American Literature Materials

American Literature Materials
Write the names of the authors
p oor Richard’s Almanac，（Benjamin Franklin本杰明·富兰克林）
The House of the Seven Gables《七个尖角阁的房子》，（Nathaniel Hawthorne纳撒尼尔·霍桑）The Raven (Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡)，
Rip Van Winkle （Washington Irving华盛顿`欧文），
The Call of the Wild (Jack London杰克·伦敦)，
Sister Carrie (Theodore Dreiser西奥多·德莱塞)，
The Last of the Mohicans (James Fenimore Coope r詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏)，
The Great Gatsby(F. Scott Fitzgerald弗·司各特·菲茨杰拉德)，(
A Farewell to Arms (Ernest Hemingway欧内斯特·海明威)，
Walden(Henry David Thoreau亨利·大卫·梭罗)，
The Sketch Book（Washington Irving华盛顿`欧文），
The Road Not Taken (Robert Frost罗伯特·弗罗斯特)，
A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner威廉·福克纳)，
The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck约翰·斯坦贝克)，
Moby-Dick(Herman Melville赫尔曼·麦尔维尔)，
In a Station of the Metro(Ezra Pound埃兹拉·庞德)，
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque(Edgar Allan Poe埃德加·爱伦·坡)，
Song of Myself(Walt Whitman沃尔特·惠特曼)
Multiple choice:
In American literature, the eighteenth century was the age of the Enlightenment, _______________ was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Revolution
D. Evolution
Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?
A. Michael Wigglesworth
B. Edward Taylor
C. Anne Bradstreet
D. Philip Freneau
____________ was the most leading spirit of the Transcendental Club.
A. Thoreau
B. Emerson
C. Hawthorne
D. Whitman
Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?
A. The American Schola r
B. English Traits
C. The Conduct of Life
D. Representative Men
American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was
___________.
A. Anne Bradstreet
B. Jane Austen
C. Emily Dickinson
D. Harriet Beecher
The 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 Twain’s
D. O. Henry’s
___________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.
A. Ezra Pound
B. Robert Frost
C. T. S. Eliot
D. E. E. Cummings
With William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, _______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.
A. sentimentalism
B. romanticism
C. realism
D. Naturalism
Ezra Pound’s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.
A. The Waste Land
B. The Cantos
C. Don Juan
D. Queen Mab
Which of the following is NOT one part of The LeatherStocking Tales by Cooper?
A.The Spy
B. The Pathfinder
C. The Pioneers
D. The Deerslayer
Whitman’s poems are characterized by all the following features EXCEPT .
A. the strict poetic form
B. the free and natural rhythm
C. the easy flow of feelings
D. the simple and conversational language
Which statement about Thoreau was NOT right?
A. He was a lover of nature.
B. He was a particular kind of romantic.
C. He was a polemicist.
D. He was a thorough transcendentalist.
Henry James’ idea of realism differs from that of the other realist writers because his emphasis is on man’s .
A. language
B. inner world
C. surroundings
D. real actions
All of the following are works by Nathaniel Hawthorne EXCEPT .
A. The Marble Faun
B. Typee
C. The Scarlet Letter
D. Mosses form an Old Manse
Fitzgerald’s fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of .
A. the Jazz Age
B. the Romantic Period
C. the Renaissance Period
D. the Neoclassical Period
In Hawthorne’s novels and short stories, intellectuals usually appear .
A. saviors
B. villains
C. commentators
D. observers
true or false
1. All his literary life, Hawthorne seemed to be haunted by his sense of sin and evil in life.T
2. Most of the poems in Leaves of Grass are about love and religion.F
3. Heminway’s works have sometimes been read as an essentially negative commentary on a modern world filled with sterility, failure, and death.T
4. William Dean Howells is considered the founder of Psychological realism. He believed that reality lies in the impressions made by life on the spectator.F
5. John Steinbeck’s theme was usually that sim ple 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.T。