《美国文学》题库及答案
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《美国⽂学》题库及答案
《美国⽂学》题库及答案I.Multiple Choice
1. American literature is only more than ____ years old.
A. 500
B.400
C. 200
D.100
2. The Puritan values did no include______.
A. wastefulness
B. thrift
C. piety
D. hard work
3. The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.
______was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Romanticism
D. Realism
4. Franklin was the epitome of the______.
A. American Enlightenment
B. Sugar Act
C. Charlist movement
D. Romanticism
5. _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.
A. Franklin
B. Hawthorne
C. Paine
D. Emerson
6. “Moby Dick was written by_____
A. Mark Twain
B. Thoreau
C. Melville
D. Whitman
7. “The Scarlet Letter” is characterized by its______.A. symbolism
B. rationalism
C. Platonism
D. classicism
8. “Huckleberry Finn is the masterpiece of________.
A. Henry James
B. Jack London
C. Mark Twain
D. Stephen Crane
9. Choose the novel written by Henry James
A. The Golden Bowl
B. The Portrait of a Lady
C. Sister Carrie
D. Daisy Miller
10. Early in the 20th century, _____ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.
A. Ezra Pound
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Robert Frost
D. both A and B
11._____ is the founder of “Imagist” movement.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Hemingway
C. Robert Frost
D. Steinbeck
12. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by_____
A. Naturalism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Local Colorism
D. Imagism
13. ________ is said to be the father of American poetry
A. T.S. Eliot
B. E.D. Robinson
C. Philip Freneau
D. Dreiser
14. Hawthorne is regarded as a _______.A. naturalist
B. classicist
C. realist
D. romanticist
15. ______ represents the most leading spirit of American Transcendentalism.
A. Emerson
B. Franklin
C. Mark Twain
D. Whitman
16.“The Art of Fiction” was written by_____
A. Longfellow
B. Henry James
C. Fitzgerald
D. Faulkner
17. Imagination plays the most important part in________.
A. realism
B. romanticism
C. naturalism
D. classicism
18. ______ is considered to be the masterpiece of John Steinbeck.
A. Mending Wall
B. Dry September
C. A Farewell to Arms
D. The Grapes of Wrath
19. Uncle Tom in the novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin was a(n)______
A. Negro slave
B. salesman
C. industrialist
D. officer
20. Mark Twain’s works are characterized by______
A. Naturalism
B. Transcendentalism
C. Local Colorism
D. Imagism
21. “The Great Gatsby” is the masterpiece of_____A. Whitman
B. Fitzgerald
C. Dickinson
D. Hemingway
22. The United States of America was founded in______.
A. 1776
B. 1876
C. 1789
D.1689
23. The ancestors of American Indians were______
A. Asians
B. Africans
C. Europeans
D. Australians
24. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was written by______.
A. H.
B. Stowe B. John Steinbeck
C. Hawthorne
D. Mark Twain
25. ______ does not belong to the lost generation.
A. Dreiser
B. T.S. Eliot
C. Faulkner
D. Hemingway
26. ______ was well known for his story “Rip Van Winkle.”
A. Bryant
B. Washington Irving
C. Allan Poe
D. Philip Freneau
27. “Farewell to Arms” is the master pieced produced by______
A. Faulkner
B. Dreiser
C. Hemingway
D. Longfellow
28. It was ______ who wrote the formal declaration of independence.A. Thomas Jefferson
B. Benjamin Franklin
C. Washington
D. Washington Irving
29. _____has been exerting a great and enduring influence upon world literature, especially that of France and Europeansymbolism.
A. Franklin
B. Bradstreet
C. Edgar Allan Poe
D. Philip Freneau
30. The masterpiece of Hawthorne is _________.
A. The Scarlet Letter
B. Sister Carrie
C. Richard Cory
D. A Psalm of Life
31. Engene O’Neill is a _______.
A. novelist
B. poet
C. puritan
D. dramatist
32.Hemingway’s style of writing is characterized by______.
A. high-sounding words
B. simple diction
C. complicated sentences
D. mix metaphor
33. T.S. Eliot is not only a poet but also a ______.
A. critic
B. statesman
C. churchman
D. novelists
34. “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” was written by_____.
A. T.S. Eliot
B. O’Neill
C. Stephen Crane
D. Saul Bellow
35. “The Grape of Wrath” is one of the remarkable novels of_____.