英美文学-美国部分练习题

2021年1月22日发(作者：万中杰)
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America
Review

Chapter 1
1
、
_______ usually was regarded as the first American writer.
A. William Bradford







B. Anne Bradstreet








C. Emily Dickinson








D. Captain John Smith

2
、
The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the_______.
A. Revolutionsim










B. Reason








C. Individualism











D. Rationalism

3
、
Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as
the
“
_______
”
who appeared in America.
A. Ninth Muse












B. Tenth Muse








C. Best Muse













D. First Muse

4
、
Which statement about Benjamin Franklin is not true?
A. He instructed his countrymen as a printer.











B. He was a scientist.







C. He was a master of diplomacy
.







D. He was a Puritan.

5
、
The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of_______.
A. Thomas Hood














B. Benjamin Franklin








C. Thomas Jefferson











D. George Washington

6
、
From
1732
to
1758
,
Benjamin
Franklin

wrote
and
published
his
famous
_______,
an
annual
collection of proverbs.
A. The Autobiography














B. Poor Richard
’
s Almanac








C. Common Sense

















D. The General Magazine

7
、
Which poem is not written by Philip Freneau?
A. The British Prison Ship














B. The Wild Honey Suckle








C. The Indian Burying Ground











D. The Day of Doom

Answer:

DCBDB



BD



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Chapter 2
1
、
As a philosophical and
literary
movement, _______
flourished
in New England
from
the 1830s to the
Civil War.
A. modernism
















B. rationalism








C. sentimentalism













D. transcendentalism

2
、
Transcendentalist
doctrines
found
their
greatest
literary
advocates
in
_______
and
Henry
David
Thoreau.
A. Thomas Jefferson











B. Ralph Waldo Emerson








C. Philip Freneau














D. Oversoul

3
、
Transcendentalists recognized _______ as the
“
highest power of the soul
”
.
A. intuition
















B. logic








C. data of the senses









D. thinking

4
、
Transcendentalism
appealed
to
those
who
disdained
the
harsh
God
of
the
Puritan
ancestor,
and
it
appealed to those who scorned the pale deity of the New England_______.
A. Humanism














B. Naturalism








C. Realism

















D. Unitarianism

5
、
Edgar Allan Poe
’
s first collection of short stories is _______.
A. Tales of a Traveller







B. Leather stocking Tales





C. Canterbury Tales









D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

6
、
Which essay is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson?
A. Of Studies












B. Self-Reliance








C. The American Scholar








D. The Divinity School Address

7
、
From Henry David Thoreau
’
s jail experience, came his famous essay,
_______, which states Thoreau
’
s belief that
no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden





















B. Nature








C. Civil Disobedience












D. Common sense

8
、
_______ was a romanticized account of Herman Melville
’
s stay among the Polynesians. The success of
the boot soon made Melville well known as the
“
man who lived among cannibals
”
.
A. Moby Dick

















B. Typee








C. Omoo





















D. Billy Budd

9
、
”
The
universe
if composed of Nature and
the soul...Spirit
is present everywhere
”
. This
is
the voice of
the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of
New England_______.
A. Romanticism










B. Transcendentalism








C. Naturalism












D. Symbolism

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10
、
Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
A. Nature
















B. Walden








C. On Beauty













D. Self- Reliance

11
、
Which is regarded as the
“
Declaration of Intellectual Independence
”
?
A. The American Scholar







B. English Traits








C. Nature



















D. Self-Reliance

12
、
_______
is
an appalling
fictional
version of Nathaniel
Hawthorne
’
s belief
that
“
the wrong doing of
one generation lives into the successive ones
”
and that evil will come out of evil though it may take many
generations to happen.

A. The Marble Faun















B. The House of Seven Gables








C. The Blithedale Romance









D. Y
oung Goodman Brown

Answers: DBADD


ACBBA



AB

Chapter 3
、
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1. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century
. This was ___.
a. Anne Bradstreet


b. Jane Austen


c. Emily Dickinson


d. Harriet Beecher

2. The publication of the novel ____ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried on a great war.

a. My Bondage and My Freedom





b. Stanzas of Freedom
c. V
oices of Freedom















d. Uncle Tom’s Cabin


3. Which statement about O. Henry is wrong?
a. His stories are usually short and humorous and the ends of his stories are always surprising
b. The plots of his stories are exceedingly clever and interesting.
c. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.

d. He wrote about the rich people.

4.
While
embracing
the
socialism
of
Marx,
London
also
believed
in
the
triumph
of
the
stronge
st
individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel ______.

a. The Call of the Wild







b. The Sea Wolf



c. Martin Eden













d. The Iron Heel

5. Which is not one of the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism.
a. Mark Twain


b. Henry James


c. William Dean Howells


d. Jack London

6. The best- selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .

A. traveling books
B. commercial books
C. historical romances
D. news reports


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