美国文学史试题3

I. Complete each of the following statements with proper words or phrases and

put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (20%, 1 point for each)

1. The first permanent English settlement in North America was established at Jamestown, Virginia in .

2. became the first American writer.

3. Hard work, thrift, piety and sobriety were the values that dominated much of the early American writing.

4. In American literature, the 18th century was an age of and Revolution.

5. Franklin’s best writing is found in his masterpiece .

6. On January 10, 1776, Thomas Paine’s famous pamphlet appeared.

7. The signing of symbolized the birth of an independent American nation.

8. The most outstanding poet in America of the 18th century was .

9. Washington Irving’s became the first work by an American writer to win international fame.

10. is the summit of American Romanticism.

11. With the publication of Emerson’s in 1836,American R omanticism reached its summit.

12. Hester Prynne is the heroine in Hawthorne’s novel .

13.Henry James’ major fictional theme is .

14. brought the Romantic period to an end. So the age of Realism came into existence.

15. The Poetic style invented by Whitman is now called .

16. “Because I could not stop for Death---” is written by .

17. The term The Gilded Age is given by to describe the post-civil war years.

18. Theodore Dreiser’s first novel is .

19. The leader of the literary movement Imagism is .

20. is the spokesman for Lost Generation.

答案: 1. 1607 2. John Smith 3. Puritan 4. Reason

5. The Autobiography

6. Common Sense

7. The Declaration of Independence

8. Philip Freneau

9. Sketch Book 10. Transcendentalism

11. Nature 12. The Scarlet Letter 13. international theme 14. The civil war

15. free verse 16. Emily Dickinson 17. Mark Twain

18. Sister Carrie 19. Ezra Pound 20. Ernest Hemingway

II. Each of the following statements below is followed by four alternative answers

or completions. Choose the one that is the best in each case and put your answers on the Answer Sheet. (30%, 1 point for each)

1. The first American writer of local color to achieve wide popularity was .

A. Bret Harte

B. Mark Twain

C. Henry James

D. William Dean Howells

2. Which of the following is the masterpiece of Mark Twain?

A. The Gilded Age

B. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

C. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

D. Jumping Frog

3. Which writer has no naturalist tendency?

A. Mark Twain

B. Jack London

C. Theodore Dreiser

D. Frank Norris

4. Transcendentalist doctrines found their greatest literary advocates in and Thoreau.

A. Jefferson

B. Emerson

C. Freneau

D. Oversoul

5. Which of the following doesn’t belong to Dreiser’s “Trilogy of Desire”?

A. The Financier

B. The Titan

C. The Stoic

D. An American Tragedy

6. Which is the character who appears in the novel Moby Dick?

A. Hester Prynne

B. Mr. Hooper

C. Ahab

D. Pearl

7. written by Henry James brought him first international fame.

A. The Golden Bowl

B. The American

C. The Tragic Muse

D. Daisy Miller

8. “ ”was a term created by the French novelist, Emile Zola.

A. realism

B. naturalism

C. transcendentalism

D. veritism

9. Jack London was at his height of his powers when he wrote , which is deeply influenced by Darwinism.

A. The Sea Wolf

B. To Build a Fire

C. The Call of the Wild

D. Martin Eden

10. The Cop and the Anthem is written by .

A. O. Henry

B. Henry James

C. Jack London

D. Mark Twain

11. “Two small people, without dislike or suspicion.” is a line in the poem The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter written by .

A. T. S. Eliot

B.Robert Frost

C.Ezra Pound

D. Carl Sandburg

12. The imagist poets followed three principles, they are , direct treatment and economy of expression.

A. blank verse

B. rhythm

C. free verse

D. common speech

13. Of the following American writers, who has NOT been an expatriate in Paris?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Ezra Pound

C. F. S. Fitzgerald

D. Emily Dickinson

14. Who was the foremost novelist of the American Depression of the 1930s?

A. Ernest Hemingway

B. Ezra Pound

C. John Steinbeck

D. F. S. Fitzgerald