美国文学试题库

美国文学试题库

注：试题库内容仅作为学习参考使用，并不代表考试内容。任何一道题均可能变化为其它形式的试题。

1. Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and less sympathetic but more ironic and more_____________.

A. rational

B. humorous

C. optimistic

D. pessimistic

2.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American___________ .

A. local colorism

B. vernacularism

C. modernism

D. naturalism

3. ____________were idealists, believing the church should be restored to complete “purity” and dreaming that they would build the new land to an Eden on earth.

A. Calvinists

B. Puritans

C. Romanticists

D. Transcendentalists

4. All of the following are the features of Puritans EXCEPT _____.

A. wanting to make pure their religious beliefs and practices

B. looking upon themselves as a chosen people

C. tolerating others’ beliefs and sought for a happy and an easy life

D. wishing to restore simplicity to church serves and emphasized the image of a wrathful God

5. Hester Prynne, Dimmesdale, Chillingworth and Pearl are most likely Characters in_______.

A. The House of the Seven Gables

B. The Scarlet Letter

C. The Portrait of a Lady

D. The pioneers

6. American writers after World War I self-consciously acknowledged that they were(a)

“_______,”devoid of faith and alienated from the Western civilization．

A. Lost Generation

B. Beat Generation

C. Sons of Liberty

D. Angry Young Men

7. In James Fenimore Cooper’s novels, close after Natty Bumppo in romantic appeal, come the two noble red men. Choose them from the following items.

A. The Mohican Chief Chingachgook

B. Uncas

C. Tome Jones

D. Both A and B

8. The “Father of American Poetry” is ____.

A. William Cullen Bryant

B. Philip Freneau

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

D. Edgar Allan Poe

9. Herman Melville’s ______ is a n 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

D. Billy Budd

10. In addition to his novels, _______ wrote about 120 short stories and sketches. Among them are Young Goodman Brown and The Minister’s Black Veil.

A. Henry David Thoreau

B. Nathaniel Hawthorne

C. Ralph Waldo Emerson

D. Herman Melville

11. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms -the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse -with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of _______farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.

A. Southern

B. Western

C. New Hampshire

D. New England

12. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues EXCEPT the _____ in the American literary history.

A. individual feelings

B. idea of survival of the fittest