美国文学题_答案

III Multiple choice (20%)

1. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. When her poems were published in England, she became known as the “______” who appeared in America.

A Ninth Muse

B Tenth Muse

C Best Muse

D First Muse

2. ______ is the sometimes exaggerated use of local language, characters and customs in regional literature.

A purple prose

B waste-land imagery

C local color

D symbolism

3. The Fitzgeralds lived so extravagantly that they frequently spent more money than

F. Scoot 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 Jazz Age

B The Gilded Age

C The Glorious Age

D The Beat Age

4. ___________ was a reaction to the ideas of the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment.

A Romanticism

B Realism

C Naturalism

D Modernism

5. Although only few of her poems were published in her lifetime and a complete collection of them didn’t appear until the 1950’s, _____ had a major impact on 20th century poetry.

A Anne Bradstreet

B Gertrude Stein

C Emily Dickinson

D Amy Lowell

6. Who of the following is NOT a 20th century American poet?

A Henry Wordsworth Longsfellow

B Amy Lowell

C Ezra Pound

D Robert Frost

7. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______.

A International theme

B Waste-land imagery

C Local color

D Symbolism

8. Ezra Pound, Hilda Dolittle and Amy Lowell help found and promote a movement in Modern Poetry known as _______.

A French symbolism

B The Beat Generation

C confessional poetry

D Imagism

9. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, __ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of the 19th century.

A sentimentalism

B romanticism

C realism

D naturalism

10. ___ wrote a series of historical novels set in the American Midwest and was known as “the American Sir Walter Scot.”

A Nathaniel Hawthorne

B Mary Renalt

C Stephan Crane

D James Fenimore Cooper

11. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in _______and Thoreau.

A Jefferson

B Emerson

C Freneau

D Over-soul

12. The Colonial Period of American literature stretched roughly from the settlement of America in the early 17th century through the end of ________ century.

A the 18th

B the 19th

C the 20th

D 21th

13. Benjamin Franklin was the epitome of the ______.

A. American Enlightenment

B. Sugar Act

C. Chartist movement

D. Romanticist

14. Rip Van Winkle was written by ________

A. James Fenimore Cooper

B. Benjamin Franklin

C. Washington Irving

D. Walt Whitman

15. Natty Bumppo is the hero in Cooper’s ________

A. The Precaution

B. The Spy