美国文学期末考试练习题

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美国文学练习题

I.MultipleChoice

1.ThePuritanvaluesdidnotinclude

wastefulnessB.thriftC.pietyD.hardwork

2.The18thcenturywastheageoftheEnlightenment,whenwasthedominant

spirit.

A.HumanismB.RationalismC.Romanticism

3.wasthemostleadingspiritoftheTranscendentalism.

A.FranklinB.HawthorneC.Paine

4.MobyDickwaswrittenby

A.MarkTwainB.ThoreauC.Melville

D.Realism

D.Emerson

D.Whitman

4.HermanMelville'sisanencyclopediaofeverything,history,philosophy,

religion,etc.,inadditiontoadetailedaccountoftheoperationsofthewhalingindustry.

TheOldManandtheSeaB.MobyDick

C.WhiteJacketD.BillyBudd

5.“TheScarletLetter”ischaracterizedbyits.

A.symbolismB.rationalismC.PlatonismD.classicism

6.HuckleberryFinnisthemasterpieceof.

A.HenryJamesB.JackLondonC.MarkTwainD.StephenCrane

WhichofthefollowingnovelsisNOTwrittenbyHenryJames?

TheGoldenBowlB.ThePortraitofaLady

C.SisterCarrieD.DaisyMiller

isthefounderof“Imagist”movement.

A.EzraPoundB.HemingwayC.RobertFrostD.Steinbeck

MarkTwain'sworksarecharacterizedby.

A.NaturalismB.TranscendentalismC.LocalColorismD.Imagism

issaidtobethe“fatherofAmericanpoetry”.

A.T.S.EliotB.E.D.Robinson

C.PhilipFreneauD.TheodoreDreiser

11.TheauthorofTheTenthMuseLatelySprungupinAmericais

A.EdwardTaylorB.JohnCotton

C.RogerWilliamsD.AnneBradstreet

12.Hawthorneisregardedasa.

A.naturalist

B.classicist

C.realist

D.romanticist

13.Imaginationplaysthemostimportantpartin.

A.realismB.romanticismC.naturalism

D.classicism

14.

isconsideredtobethemasterpieceofJohnSteinbeck.

A.MendingWallB.DrySeptember

C.AFarewelltoArmsD.TheGrapesofWrath

15.UncleTominthenovelUncleTom'sCabinwasa(n).

C.industrialist

B.salesman

A.Negroslave

16.TheGreatGatsbyisthemasterpieceof.

A.WhitmanB.FitzgeraldC.Dickinson

17.TheAdventuresofTomSawyerwaswrittenby.

A.H.B.StoweB.JohnSteinbeckC.Hawthorne

D.officer

D.Hemingway

D.MarkTwain

18.

doesnotbelongtothelostgeneration.

A.TheodoreDreiserB.T.S.EliotC.Faulkner

D.Hemingway

waswellknownforhisstory“RipVanWinkle.”

A.WilliamCullenBryantB.WashingtonIrving

C.EdgarAllanPoeD.PhilipFreneau

20.FarewelltoArmsisthemasterpiecedproducedby

A.FaulknerB.MelvilleC.HemingwaywhowrotetheformalDeclarationofIndependence.

19.

21.Itwas

D.Longfellow

C.GeorgeWashington

22.ThemasterpieceofHawthorneis

A.ThomasJeffersonB.BenjaminFranklinD.WashingtonIrving

TheScarletLetterB.SisterCarrie

C.RichardCoryD.APsalmofLife

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EugeneO'Neillisa.

A.novelistB.poetC.puritanD.dramatist

Hemingway'sstyleofwritingischaracterizedby.

A.high-soundingwordsB.simplediction

C.complicatedsentencesD.mixmetaphor

T.S.Eliotisnotonlyapoetbutalsoa.

A.criticB.statesmanC.churchmanD.novelists

26.LongDay'sJourneyIntoNightwaswrittenby.

A.T.S.EliotB.EugeneO'Neill

C.StephenCraneD.SaulBellow

27.TheodoreDreisershowedthetendencyinhisnovels.

