibited from the very outset distinct features of its own.It was different from its English and European counterpart because it originated from an amalgam of factors which were altogether American rather than anything else.American romanticism was in essence the e xpression of”a real new experience”and contained”an alien quality”for the simple reason that “the spirit of the place”was radically new and alen.Foe instance ,the American national experience of “pioneering “ into the west proved to be a rich fund of material for Ameican writers to draw upon.The wilderness with its virgin forests ,the sound of the axe cutting its way westward, the exotic landscape with its different sights, smells,and sounds(the robin rather than the nightingale is Emily Dicckinson’s “criterion of tone,”for example), and the quaint,picturesque civilization of a primitive race—all these constituted an incomparably superior source of inspiration for native authors.A rude Natty Bumppo in buckskin, dweling in a fromtier blockhouse, treading a solitary bridle path through virgin forests was ,perhaps , matter enough for any romantic genius.And indeed, American authors were quite responsive to thestimulus which American life offered.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s tentive treatment of the frontier and the Indians in his works such as Hudson valley, William Cullen Bryant’s sketches of the wild west prairie where no human being had ever set foot and James Fenimore Cooper’s five Leatherstocking tales with”their majestic descriptions of American’s limitles s forests and broad blue inland lake”—these are but aafew instances whereby the new American sensibility began to make itself felt.And ,of course , we should not forget to mention Emerson,Thoreau,Hawthorne,Melville and Whitman, all people who were instrumental ,in one way or another ,in creating an indigenous American literature.Then there is American Puritanism as a cultural heritage to consider.American moral values were essentially Puritan.Public opinion was overwhelmingly Puritan;social life and cultural taste were predominantly conditioned by the Puritan and cultural taste were predominantly conditioned by the Puritan atmosphere of the nation.Nothing has left a deeper imprint on the character of the people as a whole than did Puritanism;no one has been so successful in imposing his way of thinking on the continent as the American Puritan.puritanical influence over Ameican romanticism w3as conspicuously noticeable.One of its palpable manifestations is the fact that American romantic authors tended more to moralize than their English and European brothers.It is true that Edgar Allan poe fought vehemently against “the heresy of the didactic”,and writers like John Greenleaf Whittier tried to advocate both beauty and goodness.But the fact remains, nonetheless ,that many American romantic writings intended to edify more than theyentertained.There seemed to be areas of life which it was better for them to leave alone, taboos of a kind that most of the literary world agreed,however tacit it may have been, on not breaking.Sex and love werem for instance, subjects American authors were particularly careful in approaching.Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter talks eloquently about the sin itself ,and Whitman was for a long time misunderstood by his own countrymen because Leaves of Grass contains lines and passages not at all palatable to their “genteel” taste.练习二1.Emerson was recognized throughout his life as the leaderof_________ movement, yet he never applied the term to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.2.Emerson’s truest disciple, the man who put into practice many ofEmerson’s theories, was_________.Define the literary terms listed belowAmerican TranscendentalismKeys: 1. Transcendentalist, 2, H.D ThoreauTerm: American Transcendentalism or “New English Transcendentalism” or “American Renaissance” is more of a tendency, an attitude, than the philosophy of Transcendentalists.To “transcend” something is to rise above it, to pass beyond its limits. Transcendentalists took their ideas from the romantic literature of Europe, from new-Platoism, from German idealistic philosophy, and from the revelations of Oriental-mysticism. They spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialism of American society. The major features of New England Transcendentalism can be summarized as the follows.Firstly, the Transcendentalists placed emphasis on spirit, or the Oversoul, as the most important thing in the Universe. Secondly, they stressed the importance of the individual. To them, the individual was the most important element of society. Thirdly, they offered a fresh perception of nature as symbolic of the Spi rit or God. Nature was , to them, alive, filled with God’s overwhelming presence. Transcendentalism is based on the belief that the most fundamental truths about life and death can be reached only by going beyond the world of the senses.As a philosophical and literary movement, Transcendentalism flourished in New England from 1830s to the Civil War. Its doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in Emerson and Thoreau. Emerson’s Nature has been called the “Manifesto of American Transcendentalism” an d his The American Scholar has been rightly regarded as America’s “Declaration of Intellectual Independence.” Thoreau built and went to live in a small cottage on Walden Pond for a little over two years, and then came back to write about his experience there in his famous book Walden. To later generations, scarred by the horrors of the Civil War, the transcendentalist persuation that humanity was godlike and that evil was non-existent appeared to be an optimistic folly. As a philosophy, Transcendentalism was neither logical nor systematical. It exalted feeling over reason, individual expression over the restraints of law and custom. Yet Transcendentalism wasa powerful expression of the intellectual mood of the age, and theideas it represented have remained a strong influence on great American writers from the days of Hawthorne and Whitman to the present.练习31．