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1._ ___ had been an evident influence on Naturalism. It seemed to stress the animal impulse of

man, to suggest that man was dominated by the irresistible forces of evolution.

A. Unitarianism

B. Origins of Species

C. Puritanism and Influence

D. Capitalist Economy

2.Who is called “the true father of our national literature” by the writer H. L. Mencken?

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Mart Twain

C. Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

3.In the first part of the 20th century, apart from Darwinism, which was still a big influence upon

the writers of this period, there were two thinkers _____ whose ideas had the greatest impact on the period.

A. the German Karl Marx and the American Sigmund Freud

美国文学期末复习题

2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读期末复习材料

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Ⅰ Multiple choices

1. 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 men’s souls”, these words were once read to Washington’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?

A.Benjamin Franklin

B. Thomas Paine

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. George Washington

3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to______.

美国文学期末复习资料

美国文学期末复习

选择题

Unit 2

1) To Montresor, the fatal weakness of Fortunato is his _______ for his connoisseurship in wine.

A) knowledge

B) arrogance

C) faith

D) seeming ignorance

2) Montresor wants to take revenge on Fortunato during the carnival because _______ .

A) almost all the people would habitually celebrate the festival, excessively drinking and dancing in delight and giving less attention to other activities beyond celebration.

B) Fortunato would be too busy as a wine connoisseur during the festival so that he might not see through the tricky plan of Montresor to put an end to his life.

C) he would work together with Fortunato during the festival so as to have chance to kill him.

美国文学期末考试练习题

美国文学练习题

I. Multiple Choice

1. The Puritan values did not include______.

A. wastefulness

B. thrift

C. piety

D. hard work

2. The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment, when ______was the dominant

spirit.

A. Humanism

B. Rationalism

C. Romanticism

D. Realism

3. _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.

A. Franklin

B. Hawthorne

C. Paine

D. Emerson

4. Moby Dick was written by_____

A. Mark Twain

B. Thoreau

C. Melville

D. Whitman

4. Herman Melville’s ______ is an encyclopedia of everything, history, philosophy,

religion, etc., in addition to a detailed account of the operations of the whaling industry.

A. The Old Man and the Sea

B. Moby Dick

C. White Jacket

美国文学期末复习题

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Ⅰ Multiple choices

1. 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 men ’s souls ”, these words were once read to Washington ’s troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Thomas Paine

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. George Washington

3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

美国文学史期末考试复习资料

美国⽂学史期末考试复习资料

Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)

1.In American literature, the 18th century was the age of Enlightenment. ______ was the dominant.

2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is taken from Irving’s work named

______.

3.Which of the following is not the characteristic of American Romanticism?

4.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the ____ attitude of its author.

5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is characterized by _____.

6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _____ and Thoreau.

7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of Intellectual Independence”?

美国文学期末复习题

期末考试题型复习

I.Multiple Choice（30‘）

II.Find the relevant match in column B for each in column A(10’): Writers:

( ) 1. Toni Morrison

( ) 2. Joseph Heller

( ) 3. Eugene Glastone O’Neill

( ) 4. Archibald MacLeish

( ) 5. Emily Dickinson

( ) 6. Benjamin Franklin

( ) 7. Ralph Waldo Emerson

( ) 8. F·Scott Fitzgerald

( ) 9. William Faulkner

( ) 10. Wallace Stevens

Works:

a.The Hairy Ape

b.I’m Nobody!

c. We Bombed in New Haven

d. English Traits

e. The Sound and the Fury

f. The Autobiography

g. Tender is the Night

h. Anecdote of the Jar

i. Song of Solomon

j.J.B.

Writers:

( ) 1. Edgar Allan Poe

( ) 2. Walt Whiteman

( ) 3. F·Scott Fitzgerald

( ) 4. William Carlos Williams

( ) 5. Toni Morrison

(完整版)美国文学期末复习资料(完美版)

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Imagism （意向主义）

(1)Imagism came into being in Britain and US around 1910 as a reaction to the traditional English poetry to express the sense of fragmentation and dislocation。

（2）The Imagists， with Ezra Pound leading the way, hold that the most effective means to express these momentary impressions is through the use of one dominant image。

（3) Imagism is characterized by the following three poetic principles： i） direct treatment of subject matter； ii） economy of expression; iii） as regards rhythm, to compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in the sequence of metronome; iv) Ezra Pound’s In a Station of the Metro is a well—known imagist poem。

美国文学史期末考试复习题

美国文学史期末考试复习题(使用书本为童明的《美国文学史修订版》)

一、名词解释（交代背景、内容/特点、代表人物/作品）

1. American Realism: In American literature, the Civil War brought the Romantic Period to an end. The Age of Realism came into existence. It came as a reaction against the lie of romanticism and sentimentalism. Realism turned from an emphasis on the strange toward a faithful rendering of the ordinary, a slice of life as it is really lived. It expresses the concern for commonplace and the low, and it offers an objective rather than an idealistic view of human nature and human experience. (the representative writers and its features should be also added.)