A.Puritanism

classicism

romanticism

naturalism

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28.RalphWaldoEmersonwastheleadingfigureof.

A.TranscendentalismB.Romanticism

C.RationalismD.Naturalism

29.TheSoundandtheFurywasthemasterpieceof.

A.RobertLeeFrostB.T.S.Eliot

C.WilliamFaulknerD.JohnSteinbeck

EmilyDickinsonisanAmerican.

A.dramatistB.novelistC.femalepoetD.malepoet

WhatWhitmanisfamousforhis.

A.LeavesofGrassB.MendingWall

C.RichardCoryD.TheBurialoftheDead

Thejazzagereferstothedecadeof.

A.1950'sB.1980'sC.1920'sD.1820's

“RipVanWinkle”waswrittenby.

A.PhilipFreneauB.AllanPoe

C.WashingtonIrvingD.ThomasJefferson

“SongofMyself”isawrittenbyWhitman.

A.novelB.poemC.dramaD.essay

TheauthorofthenovelUncleTom'sCabinis.

A.BeecherStoweB.JackLondonC.MarkTwainD.O.Henry

MarkTwainbelongstotheliteraryschoolof.

A.transcendentalismB.realismC.romanticismD.naturalism

Itwaswhowrotethepoem“TheRoadNotTaken.”

A.WaltWhitmanB.PhilipFreneau

C.RobertFrostD.T.S.Eliot

Naturalismisevolvedfromrealismwhentheauthor'stoneinwritingbecomeslessseriousandlesssympatheticbutmoreironicandmore.

A.rationalB.humorousC.optimisticD.pessimistic

38.TheimpactofDarwin'sevolutionarytheoryontheAmericanthoughtandtheinfluenceofthenineteenth-centuryFrenchliteratureontheAmericanmenoflettersgaverisetoyetanotherschoolofrealism:American.

A.localcolorismB.vernacularismC.modernismD.naturalism

wereidealists,believingthechurchshouldberestoredtocomplete

“purity”anddreamingthattheywouldbuildthenewlandtoanEdenonearth.

A.Calvinists

B.Puritans

C.Romanticists

D.Transcendentalists

HesterPrynne,Dimmesdale,ChillingworthandPearlareCharactersin.

A.TheHouseoftheSevenGablesB.TheScarletLetter

C.ThePortraitofaLadyD.ThePioneers

AmericanwritersafterWorldWarIself-consciouslyacknowledgedthattheywere

(a)“,”devoidoffaithandalienatedfromtheWesterncivilization．

A.LostGenerationB.BeatGeneration

C.SonsofLibertyD.AngryYoungMen

Inadditiontohisnovels,wroteabout120shortstoriesandsketches.

AmongthemareYoungGoodmanBrownandTheMinister'sBlackVeil.

A.HenryDavidThoreauB.NathanielHawthorne

C.RalphWaldoEmersonD.HermanMelville

RobertFrostcombinedtraditionalverseforms—thesonnet,rhymingcouplets,blankverse—withaclearAmericanlocalspeechrhythm,thespeechoffarmerswithitsidiosyncraticdictionandsyntax.

A.SouthernB.Western

C.NewHampshireD.NewEngland

TheRomanticwriterswouldfocusonallthefollowingissuesEXCEPTthe

intheAmericanliteraryhistory.

A.individualfeelingsB.ideaofsurvivalofthefittest

C.strongimaginationD.returntonature

Cooper'sstoryofthe“frontiersaga”ismadeupof5famousnovelsthatcomprisethe,inwhichthemaincharacterisNattyBumppo.

A.LeatherStockingTalesB.TheDeerSlayer

C.SeaAdventureD.TheRomantic

FromHenryDavidThoreau'sjailexperiencecamehisfamousessay,which

statesThoreau'sbeliefthatnomanshouldviolatehisconscienceatthecommandofagovernment.

A.WaldenB.Nature

C.CivilDisobedienceD.CommonSense

WhichofthefollowingwritersdoesNOTbelongtotheromanticgroupinAmericanliterature?

