美国文学常识练习题

美国文学练习题

1. William Faulknerw(福克纳)is the author of ______.

a. Far From the Madding Crowd

b. Sound and Fury（喧嚣与骚动）

c. For Whom the Bell Tolls

d. Scarlet Letter

a远离尘嚣Thomas Hardy 托马斯·哈代

c.丧钟为谁而鸣（海明威的著作）

d红字:纳撒尼尔·霍桑（Nathaniel Hawthorne）

2. Robert Frost is a famous_______.

a. novelist 小说家

b. playwright 剧作家

c. poet 诗人

d. literary critic文学评论家

3. The Old Man and the Sea is one of the great works by ________.

a. Jack London

b. Charles Dickens

c. Samuel Coleridge

d. Earnest Hemingway

4. _______refers to some contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality.

a. Allegory 寓言

b. Conflict 冲突，矛盾；斗争；争执

c. Irony 讽刺；反语

d. Flashback 倒叙；闪回

5. The great transcendental 超验的work by Henry David Thoreau is______.

a. Nature

b. Walden瓦尔登湖

c. Experience

d. Essays

B亨利·大卫·梭罗（美国作家及自然主义者）

6. Mark Twain shaped the world’s view of America and made a

combination of _____and serious literature(严肃文学杨).

a. American folk humor美国民间幽默

b. funny jokes

c. English folklore英国民俗

d. American values

7. Who was the first American to achieve an international literary

reputation after the Revolutionary War?

谁是第一个人在独立战争之后美国实现国际文学声誉在独立战争之后

a. Fennimore Cooper.

b. Nathaniel Hawthorn.

c. Walt Whitman.

d. Washington Irving.

D.华盛顿·欧文（美国文学史上最早的著名作家）

8. I Have a Dream is addressed by _____.

a. Abraham Lincoln

b. John F. Kennedy

c. Martin Luther King

d. Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. Which of the following is NOT a poem by Emily Dickinson?

a. This is my letter to the world 这是我给世界的信

b. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died我听到苍蝇的嗡嗡声——当我死时

c. This is just to say

d. Because I could not stop for death因为我不能停下来等待死神

C. "This Is Just To Say" (1934) is a famous imagist poem (意象派诗)by William Carlos Williams（威廉·卡洛斯·威廉姆斯）

10. Eugene O’Neil尤金·奥尼尔is an American ______.

a. novelist

b. playwright 剧作家

c. poet

d. essayist

11. The period from 1865—1914 has been referred to as the _______in the literary history of the United States.

a. Age of Realism 现实主义

b. Age of Classicalism

c. Age of Romanticism

d. Age of Renaissance

12. With “Collected Poems(诗歌精选)”, ______won the second Pulitz er Prize.

a. Ezra Pond

b. e. e. cummings

c. Robert Frost

d. William Cullen Bryant

罗伯特·弗罗斯特4次获得普利策奖

15. O. Henry earned his fame mainly for his ______.

a. novels

b. poems

c. short stories 短篇小说

d. dramas