2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题

2018年自学考试《美国文学选读》试题

Multiple choice;

1._________ works are marked by a preoccupation with the Calvinistic view of original sin and the mystery of evil.

A.Emerson’s

B. Hawthorne’s

C. Thoreau’s

D. Allan Poe’s

2. Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle”got ideas from _______ legends.

A.B ritish

B. German

C. Italian

D. French

3. “Rip Van Winkle”reveals the theme of ______ the past.

A. nostalgia for

B. rejectionn to

C. detachment from

D. dislike for

4. In Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter , “A”may stand for ____________.

A. Angel

B. Adultery

C. Able

D.all the above

4. According to Hawthorne, the scarlet letter “A”which originally stood for “____”finally obtained the meaning of “able”or “angel”through Hester’s efforts.

A. adultery

B. arrogance

C. accomplishment

D. agony

5. Which one is not the characteristics of the puritan style?

A. Fresh

B. Simple

C. Grand

D. Direct

6. In his ______, Benjamin Franklin creates the image of a boy’s rise from rags to riches and demonstrates his belief that the new world America was a land of opportunities which might be met through hard work and wise management.

A. The Autobigraphy

B. Poor Richard’s Almanack

C. The Way to Wealth

D. Common Sense

7. The ________ is a doctrine of predestination, original sin, total depravity and limited atonement.

A. Puritanism

B. Transcendentalism

C. Imagism

D. Naturalism

8. Which of the following does not belong to the points of view of Transcendentalists?

A. Believing in the transcendence of the Oversoul

B. Believing in the “infinitude of man”

C. Believing in rational and logical of nature

D. Believing in making himself by making his world

9. Which is regarded as one of the most important works in the Transcendentalist period?

A. Nature

B. The Marble Faun

C. Leaves of Grass

D. The Raven

10. ______ intend to depict the local character of their region, and Mark Twain is one of the representative writers.

A. Romanticists

B. Local Colorists

C. Writers of Colonial and Revolutionary periods

D. Modernists

11. _____ put forward three Imagist poetic principles.

A. Walt Whitman

B. Robert Frost

C. Henry W. Longfellow

D. Ezra Pound

12. _____ became Mark Twain’s masterpiece, as Hemingway noted,

it is the one book from which “all modern American Literature comes”.

A. B. C. D.

13. Faulkner’s works have been termed as the ________ saga, in which he invented the geography, history and people of an imaginary county in the Deep South.

A. Winesburg

B. Yoknapatawpha

C. Forsyte

D. Olinger

14. Imagist poems are mainly composed in the form of ______.

A. blank

B. sonnet

C. free verse

D. quatrain

15. Direct treatment of the “thing”, rigid economy of words, organic rhythm and the image as a fusion of idea and emotion are principles laid down by _____ for the new poetry he championed.

A. Amy Lowell

B. T. S. Eliot

C. Wallace Stevens

D. Ezra Pound

16. Which of the following statements is not true about Imagism?

A. It rebels against the traditional ways of poetry.

B. Imagists do not use extra words that don’t express the feeling.

C. It only gets the inspiration from the ancient Greek or Latin.

D. It is the most influential movement in the 1920s of American poetry.

17. Which of the following is not one of the main ideas advocated by Emerson, the chief spokesman of American Romanticism Transcendentalism?

A. Importance of the Individual

B. Faith in Christianity