美国文学史习题

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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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