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美国文学部分练习（全，并带全部答案）
美国文学部分大作业大作业
Exercises for Chapter One of American
Literature(
第一章
)
1.
选择题
1. Which of the following statements is
NOT a famous concept
of
Transcendentalism?
[A]Nature is
ennobling
[B] The individual is divine
and self-reliant.
[C] Man is capable of
knowing truth by intuition
[D] Man is
corrupted in nature.
2.
Which
of
the
following
works
began
to
make
Irving
internationally
known?
[A]
The Sketch
Book
[B]
A
History of New York to the End of the Dutch
Dynasty
[C]
Bracebridge Hall
[D]
Tales of Traveler
3. Which of the following
is NOT true concerning Irving?
[A] He
is the father of the American short stories.
[B] He is the American
Goldsmith.
[C] He is the first American
writer
[D]
He
is
the
first
writer
to
declare
the
independence
of
American literature.
4.
The
Scarlet
Letter
by
Hawthorne
is
mainly
concerned
with
___________.:
[A] the corruption of the society
[B] the consequence of sin
and guilt
[C] the wrong
doing of one generation that lives in,, successive
ones
[D]
5.
Rip Van
Winkle
has taken from ________.
[A] Spanish stories
[C]
English tales
6.
heard the profound
discussions that sometimes took place, when
by
chance
an
old
newspaper
fell
into
their
hands,
from
some
passing
traveler.
What
is
the
rhetorical
device
used
in
this
sentence?
[A] Hyperbole.
[B] Metaphor.
[C] Irony.
[D] Paradox.
[B] A German Legend
[D]
Italian folktales
7.
Which
of
the
following
statements
about
Emerson
is
NOT
true?
[A] He was
generally known as an essayist.
[B] He
was the chief spokesman of Transcendentalism.
[C] He practiced the theory
by living a simple life.
[D] For him, nature is symbolic.
8.
For
Emerson,
nature
could
symbolize
the
following
except
________.
[A] God
[B] Spirit
[C]
Oversoul
[D]
the
whole universe
9. What is Hawthorne's
attitude toward Puritanism?
[Al Negative.
Mixed.
10. One
typical feature of Irving's writing is _________.
[A] always preaching
[B]
his best classic style
[D]
symbolic
[B] Affirmative. [C]
Indifferent.
[D]
[C] short
and difficult to
11.
And what I
assume you shall assume,
For every atom
belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Who could have written
these lines?
[A] Edgar Allen Poe.
[B] Walt Whitman.
[D]
Henry
David
[C] Ralph Waldo
Emerson.
Thoreau.
12.
Which
of
the
following
is
NOT
true
with
Transcendentalism?
[A] It inherited much from American
Puritanism and European
realism.
[B] It focused on the intuitive
knowledge.
[C] Nature is its unofficial
manifesto.
[D] It is related in some
way with the German idealism.
13.
What
kind
of
narrative
point
of
view
is
adopted
in
Moby
Dick
?
[A] The first person.
[B] The second person.
[C]
The third person limited.
[D] The third person omniscient.
14. Which of
the following has influenced Melville's: EXCEPT
________.
[A] Shakespearean
tragic vision
Transcendentalism
[C] Hawthorne's black vision of life
[D] Irving's writing
15.
Which
of
the
following
writers
is
NOT
optimistic
about
human nature?
[A] Ralph
Waldo Emerson.
[C] Walt Whitman.
16. Which of
the following cannot poetry?
[A]
Elegant and gentle.
[C]
Unconventional.
17. When Emerson states in the
introduction to his Nature:
its understanding?
[A] We are conservative.
[B]
We see this world through our ancestors' eyes.
[C] We usually look back
upon the good old days.
[D]
We write a lot of books about the past.
[B] Simple and open.
[B]
Nathaniel Hawthorne
[B]
Emersonian
[D] Henry David
Thoreau
[D] Colloquial.
18.
Which of the following novels does not represent
the theme
return to nature?
[A] Mark Twain's
Adventures
of Huckleberry Finn
.
[B] Thoreau's
Walden
.
[C] Cooper's
Leather-Stocking Tales.
[D] Melville's
Moby Dick
.
19.
Which
of
the
following
is
NOT
a
typical
feature
of
the
American Romantic writings?
[A]
Expression
of
the
artist's
imaginations,
emotions,
impressions, or beliefs.
[B]
Emphasis on rules of order, reason, logic,
restrained emotion,
good taste and
decorum.