_________deals with the effects of a curse, and though the tale itself is fiction, the germ of the story sprang from the author’s family history.2. Hawthorne’s unique gift was for the creation of strongly_________stories which touch the deepest roots of man’s moral nature. The finest example is the recreation of Puritan Boston, _________.3. _________ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage inpursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.Define the literary terms listed belowSymbolismKeys:1.The House of the Seven Gables 2, symbolic The scarlet letter3. Moby-Dick.Symbolism: Symbolism is the writing technique of using symbols. A symbol is something that conveys two kinds of meaning; it is simply itself, and it stands for something other than itself. In other words, a symbol is both literal and figurative. People, places, things and even events can be used symbolically. A symbol is a way of telling a story and a way of conveying meaning. The best symbols are those that are believable in the lives of the characters and also convincing as they convey a meaning beyond the literal level of the story. Hawthorn and Melville were the two masters of symbolism. For example, the scarlet letter “A” on Hester’s breast can give you symbolic meanin gs. If the symbol is obscure or ambiguous, then the very obscurity and the ambiguity may also be part of the meaning of the story.Answer the following questions.1.Give a brief analysis of the main characters in The scarlet Letter2.Give a brief analysis of the character Ahab in Moby-Dick.3.What is the theme in Moby-Dick?4.What is Hawthorn’s style?Keys:2, The way in which Hawthorn wrote The Scarlet Letter suggests that American Romanticism adapted itself to American Puritan moralism. The load of didacticism is nowhere heavier and the desire to elevate nowhere stronger than it is, perhaps, in this 19th American classic. Reading it, one wonders whether it is a story of love. The answer is yes, but then no, because the love part of the story is long over before the book begins. One wonders whether it is a story if sin. The answer is yes, but then no, for the sinning part is long over before the book opens Modern and contemporary authors would have written pageswhere Hawthorn uttered not a word, What he was predominantly concerned was the moral, emotional, and psychological effect of the sin on the people in general and those complicated in it in particular. In the strong character of Hester Psynne we see the tension between society and solitude which, as Marius Bewley put it, lies near the center of all Hawthorn’s art, The Scarlet Letter is not a praise of a Hester Prynne sinning, but a hymn on the moral growth of the woman when sinned against. Hawthorn’s female characters tend to fall into two broad categories. (答案未完)4．Ahab may have been Melville’s portrait of an Emersonian self-reliant individual. Melville lost no opportunity in his criticism of New England Transcendentalism. Constantly under his attack is its emphasis on individualism and Oversoul. To say that the whole of Moby-Dick is a negative reflection upon Transcendentalism is not in fact an exaggeration. Take Emerson’s self-reliance for instance. Ahab is too much of a self-reliant individual to be a good human being. He stands alone on his own one leg among the millions of the peopled earth, For him the only law is his own will. To him the world exists for his sake. His selfhood must be asserted at the expense of all else: lives may be sacrificed, and nature may have to be vanquished in order that he may do what he will. He never stops to think---and he never bothers about it---that, in asserting his private personality, he denies ruthlessly the humanity and individuality of his fellowmen. Ahab is no Odysseus, and this crew seems to be a ship of fools too much under the captain’s evil spell to exercise their discretion. Between them, they encompass their own undoing. Richard Chase is right when he says that the idea Melville conveys in Moby-Dick is “Death-spiritual, emotional, physical,” which is the p rice of self-reliance when it is pushed to the point of solipsism. Ahab is, to be more exact, a victim of solipsism, his tragedy stemming in the main from extreme individualism, selfish will, a spirit too much withdrawn to itself to warrant salvation, Moby-Dick thus reveals the basic pattern of 19th century American life: loneliness and suicidal individualism in a self-styled democracy,5. One of the major themes in Melville is alienation, which he sensed existing in the life of his time on different levels, between man and man, man and society, and man and nature. Captain Ahab seems to be the best illustration of it all. He cuts himself off from his wife and kid, and stays away most of the time from his crew, and he hates Moby---Dick which is am embodiment of nature. He is angry because his pride is wounded. After the loss of his leg in his encounter with the white whale, he seems to hold God responsible for the presence of evil in the universe. Thus his anger assumes the proportions of a cosmicnature. He is bent on avenging himself. He hears of no objection. In his egocentric obsession within “the masoned, walled town of a captain’s exclusiveness,” he loses his sanity and humanity and becomes a devilish creature rushing headlong toward his doom. And he know s it most clearly of all. When D.H Lawrence remarks,”“he {Melville}records also, almost beyond pain or pleasure, the extreme transitions of the isolated, far-driven soul, the soul which is now alone, without any real human contact” he had Ahad topmost in his mind. In a sense Ahab embodies all of the evil he once consigned to Moby-Dick9. A. Hawthorne wrote romance because he thought it the predestined form of American narrative. He presented material on the alienation between fact and fancy. The purpose of a novel, as it developed in 18th century Europe, was to record the actual events of life, to stick to what actually happened, but Hawthorn explained that the purpose of romance was to present the truth of the human heart by the writer’s own choice or cre ation. He wanted to reveal reality and satirize it but not to offend the Puritan conventions, For Hawthorne, romance, unlike the novel, was not tied to conventional reality. Romance had the freedom to depart from novelistic realism. Hawthorne felt that the literary artist was justified in changing events around if that could better get to the truth of the individual psychology. Psychological truth was more important than actual truth. Hawthorne used atmosphere to help reach the truth of the heart. Often he would use shadow to create effect. He used this because the world of light and shadow was the world of imagination. Therefore, for Hawthorne romance was the meeting place of the actual and the imaginary. In this stories, there is a strong fairytale element, He would use his imagination to change the actual events, but the purpose was to reach psychological truth. Hawthorne mingled the supernatural with the actual and developed analytic, psychological romanticism.B, Hawthorne used symbols and setting to reveal the psychology of the characters. It is characteristic of Hawthorne. He used masks, veils, shadows, emblems to give dramatic forms to the universal dilemmas of humanity. A black veil stands for the wickedness of man; a marble heart symbolizes an indivi dual’s unpardonable sin; and a garden of poisonous flowers represents hell.C. He wrote stories with narrative interest, ease in transition, coherence, and complexity, One of the means he adopted is making stories parable in form and symbolic in style.D. His style is soft, flowing, and almost feminine. His touch is light, but his observation is somber.E. He used ambiguity to keep the reader in a world of uncertainty. Important questions are never fully resolved. The simple word “or”enjoys high frequency in his stories. Hawthorne gave the reader many ways to interpret the story and then he stopped without telling the reader which one he wanted the reader to choose. To create ambiguity, the author often employed the technique of multiple views.。