美国文学期末复习之选择题

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. b______ was the

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10.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and

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II.Multiple choice. Please choose the best answer among the four items. (10 x 1’= 10’)

14.Which of following is NOT a typical feature of Mark Twain’s lang uage? c

15.From Thoreau’s jail experience, came his famous essay, __c___ 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

19.Naturalism is evolved from realism when the author’s tone in writing becomes less serious and

20.For Melville, as well as for the reader and __c__, the narrator, Moby Dick is still a mystery, an

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II. Identify Works as Described Below (1’×15 =15’):

10. It is a naturalistic work about how a country girl is seduced and how she becomes a famous

actress and how her lover falls into a beggar and finally commits suicide. b

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c. McTeague

d.Maggie, A Girl of the Streets

11. The novel is set on the Mississippi with the protagonist telling us the story in the local dialect. It

is a representative work of local colorism. c

a.Sister Carrie

b.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

c. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

d.The Portrait of a Lady

12.The novel is a psychological study of a soldier (Henry Fleming)’s reactions in the Civil War. c

a.An American Tragedy

b. Sister Carrie

c.The Red Badge of Courage

d. McTeague

13. The poem is written in free verse in 52 cantos with the theme of the universality and equality in

value of all people and all things. c

a.Cantos

b. The Raven

c. Song of Myself

d.Chicago

14. The novel is about how a group of people on a whaling ship kill a great whale but themselves are

killed by the whale, with the conflict between man and his fate. b

a.The Octopus

b. Moby-Dick

c. The Rise of Silas Lapham

d. Leaves of Grass

15. It is a philosophical essay in 8 chapters plus an introduction mainly concerned with the four uses

of nature. b

a. Walden

b. Nature

c. The Scarlet Letter

d. The American Scholar

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I.Choose the Best Answer for Each of the Following (1’×15=15’):

1.An English ship brought 102 people from Plymouth, England on September 16, 1620 and arrived

in the present Provincetown harbor on November 21 in the same year. This ship was named ____b________.

a. The Pilgrims

b. Mayflower

c. America

d. Titanic

2.______b___ is father of American drama and in his dramatic career he wrote 49 plays.

a. Tennessee Williams

b. Eugene O’Neill

c. Arthur Miller

d. Elm er Rice

3.______c___ was the first American writer to write entirely American literature.

a. Anne Bradstreet

b. Washington Irving

c. Mark Twain

d. Ernest Hemingway

4. ____c___ was the leader of American transcendentalism.

a. Benjamin Franklin

b. Washington Irving

c. Ralph Waldo Emerson

d. Henry David Thoreau

5.____c___was the greatest woman poet in American literature and she wrote about 1,700 short lyric

poems in her life time.

a. Pearl S. Buck

b.Harriet Bicher Stowe

c. Emily Dickenson

d. Walter Whitman

6.____d_____ is father of the detective story and of psychoanalytic criticism.

a. Washington Irving

b. Ralph Waldo Emerson

c. Walt Whitman

d. Edgar Allan Poe

7.William Dean Howells is concerned with the middle class life; ___d___ writes about the upper class society, and Mark Twain deals with the lower class reality.

a. Stephen Crane

b. Frank Norris

c. Theodore Dreiser

d. Henry James

8. Which of the following is a naturalistic writer? d

a. William Dean Howells

b. Mark Twain

c. Ernest Hemingway

d.Theodore Dreiser

12._______d__ is often regarded as the greatest American woman poet and she wrote over 1,700 short lyric poems in her life time.

a. Anne Bradstreet

b. Robert Frost

c. H.D.

d. Emily Dickinson

14. He was the first black American to write a book about black life with great impact on the

consciousness of the nation and his masterpiece is one of the three classics about black Americans. Who is he? a

a.Richard Wright

b. Harriet Beecher Stowe

c. Langston Hughes

d. Ralph Ellison

15. Hemingway wrote about American compatriots in Europe whereas _d_______ wrote about the

Jazz age, life in American society.

a.William Carlos Williams

b. William Faulkner

c. John Steinbeck

d. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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