[C]
Love
for
the
remote,
supernatural,
mysterious,
exotic
and
illogical quality of things.
[D] To see nature as a source of mental
cleanness and spiritual
understanding.
20. The statement that a
man's journey to the dark forest and his
encounter with the devil are symbolic
of man's life journey from
innocence
to
knowledge,
from
good
to
evil
may
well
sum
up
one of the
major themes of ________.
[A] Irving's
[B] Edgar Allen Poe's
[C] Hawthorne's
[D] O.
Henry's
21. Here is a short
passage from a story:
sign,
however,
the
ruby
face
of
King
George,
under
which
he
had
smoked
so
many
a
peaceful
pipe,
…and
underneath
was
painted in large
characters, GENERAL WASHINGTON.
story
must be ________.
[A] Cooper's
[B] Hawthorne's
[C] Irving's
[D] Hemingway's
22.
everywhere.
This
is
the
voice
of
the
book
_______
which
pushed
American
Romanticism
into
a
new
phase
of
New
England
Transcendentalism.
[A]
Walden
by Thoreau
by Hawthorne
[C]
Moby Dick
by Melville
[D]
Nature
by
[B]
The Scarlet
Lette
r
Emerson
23.
In
Whitman's
giant
work,
Leaves
of
Grass,
and,
above
all,
________.are all that concerned him.
[A] individualism
[C] sympathy
blackness
24.
Which
of
the
following
is
NOT
a
typical
feature
of
Hawthorn
[A] Allegory.
[B] Ambiguity.
[B] divine love
[D]
the
power
of
[C] Interior monologue.
[D] Symbolism.
25. In Irving's
all the drastic changes lapsed 20
years
displeased Rip EXCEPT that ________.
[A] he has got his neck out of the yoke
of matrimony
[B] the country has
finally got its independence from the yoke
of the British colonial rule
[C] there comes now the scramble for
powers between parties.
[D] past
glories and a tranquil life of the small village
are gone.
B.
阅读理解题
(Reading
comprehension)
1.
its
own
design.
Let
us
interrogate
apparition,
that
shines
so
peacefully around us. Let to what end
is nature?
Questions :
A.
Identify the work and the author.
B. What is
C.
What is the writing style?
2.... Had Goodman Brown fallen asleep
in the forest, and only
dreamed a wild
dream of witch-meeting?
Be it so, if
you will. But, alas! It was a dream of evil omen
for young Goodman Brown. A stern, a
sad, a darkly meditative,
a
distrustful,
if
not
a
desperate
man,
did
he
become;
from
the
night of that fearful dream.
Questions:
A. Identity the
work and the author.
B. What is the
general idea of this passage?
C. Did
the author tell for sure whether it was only a
dream or
not?
3.
I learn and loafe at my ease observing
a spear of summer grass.
Questions:
A.
Identify the poem and the poet.
B.
What
is
the
meaning
of
the
phrase
spear
of
summer
grass
C. What is the implied
meaning of the two lines?
4.
a sullen white surf beat
against its steep sides; then all collapsed,
and the great shroud of the sea rolled
on as it rolled 5, 000 years
ago.
Questions:
A. Identify the
work and the author.
B. What is the
basic tone of this passage?
C. What is
the meaning of the underlined part?
5.
knows, ...
I'm
not
myself-I'm
somebody
else-. . .
I'm
changed, and I can't tell what's my
name, or who I am.
Questions:
A. Identify the
work and the author.
B. The speaker
says he is changed. Do you think changed, or the
social environment changed?
C. What idea does the quoted sentence
express?
6.
and
uplifted
into
infinite
space,
-all
mean
egotism
vanishI
become a transparent
eyeball. I am nothing. I see all. Tl currents
of the Universal Being circulate
through me; I am pa or particle
of God.
Questions:
A. Identify the
work and the author.
B. What does the
word
C. What idea does the
quoted passage express?
C.
回答题
(Questions and answers)
1.
Nature
is
a
philosophic
work,
in
which
Emerson
gives
an
explicit
discussion
on
his
idea
of
the
Oversoul.
What
is
your
understanding
of
Emersonian
Oversoul
and
its
relationship
with
2. One of the most distinctive features
of Hawthorne's writing is
his
art
of
ambiguity.
Exemplify
it
with
his
story,
Goodman Brown
3.
Like
Hawthorne,
Melville
is
fond
of
symbolism
in
his
writings.
The
white
whale,
Moby-Dick,
is
the
most
important
symbol in the novel. What symbolic
meaning does Moby Dick
stand for?
4.
