美国文学自测题及答案 得分 评分人 I. Multiple choice:(20 points, 1 point for each) Directions: In this part of the test, there are twenty items. Choose the best answer and write the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet.
1. Whitman published his first edition of ______ in 1855.
a. Leaves of Grass b. The Scarlet Letter c. “Hymn to The Night” d. “The Secret of the Sea” 2. Dreiser’s naturalism and his choice of subject often echo his predecessor, ______, but his style and method are very different.
a. Mark Twain b. Stephen Crane c. Henry James d. Emerson
3. Sister Carrie written by ______ is considered as one of the representative naturalistic novel in the American literature. a. Sinclair Lewis b. Theodore Dreiser c. F. Scott Fitagerald d. H.L.Mencken
4．Mark Twain’s ______ tells a story of his boyhood ambitious to become a riverboat pilot, up and down the Mississippi. a. Roughing It
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
5. Stephen Crane’s style has been called realistic, ______ and impressionistic. a. romantic b. naturalistic c. classical d. imagining 6. ______ is the scene of Dreiser’s Sister Carrie. a. New York b. Chicago c. California d. Washington
7. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?
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a. Nature b. Walden c. On Beauty d. Self-Reliance
8. Melville’s _______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy, religion, etc, in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.
a. The Old Man and the Sea b. Moby Dick c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd
9. Mark Twain created, in _______, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.
a. Huckleberry Finn b. Tom Sawyer
c. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg d. The Gilded Age
10. American literature produced only one female poet during the 19th century. This was _______.
a. Anne Bradstreet b. Jane Austen c. Emily Dickinson d. Harriet Beecher
11. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, ______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.
a. sentimentalism b. Romanticism c. realism d. naturalism
12. Leaves of Grass has _______ editions.
a. nine b. five c. six d. seven
13. _______ is not among the artistic features of Whitman’s writing.
a. The use of the poetic “I” b. Free verse c. Musicality or rhythm d. Allegory
14. Melville’s _______ is a semi-autobiographical novel concerning the sufferings of a gentle youth among brutal sailors.
a. Typee b. Redburn c. White Jacket d. Billy Budd
15. _______ is not among the writing features of Melville’s works.
a. symbolism b. allgory
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c. psychological analyses d. Dramatic monologue
16. The realistic period is referred to as “the Gilded Age” by _______.
a. Mark Twain b. Henry James c. Emily Dickinson d. Theodore Dreiser
17. _______ is regarded by H. L. Menken as “the true father of American national literature.”
a. Emily Dickinson b. Henry James c. Mark Twain d. Theodore Dreiser
18. _______, being a boy’s book specially written for the adults, is Mark Twain’s most representative book.
a. Roughing It
b. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn c. Life on the Mississippi
d. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
19. Henry James’s fame generally rests upon his novels and stories with ________.
a. the love and marriage theme
b. the theme of humor and satire on life
c. the theme of revealing the miserable life of the poor and criticizing the capitalism d. the international theme
20. Within Dickinson’s little lyrics, she addresses those issues that concern the whole human beings, which exclude ________.
a. religion b. Friendship c. love d. immortality
得分 评分人 II. Match. (20 points, 1 point for each) Directions: Choose the correct letters from the list of the authors for the following works and put them onto the Answer Sheet.
A. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Herman Melville E. Walt Whitman
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B. Henry David Thoreau D. Henry W. Longfellow F. Emily Dickinson