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美国文学期末复习之选择题

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I.




Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x
1’= 10’)

1.

In
American
literature, the
18
century was
the age of Enlightenment. b______
was
the dominant.

A. humanism B. rationalism

C. romanticism D. evolution

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2.

The
short
story
“The
Legend
of
Sleepy
Hollow”
is
taken
from
Irving’s
work
named
____b__.

A. The Leatherstocking Tales

C. The Autobiography

B. The Sketch Book

D. The History of New York

3.

Which of the following is
not
the characteristic of American Romanticisma

A. Rationalism B. inner self

C. personal feelings D. individualism

4.

The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __
c__ attitude of its author.

A. optimistic B. pessimistic

C.
conservative
保守,
传统
D.
ironic

5.

Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characteriz
ed by __d___.

A. short, clear sentences

C. ordinary American speech

B. abundance of local images

D. highly refined
精炼
language

6.

Transcendentalist
doctrines
found
their
greatest
literary
advocates
in
__b___
and
Thoreau.

A. Jefferson B. Emerson

C. Freneau D. Mark Twain

7.

Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”
a

A. The American Scholar B. English Traits

C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance

8.

_d
___ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest achievement.

A. The Gilded Age


B. Innocent Abroad

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C. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

9.

__c___ is
not
among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.

A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost

C. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway

10.

Naturalism
is
evolved
from
realism
when
the
author’s
to
ne
in
writing
becomes
less
serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _d___.

A. rational B. humorous


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II.

Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x
1
’= 10’)


11.

___d___ is the father of American Literature.

A.
Benjamin
Franklin


B.
Philip
C. Paine D. Washington Irving

Freneau

12.

___a__ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream
of life.

A. “Rip Van Winkle”

B. “The Pioneers”

C. optimistic D. pessimistic

C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

D.
“The
Fall
of
the
House
of
Usher”

13.

___b__ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.

A. Thoreau B. Emerson

C. Hawthorne D. Whitman

14.

Which of following is
NOT

a typical feature of Mark Twain’s langua
ge c

A. vernacular
方言
B. colloquial

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C. elegant D. humorous


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15.

From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, __
c___ which states his
belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.

A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense

16.

Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”
a

A. The American Scholar B. English Traits

C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance

17.

Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass sing of the “en
-
mass” and the
_c___ as well.

A. nature B. self-reliance

C. self D. life

18.

What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s c

A. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20s

C.
The
Jazz
Age
D.
The
Lost
Generation

19.

Naturalism
is
evolved
from
realism
when
the
author’s
tone
in
writing
becomes
less

serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more __d__.

A. rational B. humorous

C. optimistic D. pessimistic

20.

For
Melville,
as
well
as
for
the
reader
and
__c__,
the
narrator,
Moby
Dick
is
still
a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.

A. Ahab B. Stubb


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II. Identify Works as Described Below
(1’×15 =15’):



10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes
a
famous
actress
and
how
her
lover
falls
into
a
beggar
and
finally
commits
suicide.
b

American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague , A Girl of the Streets


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C. Ishmael D. Starbuck

D A B C C
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A C C D C

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11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in
the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism. c

a.

Sister Carrie Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Portrait of a Lady


novel
is
a
psychological
study
of
a
soldier
(Henry
Fleming)’s
reacti
ons
in
the
Civil
War. c

American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie

Red Badge of Courage d. McTeague

13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality
and equality in value of all people and all things. c

b. The Raven c. Song of Myself

14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but
themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.
b

Octopus b. Moby-Dick c. The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass

15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned
with the four uses of nature. b

a. Walden b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar




I.

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



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ship was named ____b________.

a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic

is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.


a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene O’Neill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice

was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway

4. ____c___ was the leader of American transcendentalism.

a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving

c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau

the
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 Whitman

is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe

Dean
Howells
is
concerned
with
the
middle
class
life; ___d___
writes
about
the
upper
class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.

a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. Henry James

8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer d

a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway Dreiser

is
often
regarded
as the greatest
American
woman
poet and she
wrote over 1,700 short
lyric poems in her life time.

a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. . d. Emily Dickinson

14.
He
was
the
first
black
American
to
write
a
book
about
black
life
with
great
impact

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on
the
consciousness
of
the
nation
and
his
masterpiece
is
one
of
the
three
classics
about black Americans. Who is he a

a.

Richard
Wright b.
Harriet
Beecher
Stowe c.
Langston
Hughes d.
Ralph
Ellison

15.
Hemingway
wrote
about
American
compatriots
in
Europe
whereas
_d_______
wrote
about
the Jazz age, life in American society.

Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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the 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 ___c___and the______.

a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionaries c. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery,
Anti-Slavery

Twain was a representative of ____c____ in American literature.

a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism

greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is ____c________.

a. Washington Irving Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson

14. ___b____ was the first black American to write a book about black life with great
impact
on
the consciousness of the
nation
and his
masterpiece is one
of the three
classics about black Americans.

b.

Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison

15.
__a
______
first
used
the
“Jazz
age”
as
the
title
of
a
collection
of

short
stories


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