Whitman
is
one
of
the
most
important
figures
in
American
poetic
history.
He
has
carried
on
a
sort
of
experiment
on
the
form
of
poetry
by
choosing
free
verse
as
his
medium
of
expression.
What
are
the
characteristics
of
Whitman's
free
verse?
5.
Literary
critics
have
seen
Rip
Van
Winkle
as
a
symbol
of
several aspects of America. What are
the aspects that the story
and its hero
symbolize?
D.
论述题
(Topic discussion)
1 .
Melville's Moby Dick
is
more
than
a
great
whale
story
that
reflects
the
American
whale
industry
in
19th
century;
it
is
capable of multiple interpretations.
Discuss the themes you can
find in the
fiction.
2. In his whole life,
Hawthorne is preoccupied with sin and evil
in
man;
and
in
almost
every
novel
he
wrote,
Hawthorne
discussed
sin
and
evil.
Then
what
makes
Hawthorne
obsessed
with all this sin and evil?
Exercises for Chapter One of American
Literature(
第二章
)
A
．多项选择
(Multiple
choice questions)
1:
Who
is
generally
considered
to
be
the
one
“with
but
a
deformed
conscience
Twain's works
？
[A]
Tom Sawyer.
[B]
Huckleberry
Finn.
[D]
Widow Douglas
[C]
Hank Morgan.
2. Which of the following
is Twain's language?
[A] Vernacular.
[C] Elegant.
3.
Which
of
the
following
writers
is
famous
for
his
[A] Henry
James.
[C] Mark Twain.
4.
Winterbourne
is
used
as
a
narrator
of
the
events
in
Henry
James __________.
[A ]
Daisy Miller
[B]
The American
[D]
The
Wing
of
the
[D] Theodore Dreise
[B] William James.
[B]
Colloquial.
[D] Humorous.
[C]
The Turn of the
Screw
Dove
of the following
statements about Emily Dickinson is
true?
[A]
Since
she
scarcely
goes
out
of
her
house,
she
pays
little
attention to the
outside
world.
[B] She prefers to explore the inner
life of herself rather that
the social
one.
[C]
She
is
strongly
influenced
by
Calvinism
and
has
a
firm:
belief in after-life.
[D]
She is not interested in love because she herself
never gets
married.
6.
Which
of
the
following
does
NOT
belong
to
Theodore
Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire?
[A]
The
Financier'.
[C]
The Titan.
7.
Which'
of
the
following
is
a
correct
match
between
the
writer?
and his work?
, .
[A] Mark Twain:
The Financier
Daisy Miller
[B]
Theodore
Dreiser:
[B]
The American
[D]
The Stoic.
[C] Henry James;
The Turn of
the Screw
[D] Emily Dickinson:
The Wing of the Dove
8.
above two lines are taken
from ________.
[A] Whitman's:
[B] Dickinson's
[C] Pound's:
[D] Frost's:
9.
Theodore Dreiser gives his novel the title of
Tragedy
because__________.
[A] he
tries to give an ironical meaning to the story.
[B] he
attempts-,to reproduce an authentic trial
fictionally
[C] it is the typical thing
that can happen to an American in the
pursuit of riches
[D]
he
is
surprised
that
such
tragedy
should
happen
in
America.
, the heroine in The Portrait of a
Lady, returns to her
unhappy home in
Rome at the
end of the
novel because__________.
[A] she is
still naive and immature
[B] she wants
to be responsible to her husband
[C]
she- wants to be responsible to her own choice
[D] she has nowhere else to
go
11.. Which
of the following statements is NOT true?
[A]
Mark
Twain
became
doubtful
about
the'
idea
of
develop?
ment
and skeptical of the
goodness of human nature in his later
years.
[B]
Henry James;
who never:
criticizes his
fellowmen,
is
the
spokesman for the wealthy and
leisured class in America.
[C]
From
Emily
Dickinson's
poetry,
one
can
hardly
find
any
traces of political movement in
the society of her time.
[D]
To
Theodore
Dreiser,
communism
is
a
likely
means
improving the social organization
of man.
,
:
12. During the
period after the Civil War, the American society
entered in what Mark Twain,
referred to as
__________.
[A] the Golden
Age
[C] the Gilded Age
13. Local
colorism is a unique variation, of American
literary
realism, the representatives
of
which does NOT include
__________.
[A] Sarah Orne Jewett
[C] Hamlin Garland
14.
was holding
on to the biggest one
of
all.
which taken from The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn, is
written: in a(n)
__________
tone.
