美国文学史及选读试卷 (4)

美国文学史及选读试卷

Ⅰ. Multiple choices. (60 points in total, 2 for each)

1. The Romantic Period in American literature started from the publication of Washington Irving's ______ and ended with Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

A. The Sketch Book

B. Tales of a Traveller

C. A History of New York

D. The Scarlet Letter

2. At the middle of 19th century, America witnessed a cultural flowering which is called “_____”.

A. the English Renaissance

B. the Second Renaissance

C. the American Renaissance

D. the Salem Renaissance

3. As a philosophical and literary movement, the main issues involved in the debate of Transcendentalism are generally concerning ______.

A. nature , man and the universe

B. the relationship between man and woman

C. the development of Romanticism in American literature

D. the cold, rigid rationalism of Unitarianism

14. In the following statements, _________ is NOT true about Washington Irving’s famous story “Rip Van Winkle.”

A. The story is not only well-kno wn for Rip’s 20-year sleep but also considered a model of perfect English in American literature.

B. The story is set against the background of the inevitably changing America.

C. The social conservatism and literary preference for the past is revealed, to some extent, in the story.

D. Irving describes Rip’s response and reaction in a dramatic way, so that we see clearly both the narrator and Irving agree on the preferability of the present to the past.

15. Ralph Waldo Emerson’s essay Experience is a serous discussion about the conflict between _________ and ordinary life.

A. nationalism

B. universalism

C. idealism

D. communism

16. As one of Hawthorne’s most profound tales, Young Goodman Brown is written in the manner of its concern with_________.

A. guilt and evil

B. good and bad

C. moral and corruption

D. destruction and hope

7. Which of the following is said of the American naturalism?

A. They preferred to have their own region and people at the forefront of the stories.

B. Their characteristic setting is an isolated town.

C. Their characters were conceived more or less complex combinations of inherited attributes, their habits conditioned by social and economic forces.

D. Humans should be united because they had to adapt themselves to changing environmental conditions.

8. Which of the following is not right about Mark Twain's style of language?

A. His words are colloquial, concrete and direct in effect.

B. His sentence structures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language.

C. His humor is remarkable and characterized by puns, straight-faced exaggeration, repetition and anti-climax.

D. His style of language had exerted only a limited influence on the contemporary writers.

9.Which of the following is not written by Henry James?

A. The Portrait of A Lady and The Europeans

B. The Wings of the Dove and The Ambassadors

C. The Marble Faun and The Gilded Age

D. What Maisie Knows and The Bostonians

10. About the titular heroine in the novel Daisy Miller, which of the following is not right?______

A. She has become a celebrated cultural type who embodies the spirit of the New World.