美国文学选择题

.......美国文学I.The Colonial Period（Puritanism）Multiple Choice1.The Puritan dominating values were ____________.A. hard workB. thriftC. pietyD. sobriety2. Which statement about Cotton Mather is not true?A. He was a great Puritan historian.B. He was an inexhaustible writer.C. He was a skillful preacher and an eminent theologian.D. He was a graduate of Oxford College.3. Jonathan Edwards' best and most representative sermon was_________.A. A True Sight of SinB. Sinners in the Hands of an Angry GodC. A Model of Christian CharityD. God's Determinations4. The common thread throughout American literature has been the emphasis on the ___________.A. RevolutionismB. ReasonC. IndividualismD. rationalism5. Anne Bradstreet was a Puritan poet. Her poems made such a stir in England that she became known as the “__________”who appeared in America.A. Ninth MuseB. Tenth MuseC. Best MuseD. First MuseII. Period around The War of Independence (Enlightenment)1. In American literature, the eighteen century was the age of the Enlightenment.____________was the dominant spirit.A. HumanismB. RationalismC. RevolutionD. Evolution2.Which of the following stirred the world and helped form the American republic?A. The American Crisis.B. The FederalistC. Declaration of IndependenceD. The Age of Reason3.“These are the times that try men's souls”, these words were once read to Washington's troops and did much to spur excitement to further action with hope and confidence. Who is the author of these words?A. Benjamin FranklinB. Thomas PaineC. Thomas JeffersonD. George Washington4.Who was considered as the “Poet of American Revolution”?A. Anne BradstreetB. Edward TaylorC. Michael WigglesworthD. Philip Freneau5.At the Reason and Revolution Period, Americans were influenced by the...z.......European movement called the __________.A. Charitist MovementB. Romanticist MovementC. Enlightenment MovementD. Modernist MovementIII. Period of RomanticismI. Multiple Choice1. In Walt Whitman's “There was a Child Went Forth,”the child refers to_________.A. the poet himself as a childB. any American ChildC. the young AmericaD. one of the poet's neighbor2. In Moby-Dick, the voyage symbolizes _______________.A. the Microcosm of human societyB. a search for truthC. the unknown worldD. nature3. Thoreau was often alone in the woods or by the pond, lost in spiritual communication with ____________.A. natureB. transcendentalist ideasC. human beingsD. celestial beings4. The Transcendentalist group includes two of the most significant writers America has produced so far, Emerson and ___________A. Henry David ThoreauB. Washington IrvingC. Nathaniel HawthorneD. Walt Whitman5. _____________tells a simple but very moving story in which four people livingin a puritan community are involved in and affected by the sin of adultery in different ways.A. Twice-Told TalesB. The Scarlet LetterC. The House of the Seven GablesD. The Marble Faun6. _____________ is regarded as the first American prose epic.A. NatureB. The Scarlet LetterC. WaldenD. Moby-Dick7. Washington Irving's social conservation and literary for the past is revealed, to some extent, in his famous story,_____________.A. The Legend of Sleep HollowB. Rip Van WinkleC. The Custom-houseD. The Birthmark8. The giant Moby Dick may symbolize all EXCEPT___________.A. mystery of the universeB. sin of the whaleC. power of the Great NatureD. evil of the world9. The convention of the desire for an escape from society and a return to nature in American literature is particularly evident in ____________.A. Cooper's Leatherstocking TalesB. Hawthorne's The Scarlet LetterC. Whitman's Leaves of GrassD. Irving's Rip Van Winkle10. As a philosophical and literary movement, _____________flourished in New England from the 1830s to the Civil War....z.......A. modernismB. rationalismC. sentimentalismD. transcendentalism11. In Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, “A”may stand for_________.A. AdulteryB. AngelC. AmiableD. All the above12. The period before the American Civil War is generally referred to as __________.A. the Naturalist PeriodB. the modern PeriodC. the Romantic PeriodD. the Realistic Period13. All of the following are works by Nathaniel Haw home except___________.A. The House of the Seven GablesB. White jacketC. The