A.RalphWaldoEmersonB.HenryDavidThoreau

C.NathanielHawthorneD.WaltWhitman

Emersonbasedhisreligiononanintuitivebeliefinanultimateunity,whichhe

called.

A.theSpiritB.theOver-lordC.theOversoulD.theSelf

isaversatilemanandoneofhisfellowAmericanscommentedthat“His

shadowliesheavierthananyotherman'sonthisyoungnation.”

A.BenjaminFranklinB.ThomasPaine

C.ThomasJeffersonD.PhilipFreneau

BenjaminFranklin'sbestwritingisfoundinhis.

A.PoorRichard'sAlmanacB.Autobiography

C.DeclarationofIndependenceD.AmericanCrisis

“Weholdthesetruthstobeself-evident,thatallmenarecreatedequal,thattheyareendowedbytheirCreatorwithcertainunalienableRights,thatamongtheseareLife,LibertyandthepursuitofHappiness.”Thesewordsarefrom.

A.AmericanCrisisB.U.S.Constitution

C.DeclarationofIndependenceD.AmendmenttoConstitution

TheAmericannationalanthem“TheStar-SpangledBanner”waswrittenby

whilethetunewasborrowedfromanEnglishdrinkingsong.

A.FrancisScottKeyB.FrancisBacon

C.WalterScottD.JackLondon

ThedesireforanescapeformsocietyandareturntonaturebecameapermanentconventionofAmericanliterature,evidentin.

A.JamesFenimoreCooper'sLeatherstockingTales

HenryDavidThoreau'sWalden

C.MarkTwain'sHuckleberryFinn

D.Alloftheabove

Writersofthoughttoarouseintheirreadersaturbulentsenseoftheremote,

thesupernatural,andtheterrifyingbydescribingcastlesandlandscapesilluminatedbymoonlightandhauntedbyspecters.

A.GothicterrornovelsB.naturalisticnovels

realisticnovelsD.modernnovels

EdgarAllanPoeisregardedasfatherofallexcept.

A.detectivestoryB.modernshortstory

C.psychoanalyticcriticismD.fantasystory

AllofthefollowingPoe'sworksexceptarehorrorstories.

A.TheFalloftheHouseofUsherB.TheTell-TaleHeart

C.TheBlackCatD.MurdersintheRueMorgue

aredetectivestories.

AllofthefollowingPoe'sworksexcept

A.MurdersintheRueMorgue

TheFalloftheHouseofUsher

C.ThePurloinedLetter

D.TheGoldBug

Thewords“Togointosolitude,amanneedstoretireasmuchashischamberasfromsociety”arefrom.

A.NatureB.WaldenC.Self-RelianceD.AmericanScholars

Thebookofwasatremendouschronicleofawhalingvoyageinpursuit

ofaseeminglysupernaturalwhilewhale.

A.MobyDickB.WhiteFangC.BillyBudD.Mardi

CaptainAhabisacharacterinthenovelof.

A.MobyDickB.WhiteFangC.BillyBudD.Mardi

firstappearedintheUnitedStatedintheliteratureoflocalcolor.

A.RomanticismB.RealismC.SentimentalismD.Modernism

isametaphysicaltheorythatholdsthatallphenomenacanbeexplained

mechanisticallyintermsofnatural(asopposedtosupernatural)causesandlaws.A.RomanticismB.NaturalismC.SentimentalismD.Modernism

Allexceptarerepresentativesofrealism.

A.HenryJamesB.WilliamDeanHowells

MarkTwainD.HermanMelville

wasoneofAmerica'sfirstandforemostrealistsandhumorists.

A.HenryJamesB.WilliamDeanHowells

C.MarkTwainD.HermanMelville

wasthefounderofAmericanrealismandthemostprominentcriticofthe

entirerealisticperiod.

A.HenryJamesB.WilliamDeanHowells

C.MarkTwainD.HermanMelville

wasanearlypsychologicalrealist.Heisoftencalledoneofthefathers

ofthepsychologicalnovel.

