美国文学综合练习3附标答

2021年1月25日发(作者：held)
Test Three

(Chapter5-6 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.

What
President
reportedly
claimed
that

Uncle
Tom’
s
Cabin

started
the
Civil
War?

A. Grant
















B. McKinley
C. Lincoln















D. Buchanan
2.

Emily
Dickinson was sometimes curious about
the
feeling of speech of death
and
in one of
her poems she
wrote about the______ of death
，
the
title of the
poem is
I heard a Fly buzz when I died.

A. moment B. suffering C. happiness D. meaning
3.

The
poetic
style
Whitman
devised
is
now
called
________,
that
is
poetry
without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.

A. sonnet





B. Ballard





C. epic




D. free verse


4.

By using the technique of contrast in
Uncle Tom’
s Cabin
, Stowe describes two
opposite
fates
of
the
slave:
one
gained
freedom
by
rebellious
struggle;
the
other died due to his submission. Who they are?
A. Tom and Cassy

B. Eliza and Tom


C. John and Tom


D. Tom and Marie

5.

More
than
five
hundred
poems
that
Dickinson
wrote
are
about
nature
，

in
which
her
general
_____about
the
relationship
between
man
and
nature
is
well expressed.





A. scepticism


B. eulogy


C. happiness


D. denial
6.

In
his
cluster
of
poems
called
Leaves
of
Grass
,
________gave
America
its
first genuine epic poem.

A. Walt Whitman








B. Emily Dickson


C. Mrs. Stowe











D. Robert Frost
7.

Which of the
following
is NOT a usual subject of poetic expression of
Emily
Dickinson's
？






A. War and peace


B. Love and marriage






C. Life and death


D. Religion
8.

This
is
my
letter
to
the
World

is
a
poem
expressing
Emily
Dickinson's
_____about her communication with the outside world.





A. happiness


B. anger


C. anxiety


D. sorrow
9.

The
Age
of
Realism
in
the
literary
history
of
the
United
States
refers
to
the
period from











.to









.
A. 1861---1914
B. 1863---1918
C. 1865---1914
D. 1865---1918
10.








is
not
the
representative
writer
in
the
Age
of
Realism
in
the
literary
history of the United States.





A. Henry James
B. Emily Dickinson
C. William Dean Howells
D. Mark Twain
11.











is not the work of Mark Twain.
A.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B.

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
C.

Life on the Mississippi
D.

The Mill on the Floss
12.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
is against













.
A. British colonists
B. slavery
C. chauvinism
D. monocracy
13.

American
Literature
produced
only
one
female
poet
during
the
19
th

century
.
This was







.
A. Jane Austen
B. Watt Whitman
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher Stowe
14.


The novel ______ is not written by Henry James.
A. The Ambassadors




B. The Wings of the Dove
C. The Bostonians






D. The Mysterious Stranger
15.

The
Way
of
the
Beaten:
A
Harp
in
the
Wind

is
the
title
of
one
chapter
in
Dreiser’s novel _________.

A. An American Tragedy




B. Sister Carrie





C. Dreiser Looks at Russia



D. Jannie Gerhardt
16.

The main theme of ________
The

Art of Fiction
reveals his literary credo that
representation of life should be the main object of the Novel.
A
. Henry James’s






B
. Mark Twain’s



C. Theodore Dreiser




D. William Dean
Howells’

17.


Daisy Miller
is written by







.
A. Hawthorne
B. Twain
C. Melville
D. James
18.

Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized
heredity
and
environment
as
important
deterministic
forces
shaping
individualized
characters
that
were
presented
in
special
and
detailed
circumstances.
A. naturalism

B. realism

C. determinism

D. humanism
19.

Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a _______language.




A. grand


B. pompous


C. simple


D. vernacular
20.

After
The
Adventure
of
Tom
Sawyer
,
Twain
gives
a
literary
independence
to
Tom's
buddy
Huck
in
a
book
called_____
，

and
the
book
from
which

modern American literature comes.




A.
Life on the Mississippi River





B.
The Gilded Age





C.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn



D.
The Sun Also Rises

21.

