英美文学复习
F • Scott Fitzgerald
1、F • Scott Fitzgerald is not the author of ______、
A、This Side of Paradise
B、Tender is the night
C、The Great Gatsby
D、In Our Time
2、F • Scott Fitzgerald shows an interest in the spiritual predicament of ______ in his fiction、
A、the working-class people
B、the upper-class society
C、the exiles in Paris
D、intellectuals and artists
3、In Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, there are detailed descriptions of big parties、The purpose of such descriptions is to show______、
A、emptiness of life
B、the corruption of the upper class
C、contrast of the rich and the poor
D、the happy days of the Jazz Age
4、“He is the last of the romantic heroes, whose energy and sense of commitment take him in search of the American Dream、” The character referred to in the passage is most likely the protagonist of ______、
A、Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby
B、Dreiser’s An American Tragedy
C、Hemingway’s For Whom the Bell Tolls
D、Twain’s The Adventures of Hucklebe
5、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、
A、Henry James
B、Scott Fitzgerald
C、Ernest Hemingway
D、William Faulkner
6、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-goers
B、such life does not have real meaning
C、these people were light-hearted
D、these were crazy and ignorant characters
7、“He smiled understandingly—much more than understandingly、It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life、It faces—or seemed to face—the whole external world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your in your favor、”
A、Identify the author and the title of the novel from which the passage is taken、
B、Who is “He” ?
C、What is going on in this part of the novel?
答案:
A、F、Scoot Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby;
B、Gatsby;
C、A luxurious party is being held in Gatsby's house、
8、“… I glanced back once、A wafer of a moon was shining over Gatsby’s house, making the night fine as before, and surviving the laughter and the sound of his still glowing garden、A
