美国文学期末复习题

1、2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读 期末复习材料I Multiple choices1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common SenseB.The American CrisisC. The Rights of ManD.The AutobiographyC. William Cullen BryantD. Edgar Allen Poe2. “These are the times that try men's souls ”, these words were once read toWashington

2、9;s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hopeand confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the Europeanmovement called theA. Char

3、tist MovementB. Romanticist MovementD. Modernist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementA. the colonial order4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable toB. religious obscurantismarms against their parent countryin 1776.A. Declaration of IndependenceB.the Sugar ActC. the Stamp ActD.the May

4、flower Compact5. The English colonies in North America rose in and the Continental Congress adopted6.usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William BradfordB. Anne BradstreetC. Emily DickinsonD. Captain John Smith7. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in Engl

5、and thatshe became known as the “” who appeared in America.A. Ninth Muse B. Tenth Muse C. Best Muse D. First Muse8. Who was considered as the“ poet of American Revolution ”?A. Anne BradstreetB. Edward TaylorC. Michael WigglesworthD. Philip Freneau9. In 1817, the stately poem calledThanatopsis introd

6、uced the best poetto appear in America up to that time.A. Edward TaylorB. Philip Freneau's symbolism is the recreation of10. The finest example of Nathaniel HawthornePuritan Boston inA. The Scarlet LetterB.Young Goodman BrownC. The Marble FaunD.The Ambitious Guest11. “The universe iscomposed of

7、Nature and the soul Spiritis present everywhere ”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushedAmerican Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New EnglandA. Romanticism B. Transcendentalism C. Naturalism D. Symbolism 12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New En

8、gland Transcendentalism?13. Mark Twain created, inA. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. Self-Reliance, a masterpiece of American realism that isalso one of the great books of world literature.A. The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnB.The Adventure of Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD.The Gil

9、ded Age14.marks the climax of Mark Twain's literary creativity.A . The Adventure of Huckleberry FinnB. The Gilded AgeC. Life on the MississippiD.The Adventure of Tom Sawyer15. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.A. The AmbassadorsB.The Wings of the DoveC. The BostoniansD.The Mys

10、terious Stranger16. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to beD. impressionistsA. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists17. Ezra Pound's long poemcontainedmore than one hundred poemslooselyconnected.A. The Waste LandB.The Cantos C.Don Ju

11、an D. Queen Mab18. T. S. Eliot's first major poem(1917), has been called the firstmasterpiece of modernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred PrufrockB. The Waste LandC. Four QuartetsD.Preludes19. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with

12、 a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of hisnovelA. The Old Man and the SeaB.For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also RisesD.A Farewell to Arms20. In William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury , he used a technique called, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of

13、one character.B. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalismA. stream of consciousness, there arose a kind21. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson andof teachings of transcendentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman MelvilleB. Henry David ThoreauC. Mark TwainD. Theodore Dreiser22. A Newhad

14、 appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenthcentury.It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenthcentury.A. realismB. critical realismC. romanticismD.naturalismwhich23. From Henry David Thoreau's jail experience, camehis famous essay, states Thoreau

15、 ' s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the commandof a government.A. WaldenB.NatureC.Civil Disobedience D. CommonSense24. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well knownfor his29.was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.C. local colorD

16、. symbolism25. HermanMelville 'sA. The Old Man and the SeaB.Moby DickC. White Jacket. Billy Budd26. The ship “” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beatits way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore atPlymouth, Massachusetts.A. Sunflower B. Armada

17、 C. Mayflower D. Pequod27. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famousanannual collection of proverbs.A.The AutobiographyB.Poor Richard 's AlmanacC.Common SenseD.The General Magazine28. In American literature, theeighteen-century was the age of the Enlightenment.was the d

18、ominant spirit.A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolutionis an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophyreligion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.A. Henry David ThoreauB. Ralph Waldo EmersonC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman30. Edg

19、ar Allen Poes first collection of short stories isA. Tales of a TravelerB.Leatherstocking TalesC. Canterbury TalesD.Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque31.was a romanticizedaccount of Herman Melville 's stayamong thePolynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as themanwho l

20、ived among cannibals ”A. Moby DickB. TypeeC. Omoo D. Billy Budd32. Which is regarded as theDeclaration of Intellectual IndependenceA. The American ScholarB.English TraitsC. The Conduct of LifeD.Representative Men33. The three dominant figures of the realistic period in American literature areA. Theo

