美国文学选择题及答案
1. William Faulkner is the author of ______.
a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter 2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.
a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. literary critic 3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________. a. Jack London b. Charles Dickens c. Samuel Coleridge d. Earnest Hemingway
4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality. a. Allegory b. Conflict c. Irony d. Flashback
5. The great transcendental work by Henry David Thoreau is______. a. Nature b. Walden c. Experience d. Essays
6. 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
7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary reputation after the Revolutionary War?
a. Fennimore Cooper. b. Nathaniel Hawthorn. c. Walt Whitman. d. Washington Irving. 8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____.
a. Abraham Lincoln b. John F. Kennedy c. Martin Luther King d. Ralph Waldo Emerson 9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
a. This is my letter to the world b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died c. This is just to say d. Because I could not stop for death 10. Eugene O’Neil is an American ______.
a. novelist b. playwright c. poet d. essayist
11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States.
a. Age of Realism b. Age of Classicalism c. Age of Romanticism d. Age of Renaissance 12. With “Collected Poems”, ______won the second Pulitzer Prize. a. Ezra Pond b. e. e. cummings
c. Robert Frost d. William Cullen Bryant 13. Grass is a poem written by _______.
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a. Walt Whitman b. Carl Sandburg
c. Langston Hughes d. Allen Ginsberg 14. Moby Dick is the most important work by ______.
a. Jack London b. Herman Melville c. Sinclair Lewis d. Ralph Ellison 15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______. a. novels b. poems c. short stories d. dramas 16. ______ is NOT a novel of Francis Scott Fitzgerald. a. Tender Is the Night b. Anna Christie c. The Beautiful and Dammed d. The Great Gatsby
17. The American literature in modern period is divided into two parts by the event of ______.
a. the expatriate movement b. the Great Depression c. the First World War d. the Second World War
18. Which of the following novels does NOT belong to Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire? a. The Titan b. The Financier c. The “Genius” d. The Stoic
19. The 1954 Nobel Prize for literature was awarded to ______for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.
a. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck
c. Saul Bellow d. Earnest Hemingway 20. Sister Carrie is a masterpiece of _______work.
a. romantic b. classic c. neo-classic d. naturalistic 21. The Octopus is written by ________.
a. Frank Norris b. Sherwood Anderson c. Willa Cather d. Stephen Crane 22. James Baldwin’s most famous short story is _______.
a. A Rose for Emily b. The Story of an Hour
c. Sonny’s Blues d. A Clean, Well-lighted Place 23. ________wrote several novels with the name of “Rabbit”. a. Arthur Miller b. Thomas Pynchon c. John Updike d. Wallace Stevens 24. The Road Not Taken is a poem written by ______. a. Robert Frost b. Longfellow c. Ezra Pond d. Carl Sandburg
25. “God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work. a. Franklin b. Freneau c. Jefferson d. Paine
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26. T. S. Eliot’s most famous long poem is ______.
a. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock b. A Boy’s Will
c. The Waste Land d. The Golden Bough 27. Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.
a. Henry James b. Mark Twain c. Dreiser d. Stowe 28. Hester is a character in ______.
a. Gone with the Wind b. The Fall of the House of Usher c. Babbitt d. Scarlet Letter 29. Jack London’s ______is his patently autobiographical novel. a. The Call of the Wild b. The Sea Wolf c. Martin Eden d. The Iron Heel 30. The black man Jim is a character in Mark Twain’s _______.
a. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi d. The Prince and the Pauper 31. O Captain! My Captain! was written in memory of _______. a. Walt Whitman b. Benjamin Franklin c. Abraham Lincoln d. Martin Luther King 32. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.
a. John Steinbeck b. John Cheever c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos 33. ______is NOT a play written by Tennessee Williams.
a. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof b. The Glass Menagerie c. Light in August d. A Streetcar Named Desire 34. Seize the Day is regarded the best novel written by ______. a. Flannery O’Conner b. Saul Bellow
c. Ralph Ellison d. Sherwood Anderson
35. ______is NOT among the postwar poets in modern American literature. a. Robert Lowell b. Gary Synder c. Allen Ginsberg d. e. e. cummings
36. The image of the famous “henpecked husband” is created by_____. a. Washington Irving b. Fennimore Cooper c. Edith Wharton d. William Dean Howells 37. The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______. a. O’Neil b. Pound
c. Robert Frost d. Scott Fitzgerald
38. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club. a. Hawthorn b. Whitman c. Emerson d. Thoreau
39. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following EXCEPT_______.