Marble FaunD. The Blithe dale Romance14. In the following works, which signs the beginning of the American literature?A. The Sketch Book.B. Leaves of Grass.C. Leather stocking TalesD. Adventures of huckleberry Finn.15. The main theme of Emily Dickinson is the following except____________.A. religionB. love and marriageC. life and deathD. war and peace16. Emily Dickinson's poetic idiom is noted for the following except _________.A. brevityB. directnessC. plainest wordsD. obscure17. It is on his ___________that Washington Irving's fame mainly rested.A. tales about AmericaB. early poetryC. childhood recollectionsD. sketches about his European tours18. ____________ is the most ambivalent writer in the American literary history.A. Nathaniel HawthorneB. Walt WhitmanC. Ralph Waldo EmersonD. Mark Twain19. The publication of ____________established Emerson as the most eloquent spokesman of new England Transcendentalism.A. NatureB. Self-RelianceC. The American ScholarD. The Over-Soul20. In the history of literature, Romanticism is regarded as _____________a) the thought that designates a literary and philosophical theory which tends to see the individual as the very center of all life and all experience.b) The thought that designates man as a social animal.c) The orientation that emphasizes those features which men have in common.d) The modes of thinking.21. In the poem “Some of Myself”, Whitman sets forth the principle beliefs of ___________.A. the theory of universality.B. singularity and equality of beings in valueC. both A and B.D. none above22. Which of the following features cannot characterize poems by Walt Whitman?A. lyrical and well-structuredB. free-flowingC. simple and rather crudeD. conversational and casual23. Which of the following writings is not finished by Ralph Waldo Emerson?A. NatureB. essaysC. The Over-SoulD. Of Studies...z.......IV. Period of RealismI. Multiple Choice1. The Age of Realism in the literary history of the United States refers to the period from ______________ to _______________.A. 1861...1914 B. 1863...1918 C. 1865...1914 D. 1865 (1918)2. _____________ is considered to be Theodore Dreiser's greatest work.A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. The FinancierD. The Titan3. _____________ is a novella about a young American girl who gets “killed”by the winter in Rome, and it brought Henry James international fame for the first time.A. The AmericanB. The EuropeansC. Daisy MillerD. The portrait of a Lady4. _____________ is described by mark Twain as a boy with “a sound heart and a deformed conscience.A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. JimD. Tony5. Who exerts the single most important influence on literary naturalism, of which Theodore Dreiser and Jack London are among the best representative writers?A. FreudB. DarwinC. W.D. Howellls D. Emerson6. Mark Twain, one of the greatest 19th century American writers, is well known for his ______________.A. international themeB. waste-land imageryC. local colorD. symbolism7. In Henry James' Daisy Miller, the author tries to portray the young woman as an embodiment of ______________.A. the force of conventionB. the free spirit of the New WorldC. the decline of aristocracyD. the corruption of the newly rich8. The Literary characters of the American type in the early 19th century are generally characterized by all the following features except that they _____________.A. speak local dialectsB. are polite and elegant gentlemenC. are simple and crude farmersD. are noble savages (red and white) untainted by society9. With Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the literary scene, ___________ became the major trend in American literature in the seventies and eighties of 19th century.A. sentimentalism 2. romanticism 3. realism D. naturalism10. Generally speaking, all those writers with a naturalistic approach to human reality tend to be ______________.A. transcendentalismB. idealismC. pessimistsD.impressionists11. Mark Twain wrote most of his literary works with a ______________ language.A. grand D. pompous C. simple D. vernacular...z.......12. Henry James experimented with many different themes in his literary career, the most influential one being ______________.A. nothingnessB. disillusionmentC. international themeD. relationship between men and women13. Theodore Dreiser is generally regarded as one of America's ______________.A. naturalistsB. realistsC. modernistsD. romanticists14. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. They are The Financier. The Titan and ____________.A. The StoicB. The GiantC. The TycoonD. The Genius15. The book from which “all modern American literature comes”refers to_____________.A. The Great GatsbyB. The Sun Also RisesC. The Adventures of Huckleberry FinnD. Moby-Dick16. The impact of Darwin's evolutionary theory on the American thought and the influence of the nineteenth-century French literature on the American men of letters gave rise to yet another school of realism: American ___________.A. modernismB. naturalismC. vernacularismD. local colorism17. Which of the following writings is by Hemingway described the novel the one book from which “all modern American literature comes”?A. Tom SawyerB. Huckleberry FinnC. The Gilded AgeD. Life on the Mississippi18. The main theme of ______________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James'B. William Dean HowellsC. Mark Twain'sD. Jack London'sV. Period of ModernismI. Multiple Choice1. In which of the following works, Hemingway presents his philosophy about life and death through the depiction of the bull-fight as a kind of microcosmic tragedy?A. The Green Hills of AfricaB. The Snows of KilimanjaroC. To Have and Have NotD. Death in the Afternoon2. _______________ is often acclaimed literary spokesman of the Jazz Age.A. Ernest HemingwayB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. William FaulknerD. Ezra Pound3. _______________ is Hemingway's first true novel in which he depicts a vivid portrait of “The Lost Generation”.A. The Sun Also RisesB. A Farewell to ArmsC. In Our TimeD. For Whom the Bell Tolls4. Fitzgerald's fictional world is the best embodiment of the spirit of ___________.A. the Jazz AgeB. the Romantic Period...z.......C. the Renaissance periodD. the Neoclassical Period5. In a tragic sense, ____________ is a representation of life as a struggle against unconquerable forces in which only a partial victory is possible.A. For Whom the Bell TollsB. In Our TimeC. The Old Man and the SeaD. A Farewell to Arms6. Robert Frost combined traditional verse forms—the sonnet, rhyming couplets, blank verse—with a clear American local speech rhythm, the speech of ___________ farmers with its idiosyncratic diction and syntax.A. southernB. westernC. New HampshireD. New England7. Who, one of the most important poets in his time, is a leading spokesman of the “Imagist Movement”?A. J. D. Salinger.B. Ezra PoundC. Richard WrightD. Ralph Ellison8. American fiction in the 1960s and 1970s proves to be different from its predecessors. It is always referred to as “____________”.A. ImagismB. black humourC. new fictionD. the Beat Generation9. As an autobiographical play, O' Neill's _____________(1951) has gained its status as a world classic and simultaneously marks the climax of his literary career and the coming of age of American drama.A. Long Day's Journey Into NightB. The Hairy ApeC. Desire Under the ElmsD. The Iceman Cometh10. Tender Is the Night is a ______________ by Fitzgerald.A. Short storyB. novellaC. poemD. novel11. The leading playwright of the modern period in American literature, if not the most successful in all his experiments, is _______________.A. Arthur MillerB. Tennessee WilliamC. Robert FrostD. Eugene O'Nill12. ______________ is a dramatist who holds the central position in American drama the modernistic period.A. Sinclair LewisB. Eugene O'NeillC. Arthur MillerD. Tennessee Williams13. ________________ is said to be a “historical novel”by Faulkner.A. Go Down, MosesB. Light in AugustC. The Sound and the FuryD. Absalom14. ________________ stems from the ambiguity of the speaker's choice between safety and the unknown.A. Mending the wallB. Home BurialC. The Road Not TakenD. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening15. Hemingway's writing style, together with his theme and the hero, is greatly and permanently influenced by his experiences ______________....z.......A. in his childhoodB. in the warC. in AmericaD. in Africa16. The following writers were awarded Nobel Prize for literature except ________.A. William FaulknerB. F. Scott FitzgeraldC. John SteinbeckD. Ernest Hemingway17. _____________ is not considered to be one of the masters in the field of American fiction in the modernistic period.A. F. Scott FitzgeraldB. Ernest HemingwayC. Arthur MillerD. William Faulkner18. