美国文学试题
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.
美国文学试卷+答题纸+答案
2012-2013学年 第二学期 《美国文学》期末考试试卷（A 卷）
专业：英语 年级：2010级 考试方式：闭卷 学分：2 考试时间：110分钟
I ．Multiple Choices (每小题 1分，共20分)
Directions: Select from the four choices of each item the one that
best answers the question.
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. Which of the following is not written by Ernest Hemingway, one of the best-known American authors of the 20th century? A. The Sun Also Rises B. The Old Man and the Sea C. Mosses from the Old Manse
D. Hills Like White Elephant
3. The Romantic writers would focus on all the following issues Except the __________ in the American history. A. individual feeling B. survival of the fittest C. strong imagination
美国文学题库(选择题网上合集)
1. For Melville, as well as for the reader and _________, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an ultimate mystery of the universe.
A. Ahab
B. Ishmael
C. Stubb
D. Starbuck
2. Naturalism is evolved from re alism 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
3. Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes th ree novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and_____ .
A. The Genius
B. The Tycoon
C. The Stoic
D. The Giant
4. 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___________ .
《美国文学》题库及答案
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I.Multiple Choice
1. American literature is only more than ____ years old.
A. 500
B.400
C. 200
D.100
2. The Puritan values did no include______.
A. wastefulness
B. thrift
C. piety
D. hard work
3. The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.
______was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Romanticism
D. Realism
4. Franklin was the epitome of the______.
A. American Enlightenment
B. Sugar Act
C. Charlist movement
D. Romanticism
5. _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.
A. Franklin
B. Hawthorne
C. Paine
D. Emerson
6. 6. ““Moby Dick was written by_____
A. Mark Twain
B. Thoreau
C. Melville
D. Whitman
7. 7. ““The Scarlet Letter The Scarlet Letter”” is characterized by its______.
大学英美文学文化试题
大学英美文学文化试题
一、选择题
1.下列哪位作家是美国文学的代表人物？
A. 乔治·爱略特
B. 奥斯卡·王尔德
C. 威廉·莎士比亚
D. 查尔斯·狄更斯
2.英国文学流派“浪漫主义”倡导的是什么？
A. 现实主义
B. 理性主义
C. 悲观主义
D. 爱情与幻想
3.著名英国诗人约翰·济慈是哪个时期的作家？
A. 文艺复兴时期
B. 维多利亚时期
C. 古希腊时期
D. 浪漫主义时期
4.下列哪部作品被誉为美国文学的国家史诗？
A. 《人性的弱点》
B. 《杀死一只知更鸟》
C. 《老人与海》
D. 《霍乱时期的爱情》
5.美国文学家华盛顿·欧文的作品以什么为题材？
A. 艺术与美学
B. 爱情与幻想
C. 西部拓荒
D. 恐怖与惊悚
二、判断题
1.莎士比亚的作品主要反映了英国都市中上层社会的生活。 ( )
2.《简·爱》是英国作家夏洛蒂·勃朗特的代表作之一。 ( )
3.美国文学的发展从殖民地时期开始，并逐渐形成独立的文学体系。( )
4.欧内斯特·米勒是美国现实主义的代表作家之一，他的作品《慢舞》反映了华尔街股市的黑暗面。( )
5.美国文学的一大特点是对个人自由和社会平等价值的探讨。( )
