美国文学习题

1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______.

a. Far From the Madding Crowd b. Sound and Fury(喧嚣与骚动) c. For Whom the Bell Tolls d. Scarlet Letter

2.The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau is______.

a. Nature b. Walden瓦尔登湖 c. Experience d. Essays

3. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. This is my letter to the world 这是我给世界的信

b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died我听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声——当我死时 c. This is just to say

d. Because I could not stop for death因为我不能停下来等待死神 4.Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹is a masterpiece of _______work.

a. romantic b. classic

c. neo-classic d. naturalistic 自然主义 5.“God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work. a. Franklin b. Freneau c. Jefferson d. Paine 6.Daisy Miller is a great work by _____.

a. Henry James 娘娘腔 b. Mark Twain

c. Dreiser d. Stowe 7. Hester is a character in ______.

a. Gone with the Wind b. The Fall of the House of Usher

c. Babbitt d. Scarlet Letter

8. . 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 9. The Grapes of Wrath is the masterpiece of ______.

a. John Steinbeck b. John Cheever c. John Updike d. John Dos Passos

10. . The literary spokesman of the Jazz is often thought to be______. a. O’Neil b. Pound

c. Robert Frost d. Scott Fitzgerald Jazz Age

Dreiser

11. _____was the most important person of the transcendental club. 超验主义

a. Hawthorn b. Whitman c. Emerson d. Thoreau

12. Who initiated the name of the Lost Generation? a. Hemingway b. Fitzgerald

c. Gertrude Stein d. William Faulkner

13. Chinese poetry and philosophy have exerted great influence over ____.

a. Ezra Pound b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Robert Frost d. Emily Dickinson

14. Emily Grierson is a literary figure created by______. Rose for Emily a. Willa Cather b. Doris Lessing

c. William Faulkner d. Nathaniel Hawthorn 15. ______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

16. Iceberg Theory is a writing principle proposed and closely followed by _____.

a. Jack London b. Sinclair Lewis c. William Faulkner d. Ernest Hemingway

17. _____is the author of the work ’The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’.

A. Washington Irving B. James Joyce C. Walt Whitman D. William Butler Yeats

18. \the whole life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity\which author of the following authors does the mention belong to________.

A. Washington Irving B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman

19. . Walt Whitman is radically innovative in the form of his poetry. What he prefers for his new subject is__________.

A. free verse B. blank verse C. lyric poem D. heroic couplet

20. Theodore Dreiser belonged to the school of literary ______which emphasized heredity and environment as important deterministic forces shaping individualized characters who were presented in special and detailed circumstances.

A. naturalism B. realism C. determinism D. humanism

21. Which of the following is depicted as the mythical county in William Faulkner’s novels?

A. Cambridge. B. Oxford.

C. Mississippi. D. Yoknapatawpha.

22. Which of the following novels can be regarded as typically belonging to the school of literary modernism? William Faulkner A. The Sound and the Fury B. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. C. Daisy Miller. D. The Gilded Age.

23. In 1837, Ralph Waldo Emerson made a speech entitled _______ at Harvard, which was hailed by Oliver Wendell Holmes as \intellectual Declaration of Independence.\

A. \ B. \

C. \ D. \

24, Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.

A. The House of the Seven Gables B. The Scarlet Letter C. The Portrait of a Lady D. The pioneers

25. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ____.

A. international theme B. waste-land imagery C. local color D. symbolism

26. Common Sense, written by _______, increased the growing demand fro separation from England.

A. Thomas Paine B. Thomas Jefferson C. George Washington D. Patrick Henry

27. _______ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club. A. Thoreau B. Emerson C. Hawthorne D. Whitman

28. 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

29. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was

________.

A. Anne Bradstreet C. Emily Dickinson

女诗人

B. Jane Austen D. Harriet Beecher Stowe

30. The publication of The Waste Land, written by _____, helped to establish a modern tradition

of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.

A. Edgar Ellen Poe B. Jack London C. T. S. Eliot D. Sinclair Lewis

31. In 1952, Hemingway published a successful novel called _________, which won the Pulitzer

Prize in 1953 and occasioned the award of the Nobel Prize in 1954. A. A Farewell to Arms B. The Snows of Kilimanjaro C. The Old Man and the Sea D. For Whom the Bell Tolls 32. The Cop and the Anthem is written by . A 警察与赞美诗

A. O. Henry B. Henry James C. Jack London D. Mark Twain

33. The term The Gilded Age is given by D to describe the post-civil

war years.

A. O. Henry B. Henry James C. Jack London D. Mark Twain

34. ________ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emerson c. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe 35.

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