A.HenryJamesB.WilliamDeanHowells

C.MarkTwainD.HermanMelville

istheforerunnerofthe20thcentury“steam-of-consciousness”novelsand

thefounderofpsychologicalrealism.

A.HenryJamesB.WilliamDeanHowells

C.MarkTwainD.HermanMelville

Winesburg,Ohioisacollectionofshortstorieswrittenby.

A.O.HenryB.AllanPoeC.SherwoodAndersonD.AnnePorter

WilliamSidneyPorteristhepennameof.

A.O.HenryB.MarkTwainC.HenryJamesD.TheodoreDreiser

SamuelLanghorneClemensisthepennameof.

A.O.HenryB.MarkTwainC.HenryJamesD.TheodoreDreiser

AllexceptareshortstoriesbyO.Henry.

A.TheGiftoftheMagiB.TheCopandtheAnthem

C.TheTell-taleHeartD.TheUnfinishedRoom

hasbeencalledthe“greatestofallAmericanurbannovels”,theprotagonist

ofwhichisCarolineMeeber.

A.SisterCarrieB.VanityFair

C.TheGeniusD.JennieGerhardt

WhichofthefollowingisNOTtheworksofJackLondon?

A.TheIronHeelB.TheSea-wolf

C.TheWingsoftheDoveD.MartiEden

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AllenGinsbergisarepresentativewriterof.

A.TheLostGenerationB.TheBeatGeneration

C.BlackHumorD.TheTheatreoftheAbsurd

75.AStreetcarNamedDesireisaplaywrittenby.

A.EugeneO'NeillB.TennesseeWilliams

C.EdwardAlbeeD.ArthurMiller

76.WillyLowmanisacharacterintheplayof.

A.TheCrucibleB.DeathofaSalesman

C.CatonaHotTinRoofD.TheHairyApe

77.Who'sAfraidofVirginiaWoolf?isaplaywrittenby.

A.EugeneO'NeillB.TennesseeWilliams

C.EdwardAlbeeD.ArthurMiller

DaisyBuchananandNickCarrawayarecharactersin.

A.TheGreatGatsbyB.TenderIstheNight

C.ThisSideofParadiseD.TheLastTycoon

Theheroesofoftenexhibitanidealdescribedas“graceunderpressure.”

A.ErnestHemingwayB.JohnSteinbeck

C.WilliamFaulknerD.F.ScottFitzgerald

SantiagoisacharacterinHemingway's.

A.TheSunAlsoRisesB.AFarewelltoArms

C.ForWhomtheBellTollsD.TheOldManandtheSea

AllofthefollowingarethefeaturesofPuritansEXCEPT.

A.wantingtomakepuretheirreligiousbeliefsandpractices

lookinguponthemselvesasachosenpeople

toleratingothers'beliefsandsoughtforahappyandaneasylife

wishingtorestoresimplicitytochurchservesandemphasizedtheimageofawrathfulGod

representsthemostleadingspiritofAmericanTranscendentalism.

A.EmersonB.FranklinC.MarkTwainD.Whitman

83.HermanMelville'sisanencyclopediaofeverything,history,philosophy,

religion,etc.,inadditiontoadetailedaccountoftheoperationsofthewhalingindustry.

A.TheOldManandtheSea

C.WhiteJacket

B.MobyDick

D.BillyBudd

84.ThePortraitofaLadyisoneofbestnovelsof.

A.HenryJames

B.JohnSteinbeck

C.WilliamFaulkner

D.WaltWhitman

85.

“Theapparitionofthesefacesinthecrowd;Petalsonawet,blackbough.”isa

typicalpoembyEzraPound.

A.romanticB.lyric

C.imagistD.narrative

II.Matching

Group1

1.

PoorRichard'sAlmanac

A.PhilipFreneau

2.

TheWildHoneySuckle

B.BenjaminFranklin

3.

TheLegendofSleepyHollow

C.EdgarAllanPoe

4.

AnnabelLee

D.WashingtonIrving

Group2

1.

TheNotoriousJumpin