美国文学练习

班级： 学号： 姓名：Chapter 1 Literature of Colonial AmericaDecide whether the statements are true or false. F 1. American literature is the oldest of all national literature. T 2. American poetry of the 18th century has an imitative character, imitating the reigning English models of the 18th centuryChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( C ) 1. The Puritan philosophy known as is the most enduring shaping influence in American thought and literature. A. Revolutionism B. Reason C. American Puritanism D. Rationalism( B ) 2. 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. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse( B ) 3. The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of .A. Thomas Hood B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington(B)4. Thomas Paines famous pamphlet “ ” is often regarded as the greatest of the Revolutionary pamphlets. The argument is characteristic of plainness.A. The Rights of Man B. Common Sense C. The American Crisis D. Declaration of IndependenceChapter 2 Early Romantics；Chapter 3 Transcendentalism；Chapter 4 High RomanticsChoose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( A ) 1. Transcendentalists recognized as the “highest power of soul”. A. intuition B. logic C. data of the senses D. Thinking(B C D) 2. Choose the poems written by Edgar Allan Poe from the following. A. “To Helen” B. The Raven C. “Annabel Lee” D. “The Bells”(A B C D) 3. Choose the characters which appear in the novel The Scarlet Letter. A. Hester Prynne B. Arthur Dimmesdale C. Roger Chillingworth D. Pearl( A B ) 4. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as “ ” and “ ”. A. Rip Van Winkle B The Legend of Sleepy Hollow C. Life of Goldsmith D. Life of Washington(B) 5. Herman Melvilles 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( A ) 6. Ralph Waldo Emersons essay has been regarded as “Americas Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.A. The American Scholar B. Nature C. The Rights of Man D. Self-Reliance( B ) 7. A superb book entitled came out of Henry David Thoreaus two-year experiment at Walden Pond.A. The American Scholar B. Walden C. The Rights of Man D. Self-Reliance( C )8. From Henry David Thoreaus Concord jail experience came his famous essay “ ”.A. The Rights of Man B. Common Sense C. Civil Disobedience D. Declaration of Independence( B ) 9. The central figure in the Leatherstocking Tales is , who goes by the various names of Leatherstocking, Deerslayer, Pathfinder and Hawkeye.A. Nature B. Natty Bumppo C. Deer D. sailor( A) 10. was the first to develop the short story as a distinctive art form and to elaborate criteria by which it can be judged. Therefore he was often regarded as the father of the modern short story.A. Washington Irving B. Philip Freneau C. William Cullen Bryant D. Edgar Allan Poe( C ) 11. The Scarlet Letter was written by , who tended to write about the , and believed that evil was at the core of human life. He was proclaimed as the first American romancer.A. Washington Irving; past B. Philip Freneau; future C. Nathaniel Hawthorne; past D. Edgar Allan Poe; future( A ) 12. Dickinsons poems demonstrate and .A. inconsistency; indirection B. consistency; indirection C. inconsistency; direction D. consistency; direction( D ) 13. The poetic style Walt Whitman applied is now called , that is poetry without a fixed beat or regular rhyme scheme.A. ballad B. blank verse C. sonnet D. free verse( A ) 14. Dickinsons greatest lyrics are on the theme of , personified as a monarch, a lord, or a kind but irresistible lover.A. death B. friendship C. politics D. artChapter 5 Realism；Chapter 6 Local Colorism；Chapter 7 Naturalism Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( ABCD ) 1. Choose the works written by Mark Twain. A. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer B. Innocents Abroad C. The Gilded Age D. The Tragedy of Puddnhead Wilson ( B ) 2. Whereas Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, was an admirer. A. O. Henry B. Henry James C. Walt Whitman D. Jack London( ABCD ) 3. Choose the novels written by Henry James.A. Daisy Miller B. The Portrait of a Lady C. The Wings of the Dove D. The Ambassadors (ABCD) 4. Choose Jack Londons works from the following. A. The Call of the Wild B. White Fang C. The Sea Wolf D. Martin Eden( A ) 5. The novel which was described by an American critic as “an outrage to American girlhood” is Henry Jamess .A. Daisy Miller B. The Portrait of a Lady C. The Wings of the Dove D. The Ambassadors( B ) 6. Harriet Beecher Stowes masterpiece is , which is considered to be the greatest of all anti-slavery literature, and help bring the North to fight the slave-holding South in the Civil War.A. Daisy Miller B. Uncle Toms Cabin C. “The Gift of the Magi” D. The Color Purple( C ) 7. Hemingway once wrote: “All modern American literature comes from one book by called Huckleberry Finn.”A. Henry James B. William Dean Howells C. Mark Twain D. O. Henry( D ) 8. Regionalism, or Local Colorism is a subordinate order of .A. Colonialism B. Puritanism C. Romanticism D. Realism( C ) 9. Naturalists held that humans are controlled by laws of and .A. heredity; Puritanism