美国简史选择题及答案(1-16章)

1.From 1622 unit his death, _____, one of the greatest of colonial American, was reelected thirty times as governor.
A.Anne Bradstreet
B. William Bradford
C.Edward Taylor
D. Thomas Paine
2.____carries the voice not of an individual but of a whole people. It is more than writing of the Revolutionary period, it defined the meaning of the American Revolution.
mon Sense
B. The American Crisis
C.Declaration of Independence
D. Defence of the English People
3.____usually was regarded as the first American writer.
A.William Bradford
B. Anne Bradstreet
B.Emily Dickinson D.Captain John Smith
4.Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “____”who appeared in America.
A.Ninth Muse
B. Tenth Muse
C. Best Muse
D. First Muse
5.The ship “——” carried about one hundred pilgrims and took 66 days to beat its way across the Atlantic. In December of 1620, it put the Pilgrims ashore at Plymouth, Massachusetts.
A.Sunflower
B.Armada
C.Mayflower
D.Pequod
6.From 1733 to 1758, Benjamin Franklin wrote and published his famous____,an annal collection of proverbs. B
A.The Autobiography
B.Poo r Richard’s Almanac
mon Sense
D.The General Magazine
7.Which is not connected with Thomas Paine?
mon Sense
B.The American Crisis
C.The Rights of Man
D.The Autobiography
8.”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
9.Who was considered as th e “Poet of American Revolution”?
A.Anne Bradstreet
B.Edward Taylor
C.Michael Wigglesworth
D.Philip Freneau
10.The secular ideals of the American Enlightenment were exemplified in the life and career of ____.
A.T homas Hood
B.Benjamin Franklin
C.Thomas Jefferson
D.George Washington
11.It was not until January 1776 that a widely heard public voice demanded complete separation from England. The voice was that of ___, whose pamphlet Common Sense, with its heated language, increased the growing demand for separation.
A.Thomas Paine
B.Thomas Jefferson
B.George Washington D.Patrick Henry
12.In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment.____was the dominant spirit. B
A.Humanism
B.Rationalism
C.Revolution
D.Evolution
13.At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the European movement called the ____. C
A.Chartist Movement
B.Romanticist Movement
C.Enlightenment Movement
D.Modernist Movement
14.In American literature, the enlighteners were favorable to _____. D
A.the colonial order
B.religious obscurantism
C.the Puritan tradition
D.the secular literature
15.The English colonies in North America rose in arms against their parent country and the Continental Congress adopted____in 1776. A
A.the Declaration of Independence
B.the Sugar Act
C.the Stamp Act
D.the Mayflower Compact
Chapters 3
1.____is respectfully remembered as a master of adventurous narrative and as the creator of an American hero-myth. C
A.Washington Irving
B. John Greenleaf Whittier
C. James Fenimore Cooper
D.Oliver Wendell Holmes
2.A new ____had appeared in England in the last years of the eighteenth century. It spread to continental Europe and then to American early in the nineteenth century. C
A.realism
B.critical realism
C.romanticism
D.naturalism
3.The importance of the frontier and the wilderness in American literature is for the first time well illustrated in the following works:___. C
A.Benjamin Franklin’s The Autobiography
B.Washington Irving’s The Sketch Book
C.James Fenimore Cooper’s The Leatherstocking Tales
D.Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Nature
4.Choose Washington Irving’s works from the following. D
A.The Sketch Book
B.Bracebridge Hall
C. A History of New York
D.Tales of a Travelers
5.The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as_____. A
A.the Romantic Period
B.the Modern Period
C. the Naturalist Period
D. the Realistic Period
6.There is a good reason to state that New England Transcendentalism was actually ____on the Puritan soil. A
A.Romanticism
B.Puritanism
C.Mysticism
D.Unitarianism
7.In 1826 as an American diplomatic attache, Washington Irving was sent to Spain where he gathered material for his following works EXCEPT____. C
A.The History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus,1828
B.The Chronicles of the Conquest of Granada,1829
C.The Life of Goldsmith, 1829
D.The Alhambra, 1832
9. There is the famous___, in which there is the memorable event of an apparently headless horseman throwing his head at his rival in love, and the memorable character of Ichabod Crane with his mixture of shrewdness, credulity, self-as-sertiveness, and cowardice. B
A.Rip Van Winkle
B.The Legend of Sleep Hollow
C.The Pioneers
D.The American Scholar
Chapters 4-7
1.In 1836, a little book entitled____written by Ralph Waldo Emerson came out which made a tremendous impact on the intellectual life of America. A
A.Nature
B. The Transcendentalist
C.Power
D.Wealth
2.As a philosophical and literary movement, ____flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War. D
A.modernism
B. rationalism
C.sentimentalism
D. transcendentalism
3.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in ___Henry David Thoreau. B
A.Thomas Jefferson
B.Ralph Waldo Emerson
C.Philip Freneau
D.Edgar Allan Poe
4.Transcendentalist recognized ____as the “highest power of the soul”. A
A.intuition
B.logic
C.data of the senses
D.thinking
5.Edgar Allan Poe’s ____was an ingenious detective story and became the ancestor of the genre, influencing, among others, Conan Doyle. C
A.The Fall of the House of Usher
B.The Gold Bug
C.The Murders in the Rue Morgue
D.The Purloined Letter
6.From the following, which one is NOT the characteristic of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s poetry? D
A.Being highly individual
B.Harsh rhythms
ck of form and polish
ck of optimism
7.The publication of ___established Ralph Waldo Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of New England Transcendentalism. A
A.Nature
B.Self-Reliance
C.The American Scholar
D.The Divinity School Address