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood and sorry I could not travel both…”In the above two lines of Robert Frost's The Road not Taken, the poet, by implication, was referring to _______________.A. a travel experienceB. a marriage decisionC. a middle-age crisisD. one's course of life19. The American “Thirties”, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a period_____________.A. povertyB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. a new social consciousnessE. all of the above20. _____________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra poundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings21. Ezra Pound's long poem _____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste landB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab22. In 1954, _____________ was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his “mastery of the art of modern narration”.A. T. S EliotB. Ernest HemingwayC. John SteinbeckD. William Faulkner23. ____________ wrote about the society in the South by inventing families which represented different social forces: the old decaying upper class; the rising, ambitious, unscrupulous class of the “poor Whites”; and the Negroes who laboured for both of them.A. FaulknerB. FitzgeraldC. HemingwayD. Steinbeck24. In Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury, he used a technique called ____________, in which the whole story was told through the thoughts of one character.A. Stream of consciousnessB. imagismC. symbolismD. naturalism...z.......25. Most of the writers in the modern period were able to probe into the inner world of human reality on the base of _____________.A. William James' “stream of consciousness”B. Carl Jung's “collective unconscious”and “archetypal symbol”C. Sigmund Freud's “interpretation of dreams”D. All of the above26. Writers of the first postwar era self-consciously acknowledged that they were____________.A. a lost GenerationB. a Beat GenerationC. a Jazz GenerationD. none of the above27. Who is the author of the work: “The Grapes of Wrath”?A. John SteinbeckB. Eugene O'NeilC. F. Scott FitzgeraldD. Theodore Dreiser28. In 1920 Sinclair Lewis published his memorable denunciation of American small-town provincialism in ____________.A. Main StreetB. An American TragedyC. Winesburg, OhioD. Sister CarrieKeys (答案)：I. The Colonial Period:I) 1. ABCD 2. D 3. B 4. C 5. BII. Period around War of the Independence:I). 1. B 2. C 3. B 9. D 10. CIII. Period of Romanticism:I). 1.C 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. B 6. D 7. B 8. B9. D 10. D 11. D 12. C 13. B 14.A 15. D 16.D17.A 18. A 19. A 20. C 21. C 22.A 23. DIV. Period of RealismI) 1. D 2. A 3. C 4. B 5.B 6. C 7. B 8. B 9. C10. C 11. D 12. C 13. A 14. A 15. C 16. B 17.B 18. AV. Period of Modernism:I) 1.D 2. B 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. C9. A 10. D 11. D 12. B 13. D 14. D 15. B 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. E 20. A 21. B 22. B 23. A 24. A25.D 26. A 27.A 28. A补充练习...z.......一、现实主义1. In the late 19th century, a host of new writers appeared, among them were _____.A. Bret HarteB. William Dean HowellsC. Hamlin GarlandD. Mark Twain2. Influenced by such Europeans as___________ , America's most noteworthy new authors established a literature of realism.A. ZolaB. FlaubertC. BalzacD. Tolstoy3. William Dean Howells defined realism asothing more and nothing less than thetruthful treatment of material , and he best exemplified his theories in three novels. Choose them from the following.A. The Modem InstanceB. The Rise of Silas LaphanC. A Hazard of New FortunesD. The Prince and the Pauper4. Mark Twain created, in____________ , a masterpiece of American realism that isalso one of the great books of world literature.A. Huckleberry FinnB. Tom SawyerC. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgD. The Gilded Age5. The pessimism and deterministic ideas of naturalism pervaded the works of such American writers as___________ .A. Stephen CraneB. Benjamin Frank NorrisC. Jack LondonD. Henry JamesE. Theodore Dreiser6. Although realism and naturalism were products of the nineteenth century, their final triumph came in the twentieth century, with the popular and critical successes of such writers as___________ .A. Edwin Arlington RobinsonB. Willa CatherC. Sherwood AndersonD. Robert FrostE. WilliamFaulkner7. American literature produced only one female poet during the nineteenth century. This was _____.A. Anne BradstreetB. Jane AustenC. Emily DickinsonD.Harriet Beecher8. Choose the works written by Mark Twain.A. The Adventures of Tom SawyerB. Innocents AbroadC. Life on the MississippiD. The Tragedy of Pudd' nhead WilsonE. The Prince and the Pauper9. The publication of the novel____________ stirred a great nation to its depths and hurried on a great war.A. My Bondage and My FreedomB. Stanzas on FreedomC. V oices of FreedomD. Uncle Tom' s Cabin10. Mark Twain had led an active life in the very center of the American experience. He had been a____________ .A. printer, pilot, soldierB. silver-minor,gold-washer...z.......C. lecturer, traveler, businessmanD. novelist, autobiographer11. Which statements about O. Henry are right?A. He wrote about the poor people.B. His stories are usually short and humorous.C. The plots of his stories are exceedingly clever and interesting.D. The ends of his stories are always surprising.E. Many of his stories contain a great deal of slang and colloquial expressions.12. Where Mark Twain and William Dean Howells satirized European manners at times, __________ was an admirer.A. O. HenryB. Henry JamesC. Walt WhitmanD. Jack London13. Choose the well-known short stories written by William Sidney Porter.A. The Gift of the MagiB. An Unfinished StoryC. The Furnished RoomD. The V oice of the CityE. The Copand the Anthem14. Choose the novels written by Henry James.A. The AmericanB. Daisy MillerC. The Portrait of a LadyD. The Tragic MuseE. The Golden Bowl15. Choose the novel which is not written by Henry James.A. The AmbassadorsB. The Wings of the DoveC. The BostoniansD. The Princess CasamassimaE. The Mysterious Stranger16. Jack London' s sincere intellectual and personal involvement in the socialist movement is recorded in such novels and polemical works as_____________ .A. The People of the AbyssB. The Iron HeelC. RevolutionD. The War of the Classes17. While embracing the socialism of Marx, London also believed in the triumph of the strongest individuals. This contradiction is most vividly projected in the patently autobiographical novel___________ .A. The Call of the WildB. The Sea WolfC. Martin EdenD. The Iron Heel18. In 1900, London published his first collection of short stories,named___________A. The Son of the WolfB. The Sea WolfC. The Law of LifeD. White Fang19. Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire includes three novels. Find them from the following.A. The FinancierB. The TitanC. The GeniusD. The StoicE. Jannie Gerhardt20. The Lure of the Spirit; The Flesh in Pursuit is the title of one chapter in Dreiser's novel___________ .A. An American TragedyB. Sister CarrieC. Dreiser Looks at RussiaD. Jannie Gerhardt...z.......21. The main theme of___________ The Art of Fiction reveals his literary credo that representation of life should be the main object of the novel.A. Henry James'B. William Dean Howells'C. Mark Twain'sD. O. Henry's22. With William Dean Howells, James, and Mark Twain active on the scene,_______ became the major trend in the seventies and eighties of the nineteenth century.A. sentimentalismB. romanticismC. realismD. naturalism23. Choose the three staunch advocates of nineteenth-century American realism.A. Mark TwainB. Henry JamesC. William Dean HowellsD. Jack London24. Choose the works which contain bitter attacks on the human race.A. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's CourtB. The Man That Corrupted HadleyburgC. The Mysterious StrangerD. The Autobiography25. Mark Twain was a great social critic and a friend of the Chinese. His Disgraceful Percecution of a Boy is a scathing piece of criticism directed against the per secution of the___________ immigrants in California.A. QuakersB. ChineseC. FrenchD. Japanese26. Mark Twain stood on the side of China in its struggle against foreign invasions. His___________ and___________ are two notable examples of his vigorous at tacks on the imperialist behavior of the United States.A. The Treaty with ChinaB. To the Person Sitting in DarknessC. Disgraceful Persecution of a BoyD. Goldsmith' s Friend AbroadAgain27. Stephen Crane's best short stories include _________, _________,_________, all reinforcing the basic Crane motif ofenvironment and heredity overwhelming man.A. Open BoatB. The Blue HotelC. An Experiment in MiseryD. The Red Badge of Courage28. Which writers have naturalist tendency?A. Stephen CraneB. Benjamin Frank NorrisC. Theodore DreiserD. Edwin Arlington Robinson29. Theodore Dreiser was left-oriented in his views. He visited Russia and wrote and _________ to express his new faith, and shortly before his death, he joined the Communist Party.A. Dreiser Looks at RussiaB. Tragic AmericaC. An American TragedyD. The Titan30. Choose Jack London' s works from the following.A. The Call of the WildB. White Fang...z.......C. The Sea WolfD. Martin EdenIII. Make multiple choice?ABCD 2. ABCD 3. ABC 4. A 5. ABCDE 6. ABCDE ．7. C 18. ABCDE9.D 10. ABCD 11. ABCDE 12. B 13. ABCDE 14. ABCDE15. E16. ABCD 17.C 18. A 19. ABD 20. B 21. A 22. C 23. ABC24. ABCD 25. B 26. AB 27. ABC 28. ABCD 29. AB 30. ABCD现代主义I Make multiple choices.1. The best-selling American books in the first decades of the twentieth century were__________ .A. traveling booksB. commercial booksC. historical romancesD. news reports2. Early in the 20th century, _________ published works that would change the nature of American poetry.A. Ezra PoundB. T. S. EliotC. Robert FrostD. Both A and B3. The American social upheavals and the literary concerns of the Great Depression years ended with the prosperity and turmoil brought by the _____________ .A. First World WarB. Second World WarC. Civil WarD. War of Independence4. The American Thirties, lasted from the Crash, through the ensuing Great Depression, until the outbreak of the Second World War 1939. This was a periodof__________ .A. povertyB. bleaknessC. important social movementsD. a new social consciousnessE. all of the above5. In the pre-war period, such writers as______________ , pointed out the contradic-tions between what American preached and they practiced.A. Mark TwainB. Jack London...z.......C. Stephen CraneD. Theodore DreiserE. all of the above6. In the Thirties, poets like Archibald Macleish and______________ wrote compas-sionately about common people, workers and farmers.A. Emily DickinsonB. Ezra PoundC. Robert FrostD. Langston Hughes7. The Imagist writers followed three principles, they respectively are _________ .A. direct treatmentB. economy of expressionC. clear rhythmD. blank verse8. The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough. This isthe shortest poem written by____________ .A. Thomas Stearns EliotB. Robert FrostC. Ezra PoundD.E. E. Cummings9. __________ showed great interest in Chinese literature and translated the poetry of Li Po (Li Bai) into English, and was influenced by Confucian ideas.A. Ezra PoundB. Robert FrostC. T. S. EliotD.E. E. Cummings10. Ezra Pound' s long poem____________ contained more than one hundred poems loosely connected.A. The Waste LandB. The CantosC. Don JuanD. Queen Mab11. Richard Cory and Miniver Cheevy are good examples of Edwin Arlington Robinson' s ______ attitude.A. romanticB. fantasticC. realisticD. materialistic12. Ben Jonson Entertains a Man from Stratford, this poem was written by Edwin Arlington Robinson. It is a brilliant commentary on _____________'s character.A. Ben JonsonB. William ShakespeareC. John MiltonD. Samuel Johnson13. In his long works Merlin, Lancelot, and Tristram, Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote the most extensive poems based on_____________ since Tennyson.A. the Arthurian LegendsB. the Biblical StoriesC. the Greek MythologiesD. Indian Legends14. When Robert Frost was eighty-seven, he read his poetry at the inauguration of President__________ .A. Thomas JeffersonB. Theodore RooseveltC. Abraham LincolnD. John F. Kennedy15. Choose the books written by Robert Frost.A. Mountain IntervalB. New HampshireC. West-Running BrookD. A Further Range16. Which of the following was not written by Robert Frost?A. Tilbury TownB. A Witness Tree.。