美国文学试卷

滁州学院2010/2011学年度第二学期期末考试试卷

英语专业2010专升本《美国文学史与选读》试卷(A)（时间120分钟）

I. Select from the four choices of each item the one that best answers the question or completes the statement. Make your choice by writing the corresponding letter [A]，[B], [C] or [D] on the answer sheet . (40 points in all; 2 for each)

1. From 1732 to 1758, Franklin wrote and published his famous __________, an annual

collection of proverbs.

A. the Autobiography B Poor Richard ’s Almanac C Common Sense D. The General Magazine 2. Which is not Hawthorne ’s long novel?

A. the Scarlet Letter B the Marble Faun

C. Dr. Heidegger ’s Experiment

D. the House of Seven Gables 3. Washington Irving was best known for his famous short stories such as __________

A. Necklace

B. The Legend of Sleeping Hollow

C. Life of Goldsmith

D. Life of Washington

4. Which of the following works is regarded as the Declaration of Intellectual Independence ”?

A. the American Scholar

B. English Traits

C. The Conduct of Life

D. Representative Men

5. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteen century. This was

__________.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Jane Austen

C. Katherine Anne Porte

D. Emily Dickinson

6. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene, __________ became the major

trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.

A. Sentimentalism

B. romanticism

C. Realism

D. Naturalism

7. The first American to win the Nobel Prize for Literature was a sharp social critic, whose name

was __________.

A. T.S. Eliot

B. Sinclair Lewis

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

8. In 1954, __________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his “mastery of the art of

modern narration”.

A. John Steinbeck

B. Sinclair Lewis

C. Ernest Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

9. Which of the following is not included in Dreiser ’s trilogy of desire concerning about the

ruthlessness of capitalists?

A. The Genius

B. The Financier

C. The Titan

D. The Stoic

10. Who is called “the true father of our national literature ” by the writer H.L. Mencken?

A. Benjamin Franklin

B. Mart Twain

C. Hemingway

D. William Faulkner

11. The first American writer is ----------

A. Captain John Smith

B. Thomas Jefferson

C. William Byrd II

D. John Winthrop

12. __________ is considered the tenth muse in American literature after her famous poem the Tenth Muse Lately Spring up in America.

A. Anne Bradstreet

B. Emily Dickson

C. Kate

D. Edward Tylor 13. ________ doesn't belong to the leather-stocking tales.

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