2. Black Humor :

1）In the 1960s, in literature, drama, and film, black humor refers to grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world.

美国文学期末考试复习

Part one: Multiple choices. (25题，每题2分，共50分)

1 "Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind" is a famous quote from __D__’s writings.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Henry David Thoreau

C. Herman Melville

D. Ralph Waldo Emerson

2 Which of Hemingway’s novels describes the drifting漂流life of American exiles流亡者in Europe? B

A. The Sun Also Rises.

B. A Farewell to Arms.

C. For Whom the Bell Tolls.

D. The Old Man and the Sea.

3 The theme of ___C____ may be well stated as "It sings of nationalism and of the nature of the self in

relation to the cosmos and the meaning and purpose of birth and death."

A. Edgar Allan Poe’s "To Helen"

B. Robert Frost’s "The Road Not Take n"

美国文学期末复习

一、填空

1.The central movement in American literature in the period between the end of the Civil War in

1865 and the dawn of the 20th century was the development of realism.

2.Howell’s straightforward definition of realism is ―nothing more and nothing less than the

truthful treatment of material.‖

3.Howells, James and Twain showed obvious differences in their writings. Howells was noted for

his presentation of middle-class American life. Jame s’ topics were taken mainly from the upper class of the society. As for Mark Twain, his interest lay in people of the lower class.

4.Mark Twain is the pen-name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

5.Hemingway praised the adventures of Huckleberry fin as one from which ―all modern American

美国文学期末试卷及答案

《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）

1.Poor Richard's Almanac ( )

2.The House of the Seven Gables ()

3.“Raven” ( )

4.My Antonia ( )

5.Babbitt ( )

6. A Streetcar Named Desire ( )

7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )

8. A Farewell to Arms ( )

9.The Call of the Wild ( )

10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )

mon Sense ( )

12.“Rip Van Winkle”()

13.Walden()

14.The Song of Hiawatha()

15.Uncle Tom's Cabin( )

16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn()

17.Sister Carrie()

18.The Waste Land()

19. A Farewell to Arms()

20.The Great Gatsby()

1. defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne Clemens

adopted the pseudonym , the way of a boatman taking soundings, and meaning two

美国文学期末试卷及答案

《美国文学》期末考试试卷（B卷）

1.Poor Richard’s Almanac ( )

2.The House of the Seven Gables ( )

3.“Raven”( )

4.My Antonia ( )

5.Babbitt ( )

6.A Streetcar Named Desire ( )

7.Maggie: A Girl of the Streets ( )

8.A Farewell to Arms ( )

9.The Call of the Wild ( )

10.Long Day's Journey into Night ( )

/doc/b12997861.html,mon Sense ( )

12. “Rip Van Winkle”( )

13. Walden( )

14. The Song of Hiawatha( )

15. Uncle Tom’s Cabin( )

16.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn( )

17.Sister Carrie( )

18.The Waste Land( )

19. A Farewell to Arms( )

20.The Great Gatsby( )

1.defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beauty.

2.While working for the Virginia City Territorial Enterprise, Samuel Langhorne

美国文学期末考试复习

Ⅲ. 重要作家及作品

Nathanial Hawthorne (纳撒尼尔·霍桑)

1.life

2.works

(1)Two collections of short stories: Twice-told Tales, Mosses from an Old Manse

(2)The Scarlet Letter

(3)The House of the Seven Gables

(4)The Marble Faun

(5)The Blithedale Romance

(6)―Rappaccini’s Daughter‖

(7)―The Birth-ma rk‖

(8)―Young Goodman Brown‖

3.point of view

(1)Evil is at the core of human life, ―that blackness in Hawthorne‖

(2)Whenever there is sin, there is punishment. Sin or evil can be passed from generation to generation (causality).

(3)He is of the opinion that evil educates.

(4)He has disgust in science.

4.aesthetic美学的ideas

(1)He took a great interest in history and antiquity.

To him these furnish the soil on which his mind grows to

美国文学期末复习资料题

2013-2014-1 美国文学史及选读期末复习材料

.- Ⅰ Multiple choices

1. Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?

A. Common Sense

B. The American Crisis

C. The Rights of Man

D. The Autobiography

A.Benjamin Franklin

B. Thomas Paine

C. Thomas Jefferson

D. George Washington

3. At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ______.

A. Chartist Movement

B. Romanticist Movement

C. Enlightenment Movement

D. Modernist Movement

4. In American literature, the Enlighteners were favorable to______.