[A] ironic,
[C]
sincere
15.
Henry James' idea of realism differs from that of
the realist
writers because his
emphasis
is on
man's__________.
[A] language
[B] inner world
[D] real actions
[B] regretful
[D] delightful
[B]
Bret Harte
[B] the Puritan Age
[D] the
Modern Age
[D] Stephen Crane ,
[C]
surroundings
16.
As
a
naturalist
writer,
Theodore
Dreiser
was
greatly
influenced by __________.
[A] Mark Twain
[C] Henry James
17.
However,
innocence,
the
keynote
of
Daisy
Miller's
character,
turns
out
to
be
an
admiring
but
a
dangerous
quality
and
her
__________
of
social
taboos
in
the
Old
World
finally brings her to a disaster in the clash
between
two different cultures.
[A] admiration
[C] disgusting
18.
Which
of
the
following
statements
about
Emily
Dickinson's verse is true?
[A] It exposes the evils of the
society.
[B] It paves the
way for the following generation of free verse
poets;
.
[C] It
shares the same poetic conventions with Walt
Whitman.
[D] It exhibits a
sensitiveness to the symbolic
implications of
her
experience of
[B] sympathy,
[B]
Charles Darwin
[DI Ralph Wa1do Emerson
[D] defiance
love, death,
and immortality.
19.
Compared
with
the
writings
of
Mark
Twain's,
Henry
James's fiction is noted for their
__________.
[A] frontier
vernacular
colloquialism
[C] refined elegant language
descriptive words
20. By the end
of Sister Carrie, Dreiser writes;
to be
the pursuit of that radiance of delight which
tints the
distant
hilltops
of
the
world.
Dreiser
implies
that__________.
[A] there is
a bright future lying ahead
[B] one can
never fulfill one's desire
[C] one should 'always :have forward
looking
[D] happiness is
found in the end
21.
Emily
Dickinson
wrote
many
short'
poems
.an
various'
aspects
of
life.
Which
of
the
following
is
NOT
a
usual
subject of her poetic
expression? .
[A] Religion and
immortality
[B] Life and
death.
[D]
vulgarly
[B]
rich
[C] War and peace.
[D] Nature and
society
22. In Daisy Miller, James
chose the Castle of Chillon as the
setting
of
the
story
clearly
because
of
its
status-as
a
shrine
to
___________,
consecrated
by
Byron
in
his
association
with
Daisy
whose
American
habits
of
free
social
intercourse runs up the elaborately regulated code
of manners in Europe.
[A]
integrity
[B] freedom
[D] autocracy
[C] constancy
.
23. The sentence
amoral
society
may
be
regarded
as
an
appropriate
summary of
_________.
[A] Jack London's
Martin Eden
For Whom. the bell Tolls
[C] Drsiser's
Sister
Carrie
Dick
24. Here is a passage from, a novel:
push
and
closed
the
door.
As
he
did
so,
Hurstwood
slipped and fell
in the snow: It hurt him, and some vague
[D]
Melville’s
Moby
[B]
`Hemingway's
sense
of
shame
returned.
He
began
to
cry
and
swear
-foolishly.
[A] Dreiser's
Sister Carrie
[B] Steinbeck's
The Grapes of Wrath
[C] London's
Martin Eden
[D] Twain’s
The Adventures
of Tom Sawyer
25.
Here
are
a
few
lines
from
a
poem:
With
Blue-uncertain
stumbling
Buzz
─
/Between
the
light
─
and
me
─
/And the Windows
failed
─
and then/I could not
see .to
see
─
.
[A] Emily
Dickenson's
“
I Heard a Fly
buzz-when I died
─
[B] Edgar Allen Poe's
[C] Walt Whitman's
.
[D]
Robert Frost's.
B
.
阅读理解题
(Reading
comprehension)
1.
“
I
studied
a
minute,
sort
of
holding
my
breath,
and
then
says
to
myself:
`All
right,
then;:
I'll
go,
to
hell'
-,
─
and
tore it up.
Questions:
A. Identify the
novel and the writer.
B.
Why do
C. How do you
understand this decision of going to hell?
2.
Questions:
A. Identify the
poet.
B.
What
special
feature
can
you
draw
from
the
form-of
this
line?
C.
What idea does this statement convey?
3.
─
Then
─
prompter
than a Star
Stop
─
docile and
omnipotent
At its own
stable door,
─
(Emily
Dickinson: “I like to see it
lag the:Miles”)
Questions:
A. What is being
described *in, this, poem?