21、dore Dreiser, Emily Dickinson and William Dean HowellsB. Mark Twain, Henry James and William Dean HowellsC. Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser and William Dean Howells34. American literatureD. Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howellsproduced only one female poet during the nineteenth century.T

22、his wasA. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD. Harriet Beecher35. In 1900, Londonpublishedhis first collection of short stories,named_A. The Son of the WolfB.The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD.White Fang36. In Henry James ' Daisy Miler , the author tries to portray the young woman as a

23、n embodiment ofA. the force of conventionC. the decline of aristocracyB. the free spirit of the New WorldD. the corruption of the newly rich 37. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. ”This is the shortest poem written by 38. The Fitzgerald lived so extravagantly

24、that they frequently spent more money than F. Scot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends andtraveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s asA. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz Age C. The Dollar Decade D. all ofthe above39. In 1954,was awarded

25、the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “ masteryof the art of modern narrationA. T.S Eliot B.Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faukner40. William Faukner ' s noveldescribes the decay and downfall of an oldsouthern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from fourd

26、ifferent points of view.A. The Sound and the FuryB.StartorisC. The UnvanquishedD. The Town41. “The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit” i s the title of one chapterin Dreiser 's novel _A. An American DreamB.Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD.Jannie Gerhardt42. The main theme ofThe Art

27、 of Fiction reveals his literary credo thatrepresentation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James 'B. William Dean HowellsC. Mark Twain's D. O.Henry' s43. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene.became the major trend in the seve nties a

28、nd eighties of the nin etee nthcen tury.A. sen time ntalismB. roma nticismC. realism D. n aturalism44. While embrac ing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the trium ph of the stron gest in dividuals. This con tradicti on is most vividly p rojected in the p ate ntly autobiogra phical nove

29、lA. The Call of the Wild B. The Sea Wolf C. Martin Eden D. The Iron Heel45is a no vella about a young America n girl who gets“killed ” by theno vels that comp rise theLeatherstock ing taleswin ter in Rome, and it brought Henry James intern ati onal fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB.The Europe

30、ansC. Daisy MillerD.The P ortait of a LadyAn swers: 1-5 DBCDA6-10 DBDCA11-15 BAAAD 16-20 CBADA21-25 BCCCB 26-30 CBBBD 31-35 BABCA 36-40 BCDBA 41-45 BACCC n Filling the following blanks with proper answers1. Captain John Smith became the first American writer.2. The puritans looked upon themselves as

31、 a chosen people.3. The first major intellectualspokesman of the Massachusetts Bay colony was JohnCott on, sometimes called“the P atriarch of New En gla nd.”4. Anne Bradstreet publishedThe Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America , and shewas nickn amed the tenth Muse.5. Poor Richard ' s Alma nac

32、is an annual collecti onof pro verbs writte nby BenjaminFranklin.6. Thomas Paine' s famous pamphlet Common SensBoldly advocated a“Declarati onfor Independence ” .7. Thomas Jeffers ondrafted the Declarati onof Independence withJohn Adams,Benjamin Fran kli n, Roger Sherma n, and Robert Livin gst o

33、n.8. PhilipFreneau developed anatural,simple,and concretediction,bestillustrated in such n ature lyrics as“The Wild Honey Suckle ” and“The IndianBurying Ground ”9. Philip Freneau has been called the“ Father of America n Po etry ”10.In Washington Irving ' s SketchBook appeared the firstmodern sho

34、rt stories andthe first great America n juve nile literature.11.Cooper' s enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five12. “To a Waterfowl ” is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryant's wok.13. “Thanatopsis ” , William Cullen Bryant' s best-known poem, consists of fo

35、ursta nzas in iambic tetrameter abab. The title mea ns“view of death ”14.Edgar Allan Poeis considered“ father of American detective stories andAmerica n gothic stories15.Emerson believedabove allin in dividualism, independence of mind, andself-relia nee.16.ln Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a

36、man to work one day a week and rest's moral nature.six, and the rest of the time could be devoted to thought.17. Hawthor ne ' s stories touch the dee pest roots of man18. MobyDick is a treme ndous chroni cle of a whali ng voyage in pu rsuit of a seem in gly supern atural white whale.19. Afte

37、r his death, Lon gfellow became the only America n to be honored with a bust in the Poet ' s Corner of Westminster Abbey.20. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Tom s Cabin, had become an American in stituti on and the most famous literary woma n in the world.21.William DeanHowells found

