美國文學史習題

1、I. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the fou門temSx 1' =101. In American literature, the 18 century was the age of Enlightenment.was the dominant.s work nanA. humanism B. rationalism C. romanticism D. evolution2. The short story “ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow “ is taken from Irv

2、ingA. The Leatherstocking TalesB. The Sketch BookC. The AutobiographyD. The History of New York3. Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?A. Rationalism B. inner self C. personal feelings D. individualism4. The short story “ Rip Van Winkle “ reveals the _ attitude of

3、 its author.A. optimistic B. pessimisticC.conservative D. ironic5. Stylistically, Henry James'fiction is characterized by.A. short, clear sentencesB.abundance of local imagesC. ordinary American speechD.highly refined language6. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates

4、 in and Thoreau.A. Jefferson B. Emerson C. Freneau D. Mark Twain7. Which is regarded as the“ Declaration of Intellectual Independence” ？A. The American Scholar B. English TraitsC. Oversoul D. Self-reliance8. is considered Mark Twain' s greatest achievement.A. The Gilded AgeB. Innocent AbroadC. T

5、he Adventures of Tom Sawyer D. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. is not among those greatest figures in“ Lost Generation ” .A. Ezra Pound B. Robert FrostC. Walt Whitman D. Hemingway10. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the authorbecortoeselenssvsieirigus andless sympathetic but more ironic and

6、more.A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic11. Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the fou門temsx 1' = 10 ')11.is the father of American Literature.A. Benjamin Franklin B. Philip C. Paine D. WashingtonFreneauIrving12.is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow ste

7、pped outside the main stream of life.A. ”Rip Van Winkle”B.“The Pioneers ”C. "The Legend of Sleepy D."The Fall of the House ofHollow ”Usher ”13.was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. ThoreauB. EmersonC. Hawthorne D. Whitman14. Which of following is NOT a typical feature o

8、f Mark Twain' s language?A. vernacularB. colloquialC. elegant D. humorous15. From Thoreau ' s jail experience, came his famous essay,which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense16. W

9、hich is regarded as the “ Declaration of Intellectual Independence” ？A. The American Scholar B. English Traits C. Oversoul D. Self-reliance17. Most of the poems in Whitman ' s Leaves of Grass singnoasse' and the “ eas well.A. nature B. self-reliance C. self D. life18. What did Fitzgerald cal

10、l the 1920s?A. The Roaring 20s B. The GayC. The Jazz Age D. The Lost20sGeneration19. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author's tone in writing becomes less sless sympathetic but more ironic and more.A. rational B. humorous C. optimistic D. pessimistic20. For Melville, as well as for t

11、he reader and, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.A. Ahab B. StubbC. Ishmael D. StarbuckII. Identify Works as Described Below(1' X5 =15'):1. The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells his own story but whose name in unknown to us. a.Native S

12、on b.Uncle Tom' s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains2. The main conflict of the play is the protagonist s false value of fine appearanceand popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Lo

13、ng Day' s Journey into Night d. Death of Salesman3. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Glass Menageries4. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman

14、 by accident and how the society is responsible for the murder.a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom' s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains5. is one of the best works in American literature about the Second World War.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badgeof Courage d.

15、The Naked and the Dead6. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Risesc.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead7. The novel is about how a family of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and

16、 how they suffer hunger in California.a.The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbittd. The Adventures of Augie March8. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biographies, newsreels and camera eye.9. It is a novel which usesthe stream of consciousnesst

17、echnique and whose title is taken from Shakespearre s Macbetha. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally

18、commits suicide.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It is a representative work of local colorism.a. Sister Carrieb.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. The

19、 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn d.The Portrait of a Lady12. The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming：) reactions in the Civil War.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carriec.The Red Badge of Courage d. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the

20、 universality and equality in value of all people and all things.a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate.a.The Octopus b. Moby

21、-Dick c. The Rise of Silas Lapham d. Leaves of Grass15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four uses of nature.a. Walden b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. The American Scholar1. Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1' X5=15'

22、):1. An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was nameda. The Pilgrims b. Mayflower c. America d. Titanic2.is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote

23、49 plays.a. Tennessee Williams b. Eugene O' Neill c. Arthur Miller d. Elmer Rice3 .was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.a. Anne Bradstreet b. Washington Irving c. Mark Twain d. Ernest Hemingway4 .was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklinb. W

24、ashington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Thoreau5 .was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Pearl S. Buck b.Harriet Bicher Stowe c. Emily Dickenson d. Walter Whitman6.is father of the detective story and of psycho

25、analytic criticism.a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe7. William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life;writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser

26、 d. Henry James8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. W川iam Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest Hemingway d.Theodore Dreiser9. His writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts. He is.a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark

27、 Twain10. He wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deepsouth. He isa. William Faulkner b. John Steinbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11.is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norma

28、n Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger12.is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson13.is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Ste

29、inbeck b. W川iam Faulkner c. Eugene O Neill d. Arthur Miller14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he?a. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher

30、Stowe c. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas wrote about the Jazzage, life in American society.a.William Carlos W川iams b. William Faulkner c. John Steinbecd. F. Scott FitzgeraldI.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1X5 %):2.

31、The American Civil War broke out in 1861 betweenthe Northern states and the South states, which are known respectively as the and the.a. N, S b. Revolutionaries, Reactionariesc. Union, Confederacy d. Slavery, Anti-Slavery2 .was praised by the British as theTenth Muse in America .a. Anne Bradstreetb.

32、 Edward Taylorc. Thomas Pained. Philip Freneau3 .Mark Twain was a representative of in American literature.a. transcendentalism b. naturalism c. local colorism d. imagism4 .was the leader of American transcendentalism.a. Benjamin Franklin b. Washington Irvingc. Ralph Waldo Emerson d. Henry David Tho

33、reau5 .The greatest American poet and the first writer of free verse is.a. Washington Irving b.Ezra Pound c. Walt Whitman d. Emily Dickinson6.is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.a. Washington Irving b. Ralph Waldo Emersonc. Walt Whitman d. Edgar Allan Poe7. Henry James i

34、s concerned with the upper class life;writes about the middle class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.a. Stephen Crane b. Frank Norris c. Theodore Dreiser d. W川iam Dean Howells8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer?a. W川iam Dean Howells b. Mark Twain c. Ernest He

35、mingway d.Theodore Dreiser9. s writings are characterized by simple, colloquial language and deep thoughts.a. Ernest Hemingway b. William Faulkner c. F. Scott Fitzgerald d. Mark Twain10. wrote 18 novels all set in Jefferson Town, Yoknapatwapha County in the deep south.a. William Faulkner b. John Ste

36、inbeck c. Ernest Hemingway d. Mark Twain11.is Jewish in origin and in many of his novels the American Jews are major characters.a. Sinclair Lewis b. Saul Bellow c. Norman Mailer d. Jerome David Salinger12.is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poem

37、s in her life time.a. Anne Bradstreet b. Robert Frost c. H.D. d. Emily Dickinson13.is father of American drama and won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.a. John Steinbeck b. William Faulknerc. Eugene 0 Neill d. Arthur Miller14.was the first black American to write a book about black life with g

38、reat impact on the consciousnessof the nation and his masterpieceis one of the three classicsabout blackAmericans.b. Richard Wright b. Harriet Beecher Stowec. Langston Hughes d. Ralph Ellison15.first used the “Jazz age as the title of a collection of short storiesa. F. Scott Fitzgerald b. William Fa

39、ulkner c. John Steinbeckd. Ernest Hemingway11. Identify Works as Described Below(1 M5 %):6. The play is about a stoker whose identity as a human being is not recognized by his fellow human beings and who tries to find affinity with a monkey in the zoo and is finally killed by the animal.a. The Hairy

40、 Apeb. Henderson the Rain Kingc. Long Day' s Journey into Night d. The Glass Menageries7. The protagonist in this play is a crippled girl named Amanda.a.A Street Car Named Desire b. The Hairy Ape c.Long Day' s Journey into Nightd.The Glass Menageries8. The hero of this novel tells about his

41、own story to us but his name is unknown.a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom' s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains4. It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the play is based on the playwright himself.a. Long Day s Journey into Night b. Henderson the Rain Kingc. The Hairy Aped. The Gl

42、ass Menageries5. The novel tells of how a black man kills a white woman by accident and how he is finally arrested and tried and sentenced to death.a.Native Son b.Uncle Tom' s Cabin c.Invisible Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains6. is one of the best works in American literature about the Second

43、World War.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Catcher in the Rye c.The Red Badge of Couraged. The Naked and the Dead7. The novel by Hemingway is the best of its kind about World War I.a.A Farewell to Arms b.The Sun Also Risesc.The Old Man and the Sea d. The Naked and the Dead10. The novel is about how a fami

44、ly of farmers cannot survive in Oklahoma and travel to California to seek a living and how they suffer hunger in California.b. The Grapes of Wrath b. U.S. A.c.Babbittd. The Adventures of Augie March11. It is a trilogy including The 42nd Parallel 1919, and The Big Money, with such techniques as biogr

45、aphies, newsreels and camera eye.12. It is a novel which usesthe stream of consciousnesstechnique and whose title is taken from Shakespearre s Macbetha. Absolom, Absolom! b. The Sound and the Furyc.A Farewell to Arms d. The Great Gatsby10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduce

46、d and elopes with Hurstwood and how she becomes a famous actress and how her lover falls into beggary and finally commits suicide. a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carrie c. McTeague d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets11. It is a novel with 135 chapters plus an epilog; in it a group of people on a whalin

47、g ship kill a great whale but they themselves are killedby the whale in the end, except Ishmael the narrator who survives by adhering to a coffin.b. Sister Carrieb.The Adventures of Tom Sawyerc. Moby Dickd. The Portrait of a Lady12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming) s re

48、actions in the Civil War, inwhich wound is called the red badge which symbolizes courage.a.An American Tragedy b. Sister Carriec.The Red Badge of Courage d. McTeague13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in value of all people and all thing

49、s.a.Cantos b. The Raven c. Song of Myself d.Chicago14. The novel is about how a man falls economically and sociallybut who risesmorally becausehe gives up the opportunity to sell his factory to an English Syndicate, which would otherwise mean a ruin to that syndicate.a.The Octopus b. The Rise of Sil

50、as Lapham c. Moby-Dick d. Leaves of Grass15. It is a speech delivered at Harvard University. It is often hailed as the" declaration of intellectual independence in America.a. The American Scholar b. Nature c. The Scarlet Letter d. Walden11. Match the following (1 >20%)A. Match Works with The

51、ir Authors1. Hugh Selwyn Mauberly2. Walden3. Autobiography4. The Scarlet Letter5. Leaves of Grass6. The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer9. Long Day' s Journey into Night10. The Old Man and the Seaa.Mark Twainc. Eugene 0 Neille. Edgar Allan Poeg. Nathaniel Hawthorne

52、i.Henry David Thoreauk.Thomas Jeffersonb . Ernest Hemingwayd. W川iam Dean Howellsf. Walt Whitmanh. Benjamin Franklinj. Ezra Poundl. T.S. EliotB. Match the Characters with the works in which they appear.1. Hester Prynne3.Frederick Henry5.the Joads7 .Holden Caulfield8 .Yanka.The Portrait of a Ladyc. Th

53、e Hairy Apee.The Sound and the Furyg. The Naked and the Deadi. Native Son2.Mrs. Touchett4.Benjy Compson6.General Edward Cummings7.Bigger Thomas9.Happyb. The Scarlet Letterd. A Farewell to Armsf. The Grapes of Wrathh. The Catcher in the Ryej. Death of a Salesmank.Invisible Manl.Catch-22111. Match the

54、 following (1' >20=20')A. Match works with their authors1.Nature2. Rip Van Winkle3. Nature4. The Scarlet Letter5. Leaves of Grass6. The Raven7. The Rise of Silas Lapham8. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9. Cantos10. The Old Man and the Seaa.Ezra Poundc. Mark Twaine. Edgar Allan Poeg. Na

55、thaniel Hawthorneb. Ernest Hemingwayd. W川iam Dean Howellsf. Walt Whitmanh. Ralph Waldo Emersonj. Waldo Emersoni.Washington IrvingB. Match characters with the works in which they appear.2 . Captain Ahab and Starbuck 2.Isabel Archer3 .Frederic Henry and Catherine 4.Benjy Compson5.the Joads6.General Ed

56、ward Cummings8.Bigger Thomas10.Willy Lomanb. Moby-Dickd. A Farewell to Armsf. The Grapes of Wrathh. The Catcher in the Ryej. Long Day' s Journey into Nightl. The Old Man and the Sea7.Holden Caulfield9.The Tyronesa.The Portrait of a Ladyc. Death of a Salesman e.The Sound and the Fury g. The Naked

57、 and the Dead i. Native Sonk.Absalom, AbsalomV. Essay Questions (30%; boose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at least 300 words. Note: 1Your essay should have at least 3 paragraphs; you are not simply to make a list of facts.2 You may give a title to your essay, but

58、you are required to indicate which of the 3 topics it belongs to. 3You are not to write on a topic of your own.1. To the best of your knowledge, analyze and make comments on EmersonNature2. Comment on any American poet you like.3. Analyze and/or comment on any one of the American novels or plays you have read.V. Essay Questions(30%; choose only ONE of the following three topics and write a short essay of at leas