B. What
rhetoric devices are used in this stanza?
C.
What
is
the
poet's
attitude
toward
this
object
being
described?
4.
long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by
your, window, shall
y
dream
such
happiness
as
you
may
never
feel.”
(Theodore Dreiser:
Sister Carrie)
Questions:
A.
Who does
B. What mood; do
you think, was the narrator in, judging from
this quotation?
C. What idea
can you draw from
the
5 .
!
'
said,
that
little
lady,
joining
her,
“
I
hope
it
snows
enough
to
go
sleigh
riding.
“
“
Oh,
dear,”said
Carrie,
with
whom
the
sufferings
of
Father
Goriot
were
still
keen.
“That's
all
you
think
of.
Aren't
you
sorry
for
the
people
who
haven’t
anything
tonight?
Dreiser: Sister
Carrie )
Questions:
A. What does snow mean to
the little lady?
B. What kind of mood,
do you think, was Carrie in, judo from
the above dialogue?
C. What
idea does the quoted passage express?
C.
回答题
(Questions
and answers)
1.
charmed.
He
has
never
yet
heard
a
young
girl
express
herself
just
this
fashion;
...
Certainly
she
was
very
charming,
but
how
extraordinarily
communicative
and
how tremendously easy
(Daisy Miller by Henry James)
Question:
What
kind of narrative point
of
view
is
employed
114
What
does
this
quotation
reveal
of
the
character
of
the
young (Daisy Miller)?
2.
then
─
'tis
Centuries
─
:.and
yet
Feels
shorter
than
the Day
I
first surmised the Horses 's Heads Were toward Ete
rnity
─
(
by Emily Dickinson.
Question:
What
kind
of
meaning,
can
you
get
from
the
first
two
lines
in
the
above
quotation?
What
is
Dickinson's
understanding of death?
3.
Mark
Twain
and
Henry
James
are
both;
considered
to
be
great
realistic
writers.
What
are
the
differences
,between
;them
in
the
aspects
of
theme
and
language?
4;
What
literary
group
does
Theodore
Dreiser
belong
t??
What
are
the
characteristics
of
this
group?
Name
two
more American
representatives that belong to this group.
5.
(Daisy Miller
by Henry James)
Question:
What kind of society does Daisy not like? Why?
D
论述题
(Topic
discussions)
1.
Mark
Twain's
Adventures
of
Huckleberry
Finn:.
can
be
interpreted in many, ways and, has- won
its :lasting, place
in
the
American
canon.
Discuss
the
image
?f
Huck
Finn,and
the social significance bf this character.
2. Henry James is regarded
as an -international messenger who
bridges
the
New-
America
with
the
Old
Europe:
His
characters
are
inevitably
encountered
with
cultural
conflicts.
Take
-Daisy
Miller
as
an
example
to
analyze
the
two
characters;
Daisy
Miller
and
Winterbourne
and
the cultural conflicts they undergo.
综合美国文学第三章综合练习
(Exercises)
A.
多
项
选
择
(Multiple
choice questions)
1.
“
The
woods
are
lovely,
dark
and
deep,
But
I
have
promises
to keep,
And miles to go before I
sleep, And miles to go before
I sleep.
”
The
above four lines are taken from_______.
[A] Frost's
[B]
Dickinson's
[C] Frost's
[D] Dickinson's “Because I could not
stop for Death”
2.
In
writing
the
poem
“The
River
-Merchant's
Wife:
A
Letter”
Pound
took
its
material
from
the
ancient
_______
poetry:
[A] French
[B]
Italian
[D] Japanese
[C] Chinese
3.
In
Apple-
Picking
Robert
Frost
wrote:
I
have
too
much/Of
apple-picking:
I
am
overtired/Of
the
great
harvest
I
myself
desired.
From
these
lines we can conclude that the speaker
is ________.
[A] happy
about the harvest
[B]
wearing out the freshness of apple-picking
[C]
still
desired
of
apple-
picking
when
seeing
the
harvest
[D] indifferent of what once desired
4.
In
The
Emperor
Jones
and
The
Hairy
Ape,
O'Neill
adopted
______
to
portray
the
helpless
situation
of
human beings in a hostile
universe.
[A] expressionist techniques
[C] romantic approach
5. In
used here is______.
[A] metaphor
[C]
pun
6.
farm house near.
The above
two lines are taken from Frost’s
Woods
on
a
Snowy
Evening
a
beautifully
[B] hyperbole
[D] simile
[B]
surrealistic approach
[D] dramatic
monologues
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