Winterbourne is used as a ______in Henry James's



A. Protagonist






















B. Narrator of the events



C. A character of central consciousness


D. Persona
22.

The author of




A. probing into the unsearched secret part of human life




B. a truthful delineation of the motives, the impulses, the principles that shape
the lives of actual men and women





C. a dramatizing the collisions between two very different cultural systems on
an international scene




D. disclosing the social injustices and evils of a civilized society after the Civil
War
23.

In
the
following
writers
，
who
is
generally
regarded
as
the
forerunner
of
the
20th
century

novels
and
the
founder
of
psychological realism______________.





A. Henry James








B. Mark Twain



C. Emily Dickenson





D. Theodore Dreiser
24.

One
of
the
most
familiar
themes
in
American
naturalism
is
the
theme
of
human





A. bestiality


B. goodness


C. compassion


D. greed

25.

The Age of
Realism is also what Mark Twain referred to as “









”.

A. The Gilded Age



B. The Jazz Age
C. The Lost Age







D. The Golden Age
26.

While
Mark
Twain
and
Howells
seemed
to
have
paid
more
attention
to
the
“life”
of
the
Americans,
____
had
apparently
laid
greater
emphasis
on
the
“inner world” of man.

A. Dreiser




B. Whitman
C. James








D. Fitzgerald

27.

The works of ____ are characterized with local colors.
A. Whitman



B. Mark Twain
C. Dickson



D. James
28.












is regarded
as “as true father of our national literature”.

A. Mark Twain


B. Jefferson
C. Franklin



D. Hemingway
29.

Adventures
of
Huckleberry

Finn

is
famous
for
its
characterization
of







.
A. Tom Sawyer



B. Huck
C. Jim







D. a runaway slave
30.










and the West Became Twain’s major theme.

A. Death




B. The Mississippi valley
C. Adventures


D. The South
31.

In
Adventures
of
Huckleberry

Finn
,
Twain
makes
sharp
contrasts
between





.
A. life and death


B. adventures and terrors
C. wealth and poverty
D. nature and culture (or wilderness and
civilization)
32.

Henry James is famous for his novels of









.
A. love theme
B. international theme
C. revolutionary theme
D. pastoral theme
33.

____
realism
is
characterized
by
his
psychological
approach
to
his
subject
matter.
A. Twain
’
s




B. Whitman
’
s
C.
James’s




D. Steinbeck
’
s
34.

In
the
following
statements,
_________
is
not
about
the
local
colorism
in
American literary realism.
A. Their writings are concerned with the life of a small, well-defined region
or province.
B. The characteristic setting is the isolated small town.
C. Their materials were extensive or wide-ranging and the topics were
connective.
D.
Local
colorists
were
consciously
nostalgic
historians
of
a
vanishing
way
of life, recorders of a present that faded before their eyes.
35.


______,
a
novella
about
a
young
American
girl
who
gets
“killed”
by
the
winter in Rome, brought James international fame for the first time.

A.
The American

B.
Daisy Miller

C.
The Europeans

D.
The Portrait of a Lady


36.

With
the
publication
of









,
Henry
James’s

reputation
was
firmly
established on both sides of the Atlantic.
A.
Daisy Miller




B.
The Portrait of A Lady

C.
The American



D.
The Wings of the Dove

37.

Emily Dickinson got inspiration from







in her writing of poetry
.
A. hymns
B. sonnets
C. free verse

D. heroic couplets
38.

Mark
Twain’s
first
novel
______
--,
written
in
collaboration
with
Charles
D.
Warner and published
in 1873,
though
not an artistic success,
gives
its
name
to the America of the post-Civil War period which it attempts to satirize.
A.
The Gilded Age

B.
The Age of Innocence

C.
The Roughing Time



D.
The Jazz Age
39.

Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by ________
.
A.

short, clear sentences
B.

abundance of local images
C.

ordinary American speech
D.

highly refined language
40.

The
raft
on
which
Huck
and
Jim
float
along
the
river
in
Mark
Twain’s
Adventures
of
Huckleberry

Finn

may
symbolize
all
the
following
except
________.
A.

spiritual freedom

B.

escape from different sorts of social oppression
C.

mobility and instability
D.

a small society where people of different colors can live like brothers
41.

Twain had become national sensations after he reworked a tale he had heard in
the California gold fields. The story is ___.
A.
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country