美国文学选读试题

美国文学史及作品选读模拟试题一

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'×15=15I.Multiple Choice (1'______was the first colony in American history.

C1.

D.Georgia

C. Virginia A. Massachusetts B. New Jersey

War. the before Revolutionary only good American author 2. _B_____ was the

One

“His shadow lies heavier than any other man's on of his fellow Americans said, this young nation.”D.Thomas Paine B. Benjamin Franklin C. Thomas Jefferson A. John Smith

3. Romantics put emphasis on the following EXCEPT __A____.

D. individualism C. intuition B. imagination A. common sense

The Raven was written in 1844 by __B______ 4.

B. Edgar Allan Poe A. Philip Freneau

D. Emily Dickinson

C. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

5. The ship __C____ 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.

D. Titanic

C. Mayflower B. Armada A. Sunflower

D____ is a tremendous chronicle of a whaling voyage in 6. Melville's novel __ pursuit of a seemingly supernatural white whale.

Moby Dick

D. C. White Jacket A. Typee B. Omoo

7. As a philosophical and literary movement, __D____ flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War.

D.Transcendentalism C.Sentimentalism B.Rationalism A.Modernism

8. The theme of original sin is fully reflected in ___A______.

B. Sister Carrie A. The Scarlet Letter

The Old Man and Sea

D. C. The Great Gatsby

9. In all his novels Theodore Dreiser sets himself to project the ___B___ American values. For example, in Sister Carrie, there is not one character whose status is

not determined economically.

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A. Puritan

B. materialistic

C. psychological

D. religious

10. Realism was a reaction against____B__ or a move away from the bias towards

romance and self-creating fictions, and paved the way to Modernism.

D. Enlightenment A. Rationalism B. Romanticism C. Neoclassicism

11. __C______ was a poet in American modern period who was deeply influence by eastern culture.

D. Walt Whitman C. Ezra Pound A. T. S Eliot B. Robert Frost

true?D NOT 12. Which of the following statements about Emily Dickinson isA. After 1862 she became a total recluse, not leaving her house nor seeing

close friends.

aged married Wadsworth, a a deep affection for Charles B. She once felt minister, but it proved to be a frustrated love affair for Dickinson.

C. She wrote about death, immortality, nature, success and failure.

D. During her lifetime, all her poems are published.