美国文学史期末复习资料.docx

1、美国文学史期末复习资料 I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1= 10)1. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. _B_ was the dominant.A. humanism B. rationalismC. romanticism D. evolution2. The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is take

2、n from Irvings work named _B_.A. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?AA. Rationalism B. inner selfC. personal feelings D. individualism4. The short story “Rip Van Winkle”

3、reveals the _C_ attitude of its author.A. optimistic B. pessimisticC. conservative D. ironic5. Stylistically, Henry James fiction is characterized by _D_.A. short, clear sentencesB. abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD. highly refined language6. Transcendentalist doctrines found the

4、ir greatest literary advocates in _B_ and Thoreau.A. Jefferson B. EmersonC. Freneau D. Mark Twain7. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?AA. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-reliance8. _D is considered Mark Twains greatest achievement.A. The Gi

5、lded AgeB. Innocent AbroadC. The Adventures of Tom SawyerD. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. _C_ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost Generation”.A. Ezra Pound B. Robert FrostC. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less seri

6、ous and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _D_.A. rational B. humorousC. optimistic D. pessimistic1-5，BBACD 6-10 BADCDII. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1= 10)11. _ is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip FreneauC. Paine

7、D. Washington Irving12. _ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow stepped outside the main stream of life.A. “Rip Van Winkle”B. “The Pioneers”C. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”D. “The Fall of the House of Usher”13. _ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Thoreau B. EmersonC. Hawt

8、horne D. Whitman14. Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twains language?A. vernacular B. colloquialC. elegant D. humorous 15. From Thoreaus jail experience, came his famous essay, _ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Wa

9、lden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense 16. Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-reliance17. Most of the poems in Whitmans Leaves of Grass sing of the “en-mass” and the _ as well.A. nature B. sel

10、f-relianceC. self D. life18. What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s?A. The Roaring 20s B. The Gay 20sC. The Jazz Age D. The Lost Generation19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authors tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more _.A. rational B. humorousC

11、. optimistic D. pessimistic20. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. Ahab B. StubbC. Ishmael D. Starbuck1-5 D A B C C 6-10 A C C D C II. Identify Works as Described Below (115 =15): 1. The novel has a sole bl

12、ack protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us. a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains 2. The main conflict of the play is the protagonists false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society

13、in which money is everything.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Days Journey into Night d. Death of Salesman 3. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Days Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain King c. The Hairy Ape d. The

14、 Glass Menageries4. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder. a.Native Son b.Uncle Toms Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains5. _ is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War. a.A

15、 Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Courage d. The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Rises c.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead7. The novel is about how a family of farmer

16、s cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.a. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbitt d. The Adventures of Augie March8. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel, 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, new

17、sreels and camera eye. a. Babbitt b. Light in August c. U.S.A. d. The Grapes of Wrath9. It is a novel which uses the stream of consciousness technique and whose title is taken from Shakespeares Macbeth.a. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Fury c.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a

18、 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.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist

19、 telling us the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a. Sister Carrie b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d.The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)s reactions in the Civil War.a.An A

20、merican Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c.The 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.a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago14. The novel is about how a group of peop

21、le on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The 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

22、of nature.a. Walden b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar1-5.cdaad 6-10.aacbb 11-15.cccbbI. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (115=15):1. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on

23、 November 21 in the same year. This ship was named _.a. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic 2._ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays. a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene ONeill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice3._ was the first American writer to write entire

24、ly American literature. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway4. _ was the leader of American transcendentalism. a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irving c. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau 5._was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wr

25、ote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Pearl S. Buck b.Harriet Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman 6._ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe7.William Dean Howells i

26、s concerned with the middle class life; _ 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 James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? a. William Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest He

27、mingway d.Theodore Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is_. a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south. He is _. a. Will

28、iam Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11. _is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger12._ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrot

29、e over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time. a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson 13._ is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936. a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulkner c. Eugene ONeill d. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American t

30、o 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. Who is he? a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Euro

31、pe whereas _ wrote about the Jazz age, life in American society.a.William Carlos Williams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbeck d. F. Scott Fitzgerald1-5 bbccc 6-10.dddaa 11-15.bdcadI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (115 %):2. The American Civil War broke out in 1861 between the Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the _and the_.a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reac