美国文学史习题
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美国文学史习题文件管理序列号:[K8UY-K9IO69-O6M243-OL889-
I.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer
among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
1.In American literature, the 18th century was the
age of Enlightenment. ____ was the dominant.
2.The short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”
is taken from Irving’s work named ____.
3.Which of the following is not the characteristic
of American Romanticism
4.The short story “Rip Van Winkle” reveals the __
attitude of its author.
5.Stylistically, Henry James’ fiction is
characterized by ___.
6.Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest
literary advocates in ___ and Thoreau.
7.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of
Intellectual Independence”
8.____ is considered Mark Twain’s greatest
achievement.
9.___ is not among those greatest figures in “Lost
Generation”.
10.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the
author’s tone in writing becomes less serious
and less sympathetic but more ironic and more ___.
II.
among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)
11.______ is the father of American Literature.
12._____ is a fantasy tale about a man who somehow
stepped outside the main stream of life.
13._____ was the most leading spirit of the
Transcendental Club.
14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of
Mark Twain’s language
From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, _____ which states his belief that no man should violate his conscience at the command of a government.
A. Walden
B. Nature
C. Civil Disobedience
D. Common Sense
16.Which is regarded as the “Declaration of
Intellectual Independence”
17.Most of the poems in Whitman’s Leaves of Grass
sing of the “en-mass” and the ____ as well.
18.What did Fitzgerald call the 1920s
19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the
author’s tone in writing becomes less serious
and less sympathetic but more ironic and more
____.
20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and ____,
the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an
ultimate mystery of the universe.
II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15
=15’):
1.The novel has a sole black protagonist who tells
his own story but whose name in unknown to us.
a.Native Son
b.Uncle Tom’s Cabin
c.Invisible
Man d. Go Tell It on the Mountains
2.The main conflict of the play is the
protagonist’s false value of fine appearance and popularity with people and the cruel reality of the society in which money is everything.
a.A Street Car Named Desire
b. The Hairy Ape
c.Long Day’s Journey into Night
d. Death of
Salesman
3.It is an autobiographical play and Edmund in the
play is based on the playwright himself.
a. Long Day’s Journey into Night
b. Henderson
the Rain King
c. The Hairy Ape
d. The Glass
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