美国文学史习题

美国文学史习题 Document serial number【LGGKGB-LGG98YT-LGGT8CB-

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.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer 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.