美国文学复习提纲
第一部分 连线题（1*10=10’） 1. Thomas Jefferson 2. Walt Whitman 3. Mark Twain 4. Robert Frost 5. Ezra Pound
The Declaration of Independence O’ Captain, My Captain Jumping Frog Mending Wall??? In a Station of the Metro?? Chicago?
The Adventure of Augie March Men without Women?? The Grape of Wrath The Call of the Wild Babbit??
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
6. Carl Sandburg 7. Saul Bellow
8. Ernest Hemingway 9. John Steinbeck 10. Jack London
11. Sinclair Lewis
12. Flannery O’ Connor??? 13. O. Henry
The Last Leaf The Catcher in the Rye The Sound and the Fury
14. Jerome David Salinger 15. William Falkner
第二部分 单项选择 (1.5*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 C. the Romantic Period
B. the Modern 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
D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. Leatherstocking Tales
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 D. The Over-Soul
C. The American Scholar
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 C. Daisy Miller
B. The Europeans
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 C. To Have and Have Not
B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro 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 C. In Our Time
B. A Farewell to Arms 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 D. Absalom
C. The Sound and the Fury
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 and permanently influenced by his experiences ________. A. in his childhood
B. in the war
C. in America
D. in Africa
31. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________. A. William Faulkner C. John Steinbeck
B. F. Scott Fitzgerald D. Ernest Hemingway
32. ________ is not considered to be one of the masters in the field of American fiction in the modernistic period. A. F. Scott Fitzgerald C. Arthur Miller
B. Ernest Hemingway D. William Faulkner
33. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…” In the above two lines of Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken”, the poet, by implication, was referring to ________.
A. one’s course of life C. a middle-age crisis
B. a marriage decision D. a travel experience
34. Most of the writers in the modern period were able to probe into the inner world of human reality on the base of ________.
A. William James’ “stream of consciousness”
B. Carl Jung’s “collective unconscious” and “archetypal symbol” C. Sigmund Freud’s “interpretation of dreams” D. All of the above
35. Writers of the second postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were ____________. A. a Lost Generation C. a Jazz Generation
B. a Beat Generation D. none of the above
36. In 1862, President Lincoln exclaimed: “So you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war!” The book refers to ________. A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
B. Beloved
D. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C.?Pride and Prejudice???????????????????????????????
37.? In Leaves of Grass, _______ is all that concerned Whitman. A. individualism C. democracy
B. freedom?????????????????
D. all the above
38. It is not surprising to find in _______’s fiction a world of jungle, where “kill or to be killed” was the law. A. Mark Twain
B. Emily Dickinson
D. Henry James
C. Theodore Dreiser
39. Which one of the following statements is NOT true of William Faulkner? A. He is master of stream-of-consciousness narrative.