《英美文学》练习题库及答案word文本

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《英美文学》练习测试题库及答案

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I Of the four alternative answer, choose the one that would best complete the statement:

1.

Benjamin Franklin was born in the family of a small _____________.

A. Landlord

B. merchant

C. lawyer

D. clergyman

2.

Ralph Waldo Emerson’s le

ading reputation began with the publication of_____________.

A.

Essays

B.

Nature

C.

Oversoul

D.

Self-Relience

3.

Ellen Poe was both a poet and a _____________________.

A. dramatist

B. essayist

C actor

D. fiction writer.

4.

Nathaniel Haw

thorne’s view of man and human history originates in __________________.

A. Puritanism

B. Socialism

C. Transcendentalism D. naturalism

5.

Walt Whitman was born and brought up in a family of a ______________.

A. Peasant

B. carpenter

C. captain

D. printer

6.

Mark Twain’s first successful literary work is

___________________________ __.

A.

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

B

. Life on the Mississippi

C.

The Adventure of Tom Sawyer

D.

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

7.

Closely r

elated to Emily Dickinson’s religious poetry are her poems concerning _______________.

A. Childhood

and happiness

C. loneliness

D. death and immortality

8.

Among the works of Dreiser, the bet known to the Chinese readers is _________________.

A.

An American Tragedy

B.

Sister Carrie

C.

Th Financier

D.

The Titan

9.

Robert Frost’s works mainly focus on the landscape and people in _________________.

A. the West

B. American South

C. New England

D. Mississippi

10.

Most of the plays Eugene O’Neil

l wrote are _______________________.

A. comedies

B. . romances

C. historical plays

D tragedies

11.

Scott Fitzgerald is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the ______________________.

A. modern time

B. young Americans

C. Jazz Age

D. Guilded Age

12.

_______________________________

is

Hemingway’s

masterpiece,

which

is

about

the

old

fisherman

Santiago and his losing battle with a giant marlin.

A.

Farewell to Arms

B.

For whom the Bell Tolls

C.

The Sun Also Rises

D.

The Old Man and The Sea

13. As a great fiction writer, William Faulker devotes most of his works to the description of the life and the

people in the __________________________.

A. American West

B.

New England in America

C. American South

D.

American North

14.

When he was young, Benjamin Franklin became an apprentice in a __________________.

A. printing house

B. store

C. Tailor’s shop

D. factory

15.

Ralph Emerson was born in a family of a _____________________.

A. merchant

B. businessman

C. clergyman

D. writer

16.

Ellen Poe began his literary career by writing ___________________;

A. short stories

B. plays

C.

essays

D. poems

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17.

According to Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is _________ in every hearer, which may remain latent, perhaps,

through the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.

A. evil

B. virtue

C. kindness

D. tragedy

18.

Whitman is radically innovative in term of form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subjects and new

feelings is _____________.

A. blank verse

B. free verse

C. heroic couplet

D. sonnet

19.

Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a combination of serious literature and _______.

A. American folk humor

B.

English folklore

C. American traditional values

D.

funny jokes

20.

Altogether, Emily Dickinson wrote ______ poems, of which only severn had appeared during her lifetime.

A. 1145

B. 1775

C.

897

D. 785

21.

Theodore Dreiser is generally acknowledged as one of America’s literary ________________.

A. realists

B. naturalists

C.

romantists

D. modernists

22.

In Frost’s poems, images and metaphors in his poems are drawn from _________________.

A. the simple country life

B. the urban life

C. the life on the sea

D. the adventures and trips

23.

Scott

Fitzgerald

never

spared

an

intimate

touch

in

his

fiction

to

deal

with

the

bankruptcy

of

the

_______________________________.

A. American Dream

B. ruling classes

B. American Capitalists

an bourgeoisie

24.

Eugene O’Neill is regarded as the founder of American _____________________.

A. poetry

B. drama

C. fiction

D. literature

25.

_______

____________ is Hemingway’s masterpiece, which tells a story about the tragic love of a wounded

American soldier with a British nurse.

A.

A Farewell to Arms

B.

The Sun Also Rises

C

. For Whom the Bell Tolls

D

.

In Our Time

26.

William Faulkner was born in a family of a _______________________.

A. merchant

B. colonel

C. manager

D. doctor

27.

In

his

essays,

______

put

forward

his

philosophy

of

the

over

soul,

the

important

of

the

Individual

and

Nature.

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Washington Irving

C. Mark Twain

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

28.

The chief spokesman of New England Transcendentalism is __________

A. Nathaniel Hawthorne

B. Ralph Waldo Emerson

C. Henry David Thoreau

D. Washington Irving

29.

______ literary world turns out to be a most disturbed, tormented and problematical one, which has much to

do with his

“

blac k

”

vision of life and human beings.

A. Herman Melville

’

s

B. Washington Irving

’

s

C. Nathaniel Hawthorne

’

s

D. Walt Whitman

’

s

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