B. Puritanism; totality C. heredity; environment D. truth; beauty( A ) 10. Theodore Dreiser neither condemned nor praised the protagonist of .A. Sister Carrie B. White Fang C. The Red Badge of Courage D. Martin EdenAnswer the following question in your own words.What are the differences between American romantic writers, realist writers and naturalist writers in their attitudes toward human beings in their literary creation? Romanticists place the individual at the center of art and make literature most valuable as an expression of his or her unique feelings and particular attitudes and make its accuracy a portraying the individuals expriencesRealists described with much vividness and great artistic skill the chief traits of the English society and criticized the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint. They not only gave a satirical portrayal of the bourgeoisie and all the ruling classes, but also showed profound sympathy for the common people. But they did not find a way to eradicate social evils and did not realize the necessity of changing the bourgeois society.According to the theory of naturalism, literature must be true to life and exactly reproduce real life, including all its details without any selection. Naturalist writers usually write about the lives of the poor and oppressed, or the slum life, but by giving all the details of life without discrimination, they can only represent the extend appearance instead of the inner essence of real life.Chapter 8 Poetry Decide whether the statements are true or false. T 1. When the other modernist poets were obscure and difficult to understand, Robert Frost could be understood by the average person. T 2. Unlike Wallace Stevens, who experimented in his language, the New England poets E. A. Robinson and Robert Frost were modern in their themes about the wasted, blighted, or impoverished lives, but NOT modern in their techniques and verse forms. They used traditional verse forms and made their poems of modernist themes more easily understood by the public. T 3. Robert Frost wrote about the universal matters of life and death, good and evil, with the deceptive, rustic simplicity. F 4. Robert Frost did write pastoral poetry as a way to escape from modern life. F 5. In the decade of 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights. Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.(ABC ) 1. The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are . A. direct treatment B. economy of expression C. clear rhythm D. blank verse(C ) 2. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is written by . A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. E. Cummings(A ) 3. showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas. A. Ezra Pound B. Robert Frost C. T. S. Eliot D. E. E. Cummings(B ) 4. Ezra Pounds long poem contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected. A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab(C ) 5. “Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy” are good examples of E. A. Robinsons attitude. A. romantic B. futurism C. realistic D. materialistic(B ) 6. In 1922 Thomas Stearns Eliot published his great work The Waste Land, which catches precisely the state of culture and society after the Second World War and graphically illustrates the spiritual poverty of the of the time. It has been regarded as a central text of modernism.A. East B. West C. North D. South(D ) 7. Robert Frost is famous for his lyric poems. Which of the following lyric poem was not written by Robert Frost? A. “The Road Not Taken” B. “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” C. “After Apple-Picking” D. “Richard Cory” (B) 8. , oe of the essays in The Sacred Wood, is the earliest statement of T. S. Eliots aesthetics, which provided a useful instrument for modern criticism. A. “Sweeny Agonistes” B. “Tradition and the Individual Talent” C. “A Primer of Modern Heresy” D. “Gerontion” ( ABCD) 9. was/were written by T. S. Eliot. A. The Waste Land B. The Hollow Men C. Ash Wednesday D. Four Quartets( ABC) 10. T. S. Eliot was a . A. poet B. playwright C. literary critic D. novelist(C ) 11. The Waste Land reads like the manifesto of the “Lost Generation.” It consists of segments.A. three B. four C. five D. six(B ) 12. The essence of , which began in Germany in the 1890s, and ended in the early 1940s, was a break with the past, and it also fostered a belief in art and literature as an avenue to self-fulfillment. A. Realism B. Modernism C. Naturalism D. Sentimentalism( D) 13. dramatized discontinuity and imminent severance from the past while making determined efforts to use the past, its values and artistic forms by incorporating them in new literary production. A. Sentimentalism B. Realism C. Naturalism D. Modernism ( A) 14. Modernists had a sense of fragmentation in social communities and the fragmentation within the individual himself. Hence became a common theme in modernist writing.A. fragmentation B. order C. reasoning D. ethics( D) 15. An is a person who the modernist writers used in presenting their theme, and he is the person who is the main focus of the work as a hero should