美国文学课堂练习2

1. Stetement ____________ is wrong in describing Nathaniel Hawthorne.

A. Hawthorne is a realist writer.

B. Hawthorne is also a great allegorist.

C. Hawthorne is a master of symbolism.

D. One source of evil that Hawthorne is concerned most is over-reaching intellect.

2.

Thoreau

was

often

alone

in

the

woods

or

by

the

pond,

lost

in

spiritual

communication

with

_________________.

A. nature B. transcendentalist ideas C. human beings D. celestial beings

3. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced

so far, Emerson and ____________-.

A. Henry David Thoreau B. Washington Irving C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

4. _____________tells a simple but very

moving story in which four people living in a puritan

community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.

A. Twice-Told Tales

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The House of the Seven Gables

D. The Marble Faun

5. The Romantic Period of American literature started with the publication of Washington Irving's

___________ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveler

C. The Alhambra

D. A History of New York

6.

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

7. In Hawthorne'

s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stands for ______________.

A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above

8. Poe's first collection of short stories is _______________.

A. Tales of a Traveller

B. Leatherstocking Tales

C. Canterbury Tales

D. Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

9. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne except_____________.

A. The House of Seven Gables

B. White Jacket

C. The Marble Faun

D. The Blithdale Romance

10. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except_______________.

A. religion B. love and marriage C. life and death D. war and peace

11. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for the following except_____________.

A. brevity B. directness C. plainest D. obscure

12. The Age of Realism in

the literary history of

the America refers to the period

from ____to

___________.

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

13. ___________is not the representative writer in the Age of Realism in the literary history of the

United States.

A. Henry James

B. Emily Dickinson

m Dean Howells

D. Mark Twain

14. _________is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.

A. An American Tragedy

B. Sister Carrie

C. The Financier

D. The Titan

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5. ___________is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the writer in Rome,

and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.

A. The American

B. The Europeans

C. Daisy Miller

D. The Portrait of a Lady

16. Stylistically, Henry James's fiction is characterized by ___________--.

A. highly refined language

B. ordinary American speech

C. short, clear sentences

D. abundance of local images

17.

Mark

Twain,

one

of

the

greatest

19th

century

American

writers,

is

well

known

for

his

_________________.

A. international theme B. wasteland imagery C. local color D. symbolism

18.

With

Howells,

James

and

Mark

Twain

active

on

the

literary

scene,_________

became

the

major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.

A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism

19. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be

_________________.

A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists

20.

Henry

James

experimented

with

many

different

themes

in

his

literary

career,

the

most

influential one being___________.

A. nothingness B. disillusionment C. international theme D. relationship between men and women

21. Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's_____________.

A. naturalists B. realists C. modernists D. romanticists

22. The book from w

hich “all modern American literature comes” refers to __________.

A. The Great Gatsby B. The Sun Also Rises

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn D. Moby Dick

23. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the

19th century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of

realism: American ___________-.

A. modernism B. naturalism C. vernacularism D. local colorism

24. ___________-is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.

A. Ernest Hemingway B. Fitzgerald C. William /Faulkner D. Ezra Pound

25. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is

.

A. Nature

B. Walden

C. Experience

D. Essays

26. Mark Twain shaped the world's view of America and made a combination of

and

serious literature.

A. American folk humor

B. funny jokes

C. English folklore

D. American values

27.

is not a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald.

A. Tender is the night

B. Anna Christie

C. The Beautiful and the Dammed

D. The Great Gatsby

28. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of

work.

A. romantic

B. classic

C. neo-classic

D. naturalistic

29.

's work.

A. Franklin

B. Freneau

C. Jefferson

D. Paine

30. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of

.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Abraham Lincoln

D. Martin Luther King

31. ___ is not written by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A. Self-reliance

B. Nature

C. The American Scholar

D. The Bells