38、his subject matter in the experiences of the American middle class.22.William DeanHowells called for the treatment of the “smiling aspects of life ”as being the more “American. ”23.The n aturalists emp hasized that the world was amoral, that men and wome n hadno free will, that their lives were con

39、trolled by heredity and the environme nt.24.The po etic style Walt Whitma n devised is now called free verse.25.O -Henrys stories are usually short and interesting;Famousfor theirsurprisingend.26.Henry James is famous for his international theme of the traditionlessAmerica nconfron ti ng the compi e

40、xity of Euro pean life.27. Jack London believed in the in evitable triu mph of the stron gest individuals.28.Dreiser ' s greatest and most successful novel. An American Tragedy, is abouta young man who acts as if the on ly way he can be truly fulfilled is by acquiri ngwealth through marriage if

41、n ecessary.29.Writers of the first p ostwar era self-c on sciously ack no wledged that they werea “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.3O.Wallace Steve ns ' work is p rimarily motivated by the belief that“ideas oforder ”31.With the publication of The Sun Also Rise

42、s , Hemingway became the spokesman forwhat Gertrude Stein had called“a lost gen erati on. ”E Decide whether the stateme nts are true or false (T/F).1. John Winthrop 's reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been regarded as the first distinct American literature written in En

43、glish.2. In 1612, William Bradford published in England a book called A Mapof Virginia ;With a description of the country.3. Philip Freneau was neoclassical by training and taste yet romantic in essential spirit.4. Ralph Waldo Emerson was recognized as the leader of transcendentalist movement,but he

44、 always applied the termTranscendentalist ” to himself or to his beliefs and ideas.5. To Nathaniel Hawthorne and Herman Melville, the telling of a tale was a way of inquiring into the meaning of life.6. Walt Whitman was attacked in his lifetime for his offensive subject matter of sexuality and for h

45、is conventional style.7. Tom Sawyer walked out of Twain's pages directly from his fresh memory of his boyhood in the west.'s Sister Carrie8. Hurstwood is a character in Theodore Dreiser 9. In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heigh

46、ts.10. Edwin Arlington Robinson began his career as a novalist in bleaknessandpoverty.11.The greatest of America' s realists, such as Henry James and Mark Twain, movedwell beyond a superficial portrayal of nineteenth-century America.12.Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the r

47、ealism of Mark Twainor William Dean Howells.13. Sister Carrieis generally regarded as Theodore Dreiser' s masterpiece.14.Generally speaking, Jack London was muchmore interested in ideas than StephenCrane and less sentimental than Frank Norris.15.Ralph Waldo Emerson 's prose style was sometim

48、es as highly individual as hispoetry.16. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.17. Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, New England, all were namedafter French monarchs and lands.18. Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassicideals

49、 of clarity, restraint, simplicity and balance.19. The Fall of the House of Usheris one of Edgar Allan Poes poems.20. The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration ofa fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan past.21.Walt Whitman was so great that he won

50、 respect and love duringhis lifetime forhisLeaves of Grass22.Manyof O. Henry's stories contain a lot of slang and colloquial expressions,just like his own speech.23. Henry James was a realist in the sameway as one views the realism of Mark Twainor William Dean Howells.24. Robert Frost rejected t

51、he revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries,and chose “the old-fashioned way to be new” instead.25. John Steinbeck 's theme was usually thatsimple humanvirtues such as kindnessand fair treatment were far superior toofficial hard-heartedness, or thedehumanizing cruelty of exploiters

52、for their own commercial advantage.26. Transcendentalists spoke for cultural rejuvenation and against the materialismof American society.27. Washington Irving was the first great belletrist, writing always for pleasure,and to produce pleasure.28. James Fennimore Cooper launched two kinds of immensel

53、y popular stories: thesea adventure tale and the frontier saga.29. Puritan influence over American Romanticism was conspicuously noticeable.30. “Young Goodman Brown” seems to prove everyone possesses some evil secrets1-5 FFTFT 6-10FTTFF 11-15 TFFTT 16-20 FFTFT 21-25FFFTT 26-30IV An swer the followi

54、ng questi ons briefly.1. These are the times that try mens souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we ha

55、ve this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly This dearness only that gives everything its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods.Questions:(1) Which book is this passage taken from?(2) Who is the author of this book?(3) Whom is the author praising? Whom is the author criticizing?(4) What do you think of the language?Answers:(1) The American Crisis.(2) Thomas Paine(3) Paine is praising those who stand “it ”,