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a. religion b. love and marriage c. life and death d. war and peace
40. American diction in the 1960s and 1970s proves different from its predecessors. It is referred to as ______.
a. Imagism b. black humor
c. new fiction d. the Beat Generation 41．Stephen Crane is famous for ________and other stories. a. An American Tragedy b. The Ambassadors
c. Main Street d. The Red Badge of Courage 42．______has won the Pulitzer Prize four times and one Nobel Prize. a. Earnest Hemingway b. John Steinbeck c. Eugene O’Neil d. William Faulkner 43．Beloved is the masterpiece of _______.
a. Tony Morrison b. Ralph Ellison c. John Dos Passos d. Willa Cather
44．Which of the following is NOT a typical feature of Modernism? a. To elevate the individual and inner being over the social being. b. To put the stress on traditional values.
c. To portray the distorted and alienated relationships between man and his environment.
d. To advocate a conscious break with the past.
45．Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT_____. a. a strict poetic form
b. a simple and conversational language c. a free and natural rhythmic pattern d. an easy flow of feelings
46．Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation? a. Hemingway b. Fitzgerald
c. Gertrude Stein d. William Faulkner
47．The high tide of Romanticism in American literature occurred around ______. a. 1820 b. 1850 c. 1880 d. 1920
48．The publication of _______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of the New England Transcendentalism.
a. Nature b. Self-Reliance
c. The Over-Soul d. The American Scholar 49．Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____. a. Ezra Pound b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Robert Frost d. Emily Dickinson
50．_______is the representative work of the Beat Generation. a. The Great Gatsby b. On the Road
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c. Look Back in Anger d. The Sun Also Rises 51．Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______. a. Willa Cather b. Doris Lessing
c. William Faulkner d. Nathaniel Hawthorn
52．Thomas Pynchon can also be categorized as a Black Humor writer, as well as a
_______writer.
a. classical b. transcendental c. postmodernist d. realistic
53．Who is considered the father of American poetry?
a. Philip Freneau b. William Cullen Bryant c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow d. Henry David Thoreau 54．In America, “a little woman started a great war”. Who is she? a. Anne Bradstreet b. Harriet Beecher Stowe c. Edith Wharton d. Catharine Anne Porter 55．______is NOT written by Edgar Allan Poe.
a. The Raven b. Annabel Lee c. The Fall of the House of Usher d. Song to Celia 56．Arthur Miller is an American _____.
a. novelist b. poet c. playwright d. essayist
57．Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by _____. a. Jack London b. Sinclair Lewis c. William Faulkner d. Ernest Hemingway 58．________is featured by black humor.
a. Caricature b. Catch-22
c. The Catcher in the Rye c. Death of a Salesman
59．Who is the only woman writer that has won both Pulitzer Prize and Nobel Prize? a. Pearl Buck b. Virginia Woolf
c. Tony Morrison d. Katharine Mansfield 1 . b 2. c 3. d 4. c 5. b 6. a 7. d 8. c 9. c 10. b 11. a 12. c 13. b 14. b 15. c 16. b 17. d 18. c 19. d 20. d 21. a 22. c 23. c 24. a 25. a 26. c 27. a 28. d 29. c 30. b 31. c 32. a 33. c 34. b 35. d 36. a 37. d 38. c 39. d 40. c 41. d 42. c 43. a 44. b 45. a 46. c 47. a 48. a 49. a 50. b 51. c 52. c 53. a 54. b 55. d 56. c 57. d 58. b 59. a 60.
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