8.From Henry David Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, ___, which states Thoreau’s belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A.Walden
B.Nature
C.Civil Disobedience
mon Sense
9. Herman Melville called his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne ____in American literature. A
A.the largest brain with the largest heart
B.father of American poetry
C.the transcendentalist
D.the American scholar
10.”The universe is composed of Nature and the soul...Spirit is present everywhere”. This is the voice of the book Nature written by Emerson, which pushed American Romanticism into a new phase, the phase of New England___. B
A. Romanticism
B.Transcendentalism
C.Naturalism
D.Symbolism
11.Which of the following works is generally regarded as “the Bible of New England Transcendentalism”? D
A. On Beauty
B. Walden
C.The Conduct of Life
D.Nature
12. ___is an appalling fictional version of Nat haniel Hawthorne’s belief that “the wrong doing of one generation lives into the successive ones” and that evil will come out evil though it may take many generations to happen. B
A.The Marble Faun
B. The House of Seven Gables
C.The Blithedale Romance
D.Young Goodman Brown
13. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT____. B
A.mystery of the universe
B.sin of the whale
C.power of the Great Nature
D.Evil of the world
14. In Moby Dick, the voyage symbolizes____. B
A.nature
B.a search for truth
C.the unknown world
D.the microcosm of human society
Chapters8-10
1.Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ___. C
A.transcendentalists
B.idealists
C.pessimists
D.impressionists
2.Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his____. C
A.international theme
B.waste-land imagery
C.local color
D.symbolism
3.In Henry James’ Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the you ng woman as an embodiment of ____. B
A.the force of convention
B.the free spirit of the New World
C.the decline of aristocracy
D.the corruption of the newly rich
4.Which of the following is not written by Henry James? D
A.The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans
B.The Wings of the Dove and The Ambssadors
C.What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians
D.The Genius and The Gilded Age
5.Henry James experimented with different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being____. C
A.nothingness
B.disillusionment
C.international theme
D.relationship between men and women
6.Theodore Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier, The Titan and ____. A
A.The Stoic
B.The Giant
B.The Tycoon D.The Genius
7.Stylistically, Henry Jam es’ fiction is characterized by___. A
A.highly refined language
B.ordinary American speech
C.short, clear sentences
D.abundance of local images
8.The book from which “all modern American literature comes” refers to ___. D
A.The Great Gatsby
B.The Sun Also Rises
C.Moby Dick
D.The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
9.The impact of Darwin’s evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the 19th-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism:_____. B
A.American modernism
B.American naturalism
B.American vernacularism D.American local colorism
10.While embracing the socialism of Marx, Jack London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel___. C
A.The Call of the Wilde
B.The Sea Wolf
B.Martin Eden D.The Iron Heel
11.Stephen Crane’s best short stories include Open Boat, An Experiment and ___,all reinforcing the basic Crane motif environment and heredity
overwhelming man. C
A.The Black Riders
B.A Man Said to the Universe
C.The Blue Hotel
D.The Red Badge of Courage
12.The main theme of ____The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel. A
A.Henry James’
B.Willian Dean Howells’
C.Mark Twain’s
D.Jack London’s
13.Which statements about O.Henry is NOT right? D
A.His stories are a penetrating criticism of America of the time.
B.The ends of his stories are always surprising. A
C.The plots of his stories are exceedingly clever and interesting.
D.Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.
14.The publication of the novel____stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried on a great war. D
A.My Bondage and My Freedom
B.Stanzas on Freedom
B.Voices of Freedom D.Uncle T om’s Cabin
15.War in the novel____by Stephen Crane is a plain slaughter-house. There is nothing like valor or heroism on the battlefield, and if there is anything, it is the fear of death, cowardice, the natural instinct of man to run from danger. D
A.War Is Kind
B.The Man That Corrupted Handleyburg
C.The Black Riders
D.The Red Badge of Courage
Chapters11-16
1.In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy? D
A.The Green Hills of Africa
B.The Snows of Kilimanjaro
B.To Have and Have Not D.Death in the Afternoon
2.___is Hemingway’s first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”. A
A.The Sun Also Rises
B.A Farewell to Arms
B.In Our Time D.For Whom the Bell Tolls
3.F.Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional world i s the best embodiment of the spirit of ___. A
A.the Jazz Age
B.the Romantic Period
B.the Renaissance Period D.the Neoclassical Period
4.Which one of the following figures does NOT belong to “The Lost Generation”? C
A.Ezra Pound
B.William Carlos Williams
B.Robert Frost D.Theodore Dreiser
5.The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature EXCEPT_____. A
A.F.Scott Fitzgerald
B.William Faulkner
B.John Steinbeck D.Ernest Hemingway
6.____showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po(Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas. C
A.T.S.Eliot
B.E.E.Cummings
C.Ezra Pound
D.Robert Frost
7.Choose the novel of the following Not written by F.Scott Fitzgerald. C
A.The Great Gatsby
B.Tender Is the Night
C.This Side of Paradise
D.The Beautiful and the Damned
8.Thomas Stearns Eliot’s later poetry took a positive turn toward faith in life. This was demonstrated by ____, a poem of mystical conflict between faith and doubt. C
A.The Waste Land
B.The Hollow Men
C.Ash-Wednesday
D.Four Quartets。