be. However, he is weak, ineffective, inapt, not like the romantic hero who is strong, brave, and courageous. He achieves success through bungling, through not being as effective as he would think that he could be. A. hero B. antagonist C. order D. anti-hero(C ) 16. Unlike Victorian poetry which was characteristic of moralizing tendencies, overpadding of extra-poetic matter, and traditional iambic pentameter, imagist poetry stressed free choice of subject matters (often dealing with single, concentrated moments of experience), concreteness of imagery, musical phrases, economy of expression, and the use of a dominant , or a quick succession of related images. It aimed at instantaneous effect, visual and concise. A. tone B. speaker C. image D. persona(D ) 17. earned a reputation as a pessimist poet because of his fascination with the interior drama of human defeat in his “Tilbury town” poems.A. T. S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E. A. Robinson( D) 18. E. A. Robinson had much examination of failure, loneliness, isolation, defeat, frustration, sorrow, endurance, despair, emptiness and alienation. He had been called the poet laureate of . A. pastoral B. classical C. image D. failure(A ) 19. The most significant American poem of the 20th century was by T. S. Eliot. Its publication helped to establish a modern tradition of literature rich with learning and allusive thought.A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab( D) 20. Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the movement.A. Sentimentalism B. Realism C. Naturalism D. ImagismChapter 9 Modern Fiction before 1945Decide whether the statements are true or false. T 1. To Hemingway, mans greatest achievement is to show “grace under pressure.” T 2. Hemingways iceberg theory is famous. His sentences only gave one small bit of the meaning. The rest is implied. One must go very deep beneath the surface to understand the full meaning of his writing. F 3. Hemingway did have some realistic techniques, but on the whole he was not like the realistic writers because he was more interested in conveying his personal emotion. And this is the goal of many modernist writers create proper feelings of the situation or experience in the reader, arouse an involuntary subjective response. F 4. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote symbolically about poor, oppressed California farmers, migrants, laborers, and the unemployed, making their lives and sorrows very understandable to his readers.Choose the best answer or answers for each of the following statements.( ABCD ) 1. Choose the novels written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. A. The Great Gatsby B. Tender is the Night C. This Side of Paradise D. The Beautiful and the Damned( ABCD ) 2. Ernest Hemingway wrote .A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell Tolls C. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms( B ) 3. , a saga of a family of Olahoma farmers named Joad, who are driven by fearful draught and the Great Depression to migrate to California, and are scornfully called “Okies” and suffer mistreatment and exploitation, is generally regarded as John Steinbecks masterpiece.A. This Side of Paradise B. The Grapes of Wrath C. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms( ABD ) 4. This Side of Paradise by Francis Scott Fitzgerald reflects the new norms of the 1920s which was also known as the , and . A. roaring 20s B. Jazz Age C. Great Depression D. Dollar Decade( A ) 5. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, a novel about the disillusionment of the lost generation, became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a Lost Generation”. A. Ernest Hemingway B. Fitzgerald C. Allan Poe D. Gertrude Stein( B ) 6. is generally regarded as the spokesman of the Dollar Decade, the peculiar decade that combined the postwar economic boom and the sense of spiritual disorientation. A. Ernest Hemingway B. Francis Scott Fitzgerald C. Allan Poe D. Gertrude Stein( C ) 7. The Great Gatsby deals symbolically with the frustration and despair resulting from the failure of the , which means that in America one might hope to satisfy every material desire and thereby achieve happiness. A. Ocean B. law C. American dream D. East( D ) 8. There is a particular term, the , who is with stoic courage and lives by a pattern which gives life meaning and value for Hemingways character.A. anti-hero B. antagonist C. hero D. code hero( A ) 9. Hemingway had only a single theme how man face in a world stripped of all values, except that of intensity. A. code hero B. tragedy C. success D. hero ( A ) 10. is regarded as the foremost writer of the Great Depression during the 1930s. He was a great spokesman for the oppressed, writing about the poverty-stricken people in their sufferings.A. John Steinbeck B. Francis Scott Fitzgerald C. Allan Poe D. Hemingway( A ) 11. American writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were a “ Generation”, devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization. A. Lost B. Beat C. Great Depression D. Dollar Decade( A ) 12. Francis Scott Fitzgerald summarized the experi