三、简答题
1.请简要描述莎士比亚的戏剧作品对英美文学的影响。
2.浪漫主义是英国文学的重要流派，请举例说明其中一位浪漫主义
作家及其作品，并解释其浪漫主义特点。
3.简要介绍美国文学在19世纪后期至20世纪中叶的发展特点。
四、论述题
请以不少于500字的篇幅，论述英美文学文化对今天世界的影响。
以上是大学英美文学文化试题的内容。略过题号，我希望你能根据
题目的要求，按照试题的格式进行回答，使整篇文章符合试题的规范
美国文学考试模拟题
第一章殖民地时期的美国文学
填空题
1. Theterm “Puritan”was applied to those settlers who originally were devout membersof the Church of ______.
【答案】England查看答案
【解析】清教徒（Puritan），是指要求清除英国国教Church of England中天主教残余的改革派。其字词于16世纪60年代开始使用，源于拉丁文的Purus，意为“清洁”。
2. Themost enduring shaping influence in American thought and American literature was______.
【答案】American Puritanism查看答案
【解析】美国文化源于清教文化，由清教徒移民时传入北美。美国主流价值观都可以追溯到殖民地时期一统天下的清教主义，并且清教思想对美国文学有着根深蒂固的影响。
3. Hard work, thrift,piety and sobriety, these were the ______ values that dominated much of theearly American writing.
【答案】Puritan查看答案
【解析】清教主义，起源于英国，在北美殖民地得以实践与发展。清教徒强调艰苦奋斗、勤俭节约、虔诚和淡泊。这些价值观也影响了早期的美国文学。
4. Many Puritans wroteverse, but the works of two writers, Anne Bradstreet and ______, rose to thelevel of real poetry.
美国文学题型
一．选择题
1. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as ___C________. （东北师大2006研）
A. The Naturalist Period
B. The Modern Period
C. The Romantic Period
D. The Realistic Period
2. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle is famous for____D_____.（天外2008研）
A. Rip’s escape into a mysterious
B. The story’s German legendary source material
C. Rip’s seeking for happiness
D. Rip’s 20-years sleep
3. Rip Van Winkle reveals the theme of ____A_ the past.
A. nostalgia
B. rejection to
C. detachment from
D. dislike for
4. Washington Irving’s Rip Van Winkle got ideas from _C____ legends. （西南大学2004研）
A. British
B. Italian
C. German
D. French
5. ___C__ has always been regarded as a writer who “perfected the best classic style that American literature ever produced.”
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题
美国文学期末考试试卷模拟试题一
I. Fill in the following blanks and put your answers on the Answer Sheet。 (15％, 1 point for each)
1.The publication of ______ established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England
Transcendentalism.
2。Hard work, thrift， ______ and sobriety were the Puritan values that dominated much of the earliest American writing。
3。At 87， ______ read his poetry at the inauguration of President John F。 Kennedy。
4.Jack London's masterwork _________ is somewhat autobiographical。
5。______， the tragic hero of Moby Dick， burning with a baleful fire， becomes evil himself in his thirst to destroy evil.
6.Ezra Pound was the leader of a new movement in poetry which he called the “________" movement.
美国文学习题
1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______.
a. Far From the Madding Crowd
b. Sound and Fury（喧嚣与骚动）
c. For Whom the Bell Tolls
d. Scarlet Letter
2.The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau is______.
a. Nature
b. Walden瓦尔登湖
c. Experience
d. Essays
3. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?
a. This is my letter to the world 这是我给世界的信
b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died我听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声——当我死时
c. This is just to say
d. Because I could not stop for death因为我不能停下来等待死神
4.Sister Carrie 嘉莉妹妹is a masterpiece of _______work. Dreiser
a. romantic
b. classic
c. neo-classic
d. naturalistic 自然主义
5.“God help them that help themselves” is found in ______’s work.
美国文学史及选读试题
美国文学史及选读试题
美国文学历史悠久，涵盖了从殖民时期到现代的丰富多样的文学作品。通过选读这些经典之作，我们可以深入了解美国的文化和历史发展。下面是一些关于美国文学史和选读作品的试题，请读者根据自己的知识进行回答。
一、选择题
1. 第一部英文小说《战争与和平》是哪位美国作家创作的？
A. 小仲马
B. 杰克伦敦
C. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑
D. 瓦尔特·司各特
2. 下列哪位作家是美国现实主义文学的代表人物？
A. 威廉·福克纳
B. 马克·吐温
C. 弗兰西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
D. 亨利·大卫·梭罗
3. 著名的美国黑人女作家托妮·莫里森是哪位作家的学生？
A. 马克·吐温
B. 弗拉纳里欧·康拉德
C. 托马斯·惠特塞
D. 纳撒尼尔·霍桑
4. “美国小说的诞生”被广泛认为是现代美国小说的开山之作，该小说的作者是：
A. 赫尔曼·梅尔维尔
B. 弗兰西斯·斯科特·菲茨杰拉德
C. 马克·吐温
D. 弗朗西斯·帕斯科尔·斯科特·凯·菲茨杰拉德
5. 下列作品中，哪部是美国南方文学的代表作？
A. 《老人与海》
B. 《汤姆·索亚历险记》
C. 《失乐园》
D. 《白鲸记》
二、简答题
1. 简述美国现代主义文学的特点及代表作品。
2. 简述美国儿童文学的发展历程和重要作品。
3. 简述美国南方文学的特点及主要代表人物。
4. 阅读穆迪·爱伦·波尔的《黑猫》，简述其所具有的恐怖文学特色。
5. 简述哈兰·埃里森的《看不见的人》中所反映的黑人社会问题和意义。
三、论述题
请根据你对美国文学史及选读作品的理解，选择一个主题或观点进
行论述，并引用相关作品作为支持。
《美国文学》题库及答案
《美国文学》题库及答案
I.Multiple Choice
1. American literature is only more than ____ years old.
A. 500
B.400
C. 200
D.100
2. The Puritan values did no include______.
A. wastefulness
B. thrift
C. piety
D. hard work
3. The 18th century was the age of the Enlightenment.
______was the dominant spirit.
A. Humanism
B. Rationalism
C. Romanticism
D. Realism
4. Franklin was the epitome of the______.
A. American Enlightenment
B. Sugar Act
C. Charlist movement
D. Romanticism
5. _____was the most leading spirit of the Transcendentalism.
A. Franklin
B. Hawthorne
C. Paine
D. Emerson
6. “Moby Dick was written by_____
A. Mark Twain
B. Thoreau
C. Melville
D. Whitman
7. “The Scarlet Letter” is characterized by its______.
(完整word版)美国文学考试题
一选择题（20个共20分）
1.James Fenimore Cooper
作品The Leatherstocking Tales, 《皮袜子故事集》
2.Philip Freneau
The wild Honey Suckle《野忍冬花》
3.Edgar Allan Poe
To Helen
4.Henry David Thoreau
Walden《瓦尔登湖》
5.American Romanticism 浪漫主义
Period: from the end of the 18th century to the outbreak of the civil war
It started with the publication of Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book and ended with Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
6.Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Scarlet Letter 《红字》
7.美国内战（南北战争）时间1861.4.12—1865.4.9
8.Westward Movement 西进运动，开始于18世纪末，终于19世纪末20世纪初。
9.Henry James
The Portrait of a Lady 《一个女人的画像》
10.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature 《论自然》
11.John Smith
First American writer
12.Herman Melville
Moby-Dick 《大白鲸》
大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题
大四美国文学期末考试题型及例题：
1.选择/对错60分（40道选择，20个对错）
2.名词解释10分（5个）
3.选段配对10分（5个）
4.问答20分（10/2）
1．历史：Father / poetess…
2. 名作家：Hemingway, Faulkner, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson
3．作品：The Wasteland/Moby Dick/Scarlet Letter
1.a)选择题（40个，40分）
1. At the age of reason and revolution, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ________.
A. Chartist Movement
B. Romanticist Movement
C. Enlightenment Movement
D. Modernist Movement
2. Which is NOT connected to Benjamin Franklin? ________
A. He was born in a poor family.
B. He was a pious puritan.
C. He was phrased as “Jack of all trades”.
D. He was a master of diplomacy.
3. Ernest Hemingway is noted for the following EXCEPT ________.
美国文学试题
一Fill in the blanks
1.In 1845,Henry DavidThoreau began a two-year residence
at Walden Pond.
2.The American Romantic period stretches from the end of eighteenth century through the outburst of the civil war .
3.In 1836,a little book came out which made tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. It was entitled Nature by Emerson .
4. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay The American scholar has been regarded
as”America’s Declaration of Intellectual Independence”. It called on American writers to write about America in a way peculiarly American.
5. Another renowned New England Transcendentalist was Thoreau , a
friend of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s and his junior by some fourteen years.
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.
美国文学常识练习题
美国文学练习题
1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______.
a. Far From the Madding Crowd
b. Sound and Fury（喧嚣与骚动）
c. For Whom the Bell Tolls
d. Scarlet Letter
a远离尘嚣Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代
c.丧钟为谁而鸣（海明威的著作）
d红字:纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne）
2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.
a. novelist 小说家
b. playwright 剧作家
c. poet 诗人
d. literary critic文学评论家
3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.
a. Jack London
b. Charles Dickens
c. Samuel Coleridge
d. Earnest Hemingway
4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.
a. Allegory 寓言
b. Conflict 冲突，矛盾；斗争；争执
c. Irony 讽刺；反语
d. Flashback 倒叙；闪回
5. The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau is______.
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Exercises One
I.Write the names of the authors.(10%)
( ) 1. The Fall of the House of the Usher
( ) 2. The House of the Seven Gables
( ) 3. Song of Myself
( ) 4. I Died for Beauty-but Was Scarce
( ) 5. The Prince and the Pauper
() 6. The Catcher in the Rye
( ) 7. Catch-22
( ) 8. The Naked and the Dead
( ) 9. The Victim
( ) 10. On the Road
( ) 11. Twice Told Tales
( ) 12. The Voice of the City
( ) 13. Life on the Mississippi
( ) 14. Annabel Lee
( ) 15. The Turn of the Screw
( ) 16. The Mysterious Stranger
( ) 17. them
( ) 18. Portnoy's Complaint
( ) 19. Howl
( ) 20. Life Studies
II. Write the names of the novels or poems according to the give n passage. (10%)
( ) 1. There was the great city, bound more closely by •th ese •very •trains which came up daily. Colu mbia City was not so very far away, even once
she was in Chicago.
( ) 2. The carriage held but just Ourselves
And Immortality
( ) 3. " I will go home with you," said Mr. Dimmes
dale
( ) 4. My Captain doesn't answer, his lips are pale and still.
My father doesn't feel my arm, he has no puls e and will.
( ) 5. Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore
( ) 6. I Loaf and invite my soul
I Lean and loaf at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
( ) 7. But, on one side of the portal, and rooted almost at •the •threshold, was a wild rosebush, covere d in this month of June, with•its •delicate •g ems,•which •might •be imagined to offer their fragrance and •frail beauty to the prisoner as he went in... ( ) 8. Were I with thee
Wild Nights should be Our luxury!
( ) 9.Art lives upon •discussion,•upon•experiment,•u pon•curiosity,•upon variety of attempt,upon the exchange of v iews and the comparison of stand-points...
( )10. The only reason for the existence •of •a •novel •is •that •it •does attempt to represent life.
III.Some of the following statements are true,some are false,mar k them. (15%)
( ) 1.The Calvinist doctrine of "original sin" exerted great influen ce up Hawthorne.
( ) 2.To Hawthorme sin will get punished,one way or another. ( ) 3.Roger •Chillingworth,•the •scholar,•the •embodiment •of •pure ••intellect,••committed ••the "Unpardonable Si n".
( ) 4.Emily Dickinson didn't like using capital letters where small ones are needed.
( ) 5.Walt Whitman used parallelism and refrain in his poems. ( ) 6.Walt Whitman was regarded as the Zenith in American rom antic poetry.
( ) 7.Dickinson was original.She never imitated others.
( ) 8.Allan Poe defined poetry as the rhythmical creation of beau ty.
( ) 9.O.Henry seldom wrote about poor people.
( )10.According to Poe,art serves for pleasure.The chief •aim •of •poetry •is •beauty,•namely,•to produce a feeling of beaut y in the reader.
( )11.According to Dickinson,death means immortality.
( )12.According to Poe,truth is beauty,beauty true.
( )13.According to Henry James,the aim of the novel is to reflect life reality.
( )14.James wrote mostly of the upper reaches of American soci ety,and Howells •concerned •himself chiefly with middle class lif e,whereas Twain dealt largely with the lower strata of society. ( )15.American writers,especially novelists were rather experimen tal after World War
( )16.Joyce Carol Oates was a famous Jewish writer.
( )17.Allen Ginsberg was the representative of the Beat Generati on.
( )18.The Confessional Poets took Whitman as their model in wri ting.
( )19.Emily Dickinson was regarded as the forerunner of symboli sm.
( )20.The Confessional Poets never wrote about themselves. ( )21.Allan Poe was regarded as the forerunner of American Ima gism.
( )22.Literary criticism in Europe began with the theory•of •lite