美国文学复习提纲
第一部分 连线题（1*10=10’）
1. Thomas Jefferson The Declaration of Independence 2. Walt Whitman O’ Captain, My Captain 3. Mark Twain Jumping Frog
4. Robert Frost Mending Wall
5. Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro 6. Carl Sandburg Chicago
7. Saul Bellow The Adventure of Augie March 8. Ernest Hemingway Men without Women 9. John Steinbeck The Grape of Wrath
10. Jack London The Call of the Wild 11. Sinclair Lewis Babbit
12. Flannery O’ Connor A Good Man Is Hard to Find 13. O. Henry The Last Leaf
14. Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye 15. William Falkner The Sound and the Fury
第二部分 单项选择 *20=30’)
1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “________” who appeared in America. A. Tenth Muse B. Ninth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse
2. In American literature, the 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment. ________ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution
3. Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?
A. The American Crisis B. The Federalist C. Declaration of Independence D. The Age of Reason
4. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________.
A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist Movement C. Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement
5. 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
6. ________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
7. Washington Irving’s social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story, ________.
A. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow B. Rip Van Winkle C. The Custom-house D. The Birthmark 8. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ________.
A. Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales B. Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter
C. Whitman’s Leaves of Grass D. Irving’s Rip Van Winkle 9. As a philosophical and literary movement, ________ flourished in New England from 1830s to the Civil War. A. modernism B. rationalism
C. sentimentalism D. transcendentalism 10. Edgar Allan Poe mainly writes __________. A. poems B. literary critic theories C. short stories D. dramas
11. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, “A” may stand for ________ . A. Adultery B. Angel C. Amiable D. All the above
12. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ________ .
A. the Naturalist Period B. the Modern Period C. the Romantic Period D. the Realistic Period
13. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?
A. The Sketch Book B. Leaves of Grass
C. Leatherstocking Tales D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
14. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except ________. A. war and peace B. love and marriage C. life and death D. religion 15. Emily Dickinson’s poetic idiom is noted for the following except ________. A. brevity B. directness C. plainest words D. obscure
16. The publication of ________ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism.
A. Nature B. Self-Reliance C. The American Scholar D. The Over-Soul
17. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ________ to ________.
A. 1861…1914 B. 1863…1918 C. 1865…1914 D. 1865…1918 18. ________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser’s greatest work.
A. An American Tragedy B. Sister Carrie C. The Financier D. The Titan
19. ________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter 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
20. ________ is described by Mark twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience”.
A. Tom Sawyer B. Huckleberry Finn C. Jim D. Tony 21. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ________ language. A. grand B. pompous C. simple D. vernacular 22. The book from which “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. In which of the following works Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?
A. Death in the Afternoon B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro C. To Have and Have Not D. The Green Hills of Africa
24. ________ is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.
A. The Sun Also Rises B. A Farewell to Arms
C. In Our Time D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 25. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ________ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax. A. Southern B. Western C. New Hampshire D. New England 26. ________, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”.
A. J. D. Salinger B. Ezra Pound C. Richard Wright D. Ralph Ellison
27. “Tender Is the Night” is a ________ by Fitzgerald. A. short story B. novella C. poem D. novel 28. ________ is said to be a “historical novel” by Faulkner.
A. Go Down, Moses B. Light in August C. The Sound and the Fury D. Absalom
29. ________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker’s choice between safety and the unknown.
A. Mending the wall B Home Burial
C. The Road not Taken D. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 30. Hemingway’s writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly