美國文學期末復習題

1、2013-2014-1 美國文學史及選讀 期末復習材料 Multiple choices1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?A. Common Sense B. The American Crisis C. The Rights of Man D. The Autobiography 2. “These are the times that try mens souls”, these words were once read to Washingtons troops and did much to spur excitement to f

2、urther action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin Franklin B. Thomas Paine C. Thomas Jefferson D. George Washington3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the _.A. Chartist Movement B. Romanticist MovementC.

3、 Enlightenment Movement D. Modernist Movement4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to_.A. the colonial order B. religious obscurantism C. the Puritan tradition D. the secular literature5. The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Con

4、tinental Congress adopted _ in 1776.A. Declaration of Independence B. the Sugar ActC. the Stamp Act D. the Mayflower Compact6. _ usually was regarded as the first American writer.A. William Bradford B. Anne Bradstreet C. Emily Dickinson D. Captain John Smith 7. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. He

5、r 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 8. Who was considered as the “poet of American Revolution”?A. Anne Bradstreet B. Edward Taylor C. Michael Wigglesworth D. Philip Freneau9. In 1817, the

6、stately poem called Thanatopsis introduced the best poet _ to appear in America up to that time.A. Edward Taylor B. Philip Freneau C. William Cullen Bryant D. Edgar Allen Poe10. The finest example of Nathaniel Hawthornes symbolism is the recreation of Puritan Boston in _.A. The Scarlet Letter B. You

7、ng Goodman BrownC. The Marble Faun D. The Ambitious Guest11. “The universe is composed of Nature and the soul Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England _.A. Romanticism B. Trans

8、cendentalism C. Naturalism D. Symbolism12. Which is generally regarded as the Bible of New England Transcendentalism?A. Nature B. Walden C. On Beauty D. Self-Reliance13. Mark Twain created, in _, a masterpiece of American realism that is also one of the great books of world literature.A. The Adventu

9、re of Huckleberry Finn B. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer C. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg D. The Gilded Age14. _ marks the climax of Mark Twains literary creativity.A . The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn B. The Gilded AgeC. Life on the Mississippi D. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer15. Choose the novel w

10、hich is not written by Henry James.A. The Ambassadors B. The Wings of the DoveC. The Bostonians D. The Mysterious Stranger16. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be _.A. transcendentalists B. idealists C. pessimists D. impressionists17. Ezra Po

11、unds long poem _ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste Land B. The Cantos C. Don Juan D. Queen Mab18. T. S. Eliots first major poem _(1917), has been called the first masterpiece of modernism in English.A. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock B. The Waste Land C. Four Q

12、uartets D. Preludes19. Ernest Hemingway was badly wounded in Italy and sent to a hospital where he fell in love with a nurse. These two persons later became the characters of his novel _.A. The Old Man and the Sea B. For Whom the Bell TollsC. The Sun Also Rises D. A Farewell to Arms20. In William Fa

13、ulkners The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called _, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. stream of consciousness B. imagism C. symbolism D. naturalism21. Led by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and _, there arose a kind of teachings of transcen

14、dentalism in the early nineteenth century.A. Herman Melville B. Henry David Thoreau C. Mark Twain D. Theodore Dreiser 22. A New _ had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then came to America early in the nineteenth century.A. realism B

15、. critical realism C. romanticism D. naturalism 23. From Henry David Thoreaus jail experience, came his famous essay, _ which states Thoreaus belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.A. Walden B. Nature C. Civil Disobedience D. Common Sense24. Mark Twain, one o

16、f the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his _.A. international theme B. waste-land imageryC. local color D. symbolism25. Herman Melvilles _ is an encyclopedia of everything: history, philosophy religion, etc. in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling

17、industry.A. The Old Man and the Sea B. Moby DickC. White Jacket C. Billy Budd26. The ship “_” carried about one hundred Pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.A. Sunflower B. Armada C. Mayflower D. Peq

18、uod27. From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous _, an annual collection of proverbs.A. The Autobiography B. Poor Richards Almanac C. Common Sense D. The General Magazine28. In American literature, the eighteen-century was the age of the Enlightenment. _ was the dominant sp

19、irit.A. Humanism B. Rationalism C. Revolution D. Evolution29. _ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.A. Henry David Thoreau B. Ralph Waldo Emerson C. Nathaniel Hawthorne D. Walt Whitman30. Edgar Allen Poes first collection of short stories is _.A. Tales of a Traveler B. Leatherstoc

20、king TalesC. Canterbury Tales D. Tales of the Grotesque of Arabesque31. _ was a romanticized account of Herman Melvilles stay among the Polynesians. The success of the book soon made Melville well known as the “man who lived among cannibals”.A. Moby Dick B. Typee C. Omoo D. Billy Budd32. Which is re

21、garded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?A. The American Scholar B. English Traits C. The Conduct of Life D. Representative Men33. The three dominant figures of the realistic period in American literature are _.A. Theodore Dreiser, Emily Dickinson and William Dean HowellsB. Mark Twai

22、n, Henry James and William Dean HowellsC. Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser and William Dean HowellsD. Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson and William Dean Howells34. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _.A. Anne Bradstreet B. Jane Austen C. Emily Dickinson D

23、. Harriet Beecher35. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories, named_.A. The Son of the Wolf B. The Sea Wolf C. The Law of Life D. White Fang36. In Henry James Daisy Miler, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of _.A. the force of convention B. the free

24、 spirit of the New World C. the decline of aristocracy D. the corruption of the newly rich37. “The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.” This is the shortest poem written by _.A. T.S. Eliot B. Robert Frost C. Ezra Pound D. E.E.Cumings 38. The Fitzgerald lived so extr

25、avagantly that they frequently spent more money than F. Scot Fitzgerald earned for parties, liquor, entertaining their friends and traveling. It was this living style that nicknamed the decade of the 1920s as _.A. The Roaring Twenties B. The Jazz Age C. The Dollar Decade D. all of the above39. In 19

26、54, _ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.A. T.S Eliot B. Ernest Hemingway C. John Steinbeck D. William Faukner40. William Faukners novel _ describes the decay and downfall of an old southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social orde

27、r, told from four different points of view.A. The Sound and the Fury B. StartorisC. The Unvanquished D. The Town41. “The Lure of the Spirit: The Flesh in Pursuit” is the title of one chapter in Dreisers novel _.A. An American Dream B. Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at Russia D. Jannie Gerhardt42. The

28、 main theme of _ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James B. William Dean Howells C. Mark Twains D. O. Henrys43. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _became the major trend in the

29、 seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalism B. romanticism C. realism D. naturalism44. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel

30、_.A. The Call of the Wild B. The Sea Wolf C. Martin Eden D. The Iron Heel45_ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed” by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The American B. The Europeans C. Daisy Miller D. The Portait of a Lady An

31、swers: 1-5 DBCDA 6-10 DBDCA 11-15 BAAAD 16-20 CBADA 21-25 BCCCB 26-30 CBBBD 31-35 BABCA 36-40 BCDBA 41-45 BACCC Filling the following blanks with proper answers1. Captain John Smith became the first American writer.2. The puritans looked upon themselves as a chosen people.3. The first major intellec

32、tual spokesman of the Massachusetts Bay colony was John Cotton, sometimes called “the Patriarch of New England.”4. Anne Bradstreet published The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America, and she was nicknamed the tenth Muse.5. Poor Richards Almanac is an annual collection of proverbs written by Benjam

33、in Franklin.6. Thomas Paines famous pamphlet Common Sense boldly advocated a “Declaration for Independence”.7. Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence with John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert Livingston.8. Philip Freneau developed a natural, simple, and concrete

34、 diction, best illustrated in such nature lyrics as “The Wild Honey Suckle” and “The Indian Burying Ground”.9. Philip Freneau has been called the “Father of American Poetry”.10. In Washington Irvings Sketch Book appeared the first modern short stories and the first great American juvenile literature

35、.11. Coopers enduring fame rests on his frontier stories, especially the five novels that comprise the Leatherstocking tales.12. “To a Waterfowl” is perhaps the peak of William Cullen Bryants wok.13. “Thanatopsis”, William Cullen Bryants best-known poem, consists of four stanzas in iambic tetrameter

36、 abab. The title means “view of death”.14. Edgar Allan Poe is considered “father of American detective stories and American gothic stories”.15. Emerson believed above all in individualism, independence of mind, and self-reliance.16. In Walden, Thoreau thought it better for a man to work one day a we

37、ek and rest six, and the rest of the time could be devoted to thought.17. Hawthornes stories touch the deepest roots of mans moral nature.18. Moby Dick is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.19. After his death, Longfellow became the only Ame

38、rican to be honored with a bust in the Poets Corner of Westminster Abbey.20. Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of Uncle Toms Cabin, had become an American institution and the most famous literary woman in the world.21. William Dean Howells found his subject matter in the experiences of the American

39、middle class.22. William Dean Howells called for the treatment of the “smiling aspects of life” as being the more “American.”23. The naturalists emphasized that the world was amoral, that men and women had no free will, that their lives were controlled by heredity and the environment.24. The poetic

40、style Walt Whitman devised is now called free verse.25. OHenrys stories are usually short and interesting; Famous for their surprising end.26. Henry James is famous for his international theme of the traditionless American confronting the complexity of European life.27. Jack London believed in the i

41、nevitable triumph of the strongest individuals.28. Dreisers greatest and most successful novel, An American Tragedy, is about a young man who acts as if the only way he can be truly fulfilled is by acquiring wealththrough marriage if necessary.29. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously ac

42、knowledged that they were a “Lost Generation,” devoid of faith and alienated from a civilization.30. Wallace Stevens work is primarily motivated by the belief that “ideas of order”.31. With the publication of The Sun Also Rises, Hemingway became the spokesman for what Gertrude Stein had called “a lo

43、st generation.” Decide whether the statements are true or false (T/F).1. John Winthrops reports of exploration, published in the early 1600s, have been regarded as the first distinct American literature written in English.2. In 1612, William Bradford published in England a book called A Map of Virgi

44、nia; 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 always applied the term “Transcendentalist” to himself or to his beliefs and idea

45、s.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 his conventional style.7. Tom Sawyer walked out of Twains pages directly from his

46、fresh memory of his boyhood in the west.8. Hurstwood is a character in Theodore Dreisers Sister Carrie.9. In the decade of the 1910s, American literature achieved a new diversity and reached its greatest heights.10. Edwin Arlington Robinson began his career as a novalist in bleakness and poverty.11.

47、The greatest of Americas realists, such as Henry James and Mark Twain, moved well beyond a superficial portrayal of nineteenth-century America.12.Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Mark Twain or William Dean Howells.13.Sister Carrie is generally regarded as Theodor

48、e Dreisers masterpiece.14.Generally speaking, Jack London was much more interested in ideas than Stephen Crane and less sentimental than Frank Norris.15.Ralph Waldo Emersons prose style was sometimes as highly individual as his poetry.16. American literature is the oldest of all national literature.

49、17. Georgia, Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, New York, New England, all were named after French monarchs and lands.18. Benjamin Franklin was a prose stylist whose writing reflected the neoclassic ideals of clarity, restraint, simplicity and balance.19. The Fall of the House of Usher is one of Edgar Al

50、lan Poes poems.20. The Scarlet Letter is set in the seventeenth century. It is an elaboration of a fact which the author took out of the life of the Puritan past.21. Walt Whitman was so great that he won respect and love during his lifetime for his Leaves of Grass.22. Many of O. Henrys stories conta

51、in a lot of slang and colloquial expressions, just like his own speech.23. Henry James was a realist in the same way as one views the realism of Mark Twain or William Dean Howells.24. Robert Frost rejected the revolutionary poetic principles of his contemporaries, and chose “the old-fashioned way to

52、 be new” instead.25. John Steinbecks theme was usually that simple human virtues such as kindness and fair treatment were far superior to official hard-heartedness, or the dehumanizing cruelty of exploiters for their own commercial advantage.26. Transcendentalists spoke for cultural rejuvenation and

53、 against the materialism of 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 immensely popular stories: the sea 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 secrets 1-5 FFTFT 6-10FTTFF 11-15 TFFTT 16-20 FFTFT 21-25FFFTT 26-30 TTTTT Answer the following questions briefly.1. These are the times that try me